1.

What work of art was specially written for Ida Rubinstein and performed by her for the first time in 1928, and then, to worldwide acclaim, performed again in an adapted version in 1984?

2.

In Flanders and Swann’s Slow Train, a song mourning the loss of the many British Railway stations killed off by the Beeching axe, what station name follows this lyric:

“No churns, no porter, no cat on a seat
At Chorlton-cum-Hardy or …………………”?

3.

What sort of traditional dessert dish is defined as having: ‘A fruit or savoury filling poured into a large baking dish and covered with a batter, biscuit, or pie crust before being baked’?

4.

Captain Cook, Corporal Punishment, Major Star, Private Plane and General Hospital were episode names for which specific TV series?

5.

Edgeley Park became home to Stockport County Football Club in 1902 but which club played there prior to 1902?

6.

On May 11th 2003 Michael Svensson of Southampton scored the last goal at Maine Road when Southampton beat City 1-0, but which player scored City’s last goal at Maine Road three weeks earlier?

7.

Whereabouts in England could you have found Barmote Courts?

8.

Which businessman runs the company Northern & Shell that owns Channel 5 TV?

9.

What do Ayr, Chepstow and Fairyhouse specifically have in common?

10.

Which country is the 8th most populous in the world just behind Nigeria and ahead of Russia, but is the 94th largest in terms of land area just behind Tunisia and ahead of Nepal?

11.

In 2010 the University of Leeds carried out a survey of 106 academics who specialised in British politics and/or British history since 1945 asking them who was the greatest British Prime Minister since 1945.  Which PM was voted top of the list of 12?

12.

In the Brandenberg and Saxony regions of Germany about 40,000 people speak a Slavic language rather than German as their first language.  What is this language?

13.

In which building could you see the following paintings: John Kay, Inventor of the Fly Shuttle A.D. 1753, The Opening of the Bridgewater Canal A.D. 1761 and Dalton collecting Marsh-Fire Gas?

14.

Name either of the two US States that share their borders with the most other US States.

15.

What is the English equivalent of the French phrase: ‘Couper les cheveux en quatre’?

16.

What work of art was premiered on December 8th 1908 at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester and dedicated to the man in charge of its first performance?

17.

In Flanders and Swann’s Slow Train, a song mourning the loss of the many British Railway stations killed off by the Beeching axe, what station name follows this lyric:

“No whitewashed pebbles, no Up and no Down
From Formby Four Crosses to …………………”?

18.

Which sweet dish is defined as: ‘A drink or dish made of milk or cream, curdled by the admixture of wine, cider, or other acid, and often sweetened and flavoured’?

19.

Sex Lies and Audiotape, The New Approach, The Root of All Evil, Death Disaster & Damien and The Big Day were episode names for which TV series?

20.

What were Stockport County Football Club known as before they took that name?

21.

If you’re travelling to Old Trafford Football Ground by Metrolink there are two stops about 5 minutes’ walk from the ground.  One is Old Trafford.  What’s the other?

22.

Whereabouts in England could you have found Stannary Courts and Stannary Parliaments?

23.

Which businessman, and more recently TV presenter, joined Granada TV as CEO in 1991 and then in 1992 ousted Granada Chairman David Plowright?

24.

In the Grand National at Aintree all the fences are jumped twice apart from two.  One of these is The Chair - what’s the other?

25.

Which country is the 52nd most populous in the world, just behind Mozambique and marginally ahead of the Ivory Coast, but is 6th largest in terms of land area just behind Brazil but ahead of India?

26.

In 2010 the University of Leeds carried out a survey of 106 academics who specialised in British politics and/or British history since 1945 asking them who was the greatest British Prime Minister since 1945.  Which PM was voted bottom of the list of 12?

27.

In the central Pyrenees on the Spanish side of the border there are about 10,000 people whose first language is not Castilian Spanish.  What is it?

28.

Of whom did L S Lowry say: “I cannot over-estimate the effect on me of his coming into this drab city, full of French impressionists’ ideas, aware of everything that was going on in Paris.”

29.

Only one US State has a border with just one other US State.  Which is it?

30.

What is the English equivalent of the French phrase: ‘Avoir un chat dans la gorge’?

ROUND 2 - Stockport style - Written

1.

What TV programme links a group of 14 people including: Bruce Balden, Jackie Bassett, Nicholas Hitchon, Neil Hughes, and Tony Walker?

2.

What drink is made from the perennial trailing vine plant called Smilax regelii?

3.

Luke Sutcliffe, for many years science teacher at Todmorden High School, had the distinction of teaching two Nobel Prize winners.  Name either.

4.

What was lost at the University of Rostock in Germany, on 29 December 1566 by one of the combatants in a sword duel with fellow Danish nobleman Manderup Parsberg?

5.

In 1704 representing the movements of the planets, clock makers George Graham and Thomas Tompion built the first modern what?

6.

Derek Cooper the food journalist and initial presenter of Radio 4’s Food Programme has also written extensively about the Hebrides and, in particular, about the island of his grandmother’s birth which was evacuated in 1912.  What is the name of this island at the very southern tip of the Outer Hebrides with a famous Boat Song named after it?

7.

Which Spanish river was named Betis in Roman times?

8.

What product marketed with the slogan 'You push the button, we do the rest.' first went on sale priced $1 in 1900?

9.

Who composed the music for many of Alfred Hitchcock’s best known films including: Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo?

10.

Which architect was responsible in 2005 for putting forward designs for a Northern English supercity stretching the length of the M62 from Hull to Liverpool?

ROUND 3 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

1.

A sign over a table in the world renowned Katz Delicatessen in New York City commemorates a scene from which movie?

2.

It’s recently been in the news but who drew this sketch on a visit to the south coast in 1824?

3.

What chemical compound does the National Blood Service use to test the blood of potential donors for anaemia?

4.

Which band had a UK number 4 single in 1980 with Mirror in the Bathroom and went on to issue some career advice to the serving Prime Minister?  Needless to say it went unheeded.

5.

What, according to Wainwright’s Pennine Way Companion, is reached when you are 145 miles into that walk, assuming that you are heading northwards and have shunned the Bowes Alternative?  Wayfarers get to avoid the £1.50 charged to tourists but have to accept an inferior view.

6.

Who won a Tony for his performance in the lead role in One Man, Two Guv’nors in 2012?

7.

Name the lighthouse.

8.

The Jonas designed in Sweden in 1953, the Zena Rex designed by Swiss engineer Alfred Neweczercal in 1947 and the traditional French Econome, are all popular versions of which kitchen utensil?

Sp.

The gravestone in Edinburgh that reads “Died 14th January 1872 aged 16 years.  Let his loyalty and devotion be a lesson to us all” is a memorial to whom?

ROUND 4 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

1.

Dating from around 1590 and measuring ten feet by eleven feet what was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum for £4000 in 1931 becoming one of their most popular exhibits?

2.

Which opera by Igor Stavinsky that premiered in 1951 was inspired by works of art by an English artist and concludes with the death of the chief protagonist in Bedlam hospital?

3.

Name the British town seen here.

4.

Which novel by Charles Kingsley opens in Bideford, but takes its title from a call used by ferrymen on the Thames?

5.

Which actor came to prominence as DCI Haggerty in Special Branch in 1973 but since 2000 has been reduced to playing Rodney Blackstock in Emmerdale?

6.

Name this Canadian actor, well known to British audiences in the 1960s but seen here in 1942.

7.

What was the name of the compact Rolls Royce gas turbine engine that was selected as the power plant for the Westland Wessex, Whirlwind and Sea King Helicopters as well as the SRN6 hovercraft?

8.

What was the name of the work of art by Simon Starling that helped him win the 2005 Turner Prize and which he had once rowed up the River Rhine from Germany to Basle?

Sp.

Name the cricketer whose career total of 11,174 test runs stood as the most scored by a batsman for eleven years before being surpassed by Brian Lara in 2005.

ROUND 5 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

1.

For which railroad company did the American Locomotive Company build the 25 'Big Boys', the only steam locomotives ever built with the wheel arrangement 4-8-8-4?

2.

Name the dude with the guitar.

3.

What organisation was founded on Alpha Centauri in 2415 to promote greater independence from Earth?  Until then it is more familiar to earthlings as the name of the band that had a UK number one single over Christmas 1981.

4.

A qualified osteopath who once earned a living as a professional wrestler, opened a clinic to treat alcoholism in 1941.  Officially called the Bellows Farm Sanatorium it was also known by which nickname that would re-enter the public consciousness as the name of a punk band formed in 1996, twenty five years after the clinic had closed?

5.

What event described in Acts Chapter 9 is the cause for celebration as a feast day on the 25th of January in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Anglican churches?

6.

What, assuming it did actually exist, supposedly began by stating that, “a concern for one’s safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was nothing more than the process of a rational mind”?

7.

Name the prominent Enlightenment philosopher and champion of libertarianism who died in 1704 and is seen here in a portrait by Sir Geoffrey Kellner.

8.

Fitter, Fishpot, Flagon, but what came next?

Sp.

What single by MC Hammer reached number 3 in the UK singles chart in 1990?

ROUND 6 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

(Note: all answers contain a word that can precede another common to the entire round)

1.

In November 1983 an armed gang had to send for a bigger van in order to move the £26m in bullion that confronted them rather than the £3m in cash they were expecting.  What facility was the victim of, what was at that time, the biggest robbery committed on British soil?

2.

Name the law enforcement agent from Mega City One who appeared on a Royal Mail stamp in 2013.

3.

Name this actor seen here in his highly acclaimed Richard III in 1984.

4.

What song was a number one UK single in 1983 for the much underrated Kajagoogoo?

5.

(Note to QM: Read in character, "You buy one you get one free, I say you buy one you get one free. Q5 is a two for the price of one special offer.")

Which branch of the armed forces has a memorial to its fallen, taking the form of a statue of Daedalus, on Victoria Embankment, London?

6.

Name this author who married Evelyn Gardner, the daughter of Lord and Lady Burghclere, in 1928.  Lady Burghclere didn’t approve of the match believing her new son-in-law lacked moral fibre.  He filed for divorce in September 1929.

7.

Who, according to her human companion, was “At Madagascar, and Malabar, and Surinam, and Providence, and Portobello ...and she was at the boarding of the Viceroy of the Indies out of Goa”? But then again he may have been lying?

8.

Which idiom from the first Epistle of Peter, Chapter 4 verse 5, listing those who would face Judgment Day, was purloined to serve as the highly appropriate title for a 1995 western starring Sharon Stone and Gene Hackman?

Sp.

What lies beneath the swimming pool on Tracey Island?

1.

In Round 3 you might have trudged towards High Force.  How many miles, according to Wainwright, and assuming you start in Edale while shunning the Bowes Alternative, must you walk to reach the summit of Cross Fell, the highest point on the Pennine Way?

2.

In Round 4 you may have been perplexed by what passes for modern art.  How many artists have won the Turner Prize?  (George and Gilbert are to be counted as one artist)

3.

In Round 5 you rubbed up against the Big Boys.  How many years have elapsed since they last steamed for use in commercial service?

1.

What work of art was specially written for Ida Rubinstein and performed by her for the first time in 1928, and then, to worldwide acclaim, performed again in an adapted version in 1984?

The Bolero

(by Maurice Ravel – performed by Torvill & Dean at Sarajevo Winter Olympics)

2.

In Flanders and Swann’s Slow Train, a song mourning the loss of the many British Railway stations killed off by the Beeching axe, what station name follows this lyric:

“No churns, no porter, no cat on a seat
At Chorlton-cum-Hardy or …………………”?

Chester-le-Street

3.

What sort of traditional dessert dish is defined as having: ‘A fruit or savoury filling poured into a large baking dish and covered with a batter, biscuit, or pie crust before being baked’?

Cobbler

4.

Captain Cook, Corporal Punishment, Major Star, Private Plane and General Hospital were episode names for which specific TV series?

Blackadder Goes Forth

5.

Edgeley Park became home to Stockport County Football Club in 1902 but which club played there prior to 1902?

Stockport Rugby League Football Club

6.

On May 11th 2003 Michael Svensson of Southampton scored the last goal at Maine Road when Southampton beat City 1-0, but which player scored City’s last goal at Maine Road three weeks earlier?

Marc-Vivien Foë

7.

Whereabouts in England could you have found Barmote Courts?

Derbyshire

8.

Which businessman runs the company Northern & Shell that owns Channel 5 TV?

Richard Desmond

9.

What do Ayr, Chepstow and Fairyhouse specifically have in common?

10.

Which country is the 8th most populous in the world just behind Nigeria and ahead of Russia, but is the 94th largest in terms of land area just behind Tunisia and ahead of Nepal?

Bangladesh

11.

In 2010 the University of Leeds carried out a survey of 106 academics who specialised in British politics and/or British history since 1945 asking them who was the greatest British Prime Minister since 1945.  Which PM was voted top of the list of 12?

Clement Attlee
 

12.

In the Brandenberg and Saxony regions of Germany about 40,000 people speak a Slavic language rather than German as their first language.  What is this language?

Wendish

(also known as Lusatian or Sorbian)

13.

In which building could you see the following paintings: John Kay, Inventor of the Fly Shuttle A.D. 1753, The Opening of the Bridgewater Canal A.D. 1761 and Dalton collecting Marsh-Fire Gas?

Manchester Town Hall

(they are 3 of the 12 Ford Madox Brown murals in The Great Hall)

14.

Name either of the two US States that share their borders with the most other US States.

(either)

Tennessee

(or)

Missouri

(both of which share their borders with 8 other States)

15.

What is the English equivalent of the French phrase: ‘Couper les cheveux en quatre’?

‘To split hairs’

16.

What work of art was premiered on December 8th 1908 at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester and dedicated to the man in charge of its first performance?

Elgar’s First Symphony

(dedicated to Hans Richter, the conductor of The Hallé Orchestra)

17.

In Flanders and Swann’s Slow Train, a song mourning the loss of the many British Railway stations killed off by the Beeching axe, what station name follows this lyric:

“No whitewashed pebbles, no Up and no Down
From Formby Four Crosses to …………………”?

Dunstable Town

18.

Which sweet dish is defined as: ‘A drink or dish made of milk or cream, curdled by the admixture of wine, cider, or other acid, and often sweetened and flavoured’?

Syllabub

19.

Sex Lies and Audiotape, The New Approach, The Root of All Evil, Death Disaster & Damien and The Big Day were episode names for which TV series?

Drop the Dead Donkey

20.

What were Stockport County Football Club known as before they took that name?

Heaton Norris Rovers Football Club

21.

If you’re travelling to Old Trafford Football Ground by Metrolink there are two stops about 5 minutes’ walk from the ground.  One is Old Trafford.  What’s the other?

Exchange Quay

22.

Whereabouts in England could you have found Stannary Courts and Stannary Parliaments?

(either)

Cornwall

(or)

Devon

(they administered the interests of tin miners)

23.

Which businessman, and more recently TV presenter, joined Granada TV as CEO in 1991 and then in 1992 ousted Granada Chairman David Plowright?

Gerry Robinson

24.

In the Grand National at Aintree all the fences are jumped twice apart from two.  One of these is The Chair - what’s the other?

Water Jump
 

25.

Which country is the 52nd most populous in the world, just behind Mozambique and marginally ahead of the Ivory Coast, but is 6th largest in terms of land area just behind Brazil but ahead of India?

Australia

26.

In 2010 the University of Leeds carried out a survey of 106 academics who specialised in British politics and/or British history since 1945 asking them who was the greatest British Prime Minister since 1945.  Which PM was voted bottom of the list of 12?

Anthony Eden

27.

In the central Pyrenees on the Spanish side of the border there are about 10,000 people whose first language is not Castilian Spanish.  What is it?

Aragonese

28.

Of whom did L S Lowry say: “I cannot over-estimate the effect on me of his coming into this drab city, full of French impressionists’ ideas, aware of everything that was going on in Paris.”

Pierre Adolphe Valette

29.

Only one US State has a border with just one other US State.  Which is it?

Maine

(border with New Hampshire)

30.

What is the English equivalent of the French phrase: ‘Avoir un chat dans la gorge’?

‘To have a frog in the throat’

ROUND 2 - Stockport style - Written

1.

What TV programme links a group of 14 people including: Bruce Balden, Jackie Bassett, Nicholas Hitchon, Neil Hughes, and Tony Walker?

They are part of the group filmed for the TV Up documentary every 7 years

2.

What drink is made from the perennial trailing vine plant called Smilax regelii?

Sarsaparilla

3.

Luke Sutcliffe, for many years science teacher at Todmorden High School, had the distinction of teaching two Nobel Prize winners.  Name either.

4.

What was lost at the University of Rostock in Germany, on 29 December 1566 by one of the combatants in a sword duel with fellow Danish nobleman Manderup Parsberg?

Part of his nose

(the duelist was Tycho Brahe)

5.

In 1704 representing the movements of the planets, clock makers George Graham and Thomas Tompion built the first modern what?

Orrery

6.

Derek Cooper the food journalist and initial presenter of Radio 4’s Food Programme has also written extensively about the Hebrides and, in particular, about the island of his grandmother’s birth which was evacuated in 1912.  What is the name of this island at the very southern tip of the Outer Hebrides with a famous Boat Song named after it?

7.

Which Spanish river was named Betis in Roman times?

Guadalquivir

(flowing through Seville)

8.

What product marketed with the slogan 'You push the button, we do the rest.' first went on sale priced $1 in 1900?

Box Brownie camera

9.

Who composed the music for many of Alfred Hitchcock’s best known films including: Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo?

Bernard Hermann

10.

Which architect was responsible in 2005 for putting forward designs for a Northern English supercity stretching the length of the M62 from Hull to Liverpool?

ROUND 3 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

1.

A sign over a table in the world renowned Katz Delicatessen in New York City commemorates a scene from which movie?

2.

It’s recently been in the news but who drew this sketch on a visit to the south coast in 1824?

3.

What chemical compound does the National Blood Service use to test the blood of potential donors for anaemia?

Copper Sulphate

4.

Which band had a UK number 4 single in 1980 with Mirror in the Bathroom and went on to issue some career advice to the serving Prime Minister?  Needless to say it went unheeded.

The Beat

5.

What, according to Wainwright’s Pennine Way Companion, is reached when you are 145 miles into that walk, assuming that you are heading northwards and have shunned the Bowes Alternative?  Wayfarers get to avoid the £1.50 charged to tourists but have to accept an inferior view.
 

High Force

(the Pennine Way follows the 'Yorkshire' bank of the Tees northwards from Middleton and walkers are, therefore, deprived of the more dramatic view)

6.

Who won a Tony for his performance in the lead role in One Man, Two Guv’nors in 2012?

James Corden

7.

Name the lighthouse.

8.

The Jonas designed in Sweden in 1953, the Zena Rex designed by Swiss engineer Alfred Neweczercal in 1947 and the traditional French Econome, are all popular versions of which kitchen utensil?

(Vegetable/Potato) Peeler

Sp.

The gravestone in Edinburgh that reads “Died 14th January 1872 aged 16 years.  Let his loyalty and devotion be a lesson to us all” is a memorial to whom?

Greyfriars Bobby

Theme: 'Evening all, what do we have ‘ere then'

Each answer contains a word associated with the constabulary

ROUND 4 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

1.

Dating from around 1590 and measuring ten feet by eleven feet what was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum for £4000 in 1931 becoming one of their most popular exhibits?

The Great Bed of Ware

2.

Which opera by Igor Stavinsky that premiered in 1951 was inspired by works of art by an English artist and concludes with the death of the chief protagonist in Bedlam hospital?

Rake’s Progress

3.

Name the British town seen here.

4.

Which novel by Charles Kingsley opens in Bideford, but takes its title from a call used by ferrymen on the Thames?

Westward Ho!

5.

Which actor came to prominence as DCI Haggerty in Special Branch in 1973 but since 2000 has been reduced to playing Rodney Blackstock in Emmerdale?

Patrick Mower

6.

Name this Canadian actor, well known to British audiences in the 1960s but seen here in 1942.

7.

What was the name of the compact Rolls Royce gas turbine engine that was selected as the power plant for the Westland Wessex, Whirlwind and Sea King Helicopters as well as the SRN6 hovercraft?

Gnome

8.

What was the name of the work of art by Simon Starling that helped him win the 2005 Turner Prize and which he had once rowed up the River Rhine from Germany to Basle?

Shed Boat Shed

Sp.

Name the cricketer whose career total of 11,174 test runs stood as the most scored by a batsman for eleven years before being surpassed by Brian Lara in 2005.

Alan Border

Theme: 'Every answer is coming up roses'

Each answer contains a word for something you might find in a garden.

1.

For which railroad company did the American Locomotive Company build the 25 'Big Boys', the only steam locomotives ever built with the wheel arrangement 4-8-8-4?

2.

Name the dude with the guitar.

3.

What organisation was founded on Alpha Centauri in 2415 to promote greater independence from Earth?  Until then it is more familiar to earthlings as the name of the band that had a UK number one single over Christmas 1981.

The Human League

(originated in the science fiction war game Starforce: Alpha Centauri)

4.

A qualified osteopath who once earned a living as a professional wrestler, opened a clinic to treat alcoholism in 1941.  Officially called the Bellows Farm Sanatorium it was also known by which nickname that would re-enter the public consciousness as the name of a punk band formed in 1996, twenty five years after the clinic had closed?

Dropkick Murphy’s

5.

What event described in Acts Chapter 9 is the cause for celebration as a feast day on the 25th of January in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Anglican churches?

The Conversion of Paul

6.

What, assuming it did actually exist, supposedly began by stating that, “a concern for one’s safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was nothing more than the process of a rational mind”?

Catch 22

7.

Name the prominent Enlightenment philosopher and champion of libertarianism who died in 1704 and is seen here in a portrait by Sir Geoffrey Kellner.

8.

Fitter, Fishpot, Flagon, but what came next?

Flanker

(NATO names for Sukhoi fighter aircraft by date of introduction Su7, 9, 15 and 27)

Sp.

What single by MC Hammer reached number 3 in the UK singles chart in 1990?

You Can’t Touch This

Theme: 'Chasing eggs'

Each answer contains a word associated with the game of rugby

 (Note: all answers contain a word that can precede another common to the entire round)

1.

In November 1983 an armed gang had to send for a bigger van in order to move the £26m in bullion that confronted them rather than the £3m in cash they were expecting.  What facility was the victim of, what was at that time, the biggest robbery committed on British soil?

Brinks MAT warehouse

2.

Name the law enforcement agent from Mega City One who appeared on a Royal Mail stamp in 2013.

Judge Dredd

3.

Name this actor seen here in his highly acclaimed Richard III in 1984.

4.

What song was a number one UK single in 1983 for the much underrated Kajagoogoo?

Too Shy

5.

(Note to QM: Read in character, "You buy one you get one free, I say you buy one you get one free. Q5 is a two for the price of one special offer.")

Which branch of the armed forces has a memorial to its fallen, taking the form of a statue of Daedalus, on Victoria Embankment, London?

Fleet Air Arm

6.

Name this author who married Evelyn Gardner, the daughter of Lord and Lady Burghclere, in 1928.  Lady Burghclere didn’t approve of the match believing her new son-in-law lacked moral fibre.  He filed for divorce in September 1929.

7.

Who, according to her human companion, was “At Madagascar, and Malabar, and Surinam, and Providence, and Portobello ...and she was at the boarding of the Viceroy of the Indies out of Goa”? But then again he may have been lying?

Cap’n Flint

(the parrot, not the pirate, was female – one of Long John’s jolly japes)

8.

Which idiom from the first Epistle of Peter, Chapter 4 verse 5, listing those who would face Judgment Day, was purloined to serve as the highly appropriate title for a 1995 western starring Sharon Stone and Gene Hackman?

The Quick and the Dead

Sp.

What lies beneath the swimming pool on Tracey Island?

Launch pad for Thunderbird 1

Theme: 'All locked up'

Each answer contains a word that can precede the word 'lock' and still make sense

1.

In Round 3 you might have trudged towards High Force.  How many miles, according to Wainwright, and assuming you start in Edale while shunning the Bowes Alternative, must you walk to reach the summit of Cross Fell, the highest point on the Pennine Way?

170

2.

In Round 4 you may have been perplexed by what passes for modern art.  How many artists have won the Turner Prize?  (George and Gilbert are to be counted as one artist)

29

(first awarded in December 1984; no one won in 1990 due to the sponsors, an investment bank, having been declared bankrupt; surely that was a work of art in its own right!)

3.

In Round 5 you rubbed up against the Big Boys.  How many years have elapsed since they last steamed for use in commercial service?

54

(21 July 1959 - but one of the surviving seven is currently being restored by UP to running condition)