1.

King Edward Point is the capital of which overseas territory, which also contains the grave of Ernest Shackleton?

2.

What is the name of the jailbird in the game of Monopoly?

3.

Which character has been portrayed on screen by David Niven, Steve Coogan, Pierce Brosnan and Michael Praed and has also spawned a cartoon version in which his first name was changed to Willy?

4.

Who voiced the introduction to episodes of the Teletubbies?

5.

Which Mediterranean city has the largest number of Bauhaus buildings in the world, mainly due to the influx of those who had trained at the Bauhaus schools in Germany in the late 1920s and early 1930s?

6.

McGinty’s Bar featured in which US sitcom?

7.

John Connell founded an organisation in 1959 to combat what, a menace he described as the 'forgotten pollutant'?

8.

Which cricket ground features a Shane Warne stand?

9.

What animals were to be used in a 1942 plan approved by Roosevelt in which they were to be attached to incendiary devices and dropped by parachute over Japanese cities?  The idea was that they would settle in largely inaccessible areas of the largely wood and paper buildings.

10.

What are ‘crate diggers’ searching for?

11.

‘Towel Day’ is held every 25th May in celebration of which author?

12.

On leaving office, President Clinton’s staff removed which key from the keyboards of the White House computers ahead of the arrival of the next administration?

13.

Why were the family names in the sitcom Gavin and Stacey controversial?

14.

The Islendigabok is a publication and online resource which exists to help prevent Icelanders from inadvertently doing what?

15.

Which artist tattooed two swallows on supermodel Kate Moss’ back after he told her he used to tattoo his fellow sailors during his service in the merchant navy?

16.

Adamstown is the capital of which overseas territory which received much media attention in 2004 for a trial over widespread child abuse?

17.

Which children’s game manufactured by Hasbro features Cavity Sam?

18.

Which character has been played on screen by David Bowie, Rod Steiger, Telly Savalas and Michael Palin?

19.

Who narrated the children’s TV show In the Night Garden?

20.

Which city in New Zealand is one of the best known centres for Art Deco architecture in the world, largely due to the fact that the city was rebuilt during the height of this movement after it had been destroyed in a 1931 earthquake?

21.

Who wrote sketches for his own TV show under the name Gerald Wiley, unbeknownst even to other members of the show?

22.

The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift was founded by John Hargreave in 1920 as an alternative to which organisation which he felt had become increasingly militaristic?

23.

The main cricket ground in Lahore is named after which world leader who died in 2011?

24.

Since its inception during the Second World War, the Dicken medal, the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross, has been won most times by which type of creature?

25.

26.

Which novelist would have been known as Mrs Bigg-Wither had she not called off her engagement?

27.

In 1967, Tony Benn declared that the extra ‘e’ in which word stood for "excellence, England, Europe and entente"?

28.

In 1978, the final of the Wormwood Scrubs chess tournament was between a convicted murderer and a disgraced politician. Name either.

29.

If you were reading about ‘chasing the sparrow’, ‘the leap of the hare’ and ‘the tree climber’, which book would you be reading?

30.

In Manet’s painting Bar at the Folies-Bergère bottles of which British beer are visible on the bar?

Sp1

To which magazine did Johnny Vegas sell his wedding photos for £1?

Sp2

What is the name of the title character in The Merchant of Venice?

Sp3

Two South American cities’ inhabitants are known as ‘Portenos’.  Name either.

ROUND 2 - Stockport style - Written

1.

The two zoos owned by the London Zoological Society are London Zoo and which other?

2.

In 1986, French film director Roger Vadim published an autobiography entitled My Life with the Three Most Beautiful Women in the World.  Name any one of them.

3.

The law of the sea divides it into three zones: Internal Waters, Territorial Waters and what other place, a term now in more general usage?

4.

Which studious work, running to six volumes, was published between 1776 and 1788 and owed its genesis in no small part to the fact that the author was housebound due to a condition which had caused his testicles to swell to enormous proportions?

5.

August 2014 saw the death of which screen icon, the last person to be named in Madonna’s song Vogue to die?

6.

What is the name of the Cornish pie which features protruding fish heads?

7.

In the Vietnam War’s Tet Offensive, to what does the word ‘Tet’ refer?

8.

Two strips of metal bound around a cotton tape reed is known as a ‘swazzle’.  What type of children’s entertainer would use one?

9.

What is the term for a baby porcupine?

10.

Who met on 16 May 1763 at Thomas Davies’s bookshop?

Sp1

What is the name of the annual Rugby League series between New South Wales and Queensland?

Sp2

‘Grenade’ is French for which fruit?

Sp3

What academic non-achievement is shared by Matt Damon, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Robert Frost and Pete Seeger?

ROUND 3 - WithQuiz style - Pot pourri

1.

Who is the only American mentioned by name (and in glowing terms) in Mein Kampf?

2.

Which Booker prize-winning novelist spent much of his gap year as a beater on the Balmoral estate?  His winning oeuvre has a similar setting.

3.

What is the title of the official Presidential anthem of the USA?  It is played at most public appearances.

4.

In which game is brailling frowned upon?

5.

Which retail chain has its headquarters on Geoffrey Way, in Wayne, New Jersey?

6.

Eorl Crabtree who plays at prop for the Huddersfield Giants and England is the nephew of which Yorkshire sporting legend who died in 1997 and who had also played Rugby League for Bradford Northern before finding fame in a different pursuit?

7.

On pirate flags, what symbol was often appended to the skull and crossbones as a symbol of the inevitability of death?

8.

A transport project on Mount Vesuvius inspired which song?

Sp1

The city of Cremona in Lombardy is the centre of which industry?

Sp2

Which musical features characters called Elder Price and Nabulungi and the song Tomorrow is a Latter Day?

Sp3

What is the only member of the EU to have a semitic language?

ROUND 4 - WithQuiz style - 'What links?'

1.

What do actors Michelle Collins, June Brown, Brian Capron and Jill Halfpenny have in common?

2.

What links Hanover, New York, Ithaca, Philadelphia and Cambridge?

3.

What links Morte d’Arthur, Pilgrim’s Progress, Mein Kampf and Don Quixote?

4.

What links Lily Allen, Harry Styles, Tilda Swinton, the fictional Chandler Bing and a James Bond villain?

5.

What links The B&O, Pennsylvania, Shore Line and Reading railroads?

6.

What links America, the West, Mexico and the Midlands?

7.

What do the mountains Ben Macdui, Sca Fell, Garnedd Ugain and Slieve Commedagh have in common?

8.

What links Awaji Island, Baden Baden, Rustenberg and Barra?

Sp1

What links Glasgow Kelvin, Bethnal Green and Bow, Bradford West?

Sp2

What links Westbury, Cherhill, Uffington, Osmington, Alton Barnes and Kilburn?

ROUND 5 - WithQuiz style - Pot pourri

1.

In March of this year the Supreme Court refused Cadbury’s application to appeal against a ruling denying its right to trademark what?

2.

In Antony & Cleopatra, Shakespeare is guilty of an anachronism when Cleopatra mentions which game, which would have been unknown at the time?  Rex Williams is probably the best known champion of the 20th Century.

3.

The layout of Central Park in New York is largely influenced by the design of a park in which town in North West England?

4.

Which playwright is buried upright in Westminster Abbey, the smaller plot an indication of his reduced circumstances at the time of his 1637 death?

5.

Tex Watson, Susan Kasabian, Linda Atkins, Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel were notorious members of what?

6.

Dennis Tito, Mark Shuttleworth, Gregory Olsen, Anousheh Ansari, Charles Simonyi, Richard Garriott and Guy Laliberte are the only seven people ever to have paid to do what?

7.

Which item of clothing was said by its inventor Louis Reard to be easily identifiable from imitations because 'it could be pulled through a wedding ring'?

8.

In Italian it is called ‘chiocciola’ meaning ‘small snail’; in Dutch it is an ‘apenstaart’ meaning ‘monkey’s tail’; in Danish it is ‘snabel-a’ meaning ‘ an A with a long nose’; in Czech it is known as ‘zavinac’ which means ‘rollmop herring’.  What is it?

Sp1

What was banned in Catalonia in 2010?

Sp2

Which TV series is filmed in Springbrook National Park, Queensland?

Sp3

Which country left the Commonwealth in 2013?

1.

Tsar Nicholas I’s description of the Ottoman Empire – since used of many countries – was what?

2.

Astronomers who search for distant planets which might have the right conditions for sustaining life use which traditional children’s story to refer to such planets?

3.

Who was the last Republican to win a presidential election without having either a Bush or a Nixon on the ticket?

4.

What are Sodium Thiopental, Pancuronium Bromide and Potassium Chloride when taken in that order?

5.

What is the name of the Pope’s summer retreat?

6.

Which city’s library reopened in 2002 having been closed for 1600 years?

7.

Which entertainment duo caused the nation’s stomachs to turn when they revealed in 2011 that they had been enthusiastic participants in the swinging lifestyle during the height of their 1980s fame?

8.

What was the name of Peggy’s never-seen boss in the TV show Hi-de-Hi?

Sp1

What are Smilers, Little Monsters and Directioneers?

Sp2

Anastasia Dobromyslova is a two times champion at which sport?  She briefly switched to competing in the men’s game before reverting back in 2011.

Sp3

Which novel did Virginia Woolf describe as reading "like an undergraduate scratching his pimples"?

1.

King Edward Point is the capital of which overseas territory, which also contains the grave of Ernest Shackleton?

South Georgia

(and the South Sandwich Islands)

2.

What is the name of the jailbird in the game of Monopoly?

Jake

3.

Which character has been portrayed on screen by David Niven, Steve Coogan, Pierce Brosnan and Michael Praed and has also spawned a cartoon version in which his first name was changed to Willy?

Phileas Fogg

4.

Who voiced the introduction to episodes of the Teletubbies?

Toyah Willcox

5.

Which Mediterranean city has the largest number of Bauhaus buildings in the world, mainly due to the influx of those who had trained at the Bauhaus schools in Germany in the late 1920s and early 1930s?

Tel Aviv

6.

McGinty’s Bar featured in which US sitcom?

Frasier

7.

John Connell founded an organisation in 1959 to combat what, a menace he described as the 'forgotten pollutant'?

Noise

(the Noise Abatement Society)

8.

Which cricket ground features a Shane Warne stand?

Aegeas Bowl

(accept Rose Bowl, Southampton or Hampshire)

9.

What animals were to be used in a 1942 plan approved by Roosevelt in which they were to be attached to incendiary devices and dropped by parachute over Japanese cities?  The idea was that they would settle in largely inaccessible areas of the largely wood and paper buildings.

Bats

10.

What are ‘crate diggers’ searching for?

Vinyl records

11.

‘Towel Day’ is held every 25th May in celebration of which author?

Douglas Adams

12.

On leaving office, President Clinton’s staff removed which key from the keyboards of the White House computers ahead of the arrival of the next administration?

W

13.

Why were the family names in the sitcom Gavin and Stacey controversial?

They were named after serial killers

(Shipman and West)

14.

The Islendigabok is a publication and online resource which exists to help prevent Icelanders from inadvertently doing what?

Marrying a close relative

(accept committing incest or anything similar)

15.

Which artist tattooed two swallows on supermodel Kate Moss’ back after he told her he used to tattoo his fellow sailors during his service in the merchant navy?

16.

Adamstown is the capital of which overseas territory which received much media attention in 2004 for a trial over widespread child abuse?

Pitcairn Islands

17.

Which children’s game manufactured by Hasbro features Cavity Sam?

Operation

18.

Which character has been played on screen by David Bowie, Rod Steiger, Telly Savalas and Michael Palin?

Pontius Pilate

19.

Who narrated the children’s TV show In the Night Garden?

20.

Which city in New Zealand is one of the best known centres for Art Deco architecture in the world, largely due to the fact that the city was rebuilt during the height of this movement after it had been destroyed in a 1931 earthquake?

Napier

21.

Who wrote sketches for his own TV show under the name Gerald Wiley, unbeknownst even to other members of the show?

Ronnie Barker

22.

The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift was founded by John Hargreave in 1920 as an alternative to which organisation which he felt had become increasingly militaristic?

The Scouts

23.

The main cricket ground in Lahore is named after which world leader who died in 2011?

Colonel Gadaffi

24.

Since its inception during the Second World War, the Dicken medal, the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross, has been won most times by which type of creature?

25.

Wags

26.

Which novelist would have been known as Mrs Bigg-Wither had she not called off her engagement?

Jane Austen

27.

In 1967, Tony Benn declared that the extra ‘e’ in which word stood for "excellence, England, Europe and entente"?

Concorde

28.

In 1978, the final of the Wormwood Scrubs chess tournament was between a convicted murderer and a disgraced politician. Name either.

29.

If you were reading about ‘chasing the sparrow’, ‘the leap of the hare’ and ‘the tree climber’, which book would you be reading?

The Kama Sutra

30.

In Manet’s painting Bar at the Folies-Bergère bottles of which British beer are visible on the bar?

Bass

(pale ale)

Sp1

To which magazine did Johnny Vegas sell his wedding photos for £1?

Viz

Sp2

What is the name of the title character in The Merchant of Venice?

Antonio

Sp3

Two South American cities’ inhabitants are known as ‘Portenos’.  Name either.

(either)

Buenos Aires

(or)

Valparaiso

ROUND 2 - Stockport style - Written

1.

The two zoos owned by the London Zoological Society are London Zoo and which other?

Whipsnade

2.

In 1986, French film director Roger Vadim published an autobiography entitled My Life with the Three Most Beautiful Women in the World.  Name any one of them.

(one of)

Brigitte Bardot, Jane Fonda or Catherine Deneuve

3.

The law of the sea divides it into three zones: Internal Waters, Territorial Waters and what other place, a term now in more general usage?

4.

Which studious work, running to six volumes, was published between 1776 and 1788 and owed its genesis in no small part to the fact that the author was housebound due to a condition which had caused his testicles to swell to enormous proportions?

5.

August 2014 saw the death of which screen icon, the last person to be named in Madonna’s song Vogue to die?

6.

What is the name of the Cornish pie which features protruding fish heads?

7.

In the Vietnam War’s Tet Offensive, to what does the word ‘Tet’ refer?

8.

Two strips of metal bound around a cotton tape reed is known as a ‘swazzle’.  What type of children’s entertainer would use one?

9.

What is the term for a baby porcupine?

10.

Who met on 16 May 1763 at Thomas Davies’s bookshop?

Sp1

What is the name of the annual Rugby League series between New South Wales and Queensland?

Sp2

‘Grenade’ is French for which fruit?

Sp3

What academic non-achievement is shared by Matt Damon, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Robert Frost and Pete Seeger?

ROUND 3 - WithQuiz style - Pot pourri

1.

Who is the only American mentioned by name (and in glowing terms) in Mein Kampf?

Henry Ford

2.

Which Booker prize-winning novelist spent much of his gap year as a beater on the Balmoral estate?  His winning oeuvre has a similar setting.

Kazuo Ishiguro

3.

What is the title of the official Presidential anthem of the USA?  It is played at most public appearances.

Hail to the Chief

4.

In which game is brailling frowned upon?

Scrabble

(it is attempting to feel for the blank tiles when choosing letters from the bag)

5.

Which retail chain has its headquarters on Geoffrey Way, in Wayne, New Jersey?

(Geoffrey is the name of the giraffe in their logo)

6.

Eorl Crabtree who plays at prop for the Huddersfield Giants and England is the nephew of which Yorkshire sporting legend who died in 1997 and who had also played Rugby League for Bradford Northern before finding fame in a different pursuit?

Big Daddy

7.

On pirate flags, what symbol was often appended to the skull and crossbones as a symbol of the inevitability of death?

Hourglass

8.

A transport project on Mount Vesuvius inspired which song?

Funiculi, Funicula

Sp1

The city of Cremona in Lombardy is the centre of which industry?

Violin making

Sp2

Which musical features characters called Elder Price and Nabulungi and the song Tomorrow is a Latter Day?

The Book of Mormon

Sp3

What is the only member of the EU to have a semitic language?

Malta

ROUND 4 - WithQuiz style - 'What links?'

1.

What do actors Michelle Collins, June Brown, Brian Capron and Jill Halfpenny have in common?

They have appeared in both Eastenders and Coronation Street

2.

What links Hanover, New York, Ithaca, Philadelphia and Cambridge?

Locations of Ivy League colleges

(Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Harvard)

3.

What links Morte d’Arthur, Pilgrim’s Progress, Mein Kampf and Don Quixote?

All written in prison

4.

What links Lily Allen, Harry Styles, Tilda Swinton, the fictional Chandler Bing and a James Bond villain?

All have an extra nipple

5.

What links The B&O, Pennsylvania, Shore Line and Reading railroads?

Equivalent of the London stations on a US monopoly board

6.

What links America, the West, Mexico and the Midlands?

Once Upon a Time in… films

7.

What do the mountains Ben Macdui, Sca Fell, Garnedd Ugain and Slieve Commedagh have in common?

They are the second highest peaks in the four countries of the UK

8.

What links Awaji Island, Baden Baden, Rustenberg and Barra?

Locations of England team’s bases for the four most recent FIFA World Cups

Sp1

What links Glasgow Kelvin, Bethnal Green and Bow, Bradford West?

Constituencies represented by George Galloway

Sp2

What links Westbury, Cherhill, Uffington, Osmington, Alton Barnes and Kilburn?

Locations of chalk horses

ROUND 5 - WithQuiz style - Pot pourri

1.

In March of this year the Supreme Court refused Cadbury’s application to appeal against a ruling denying its right to trademark what?

The shade of purple used on its wrappers

2.

In Antony & Cleopatra, Shakespeare is guilty of an anachronism when Cleopatra mentions which game, which would have been unknown at the time?  Rex Williams is probably the best known champion of the 20th Century.

Billiards

(do not accept snooker or pool)

3.

The layout of Central Park in New York is largely influenced by the design of a park in which town in North West England?

Birkenhead

4.

Which playwright is buried upright in Westminster Abbey, the smaller plot an indication of his reduced circumstances at the time of his 1637 death?

Ben Jonson

5.

Tex Watson, Susan Kasabian, Linda Atkins, Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel were notorious members of what?

The Manson family

6.

Dennis Tito, Mark Shuttleworth, Gregory Olsen, Anousheh Ansari, Charles Simonyi, Richard Garriott and Guy Laliberte are the only seven people ever to have paid to do what?

Go into space

7.

Which item of clothing was said by its inventor Louis Reard to be easily identifiable from imitations because 'it could be pulled through a wedding ring'?

Bikini

8.

In Italian it is called ‘chiocciola’ meaning ‘small snail’; in Dutch it is an ‘apenstaart’ meaning ‘monkey’s tail’; in Danish it is ‘snabel-a’ meaning ‘ an A with a long nose’; in Czech it is known as ‘zavinac’ which means ‘rollmop herring’.  What is it?

The @ key

Sp1

What was banned in Catalonia in 2010?

Bullfighting

Sp2

Which TV series is filmed in Springbrook National Park, Queensland?

I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here

Sp3

Which country left the Commonwealth in 2013?

The Gambia

ROUND 6 - WithQuiz Style - Pot pourri

1.

Tsar Nicholas I’s description of the Ottoman Empire – since used of many countries – was what?

'The sick man of Europe'

2.

Astronomers who search for distant planets which might have the right conditions for sustaining life use which traditional children’s story to refer to such planets?

Goldilocks

(not too hot, not too cold etc)

3.

Who was the last Republican to win a presidential election without having either a Bush or a Nixon on the ticket?

Herbert Hoover

(in 1928)

4.

What are Sodium Thiopental, Pancuronium Bromide and Potassium Chloride when taken in that order?

The three elements of execution by fatal injection in the US

5.

What is the name of the Pope’s summer retreat?

Castel Gandolfo

6.

Which city’s library reopened in 2002 having been closed for 1600 years?

Alexandria

7.

Which entertainment duo caused the nation’s stomachs to turn when they revealed in 2011 that they had been enthusiastic participants in the swinging lifestyle during the height of their 1980s fame?

The Krankies

8.

What was the name of Peggy’s never-seen boss in the TV show Hi-de-Hi?

Miss Cathcart

Sp1

What are Smilers, Little Monsters and Directioneers?

Pop stars’ fan bases

(Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, One Direction)

Sp2

Anastasia Dobromyslova is a two times champion at which sport?  She briefly switched to competing in the men’s game before reverting back in 2011.

Darts

Sp3

Which novel did Virginia Woolf describe as reading "like an undergraduate scratching his pimples"?

Ulysses

(by James Joyce)

According to the 2011 census what was the population of Indonesia?

237,424,363