ROUND 1 - Pairs

1.

In multicellular organisms what is synthesised from the union of two gametes?

2.

Which actor who died in 1983 is the subject of the 2010 biography Do You Think That’s Wise? by Graham McCann?

3.

Who won the Spectator Award for Political Insurgent of the year in 2013, published his autobiography Fighting Bull in 2010 and has announced that he will contest a seat at the 2015 General Election?

4.

Which UK number 1 single from 1981 was a protest against the urban decay of the period and includes the memorable lyric “Bands won't play no more, too much fighting on the dance floor”?

5.

What 1983 single was a protest against bouncers who prevented clubbers pogo dancing on the dance floor as they considered it to be too dangerous?  It includes the memorable lyric “you can act real rude and totally removed and I can act like an imbecile”.

6.

Who won The Spectator Award for Political Strategist of the Year in 1998, is the subject of a 2010 biography Against the Odds by David Torrance, and has announced that he will contest a seat at the 2015 General Election?

7.

According to TV comedy script writer Jimmy Perry's memoirs, published in 2002, what did his father say to him at the age of 16 when he said he wanted to become an actor or comedian?

8.

What is responsible for the synthesis of proteins in living cells by converting the instructions found in messenger RNA into chains of amino acids?

ROUND 2 - 'Let's Play'

All the answers include one or more words that can precede the word 'play' and still make sense

1.

(You buy one you get one free, I say you buy one you get one free)

What, since its introduction in 1855, has consisted of about 50% potassium chlorate, about 30% diatomaceous earth, small quantities of sulphur, starch, and glue, and is used in the production of an everyday object?

2.

(You buy one you get one free, I say you buy one you get one free)

What unit of measure was established in 1783 in order to calculate the royalties due to a famous son of Greenock?

3.

What was domesticated from the genus Numida meleagris, a native of sub-Saharan Africa, and introduced into Europe in the fourteenth century?  French producers alone reared 38.5 million of them for human consumption in 2008.

4.

Calculating the tractive effort of a two cylinder steam locomotive requires measurement of its boiler pressure, piston diameter, driving wheel diameter and which other variable?

5.

What is the name of the piece of equipment that sorts coal, or stone, by size at a colliery or quarry?

6.

The design of a machine to manufacture which particular biscuit was the subject of a patent granted to Philadelphia baker Charles Roser in 1892?  His device consisted of two funnels, one inside the other, which extruded a continuous stream of product that was then sliced to size and baked.

7.

Which John Le Carré novel ends with the death of British agent Alec Leamas beside the Berlin Wall?  Richard Burton would be nominated for an Oscar for playing the role in the 1965 film version.

8.

In which novel did a character called O’Brien claim: “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face - forever.”?  Richard Burton would portray the character in his final film role.

Sp.

Which late night television show was presented by Terry Christian and infamously hosted a section called Opportunity Shocks in which an audience member would accept a challenge such as to drink vomit while the audience were invited to 'bay like pigs'?

ROUND 3 - Pot pourri

1.

By what name is the artist born Emmanuel Radnitsky, on August the 27th 1890 in Philadelphia, better known?

2.

Who wrote Music for the Royal Fireworks which had its premiere in London’s Green Park on 27th of April 1749 to celebrate the British victory in the War of Austrian succession?

3.

Name the philosopher, born in Riga in 1909, educated in England and knighted in 1957, whose popular essay entitled The Fox and the Hedgehog explored the idea that while 'foxes' know many things, 'hedgehogs' know just one big thing.

4.

Which Manchester based band, taking their name from a 1971 film starring Donald Sutherland in an eponymous role, released the Mercury Prize nominated album The Sky at Night in 2010?

5.

What landmark features on the cap badge of the Berkshire Yeomanry?

6.

Which play first performed in 1962 concludes with the line spoken by Martha “I am… George…I am” in response to the question posed in its title?

7.

Goalkeeper Ray Wood started his professional football career with Darlington but made only 12 appearances for the mighty Darlo before signing for which club in 1949 with whom he won 2 Football League Champions medals?

8.

Which 1986 film carried the strapline 'Be afraid. Be very afraid' and saw Chris Walas and Stephen Dupuis win an Oscar for best makeup for their work on the film?  It is likely that the transmogrification sequence undertaken by the film’s star swayed the judges’ decision.

ROUND 4 - Hidden theme

1.

Who seduced Benjamin Braddock in 1967 despite claiming to be twice his age?

2.

What enquiry did Stephen, a former Army officer, first make in September 1972 across the workplace floor to his assistant, Wilberforce, although neither would be so forward as to use given names?  The answer, in the affirmative, would become a national catchphrase.

3.

Which West Indian fast bowler was the first cricketer to take 500 test wickets?

4.

Who had a UK number one single with What a Wonderful World when aged 66 years and 10 months in 1968, and would remain the oldest artist to have a UK number one until he surrendered that accolade to Tom Jones in 2009?

5.

According to Joshua Chapter 9 in the King James Bible, when that Prophet enslaved the Gibeonites he forced them to undertake two specified tasks.  One was to be drawers of water.  What was the other?

6.

At whose memorial service, held at Westminster Abbey on the 3rd of March 2006, did twice the usual number of candles accompany the cross as it processed up the aisle?

7.

What is the common name for the insect correctly called the Otiorhynchus sulcatus?  This noted pest feeds at night on the leaves of many garden plants, particularly broad leaved evergreens such as rhododendron, before returning to the safety of the soil at daybreak.

8.

Which Colchester-based engineering company, by 1975 a subsidiary of GEC, designed and built the V12 4-stroke Valenta diesel engine that powered British Railways High Speed Trains and the Royal Navy’s Upholder class submarines?

Sp.

What was the name of the cobbler who supplied footballs to Rugby school in 1823?

ROUND 5 - Pot pourri

1.

Which seafood dish includes brandy and mustard amongst its list of ingredients and takes its name from the second month of the summer quarter in the French Republican calendar?

2.

Which Zola novel takes its name from the first month of the spring quarter in the French Republican calendar?

3.

Founded in Govan in 1966, Vango established their reputation as a leading manufacturer of which particular item with the introduction of the iconic Force 10, resplendent in dayglo orange, in the 1970s?

4.

Founded in 1884 by Karl Elsener and adopting its cross within a red shield emblem in 1909 the family firm of Victorinox are famously the sole supplier of which iconic item to which particular military customer?

5.

Which chemical element has been the subject of a strategic reserve held by the US Government at the Cliffside Storage Facility in Texas ever since 1925?  The stockpile amounted to more than 1 billion cubic metres in 1995?

6.

Which metal, atomic number 28, is named after a mischievous sprite that was blamed by German miners for preventing copper being refined from what appeared to be copper ore, and formed part of the US National Defense Stockpile until as recently as 1999?

7.

Which river rises in the Sierra Morena and flows through an area of considerable mining activity along its 100km length to its mouth in the Gulf of Cadiz at Huelva?  Much of the mining from 1873 onwards was predominantly undertaken by a British consortium.

8.

Which tributary of the Occoquan River provides the boundary between Loudoun County and Fairfax County to the north east and Prince William County to the south west?  Its entire 50km length lies within the state of Virginia and was the focal point of 2 battles in the American Civil War.

ROUND 6 - 'On Your Marks'

All the answers include one or more words that can precede the word 'marks' and still make sense

1.

Which painting by Sandro Botticelli, and displayed in the Uffizi Gallery, depicts a naked female form standing precariously on an oversize open scallop shell beside the seashore?

2.

What is the name of the unclassified road that now serves to link the two halves of the A625 route through the Peak District?  The A-road had been severed by the permanent closure in 1979 of the section afflicted by the Mam Tor landslip.

3.

Complete the line-up immortalised in a film of 1960: Chris, Vin, Bernardo, Lee, Britt, Harry and......

4.

Which football club, now playing in tier 4 in Germany, was founded in 1903 by the workers of an optics factory and contested the 1981 European Cup Winners Cup final?

5.

What word has traditionally been used by explorers to describe a bay with such ease of access that it can be exited by a square rigged ship without tacking regardless of the wind’s direction?  A famous example is to be found in the North Sea.

6.

(You buy one you get one free I say you buy one you get one free)

Where did Benjamin Disraeli give his famous One Nation speech on the 3rd of April 1872?

7.

Name the bricklayer who captained Bath City when they won the Southern League in 1960 and as a professional would lead another City when they won the Football League.

8.

Which line of a Kathleen Raine poem would become the title of an autobiographical work by a male friend about a venture they undertook together with the assistance of a teenaged Terry Nutkins while living in the Highland village of Glenelg?

Sp.

What is the common name for the bird, correctly Milvus milvus, named as Bird of the Century by the British Trust for Ornithology in 1999?

ROUND 7 - Pot pourri

1.

What is the connection: a Roman Christian martyred at the age of fourteen and now the patron saint of children; the meadows attached to a church founded in Bristol by the Knights Templar; and the fictional hero who saved Colonel Talbot at the Battle of Prestonpans?

2.

Where were father and son, The Old Pretender and Bonnie Prince Charlie buried?

3.

What is a parbuckle?

4.

Who comes next in this sequence?  Darlington 1883, Skelmersdale United, Mickleover Sports, Leek Town, Altrincham and…..

5.

Which World War 2 battleship was named in honour of the Prussian General who served as Chief of Staff to Prince Peter Wittgenstein’s Russian army during the Napoleonic Wars?

6.

Who was nominated for the 2014 Mercury Prize for her album Everybody Down and won the 2013 Ted Hughes Award for innovation in poetry with her spoken story Brand New Ancients?

7.

Which town sits on the confluence of the Rivers Rother and Hipper, and has a famous parish church, St Mary and All Saints, although few will be aware of its name?

8.

Which orchestral movement by Khachaturian sounds awfully dangerous and was described by Mansurian as “a synthesis of an Armenian wedding dance tune from Gyumri tied in a saxophone counterpoint that seems to come straight from America”?

ROUND 8 - Hidden theme

1.

What is calculated by the formula: (2 x pi x r x h) plus (2 x pi x r²)?

2.

What did Tom Marvolo Riddle surreptitiously open in 1943 while in a girls’ lavatory on the first floor of an educational establishment?

3.

What is the title given to the man in charge of the crew responsible for building and maintaining all the equipment that supports cameras on a film set including tripods, dollies, tracks, jibs, cranes, and static rigs?

4.

What implement was used to kill the world’s only known student of pataphysical science, presumably via a traumatic brain injury, as she prepared for an evening out at the cinema?

5.

Whose death on the 3rd of July 1965 brought to an end a career in TV and film that spanned 27 years and included more than 80 films mostly produced for Republic Pictures?  His debut was an uncredited part in The Adventures of Robin Hood alongside Errol Flynn and Olivia De Havilland.

6.

Frank Keller won an Oscar in April 1969 for Best Film Editing for his work on which film released in 1968?  It is likely that one particular scene lasting 10 minutes and 53 seconds swayed the judge’s decision.

7.

What airborne manoeuvre, first performed by Daniel Maloney in 1905 when it was known as a side somersault, was improbably repeated by Roly Falk above Farnborough in 1955 while flying an Avro Vulcan?

8.

The efficacy of what device was perfected in a design by Sir James Martin following the death of his business partner, Captain Valentine Baker, and was first demonstrated to the British public by Bernard Lynch in 1948?

Sp.

What is the name of the magazine published monthly by the British Film Institute?

Spares

1.

The nightclub Mr Cinders is the setting for which play, first performed in 1977, that according to its creator should be “like watching four stand-up comedians”?

2.

Which Yorkshire batsman scored 1489 runs in this season’s County Championship?

3.

Who led a guerrilla army against British forces from 1899 to 1902 but was appointed Field Marshal in the British Army in May 1941 whilst holding the position of Prime Minister?

4.

In which shipping area are the Channel Islands located?

5.

How do you kill a circus?

ROUND 1 - Pairs

1.

In multicellular organisms what is synthesised from the union of two gametes?

A zygote

2.

Which actor who died in 1983 is the subject of the 2010 biography Do You Think That’s Wise? by Graham McCann?

John Le Mesurier

3.

Who won the Spectator Award for Political Insurgent of the year in 2013, published his autobiography Fighting Bull in 2010 and has announced that he will contest a seat at the 2015 General Election?

Nigel Farage

(the paperback edition was called Flying Free)

4.

Which UK number 1 single from 1981 was a protest against the urban decay of the period and includes the memorable lyric “Bands won't play no more, too much fighting on the dance floor”?

Ghost Town

5.

What 1983 single was a protest against bouncers who prevented clubbers pogo dancing on the dance floor as they considered it to be too dangerous?  It includes the memorable lyric “you can act real rude and totally removed and I can act like an imbecile”.

The Safety Dance

(by Men Without Hats)

6.

Who won The Spectator Award for Political Strategist of the Year in 1998, is the subject of a 2010 biography Against the Odds by David Torrance, and has announced that he will contest a seat at the 2015 General Election?

Alex Salmond

7.

According to TV comedy script writer Jimmy Perry's memoirs, published in 2002, what did his father say to him at the age of 16 when he said he wanted to become an actor or comedian?

"You stupid boy!"

8.

What is responsible for the synthesis of proteins in living cells by converting the instructions found in messenger RNA into chains of amino acids?

Ribosomes

ROUND 2 - 'Let's Play'

All the answers include one or more words that can precede the word 'play' and still make sense

1.

(You buy one you get one free, I say you buy one you get one free)

What, since its introduction in 1855, has consisted of about 50% potassium chlorate, about 30% diatomaceous earth, small quantities of sulphur, starch, and glue, and is used in the production of an everyday object?

The mixture to make the head of a safety match

(Note to QMs: the answer must include the word 'safety')

2.

(You buy one you get one free, I say you buy one you get one free)

What unit of measure was established in 1783 in order to calculate the royalties due to a famous son of Greenock?

Horse power

(It was how Watt calculated how much money his steam engines saved and therefore how much he was owed)

3.

What was domesticated from the genus Numida meleagris, a native of sub-Saharan Africa, and introduced into Europe in the fourteenth century?  French producers alone reared 38.5 million of them for human consumption in 2008.

Guinea Fowl

4.

Calculating the tractive effort of a two cylinder steam locomotive requires measurement of its boiler pressure, piston diameter, driving wheel diameter and which other variable?

The length of the piston stroke

5.

What is the name of the piece of equipment that sorts coal, or stone, by size at a colliery or quarry?

A screen

6.

The design of a machine to manufacture which particular biscuit was the subject of a patent granted to Philadelphia baker Charles Roser in 1892?  His device consisted of two funnels, one inside the other, which extruded a continuous stream of product that was then sliced to size and baked.

Fig roll

7.

Which John Le Carré novel ends with the death of British agent Alec Leamas beside the Berlin Wall?  Richard Burton would be nominated for an Oscar for playing the role in the 1965 film version.

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

8.

In which novel did a character called O’Brien claim: “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face - forever.”?  Richard Burton would portray the character in his final film role.

Nineteen Eighty Four

Sp.

Which late night television show was presented by Terry Christian and infamously hosted a section called Opportunity Shocks in which an audience member would accept a challenge such as to drink vomit while the audience were invited to 'bay like pigs'?

The Word

ROUND 3 - Pot pourri

1.

By what name is the artist born Emmanuel Radnitsky, on August the 27th 1890 in Philadelphia, better known?

Man Ray

2.

Who wrote Music for the Royal Fireworks which had its premiere in London’s Green Park on 27th of April 1749 to celebrate the British victory in the War of Austrian succession?

George Handel

3.

Name the philosopher, born in Riga in 1909, educated in England and knighted in 1957, whose popular essay entitled The Fox and the Hedgehog explored the idea that while 'foxes' know many things, 'hedgehogs' know just one big thing.

Sir Isaiah Berlin

4.

Which Manchester based band, taking their name from a 1971 film starring Donald Sutherland in an eponymous role, released the Mercury Prize nominated album The Sky at Night in 2010?

I Am Kloot

5.

What landmark features on the cap badge of the Berkshire Yeomanry?

The Uffington White Horse

6.

Which play first performed in 1962 concludes with the line spoken by Martha “I am… George…I am” in response to the question posed in its title?

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

7.

Goalkeeper Ray Wood started his professional football career with Darlington but made only 12 appearances for the mighty Darlo before signing for which club in 1949 with whom he won 2 Football League Champions medals?

Manchester United

8.

Which 1986 film carried the strapline 'Be afraid. Be very afraid' and saw Chris Walas and Stephen Dupuis win an Oscar for best makeup for their work on the film?  It is likely that the transmogrification sequence undertaken by the film’s star swayed the judges’ decision.

The Fly

ROUND 4 - Hidden theme

1.

Who seduced Benjamin Braddock in 1967 despite claiming to be twice his age?

Mrs Robinson

(in The Graduate)

2.

What enquiry did Stephen, a former Army officer, first make in September 1972 across the workplace floor to his assistant, Wilberforce, although neither would be so forward as to use given names?  The answer, in the affirmative, would become a national catchphrase.

"Mr Humphreys, are you free?"

3.

Which West Indian fast bowler was the first cricketer to take 500 test wickets?

Courtney Walsh

4.

Who had a UK number one single with What a Wonderful World when aged 66 years and 10 months in 1968, and would remain the oldest artist to have a UK number one until he surrendered that accolade to Tom Jones in 2009?

Louis Armstrong

5.

According to Joshua Chapter 9 in the King James Bible, when that Prophet enslaved the Gibeonites he forced them to undertake two specified tasks.  One was to be drawers of water.  What was the other?

"Hewers of wood"

6.

At whose memorial service, held at Westminster Abbey on the 3rd of March 2006, did twice the usual number of candles accompany the cross as it processed up the aisle?

Ronnie Barker

(the cross being accompanied by four candles rather than two…..)

7.

What is the common name for the insect correctly called the Otiorhynchus sulcatus?  This noted pest feeds at night on the leaves of many garden plants, particularly broad leaved evergreens such as rhododendron, before returning to the safety of the soil at daybreak.

Vine Weevil

8.

Which Colchester-based engineering company, by 1975 a subsidiary of GEC, designed and built the V12 4-stroke Valenta diesel engine that powered British Railways High Speed Trains and the Royal Navy’s Upholder class submarines?

Paxman Diesels

Sp.

What was the name of the cobbler who supplied footballs to Rugby school in 1823?

William Gilbert

ROUND 5 - Pairs

1.

Which seafood dish includes brandy and mustard amongst its list of ingredients and takes its name from the second month of the summer quarter in the French Republican calendar?

Lobster Thermidor

2.

Which Zola novel takes its name from the first month of the spring quarter in the French Republican calendar?

Germinal

3.

Founded in Govan in 1966, Vango established their reputation as a leading manufacturer of which particular item with the introduction of the iconic Force 10, resplendent in dayglo orange, in the 1970s?

Tents

4.

Founded in 1884 by Karl Elsener and adopting its cross within a red shield emblem in 1909 the family firm of Victorinox are famously the sole supplier of which iconic item to which particular military customer?

Swiss Army knives to the Swiss Army

5.

Which chemical element has been the subject of a strategic reserve held by the US Government at the Cliffside Storage Facility in Texas ever since 1925?  The stockpile amounted to more than 1 billion cubic metres in 1995?

Helium

(originally to be used in airships, latterly as a coolant in making rocket fuel)

6.

Which metal, atomic number 28, is named after a mischievous sprite that was blamed by German miners for preventing copper being refined from what appeared to be copper ore, and formed part of the US National Defense Stockpile until as recently as 1999?

Nickel

(an important constituent in superalloys required for aircraft construction)

7.

Which river rises in the Sierra Morena and flows through an area of considerable mining activity along its 100km length to its mouth in the Gulf of Cadiz at Huelva?  Much of the mining from 1873 onwards was predominantly undertaken by a British consortium.

Rio Tinto

(the consortium becoming the Rio Tinto Group)

8.

Which tributary of the Occoquan River provides the boundary between Loudoun County and Fairfax County to the north east and Prince William County to the south west?  Its entire 50km length lies within the state of Virginia and was the focal point of 2 battles in the American Civil War.

ROUND 6 - 'On Your Marks'

All the answers include one or more words that can precede the word 'marks' and still make sense

1.

Which painting by Sandro Botticelli, and displayed in the Uffizi Gallery, depicts a naked female form standing precariously on an oversize open scallop shell beside the seashore?

The Birth of Venus

2.

What is the name of the unclassified road that now serves to link the two halves of the A625 route through the Peak District?  The A-road had been severed by the permanent closure in 1979 of the section afflicted by the Mam Tor landslip.

Winnat's Pass

3.

Complete the line-up immortalised in a film of 1960: Chris, Vin, Bernardo, Lee, Britt, Harry and......

Chico

(The Magnificent Seven)

4.

Which football club, now playing in tier 4 in Germany, was founded in 1903 by the workers of an optics factory and contested the 1981 European Cup Winners Cup final?

Carl Zeiss Jena

5.

What word has traditionally been used by explorers to describe a bay with such ease of access that it can be exited by a square rigged ship without tacking regardless of the wind’s direction?  A famous example is to be found in the North Sea.

Bight

6.

(You buy one you get one free I say you buy one you get one free)

Where did Benjamin Disraeli give his famous One Nation speech on the 3rd of April 1872?

Free Trade Hall in Manchester

7.

Name the bricklayer who captained Bath City when they won the Southern League in 1960 and as a professional would lead another City when they won the Football League.

Tony Book

8.

Which line of a Kathleen Raine poem would become the title of an autobiographical work by a male friend about a venture they undertook together with the assistance of a teenaged Terry Nutkins while living in the Highland village of Glenelg?

"A ring of bright water"

Sp.

What is the common name for the bird, correctly Milvus milvus, named as Bird of the Century by the British Trust for Ornithology in 1999?

Red Kite

ROUND 7 - Pot pourri

1.

What is the connection: a Roman Christian martyred at the age of fourteen and now the patron saint of children; the meadows attached to a church founded in Bristol by the Knights Templar; and the fictional hero who saved Colonel Talbot at the Battle of Prestonpans?

They all gave their names to British railway stations

(St Pancras, Temple Church Meadows shortened to Temple Meads and Waverley)

2.

Where were father and son, The Old Pretender and Bonnie Prince Charlie buried?

St Peters Basilica Rome

(except for the heart of the son which is buried in Frascati)

3.

What is a parbuckle?

Rope sling

(specifically to roll a cylindrical object up or down an incline)

4.

Who comes next in this sequence?  Darlington 1883, Skelmersdale United, Mickleover Sports, Leek Town, Altrincham and…..

Hartlepool United

(beaten by Blyth Spartans in this season’s FA Cup….so far….)

5.

Which World War 2 battleship was named in honour of the Prussian General who served as Chief of Staff to Prince Peter Wittgenstein’s Russian army during the Napoleonic Wars?

Gerhard von Scharnhorst

6.

Who was nominated for the 2014 Mercury Prize for her album Everybody Down and won the 2013 Ted Hughes Award for innovation in poetry with her spoken story Brand New Ancients?

Kate Tempest

7.

Which town sits on the confluence of the Rivers Rother and Hipper, and has a famous parish church, St Mary and All Saints, although few will be aware of its name?

Chesterfield

8.

Which orchestral movement by Khachaturian sounds awfully dangerous and was described by Mansurian as “a synthesis of an Armenian wedding dance tune from Gyumri tied in a saxophone counterpoint that seems to come straight from America”?

The Sabre Dance

ROUND 8 - Hidden theme

1.

What is calculated by the formula: (2 x pi x r x h) plus (2 x pi x r²)?

Surface area of a cylinder

2.

What did Tom Marvolo Riddle surreptitiously open in 1943 while in a girls’ lavatory on the first floor of an educational establishment?

The Chamber of Secrets

3.

What is the title given to the man in charge of the crew responsible for building and maintaining all the equipment that supports cameras on a film set including tripods, dollies, tracks, jibs, cranes, and static rigs?

Key Grip

4.

What implement was used to kill the world’s only known student of pataphysical science, presumably via a traumatic brain injury, as she prepared for an evening out at the cinema?

Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

5.

Whose death on the 3rd of July 1965 brought to an end a career in TV and film that spanned 27 years and included more than 80 films mostly produced for Republic Pictures?  His debut was an uncredited part in The Adventures of Robin Hood alongside Errol Flynn and Olivia De Havilland.

Trigger

(although strictly speaking he was under, rather than alongside, Olivia de Havilland)

6.

Frank Keller won an Oscar in April 1969 for Best Film Editing for his work on which film released in 1968?  It is likely that one particular scene lasting 10 minutes and 53 seconds swayed the judge’s decision.

Bullitt

7.

What airborne manoeuvre, first performed by Daniel Maloney in 1905 when it was known as a side somersault, was improbably repeated by Roly Falk above Farnborough in 1955 while flying an Avro Vulcan?

Barrel roll

(Note to QM: this is not the same as a victory roll)

8.

The efficacy of what device was perfected in a design by Sir James Martin following the death of his business partner, Captain Valentine Baker, and was first demonstrated to the British public by Bernard Lynch in 1948?

Ejector seat

(and Martin Baker remain the world’s leading maker of ejector seats)

Sp.

What is the name of the magazine published monthly by the British Film Institute?

Sight and Sound

Spares

1.

The nightclub Mr Cinders is the setting for which play, first performed in 1977, that according to its creator should be “like watching four stand-up comedians”?

Bouncers

2.

Which Yorkshire batsman scored 1489 runs in this season’s County Championship?

Adam Lyth

3.

Who led a guerrilla army against British forces from 1899 to 1902 but was appointed Field Marshal in the British Army in May 1941 whilst holding the position of Prime Minister?

Jan Smuts

4.

In which shipping area are the Channel Islands located?

Portland

5.

How do you kill a circus?

By going for the juggler

(Ho! Ho! Ho!)