ROUND 1 - Pot pourri

1.

In 1967, whose dead body had the hands cut off in order for his identity to be confirmed?

2.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has three trustees. Bill and Melinda are two. Who is the third?

3.

Which writer and broadcaster who has a famous father was Nick Clegg’s fag at Westminster School? The two became friends and later took a gap year road trip together.

4.

What did RAF Firmingley become in 2005?

5.

The world’s largest monument dedicated to a writer is in the UK.  To whom is it dedicated?

6.

Radio Caroline began broadcasting in 1964 from a ship anchored three miles offshore of which English port?

7.

In which Olympic sport is wearing a beard prohibited?

8.

What is Huckleberry Hound’s favourite song?  He can often be heard rendering an off-key, inaccurate version of it.

1.

Which well-known toy has a sister called Skipper?

2.

Which toy’s arch enemy is Doctor X?

3.

What is Ryan Giggs’ restaurant in Worsley called?

4.

What is the name of the hotel being built by Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs near Old Trafford?

5.

Who said “If you want a daft comedian running London, just leave things as they are”?

6.

Who, in 2014, said “Putin is doing just about the same as Hitler”?

7.

Where were the 1916 Olympic Games scheduled to be held?

8.

Where were the 1944 Olympic Games scheduled to be held?

ROUND 3 - Hidden theme

1.

Which television personality is the daughter of a former mayor of Bath?  His term of office was in 1952.

2.

What is the first name of Principal Skinner in The Simpsons?

3.

Which former Liverpool player was voted No. 21 on the club’s poll of ‘Players who shook the Kop’?  He was bought from Motherwell in 1961.

4.

Which composer’s works are littered with references to the numbers 14 and 41 as they are derived from the mystical numerology values of his own name?

5.

Who is the current presenter of It’ll Be Alright on the Night, having replaced Dennis Norden in 2008?

6.

Which actor speaks the only audible word in Mel Brooks’ film Silent Movie?

7.

Which American author wrote the Earthsea series of books?

8.

Which 1993 Jeffrey Archer novel tells of a plot by Saddam Hussein to steal and burn the US Declaration of Independence?

ROUND 4 - Pot pourri

1.

What feature of the Wicked or Sinners’ Bible gave rise to its name?

2.

Who, after his recantation, is said to have murmured “Eppur si muove” (“And yet it moves”)?

3.

How, with slight modification, is By the Sleepy Lagoon, by Eric Coates, best known?

4.

What remained in Pandora’s Box?

5.

Jan Paderewski was best known as a concert pianist. He had another job, though. What was it?

6.

Where did Somerset Maugham describe as “a sunny place for shady people”?

7.

The composer Amold Bax (or possibly Sir Thomas Beecham) advised people to try anything once, except incest and what?

8.

The old, not to say ancient, schoolboy song whose lyrics, repeated ad nauseam, are “Lloyd George knew my father, father knew Lloyd George”, is sung to the tune of which hymn?

ROUND 5 - Themed 'Two out of Three'

1.

Name two of the first three post World War II British Prime Ministers.

2.

David Lloyd George was Prime Minister when World War I ended.  Name two of the next three Prime Ministers.

3.

Name two of the three UK top ten hits for Ian Dury and the Blockheads.

4.

Mud had 3 UK number 1 hits.  Name two of them.

5.

Name two of Ava Gardner’s three husbands.

6.

There have been three versions of the film A Star is Born in 1937, 1954 and 1976.  Name two of the three actresses who played the leading role.

7.

Three Devon towns make up the region known as Torbay.  Name two of them.

8.

Name two of the three National Parks in England which are the largest by area.

ROUND 6 - Pot pourri

1.

Which Greek island provides the setting for Captain Corelli’s Mandolin?

2.

Who was Charlotte Green’s immediate predecessor as reader of the classified football results on Radio Five Live?

3.

In the film Groundhog Day to which song does Bill Murray’s character wake up each day?

4.

What is the name of the BBC security correspondent who presents either from a wheelchair or using a frame due to injuries sustained in a gun attack by al-Queda in Saudi Arabia in 2004?

5.

Despite being born in 1790, this American President still has two living grandchildren.  His was the tenth presidency, lasting from 1841 to 1845.  He succeeded William Henry Harrison and concerned himself largely with the annexation of Texas, although this was ultimately carried out by his successor, James Polk.  Who was he?

6.

Operation Bernhard was a German wartime plot against Britain to do what?

7.

Which word appears in the first lines of The Canterbury Tales, The Wasteland and Nineteen Eighty Four?

8.

Idris was the first and only king of which country from 1951 to 1969?

ROUND 7 - Hidden theme

1.

Which coin ceased to be legal tender in the United Kingdom in 1960?

2.

Who were the authors of the impeccably accurate history textbook 1066 and All That?

3.

Which former MEP found himself in hot water after referring in a speech to Bongo Bongo Land and describing women who failed to clean behind the fridge as sluts?

4.

What word links Taksim, Tahrir and numbers such as 16 and 64?

5.

What name links an art gallery, a biscuit maker and the middle names of two former Presidents of the United States?

6.

In which long running TV sitcom did Daphne look after Martin?

7.

Which former Prime Minister, when ennobled, took as part of his title the name of a ruined abbey in his native county?

8.

What fish, whose generic name is Esox, is named after a medieval weapon?

ROUND 8 - 'Beer Bingo'

Either each question contains a reference to a word or part of a word in the brand of beer given, or each question contains a reference to a word in the description of each beer given in the sheet handed out to the teams, or the brand forms part of the question or part of the answer

1.

Autumn Bourbon

Which world famous brand of bourbon whisky, named after the man who saved the company from bankruptcy, is produced at Claremont, Kentucky?

2.

Blunder Buss

In advertising, a ‘Brand Blunder’ is the name given to an advertising campaign which goes badly wrong.  In 1997 a Weightwatchers advertisement using the slogan ‘losing weight is harder than outrunning the paparazzi’, became a brand blunder.  Why?

3.

Cameron

Which parliamentary constituency does David Cameron represent?

4.

Towering Inferno

Who was Paul Newman’s male co-star in the 1974 film The Towering Inferno?

5.

Lightfoot

What was the name of the 1974 crime film which starred Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges?

6.

Olaf

Which 2014 film features a character called Olaf?

7.

Adnam’s Old Ale

Adnam’s Old Ale was first produced in 1890.  Who was the British Prime Minister in 1890?

8.

Old Hooky

Peter Hook (Hooky) was the bass guitarist of Joy Division when their first successful album was released in 1978.  Name the album.

9.

Reaper

In which 1921 American film do a pair of teenage idiots play a game of Twister with the Grim Reaper?

10.

Tiger

In which opera does the police chief, Tiger Brown, feature?

11.

Two Hoots

Which South Carolina rock group, formed in 1986, had a massive hit with their first album Cracked Rear View?

12.

UBU

What is the literary link between the following two groups of words: (a) vegetables; graveyard; lavatory (b) greens; cemetery; toilet?

Spares

1.

Which singer found fame with a snowman?

2.

What was written on the apple of discord, thrown into the wedding of Peleus and Thetis?

3.

What is the name given to a feature of a watch which does not involve showing the time?

4.

In the film Bedazzled, a retelling of the legend of Faust starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, what role was taken by Raquel Welch?

5.

What is the only word in the English language derived from Romansh?

ROUND 1 - Pot pourri

1.

In 1967, whose dead body had the hands cut off in order for his identity to be confirmed?

Che Guevara

2.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has three trustees. Bill and Melinda are two. Who is the third?

Warren Buffet

3.

Which writer and broadcaster who has a famous father was Nick Clegg’s fag at Westminster School? The two became friends and later took a gap year road trip together.

Louis Theroux

4.

What did RAF Firmingley become in 2005?

Robin Hood Airport

(accept Doncaster Airport)

5.

The world’s largest monument dedicated to a writer is in the UK.  To whom is it dedicated?

Sir Walter Scott

(the Scott Monument in Princes Gardens in Edinburgh)

6.

Radio Caroline began broadcasting in 1964 from a ship anchored three miles offshore of which English port?

Felixstowe

7.

In which Olympic sport is wearing a beard prohibited?

Boxing

8.

What is Huckleberry Hound’s favourite song?  He can often be heard rendering an off-key, inaccurate version of it.

Oh, My Darling Clementine

1.

Which well-known toy has a sister called Skipper?

Barbie

2.

Which toy’s arch enemy is Doctor X?

Action Man

3.

What is Ryan Giggs’ restaurant in Worsley called?

George’s

4.

What is the name of the hotel being built by Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs near Old Trafford?

Hotel Football

5.

Who said “If you want a daft comedian running London, just leave things as they are”?

Russell Brand

6.

Who, in 2014, said “Putin is doing just about the same as Hitler”?

Prince Charles

7.

Where were the 1916 Olympic Games scheduled to be held?

Berlin

8.

Where were the 1944 Olympic Games scheduled to be held?

London

ROUND 3 - Hidden theme

1.

Which television personality is the daughter of a former mayor of Bath?  His term of office was in 1952.

Mary Berry

2.

What is the first name of Principal Skinner in The Simpsons?

Seymour

3.

Which former Liverpool player was voted No. 21 on the club’s poll of ‘Players who shook the Kop’?  He was bought from Motherwell in 1961.

Ian St John

4.

Which composer’s works are littered with references to the numbers 14 and 41 as they are derived from the mystical numerology values of his own name?

J S Bach

5.

Who is the current presenter of It’ll Be Alright on the Night, having replaced Dennis Norden in 2008?

Griff Rhys Jones

6.

Which actor speaks the only audible word in Mel Brooks’ film Silent Movie?

Marcel Marceau

7.

Which American author wrote the Earthsea series of books?

Ursula Le Guin

8.

Which 1993 Jeffrey Archer novel tells of a plot by Saddam Hussein to steal and burn the US Declaration of Independence?

Honour Among Thieves

ROUND 4 - Pot pourri

1.

What feature of the Wicked or Sinners’ Bible gave rise to its name?

The commandment stated as “Thou shalt commit adultery”

2.

Who, after his recantation, is said to have murmured “Eppur si muove” (“And yet it moves”)?

Galileo

3.

How, with slight modification, is By the Sleepy Lagoon, by Eric Coates, best known?

Theme music to Desert Island Discs

4.

What remained in Pandora’s Box?

Hope

5.

Jan Paderewski was best known as a concert pianist. He had another job, though. What was it?

Prime Minister of Poland

(accept Foreign Minister)

6.

Where did Somerset Maugham describe as “a sunny place for shady people”?

The French Riviera

(accept Monaco)

7.

The composer Amold Bax (or possibly Sir Thomas Beecham) advised people to try anything once, except incest and what?

Morris Dancing

(accept country dancing as some sources claim this was what he said)

8.

The old, not to say ancient, schoolboy song whose lyrics, repeated ad nauseam, are “Lloyd George knew my father, father knew Lloyd George”, is sung to the tune of which hymn?

Onward Christian Soldiers

ROUND 5 - Themed - 'Two out of Three'

1.

Name two of the first three post World War II British Prime Ministers.

(two from)

Clement Atlee;

Winston Churchill;

Anthony Eden

2.

David Lloyd George was Prime Minister when World War I ended.  Name two of the next three Prime Ministers.

(two from)

Andrew Bonar Law (22-23;

Stanley Baldwin (23-24);

Ramsay MacDonald (1924)

3.

Name two of the three UK top ten hits for Ian Dury and the Blockheads.

(two from)

What a Waste (No. 9);

Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick (No. 1);

Reasons to be Cheerful Part 3 (No. 3)

4.

Mud had 3 UK number 1 hits.  Name two of them.

(two from)

Tiger Feet;

Lonely This Christmas;

Oh Boy

5.

Name two of Ava Gardner’s three husbands.

(two from)

Mickey Rooney (1942-43);

Frank Sinatra (1951-57);

Artie Shaw (1945-46)

6.

There have been three versions of the film A Star is Born in 1937, 1954 and 1976.  Name two of the three actresses who played the leading role.

(two from)

Janet Gaynor;

Judy Garland;

Barbara Streisand

7.

Three Devon towns make up the region known as Torbay.  Name two of them.

(two from)

Torquay;

Paignton;

Brixham

8.

Name two of the three National Parks in England which are the largest by area.

(two from)

Lake District (2292 sq.km);

South Downs (2010 sq.km)

Yorkshire Dales (1954 sq.km)

(South Downs is the newest National Park and has been fully operational since 1 April 2011)

ROUND 6 - Pot pourri

1.

Which Greek island provides the setting for Captain Corelli’s Mandolin?

Kephalonia

2.

Who was Charlotte Green’s immediate predecessor as reader of the classified football results on Radio Five Live?

James Alexander Gordon

3.

In the film Groundhog Day to which song does Bill Murray’s character wake up each day?

I Got You Babe

4.

What is the name of the BBC security correspondent who presents either from a wheelchair or using a frame due to injuries sustained in a gun attack by al-Queda in Saudi Arabia in 2004?

Frank Gardner

5.

Despite being born in 1790, this American President still has two living grandchildren.  His was the tenth presidency, lasting from 1841 to 1845.  He succeeded William Henry Harrison and concerned himself largely with the annexation of Texas, although this was ultimately carried out by his successor, James Polk.  Who was he?

John Tyler

6.

Operation Bernhard was a German wartime plot against Britain to do what?

To flood Britain with forged banknotes

7.

Which word appears in the first lines of The Canterbury Tales, The Wasteland and Nineteen Eighty Four?

April

8.

Idris was the first and only king of which country from 1951 to 1969?

Libya

ROUND 7 - Hidden theme

1.

Which coin ceased to be legal tender in the United Kingdom in 1960?

Farthing

2.

Who were the authors of the impeccably accurate history textbook 1066 and All That?

Sellars and Yeatman

3.

Which former MEP found himself in hot water after referring in a speech to Bongo Bongo Land and describing women who failed to clean behind the fridge as sluts?

Godfrey Bloom

(first and last name required)

4.

What word links Taksim, Tahrir and numbers such as 16 and 64?

Square

5.

What name links an art gallery, a biscuit maker and the middle names of two former Presidents of the United States?

Walker

(George Herbert Walker Bush and George Walker Bush)

6.

In which long running TV sitcom did Daphne look after Martin?

Frasier

7.

Which former Prime Minister, when ennobled, took as part of his title the name of a ruined abbey in his native county?

Harold Wilson

(of Rievaulx)

8.

What fish, whose generic name is Esox, is named after a medieval weapon?

Pike

ROUND 8 - 'Beer Bingo'

Either each question contains a reference to a word or part of a word in the brand of beer given, or each question contains a reference to a word in the description of each beer given in the sheet handed out to the teams, or the brand forms part of the question or part of the answer

1.

Autumn Bourbon

Which world famous brand of bourbon whisky, named after the man who saved the company from bankruptcy, is produced at Claremont, Kentucky?

Jim Beam

2.

Blunder Buss

In advertising, a ‘Brand Blunder’ is the name given to an advertising campaign which goes badly wrong.  In 1997 a Weightwatchers advertisement using the slogan ‘losing weight is harder than outrunning the paparazzi’, became a brand blunder.  Why?

It appeared at the same time as the death of Princess Diana

3.

Cameron

Which parliamentary constituency does David Cameron represent?

Witney, Oxfordshire

4.

Towering Inferno

Who was Paul Newman’s male co-star in the 1974 film The Towering Inferno?

Steve McQueen

5.

Lightfoot

What was the name of the 1974 crime film which starred Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges?

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

6.

Olaf

Which 2014 film features a character called Olaf?

Frozen

(he is the snowman)

7.

Adnam’s Old Ale

Adnam’s Old Ale was first produced in 1890.  Who was the British Prime Minister in 1890?

Lord Salisbury

8.

Old Hooky

Peter Hook (Hooky) was the bass guitarist of Joy Division when their first successful album was released in 1978.  Name the album.

Unknown Pleasures

9.

Reaper

In which 1921 American film do a pair of teenage idiots play a game of Twister with the Grim Reaper?

Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey

10.

Tiger

In which opera does the police chief, Tiger Brown, feature?

The Threepenny Opera

11.

Two Hoots

Which South Carolina rock group, formed in 1986, had a massive hit with their first album Cracked Rear View?

Hootie and the Blowfish

12.

UBU

What is the literary link between the following two groups of words: (a) vegetables; graveyard; lavatory (b) greens; cemetery; toilet?

U and Non-U

(Group (a) is an example of 'U' (upper class) language;

Group (b) is an example of 'Non-U' (lower class) language as popularised by Nancy Mitford)

Spares

1.

Which singer found fame with a snowman?

Aled Jones

2.

What was written on the apple of discord, thrown into the wedding of Peleus and Thetis?

“For the fairest”

3.

What is the name given to a feature of a watch which does not involve showing the time?

Complication

4.

In the film Bedazzled, a retelling of the legend of Faust starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, what role was taken by Raquel Welch?

Lust

5.

What is the only word in the English language derived from Romansh?

Avalanche