1.

Which two chemical elements are named after a parent and child?

2.

Which country is named after a chemical element?

3.

In the UK version of the board game Cluedo, what's the name of the victim?

4.

In darts, which part of the board is known as 'Annie’s Room'?

5.

Which type of bakery produce takes its name from the French for cabbage, due to its shape?

6.

What confection consists of a chestnut candied in sugar syrup and glazed?

7.

What do the initials stand for in P G Wodehouse?

8.

What do the initials stand for in J B Priestley?

9.

In which film starring Frank Sinatra did the song Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered feature?

10.

Which musical features the song Sit Down You’re Rocking the Boat?

11.

What is the connection between: the Coral Sea, Madagascar and Paraguay?

12.

In which country would you find the furthest point from the centre of the earth?

13.

According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, which is the only word that contains 6 letter 'a's?  It contains no other vowels.

14.

According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, which is the only 10-letter word that begins and ends with the letter 'b'?

15.

Which particular type of sportsman has an asterisk against after their name in official programmes?  Because of the symbol’s supposed resemblance to a bug, these sportsmen are known as 'Bug boys'.

16.

Which item of sportswear – awarded for a particular achievement in an annual event – was introduced in 1975, its design being based on the wrapping of the chocolate bars manufactured by the sponsors of the event at that time?

17.

Who was the first female British cabinet minister?

18.

Who is the only person to have served two non-sequential terms as US Secretary of Defense?

19.

The musical Half a Sixpence is based on which novel?

20.

Which club was the setting for the musical Cabaret?

21.

What astronomical event occurs approximately every 243 years and usually occurs in pairs, on nearly the same date 8 years apart?  The last pair occurred in 2004 and 2012.

22.

Which two-word term describes the point at which the gravitational pull of a black hole becomes so great as to make escape impossible?

23.

Which film of 1976 contains the line "Follow the money"?

24.

Which film of 1987 contains the line "Lunch?  You gotta be kidding.  Lunch is for wimps.”?

25.

Which sport is played according to rules developed by Alexander Cartwright and became an official Olympic sport in 1992?

26.

Who was the first National Hunt jockey to ride 1,000 winners?

27.

Which is the only country in the world to be named after a woman?

28.

Which country’s current president died in 1994?

29.

Which was the first film for which both a father and son won an Oscar?

30.

Who is the oldest winner of the Oscar for Best Director?

ROUND 2 - Stockport style - Written

1.

What term describes the effect created by the lunar topography at the height of a total solar eclipse, named after the astronomer who first provided an explanation of the phenomenon?

2.

In 2007, Scotland spent thousands of pounds devising a new national slogan to replace 'Scotland, the Best Small Country in the World'.  What was the winning entry?

3.

Whose mother’s birth name was Margaret Wiggum?

4.

Which racehorse was bought by the Duchess of Westminster in 1960 and was named after a mountain that she could see from her home in Scotland?

5.

Who spent his last three years in impoverished exile under the pseudonym Sebastian Melmoth?

6.

Who wrote and played the music for the film Genevieve?

7.

For what reason did David Suchet often clasp a coin between his buttocks?

8.

In the 1932 Olympics, why was the 3000m steeplechase not run over the usual distance?

9.

In Washington DC, the embassy staff of which two countries meet once a month to exchange wrongly addressed mail?

10.

Adermatoglyphia is an extremely rare genetic disorder.  What is its defining characteristic, which has led to it being dubbed ‘immigration delay disease’?

ROUND 3 - WithQuiz style -  'Emordnilap'

Emordnilap (which is palindrome spelt in reverse) is a term for a word that spells another word when reversed.

There are two parts to each of the following questions; the answer to the second part is the answer to the first part reversed. The second part is typically worded more vaguely than the first, because it only serves as a check on the answer to the first part.

1.

a) Given name of the British author who was best known for her 'shoes' series, beginning with Ballet Shoes.

b) Given name of a boxer who was stripped of his WBC title for refusing to fight the number one contender.

2.

a) Title of a series of video games focusing on the exploits of an unnamed space marine operating under the Union Aerospace Corporation.

b) A temporary state of mind.

3.

a) Owner of the mythical shield known as the Aegis.

b) A seaport.

4.

a) The first name of the protagonist in the Channel 4 program Bo' Selecta, played by Leigh Francis.

b) Italian for 'goddess'.

5.

a) In Greek Mythology, the name of the mountain under which the forges of Hephaestus were said to be located.

b) A stake.

6.

a) The Hebrew word for the Spring season, which lends itself to the name of a place in Israel whose name means 'Spring Hill'.

b) An oral examination.

7.

a) The playwright Aeschylus was said to have been killed by this.

b) Title of a children’s novel.

8.

a) The name of the drummer in Dr Teeth and The Electric Mayhem.

b) A thin layer.

ROUND 4 - WithQuiz style - Picture Round

1.

Who painted this?

2.

Who painted this?

3.

Who is the pianist?

4.

Who is the pianist?

5.

What is the name of this building?

6.

What is the name of this building?

7.

Which country’s flag is this?

8.

Which country’s flag is this?

ROUND 5 - WithQuiz style - Identify the theme

Each question has 3 parts, the answers to which are connected by a mini-theme.  In each case, what is the theme?

1.

c) The acronym of the pension scheme set up by the government to help employers with automatic enrolment as part of the government’s workplace pension reforms under the Pensions Act 2008.

2.

c) A puzzle in which pictures stand for words.

3.

c) The hero of Bedford Falls in It’s a Wonderful Life.

4.

a) The service station between junctions 10a and 11 on the M6.

b) The main protagonist of a Penny Dreadful featuring Mrs. Lovett’s pie shop.

c) The home of the Marston’s Brewery.

5.

c) The maiden name of JFK’s wife.

6.

c) The character name of The Six Million Dollar Man.

7.

c) The city in which the TV series Cheers is set.

8.

c) The name of the controversial mayor of Toronto from 2010 to 2014.

ROUND 6 - WithQuiz style - Pot pourri

1.

For what is a single bronze oak leaf awarded in the British Army?

2.

Who borrowed a library book entitled The Shark and the Sardines in 1963, which was never returned?  Written by a former president of Guatemala, the book is a denunciation of US foreign policy in Latin America.

3.

Which US sitcom was originally going to be called Alexis Texas, until it was discovered that the name was already taken by a porn star?

4.

What name did the Romans give to the first day of each month?

5.

Which national football team is known as 'Albiceleste'?

6.

Which chemical was discovered by Americans Ben Corson and Roger Staughton?  It was developed and tested secretly at Porton Down in the 1950s and 1960s.

7.

How do East African vampire spiders drink the blood of humans without biting them?

8.

Golfers are particularly prone to a disease which has been dubbed ‘golf ball liver’.  How is it contracted?

1.

Who was the first tenor to make records in 1902?

2.

Which actress slept in a coffin and continued acting after she had a leg amputated?

3.

Patricia Neal, who won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in Hud was married to which author?

1.

Which two chemical elements are named after a parent and child?

Tantalum and Niobium

2.

Which country is named after a chemical element?

Argentina

3.

In the UK version of the board game Cluedo, what's the name of the victim?

Dr Black

4.

In darts, which part of the board is known as 'Annie’s Room'?

Double 1

(Annie’s Room is where the player shouldn’t be)

5.

Which type of bakery produce takes its name from the French for cabbage, due to its shape?

Choux pastry

6.

What confection consists of a chestnut candied in sugar syrup and glazed?

Marron glacé

7.

What do the initials stand for in P G Wodehouse?

Pelham Grenville

8.

What do the initials stand for in J B Priestley?

John Boynton

9.

In which film starring Frank Sinatra did the song Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered feature?

Pal Joey

10.

Which musical features the song Sit Down You’re Rocking the Boat?

Guys and Dolls

11.

What is the connection between: the Coral Sea, Madagascar and Paraguay?

They lie on the Tropic of Capricorn

12.

In which country would you find the furthest point from the centre of the earth?

Ecuador

(the summit of Chimborazo - this is due to the Earth being wider at the equator)

13.

According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, which is the only word that contains 6 letter 'a's?  It contains no other vowels.

Taramasalata

14.

According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, which is the only 10-letter word that begins and ends with the letter 'b'?

Breadcrumb

15.

Which particular type of sportsman has an asterisk against after their name in official programmes?  Because of the symbol’s supposed resemblance to a bug, these sportsmen are known as 'Bug boys'.

Apprentice jockeys

16.

Which item of sportswear – awarded for a particular achievement in an annual event – was introduced in 1975, its design being based on the wrapping of the chocolate bars manufactured by the sponsors of the event at that time?

The polka-dot jersey awarded to the King of the Mountains in the Tour de France

(the sponsor at the time was Chocolat Poulain)

17.

Who was the first female British cabinet minister?

Margaret Bondfield

18.

Who is the only person to have served two non-sequential terms as US Secretary of Defense?

Donald Rumsfeld

19.

The musical Half a Sixpence is based on which novel?

Kipps (by H G Wells)

20.

Which club was the setting for the musical Cabaret?

The Kitkat

21.

What astronomical event occurs approximately every 243 years and usually occurs in pairs, on nearly the same date 8 years apart?  The last pair occurred in 2004 and 2012.

Transit of Venus

22.

Which two-word term describes the point at which the gravitational pull of a black hole becomes so great as to make escape impossible?

Event horizon

23.

Which film of 1976 contains the line "Follow the money"?

All the President’s Men

24.

Which film of 1987 contains the line "Lunch?  You gotta be kidding.  Lunch is for wimps.”?

Wall Street

25.

Which sport is played according to rules developed by Alexander Cartwright and became an official Olympic sport in 1992?

Baseball

26.

Who was the first National Hunt jockey to ride 1,000 winners?

Stan Mellor

27.

Which is the only country in the world to be named after a woman?

St. Lucia

28.

Which country’s current president died in 1994?

North Korea

29.

Which was the first film for which both a father and son won an Oscar?

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

(Best Supporting Actor & Best Direction for Walter and John Huston)

30.

Who is the oldest winner of the Oscar for Best Director?

Clint Eastwood

(age 75 for Million Dollar Baby)

ROUND 2 - Stockport style - Written

1.

What term describes the effect created by the lunar topography at the height of a total solar eclipse, named after the astronomer who first provided an explanation of the phenomenon?

Baily’s Beads

2.

In 2007, Scotland spent thousands of pounds devising a new national slogan to replace 'Scotland, the Best Small Country in the World'.  What was the winning entry?

'Welcome to Scotland'

3.

Whose mother’s birth name was Margaret Wiggum?

Matt Groening

4.

Which racehorse was bought by the Duchess of Westminster in 1960 and was named after a mountain that she could see from her home in Scotland?

Arkle

5.

Who spent his last three years in impoverished exile under the pseudonym Sebastian Melmoth?

Oscar Wilde

6.

Who wrote and played the music for the film Genevieve?

Larry Adler

7.

For what reason did David Suchet often clasp a coin between his buttocks?

To perfect Hercule Poirot’s walk

8.

In the 1932 Olympics, why was the 3000m steeplechase not run over the usual distance?

Because an official lost count of the number of laps

(which meant it was actually run over 3400m)

9.

In Washington DC, the embassy staff of which two countries meet once a month to exchange wrongly addressed mail?

Slovakia and Slovenia

10.

Adermatoglyphia is an extremely rare genetic disorder.  What is its defining characteristic, which has led to it being dubbed ‘immigration delay disease’?

Absence of fingerprints

ROUND 3 - WithQuiz style -  'Emordnilap'

Emordnilap (which is palindrome spelt in reverse) is a term for a word that spells another word when reversed.

There are two parts to each of the following questions; the answer to the second part is the answer to the first part reversed. The second part is typically worded more vaguely than the first, because it only serves as a check on the answer to the first part.

1.

a) Given name of the British author who was best known for her 'shoes' series, beginning with Ballet Shoes.

b) Given name of a boxer who was stripped of his WBC title for refusing to fight the number one contender.

Noel (Streatfield) / Leon (Spinks)

(the number one WBC contender was Ken Norton, but Spinks wanted a rematch against Muhammad Ali)

2.

a) Title of a series of video games focusing on the exploits of an unnamed space marine operating under the Union Aerospace Corporation.

b) A temporary state of mind.

Doom / Mood

3.

a) Owner of the mythical shield known as the Aegis.

b) A seaport.

Zeus / Suez

4.

a) The first name of the protagonist in the Channel 4 program Bo' Selecta, played by Leigh Francis.

b) Italian for 'goddess'.

Avid (Merrion) / Diva

5.

a) In Greek Mythology, the name of the mountain under which the forges of Hephaestus were said to be located.

b) A stake.

Etna / Ante

6.

a) The Hebrew word for the Spring season, which lends itself to the name of a place in Israel whose name means 'Spring Hill'.

b) An oral examination.

(Tel) Aviv / Viva

7.

a) The playwright Aeschylus was said to have been killed by this.

b) Title of a children’s novel.

Tortoise  / Esio Trot

(tortoise being dropped by a bird and the book by Roald Dahl)

8.

a) The name of the drummer in Dr Teeth and The Electric Mayhem.

b) A thin layer.

Animal / Lamina

(Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem is the band in the Muppet Show)

ROUND 4 - WithQuiz style - Picture Round

1.

Who painted this?

2.

Who painted this?

3.

Who is the pianist?

4.

Who is the pianist?

5.

What is the name of this building?

6.

What is the name of this building?

(aka 'Fred and Ginger' in Prague)

7.

Which country’s flag is this?

8.

Which country’s flag is this?

ROUND 5 - WithQuiz style - Identify the theme

Each question has 3 parts, the answers to which are connected by a mini-theme.  In each case, what is the theme?

1.

c) The acronym of the pension scheme set up by the government to help employers with automatic enrolment as part of the government’s workplace pension reforms under the Pensions Act 2008.

The Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson

(The answers contain the last word of each title:

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,

The Girl Who Played with Fire

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest

2.

c) A puzzle in which pictures stand for words.

Fictional detectives

Kelly Holmes,

Cyrano de Bergerac,

Rebus

3.

c) The hero of Bedford Falls in It’s a Wonderful Life.

Sea areas in the shipping forecast

Robert Fitzroy,

Carrie Fisher,

George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life

4.

a) The service station between junctions 10a and 11 on the M6.

b) The main protagonist of a Penny Dreadful featuring Mrs. Lovett’s pie shop.

c) The home of the Marston’s Brewery.

Husbands of Elizabeth Taylor

(Conrad) Hilton Park,

Sweeney (Mike) Todd,

(Richard) Burton-upon-Trent

5.

c) The maiden name of JFK’s wife.

Characters from The Simpsons

(Ned) Flanders and Swann,

Fred (Mayor) Quimby,

(Selma and Patti) Bouvier

6.

c) The character name of The Six Million Dollar Man.

US State capitals

Montgomery,

Bismarck,

(Steve) Austin

7.

c) The city in which the TV series Cheers is set.

Tea Parties

Chimpanzee,

Mad Hatter who wore a hat with the price tag 10s/6d,

Boston

8.

c) The name of the controversial mayor of Toronto from 2010 to 2014.

Car manufacturers

Vauxhall Bridge,

Mercedes McCambridge,

Rob Ford

ROUND 6 - WithQuiz style - Pot pourri

1.

For what is a single bronze oak leaf awarded in the British Army?

For being mentioned in despatches

2.

Who borrowed a library book entitled The Shark and the Sardines in 1963, which was never returned?  Written by a former president of Guatemala, the book is a denunciation of US foreign policy in Latin America.

Lee Harvey Oswald

3.

Which US sitcom was originally going to be called Alexis Texas, until it was discovered that the name was already taken by a porn star?

Hannah Montana

4.

What name did the Romans give to the first day of each month?

Calends

5.

Which national football team is known as 'Albiceleste'?

Argentina

(from the Spanish for white and blue)

6.

Which chemical was discovered by Americans Ben Corson and Roger Staughton?  It was developed and tested secretly at Porton Down in the 1950s and 1960s.

CS gas

(named after the initial letters of their surnames)

7.

How do East African vampire spiders drink the blood of humans without biting them?

They eat mosquitoes that have bitten humans

8.

Golfers are particularly prone to a disease which has been dubbed ‘golf ball liver’.  How is it contracted?

By licking their balls

(to make them fly faster - it exposes them to toxins sprayed on greens)

1.

Who was the first tenor to make records in 1902?

Enrico Caruso

2.

Which actress slept in a coffin and continued acting after she had a leg amputated?

Sarah Bernhardt

3.

Patricia Neal, who won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in Hud was married to which author?

Roald Dahl

Add together the answers to the following questions:

a) There is a sign on the M62 where it crosses the Pennines which states that it is the highest motorway in England. What is its height in feet?

b) How many test wickets did Muttiah Muralitharan take during his career?

c) What is the highest Köchel number in the catalogue of Mozart’s work?

...and the total is....

1221 + 800 + 626

= 2647