ROUNDS 4 & 5 - 'Graham (the Wily) Wiggins Used Car Lot' Round

In the table below each cryptic hint leads to the name of the model of car depicted.  The model name crops up in each of the 3 questions listed alongside the picture.

When you've had a chance to work out the model names pick one of the 27 questions.

1.

What note is this?

2.

What note is produced upon depressing the highlighted piano key?

3.

What is the lowest note playable on a violin if normally tuned?

4.

Name this British sprinter, an Olympic medallist, practising her start.

5.

Name this British sprinter, an Olympic medallist, preparing to start.

6.

Name the female sprinter whose Olympic medal haul between 1980 and 2000 amounted to 9, and, although none of them were gold, it is the most ever won by a woman in track and field.

7.

What is the common name for this light tank, correctly designated as the FV107, which has been the main armament of the Queens Royal Lancers since 2005?

8.

What is the rather apt name for this light tank that will enter into service with the Queen’s Royal Lancers in 2015 to enhance their capability in their formation level reconnaissance role?

9.

The 17th Lancers, motto 'Death or Glory', suffered heavy casualties on one particular October the 25th and only 38 out of the 147 men answered the roll call the following morning.  What was the engagement that proved so costly?

10.

Name this jazz legend.

11.

Name this jazz legend.

12.

Name the legendary jazz saxophonist who composed Ornithology.

13.

A keen ornithologist Sir Nigel Gresley named many of his A4 pacific locomotives after birds. Locomotive 4464 was named after the bird pictured here.  What was its name?

14.

A keen ornithologist Sir Nigel Gresley named many of his A4 pacific locomotives after birds. Locomotive 4465 was named after the bird pictured here.  What was its name?

15.

A keen ornithologist Sir Nigel Gresley named many of his A4 pacific locomotives after birds. Locomotive 4483 was named after a bird of the genus alcedo.  What was the name carried by the locomotive?

16.

What discovery did this man in a bow tie make in November 1922?

17.

What discovery did this man in a bow tie make in September 1928?

18.

Who made the discovery in 1923 that M31, hitherto the Andromeda nebula, was not a luminous cloud within the Milky Way but in fact a whole new galaxy some 900,000 light years away?

19.

"Who the chuff knows the bits of a colt?" railed Another Anne. Well in this 1994 film the character Mathilda obviously knows what a silencer is, but then again she was the sidekick of a professional hitman played by Jean Reno.  Who played her?

20.

"Who the chuff knows the bits of a colt?" wailed Another Anne. Well in this 1997 film the character Debi Newberry got lessons on how to use a firearm from her male friend, a professional hitman played by John Cusack.  Who played her?

21.

"Who the chuff knows the bits of a colt" quibbled Another Anne.  Well the film character Amy Kane knew enough so as to be able to shoot Jim Pierce in the back early in the afternoon.  Who played her?

22.

What is the common name for the tree, native to the UK, from which this leaf and bud have been taken?

23.

What is the common name for the tree, native to the UK, from which this leaf and bud have been taken?

24.

Which tree, native to the UK and correctly known as the betula pendula, can be identified by its distinctive leaf which has short slender stalks, is 3 to 7 cm long, roughly triangular with slender pointed tips and has coarsely double-toothed, serrated margins?

25.

Name this singer who had a UK number 1 single in 1955 and was one of the original panellists on Juke Box Jury.

26.

Name this singer who had a UK number 1 single in 1961 and was regular panellist on Juke Box Jury.

27.

On the 4th of June 1964 Juke Box Jury had five panellists for the first and only time in its history.  Which band, that would have their first UK number one single later that same month, provided all five panellists?

ROUND 6 - 'Boys being forthright'

1.

Which cartoon character who once advised that, “for every man who makes his mark there are half a dozen waiting to rub it out” has a statue erected in his honour in Hartlepool?

2.

Which Merseyside poet wrote the lines: “Out of work, divorced, usually pissed; he aimed low in life and missed”?

3.

Who was Gore Vidal referring to when he said “the only genius I have ever known with an IQ of 60”?

4.

Who was on the receiving end of this withering put down in 2010 from a talking solanum tuberosum: “You’re not a toy…. You’re just an accessory”?

5.

When in the 2006 film Casino Royale Commander James Bond responds with “Do I look like I give a damn?” what was the choice that had just been offered?

6.

Which Member of Parliament, immortalised by a statue in a street that bears his name, once provoked Disraeli, who responded: “Yes I am a Jew, but when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon”?

7.

What activity did George Orwell describe as “the rattling of a stick inside the swill bucket”?

8.

Who once pledged that when he got to where he was going he was “going to personally shoot the paper hanging son of a bitch”?

ROUND 7 - 'Getting a lot of Stick'

Each answer includes a word that can precede either the word 'stick' or the word 'sticks' and make sense

1.

What did the Professional Footballers Association buy for £1,926,500 in 1999 because, according to chief executive Gordon Taylor, it “represents the heart and soul of the game”?

2.

A statue of LS Lowry can be found propping up the bar at which licensed premises established in 1872 in Manchester?  It was, reputedly, one of his favourite establishments.

3.

What toy did Oskar Matzerath, the chief protagonist in a 1959 novel by a Nobel Prize winning author, receive as a gift on his third birthday that remained his lifelong prized possession?

4.

The Four Inns fell race held every Easter starts in Holmbridge and finishes in Buxton.  Which is the last of the four inns to be visited?

5.

What brand of whisky is a blend of 16 single malts by the Spencerfield Spirit Company?  Modern myth alleges that its name made it popular with farmers who could buy it by the case while claiming it as a legitimate business expense in their tax affairs.

6.

What piece of advice did Buster have for Fatty when his band was at number 15 in the UK singles chart in August 1980?

7.

Who is the youngest female artist to have a UK number one album when her Mind, Body and Soul topped the chart in October 2004?  She was aged just 17 years and six months.

8.

The small town of Ullapool is to be found on the north eastern shore of which sea loch?

Sp.

What London thoroughfare became a metonym for a building which had its public access there but whose actual address was on the parallel road at 4 Whitehall Place?  When the occupants moved to new premises in 1890 they bizarrely took the metonym with them.

ROUND 8 - Hidden theme

1.

Nellie Kershaw died in 1924 from 'fibrosis of the lungs due to the inhalation of mineral particles'.  A resident in Rochdale, her employer would become an original constituent of the FT30 index and moved their headquarters to Manchester in 1949.  What was the name of her employers?

2.

Which 2007 film featuring a single young woman and her unplanned pregnancy shares its name with the Roman goddess of marriage and childbirth?

3.

Name the Dominican born fashion designer who created the wedding dress worn by Amal Alamuddin at her marriage to George Clooney in September 2014.

4.

In the jungles of which country did Bear Ghrylls eliminate Max George, the Wanted singer, in February of this year?

5.

What phenomenon was last seen on November the 8th 2006 and will not be seen again until May the 9th 2016 when it will last seven and a half hours?

6.

Who played Mary Goodnight in 1974?

7.

Which Scottish League football club have played their home games at the Forthbank Stadium since 1993?

8.

What was the name assigned to the Japanese World war two fighter aircraft the Kawasaki Ki 61 by the US War Department?

Sp.

Who recorded Green Onions, the first album on the Stax label to make the US Billboard 200?

Spares

1.

Who once claimed to be fluent in more than 6 million forms of communication whereas his long suffering constant companion couldn’t speak a single word of English?

2.

Which brewery brews Boltmaker chosen by Camra as the Champion Beer of Britain 2014?

3.

Who is the President of the European Commission?

4.

Which National Park has a logo featuring a stone cross?

5.

What is a chicken tarka?

ROUND 1 - Hidden theme

1.

What event on the evening of the 30th of November 1936 caused the Norwood Orchestra to flee for their lives, a crowd of 100,000 to gather in the area surrounding Sydenham Hill, and Churchill to break off his journey home to catch its final moments?

Fire that destroyed the Crystal Palace

2.

Which of the two MPs who represented the constituency of Bradford from 1859 to 1861 had acquired land lying beside the River Aire, the Leeds & Liverpool Canal and the Midland Railway for a project that started in 1851?

Sir Titus Salt

3.

What marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean is bounded to the west by the Queensland coast, to the east by Vanuatu, and to the north by the Solomon Islands and New Guinea?

Coral sea

4.

Which element with the atomic number 47 typically formed between a third and a quarter of the composition of dental amalgam?

Silver

5.

What brand, now marketed by Manchester-based company P Z Cussons, has its roots in a perfume commissioned by Count Orlof from Bayleys of Bond Street in 1768 specifically for use in the Russian court?

Imperial Leather

6.

What was established by the German DIN standard 476?  Introduced in 1922 it drew heavily on work done by Georg Lichtenberg in the eighteenth century and utilizes the properties of the formula: length divided by width = the square root of 2.

Paper size

7.

Which Bizet opera, first performed in 1863, is set in Ceylon and incorporates a duet Au Fond du Temple Saint translated as At the Back of the Holy Temple?

The Pearl Fishers

8.

At which famous venue in Harlem was Duke Ellington and his orchestra the resident house band from 1927 to 1931?

The Cotton Club

Sp.

What is the title of the Kaiser Chiefs first number one UK single?

Ruby

ROUND 2 - 'Giving you the Bird'

Each answer includes a word that can precede either the word 'bird' or the word 'birds' and make sense

1.

Which play that premiered in 1955 was being performed at the Lowry Centre last week with Tom Conti starring as number eight?

Twelve Angry Men

2.

Roger Myerson won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2007.  What did he describe as being "the study of mathematical models of conflict and cooperation between intelligent rational decision-makers" in the opening line of his seminal text book on the subject?

Game Theory

3.

From which book of the Bible are the following flowery verses taken “I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. As a lily among brambles, so is my love among maidens.”?

Song of Solomon

4.

In which 1979 single that reached number 11 in the UK charts does a metropolis invite the zombies of death to “quit holding out and draw another breathe”?

London Calling

5.

What did Leo Sayer feel in his heart in 1977 at number 22 in the UK singles chart?

'Thunder'

6.

In 2005 Manchester born Matt Wrack was elected General Secretary of which trades union with a current membership of 44,000?

Fire Brigades Union

7.

The name of which television character was selected by Virgin Atlantic in 1994 for their first Boeing 747-400 aircraft, registration number Golf hyphen Victor Foxtrot Alpha Bravo?

Lady Penelope

(as in F.A.B. - Thunderbirds are go!)

8.

For her role in which film, set in an English mining town of Beldover, did Glenda Jackson win the Academy Award for best actress in 1970?

Women in Love

Sp.

What three word punchline to a children’s joke is actually a rarely used musical key but one that was selected by Max Bruch for his Opus 88a, Concerto for two pianos and orchestra?

'A' flat minor

ROUND 3 - Pairs

1.

Name the vocalist who was born in Pristina in 1990 and was the featured vocalist on Hot Right Now, a number one UK single for DJ Fresh in 2012.

Rita Ora

2.

Name the British recording artist, who was born in Hackney in 1981 of Spanish ancestry, and was the featured vocalist on Changing a number one UK single for Sigma in 2014.

Paloma Faith

3.

Who should be able to successfully demonstrate a Mill’s Mess, a Burke’s Barrage, a Reverse Cascade and a Singapore Shuffle?

A juggler

4.

What was the surname of the French acrobat who died on 17th of August 1870 and is widely credited with developing the flying trapeze as a circus act? His name lives on as that of an article of clothing?

(Jules) Leotard

5.

A Northern Rail service leaves Lancaster at 10.22am every weekday morning.  What is its 33rd and final station stop where it is scheduled to arrive at 14.01?

Carlisle

(via Barrow, Whitehaven, Workington and all stations in between)

6.

A Northern Rail service leaves Stockport at 9.22am every Friday but only on a Friday. Its first stop is Reddish South but what is its fourth and final station stop where it is scheduled to arrive at 9.43am?

Stalybridge

(the service runs just once a week to comply with the legal minimum service requirements. It is the only train that stops at both Reddish South and Denton stations all week.)

7.

Which English market town took its current name during the 10th Century when it became the final resting place of a Cornish monk, the patron saint of fish, who had been exhumed from Bodmin, some 280 miles away?

St Neots

8.

Which English market town, formerly called Inderawuda, took its current name during the tenth Century on account of the local River Hull providing an ideal habitat for one particular creature?

Beverley

(meaning 'clearing of beavers')