ROUND 1 - Hidden theme - 'The first letter of each answer forms the name of a correspondent of John and Siouxsie'

1.

Which word with a Greek origin denoting items owned by a woman, apart from her dowry, now means miscellaneous articles e.g. the equipment needed as part of an activity?  Such items are often seen as superfluous.

2.

Which 19th century philosopher, essayist and poet gave a dedication speech at the opening of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts in 1855, and was subsequently buried there in 1882?

3.

Which novel by Stephen King, turned into a 2013 TV series, concerns the small town of Chester’s Mill whose inhabitants find themselves cut off from the rest of the world?

4.

The Barada River runs through which capital city?

5.

Bring me to Life was a 2003 hit for which American rock band whose name means gradual disappearance / evaporation?

6.

Name the bird described: 'Approximately 14cm long, grey/blue back and wings, whitish to buff underneath with a dark stripe through its eye.  A member of the Sitta genus it is able to run headfirst down a tree trunk.'

7.

Born Armand Jean du Plessis in 1585, how is Louis XIII’s first minister from 1624 to 1642 better known?

8.

Which singer songwriter recently denied that her latest release On My Mind was an attack on Ed Sheeran (with whom she also denies being in a relationship)?

Sp.

Which Bond villain has been portrayed on screen by Donald Pleasence, Telly Savalas, Charles Gray and Max von Sydow?

1.

Which book won the 'Booker of Bookers' award in 1981 for being the best book in the first 25 years of Booker awards?

2.

Which fantasy adventure novel won the first Man Booker Prize in 2002 (following the sponsorship of the Booker Prize by the Man Group)?

3.

Sam Burgess the dual-code England rugby international, played Rugby League for Bradford Bulls before moving to which Australian team owned by Russell Crowe?

4.

Saracens flanker Jacques Burger is the captain of which nation at the 2015 Rugby Union World Cup?

5.

With values from 0 to 6 what human characteristic does the Kinsey Scale measure?

6.

The Scoville scale is well known as a way to measure the heat of peppers and chillis but since the 1980s, spice heat has been more precisely measured by a method that uses high-performance liquid chromatography giving results in ASTA pungency units.  For what do these letters stand?

7.

After his many death defying adventures how did Jason the Argonaut finally meet his end?

8.

In the tragic play Antigone by Sophocles, Antigone disobeys the King of Thebes by burying the body of her brother on the battlefield.  To what punishment is she sentenced for this?

Sp.

Who is the proud owner of the first Abyssinian wire-haired tripe hound recorded?

ROUNDS 3 & 4 - 'Biblical Blockbuster Bingo'

Choose your question based on the initial letters of the words in the answer

Each answer contains the name of a person or place in the Bible

1.

TPOA

Site of a crucial battle in 1759 between the British and the French for control of North America.

2.

TTFOE

Award winning 1957 film for which Joanne Woodward won a best actress Oscar.

3.

JH

17th century astronomer who was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit; and was the only person to predict the transit of Venus of 1639.

4.

YN

French tennis player who, in 1983, became the only Frenchman to win the French Open (which also made him the only Frenchman to win any of the 4 tennis Grand Slams) in the Open Era.

5.

AM

Zimbabwean politician and clergyman who, in 1979, briefly served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe during the transition to majority rule.

6.

AJR

Full name of the hologram played by Chris Barrie in the cult sci-fi spoof, Red Dwarf.

7.

JBH

Full name of the fictitious Jewish prince, unjustly accused of attempted murder by the Romans, who is the hero of a famous novel and at least 2 epic films.

8.

IIR

This Polish-born American physicist and Nobel laureate was recognized in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which is used in magnetic resonance imaging.  He was also involved in the development of the cavity magnetron, which is used in microwave radar and microwave ovens.

9.

 JJ

First recorded in the 1866 novel The Headless Horseman by Thomas Mayne Reid, this phrase became a popular imprecation for Americans to express astonishment or awe?

10.

 JCC

Flat, usually square savoury biscuit made from wheat flour, palm oil and yeast.  First manufactured in Waterford, Ireland and bearing the name of its original manufacturer.

11.

EM

Born in 1897, this influential American religious leader led the Nation of Islam from 1934 until his death in 1975.          

12.

MM

Born in Italy in 1784, this Italian-born British financier and banker became a prominent activist and philanthropist and eventually Sheriff of London.  He donated large sums of money to promote industry, business, economic development, education and health and was one of the founders of the Zionist movement.  He died in 1875 at the age of 101.

13.

AP

Known as 'Sri Pada' to the natives, this mountain in Sri Lanka is sacred to Buddhists, Hindus, Christians and Muslims.  A rock formation near the summit is said to be either the footprint of the Buddha, or Shiva or, to Christians and Muslims, the place where the person concerned fell to Earth.

14.

CDA

These two framework agreements were signed by Egyptian president, Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister, Menachem Begin following 12 days of secret negotiations in September 1978.  They paved the way for a full peace treaty between Israel and Egypt the following year.

15.

AOTQOS

First premiered in London in 1749, this piece of music by Handel has since become a widely popular processional piece in its own right often played during wedding ceremonies as well as during the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics.

16.

GH

Also known as Torricelli's Trumpet, this is a geometrical figure which has infinite surface area but finite volume.  The properties of this figure were first studied by Italian physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli in the 17th century.  It's also the name for a hybrid flowering plant with deep red and orange flowers.

17.

ROSF

A classic 1903 American children's novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin that tells the story of a girl sent to live with her two stern aunts in the fictional village of Riverboro, Maine.

18.

E

This Neo-classical Dark Wave rock band was formed in Melbourne, Australia, in 1987, by Pieter Bourke, Sean Bowley and Ross Healy.  Their two studio albums were entitled Gateway To the Mysteries (1990) and Fire And Rain (1995).

19.

JA

The English language name for a species of sunflower (Latin name 'Helianthus Tuberosus') which is native to eastern North America and widely cultivated as a root vegetable.

20.

TJAMC

Scottish alternative rock-band formed in 1983 by the brothers Jim and William Reid.  The name was originally supposed to have come from a line in a Bing Crosby song.  A later alternative explanation was that it derived from an offer on a breakfast cereal packet where customers could send off for one of these in gold.

ROUND 5 - Hidden theme - 'It's Bingo - but not as you usually know it!'

Usual rules for sound-alikes, etc.

The nature of the theme can be revealed in the space below the Spare question

1.

What sobriquet, celebrated in a famous sea shanty, was applied to the Royal Navy after steam replaced sail and ships were uniformly painted?

2.

What term is used in darts for scoring 26 in 3 darts, scoring a single 20, 5 and 1?

3.

In physics what can be described as: Any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle, known as complementary variables, such as position 'x' and momentum 'p', can be known simultaneously?

4.

It is an herbaceous perennial plant growing from short, thick rhizomes.  It produces large leaves that are somewhat triangular, with long, fleshy, edible stalks and small flowers grouped in large compound leafy greenish-white to rose-red inflorescences.  Name the plant described.

5.

Written in 1958 by Julius Dixson and Beverley Ross which perennially popular song was recorded initially by Ronald & Ruby and later by the Chordettes (reaching No 6 in the UK charts)?  It currently features in a car advert on TV.

6.

What locality of California is found immediately south-east of Los Angeles County?

7.

Which epic novel set during the time of the British Raj was written in 1978 by M M Kaye and later adapted for television?

8.

Which product claimed to be 'the official brew of England cricket' during the 2015 Ashes series?

Sp.

Which 1998 American science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Andrew Niccol chronicles the life of a man who is initially unaware that he is living in a constructed reality television show?

ROUND 6 - Pairs

1.

The name of which London borough, the site of a battle of the Wars of the Roses in 1471, is also Cockney rhyming slang for a part of the body?

2.

The name of which North West university, shared with a battle of the Civil War in 1642, also gives rise to a slang term for coitus interruptus?

3.

Who played Boo Radley in the 1962 film of To Kill a Mockingbird and Major Frank Burns in the 1970 film M.A.S.H.?

4.

Which English actor made his film debut in Black Hawk Down in 2001 and starred in Mad Max Fury Road in 2015?

5.

In which classic novel would you find the characters Colonel Brandon, Edward Ferrars and John Willoughby?

6.

In which classic novel would you find the characters Lizzie Hexam, John Harmon and Nicodemus (Noddy) Boffin?

7.

What brought Dartmouth, Beaver and Eleanor into the public eye in 1773?

8.

What connects a song by Lynnard Skynnard and a film starring Reese Witherspoon?

Sp.

What city in south east Anatolia is the capital of a region of the same name, which it shares with a popular cartoon character?

ROUNDS 7 & 8 - 'Euro Bingo'

Just pick a number and relax – what can possibly go wrong?

1.

Built on the site of a paupers' grave and designed by Ralph Tubbs, what were until 2013 the oldest operating television studios in the UK?

2.

The English call it Munich but what do the Italians call this city?  The name often causes confusion and disgruntled travellers sometimes end up more than 600 kilometres away from their intended destination.

3.

The following exchange of dialogue comes from which deliciously dark film from 2008:

“Jesus, Ray, you're about the worst tourist in the world”.

“Ken, I grew up in Dublin.  I love Dublin.  If I grew up on a farm and was retarded, this place might impress me.  But I didn't, so it doesn't”?

4.

Nottingham Forest won the European Cup for the first time in 1979.  Who did they beat in the Final?

5.

In a recent experiment at the Walter Palmer Institute of Alternative Dentistry in Ladybarn patients had their mouths frozen and were then asked to name any European capital city.  Not surprisingly most people said “Loo-bly- ana”. Easy to say but please give the correct spelling of the Slovenian capital.

6.

Which card game of French origin is central to the plot of Pushkin's The Queen of Spades?  In War and Peace Rostov loses 43,000 roubles playing it.  With a simplified spelling it later became popular in Wild West saloons and was the favourite game of both Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday.

7.

Name this rock group. They had a cult following in the 1980s and 1990s both on  stage and on film.

8.

In 1994 at the Helmholtz Research Centre, the suffix '-ium' was added to the name of which nearby city to give a name to a newly synthesised element?  The element is highly radioactive, has the atomic number 110 and 'Ds' as its chemical symbol.

9.

On his death bed following a road accident, General Patton asked to be buried with his men.  He was subsequently buried in which city along with over 5,000 American soldiers most of whom died during the Battle of the Bulge which was fought nearby?  You can see the cemetery as you fly into Findel airport.

10.

Which rock group took their name from Steve Marriott's slang term for being 'high' on drugs?  Their 1967 debut album was The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack, a name that combined the last names of its 4 members, Keith Emerson, David O'List, Brian Davison and Lee Jackson.

11.

Which city is served by the oldest electrified underground railway system on the European continent and by three main railway stations the largest of which is called Keleti?

12.

A controversial 1889 painting by James Ensor shows the entry of Christ into which European city?

13.

Which core participant in the Leveson enquiry chillingly undermined the tabloid press by saying:

“When I was 21 I would often find myself running down a dark street on my own with ten big men chasing me.  The fact that they had cameras meant that that was legal.  But take away the cameras and what have you got?  You have got a pack of men chasing a frightened woman.”?

14.

If sex on the beach is your idea of a good holiday this is probably not the city for you.  Nevertheless, BEACH RUTS is an anagram of which European capital city?

15.

Which song, which reached number 5 in the UK singles chart in 1996, opens with these lyrics: “And the women tug their hair/ Like they're trying to prove it won't fall out /And all the men are gargoyles/ Dipped long in Irish stout”?

16.

Name the city.  The photograph was taken in 2012 when 11,541 empty red chairs were laid out in the main shopping street.  Each chair represented a victim of a conflict that had begun 20 years earlier.

17.

What was the name of the burlesque venue in New York that was raided by police in 1925 after Mademoiselle Fifi 'accidently' stripped to the waist and moved around the stage?  Britt Ekland played Fifi in a 1968 film based on the incident.

18.

In which city would you find Nidaros Cathedral, the northernmost medieval cathedral in the world?

19.

Knocking minor celebrities such as George Best and John Lennon well and truly into the shade, which city is served by the impressive sounding Alexander the Great International Airport?

20.

It may have started in the Balkans as a protest but nobody paid any attention and it quickly became harmless.  That was in 1961 when it was generally called a 'Grecque'.  Turning its back on fickle fame, it retreated to Eastern Europe where it lived under sedation until 2010.  Then some English citizens caught sight of it on the banks of the river Warthe and carried it back triumphantly to their own lair where it still resides.  What is it?

ROUND 1 - Hidden theme - 'The first letter of each answer forms the name of a correspondent of John and Siouxsie'

1.

Which word with a Greek origin denoting items owned by a woman, apart from her dowry, now means miscellaneous articles e.g. the equipment needed as part of an activity?  Such items are often seen as superfluous.

Paraphernalia

2.

Which 19th century philosopher, essayist and poet gave a dedication speech at the opening of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts in 1855, and was subsequently buried there in 1882?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

3.

Which novel by Stephen King, turned into a 2013 TV series, concerns the small town of Chester’s Mill whose inhabitants find themselves cut off from the rest of the world?

Under the Dome

4.

The Barada River runs through which capital city?

Damascus

5.

Bring me to Life was a 2003 hit for which American rock band whose name means gradual disappearance / evaporation?

Evanescence

6.

Name the bird described: 'Approximately 14cm long, grey/blue back and wings, whitish to buff underneath with a dark stripe through its eye.  A member of the Sitta genus it is able to run headfirst down a tree trunk.'

Nuthatch

(sitta europaea)

7.

Born Armand Jean du Plessis in 1585, how is Louis XIII’s first minister from 1624 to 1642 better known?

Cardinal Richelieu

8.

Which singer songwriter recently denied that her latest release On My Mind was an attack on Ed Sheeran (with whom she also denies being in a relationship)?

Ellie Goulding

Sp.

Which Bond villain has been portrayed on screen by Donald Pleasence, Telly Savalas, Charles Gray and Max von Sydow?

(Ernst Stavro) Blofeld

1.

Which book won the 'Booker of Bookers' award in 1981 for being the best book in the first 25 years of Booker awards?

Midnight’s Children

(by Salman Rushdie)

2.

Which fantasy adventure novel won the first Man Booker Prize in 2002 (following the sponsorship of the Booker Prize by the Man Group)?

Life of Pi

(by Yann Martel)

3.

Sam Burgess the dual-code England rugby international, played Rugby League for Bradford Bulls before moving to which Australian team owned by Russell Crowe?

South Sydney Rabittohs

(accept South Sydney)

4.

Saracens flanker Jacques Burger is the captain of which nation at the 2015 Rugby Union World Cup?

Namibia

5.

With values from 0 to 6 what human characteristic does the Kinsey Scale measure?

Hetrosexuality/

homosexuality

(accept sexual orientation)

6.

The Scoville scale is well known as a way to measure the heat of peppers and chillis but since the 1980s, spice heat has been more precisely measured by a method that uses high-performance liquid chromatography giving results in ASTA pungency units.  For what do these letters stand?

American Spice Trade Association

7.

After his many death defying adventures how did Jason the Argonaut finally meet his end?

He was killed when a part of the Argo fell on him

8.

In the tragic play Antigone by Sophocles, Antigone disobeys the King of Thebes by burying the body of her brother on the battlefield.  To what punishment is she sentenced for this?

Being buried alive

(or immured)

Sp.

Who is the proud owner of the first Abyssinian wire-haired tripe hound recorded?

Dennis the Menace

(in the Beano)

ROUNDS 3 & 4 - 'Biblical Blockbuster Bingo'

Choose your question based on the initial letters of the words in the answer

Each answer contains the name of a person or place in the Bible

1.

TPOA

Site of a crucial battle in 1759 between the British and the French for control of North America.

The Plains of Abraham

2.

TTFOE

Award winning 1957 film for which Joanne Woodward won a best actress Oscar.

The Three Faces Of Eve

3.

JH

17th century astronomer who was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit; and was the only person to predict the transit of Venus of 1639.

Jeremiah Horrocks

4.

YN

French tennis player who, in 1983, became the only Frenchman to win the French Open (which also made him the only Frenchman to win any of the 4 tennis Grand Slams) in the Open Era.

Yannick Noah

5.

AM

Zimbabwean politician and clergyman who, in 1979, briefly served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe during the transition to majority rule.

Abel Muzorewa

6.

AJR

Full name of the hologram played by Chris Barrie in the cult sci-fi spoof, Red Dwarf.

Arnold Judas Rimmer

7.

JBH

Full name of the fictitious Jewish prince, unjustly accused of attempted murder by the Romans, who is the hero of a famous novel and at least 2 epic films.

Judah Ben Hur

8.

IIR

This Polish-born American physicist and Nobel laureate was recognized in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which is used in magnetic resonance imaging.  He was also involved in the development of the cavity magnetron, which is used in microwave radar and microwave ovens.

Isidor Isaac Rabi

9.

 JJ

First recorded in the 1866 novel The Headless Horseman by Thomas Mayne Reid, this phrase became a popular imprecation for Americans to express astonishment or awe?

"Jumping Jehoshaphat"

10.

 JCC

Flat, usually square savoury biscuit made from wheat flour, palm oil and yeast.  First manufactured in Waterford, Ireland and bearing the name of its original manufacturer.

Jacob's Cream Cracker

11.

EM

Born in 1897, this influential American religious leader led the Nation of Islam from 1934 until his death in 1975.          

Elijah Muhammad

12.

MM

Born in Italy in 1784, this Italian-born British financier and banker became a prominent activist and philanthropist and eventually Sheriff of London.  He donated large sums of money to promote industry, business, economic development, education and health and was one of the founders of the Zionist movement.  He died in 1875 at the age of 101.

Moses Montefiore

13.

AP

Known as 'Sri Pada' to the natives, this mountain in Sri Lanka is sacred to Buddhists, Hindus, Christians and Muslims.  A rock formation near the summit is said to be either the footprint of the Buddha, or Shiva or, to Christians and Muslims, the place where the person concerned fell to Earth.

Adam's Peak

14.

CDA

These two framework agreements were signed by Egyptian president, Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister, Menachem Begin following 12 days of secret negotiations in September 1978.  They paved the way for a full peace treaty between Israel and Egypt the following year.

Camp David Accords

15.

AOTQOS

First premiered in London in 1749, this piece of music by Handel has since become a widely popular processional piece in its own right often played during wedding ceremonies as well as during the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics.

Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba

16.

GH

Also known as Torricelli's Trumpet, this is a geometrical figure which has infinite surface area but finite volume.  The properties of this figure were first studied by Italian physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli in the 17th century.  It's also the name for a hybrid flowering plant with deep red and orange flowers.

Gabriel's Horn

17.

ROSF

A classic 1903 American children's novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin that tells the story of a girl sent to live with her two stern aunts in the fictional village of Riverboro, Maine.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

18.

E

This Neo-classical Dark Wave rock band was formed in Melbourne, Australia, in 1987, by Pieter Bourke, Sean Bowley and Ross Healy.  Their two studio albums were entitled Gateway To the Mysteries (1990) and Fire And Rain (1995).

Eden

19.

JA

The English language name for a species of sunflower (Latin name 'Helianthus Tuberosus') which is native to eastern North America and widely cultivated as a root vegetable.

Jerusalem Artichoke

20.

TJAMC

Scottish alternative rock-band formed in 1983 by the brothers Jim and William Reid.  The name was originally supposed to have come from a line in a Bing Crosby song.  A later alternative explanation was that it derived from an offer on a breakfast cereal packet where customers could send off for one of these in gold.

The Jesus and Mary Chain

ROUND 5 - Hidden theme - 'It's Bingo - but not as you usually know it!'

Usual rules for sound-alikes, etc.

1.

What sobriquet, celebrated in a famous sea shanty, was applied to the Royal Navy after steam replaced sail and ships were uniformly painted?

The Grey Funnel Line

2.

What term is used in darts for scoring 26 in 3 darts, scoring a single 20, 5 and 1?

'Bed and breakfast'

3.

In physics what can be described as: Any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle, known as complementary variables, such as position 'x' and momentum 'p', can be known simultaneously?

The Uncertainty Principle

(or Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle)

4.

It is an herbaceous perennial plant growing from short, thick rhizomes.  It produces large leaves that are somewhat triangular, with long, fleshy, edible stalks and small flowers grouped in large compound leafy greenish-white to rose-red inflorescences.  Name the plant described.

Rhubarb

5.

Written in 1958 by Julius Dixson and Beverley Ross which perennially popular song was recorded initially by Ronald & Ruby and later by the Chordettes (reaching No 6 in the UK charts)?  It currently features in a car advert on TV.

The Lollipop Song

6.

What locality of California is found immediately south-east of Los Angeles County?

Orange County

7.

Which epic novel set during the time of the British Raj was written in 1978 by M M Kaye and later adapted for television?

The Far Pavilions

8.

Which product claimed to be 'the official brew of England cricket' during the 2015 Ashes series?

Yorkshire Tea

Sp.

Which 1998 American science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Andrew Niccol chronicles the life of a man who is initially unaware that he is living in a constructed reality television show?

The Truman Show

ROUND 6 - Pairs

1.

The name of which London borough, the site of a battle of the Wars of the Roses in 1471, is also Cockney rhyming slang for a part of the body?

Barnet

(as in Barnet Fair = hair)

2.

The name of which North West university, shared with a battle of the Civil War in 1642, also gives rise to a slang term for coitus interruptus?

Edge Hill

(as in getting off at Edge Hill i.e. the stop before the terminus at Liverpool Lime Street)

3.

Who played Boo Radley in the 1962 film of To Kill a Mockingbird and Major Frank Burns in the 1970 film M.A.S.H.?

Robert Duvall

4.

Which English actor made his film debut in Black Hawk Down in 2001 and starred in Mad Max Fury Road in 2015?

Tom Hardy

5.

In which classic novel would you find the characters Colonel Brandon, Edward Ferrars and John Willoughby?

Sense and Sensibility

(by Jane Austen)

6.

In which classic novel would you find the characters Lizzie Hexam, John Harmon and Nicodemus (Noddy) Boffin?

Our Mutual Friend

7.

What brought Dartmouth, Beaver and Eleanor into the public eye in 1773?

The Boston Tea Party

(they were the 3 ships plundered)

8.

What connects a song by Lynnard Skynnard and a film starring Reese Witherspoon?

Sweet Home Alabama

Sp.

What city in south east Anatolia is the capital of a region of the same name, which it shares with a popular cartoon character?

Batman

ROUNDS 7 & 8 - 'Euro Bingo'

Just pick a number and relax – what can possibly go wrong?

1.

Built on the site of a paupers' grave and designed by Ralph Tubbs, what were until 2013 the oldest operating television studios in the UK?

Granada Studios

2.

The English call it Munich but what do the Italians call this city?  The name often causes confusion and disgruntled travellers sometimes end up more than 600 kilometres away from their intended destination.

Monaco

3.

The following exchange of dialogue comes from which deliciously dark film from 2008:

“Jesus, Ray, you're about the worst tourist in the world”.

“Ken, I grew up in Dublin.  I love Dublin.  If I grew up on a farm and was retarded, this place might impress me.  But I didn't, so it doesn't”?

In Bruges

4.

Nottingham Forest won the European Cup for the first time in 1979.  Who did they beat in the Final?

FC Malmo

5.

In a recent experiment at the Walter Palmer Institute of Alternative Dentistry in Ladybarn patients had their mouths frozen and were then asked to name any European capital city.  Not surprisingly most people said “Loo-bly- ana”. Easy to say but please give the correct spelling of the Slovenian capital.

L-J-U-B-L-J-A-N-A

6.

Which card game of French origin is central to the plot of Pushkin's The Queen of Spades?  In War and Peace Rostov loses 43,000 roubles playing it.  With a simplified spelling it later became popular in Wild West saloons and was the favourite game of both Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday.

Faro

(originally spelled 'Pharaoh')

7.

Name this rock group. They had a cult following in the 1980s and 1990s both on  stage and on film.

The Leningrad Cowboys

8.

In 1994 at the Helmholtz Research Centre, the suffix '-ium' was added to the name of which nearby city to give a name to a newly synthesised element?  The element is highly radioactive, has the atomic number 110 and 'Ds' as its chemical symbol.

Darmstadt

9.

On his death bed following a road accident, General Patton asked to be buried with his men.  He was subsequently buried in which city along with over 5,000 American soldiers most of whom died during the Battle of the Bulge which was fought nearby?  You can see the cemetery as you fly into Findel airport.

Luxembourg

10.

Which rock group took their name from Steve Marriott's slang term for being 'high' on drugs?  Their 1967 debut album was The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack, a name that combined the last names of its 4 members, Keith Emerson, David O'List, Brian Davison and Lee Jackson.

The Nice

11.

Which city is served by the oldest electrified underground railway system on the European continent and by three main railway stations the largest of which is called Keleti?

Budapest

12.

A controversial 1889 painting by James Ensor shows the entry of Christ into which European city?

Brussels

13.

Which core participant in the Leveson enquiry chillingly undermined the tabloid press by saying:

“When I was 21 I would often find myself running down a dark street on my own with ten big men chasing me.  The fact that they had cameras meant that that was legal.  But take away the cameras and what have you got?  You have got a pack of men chasing a frightened woman.”?

Sienna Miller

14.

If sex on the beach is your idea of a good holiday this is probably not the city for you.  Nevertheless, BEACH RUTS is an anagram of which European capital city?

Bucharest

15.

Which song, which reached number 5 in the UK singles chart in 1996, opens with these lyrics: “And the women tug their hair/ Like they're trying to prove it won't fall out /And all the men are gargoyles/ Dipped long in Irish stout”?

Rotterdam (Or Anywhere)

(accept Rotterdam - it's by The Beautiful South)

16.

Name the city.  The photograph was taken in 2012 when 11,541 empty red chairs were laid out in the main shopping street.  Each chair represented a victim of a conflict that had begun 20 years earlier.

Sarajevo

17.

What was the name of the burlesque venue in New York that was raided by police in 1925 after Mademoiselle Fifi 'accidently' stripped to the waist and moved around the stage?  Britt Ekland played Fifi in a 1968 film based on the incident.

Minsky's

18.

In which city would you find Nidaros Cathedral, the northernmost medieval cathedral in the world?

Trondheim

(in Norway)

19.

Knocking minor celebrities such as George Best and John Lennon well and truly into the shade, which city is served by the impressive sounding Alexander the Great International Airport?

Skopje

(capital of Macedonia)

20.

It may have started in the Balkans as a protest but nobody paid any attention and it quickly became harmless.  That was in 1961 when it was generally called a 'Grecque'.  Turning its back on fickle fame, it retreated to Eastern Europe where it lived under sedation until 2010.  Then some English citizens caught sight of it on the banks of the river Warthe and carried it back triumphantly to their own lair where it still resides.  What is it?

The Poznan

(football celebration)