1.

What language spoken by about 500,000 people is the only Semitic language to be recognised as an official language of the EU?  It is also the only one to utilize the Latin script in its current form as opposed to the Ge’ez script.

2.

In which body of water would you find the man-made Churchill Barriers, completed in 1945?
 

3.

What element has the atomic number 23 and was named after a Norse Goddess?  85% of the world’s production of 79,000 tonnes is destined for use in the production of steel alloys used in the manufacture of gears, crankshafts, and other critical components.

4.

John Dent founded a company in Worcester in 1777 that bore his name and which still trades today.  Its products have been favoured by Lord Nelson, Batman and the Joker but what was the article of clothing that the company supplied for the coronation of both George V and Elizabeth II?

5.

Who was summarily executed by SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Michael Lippert in Stadelheim prison, Munich, on the first of July 1934 at the culmination of what became known as 'The Night of the Long Knives'?

6.

7.

Who held on to Westmoreland and Lonsdale at the 2015 General Election although his majority fell from more than 12,000 to less than 9,000?

8.

Which team, founder members of the Second Division in 1892, currently lie third in the Northern Premier League Division One North and entertain Witton Albion on the 28th of December?

9.

American Brooke Magnanti earned a doctorate in forensic sciences from Sheffield in 2003.  The following year she won the Guardian’s Best British Weblog of 2003.  Under what name did she write her blog?

10.

Which charity, still thriving today, can trace its origins to a meeting held on the 16th of September 1915 in Llanfairpwll with the twin objectives of revitalising rural communities and boosting food production?

11.

12.

Which band, who had their highest UK chart success in 1990 when they reached number 6, took their name from a 1971 film starring George C Scott and Joanne Woodward?  The film’s title was inspired by a passage from Don Quixote in which the hero justifies his actions in tilting at windmills to Sancho Panza

13.

What card game was selected by NATO to be the reporting name for the Tupolev 160?

14.

Who wrote the best-selling novel Make Me published in 2015?

15.

Who wrote the Overture A Midsummer Night’s Dream that had its world premiere at Stettin on the 20th of February 1827?

16.

Who wrote the Opera The Cunning Little Vixen that had its world premiere at Brno on the 6th of November 1924?

17.

Who wrote the best-selling novel The Girl on the Train published in 2015?

18.

The Mig 29 shares its NATO reporting name with which mechanical component whose importance was outlined by Archimedes in his treatise On the Equilibrium of Planes?

19.

Which band released their debut single Skunk Bloc Bologna in 1978 and saw their most commercial single reach number six in the UK charts in 1985?  They took their name in homage the political writings of Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci?

20.

Name the artist.

(Cheap laugh available for any QM with the chutzpah to say “you are holding it upside down!”)

21.

Which charity, still thriving today, was founded in September 1939, to assist the public with issues such as bomb shelters, evacuation and rationing?

22.

American Theodor Giesel quit his English Literature doctorate at Oxford to earn a living from writing and drawing ultimately winning a Pulitzer Prize.  He found fame under which pen name?

23.

Which team, elected to the Second Division when it was extended to 18 clubs in 1898-99, currently lie second in the Northern Premier League Division One North and entertain New Mills on the 28th of December?

24.

Which Scottish seat did Alistair Carmichael retain for the Liberal Democrats at the 2015 General Election although his majority was down from nearly 10,000 to less than 1,000?

25.

26.

Who was replaced as Chancellor of the Exchequer during the 'Night of the Long Knives' reshuffle in July 1962?

27.

Edward John Dent founded a company in London in 1840 that bore his name and which still trades today.  Its products found favour with The Midland Railway, David Livingstone and Henry Stanley but what did he sell on 25th of February 1852 for the sum of £1800?

28.

What element has the atomic number 73 and was named after a Greek mythological figure?  60% of the world’s production of 1000 tonnes is destined for use in the manufacture of electrolytic capacitors and vacuum furnaces.

29.

In which body of water would you find the man-made Peberholm Islet completed in 2000?

30.

What language spoken by about 20 million people is the westernmost member of the malayo-polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family reflecting an epic migration undertaken possibly as early as 350BC?

ROUND 2 - Stockport style - Written

1.

Complete the canon of a living novelist born in 1970:  John Crow’s Devil, published in 2005, The of Book of Night Women, published in 2009, and…?

2.

3.

Who succeeded his father Hecatomnus as satrap of Caria in 377 BC? Artemisia, who was both his wife and his sister, greatly mourned his passing.

4.

5.

You happen to find yourself on the 12.05 Central Time train that leaves Winnipeg next Sunday.  Assuming you don’t get off and the train runs on time where will you find yourself at 9 o’clock on Tuesday morning in the same time zone when you arrive at the train’s final station stop?

6.

What was the name of the cavalry officer who rode the highly fancied Conrad in the 1839 Grand National?  He was heard to remark: “I didn’t realise that water tasted so vile without whisky” to the watching crowd when his race was briefly interrupted.

7.

Who was the builder who rose to be Provost of Greenock from 1868 to 1871 and was noted for his support for many local causes?

8.

TIG welding requires a protective shield of an inert gas, normally a mix of argon and helium, to prevent atmospheric contamination and a torch with a tip made from which metal to act as an electrode?

9.

10.

Name the Member of Parliament for Streatham who ultimately endorsed Liz Kendall for the Labour party leadership contest earlier this year.

ROUND 3 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

1.

Which actress was married to Mickey Rooney, jazz clarinettist Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra?  Not all at the same time mind as that would be illegal.

2.

Which TV presenter on the 13th of April 1997 famously posed the question “Did you threaten to overrule him?”?

3.

Who released the single The Way It Is in 1986?  The eponymous lead singer would go on to appear with the Grateful Dead as a regular special guest.

4.

Who conquered the province of Sindh in 1843 after victories at the Battles of Meanee and Hyderabad?  Punch magazine’s joke that he sent a telegram to his superiors “Peccavi” ("I have sinned" in Latin), is sadly unsubstantiated but a city in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand was named in his honour.

5.

Who was elected President of the Clinical Society of London in 1881?  He achieved fame in 1867 after his articles in the Lancet promoted the use of Carbolic acid to reduce infection following surgery while, somewhat strangely, a pathogenic bacterial genus was named after him.

6.

Which TV presenter revealed the following insight: “I don’t look great.  I’m a bit ramshackle.  I’m not fashionable.  I’ll go on panel shows looking like I’ve been dragged through a hedge backwards.”?

7.

Which Gritstone Edge with a trig point at 1549 feet lies on the Pennine Way and also provides several rock climbs graded Very Severe including Belly on a Plate, The Mangler and Outside Edge?

8.

Name the Scottish born economist who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1996 for his work on economic incentives under asymmetric information.

Sp.

Name the American poet whose first published work was a 1922 autobiography entitled The Enormous Room about his experience of the First World War.

ROUND 4 - WithQuiz style - Picture Round - 'Anyone for Tennis?'

It is a picture round where the questions are also paired, and all answers include a word or words from the world of tennis. Oh Lordy!

1.

Name this band who had a UK number one single in 1992.

2.

Name this band from Liverpool who had a UK number one single on 1996.

3.

Depicting a scene of human bondage from which film is this still taken?

4.

Depicting a scene of human bondage from which film is this still taken?

5.

Driving along California State Route 14 you stop to admire this view.  What are you looking at?

6.

Driving on US Highway 1 you stop to admire the skyline of this city, the capital of its state.  Which city?

7.

Name the Second World War weapon depicted here.

8.

Name the First World War aviator depicted here.

Sp.

Name this celebrity, singer, actress, and model.

ROUND 5 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

1.

Travelling east to west in 2019 what will come next: Abbey Wood, Woolwich, Custom House and…....?

2.

What is the common name for the family of birds that are correctly the Pioceidae? Native to sub Saharan Africa and tropical Asia they are noted for their elaborate nests,

3.

4.

Who has presented the 3.30 to 5.30 Sunday afternoon slot on BBC Radio 6 entitled The Sunday Service since January 2010?

5.

Which county won the County Championship in 1970 for the first time since 1906 under the captaincy of Colin Cowdrey?

6.

7.

Name the US Army Major General who led the 1st Division when they stormed Mexico City’s San Cosme Gate in the Mexican American War of 1846 to 1847.  He then supervised the construction work to strengthen the lines of defence in Texas before succumbing to cholera in 1849 and dying in San Antonio.

8.

What bird appears on the Canadian one dollar coin?

Sp.

In 2012 Brandon Loo and Christopher Sweeney were held for over 2 hours after US customs officials discovered six pieces of contraband in their car as they returned from Canada.  Let off with just a warning they had faced a $15,000 fine.  The contraband was a candy that is illegal in the USA but has sold more than 30 billion units worldwide since its launch by Ferrero in 1974.  What was the candy?

ROUND 6 - WithQuiz style - Announced theme - 'All’s well that ends well'

All answers include a word that precede the word 'well' and still make sense

1.

Which Bertoldt Brecht play features Anna Fierling and her offspring Kattrin, Eilif and Swiss Cheese?

2.

What do the Chester Canal, the River Cam, New College Lane in Oxford and the Rio del Palazzo have in common?

3.

Who won his first Academy Award in 2013 having produced 12 Years a Slave?  It came eighteen years after first being nominated for one as Best Supporting Actor in 12 Monkeys?

4.

What have Stanley Morison, Max Meidinger, Lucas de Groot and John Baskerville all designed?

5.

Ryan Giggs, Frank Lampard, Gareth Barry, David James but who is next?

6.

Alresford in Hampshire holds a festival every year dedicated to which vegetable?  It attracts 15,000 visitors to the town.

7.

Which Pixar production from 2001 features the voice of John Goodman as James P 'Sully' Sullivan and that of Billy Crystal as Mike Wazowski?  Mike only has one eye and his girlfriend Celia Mae calls him 'googly bear'.  Cute!

8.

Which horse, the winner of 7 Group 1 races, was named after that which was known to the Romans as Mons Calpe rising to a height of 1398 feet above sea level?

Sp.

He entered Parliament as the Free Trade candidate for Durham in 1843 before being returned unopposed as MP for Manchester in 1847.  One of the great orators of his day he is credited by the OED as being the first verifiable user of the expression “flogging a dead horse” when describing his attempts to rouse the House of Commons from its apathy on voting reform.  Who was he?

1.

Which phrase was attributed by Brewers to Lord Bowen, then junior counsel in the Tichborne Claimant case of 1871, and used by him to describe a reasonably educated man, if a little nondescript?

2.

The west end musical Close To You celebrates the life and work of which American songwriter?

3.

Where would you find a specialised motorised vehicle called a Zamboni being used?

4.

What is a mortadella?

1.

What is the half life of Carbon 14.

2.

New Mills FC are bottom of the Northern Premier League Division 1 North.  They have lost all 17 league matches while scoring just 8 goals.  How many goals have they conceded?

1.

What language spoken by about 500,000 people is the only Semitic language to be recognised as an official language of the EU?  It is also the only one to utilize the Latin script in its current form as opposed to the Ge’ez script.

Maltese

2.

In which body of water would you find the man-made Churchill Barriers, completed in 1945?
 

Scapa Flow

(work started after the Royal Oak was sunk at anchor)

3.

What element has the atomic number 23 and was named after a Norse Goddess?  85% of the world’s production of 79,000 tonnes is destined for use in the production of steel alloys used in the manufacture of gears, crankshafts, and other critical components.

Vanadium

(after Vanadis)

4.

John Dent founded a company in Worcester in 1777 that bore his name and which still trades today.  Its products have been favoured by Lord Nelson, Batman and the Joker but what was the article of clothing that the company supplied for the coronation of both George V and Elizabeth II?

Gloves

5.

Who was summarily executed by SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Michael Lippert in Stadelheim prison, Munich, on the first of July 1934 at the culmination of what became known as 'The Night of the Long Knives'?

Ernst Rohm

6.

7.

Who held on to Westmoreland and Lonsdale at the 2015 General Election although his majority fell from more than 12,000 to less than 9,000?

Tim Farron

8.

Which team, founder members of the Second Division in 1892, currently lie third in the Northern Premier League Division One North and entertain Witton Albion on the 28th of December?

Northwich Victoria

9.

American Brooke Magnanti earned a doctorate in forensic sciences from Sheffield in 2003.  The following year she won the Guardian’s Best British Weblog of 2003.  Under what name did she write her blog?

'Belle de jour'

10.

Which charity, still thriving today, can trace its origins to a meeting held on the 16th of September 1915 in Llanfairpwll with the twin objectives of revitalising rural communities and boosting food production?

Women’s Institute

11.

12.

Which band, who had their highest UK chart success in 1990 when they reached number 6, took their name from a 1971 film starring George C Scott and Joanne Woodward?  The film’s title was inspired by a passage from Don Quixote in which the hero justifies his actions in tilting at windmills to Sancho Panza

They Might Be Giants

13.

What card game was selected by NATO to be the reporting name for the Tupolev 160?

Blackjack

14.

Who wrote the best-selling novel Make Me published in 2015?

Lee Child

15.

Who wrote the Overture A Midsummer Night’s Dream that had its world premiere at Stettin on the 20th of February 1827?

Felix Mendelsohn

16.

Who wrote the Opera The Cunning Little Vixen that had its world premiere at Brno on the 6th of November 1924?

Leos Janacek

17.

Who wrote the best-selling novel The Girl on the Train published in 2015?

Paula Hawkins

18.

The Mig 29 shares its NATO reporting name with which mechanical component whose importance was outlined by Archimedes in his treatise On the Equilibrium of Planes?

Fulcrum

19.

Which band released their debut single Skunk Bloc Bologna in 1978 and saw their most commercial single reach number six in the UK charts in 1985?  They took their name in homage the political writings of Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci?

Scritti Politti

20.

Name the artist.

(Cheap laugh available for any QM with the chutzpah to say “you are holding it upside down!”)

21.

Which charity, still thriving today, was founded in September 1939, to assist the public with issues such as bomb shelters, evacuation and rationing?

Citizens Advice Bureau

22.

American Theodor Giesel quit his English Literature doctorate at Oxford to earn a living from writing and drawing ultimately winning a Pulitzer Prize.  He found fame under which pen name?

Dr Seuss

23.

Which team, elected to the Second Division when it was extended to 18 clubs in 1898-99, currently lie second in the Northern Premier League Division One North and entertain New Mills on the 28th of December?

Glossop North End

24.

Which Scottish seat did Alistair Carmichael retain for the Liberal Democrats at the 2015 General Election although his majority was down from nearly 10,000 to less than 1,000?

Orkney and Shetland

25.

26.

Who was replaced as Chancellor of the Exchequer during the 'Night of the Long Knives' reshuffle in July 1962?

Selwyn Lloyd

27.

Edward John Dent founded a company in London in 1840 that bore his name and which still trades today.  Its products found favour with The Midland Railway, David Livingstone and Henry Stanley but what did he sell on 25th of February 1852 for the sum of £1800?

The clock mechanism in Big Ben/St Stephens Tower/Elizabeth Tower

28.

What element has the atomic number 73 and was named after a Greek mythological figure?  60% of the world’s production of 1000 tonnes is destined for use in the manufacture of electrolytic capacitors and vacuum furnaces.

Tantalum

29.

In which body of water would you find the man-made Peberholm Islet completed in 2000?

Oresund

(it is the artificial island where the bridge becomes a tunnel)

30.

What language spoken by about 20 million people is the westernmost member of the malayo-polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family reflecting an epic migration undertaken possibly as early as 350BC?

Malagasy

ROUND 2 - Stockport style - Written

1.

Complete the canon of a living novelist born in 1970:  John Crow’s Devil, published in 2005, The of Book of Night Women, published in 2009, and…?

A Brief History of Seven Killings

2.

3.

Who succeeded his father Hecatomnus as satrap of Caria in 377 BC? Artemisia, who was both his wife and his sister, greatly mourned his passing.

Mausolus

4.

5.

You happen to find yourself on the 12.05 Central Time train that leaves Winnipeg next Sunday.  Assuming you don’t get off and the train runs on time where will you find yourself at 9 o’clock on Tuesday morning in the same time zone when you arrive at the train’s final station stop?

Churchill

6.

What was the name of the cavalry officer who rode the highly fancied Conrad in the 1839 Grand National?  He was heard to remark: “I didn’t realise that water tasted so vile without whisky” to the watching crowd when his race was briefly interrupted.

Captain Becher

(having fallen in the brook at the fence that would later bear his name he remounted but fell again at Valentines)

7.

Who was the builder who rose to be Provost of Greenock from 1868 to 1871 and was noted for his support for many local causes?

James Morton

(opinion is divided as to whether the team were named in his honour or after the street Morton Terrace that was named after him)

8.

TIG welding requires a protective shield of an inert gas, normally a mix of argon and helium, to prevent atmospheric contamination and a torch with a tip made from which metal to act as an electrode?

9.

Maltese Falcon

10.

Name the Member of Parliament for Streatham who ultimately endorsed Liz Kendall for the Labour party leadership contest earlier this year.

Chukka Umunna

ROUND 3 - WithQuiz style - Hidden theme

1.

Which actress was married to Mickey Rooney, jazz clarinettist Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra?  Not all at the same time mind as that would be illegal.

Ava Gardner

2.

Which TV presenter on the 13th of April 1997 famously posed the question “Did you threaten to overrule him?”?

Jeremy Paxman

(12 times)

3.

Who released the single The Way It Is in 1986?  The eponymous lead singer would go on to appear with the Grateful Dead as a regular special guest.

Bruce Hornsby and the Range

4.

Who conquered the province of Sindh in 1843 after victories at the Battles of Meanee and Hyderabad?  Punch magazine’s joke that he sent a telegram to his superiors “Peccavi” ("I have sinned" in Latin), is sadly unsubstantiated but a city in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand was named in his honour.

General (Charles) Napier

5.

Who was elected President of the Clinical Society of London in 1881?  He achieved fame in 1867 after his articles in the Lancet promoted the use of Carbolic acid to reduce infection following surgery while, somewhat strangely, a pathogenic bacterial genus was named after him.

(Joseph) Lister

6.

Which TV presenter revealed the following insight: “I don’t look great.  I’m a bit ramshackle.  I’m not fashionable.  I’ll go on panel shows looking like I’ve been dragged through a hedge backwards.”?

Sue Perkins

7.

Which Gritstone Edge with a trig point at 1549 feet lies on the Pennine Way and also provides several rock climbs graded Very Severe including Belly on a Plate, The Mangler and Outside Edge?

Blackstone Edge

8.

Name the Scottish born economist who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 1996 for his work on economic incentives under asymmetric information.

(James) Mirrlees

Sp.

Name the American poet whose first published work was a 1922 autobiography entitled The Enormous Room about his experience of the First World War.

(ee) Cummings

Theme: 'All revved up with nowhere to go!' - each answer contains the name of a British diesel engine maker – most sadly no more!

ROUND 4 - WithQuiz style - Picture Round - 'Anyone for Tennis?'

It is a picture round where the questions are also paired, and all answers include a word or words from the world of tennis. Oh Lordy!

1.

Name this band who had a UK number one single in 1992.

Ace of Base

2.

Name this band from Liverpool who had a UK number one single on 1996.

The Lightning Seeds

3.

Depicting a scene of human bondage from which film is this still taken?

Return of the Jedi

4.

Depicting a scene of human bondage from which film is this still taken?

Live and Let Die

5.

Driving along California State Route 14 you stop to admire this view.  What are you looking at?

The San Andreas Fault

(a cross section through it)

6.

Driving on US Highway 1 you stop to admire the skyline of this city, the capital of its state.  Which city?

Raleigh

7.

Name the Second World War weapon depicted here.

8.

Name the First World War aviator depicted here.

Roland Garros

Sp.

Name this celebrity, singer, actress, and model.

Courtney Love

1.

Travelling east to west in 2019 what will come next: Abbey Wood, Woolwich, Custom House and…....?

Canary Wharf

(Crossrail stations)

2.

What is the common name for the family of birds that are correctly the Pioceidae? Native to sub Saharan Africa and tropical Asia they are noted for their elaborate nests,

Weaver bird

3.

4.

Who has presented the 3.30 to 5.30 Sunday afternoon slot on BBC Radio 6 entitled The Sunday Service since January 2010?

Jarvis Cocker 

5.

Which county won the County Championship in 1970 for the first time since 1906 under the captaincy of Colin Cowdrey?

Kent

6.

7.

Name the US Army Major General who led the 1st Division when they stormed Mexico City’s San Cosme Gate in the Mexican American War of 1846 to 1847.  He then supervised the construction work to strengthen the lines of defence in Texas before succumbing to cholera in 1849 and dying in San Antonio.

Major General (William) Worth

(the army named one of the defensive forts after him)

8.

What bird appears on the Canadian one dollar coin?

(Great Northern) Loon

Sp.

In 2012 Brandon Loo and Christopher Sweeney were held for over 2 hours after US customs officials discovered six pieces of contraband in their car as they returned from Canada.  Let off with just a warning they had faced a $15,000 fine.  The contraband was a candy that is illegal in the USA but has sold more than 30 billion units worldwide since its launch by Ferrero in 1974.  What was the candy?

Kinder Surprise

(it is illegal in the USA to sell food with a non-nutritional item embedded)

Theme: 'Many rivers to cross' - each answer contains the name of a British river

ROUND 6 - WithQuiz style - Announced theme - 'All’s well that ends well'

All answers include a word that precede the word 'well' and still make sense

1.

Which Bertoldt Brecht play features Anna Fierling and her offspring Kattrin, Eilif and Swiss Cheese?

Mother Courage and her Children

2.

What do the Chester Canal, the River Cam, New College Lane in Oxford and the Rio del Palazzo have in common?

They can all be crossed by a bridge called the Bridge of Sighs

3.

Who won his first Academy Award in 2013 having produced 12 Years a Slave?  It came eighteen years after first being nominated for one as Best Supporting Actor in 12 Monkeys?

Brad Pitt

4.

What have Stanley Morison, Max Meidinger, Lucas de Groot and John Baskerville all designed?

A famous font

(accept typeface even though it doesn’t fit the 'well' theme - the fonts are respectively: Times New Roman, Helvetica, Calibri & Baskerville)

5.

Ryan Giggs, Frank Lampard, Gareth Barry, David James but who is next?

Gary Speed

(appearances in Premier League)

6.

Alresford in Hampshire holds a festival every year dedicated to which vegetable?  It attracts 15,000 visitors to the town.

Water Cress

7.

Which Pixar production from 2001 features the voice of John Goodman as James P 'Sully' Sullivan and that of Billy Crystal as Mike Wazowski?  Mike only has one eye and his girlfriend Celia Mae calls him 'googly bear'.  Cute!

Monsters Inc.

8.

Which horse, the winner of 7 Group 1 races, was named after that which was known to the Romans as Mons Calpe rising to a height of 1398 feet above sea level?

Rock of Gibraltar

Sp.

He entered Parliament as the Free Trade candidate for Durham in 1843 before being returned unopposed as MP for Manchester in 1847.  One of the great orators of his day he is credited by the OED as being the first verifiable user of the expression “flogging a dead horse” when describing his attempts to rouse the House of Commons from its apathy on voting reform.  Who was he?

John Bright

1.

Which phrase was attributed by Brewers to Lord Bowen, then junior counsel in the Tichborne Claimant case of 1871, and used by him to describe a reasonably educated man, if a little nondescript?

The man on the Clapham omnibus

2.

The west end musical Close To You celebrates the life and work of which American songwriter?

Burt Bacharach

3.

Where would you find a specialised motorised vehicle called a Zamboni being used?

On an ice rink

(to smooth out the grooves and ruts)

4.

What is a mortadella?

(Italian) sausage

1.

What is the half life of Carbon 14.

5730 years

2.

New Mills FC are bottom of the Northern Premier League Division 1 North.  They have lost all 17 league matches while scoring just 8 goals.  How many goals have they conceded?

62