ROUND 1 - 'Paris Match'

A bit of WithQuiz solidarity following recent events

1.

Who is the patron saint of Paris?

2.

What is the name of the oldest bridge over the Seine within the city of Paris ?

3.

What is the name of the large public park on the Western edge of the city, which includes the Longchamp racecourse and the Roland Garros tennis stadium?

4.

Who directed the 2011 film Midnight in Paris about a time-travelling writer, starring amongst others Owen Wilson, Kathy Bates, Michael Sheen and Carla Bruni?

5.

Which Group had a top ten hit in 1981 with Young Parisians?  When the band became hugely, but very briefly, successful, their old record labels re-released a clutch of previously and deservedly unsuccessful singles, of which this performed the best.

6.

Les Miserables culminates in the so-called June Rebellion of Paris.  Within five years either way, when did this take place?

7.

In the 1998 World Cup Final at the Stade De France, which two players scored in France’s 3-0 victory?

8.

Sometimes referred to as 'Old Paris' this district was once a thriving Jewish Quarter.  It was home to Jim Morrison and now has a strong LGBT culture.  What is it called?

Sp.

Which chemical element, the final element in the lanthanide series, was named after an ancient name for Paris?

ROUND 2 - Pairs

1.

Why was top city lawyer and Chelsea fan Clive O'Connell recently dismissed by his employers?

2.

Why was Eva Carneiro in the news recently?

3.

Which band, with 3 unrelated band members called Taylor, had its greatest success in the 1980s and is still very much alive today?

4.

Which 1980s band had 2 brothers named Campbell as members?

5.

From which film do these lines, spoken by one of our most popular actresses, come:

“This is very unusual. I’ve never been alone with a man before – even with my dress on.  With my dress off, it’s most unusual”?

6.

From which film do these lines, spoken by one of the world’s most popular actresses, come:

“When it gets hot like this, you know what I do?  I keep my undies in the icebox!”?

7.

Port Louis is the capital city of which island nation?

8.

Victoria is the capital city of which island nation?

Sp.

Which war was depicted in the film that these lines come from:

“I don’t know how to kiss... Where do the noses go?”?

ROUND 3 - Hidden theme

1.

Which celebrity is the cousin of Samantha Womack?  Winner of Celebrity Love Island in 2006, he played himself in Footballer's Wives and is the patron of the National Association for the Children of Alcoholics?

2.

Who was World Snooker Champion in 1981, 1983-4 and 1988-9?

3.

Which military regiment was responsible for the Peterloo massacre?

4.

To which television presenter did Australian Olympic Swimming Star Ian Thorpe first disclose his sexuality?

5.

Who is the Office Holder who is empowered to intervene in Matrimonial and Probate cases in England and Wales where there has been collusion, deception or there is an exceptional legal issue?

6.

Name the Cheshire township, home to 3 pubs, which borders Derbyshire and lies between Marple Bridge and New Mills.

7.

According to the Scottish folk song and nursery rhyme, who "played upon a ladle"?

8.

Daughter to one judge and sister to three others, Page 3 Girl Kathy MacKinnon was the girl-friend of which well-known DJ?

Sp.

Which plummy voiced Art Critic and TV personality died recently?

ROUND 4 - Hidden theme

1.

Which overseas-born England batsman, who made his test debut in 1990, recorded his highest test score of 207 at Edgbaston in the 1997 Ashes series and wrote a book entitled Playing With Fire which won the Best Autobiography prize at the 2005 British Sports Book Awards?

2.

Which author was known for two distinct sets of books, the first being a series of travel writings about Mexico, and the second the series of detective novels featuring Perry Mason?

3.

Which British detective series featured three agents working for a branch of Interpol?  Two of them were called Stewart Sullivan and Rosemary Hurst, but the series is probably best remembered for the moustachio-ed Jason King who later had his own spin-off series.

4.

Which band, formed in 1965, were pioneers of psychedelic rock?  Their album Surrealistic Pillow included two songs, White Rabbit and Somebody To Love, which were stated to be among the greatest 500 of all-time by Rolling Stone magazine?

5.

What is the name of Bart Simpson’s best friend?  He has a crush on Bart’s sister Lisa which is a recurring theme in the programmes.

6.

Who was the Irish Taoiseach for the majority of the 1980s, representing Fine Gael?  He signed the Anglo-Irish Agreement with Mrs Thatcher in 1985.

7.

Which landscape painter, who shares his name with a well-loved character actor, was described by the Welsh Academy as “the most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced”?  In 1768 he was a founder member of the Royal Academy.

8.

Which actor, born in Trinidad in 1939, has appeared regularly on British TV for 50 years?  His roles include Bill Reynolds in Love Thy Neighbour, Constable Gladstone in The Thin Blue Line and Patrick Trueman in EastEnders?

Sp.

Who wrote and presented the landmark TV programme Civilisation – A Personal View in 1969?

ROUND 5 - Pairs

1.

A special 8% tax was levied on cigarettes in Quebec until 2006.  To pay for what?

2.

Sugar Ray Leonard, a gold medallist in Montreal, returned there in 1980 to become the first boxer to be paid $10 million for a fight.  Who was his opponent in this clash for the World Lightweight title?

3.

Non-existent singer 'Ann Coats' and the equally-fictitious 'Orchestrazia Ardwick' were credited on records by which local band?

4.

Which local band name-checked 'Ardwick Green where the grass is grey, Beswick, Hulme and Harpurhey' in a hit song?

5.

Which city boasts an immense baroque revival Palais de Justice and the stunning Art Nouveau Hotel Tassel?

6.

In which city would you find the Tuscan Renaissance Chapel of Sigismund and the Arch-cathedral of SS Stanislaus and Wenceslaus?

7.

Which Tory brainwave was said by the leader of Newcastle Council to sound "...like a gay club I used to go to in the 1990s"?

8.

Which Elizabeth Gaskell work of 1855 is set in Milford in Darkshire?

Sp.

In which film did one of the leading characters remark: “Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to”?

ROUND 6 - Complete the Sequence

1.

Hilary Mantel, Howard Jacobsen, Julian Barnes, ….?

2.

Iridium, Platinum, Gold, ….?

3.

Bohemian Rhapsody, When A Child is Born, Mull of Kintyre, .…?

4.

Luke, John, Acts Of The Apostles, ….?

5.

Campbell-Bannerman, Asquith, Lloyd George, ….?

6.

Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg, Michael Stich, …?

7.

No Country For Old Men, Slumdog Millionaire, The Hurt Locker, …

8.

Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, ….?

Sp.

Paris, St Louis, London, ….?

ROUND 7 - Hidden theme

1.

Which famous American died on exactly the same day as Thomas Jefferson, which also happened to be the 50th anniversary of the Declaration Of Independence?  He was played by Paul Giamatti in a recent award-winning TV mini-series.

2.

Which 2002 film, set in 1863, starred Leonardo di Caprio as Amsterdam Vallon and Daniel Day Lewis as Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting?

3.

In which 1958 play by Arnold Wesker does Beatie Bryant return from London and her Jewish boyfriend to her family home in Norfolk?  At the end of her personal journey of discovery she declares, “Now I can stand on my own two feet”.

4.

Which church in Buckinghamshire became notorious as the home of Sir Francis Dashwood’s Hellfire Club, a den of iniquity which included gambling, prostitution, mock pagan rituals and lots of drinking?

5.

What was the name of the 2012 BBC series of Shakespeare’s history plays, which included Benedict Cumberbatch as Richard III, Jeremy Irons as Henry IV and Tom Hiddleston as Henry V?

6.

Which castle endured a six-month siege in 1266, the longest in English history?  It was the scene of Edward II’s deposition from the throne in 1327, and the place where the Earl of Leicester’s wife suspiciously died from a fall in 1560 leaving him potentially free to marry the queen.

7.

Which comic book character was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger in 1948?  She was ranked 93rd in the Comic Buyer’s Guide’s '100 Sexiest Women in Comics List' (!).  She worked for the Gotham Gazette and was played by Kim Basinger in the 1989 Batman movie.

8.

What is the name of the character played by Ted Robbins in Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights?  He runs the rival ‘Banana Grove’ club and burns down the Phoenix at the end of the first series.

Sp.

Which film director made the 2006 film This is England as well as the three more recent TV updates?  He also directed the movies Dead Man’s Shoes and Once Upon A Time in the Midlands and made a 2013 documentary about the Stone Roses.

ROUND 8 - Pairs

1.

Which Austrian monk (1822-1884) first established the fundamental principles of genetics by his experiments with pea plants?

2.

Which New Zealand-born British molecular biologist contributed to the establishment of the structure of DNA and received a Nobel Prize for this alongside Crick and Watson?

3.

What was significant about the match between Portsmouth and Arsenal at Fratton Park in December 2009?

4.

Which goalkeeper is the oldest player (to date) to play in a Premier League match?

5.

In 1867 Lily Maxwell, a Manchester shopkeeper, became the first woman in Britain to do what?

6.

Which lawyer drafted the amendment to the Municipal Franchise Act of 1869 that allowed unmarried female householders to vote in local elections?

7.

Which singer played the part of Emily Brontë (yes, that’s correct) in the 1992 version of Wuthering Heights starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliet Binoche?  Her only number one, which was in 1990, was the best-selling single in the world that year.

8.

Which singer appeared in the controversial 1999 comedy film Dogma alongside Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, playing the role of God?  The album that she released in 1995 remains the world’s best-selling one ever by a female singer.

Sp.

If someone suffers from hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliaphobia, what is it that they understandably fear?

ROUND 1 - 'Paris Match'

A bit of WithQuiz solidarity following recent events

1.

Who is the patron saint of Paris?

Genevieve

2.

What is the name of the oldest bridge over the Seine within the city of Paris ?

Pont Neuf

3.

What is the name of the large public park on the Western edge of the city, which includes the Longchamp racecourse and the Roland Garros tennis stadium?

Bois de Boulogne

4.

Who directed the 2011 film Midnight in Paris about a time-travelling writer, starring amongst others Owen Wilson, Kathy Bates, Michael Sheen and Carla Bruni?

Woody Allen

5.

Which Group had a top ten hit in 1981 with Young Parisians?  When the band became hugely, but very briefly, successful, their old record labels re-released a clutch of previously and deservedly unsuccessful singles, of which this performed the best.

Adam and the Ants

6.

Les Miserables culminates in the so-called June Rebellion of Paris.  Within five years either way, when did this take place?

1832

(accept 1827-1837)

7.

In the 1998 World Cup Final at the Stade De France, which two players scored in France’s 3-0 victory?

Zinedine Zidane and Emmanuel Petit

8.

Sometimes referred to as 'Old Paris' this district was once a thriving Jewish Quarter.  It was home to Jim Morrison and now has a strong LGBT culture.  What is it called?

Le Marais

Sp.

Which chemical element, the final element in the lanthanide series, was named after an ancient name for Paris?

Lutetium

ROUND 2 - Pairs

1.

Why was top city lawyer and Chelsea fan Clive O'Connell recently dismissed by his employers?

He was interviewed whilst leaving a match and publicly referred to Liverpool fans as “Scouse scum”

(accept anything implying he verbally abused opposing fans)

2.

Why was Eva Carneiro in the news recently?

She was the Chelsea team doctor criticised by Jose Mourinho

(she subsequently resigned and is now suing for constructive dismissal)

3.

Which band, with 3 unrelated band members called Taylor, had its greatest success in the 1980s and is still very much alive today?

Duran Duran

4.

Which 1980s band had 2 brothers named Campbell as members?

UB40

5.

From which film do these lines, spoken by one of our most popular actresses, come:

“This is very unusual. I’ve never been alone with a man before – even with my dress on.  With my dress off, it’s most unusual”?

Roman Holiday

(spoken by Audrey Hepburn as Princess Anne – 1953)

6.

From which film do these lines, spoken by one of the world’s most popular actresses, come:

“When it gets hot like this, you know what I do?  I keep my undies in the icebox!”?

The Seven Year Itch

(spoken by Marilyn Monroe - 1955)

7.

Port Louis is the capital city of which island nation?

Mauritius

8.

Victoria is the capital city of which island nation?

Seychelles

Sp.

Which war was depicted in the film that these lines come from:

“I don’t know how to kiss... Where do the noses go?”?

The Spanish Civil War

(the lines are spoken by Ingrid Bergman, to Gary Cooper, in For whom the Bell Tolls – 1943)

ROUND 3 - Hidden theme

1.

Which celebrity is the cousin of Samantha Womack?  Winner of Celebrity Love Island in 2006, he played himself in Footballer's Wives and is the patron of the National Association for the Children of Alcoholics?

Calum Best

2.

Who was World Snooker Champion in 1981, 1983-4 and 1988-9?

Steve Davis

3.

Which military regiment was responsible for the Peterloo massacre?

The Cheshire Yeomanry

4.

To which television presenter did Australian Olympic Swimming Star Ian Thorpe first disclose his sexuality?

Michael Parkinson

5.

Who is the Office Holder who is empowered to intervene in Matrimonial and Probate cases in England and Wales where there has been collusion, deception or there is an exceptional legal issue?

The Queen’s Proctor

6.

Name the Cheshire township, home to 3 pubs, which borders Derbyshire and lies between Marple Bridge and New Mills.

Mellor

7.

According to the Scottish folk song and nursery rhyme, who "played upon a ladle"?

Aiken Drum

8.

Daughter to one judge and sister to three others, Page 3 Girl Kathy MacKinnon was the girl-friend of which well-known DJ?

'Diddy' David Hamilton

Sp.

Which plummy voiced Art Critic and TV personality died recently?

Brian Sewell

Theme: Disgraced Members of Parliament

Keith Best, Ron Davis, Tim Yeo, Cecil Parkinson, Harvey Proctor, David Mellor, Jonathan Aitken, Neil Hamilton and Lord John Sewel

ROUND 4 - Hidden theme

1.

Which overseas-born England batsman, who made his test debut in 1990, recorded his highest test score of 207 at Edgbaston in the 1997 Ashes series and wrote a book entitled Playing With Fire which won the Best Autobiography prize at the 2005 British Sports Book Awards?

Nasser Hussein

2.

Which author was known for two distinct sets of books, the first being a series of travel writings about Mexico, and the second the series of detective novels featuring Perry Mason?

Earl Stanley Gardner

3.

Which British detective series featured three agents working for a branch of Interpol?  Two of them were called Stewart Sullivan and Rosemary Hurst, but the series is probably best remembered for the moustachio-ed Jason King who later had his own spin-off series.

Department S

4.

Which band, formed in 1965, were pioneers of psychedelic rock?  Their album Surrealistic Pillow included two songs, White Rabbit and Somebody To Love, which were stated to be among the greatest 500 of all-time by Rolling Stone magazine?

Jefferson Airplane

(not their subsequent inferior incarnation Starship)

5.

What is the name of Bart Simpson’s best friend?  He has a crush on Bart’s sister Lisa which is a recurring theme in the programmes.

Milhouse Van Houte

(just the first name will suffice)

6.

Who was the Irish Taoiseach for the majority of the 1980s, representing Fine Gael?  He signed the Anglo-Irish Agreement with Mrs Thatcher in 1985.

Garret Fitzgerald

7.

Which landscape painter, who shares his name with a well-loved character actor, was described by the Welsh Academy as “the most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced”?  In 1768 he was a founder member of the Royal Academy.

Richard Wilson

8.

Which actor, born in Trinidad in 1939, has appeared regularly on British TV for 50 years?  His roles include Bill Reynolds in Love Thy Neighbour, Constable Gladstone in The Thin Blue Line and Patrick Trueman in EastEnders?

Rudolph Walker

(two for the price of one!)

Sp.

Who wrote and presented the landmark TV programme Civilisation – A Personal View in 1969?

Kenneth Clark

Theme: Each answer contains the middle names of American Presidents

Barack Hussein Obama, James Earl Carter, Harry S Truman, William Jefferson Clinton, Richard Milhouse Nixon, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Ronald Wilson Reagan, Gerald Rudolph Ford/George Walker Bush and Herbert Clark Hoover

ROUND 5 - Pairs

1.

A special 8% tax was levied on cigarettes in Quebec until 2006.  To pay for what?

The 1976 Olympics in Montreal

(more specifically the stadium - accept either answer)

2.

Sugar Ray Leonard, a gold medallist in Montreal, returned there in 1980 to become the first boxer to be paid $10 million for a fight.  Who was his opponent in this clash for the World Lightweight title?

Roberto Duran

3.

Non-existent singer 'Ann Coats' and the equally-fictitious 'Orchestrazia Ardwick' were credited on records by which local band?

The Smiths

4.

Which local band name-checked 'Ardwick Green where the grass is grey, Beswick, Hulme and Harpurhey' in a hit song?

Herman’s Hermits

5.

Which city boasts an immense baroque revival Palais de Justice and the stunning Art Nouveau Hotel Tassel?

Brussels

6.

In which city would you find the Tuscan Renaissance Chapel of Sigismund and the Arch-cathedral of SS Stanislaus and Wenceslaus?

Krakow

7.

Which Tory brainwave was said by the leader of Newcastle Council to sound "...like a gay club I used to go to in the 1990s"?

The Northern Powerhouse

8.

Which Elizabeth Gaskell work of 1855 is set in Milford in Darkshire?

North and South

Sp.

In which film did one of the leading characters remark: “Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to”?

Miracle on 34th Street

(originally Maureen O’Hara - 1947; the same part was played by Elizabeth Perkins in a later version - 1994)

ROUND 6 - Complete the Sequence

1.

Hilary Mantel, Howard Jacobsen, Julian Barnes, ….?
 

Hilary Mantel

(Booker Prize Winners 2009-2012)

2.

Iridium, Platinum, Gold, ….?

Mercury

(Periodic Table, numbers 77-80)

3.

Bohemian Rhapsody, When A Child is Born, Mull of Kintyre, .…?

Mary’s Boy Child

(Christmas number ones 1975-1978)

4.

Luke, John, Acts Of The Apostles, ….?

Romans

(Books of the New Testament)

5.

Campbell-Bannerman, Asquith, Lloyd George, ….?

Bonar Law

(British PMs)

6.

Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg, Michael Stich, …?

Andre Agassi

(Wimbledon men’s champions 1989-1992)

7.

No Country For Old Men, Slumdog Millionaire, The Hurt Locker, …

The King’ Speech

('Best film’ Oscar winners 2007-2010)

8.

Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, ….?

Theodore Roosevelt

(US Presidents)

Sp.

Paris, St Louis, London, ….?

Stockholm

(Olympic host cities)

ROUND 7 - Hidden theme

1.

Which famous American died on exactly the same day as Thomas Jefferson, which also happened to be the 50th anniversary of the Declaration Of Independence?  He was played by Paul Giamatti in a recent award-winning TV mini-series.

John Adams

2.

Which 2002 film, set in 1863, starred Leonardo di Caprio as Amsterdam Vallon and Daniel Day Lewis as Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting?

Gangs of New York

3.

In which 1958 play by Arnold Wesker does Beatie Bryant return from London and her Jewish boyfriend to her family home in Norfolk?  At the end of her personal journey of discovery she declares, “Now I can stand on my own two feet”.

Roots

4.

Which church in Buckinghamshire became notorious as the home of Sir Francis Dashwood’s Hellfire Club, a den of iniquity which included gambling, prostitution, mock pagan rituals and lots of drinking?

Medmenham Abbey

5.

What was the name of the 2012 BBC series of Shakespeare’s history plays, which included Benedict Cumberbatch as Richard III, Jeremy Irons as Henry IV and Tom Hiddleston as Henry V?

The Hollow Crown

6.

Which castle endured a six-month siege in 1266, the longest in English history?  It was the scene of Edward II’s deposition from the throne in 1327, and the place where the Earl of Leicester’s wife suspiciously died from a fall in 1560 leaving him potentially free to marry the queen.

Kenilworth Castle

7.

Which comic book character was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger in 1948?  She was ranked 93rd in the Comic Buyer’s Guide’s '100 Sexiest Women in Comics List' (!).  She worked for the Gotham Gazette and was played by Kim Basinger in the 1989 Batman movie.

Vicki Vale

8.

What is the name of the character played by Ted Robbins in Peter Kay’s Phoenix Nights?  He runs the rival ‘Banana Grove’ club and burns down the Phoenix at the end of the first series.

Den Perry

Sp.

Which film director made the 2006 film This is England as well as the three more recent TV updates?  He also directed the movies Dead Man’s Shoes and Once Upon A Time in the Midlands and made a 2013 documentary about the Stone Roses.

Shane Meadows

Theme: Each answer refers to a current League 1 or League 2 football stadium

If you thought it was hard, just be thankful that TMTCH Dave didn’t attempt this theme recently!

ROUND 8 - 'Pairs

1.

Which Austrian monk (1822-1884) first established the fundamental principles of genetics by his experiments with pea plants?

Gregor Mendel

2.

Which New Zealand-born British molecular biologist contributed to the establishment of the structure of DNA and received a Nobel Prize for this alongside Crick and Watson?

Maurice Wilkins

3.

What was significant about the match between Portsmouth and Arsenal at Fratton Park in December 2009?

It was the first top-flight English football match with no English starters on either team

4.

Which goalkeeper is the oldest player (to date) to play in a Premier League match?

John Burridge

(City vs QPR, May 1995)

5.

In 1867 Lily Maxwell, a Manchester shopkeeper, became the first woman in Britain to do what?

Vote in an election

(there was an administrative loophole which allowed any rate-payer, male or female, to vote in a local by-election - it was quickly closed!)

6.

Which lawyer drafted the amendment to the Municipal Franchise Act of 1869 that allowed unmarried female householders to vote in local elections?

Richard Pankhurst, husband of Emmeline

(accept Mr Pankhurst)

7.

Which singer played the part of Emily Brontë (yes, that’s correct) in the 1992 version of Wuthering Heights starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliet Binoche?  Her only number one, which was in 1990, was the best-selling single in the world that year.

Sinead O’Connor

8.

Which singer appeared in the controversial 1999 comedy film Dogma alongside Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, playing the role of God?  The album that she released in 1995 remains the world’s best-selling one ever by a female singer.

Alanis Morissette

Sp.

If someone suffers from hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliaphobia, what is it that they understandably fear?

Long words

(now you know why Mike wants 'phobia' questions banned!)