ROUND 1 - Connections

Each answer contains a word that might describe the state of mind of the History Men when they defeat Dunkin’ Dönitz by 15 points especially if it is an annoying quiz

1.

Which 1995 Nick Hornby novel was adapted as a 2000 comedy drama film though the setting was moved from London to Chicago?

2.

Which musical comedy drama TV series running from 2009 to 2015 was set in the fictional William McKinley High School?

3.

Which Rodgers and Hammerstein show song was an unlikely No 1 UK hit for a former punk rock guitarist in 1982?

4.

Lady Lynda, a Number 6 hit for the Beach Boys in 1979, was derived from which work by Johann Sebastian Bach?

5.

What word connects the chemical 3, 4 methylenedioxy-methamphetamine and a 1933 Hedy Lamarr film that was the first non-pornographic film to display sexual intercourse and female orgasm?

6.

What word connects the chemical 4-methylaminorex, a genus of scarab beetles, and albums by Def Leppard (1999) and Enrique Iglesias (2010)?

7.

Who was Master of the Queen’s Music from 1953 -1975? His best remembered works are A Colour Symphony and the ballet Checkmate?

8.

Now an occasional commentator on Sky Sports and other media, which UK female athlete was the world No 1 400m runner in 2001 and won a bronze medal in the 2000 Olympic Games?

Sp1

Which confection was launched by a Bristol firm in 1914 but has been produced by Cadbury’s since that firm’s takeover in 1919?

Sp2

Which northern town has Left-winger Ronnie Campbell as its MP?

ROUND 2 - Seconds

To celebrate the fact that the History Men are the second best quiz team of all time we have a round on 'seconds' and 'Number 2s'

1.

In 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Ceylon was the first female Prime Minister but who was the second woman to hold the office of Prime Minister of an independent nation?

2.

In 2009 Johanna Sigurdardottir of Iceland became the first openly gay Prime Minister.  Elio di Rupo became the second in 2011.  Of which country was he Prime Minister?

3.

Don Bradman tops the test match batting averages with 99.94 but which South African cricketer is Number 2 with 60.97 in the batting averages?

4.

American Pharaoh that won the American Triple Crown and the Breeders’ Cup Classic was voted the Longines world’s best racehorse of 2015.  Which horse came second despite having won both the Epsom Derby and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe?

5.

Which faecal-oral spread disease was known in the 19th century in England as the 'Blue Death' and caused the death of former US president James Polk in 1849 and Peter Tchaikovsky in 1893?

6.

Which faecal-oral spread disease caused the death of Prince Albert in 1861 and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1889.  Louisa May Alcott and Mary Mallon were notable survivors.

7.

Which English monarch was the paternal grandfather of John of Gaunt and Lionel of Antwerp?

8.

Which British monarch died childless at the age of 32 of confluent smallpox?  Henry Purcell wrote the funeral music.

Sp.

Which playwright wrote The Second Mrs Tanqueray a popular melodrama of 1893?

ROUND 3 - Pairs

1.

Which soccer player is being described in this Barry Davies commentary: “Interesting.  Very interesting.  Look at his face!  Just look at his face!”?

2.

Which soccer player is being described in this Hugh Johns’ commentary: “Here’s .... He might make it three.  He has!  He has!  So that’s it!  That’s it!”?

3.

The title song from Elvis Presley’s first movie has a melody taken from the civil war song Aura Lee.  Can you name this No 1 single that has had cover versions made by, amongst others, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Sinatra, and Roland Rat?

4.

Which Beatles song, controversial at the time, has been variously recorded by Tina Turner (on the soundtrack of the film All This and World War 2), by Aerosmith in the movie adaptation of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (although it is not on the Sergeant Pepper album), and by Michael Jackson in his feature length music video Moonwalker?

5.

If an eagle is -2 and an albatross is -3, what kind of bird is -4?

6.

If Paris is red, London is green, and New York is blue, then what sporting colour is Melbourne?

7.

Nine men who were US vice presidents since the end of World War 2 have never become president (so far).  Joe Biden is one.  Name any four others.

8.

Of the nine US vice presidents since 1789 who have ascended to the presidency because of the death or resignation of the incumbent only four were subsequently elected in their own right to serve a further term.  Name two.

ROUND 4 - Pictures

1.

Name any two of the four 19th-century writers depicted in this 1889 painting by Louis Edouard Fournier.

2.

Name any two of the three 20th-century composers depicted here in 1945.

3.

Now aged fifteen can you name his famous father and even more famous mother?

4.

Now aged twelve can you name her famous mother and even more famous father?

5.

Who is the only independent Member of Parliament elected in the 2015 General Election though she has been in the House since 2001?

6.

She is the only national party leader never to have held elected public office of any kind.  Who is she?

7.

What is the name of this brass instrument in use in the USA from 1893?

8.

What is the name of this double reed woodwind musical instrument in use in Silesia from 1720?

ROUND 5 - Pairs

1.

In which fantasy film of 2007 does Dakota Blue Richards play Lyra Belacqua and Nicole Kidman the villainous Mrs Coulter?

2.

Dakota Johnson played Ana Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey.  In which romantic comedy released last week, and based on a novel of the same name by Liz Tuccillo, does she play Alice?

3.

What name connects a viral disease caused by a paramyxovirus with a district in Oldham?

4.

Which viral disease caused by a flavivirus derives its name from a forest in northern Uganda?

5.

What was unusual (and controversial) about the official naming of the chemical element seaborgium in 1997?

6.

What was unusual (though not controversial) about the official naming of the element meitnerium in 1997?

7.

The quiz-game show Celebrity Squares hosted by Bob Monkhouse was very popular in the 1970s.  East End comedian Arthur Mullard was once asked the question: “Of the reigning monarchs of France from 987 to 1792 how many of them were Queens?”  What was his reply?

8.

According to raconteur Peter Ustinov when Charles de Gaulle resigned as French President in 1969 he and Madame de Gaulle gave a brief conference to the English press at the Elysee Palace.  Madame de Gaulle was asked what she most looked forward to now that de Gaulle had stepped down. “A penis” she replied with a smile. There was an embarrassed hush.  De Gaulle turned to his wife.  What did he say?

ROUND 6 - Pairs

1.

In which Welsh town am I?  I am walking along a suspension bridge built in 1826 but now only open to foot traffic.  On crossing and looking up to my left I see a 13th-century castle, which saw action in the English Civil War and was extensively renovated in the 18th-century.  Instead I turn right on to the quayside to visit Quay House, which at only 1.8 m wide is Britain’s smallest house.

2.

In which Scottish town am I?  After watching the football team nicknamed 'The Bairns' I have come to see the world’s first rotating boat lift, an impressive structure opened in 2002 which links the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals.  Nearby is Bells Meadow where in 1933 2000 Roman coins were discovered in an urn.  Also present was a small piece of cloth, which is named after this town and is regarded by some as the first example of tartan.

3.

Who is the only woman in the Holy Koran to be identified by her personal name as compared with other women who are merely described as “the daughter of …” or “the wife of …”?  Give either the Arabic name or the English equivalent.

4.

Adam was married to Eve but according to some Jewish Kabbalistic writings she was the second wife.  The first left him for the archangel Samael.  Who was she?

5.

Sheila Sim who died last month was the widow of which actor and film director?

6.

Sylvia Syms, John Mills, Anthony Quayle, Harry Andrews and Diane Clare were the stars of which 1958 film based on a novel of the same name by Christopher Landon?

7.

Who held the men’s world long jump record for 25 years and 79 days before it was broken by American Ralph Boston?

8.

Czechoslovakian Jarmila Kratochvilova currently holds the longest standing individual world record in track and field.  She set her record in Munich on 26th July 1983.  In which event was this?

ROUND 7 - 'Climb Every Mountain - NOT'

Be afraid - it’s Tim’s round. Every answer is connected by a common theme.

1.

Who wrote the novel Ballet Shoes highly commended in the inaugural Carnegie Prize, and other children’s novels with the word 'shoes' in the title?

2.

Which actor who died in 1977 starred in the films The Trials of Oscar Wilde and Sunday, Bloody Sunday?

3.

What make of motorcycle did Geoff Duke ride in the World Championship races of 1950-52?

4.

Who played Detective Sergeant June Penhaligon in Jimmy McGovern’s ITV series Cracker and numerous TV roles since?

5.

Basil Rathbone famously portrayed Sherlock Holmes in many film adaptations from 1939-46 but who played Doctor Watson?

6.

This British racing driver had a chequered career.  He was runner-up in the 1999 Formula 1 series with Ferrari but also did well at le Mons with a class win and overall second in 1994.  Who is he?

7.

Which well-known author was a Governor General of Canada and was ennobled as Baron Tweedsmuir in 1935?

8.

This airman was in the army and the Royal Flying Corps in WW1 but in WW2 he had a senior rank and argued with Keith Park and Hugh Dowding over tactics in the Battle of Britain.  He was Air Commander-in-Chief at D-Day.  Who was he? (surname is sufficient)

ROUND 8 - Lucky Dip Bingo

Pick a number from 1-10.  The number concerned will appear somewhere in the question.  Will luck be a lady tonight?

1.

Which king in a pack of playing cards displays only one eye as he is sitting in profile

2.

Whose symphony Number 2 is nicknamed The Resurrection?

3.

What procedure does a Jewish boy undergo at the age of three in the ceremony of upsherin (or opsherin or upsherinish)?

4.

Name any three of the four freedoms enunciated by President Roosevelt in his state of the union address in 1941.

5.

Although produced by Cadbury’s from 1902 to 1976, which was the original Bristol based firm that produced Five Boys chocolate?

6.

Who was the Israeli defence minister at the time of the Six-day War in 1967?

7.

Who directed the Marilyn Monroe film The Seven Year Itch?

8.

Who held a poker hand consisting of a pair of eights and two aces when he was shot from behind in Dakota Territory in 1876?

9.

Who wrote the 1934 novel The Nine Tailors?

10.

Ryan ten Doeschate plays domestic cricket for Essex and international cricket for which country?

Spares

1.

According to Greek myth on which island was Zeus born?

2.

The 1976 BBC drama series I Claudius was based on the novels of which author who died in 1985?

3.

Give a year in the life of the poet Alexander Pushkin.

4.

Von Rothbart is the villain in which classical ballet?

5.

How many variations are there in Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations?  Elgar himself is represented in the final variation.

ROUND 1 - Connections

Each answer contains a word that might describe the state of mind of the History Men when they defeat Dunkin’ Dönitz by 15 points especially if it is an annoying quiz

1.

Which 1995 Nick Hornby novel was adapted as a 2000 comedy drama film though the setting was moved from London to Chicago?

High Fidelity

2.

Which musical comedy drama TV series running from 2009 to 2015 was set in the fictional William McKinley High School?

Glee

3.

Which Rodgers and Hammerstein show song was an unlikely No 1 UK hit for a former punk rock guitarist in 1982?

Happy Talk

4.

Lady Lynda, a Number 6 hit for the Beach Boys in 1979, was derived from which work by Johann Sebastian Bach?

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring

5.

What word connects the chemical 3, 4 methylenedioxy-methamphetamine and a 1933 Hedy Lamarr film that was the first non-pornographic film to display sexual intercourse and female orgasm?

Ecstasy

6.

What word connects the chemical 4-methylaminorex, a genus of scarab beetles, and albums by Def Leppard (1999) and Enrique Iglesias (2010)?

Euphoria

7.

Who was Master of the Queen’s Music from 1953 -1975? His best remembered works are A Colour Symphony and the ballet Checkmate?

Sir Arthur Bliss

8.

Now an occasional commentator on Sky Sports and other media, which UK female athlete was the world No 1 400m runner in 2001 and won a bronze medal in the 2000 Olympic Games?

Katharine Merry

Sp1

Which confection was launched by a Bristol firm in 1914 but has been produced by Cadbury’s since that firm’s takeover in 1919?

Fry’s Turkish Delight

Sp2

Which northern town has Left-winger Ronnie Campbell as its MP?

Blyth

(the constituency is Blyth Valley)

ROUND 2 - Seconds

To celebrate the fact that the History Men are the second best quiz team of all time we have a round on 'seconds' and 'Number 2s'

1.

In 1960 Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Ceylon was the first female Prime Minister but who was the second woman to hold the office of Prime Minister of an independent nation?

Indira Gandhi

(in 1966)

2.

In 2009 Johanna Sigurdardottir of Iceland became the first openly gay Prime Minister.  Elio di Rupo became the second in 2011.  Of which country was he Prime Minister?

Belgium

3.

Don Bradman tops the test match batting averages with 99.94 but which South African cricketer is Number 2 with 60.97 in the batting averages?

Graeme Pollock

4.

American Pharaoh that won the American Triple Crown and the Breeders’ Cup Classic was voted the Longines world’s best racehorse of 2015.  Which horse came second despite having won both the Epsom Derby and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe?

Golden Horn

5.

Which faecal-oral spread disease was known in the 19th century in England as the 'Blue Death' and caused the death of former US president James Polk in 1849 and Peter Tchaikovsky in 1893?

Cholera

6.

Which faecal-oral spread disease caused the death of Prince Albert in 1861 and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in 1889.  Louisa May Alcott and Mary Mallon were notable survivors.

Typhoid

7.

Which English monarch was the paternal grandfather of John of Gaunt and Lionel of Antwerp?

Edward II

8.

Which British monarch died childless at the age of 32 of confluent smallpox?  Henry Purcell wrote the funeral music.

Mary II

Sp.

Which playwright wrote The Second Mrs Tanqueray a popular melodrama of 1893?

Arthur Wing Pinero

ROUND 3 - Pairs

1.

Which soccer player is being described in this Barry Davies commentary: “Interesting.  Very interesting.  Look at his face!  Just look at his face!”?

Francis Lee

(scoring for Derby Country v Man City Dec 1974)

2.

Which soccer player is being described in this Hugh Johns’ commentary: “Here’s .... He might make it three.  He has!  He has!  So that’s it!  That’s it!”?

Geoff Hurst

(last goal in 1966 World Cup Final)

3.

The title song from Elvis Presley’s first movie has a melody taken from the civil war song Aura Lee.  Can you name this No 1 single that has had cover versions made by, amongst others, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Sinatra, and Roland Rat?

Love Me Tender

4.

Which Beatles song, controversial at the time, has been variously recorded by Tina Turner (on the soundtrack of the film All This and World War 2), by Aerosmith in the movie adaptation of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (although it is not on the Sergeant Pepper album), and by Michael Jackson in his feature length music video Moonwalker?

Come Together

5.

If an eagle is -2 and an albatross is -3, what kind of bird is -4?

Condor

(a hole in one on a par 5 hole - there have been a few examples mostly on dog-legs)

6.

If Paris is red, London is green, and New York is blue, then what sporting colour is Melbourne?

Blue

(colour of the courts in Grand Slam tennis - Melbourne was green until 2007 before they changed to Plexicushion)

7.

Nine men who were US vice presidents since the end of World War 2 have never become president (so far).  Joe Biden is one.  Name any four others.

(four from)

Alben Barkley, Hubert Humphrey, Spiro Agnew, Nelson Rockefeller, Walter Mondale, Dan Quayle, Al Gore, Dick Cheney

8.

Of the nine US vice presidents since 1789 who have ascended to the presidency because of the death or resignation of the incumbent only four were subsequently elected in their own right to serve a further term.  Name two.

(two from)

Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry S Truman, Lyndon B Johnson

ROUND 4 - Pictures

1.

Name any two of the four 19th-century writers depicted in this 1889 painting by Louis Edouard Fournier.

(two from)

Edward Trelawny, Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley

2.

Name any two of the three 20th-century composers depicted here in 1945.

(two from)

Sergei Prokofiev, Dimitri Shostakovich, Aram Khachaturian

3.

Now aged fifteen can you name his famous father and even more famous mother?

Guy Ritchie & Madonna

(their son Rocco)

4.

Now aged twelve can you name her famous mother and even more famous father?

Heather Mills & Paul McCartney

(their daughter Beatrice)

5.

Who is the only independent Member of Parliament elected in the 2015 General Election though she has been in the House since 2001?

Sylvia, Lady Hermon

(North Down)

6.

She is the only national party leader never to have held elected public office of any kind.  Who is she?

Natalie Bennett

(Green Party)

7.

What is the name of this brass instrument in use in the USA from 1893?

Sousaphone

8.

What is the name of this double reed woodwind musical instrument in use in Silesia from 1720?

Cor anglais

(also known as English horn)

ROUND 5 - Pairs

1.

In which fantasy film of 2007 does Dakota Blue Richards play Lyra Belacqua and Nicole Kidman the villainous Mrs Coulter?

The Golden Compass

2.

Dakota Johnson played Ana Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey.  In which romantic comedy released last week, and based on a novel of the same name by Liz Tuccillo, does she play Alice?

How To Be Single

3.

What name connects a viral disease caused by a paramyxovirus with a district in Oldham?

Mumps

4.

Which viral disease caused by a flavivirus derives its name from a forest in northern Uganda?

Zika

5.

What was unusual (and controversial) about the official naming of the chemical element seaborgium in 1997?

Glenn T Seaborg was still alive

(he is the only living person to have had an element named after him)

6.

What was unusual (though not controversial) about the official naming of the element meitnerium in 1997?

(Curium was named after both Pierre and Marie Curie)

7.

The quiz-game show Celebrity Squares hosted by Bob Monkhouse was very popular in the 1970s.  East End comedian Arthur Mullard was once asked the question: “Of the reigning monarchs of France from 987 to 1792 how many of them were Queens?”  What was his reply?

“They all were”

8.

According to raconteur Peter Ustinov when Charles de Gaulle resigned as French President in 1969 he and Madame de Gaulle gave a brief conference to the English press at the Elysee Palace.  Madame de Gaulle was asked what she most looked forward to now that de Gaulle had stepped down. “A penis” she replied with a smile. There was an embarrassed hush.  De Gaulle turned to his wife.  What did he say?

“The word in English is pronounced 'Happiness'”

ROUND 6 - Pairs

1.

In which Welsh town am I?  I am walking along a suspension bridge built in 1826 but now only open to foot traffic.  On crossing and looking up to my left I see a 13th-century castle, which saw action in the English Civil War and was extensively renovated in the 18th-century.  Instead I turn right on to the quayside to visit Quay House, which at only 1.8 m wide is Britain’s smallest house.

Conwy

2.

In which Scottish town am I?  After watching the football team nicknamed 'The Bairns' I have come to see the world’s first rotating boat lift, an impressive structure opened in 2002 which links the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals.  Nearby is Bells Meadow where in 1933 2000 Roman coins were discovered in an urn.  Also present was a small piece of cloth, which is named after this town and is regarded by some as the first example of tartan.

Falkirk

3.

Who is the only woman in the Holy Koran to be identified by her personal name as compared with other women who are merely described as “the daughter of …” or “the wife of …”?  Give either the Arabic name or the English equivalent.

Maryam or Mary

(the mother of Jesus)

4.

Adam was married to Eve but according to some Jewish Kabbalistic writings she was the second wife.  The first left him for the archangel Samael.  Who was she?

Lilith

5.

Sheila Sim who died last month was the widow of which actor and film director?

Richard, Lord Attenborough

6.

Sylvia Syms, John Mills, Anthony Quayle, Harry Andrews and Diane Clare were the stars of which 1958 film based on a novel of the same name by Christopher Landon?

Ice Cold In Alex

7.

Who held the men’s world long jump record for 25 years and 79 days before it was broken by American Ralph Boston?

Jessie Owens

8.

Czechoslovakian Jarmila Kratochvilova currently holds the longest standing individual world record in track and field.  She set her record in Munich on 26th July 1983.  In which event was this?

Women’s 800m

(NB not Women’s Boom - that was another Czech!)

ROUND 7 - 'Climb Every Mountain - NOT'

Be afraid - it’s Tim’s round. Every answer is connected by a common theme.

1.

Who wrote the novel Ballet Shoes highly commended in the inaugural Carnegie Prize, and other children’s novels with the word 'shoes' in the title?

2.

Which actor who died in 1977 starred in the films The Trials of Oscar Wilde and Sunday, Bloody Sunday?

Peter Finch

3.

What make of motorcycle did Geoff Duke ride in the World Championship races of 1950-52?

Norton

4.

Who played Detective Sergeant June Penhaligon in Jimmy McGovern’s ITV series Cracker and numerous TV roles since?

Geraldine Somerville

5.

Basil Rathbone famously portrayed Sherlock Holmes in many film adaptations from 1939-46 but who played Doctor Watson?

Nigel Bruce

6.

This British racing driver had a chequered career.  He was runner-up in the 1999 Formula 1 series with Ferrari but also did well at le Mons with a class win and overall second in 1994.  Who is he?

Eddie Irvine

7.

Which well-known author was a Governor General of Canada and was ennobled as Baron Tweedsmuir in 1935?

John Buchan

8.

This airman was in the army and the Royal Flying Corps in WW1 but in WW2 he had a senior rank and argued with Keith Park and Hugh Dowding over tactics in the Battle of Britain.  He was Air Commander-in-Chief at D-Day.  Who was he? (surname is sufficient)

(Trafford Leigh) Mallory

ROUND 8 - Lucky Dip Bingo

Pick a number from 1-10.  The number concerned will appear somewhere in the question.  Will luck be a lady tonight?

1.

Which king in a pack of playing cards displays only one eye as he is sitting in profile

King of Diamonds

2.

Whose symphony Number 2 is nicknamed The Resurrection?

Gustav Mahler

3.

What procedure does a Jewish boy undergo at the age of three in the ceremony of upsherin (or opsherin or upsherinish)?

It is traditionally his first haircut

4.

Name any three of the four freedoms enunciated by President Roosevelt in his state of the union address in 1941.

Freedom from Want and Fear

Freedom of Religion and Speech

5.

Although produced by Cadbury’s from 1902 to 1976, which was the original Bristol based firm that produced Five Boys chocolate?

Fry’s

6.

Who was the Israeli defence minister at the time of the Six-day War in 1967?

Moshe Dayan

7.

Who directed the Marilyn Monroe film The Seven Year Itch?

Billy Wilder

8.

Who held a poker hand consisting of a pair of eights and two aces when he was shot from behind in Dakota Territory in 1876?

Wild Bill Hickock

9.

Who wrote the 1934 novel The Nine Tailors?

Dorothy L Sayers

10.

Ryan ten Doeschate plays domestic cricket for Essex and international cricket for which country?

Netherlands

Spares

1.

According to Greek myth on which island was Zeus born?

Crete

2.

The 1976 BBC drama series I Claudius was based on the novels of which author who died in 1985?

Robert Graves

3.

Give a year in the life of the poet Alexander Pushkin.

1799 to 1837

4.

Von Rothbart is the villain in which classical ballet?

Swan Lake

5.

How many variations are there in Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations?  Elgar himself is represented in the final variation.

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