ROUND 1 - Pairs

1.

Which experimental band, formed in Sheffield in 1973, was named after the Zurich nightclub that served as the centre of the early Dada art movement?

2.

Which post punk band assembled in Manchester in 1978 by Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus took its name from an Anarchist military unit in the Spanish Civil War?  But they got the spelling wrong!

3.

The Vale of Evesham is known as a specialist gourmet area for the growing of which food?

4.

A nine square mile area of land in West Yorkshire between Wakefield , Morley and Rothwell is renowned for the growing of which foodstuff?

5.

A few days before he died George Best gave his final interview to which ex-footballer working on behalf of TalkSport Radio?  The two had previously got to know each other well in the pubs and clubs of Manchester.

6.

The last full interview which John Lennon gave before his death was given to which BBC Radio1 DJ?

7.

What did 'Auctor' present in the Times newspaper on Saturday 10/10/2015 for the first time in 85 years?

8.

A mishearing of the Latin phrase meaning 'she gave birth in the open' from a medieval carol is thought to be the origin of which peculiar sounding gift given with great frequency every Christmas?

Sp1

In the 2015 Rugby Union World Cup which country was captained by Michael Leitch?

Sp2

View from the Window at Le Gras dating from the 1820s is thought to be the world’s oldest surviving what?

ROUND 2 - Hidden theme

All the answers are linked by a common theme - some of the theme words appear as 'sound-alikes'

1.

Name that mushroom: Also known as the brown cap this versatile mushroom has a strong taste and looks like a darker version of the button mushroom.

2.

Name that pudding: When baked in its native Florida this dessert is a creamy concoction of egg yolks, citrus fruit and condensed milk.  It bears little resemblance to the lurid green imposter served up in the rest of the country and throughout the world.

3.

Which Coventry born singer, songwriter and actress played Kate in the 1980 film Breaking Glass?  She also performed the accompanying soundtrack which reached number 5 in the UK Album Charts.

4.

Which leafy street, an oasis of suburban gentility among the dowdy docklands of East Belfast, provided both the inspiration for, and the title of, a seminal Van Morrison song?  It features on his 1968 album Astral Weeks.

5.

Who is the Conservative MP for Wokingham?  In May 1993 he became Secretary of State for Wales, a move which Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price called “the most bizarre political appointment since Caligula made his horse a Senator”.

6.

The Roman theatre in which ancient semitic city now in the Homs Governorate of Syria was, until a few weeks ago, being used (according to videos) by ISIL forces as a site for mass executions?

7.

The Spruce Goose was a popular and catchy name given to the Hughes H-4 Hercules prototype flying boat.  Sadly, however, it was not made from spruce but constructed almost entirely from what type of hardwood which is of the genus Betula?

8.

According to a survey in 2001, which two names were fast becoming the most popular choice for baby girls born in Canada?  This fact was seized upon and cynically used by Darren Morgenstern to make a lot of online money over the next decade or so until his luck ran out in 2015.

Sp1

What was the name of the surreal comedy series shown on BBC2 in the late 1960s?  It featured sketches linked and mostly written by Spike Milligan who drew much of his inspiration from a popular column in the Daily Express.

Sp2

Composed by Dr William Boyce what is the official march of the Royal Navy?

ROUND 3 - 'Cents and Pence-ability'

Each answer or question contains a reference to a unit of currency

1.

Who in 1963 became the first and only goalkeeper to receive the Balon d’Or trophy awarded to the European footballer of the year?

2.

Who in 1964 won the long jump at the Tokyo Olympics, becoming the first British woman to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field?

3.

Which friend and associate of TS Eliot gave him the nickname 'Old Possum'?

4.

In the 2001 cult film Donnie Darko what is the one-word name of the monstrous man-sized rabbit who reveals to Donnie that the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds?

5.

Which fashionable seaside resort in Brittany, a few miles from St Malo, is known in France as 'the Cannes of the north'?  Churchill and Picasso were regular visitors as was Alfred Hitchcock who was said to have based the appearance of his infamous Bates Motel on a local villa.

6.

What is the name of the area in Strasbourg in which Geronimus Hatt lived and opened a brewery in the mid 17th Century?

7.

The special paper used to make US dollar notes is composed of 75% cotton and 25% what?

8.

Describe (or better still, draw for the QM) the symbol that the Japanese use to denote their national currency.

Sp1

Which La Liga football club play their home games in Estadio Benito Villamarin on the southern outskirts of Seville?

Sp2

From 1918 until 1946 the Pengo was the unit of currency in which European country?

Choose your question from the initials of the answer

1.

TRA

In the opening lines of E M Forster's novel, A Room With A View, of what does Miss Bartlett complain that she was promised but doesn't get a view of?

2.

MI

Give the the Latin name for this large lunar basin which translates into English as 'Sea of Showers' or 'Sea of Rains'.

3.

TSOM

Entirely located within Turkey, this body of water connects the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea and separates Europe from Asia.

4.

5.

I

According to Greek mythology, this liquid flowed in the veins of the gods.  What was it called?  

6.

TAS

Name this groundbreaking 1953 stage play by Robert Anderson which was one of the first to tackle the then taboo topic of sexual orientation and related prejudice.  A student, publicly accused of homosexuality by his peers, is befriended by the wife of a solicitor who then falls in love with him. The play was adapted into a successful 1956 film after critics doubted it could ever be made into a movie.

7.

TCC

Composed between 1732 and 1735, this miniature comic opera by Johann Sebastian Bach satirised the then current craze in Germany for this commodity.  What is the English version of the title of this opera?

8.

9.

BAS

This is one of the few classic mixed drinks that includes Scotch.  It was named after a 1922 bullfighter movie starring Rudolph Valentino.  The red juice of the orange in the drink helped link it with the film. The recipe is first known to have appeared in the 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book.  What is it called?

10.

LOM

These type of features have recently been discovered on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.  What are they?

ROUND 5 - 'Mmmmmmmmm, Spell that City'

In sequence the first letters of each answer give the name of a capital city

1.

Which singer/songwriter from Sale released the album White Ladder in 1998?

2.

What is the name of the citrus fruit – a cross between a grapefruit, orange and tangerine – that is exclusive to Jamaica?

3.

Which rock band, formed in the 1980s have albums entitled Just Enough Education To Perform, Language Sex Violence Other and Keep Calm and Carry On?

4.

The Germans call it a Rathaus.  What do the French call it?

5.

What is the name of the caves in Cantabria, Spain where palaeolithic paintings were discovered in 1879?

6.

Which English actor played the boy Marcus in the cinema version of About a Boy and went on to play Beast in the X-Men films and Nux in Mad Max?

7.

What is the title of the 2015 film based on a book by Colm Toibin and starring Saoirse Ronan and Domhnall Gleeson?

8.

Who was married to King Louis VII (7th) of France but had the marriage annulled on the grounds of consanguinity to the fourth degree, having failed to produce a male heir after 15 years?  She went on to marry in the third degree and produced 5 sons, two of whom became kings.

ROUND 6 - Pairs

1.

US presidential candidate, Donald Trump has accused Ted Cruz, his chief rival for the Republican party's nomination, of being ineligible to stand for the presidency.  On what grounds?

2.

Donald Trump has also accused his potential Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, of being ineligible to stand for the presidency.  On what grounds?

3.

“If music be the food of love.......”

4.

“All the world's a stage.....”

5.

Which black American actor and comedian hosted this year's Oscar ceremony and why did he make an ironic point of being black?

6.

Only one British actor won an award at this year's Oscars.  It was in the Best Supporting Actor category. Name the actor and the film for which the award was given.

7.

According to a recent survey by Guinness World Records, which fictional literary character has been portrayed on film and TV a total of 254 times, more than any other?

8.

Which actor was recently awarded the Guinness World Records Title for being at 'The Largest Gathering of People Dressed as Doctor Who Characters' at a comic convention in Mexico City?

Sp1

In the Solar System, where would you find Styx, Nix, Kerberos and Hydra?

Sp2

Astronomers have predicted that in the far distant future, something called 'Milkomeda' will come into being. What is it and how do they predict this will happen?

ROUND 7 - Pairs

1.

To what was Abraham Lincoln referring when he said:

“It is neither Heaven nor Hell.  It is simply Purgatory”?

2.

Complete this epigraph found at the beginning of Erica Jong’s novel Fear of Flying:

"Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is …….. "

3.

Before his death in 1999 he was also known as The Third Earl of Harrow.  He first appeared on stage with The Savages in the 1960s and went on to occasionally appear with more gifted musicians such as Keith Moon and Jeff Beck.  He said he enjoyed every one of his 40 defeats equally.  By what name is he best remembered.

4.

The first of Screaming Lord Sutch’s 40 election defeats came in 1963 when he fought a by-election in Stratford-upon-Avon representing the National Teenage Party.  The by-election was caused by the much publicised resignation of which cabinet minister?

5.

Melvyn Bragg was the first to win this coveted award in 1993. Morrissey is the current and deserving holder. What is the award for?

6.

What 6-letter word can be: a town in the Gers region of France, famous for its production of Armagnac brandy; the surname of a former Rugby Union player who won 62 caps for France; something rarely used by Fr Megson?

7.

In 1883 a unit of London’s Metropolitan Police was formed for one specific purpose.  Later, as their remit was widened, the unit’s name was shortened by one word.  Thus they became The Special Branch.  What one word was removed from their original title?

8.

Shortly after the success of operation Humpty Dumpty by the IRA 50 years ago whose head was 'liberated' from police custody?  The head then went walkabout, making sporadic public appearances at a London fashion shoot, in the midst of a students’ Rag Day parade in Dublin and, most famously, 'live' on stage with the Dubliners at a folk concert.  Today the head rests sedately in the Dublin City Library.

Sp1

What was the real first name of the jazz cornettist, pianist and composer born in 1903 and known as Bix Beiderbecke?

Sp2

What was the real first name of the jazz pianist and band leader who was known as Count Basie?

ROUND 8 - Hidden theme - 'It will all end in tears'

All the answers are linked by a common theme - some of the theme words appear as 'sound-alikes'

1.

With a feast day celebrated on December 26th who is traditionally venerated as the first martyr of the Christian church (apart from Jesus Christ of course)?

2.

What product is sold with the slogan 'Born 1820 - Still going strong'?  It comes in square bottles and features a striding man.

3.

In which 1986 Stephen Sondheim musical does the Wolf get together with Little Red Riding Hood to sing Hello Little Girl?

4.

From 1910 until about 1970 which South Manchester park was home to Manchester’s very own Speakers’ Corner?  It was very popular especially in the 1930s when speakers tended to veer very much to the left.  Locals called it The Kremlin Corner.

5.

Stonewall FC, England’s first gay football club is based in which leafy suburb of southwest London?  Here you will also find the London Wetland centre and the Mark Bolan rock shrine which marks the spot where the singer was killed in 1977.

6.

Based on a Patrick McCabe novel which award winning 1997 film directed by Neil Jordan follows the dark fantasies of 12 year old Francie Brady in an Irish border town until they reach a gruesome conclusion?

7.

Who in 1853 became the 14th president of the USA.  He was preceded by Millard Fillmore, and followed by James Buchanan.  Unhelpfully for you lot, he is generally considered to have been the least effective and least memorable person ever to hold that office.  Until tonight he may well be the only US president never to feature in a WithQuiz paper.

8.

The Duofold (1921), Vacumatic (1932) Jotter (1954) and Sonnet (1993) were all prestige models produced by which company which was founded in Janesville, Wisconsin in 1888?

Sp1

Which Cleethorpes born actress played the part of Mary Fisher in the 1986 BBC TV drama The Life and Loves of a She-Devil?

Sp2

In 2015 which former TV presenter inherited a stately home from his 99 year old aunt, Lady Roxburghe?  On taking possession, he walked upstairs and found a long lost print by Lord Leighton which he promptly sold for £60,000.

Tiebreakers

1.

The 1986 Swedish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest was called La La La.  In total the song contained the word 'La' how many times?

2.

The first known question mark in print appeared in a manuscript written in which century?

3.

As Slow As Possible by John Cage is the slowest and longest piece of music ever composed.  A performance of it began in 2001 in a church in Halberstadt, Germany.  In which year is it scheduled to end?

ROUND 1 - Pairs

1.

Which experimental band, formed in Sheffield in 1973, was named after the Zurich nightclub that served as the centre of the early Dada art movement?

Cabaret Voltaire

2.

Which post punk band assembled in Manchester in 1978 by Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus took its name from an Anarchist military unit in the Spanish Civil War?  But they got the spelling wrong!

Durutti Column

3.

The Vale of Evesham is known as a specialist gourmet area for the growing of which food?

Asparagus

4.

A nine square mile area of land in West Yorkshire between Wakefield , Morley and Rothwell is renowned for the growing of which foodstuff?

Rhubarb

5.

A few days before he died George Best gave his final interview to which ex-footballer working on behalf of TalkSport Radio?  The two had previously got to know each other well in the pubs and clubs of Manchester.

Rodney Marsh

6.

The last full interview which John Lennon gave before his death was given to which BBC Radio1 DJ?

Andy Peebles

7.

What did 'Auctor' present in the Times newspaper on Saturday 10/10/2015 for the first time in 85 years?

A Latin crossword puzzle

(fittingly entitled O Tempora)

8.

A mishearing of the Latin phrase meaning 'she gave birth in the open' from a medieval carol is thought to be the origin of which peculiar sounding gift given with great frequency every Christmas?

A Partridge in a Pear Tree

(from the Latin 'parturit in aperto')

Sp1

In the 2015 Rugby Union World Cup which country was captained by Michael Leitch?

Japan

Sp2

View from the Window at Le Gras dating from the 1820s is thought to be the world’s oldest surviving what?

Photograph

ROUND 2 - Hidden theme

All the answers are linked by a common theme - some of the theme words appear as 'sound-alikes'

1.

Name that mushroom: Also known as the brown cap this versatile mushroom has a strong taste and looks like a darker version of the button mushroom.

Chestnut mushroom

2.

Name that pudding: When baked in its native Florida this dessert is a creamy concoction of egg yolks, citrus fruit and condensed milk.  It bears little resemblance to the lurid green imposter served up in the rest of the country and throughout the world.

Key Lime Pie

3.

Which Coventry born singer, songwriter and actress played Kate in the 1980 film Breaking Glass?  She also performed the accompanying soundtrack which reached number 5 in the UK Album Charts.

Hazel O’Connor

4.

Which leafy street, an oasis of suburban gentility among the dowdy docklands of East Belfast, provided both the inspiration for, and the title of, a seminal Van Morrison song?  It features on his 1968 album Astral Weeks.

Cyprus Avenue

5.

Who is the Conservative MP for Wokingham?  In May 1993 he became Secretary of State for Wales, a move which Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price called “the most bizarre political appointment since Caligula made his horse a Senator”.

John Redwood

6.

The Roman theatre in which ancient semitic city now in the Homs Governorate of Syria was, until a few weeks ago, being used (according to videos) by ISIL forces as a site for mass executions?

Palmyra

7.

The Spruce Goose was a popular and catchy name given to the Hughes H-4 Hercules prototype flying boat.  Sadly, however, it was not made from spruce but constructed almost entirely from what type of hardwood which is of the genus Betula?

Birch

8.

According to a survey in 2001, which two names were fast becoming the most popular choice for baby girls born in Canada?  This fact was seized upon and cynically used by Darren Morgenstern to make a lot of online money over the next decade or so until his luck ran out in 2015.

Ashley and Madison

Sp1

What was the name of the surreal comedy series shown on BBC2 in the late 1960s?  It featured sketches linked and mostly written by Spike Milligan who drew much of his inspiration from a popular column in the Daily Express.

The World of Beachcomber

Sp2

Composed by Dr William Boyce what is the official march of the Royal Navy?

Hearts of Oak

ROUND 3 - 'Cents and Pence-ability'

Each answer or question contains a reference to a unit of currency

1.

Who in 1963 became the first and only goalkeeper to receive the Balon d’Or trophy awarded to the European footballer of the year?

Lev Yashin

2.

Who in 1964 won the long jump at the Tokyo Olympics, becoming the first British woman to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field?

Mary Rand

3.

Which friend and associate of TS Eliot gave him the nickname 'Old Possum'?

Ezra Pound

4.

In the 2001 cult film Donnie Darko what is the one-word name of the monstrous man-sized rabbit who reveals to Donnie that the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds?

Frank

5.

Which fashionable seaside resort in Brittany, a few miles from St Malo, is known in France as 'the Cannes of the north'?  Churchill and Picasso were regular visitors as was Alfred Hitchcock who was said to have based the appearance of his infamous Bates Motel on a local villa.

Dinard

6.

What is the name of the area in Strasbourg in which Geronimus Hatt lived and opened a brewery in the mid 17th Century?

Kronenbourg

7.

The special paper used to make US dollar notes is composed of 75% cotton and 25% what?

Linen

8.

Describe (or better still, draw for the QM) the symbol that the Japanese use to denote their national currency.

¥

(i.e. a large capital Y with two horizontal bars across the stem)

Sp1

Which La Liga football club play their home games in Estadio Benito Villamarin on the southern outskirts of Seville?

Real Betis

Sp2

From 1918 until 1946 the Pengo was the unit of currency in which European country?

Hungary

(sadly hyperinflation became rampant after World War 2 and many Hungarians came to believe that it was no longer worthwhile to stop and pick up a pengo)

Choose your question from the initials of the answer

1.

TRA

In the opening lines of E M Forster's novel, A Room With A View, of what does Miss Bartlett complain that she was promised but doesn't get a view of?

The River Arno

2.

MI

Give the the Latin name for this large lunar basin which translates into English as 'Sea of Showers' or 'Sea of Rains'.

Mare Imbrium

3.

TSOM

Entirely located within Turkey, this body of water connects the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea and separates Europe from Asia.

The Sea of Marmara

4.

Here Comes The Rain Again

(by The Eurythmics)

5.

I

According to Greek mythology, this liquid flowed in the veins of the gods.  What was it called?  

Ichor

6.

TAS

Name this groundbreaking 1953 stage play by Robert Anderson which was one of the first to tackle the then taboo topic of sexual orientation and related prejudice.  A student, publicly accused of homosexuality by his peers, is befriended by the wife of a solicitor who then falls in love with him. The play was adapted into a successful 1956 film after critics doubted it could ever be made into a movie.

Tea And Sympathy

7.

TCC

Composed between 1732 and 1735, this miniature comic opera by Johann Sebastian Bach satirised the then current craze in Germany for this commodity.  What is the English version of the title of this opera?

The Coffee Cantata

8.

By A Waterfall

(I'm calling you oo-oo-oo)

9.

BAS

This is one of the few classic mixed drinks that includes Scotch.  It was named after a 1922 bullfighter movie starring Rudolph Valentino.  The red juice of the orange in the drink helped link it with the film. The recipe is first known to have appeared in the 1930 Savoy Cocktail Book.  What is it called?

Blood and Sand

10.

LOM

These type of features have recently been discovered on Saturn's largest moon, Titan.  What are they?

Lakes of methane

ROUND 5 - 'Mmmmmmmmm, Spell that City'

In sequence the first letters of each answer give the name of a capital city

1.

Which singer/songwriter from Sale released the album White Ladder in 1998?

David Gray

2.

What is the name of the citrus fruit – a cross between a grapefruit, orange and tangerine – that is exclusive to Jamaica?

Ugli fruit

3.

Which rock band, formed in the 1980s have albums entitled Just Enough Education To Perform, Language Sex Violence Other and Keep Calm and Carry On?

Steriophonics

4.

The Germans call it a Rathaus.  What do the French call it?

Hotel de Ville

(Town Hall in English)

5.

What is the name of the caves in Cantabria, Spain where palaeolithic paintings were discovered in 1879?

Altamira

6.

Which English actor played the boy Marcus in the cinema version of About a Boy and went on to play Beast in the X-Men films and Nux in Mad Max?

Nicholas Hoult

7.

What is the title of the 2015 film based on a book by Colm Toibin and starring Saoirse Ronan and Domhnall Gleeson?

Brooklyn

8.

Who was married to King Louis VII (7th) of France but had the marriage annulled on the grounds of consanguinity to the fourth degree, having failed to produce a male heir after 15 years?  She went on to marry in the third degree and produced 5 sons, two of whom became kings.

Eleanor of Aquitaine

ROUND 6 - Pairs

1.

US presidential candidate, Donald Trump has accused Ted Cruz, his chief rival for the Republican party's nomination, of being ineligible to stand for the presidency.  On what grounds?

Cruz is not a native born American

(Cruz was born in Canada and some Americans hold that only a native born American can be elected president although this has not been confirmed by the Supreme Court)

2.

Donald Trump has also accused his potential Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, of being ineligible to stand for the presidency.  On what grounds?

Clinton has violated federal laws

(Clinton used her family's private email server for her official email communications during her tenure as United States Secretary of State - Trump and his supporters suggest that this violated federal laws and makes her ineligible to become president)

3.

“If music be the food of love.......”

“...play on, give me excess of it”

4.

“All the world's a stage.....”

“...and all the men and women merely players”

5.

Which black American actor and comedian hosted this year's Oscar ceremony and why did he make an ironic point of being black?

(Actor): Chris Rock

(Ironic Point) It was the first time in many years that no black actor or actress had received an Oscar nomination

6.

Only one British actor won an award at this year's Oscars.  It was in the Best Supporting Actor category. Name the actor and the film for which the award was given.

(Actor) Mark Rylance

(Film) Bridge of Spies

7.

According to a recent survey by Guinness World Records, which fictional literary character has been portrayed on film and TV a total of 254 times, more than any other?

Sherlock Holmes

8.

Which actor was recently awarded the Guinness World Records Title for being at 'The Largest Gathering of People Dressed as Doctor Who Characters' at a comic convention in Mexico City?

Peter Capaldi

(the current Doctor Who)

Sp1

In the Solar System, where would you find Styx, Nix, Kerberos and Hydra?

Pluto

(they are 4 of its 5 moons, the 5th being Charon)

Sp2

Astronomers have predicted that in the far distant future, something called 'Milkomeda' will come into being. What is it and how do they predict this will happen?

It is the name given to the single galaxy astronomers predict will occur when the present day Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide to form a single body

ROUND 7 - Pairs

1.

To what was Abraham Lincoln referring when he said:

“It is neither Heaven nor Hell.  It is simply Purgatory”?

Marriage

2.

Complete this epigraph found at the beginning of Erica Jong’s novel Fear of Flying:

"Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is …….. "

The same

3.

Before his death in 1999 he was also known as The Third Earl of Harrow.  He first appeared on stage with The Savages in the 1960s and went on to occasionally appear with more gifted musicians such as Keith Moon and Jeff Beck.  He said he enjoyed every one of his 40 defeats equally.  By what name is he best remembered.

Screaming Lord Sutch

4.

The first of Screaming Lord Sutch’s 40 election defeats came in 1963 when he fought a by-election in Stratford-upon-Avon representing the National Teenage Party.  The by-election was caused by the much publicised resignation of which cabinet minister?

(John) Profumo

5.

Melvyn Bragg was the first to win this coveted award in 1993. Morrissey is the current and deserving holder. What is the award for?

The 'Bad Sex in Fiction' award

6.

What 6-letter word can be: a town in the Gers region of France, famous for its production of Armagnac brandy; the surname of a former Rugby Union player who won 62 caps for France; something rarely used by Fr Megson?

Condom

7.

In 1883 a unit of London’s Metropolitan Police was formed for one specific purpose.  Later, as their remit was widened, the unit’s name was shortened by one word.  Thus they became The Special Branch.  What one word was removed from their original title?

Irish

(the Special Irish Branch was formed to combat the Irish Republican Brotherhood)

8.

Shortly after the success of operation Humpty Dumpty by the IRA 50 years ago whose head was 'liberated' from police custody?  The head then went walkabout, making sporadic public appearances at a London fashion shoot, in the midst of a students’ Rag Day parade in Dublin and, most famously, 'live' on stage with the Dubliners at a folk concert.  Today the head rests sedately in the Dublin City Library.

Horatio Nelson’s

(Nelson’s Column, Dublin’s most popular and, in equal measure, reviled meeting place was blown up in March 1966. Nelson was the only casualty, though a subsequent controlled explosion by the Irish army to remove the stump resulted in 7 casualties)

Sp1

What was the real first name of the jazz cornettist, pianist and composer born in 1903 and known as Bix Beiderbecke?

Leon

Sp2

What was the real first name of the jazz pianist and band leader who was known as Count Basie?

William

ROUND 8 - Hidden theme - 'It will all end in tears'

All the answers are linked by a common theme - some of the theme words appear as 'sound-alikes'

1.

With a feast day celebrated on December 26th who is traditionally venerated as the first martyr of the Christian church (apart from Jesus Christ of course)?

St Stephen

2.

What product is sold with the slogan 'Born 1820 - Still going strong'?  It comes in square bottles and features a striding man.

Johnnie Walker whisky

3.

In which 1986 Stephen Sondheim musical does the Wolf get together with Little Red Riding Hood to sing Hello Little Girl?

Into The Woods

4.

From 1910 until about 1970 which South Manchester park was home to Manchester’s very own Speakers’ Corner?  It was very popular especially in the 1930s when speakers tended to veer very much to the left.  Locals called it The Kremlin Corner.

Platt Fields

5.

Stonewall FC, England’s first gay football club is based in which leafy suburb of southwest London?  Here you will also find the London Wetland centre and the Mark Bolan rock shrine which marks the spot where the singer was killed in 1977.

Barnes

6.

Based on a Patrick McCabe novel which award winning 1997 film directed by Neil Jordan follows the dark fantasies of 12 year old Francie Brady in an Irish border town until they reach a gruesome conclusion?

The Butcher Boy

7.

Who in 1853 became the 14th president of the USA.  He was preceded by Millard Fillmore, and followed by James Buchanan.  Unhelpfully for you lot, he is generally considered to have been the least effective and least memorable person ever to hold that office.  Until tonight he may well be the only US president never to feature in a WithQuiz paper.

Franklin Pierce

8.

The Duofold (1921), Vacumatic (1932) Jotter (1954) and Sonnet (1993) were all prestige models produced by which company which was founded in Janesville, Wisconsin in 1888?

The Parker Pen Company

Sp1

Which Cleethorpes born actress played the part of Mary Fisher in the 1986 BBC TV drama The Life and Loves of a She-Devil?

Patricia Hodge

Sp2

In 2015 which former TV presenter inherited a stately home from his 99 year old aunt, Lady Roxburghe?  On taking possession, he walked upstairs and found a long lost print by Lord Leighton which he promptly sold for £60,000.

Bamber Gascoigne

Tiebreakers

1.

The 1986 Swedish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest was called La La La.  In total the song contained the word 'La' how many times?

138

2.

The first known question mark in print appeared in a manuscript written in which century?

9th century AD

3.

As Slow As Possible by John Cage is the slowest and longest piece of music ever composed.  A performance of it began in 2001 in a church in Halberstadt, Germany.  In which year is it scheduled to end?

2640

(it lasts 639 years – some might say that's equivalent of 639 quizzes set by Hangman Dave!)