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WithQuiz League paper  23/11/16

Set by: The Men They Couldn't Hang

QotW: R3/Q7

Average Aggregate Score: 76.0

(Season's Ave. Agg.: 72.5)

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ROUND 1 - Hidden theme

Watch out for homophones

1.

Which given name has appeared in the title of the following: a Rolling Stones’ UK number three single, a Kenny Rogers’ UK number two single and the Kaiser Chiefs’ first UK number one single?

2.

The Charles Wright 2001 font, developed from an earlier 1935 version, is noted for its very angular look and has since 2001 been the designated mandatory font for which utilitarian object first seen in the UK in 1904?

3.

If the Brewers reside at the Pirelli and the Saddlers are to be found at home at the Bescot then which occupation have been the occupants of Sixfields since 1994?

4.

How are rocks rich in the mineral that has the chemical formula Al2Si2O5(OH)4 commonly known?   The UK is the world’s 3rd largest producer, after Brazil and the USA, with output of 1.29 million tonnes in 2011?

5.

Which is the second largest London Borough by population?  It is bordered by Hertfordshire and 5 other boroughs: Harrow, Brent, Camden, Haringey and Enfield?

6.

As his eleventh labour what did Heracles have to steal from the garden of the Hesperides, the nymphs of evening?

7.

According to Slim in the 1944 film To Have and To Have Not she only required Steve to be able to do one thing and she duly gave him instructions and a demonstration of how it was to be done.  What was that one thing?

8.

In 1847 Johan Gramp chose to settle beside a small watercourse that rises in the Barossa range in South Australia and flows into the North Para River.  There he planted a vineyard.  What is the name of that watercourse?

Sp1

Name the ragdolls first seen on television in 1990 who lived on a narrow boat.

Sp2

What song provided Cher with her first solo US number 1 single?

Go to Round 1 questions with answers

ROUND 2 - Pairs

1.

Which Oxford College founded in 1509 is believed to take its name from a door knocker that featured on the original college building?

2.

Which Oxford College founded in 1324 takes its name from a style of window that featured on the original college building?

3.

Of the four largest freshwater islands in the UK three, Inchmurrin, Inchlonaig and Inchtavannach can all be found in which body of water?

4.

Santiago, Santo Antao and Boa Vista are the three largest islands of which island nation?

5.

What is the common name for the 'veronica chamaedrys', a bright blue wildflower found abundantly in hedgerows that is believed to be a good-luck charm for travellers?  It shares its name with a popular Derbyshire White Peak tourist attraction.

6.

What is the common name for the 'polemonium caeruleum', a bright blue native, wildflower that can be found inhabiting limestone scree?  It shares its name with a popular but steep footpath in the Derbyshire Dark Peak although the path is not named after the plant.

7.

The title of which Pulitzer Prize winning novel appears at the end of this excerpt from it: “Shoot all the blue jays you want if you can hit them but remember it’s a sin…....?

8.

The title of which Pulitzer Prize novel appears at the end of this excerpt from it: “Well, us talk and talk about God, but I’m still adrift.  Trying to chase that old white man out of my head.  I been so busy thinking 'bout him I never truly notice nothing God make.  Not a blade of corn (how it do that?) not......?

Sp1

Who has been Russia’s Foreign Minister since 2004?

Sp2

Who has been India’s Prime Minister since 2014?

Go to Round 2 questions with answers

ROUND 3 - '...and you can hear a pin drop'

All the answers include a word that can precede the word 'pin' or 'pins' and still make sense

1.

Which Act of Parliament was introduced to the House on 28th of January 1974 by William Whitelaw, then Secretary of Employment?  It was lost when Labour won the February General Election but was reintroduced by Michael Foot and became law in July that year.

2.

What was the title of the song that had the refrain “We could have had it all” and won a Grammy for Best Song for Adele and Paul Epworth in 2012?

3.

What did Bank of America announce that it was buying for some fifty billion US dollars on the 14th of September 2008?

4.

Diocletian’s Palace, built in the fourth century on the Adriatic Coastline and now a UNESCO World Heritage site, can be found in the heart of which city?

5.

What is the name of the local bar, established in 2008 by art and film lecturers Rob and Lorna Holbrook, which also hosts art classes during the day?

6.

Which airline has a frequent flyer programme marketed as the Royal Orchid Plus that has a membership of over 2 million and the slogan 'as smooth as silk'?

7.

Which Cornish fishing port with a population of 5,000 is also the terminus of a branch line which connects it to Liskeard, 7 miles away, and from there to Paddington?

8.

Which barque, built in Dundee in 1884 spent most of her career working in the Newfoundland seal fishery before catching fire and sinking off Greenland in 1943?  In one brief glorious respite she was the subject of a famous series of photographs taken by Herbert Ponting in late 1910.

Sp1

Who is the current head coach of the Scottish Rugby Union football team?

Sp2

Which playwright wrote the plays Racing Demon and Plenty and earned two Oscar nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on The Reader and The Hours?

Go to Round 3 questions with answers

ROUNDS 4 & 5 - 'Toolbox Bingo'

In most cases part of the full name of the tool depicted will appear in the answer but 5 of the more easily identified tools have their name in the question rather than the answer - so choose your tool carefully!

1.

What was the title of the Elmore Leonard novel that was adapted for the screen in 1997 and entitled Jackie Brown?

2.

Who was crowned Champion Trainer 15 times between 1989 and 2005 but never won the Cheltenham Gold Cup and only trained one National Winner, Minnehoma, in 1994?

3.

....is a claw hammer.  The Hooded Claw was the alter ego of Sylvester Sneekly, the legal guardian of a motor racing legend who he planned to kill to inherit her fortune. What was the name of his unfortunate ward?

4.

Who or what sat down to work for the first time on the afternoon of Saturday 26th of January 1963 at the Connaught Rooms, London?

5.

In which town has Babycham, the brainchild of Francis Showering, been brewed since 1953?

6.

Which azure coloured speed merchant made his debut in North America on June the 23rd 1991?

7.

....is a pair of Bolt cutters.  Robert Bolt won the 1965 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for adapting which novel first published in 1957 for the screen?  The film won four other Oscars: Cinematography, Costume, Original Score and Art Direction.

8.

Which UK number 1 single from 1985 shares its title with a concept originally postulated by Professor Max Bodenstein in 1913?

9.

Which Leonard Cohen song first recorded in 1968 provided the title of a commercially successful film of 1990 starring Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn?

10.

Which onomatopoeic cartoon character created by Vernon Grant first appeared in an advertisement in 1933 and is easily distinguished from his two colleagues by his headgear: a white chef’s toque?

11.

....is a spirit level.  At which French airport did Charles Lindbergh land the Spirit of St Louis after the first successful solo transatlantic flight?  The airport now has the IATA code LBG

12.

What was set up by the Medical Research Council in 1946 at Harnham Down near Salisbury and closed in 1989?  Its only noteworthy legacy for 41 years of research was the zinc gluconate lozenge.

13.

....is a plumb line.  Little Plum and Hole-in-um-Head were members of which tribe that shared its name with a hygiene problem?

14.

Which chemical element with the atomic number 50 known to antiquity takes its chemical symbol from its Latin name?

15.

Beki Bondage was the lead vocalist of which punk band formed in 1978 whose name sounded as if they were a specialist department in the local constabulary?

16.

What Act of Parliament received its royal assent on 12th of July 1799 in the face of the Jacobin threat in the workplace but would not be repealed until 1824 following extensive lobbying by the radical Francis Place?

17.

....is a plane.  Who in 1845 discovered that magnetism caused a rotation in the plane of polarisation of light?

18.

Which Trinity House lighthouse, one of the last to be fully automated in December 1994, had, somewhat ironically, to be underpinned in 2010 at a cost of half a million pounds due to the condition of the chalk strata on which it was built?

Go to Rounds 4 & 5 questions with answers

ROUND 6 - Pairs

1.

What does the IUPAC define as "an element whose atom has a partially filled d sub-shell, or which can give rise to cations with an incomplete d sub-shell"?  It includes the elements from both the d and f block of the periodic table.

2.

What word is used to describe the phase transition from gas to plasma?

3.

Pierre Poivre who was born in Lyon in 1719 and created the Botanical Gardens of Pampelmousses on Mauritius was the probable inspiration behind which rhyme that has the Roud Folk song index number 19745?

4.

Mary Anning who was born in 1799 and made a living from her well-renowned shop in Lyme Regis inspired which popular song written by Terry Sullivan in 1908?

5.

Who in 1798, towards the end of his life and with Napoleon’s armies threatening his home in Vienna, wrote A Mass for Troubled Times - although following the Battle of the Nile on 1st of August of that year it quickly assumed the title of Nelson’s Mass?

6.

Who wrote the Quartet for the End of Time in 1941 while incarcerated in Stalag 8?

7.

In which town would you find the Great Yorkshire Showground?  The town was also the location chosen by a Swiss confectioner to establish a now nationally renowned business in 1919.

8.

In which town could you have found a football ground called the Old Showground until its demolition on 1988? Strangely the club’s nickname is that of a transition metal.

Sp1

On which river would you find the Strid – a dramatic narrowing with associated rapids and a deep underwater channel?  Earlier this year the Daily Mail questioned if it was “the most dangerous stretch of water in the world.” Hyperbole?  From the Mail?  Surely not.

Sp2

On which river would you find Cauldron Snout – a dramatic tumbling cataract where the river falls 200 feet down a series of dolerite steps in a 200 yard length?

Go to Round 6 questions with answers

ROUND 7'....on fire - no really on fire'

All the answers include a word that can precede the word 'fire' or 'fires' and still make sense

1.

Which local pub shares its name with a sentimental 19th century ballad written by Thomas Haynes Bayly that proved especially popular with troops serving overseas?  There are about 25 pubs in the country with this name, probably named by former soldiers in fond remembrance of the song.

2.

The Sons of Temperance, The Grand United Order of Oddfellows and The Hearts of Oak are just a few of the fifty or so survivors of which peculiar type of financial cooperative that began to spring up in the mid nineteenth century?

3.

Which vocalist is descended from French Hugenots, was born in October 1958 and came to prominence in 1981 in a band named after a character from a French science fiction comic book?

4.

(You buy one you get one free, I say you buy one you get one free!)  What was the title of Audie Murphy’s biography published in 1949 that is shared with a supposed journey undertaken by valet Paul Burrell, artist Louise Bourgeois and rapper Lil Wayne amongst many others?

5.

Which product launched in 1876 featured on its distinctive label an officer of the Gordon Highlander Regiment and the brand’s slogan 'Ready, aye, ready'?

6.

According to Unilever which of their brands 'Won’t let you down'?

7.

Which phrase was recommended by Baden Powell in 1908 in Scouting for Boys to hone semaphore signalling skills and was also the opening part of the first ever message sent by the Americans over the Washington Moscow hotline in July 1963 to test that it was fully functional?

8.

What word can mean a layer of earth whose depth is equal to the length of the blade of a spade as well as being used to describe a geographic feature typified by Orford Ness?  Other meanings are also available.

Sp1

Which song written in 1969 and a minor UK hit for several artists includes the line: “I’ve been licked washed up for years and I merely survive because of my pride”?

Sp2

Which 2008 film, set in a Catholic church in the Bronx and adapted from a Pulitzer Prize winning play by John Patrick Shanley, saw four of its actors - Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis - all nominated for an Academy Award?  None of them won.

Go to Round 7 questions with answers

ROUND 8 - Hidden theme

Watch out for homophones

1.

In 2005 the American Film Institute voted the following monologue: “You talkin' to me?  You talkin' to me?  You talkin' to me?  Then who the hell else are you talkin' to?  You talkin' to me?  Well I'm the only one here.” as the 10th best movie quote of all time.  From which film was it taken?

2.

The Jungheinrich EFG S30 won an IFOY award in 2015 with the jury claiming that it was the "perfect all-rounder for the mass market, with an ergonomically and intelligently designed workplace that meets the needs of the new generation of driver."  What is it?

3.

In which fictional suburb of Los Angeles would you find the cul-de-sac Seaview Circle, home to Gary and Valene Ewing after they left Dallas?

4.

Which theatre in Galeforth Street Marylebone opened in 1970 and was notable for being the first purpose built theatre in the round to be constructed in London since the Great Fire?  The name resurrects that of a seventeenth century theatre that until 1616 had served a different function.

5.

What song from The Sound of Music would reach number one in the UK singles chart in 1961 when it was released by Shirley Bassey as a double 'A' side with Reach for the Stars?

6.

What phrase derived from fencing was incorporated into the title of the 1971 seminal work on sword development within the British Army by John Wilkinson?  The phrase also means 'a lively and spirited exchange of ideas or opinions' (according to Collins Dictionary).

7.

Which horse, whose name suggests a modern way of dealing with a situation, won the 2008 Epsom Derby, seven years after his sire, Galileo, achieved the same feat?

8.

What connects an activity that Fred Astaire was filmed doing during the number You’re All the World to Me in the film Royal Wedding with the title of a single that was at number seven in the UK chart on the 17th of August 1986?

Sp1

Which Italian dance band released the UK number 1 single Ride on Time in 1989?

Sp2

What disappeared from the streets of Manchester on 30th of December 1966 having made its debut on the 1st of March 1938?  Two of its stars can still be seen – one in a museum in Sandtoft, Lincolnshire, the other in a museum in Cheetham Hill.

Go to Round 8 questions with answers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROUND 1Hidden theme

Watch out for homophones

1.

Which given name has appeared in the title of the following: a Rolling Stones’ UK number three single, a Kenny Rogers’ UK number two single and the Kaiser Chiefs’ first UK number one single?

Ruby

2.

The Charles Wright 2001 font, developed from an earlier 1935 version, is noted for its very angular look and has since 2001 been the designated mandatory font for which utilitarian object first seen in the UK in 1904?

Vehicle number plates

3.

If the Brewers reside at the Pirelli and the Saddlers are to be found at home at the Bescot then which occupation have been the occupants of Sixfields since 1994?

Cobblers

(nicknames of football league clubs)

4.

How are rocks rich in the mineral that has the chemical formula Al2Si2O5(OH)4 commonly known?   The UK is the world’s 3rd largest producer, after Brazil and the USA, with output of 1.29 million tonnes in 2011?

China Clay

(accept Kaolin but point out that the theme requires the answer to be CC)

5.

Which is the second largest London Borough by population?  It is bordered by Hertfordshire and 5 other boroughs: Harrow, Brent, Camden, Haringey and Enfield?

Barnet

6.

As his eleventh labour what did Heracles have to steal from the garden of the Hesperides, the nymphs of evening?

(Golden) Apples

7.

According to Slim in the 1944 film To Have and To Have Not she only required Steve to be able to do one thing and she duly gave him instructions and a demonstration of how it was to be done.  What was that one thing?

Whistle

("You do know how to whistle don’t you Steve?")

8.

In 1847 Johan Gramp chose to settle beside a small watercourse that rises in the Barossa range in South Australia and flows into the North Para River.  There he planted a vineyard.  What is the name of that watercourse?

Jacob's Creek

Sp1

Name the ragdolls first seen on television in 1990 who lived on a narrow boat.

Rosie and Jim

Sp2

What song provided Cher with her first solo US number 1 single?

Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves

Theme: Cor blimey, guv, would you Adam and Eve it but all answers contain cockney rhyming slang....

Ruby Murray – curry; plates of meat – feet; cobbler’s awls – balls; china plate – mate; barnet fair – hair; apples and pears - stairs;

whistle and flute – suit; Jacob’s crackers – knackers; Rosie Lee – tea; gypsy’s kiss – piss

Go back to Round 1 questions without answers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROUND 2Pairs

1.

Which Oxford College founded in 1509 is believed to take its name from a door knocker that featured on the original college building?

Brasenose

2.

Which Oxford College founded in 1324 takes its name from a style of window that featured on the original college building?

Oriel

3.

Of the four largest freshwater islands in the UK three, Inchmurrin, Inchlonaig and Inchtavannach can all be found in which body of water?

Loch Lomond

4.

Santiago, Santo Antao and Boa Vista are the three largest islands of which island nation?

Cape Verde

5.

What is the common name for the 'veronica chamaedrys', a bright blue wildflower found abundantly in hedgerows that is believed to be a good-luck charm for travellers?  It shares its name with a popular Derbyshire White Peak tourist attraction.

Speedwell

6.

What is the common name for the 'polemonium caeruleum', a bright blue native, wildflower that can be found inhabiting limestone scree?  It shares its name with a popular but steep footpath in the Derbyshire Dark Peak although the path is not named after the plant.

Jacob’s Ladder

7.

The title of which Pulitzer Prize winning novel appears at the end of this excerpt from it: “Shoot all the blue jays you want if you can hit them but remember it’s a sin…....?

To Kill a Mocking Bird

8.

The title of which Pulitzer Prize novel appears at the end of this excerpt from it: “Well, us talk and talk about God, but I’m still adrift.  Trying to chase that old white man out of my head.  I been so busy thinking 'bout him I never truly notice nothing God make.  Not a blade of corn (how it do that?) not......?

The Colour Purple

Sp1

Who has been Russia’s Foreign Minister since 2004?

Sergei Lavrov

Sp2

Who has been India’s Prime Minister since 2014?

Narendra Modi

Go back to Round 2 questions without answers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROUND 3'...and you can hear a pin drop'

All the answers include a word that can precede the word 'pin' or 'pins' and still make sense

1.

Which Act of Parliament was introduced to the House on 28th of January 1974 by William Whitelaw, then Secretary of Employment?  It was lost when Labour won the February General Election but was reintroduced by Michael Foot and became law in July that year.

Health and Safety at Work

2.

What was the title of the song that had the refrain “We could have had it all” and won a Grammy for Best Song for Adele and Paul Epworth in 2012?

Rolling in the Deep

3.

What did Bank of America announce that it was buying for some fifty billion US dollars on the 14th of September 2008?

Merrill Lynch

4.

Diocletian’s Palace, built in the fourth century on the Adriatic Coastline and now a UNESCO World Heritage site, can be found in the heart of which city?

Split

5.

What is the name of the local bar, established in 2008 by art and film lecturers Rob and Lorna Holbrook, which also hosts art classes during the day?

The drawing room

6.

Which airline has a frequent flyer programme marketed as the Royal Orchid Plus that has a membership of over 2 million and the slogan 'as smooth as silk'?

Thai airways

7.

Which Cornish fishing port with a population of 5,000 is also the terminus of a branch line which connects it to Liskeard, 7 miles away, and from there to Paddington?

Looe

8.

Which barque, built in Dundee in 1884 spent most of her career working in the Newfoundland seal fishery before catching fire and sinking off Greenland in 1943?  In one brief glorious respite she was the subject of a famous series of photographs taken by Herbert Ponting in late 1910.

Terra nova

Sp1

Who is the current head coach of the Scottish Rugby Union football team?

Vern Cotter

Sp2

Which playwright wrote the plays Racing Demon and Plenty and earned two Oscar nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on The Reader and The Hours?

David Hare

Go back to Round 3 questions without answers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROUNDS 4 & 5 - 'Toolbox Bingo'

In most cases part of the full name of the tool depicted will appear in the answer but 5 of the more easily identified tools have their name in the question rather than the answer - so choose your tool carefully!

1.

What was the title of the Elmore Leonard novel that was adapted for the screen in 1997 and entitled Jackie Brown?

Rum Punch

 

(centre punch)

2.

Who was crowned Champion Trainer 15 times between 1989 and 2005 but never won the Cheltenham Gold Cup and only trained one National Winner, Minnehoma, in 1994?

Martin Pipe

 

(pipe wrench)

3.

....is a claw hammer.  The Hooded Claw was the alter ego of Sylvester Sneekly, the legal guardian of a motor racing legend who he planned to kill to inherit her fortune. What was the name of his unfortunate ward?

Penelope Pitstop

4.

Who or what sat down to work for the first time on the afternoon of Saturday 26th of January 1963 at the Connaught Rooms, London?

The Football Pools Pane

 

(panel saw)

5.

In which town has Babycham, the brainchild of Francis Showering, been brewed since 1953?

Shepton Mallet

 

(rubber mallet)

6.

Which azure coloured speed merchant made his debut in North America on June the 23rd 1991?

Sonic the Hedgehog

 

(sonic screwdriver)

7.

....is a pair of Bolt cutters.  Robert Bolt won the 1965 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for adapting which novel first published in 1957 for the screen?  The film won four other Oscars: Cinematography, Costume, Original Score and Art Direction.

Doctor Zhivago

8.

Which UK number 1 single from 1985 shares its title with a concept originally postulated by Professor Max Bodenstein in 1913?

Chain Reaction

 

(chain splitter)

9.

Which Leonard Cohen song first recorded in 1968 provided the title of a commercially successful film of 1990 starring Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn?

Bird on a Wire

 

(wire strippers)

10.

Which onomatopoeic cartoon character created by Vernon Grant first appeared in an advertisement in 1933 and is easily distinguished from his two colleagues by his headgear: a white chef’s toque?

Snap

 

(rivet snap)

11.

....is a spirit level.  At which French airport did Charles Lindbergh land the Spirit of St Louis after the first successful solo transatlantic flight?  The airport now has the IATA code LBG

Le Bourget

12.

What was set up by the Medical Research Council in 1946 at Harnham Down near Salisbury and closed in 1989?  Its only noteworthy legacy for 41 years of research was the zinc gluconate lozenge.

The Common Cold(research) Unit

 

(cold chisel)

13.

....is a plumb line.  Little Plum and Hole-in-um-Head were members of which tribe that shared its name with a hygiene problem?

The Smellyfeet

14.

Which chemical element with the atomic number 50 known to antiquity takes its chemical symbol from its Latin name?

Tin

 

(tin snips)

15.

Beki Bondage was the lead vocalist of which punk band formed in 1978 whose name sounded as if they were a specialist department in the local constabulary?

Vice Squad

 

(pin vice)

16.

What Act of Parliament received its royal assent on 12th of July 1799 in the face of the Jacobin threat in the workplace but would not be repealed until 1824 following extensive lobbying by the radical Francis Place?

The Combination Act

 

(combination square)

17.

....is a plane.  Who in 1845 discovered that magnetism caused a rotation in the plane of polarisation of light?

Michael Faraday

18.

Which Trinity House lighthouse, one of the last to be fully automated in December 1994, had, somewhat ironically, to be underpinned in 2010 at a cost of half a million pounds due to the condition of the chalk strata on which it was built?

Needles

 

(needle files)

Go back to Rounds 4 & 5 questions without answers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROUND 6 - Pairs

1.

What does the IUPAC define as "an element whose atom has a partially filled d sub-shell, or which can give rise to cations with an incomplete d sub-shell"?  It includes the elements from both the d and f block of the periodic table.

Transition metal

(accept transition element)

2.

What word is used to describe the phase transition from gas to plasma?

Ionisation

3.

Pierre Poivre who was born in Lyon in 1719 and created the Botanical Gardens of Pampelmousses on Mauritius was the probable inspiration behind which rhyme that has the Roud Folk song index number 19745?

Peter Piper Picked a Pepper

4.

Mary Anning who was born in 1799 and made a living from her well-renowned shop in Lyme Regis inspired which popular song written by Terry Sullivan in 1908?

She Sells Sea Shells

5.

Who in 1798, towards the end of his life and with Napoleon’s armies threatening his home in Vienna, wrote A Mass for Troubled Times - although following the Battle of the Nile on 1st of August of that year it quickly assumed the title of Nelson’s Mass?

Haydn

6.

Who wrote the Quartet for the End of Time in 1941 while incarcerated in Stalag 8?

Messaien

7.

In which town would you find the Great Yorkshire Showground?  The town was also the location chosen by a Swiss confectioner to establish a now nationally renowned business in 1919.

Harrogate

(Betty’s Tea Rooms was founded by Fredrick Belmont)

8.

In which town could you have found a football ground called the Old Showground until its demolition on 1988? Strangely the club’s nickname is that of a transition metal.

Scunthorpe

Sp1

On which river would you find the Strid – a dramatic narrowing with associated rapids and a deep underwater channel?  Earlier this year the Daily Mail questioned if it was “the most dangerous stretch of water in the world.” Hyperbole?  From the Mail?  Surely not.

The Wharfe

Sp2

On which river would you find Cauldron Snout – a dramatic tumbling cataract where the river falls 200 feet down a series of dolerite steps in a 200 yard length?

The Tees

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ROUND 7'....on fire - no really on fire'

All the answers include a word that can precede the word 'fire' or 'fires' and still make sense

1.

Which local pub shares its name with a sentimental 19th century ballad written by Thomas Haynes Bayly that proved especially popular with troops serving overseas?  There are about 25 pubs in the country with this name, probably named by former soldiers in fond remembrance of the song.

Old House at Home

2.

The Sons of Temperance, The Grand United Order of Oddfellows and The Hearts of Oak are just a few of the fifty or so survivors of which peculiar type of financial cooperative that began to spring up in the mid nineteenth century?

Friendly Societies

3.

Which vocalist is descended from French Hugenots, was born in October 1958 and came to prominence in 1981 in a band named after a character from a French science fiction comic book?

Simon Le Bon

4.

(You buy one you get one free, I say you buy one you get one free!)  What was the title of Audie Murphy’s biography published in 1949 that is shared with a supposed journey undertaken by valet Paul Burrell, artist Louise Bourgeois and rapper Lil Wayne amongst many others?

To Hell and Back

5.

Which product launched in 1876 featured on its distinctive label an officer of the Gordon Highlander Regiment and the brand’s slogan 'Ready, aye, ready'?

Camp (coffee)

6.

According to Unilever which of their brands 'Won’t let you down'?

Sure (deodorant)

7.

Which phrase was recommended by Baden Powell in 1908 in Scouting for Boys to hone semaphore signalling skills and was also the opening part of the first ever message sent by the Americans over the Washington Moscow hotline in July 1963 to test that it was fully functional?

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

8.

What word can mean a layer of earth whose depth is equal to the length of the blade of a spade as well as being used to describe a geographic feature typified by Orford Ness?  Other meanings are also available.

Spit

Sp1

Which song written in 1969 and a minor UK hit for several artists includes the line: “I’ve been licked washed up for years and I merely survive because of my pride”?

Many Rivers to Cross

Sp2

Which 2008 film, set in a Catholic church in the Bronx and adapted from a Pulitzer Prize winning play by John Patrick Shanley, saw four of its actors - Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis - all nominated for an Academy Award?  None of them won.

Doubt

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ROUND 8 - Hidden theme

Watch out for homophones

1.

In 2005 the American Film Institute voted the following monologue: “You talkin' to me?  You talkin' to me?  You talkin' to me?  Then who the hell else are you talkin' to?  You talkin' to me?  Well I'm the only one here.” as the 10th best movie quote of all time.  From which film was it taken?

Taxi Driver

2.

The Jungheinrich EFG S30 won an IFOY award in 2015 with the jury claiming that it was the "perfect all-rounder for the mass market, with an ergonomically and intelligently designed workplace that meets the needs of the new generation of driver."  What is it?

Fork Lift truck

3.

In which fictional suburb of Los Angeles would you find the cul-de-sac Seaview Circle, home to Gary and Valene Ewing after they left Dallas?

Knots Landing

4.

Which theatre in Galeforth Street Marylebone opened in 1970 and was notable for being the first purpose built theatre in the round to be constructed in London since the Great Fire?  The name resurrects that of a seventeenth century theatre that until 1616 had served a different function.

The Cockpit

5.

What song from The Sound of Music would reach number one in the UK singles chart in 1961 when it was released by Shirley Bassey as a double 'A' side with Reach for the Stars?

Climb Every Mountain

6.

What phrase derived from fencing was incorporated into the title of the 1971 seminal work on sword development within the British Army by John Wilkinson?  The phrase also means 'a lively and spirited exchange of ideas or opinions' (according to Collins Dictionary).

Cut and Thrust

7.

Which horse, whose name suggests a modern way of dealing with a situation, won the 2008 Epsom Derby, seven years after his sire, Galileo, achieved the same feat?

New Approach

8.

What connects an activity that Fred Astaire was filmed doing during the number You’re All the World to Me in the film Royal Wedding with the title of a single that was at number seven in the UK chart on the 17th of August 1986?

Both were Dancing on the Ceiling

Sp1

Which Italian dance band released the UK number 1 single Ride on Time in 1989?

Black Box

Sp2

What disappeared from the streets of Manchester on 30th of December 1966 having made its debut on the 1st of March 1938?  Two of its stars can still be seen – one in a museum in Sandtoft, Lincolnshire, the other in a museum in Cheetham Hill.

Trolley Bus

Theme: All the answers include something a plane may possess, or a manoeuvre it may undertake

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