1.

What warning, first voiced by sound engineer Peter Lodge in 1968, was seemingly disregarded on 307 separate occasions in 2015?  It is to be particularly welcomed at a location with an entrance on Threadneedle Street where the danger reaches its zenith at 375 millimetres.

2.

Which actor played Dominic Toretto in the Fast and Furious film franchise?

3.

What was the nickname of a television character, last seen in the 1980s, whose given names were Jefferson Davis?  He was portrayed by Sorrell Booke and appeared in every single episode of the series in question

4.

Which word derived from the Low German word for 'wrestle' is used to describe a student of Cambridge University who gains a first class degree in Mathematics?

5.

What brand of sherry is advertised on an oft-photographed large neon sign above the former Grand Hotel de Paris in Puerto del Sol, Madrid?  Legend has it that it was the uncle of Gonzalez Byass who developed this distinctive fino.

6.

Name the chemist who retired from the paint manufacturer SIVA in 1977 after a career with them that had lasted 29 years.  He died on the 11th of April 1987 having fallen from a third floor landing at his apartment block in Turin which a coroner ruled as suicide.

7.

Which ancient kingdom was mentioned by Sargon of Akkad as stretching from Ibla to Bit Anaib?  His grandson Naram Sin would later invade the kingdom and sack the town of Ibla in 2240BC.

8.

Which attack-minded left back made 397 competitive games for Plymouth Argyle in a career that stretched from 1979 to 1990?

Sp.

Which two words complete the Gandhi quote “It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends.  But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of……..”?

1.

Which composer, noted for his six string quartets, left his third piano concerto unfinished at the time of his death in September 1945?  It was completed by his friend and fellow composer Tibor Serly.

2.

Which composer, noted for his six symphonies, wrote only the first movement, the Allegro Brillante, of his third piano concerto before his death in 1893?  The final two movements, Andante and Finale, were completed by his former student and fellow composer, Sergei Taneyev.

3.

How is the process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semi-permeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one, known?

4.

What is the name of the double membrane organelles that convert glucose into adenosine triphosphate, used as a source of energy?

5.

Who only became an MP at the age of 45, has represented Leeds Central since 1999, and is currently Chair of the Exiting the EU Select Committee?

6.

Who only became an MP at the age of 53, has represented Holborn and St Pancras since 2015, and is now the Shadow Secretary for State for Exiting the EU?

7.

An Armenian alchemist founded a company bearing his name in Constantinople in 1623 making cymbals.  The company is still extant today, although now based in the USA, and is the world’s largest manufacturer of that instrument.  Who was that Armenian?

8.

Ikutaro Kakehashi left his job in 1972 to found his own keyboard company.  Contrary to popular belief he did not base the company’s name on a certain French epic poem but chose it because he wanted a two syllable word with soft consonants.  What is the company?

Sp.

The Caledonian MacBrayne sailings between Ardrossan and Brodick (journey time 55 minutes) and, in the summer season only, between Claonaig and Lochranza (journey time 30 minutes), connect which Scottish island with the mainland?

Each answer includes a word that can precede the word 'cut' and still make sense - beware of homophones

1.

What UNESCO world heritage site, which only received its designation in June 2014, currently consists of 33 separate sites, some previously so designated, and is spread over 3 different nations?  It is expected to expand as another five nations wish to add sites to it.

2.

Complete Lady Bracknell’s diatribe “Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.  If it did, it would prove a serious danger to…...."

3.

Which aircraft company designed and built the Empire for Imperial airways?  First flown in 1936 they were the mainstay of long range services to South Africa and Australia.

4.

Which Lakeland fell is 2,736 feet high and described by Wainwright as “a climb deserving of high priority”?  It is often climbed in conjunction with its neighbours Bowfell, Pike of Blisco, Rossett Pike and Cold Pike to make a complete round of the head of Great Langdale.

5.

Which band was formed in 1984 by vocalist Roland Gift and two former members of The Beat?  They won a Brit award for their album The Raw and the Cooked in 1990.

6.

Which bitter brewed under the Courage label uses target hops and has an ABV of 4.8%?  It was purported to have been brewed at the Alton brewery specifically for a very select customer base long before it was made available for sale to the general public.

7.

Which novel written by a celebrated author born in 1918 would be the next in line for publication: Memento Mori, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Bachelors…....…?

8.

Which archaic article of clothing still forms part of the formal attire of the bishops and ministers in the Church of Denmark and shares its name with the common name of a wading bird, formerly called 'Philomachus pugnax'?  It can be seen in British estuaries on their spring and autumn passage to and from Africa and Scandinavia.

Sp.

Two teams will contest the Babcock trophy at Twickenham on 29th of April.  All 80,000 seats have been sold.  It will be the 100th meeting between the two teams since the first official match in 1907.  Which team will wear blue shirts and shorts?

This is the first time you can consume two of your five a day while playing a quiz.  You have a selection of 20 fruits to pick from and a list of the 20 topics in alphabetic order to which each fruit is linked.  The fruit’s name will appear in the question so you can try and pre-empt your topic.  For example if you fancy bible study and think it might be hidden by the apple and be about the Garden of Eden then select question 1.  Alternatively you could just pick your favourite fruit!  Please give the question number not the fruit as this means nothing to me, Oh Vienna!

1.

British Actress

Which British actress recently played Doctor Carmichael in the BBC television miniseries Apple Tree Yard?  Early in her career she was twice nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress, the second being in the 1998 film Hilary and Jackie for her portrayal of Jacqueline de Pre

2.

Oscar Winners

Who won an Academy Award in 1941 for best director for his work on The Grapes of Wrath?

3.

Tasteless TV

In Celebrity Juice shown on 24th of April 2016 it was revealed that Keith Lemon is the half-brother of which former professional footballer turned television pundit and co-presenter of Ninja Warrior UK?

4.

Italian Food

The literal translation of the Italian dish of arancini is 'little orange'.  What is the basic ingredient that is used to encase a variety of fillings while being shaped into a ball, coated with breadcrumbs and deep fried?

5.

Dub poetry

Who wrote the poem Reggae fi Peach in memory of the school teacher Blair Peach murdered in 1979 by fascist thugs masquerading as police officers?

6.

Nineties pop music

Which band who had a UK number one single in the summer of 1996 took their name, which makes absolutely no meteorological sense, from a misheard lyric in the song Raspberry Beret by Prince?

7.

Poetry

With what specially invented implement of 1871 did a strigiforme, recently united in wedlock to a felidae, use to dine on a dish of ground meat and sliced quince?

8.

Etymology

Which word in modern English is derived from Ancient Greek and literally translates to 'a revealer of figs'?  It was used in ancient Greece to refer to somebody who brought unjustified prosecutions, although in modern English it has come to mean a servile and insincere flatterer.

9.

Birds

Five extant genera make up the infraclass the palaeognaths, or ratites.  Kiwis, emus, rheas and ostriches are four.  Which genus, consisting of three species, is the fifth?

10.

Japanese geography

The town and province of Satsuma are found on which Japanese island, the most southerly of the four main islands?

11.

Twentieth Century novelists

Which author published a collection of short stories in 1966 entitled Plum Pie when he was aged 85?  It contained many characters and locations that appeared in his earlier novels including Bingo Little.

12.

Film franchises

In the last of a tired franchise Herbie goes Bananas the mischievous orphan Paco who befriends Pete and DJ in Mexico insists on calling Herbie “Ocho”. Why?

13.

Football Goalkeepers

Stephen Pears played more than 400 competitive games as goalkeeper for which football club?

14.

Cocktails

The International Bartenders Association list of ingredients for a pina colada are: 3 parts pineapple juice, one part white rum and one part…....?

15.

National flags

Which nation’s flag, a tricolour, derives its colours from the dish Chiles en Nogada? It consists of poblano peppers stuffed with meat and spices, a sauce made from walnuts all adorned with a sprinkling of pomegranate seeds.

16.

Which foodstuff was referenced in the title of Neneh Cherry’s debut album released in 1989?

17.

Railway network

Every weekday at 9.52 am a train operated by East Midlands Trains leaves Liverpool Lime Street.  What will be its fifteenth and final station stop at 15.11?

18.

Sixties pop music

Strawberry Fields Forever was released in February 1967 on a double A-sided single.  In a neat juxtaposition what song was on the other A-side?

19.

Bible Study

Who according to the Second Book of Samuel chapter 15 ascended the Mount of Olives, weeping, whilst fleeing from his own son, Absalom, who had usurped him?

20.

Mammals

All species of the parvorder Odontoceti, which contains the toothed whales, and all dolphins and porpoises, possess a melon, a mass of adipose tissue of triglycerides and wax esters forming part of the nasal structure.  Which is the largest species of this parvorder?

Each answer contains a word that can precede the word 'saw' and still make sense - as an added distraction the questions are paired - and watch out for a homophone

1.

Which word has multiple meanings including a heraldic device of narrow diagonal bands interlaced through a diamond?  It also refers to a metallic part on certain stringed instruments, and is used by locals to describe a cold sea fog along the North Sea coastline.

2.

What is essential for life but cannot be synthesised by guinea pigs, possibly all bats and many primates including humans?  Our recommended daily intake according to the UK Food Standards Agency is 40 mg and must be met through diet or, once the Reichstein process had been developed in the 1930s, supplements.

3.

What utilitarian item was patented by Stephen Perry in 1845?  Apparently the country’s largest user went through 872million of them in 2007-8, although to eradicate a perceived littering problem they adopted a policy of using red coloured ones in 2004.

4.

Who was named Edwin in 1930 but is almost universally known by a nickname whose source was his elder sister who couldn’t pronounce the word brother?  As a pilot in the USAF he was credited with shooting down two Mig 15s.

5.

What charity with the slogan 'poverty is political' was founded in 1951?  Its General Secretary between 1983 and 1987 was George Galloway.

6.

Which London thoroughfare, which appears on the standard UK Monopoly board, was given its name in 1638 on account of its sinuous shape?

7.

What method was first used by Liebnitz in 1676 to calculate the derivative of the square root of 'a + bz + cz squared'?

8.

Which word has long been used colloquially by Private Eye as a term of opprobrium, or possibly endearment, for a particular profession?  Its derivation is a shortened form of a once popular mode of transport that was both in plentiful supply and cheap and easy to hire, hence the colloquialism.

Sp.

The A406 begins in Chiswick at Junction 1 of the M4 and passes through the suburbs of Ealing, Willesden, Wembley, Southgate, Tottenham, Woodford and Barking to a junction with the A13 north of Woolwich.  By what name is it more commonly known?

1.

Of the 52 nations that comprise the Commonwealth which has the highest population density?

2.

Which female protagonist in a Pulitzer Prize winning play offers the following advice: “So the two together mean white woods, like an orchard in spring.  You can remember it by that.”?

3.

Indian forces commenced military hostilities against which European nation on the 17th of December 1961? The conflict lasted 18 hours, resulted in 52 deaths and ended with the Indians achieving their objectives.

4.

The public house in the village of Penruddock just off the A66 Keswick Penrith road is named after which breed of sheep that is closely associated with the Lake District?

5.

Michel Roux’s recipe for 300ml of classic mayonnaise sauce calls for the following ingredients: 2 egg yolks, 2 tablespoons of white wine vinegar or lemon juice, a pinch of salt and pepper, 250 ml of groundnut oil and one tablespoon of…....?

6.

7.

8.

Madonna of the Pinks was painted in or around 1507 probably for a Perugian nun.  It was bought for the National Gallery for £35m in 2004 having been attributed to which artist by Renaissance scholar Nicholas Penny in 1991?

Sp.

The word supercilious is derived from the Latin word for which bodily feature?

1.

The source of which river is in Northamptonshire near a decisive battlefield of the English Civil War?  After meandering south westerly over 85 miles it becomes a tributary of another river near a decisive battlefield of the War of the Roses.

2.

What English surname was derived during the Middle Ages from the occupation of poet or minstrel?  It was borne by the second man to have collected a European Cup winner’s medal at 2 different football clubs.

3.

Who was the Member of Parliament for North East Fife from 1987 until he retired in 2015?  He had competed for Britain in the final of the 4 by 100m sprint relay in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, although the team finished last.

4.

In which French dialect, langues d’oil, was the song P’tit Quinquin, meaning 'little child', written in 1853?  It has become an unofficial anthem of Lille and the Nord Pas de Calais region in general.

5.

Which sorceress, the sister of Europa and the daughter of Oceanus and Parthenope, shares her name with a geographic region that is bounded by the Balkan Mountains to the North, the Aegean Sea to the South and the Black Sea to the East?

6.

The Wanamaker Grand Court Organ in Philadelphia is the largest playable instrument in the world.  It features a six manual console.  The Choir, the Great and the Swell form the first three manuals but what is the fourth?

7.

Which Pennine village is served by a station on the Settle and Carlisle Railway that is four miles to the east and 400 feet higher than the village it purports to serve?  The station is the first to be encountered after traversing the Ribblehead viaduct when travelling northwards.

8.

Sp.

1.

What warning, first voiced by sound engineer Peter Lodge in 1968, was seemingly disregarded on 307 separate occasions in 2015?  It is to be particularly welcomed at a location with an entrance on Threadneedle Street where the danger reaches its zenith at 375 millimetres.

'Mind the Gap'

(there were 307 incidents in 2015 where people put at least a foot into the gap.  One small child went entirely through it. Bends in platforms and longer rolling stock with central doors mean that the gap at Bank on the Central line can now be as much as 375mm)

2.

Which actor played Dominic Toretto in the Fast and Furious film franchise?

Vin Diesel

3.

What was the nickname of a television character, last seen in the 1980s, whose given names were Jefferson Davis?  He was portrayed by Sorrell Booke and appeared in every single episode of the series in question

Boss

(...Hogg in The Dukes of Hazzard)

4.

Which word derived from the Low German word for 'wrestle' is used to describe a student of Cambridge University who gains a first class degree in Mathematics?

Wrangler

5.

What brand of sherry is advertised on an oft-photographed large neon sign above the former Grand Hotel de Paris in Puerto del Sol, Madrid?  Legend has it that it was the uncle of Gonzalez Byass who developed this distinctive fino.

Tio Pepe

6.

Name the chemist who retired from the paint manufacturer SIVA in 1977 after a career with them that had lasted 29 years.  He died on the 11th of April 1987 having fallen from a third floor landing at his apartment block in Turin which a coroner ruled as suicide.

Primo Levi

7.

Which ancient kingdom was mentioned by Sargon of Akkad as stretching from Ibla to Bit Anaib?  His grandson Naram Sin would later invade the kingdom and sack the town of Ibla in 2240BC.

Armani

8.

Which attack-minded left back made 397 competitive games for Plymouth Argyle in a career that stretched from 1979 to 1990?

Leigh Cooper

Sp.

Which two words complete the Gandhi quote “It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends.  But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of……..”?

True Religion

1.

Which composer, noted for his six string quartets, left his third piano concerto unfinished at the time of his death in September 1945?  It was completed by his friend and fellow composer Tibor Serly.

Bela Bartok

2.

Which composer, noted for his six symphonies, wrote only the first movement, the Allegro Brillante, of his third piano concerto before his death in 1893?  The final two movements, Andante and Finale, were completed by his former student and fellow composer, Sergei Taneyev.

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

3.

How is the process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semi-permeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one, known?

Osmosis

4.

What is the name of the double membrane organelles that convert glucose into adenosine triphosphate, used as a source of energy?

Mitochondria

5.

Who only became an MP at the age of 45, has represented Leeds Central since 1999, and is currently Chair of the Exiting the EU Select Committee?

Hilary Benn

6.

Who only became an MP at the age of 53, has represented Holborn and St Pancras since 2015, and is now the Shadow Secretary for State for Exiting the EU?

Keir Starmer

7.

An Armenian alchemist founded a company bearing his name in Constantinople in 1623 making cymbals.  The company is still extant today, although now based in the USA, and is the world’s largest manufacturer of that instrument.  Who was that Armenian?

(Avedis) Zildjian

8.

Ikutaro Kakehashi left his job in 1972 to found his own keyboard company.  Contrary to popular belief he did not base the company’s name on a certain French epic poem but chose it because he wanted a two syllable word with soft consonants.  What is the company?

Roland

Sp.

The Caledonian MacBrayne sailings between Ardrossan and Brodick (journey time 55 minutes) and, in the summer season only, between Claonaig and Lochranza (journey time 30 minutes), connect which Scottish island with the mainland?

Arran

1.

What UNESCO world heritage site, which only received its designation in June 2014, currently consists of 33 separate sites, some previously so designated, and is spread over 3 different nations?  It is expected to expand as another five nations wish to add sites to it.

Silk Road

2.

Complete Lady Bracknell’s diatribe “Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.  If it did, it would prove a serious danger to…...."

The upper classes

3.

Which aircraft company designed and built the Empire for Imperial airways?  First flown in 1936 they were the mainstay of long range services to South Africa and Australia.

Short (Brothers)

4.

Which Lakeland fell is 2,736 feet high and described by Wainwright as “a climb deserving of high priority”?  It is often climbed in conjunction with its neighbours Bowfell, Pike of Blisco, Rossett Pike and Cold Pike to make a complete round of the head of Great Langdale.

Crinkle Crags

5.

Which band was formed in 1984 by vocalist Roland Gift and two former members of The Beat?  They won a Brit award for their album The Raw and the Cooked in 1990.

Fine Young Cannibals

6.

Which bitter brewed under the Courage label uses target hops and has an ABV of 4.8%?  It was purported to have been brewed at the Alton brewery specifically for a very select customer base long before it was made available for sale to the general public.

Directors

7.

Which novel written by a celebrated author born in 1918 would be the next in line for publication: Memento Mori, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Bachelors…....…?

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

(Muriel Spark)

8.

Which archaic article of clothing still forms part of the formal attire of the bishops and ministers in the Church of Denmark and shares its name with the common name of a wading bird, formerly called 'Philomachus pugnax'?  It can be seen in British estuaries on their spring and autumn passage to and from Africa and Scandinavia.

Ruff

Sp.

Two teams will contest the Babcock trophy at Twickenham on 29th of April.  All 80,000 seats have been sold.  It will be the 100th meeting between the two teams since the first official match in 1907.  Which team will wear blue shirts and shorts?

The Royal Navy

(v the Army, Rugby match)

1.

British Actress

Which British actress recently played Doctor Carmichael in the BBC television miniseries Apple Tree Yard?  Early in her career she was twice nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress, the second being in the 1998 film Hilary and Jackie for her portrayal of Jacqueline de Pre

Emily Watson

2.

Oscar Winners

Who won an Academy Award in 1941 for best director for his work on The Grapes of Wrath?

John Ford

3.

Tasteless TV

In Celebrity Juice shown on 24th of April 2016 it was revealed that Keith Lemon is the half-brother of which former professional footballer turned television pundit and co-presenter of Ninja Warrior UK?

Chris Kamara

4.

Italian Food

The literal translation of the Italian dish of arancini is 'little orange'.  What is the basic ingredient that is used to encase a variety of fillings while being shaped into a ball, coated with breadcrumbs and deep fried?

(risotto) Rice

5.

Dub poetry

Who wrote the poem Reggae fi Peach in memory of the school teacher Blair Peach murdered in 1979 by fascist thugs masquerading as police officers?

Lynton Kwesi Johnson

6.

Nineties pop music

Which band who had a UK number one single in the summer of 1996 took their name, which makes absolutely no meteorological sense, from a misheard lyric in the song Raspberry Beret by Prince?

The Lightning Seeds

7.

Poetry

With what specially invented implement of 1871 did a strigiforme, recently united in wedlock to a felidae, use to dine on a dish of ground meat and sliced quince?

Runcible spoon

8.

Etymology

Which word in modern English is derived from Ancient Greek and literally translates to 'a revealer of figs'?  It was used in ancient Greece to refer to somebody who brought unjustified prosecutions, although in modern English it has come to mean a servile and insincere flatterer.

Sycophant

9.

Birds

Five extant genera make up the infraclass the palaeognaths, or ratites.  Kiwis, emus, rheas and ostriches are four.  Which genus, consisting of three species, is the fifth?

Cassowaries

10.

Japanese geography

The town and province of Satsuma are found on which Japanese island, the most southerly of the four main islands?

Kyushu

11.

Twentieth Century novelists

Which author published a collection of short stories in 1966 entitled Plum Pie when he was aged 85?  It contained many characters and locations that appeared in his earlier novels including Bingo Little.

PG Wodehouse

12.

Film franchises

In the last of a tired franchise Herbie goes Bananas the mischievous orphan Paco who befriends Pete and DJ in Mexico insists on calling Herbie “Ocho”. Why?

(all 3 elements required for the points)

Ocho is Spanish for 8, Herbie’s number is 53, and 5+3 = 8

13.

Football Goalkeepers

Stephen Pears played more than 400 competitive games as goalkeeper for which football club?

Middlesbrough

14.

Cocktails

The International Bartenders Association list of ingredients for a pina colada are: 3 parts pineapple juice, one part white rum and one part…....?

Coconut milk

(accept coconut cream)

15.

National flags

Which nation’s flag, a tricolour, derives its colours from the dish Chiles en Nogada? It consists of poblano peppers stuffed with meat and spices, a sauce made from walnuts all adorned with a sprinkling of pomegranate seeds.

Mexico

16.

Which foodstuff was referenced in the title of Neneh Cherry’s debut album released in 1989?

17.

Railway network

Every weekday at 9.52 am a train operated by East Midlands Trains leaves Liverpool Lime Street.  What will be its fifteenth and final station stop at 15.11?

Norwich

18.

Sixties pop music

Strawberry Fields Forever was released in February 1967 on a double A-sided single.  In a neat juxtaposition what song was on the other A-side?

Penny Lane

19.

Bible Study

Who according to the Second Book of Samuel chapter 15 ascended the Mount of Olives, weeping, whilst fleeing from his own son, Absalom, who had usurped him?

King David

20.

Mammals

All species of the parvorder Odontoceti, which contains the toothed whales, and all dolphins and porpoises, possess a melon, a mass of adipose tissue of triglycerides and wax esters forming part of the nasal structure.  Which is the largest species of this parvorder?

Sperm Whale

1.

Which word has multiple meanings including a heraldic device of narrow diagonal bands interlaced through a diamond?  It also refers to a metallic part on certain stringed instruments, and is used by locals to describe a cold sea fog along the North Sea coastline.

Fret

2.

What is essential for life but cannot be synthesised by guinea pigs, possibly all bats and many primates including humans?  Our recommended daily intake according to the UK Food Standards Agency is 40 mg and must be met through diet or, once the Reichstein process had been developed in the 1930s, supplements.

Vitamin C

3.

What utilitarian item was patented by Stephen Perry in 1845?  Apparently the country’s largest user went through 872million of them in 2007-8, although to eradicate a perceived littering problem they adopted a policy of using red coloured ones in 2004.

Elastic (or rubber) band

4.

Who was named Edwin in 1930 but is almost universally known by a nickname whose source was his elder sister who couldn’t pronounce the word brother?  As a pilot in the USAF he was credited with shooting down two Mig 15s.

Buzz Aldrin

5.

What charity with the slogan 'poverty is political' was founded in 1951?  Its General Secretary between 1983 and 1987 was George Galloway.

War on Want

6.

Which London thoroughfare, which appears on the standard UK Monopoly board, was given its name in 1638 on account of its sinuous shape?

Bow Street

7.

What method was first used by Liebnitz in 1676 to calculate the derivative of the square root of 'a + bz + cz squared'?

The chain rule

8.

Which word has long been used colloquially by Private Eye as a term of opprobrium, or possibly endearment, for a particular profession?  Its derivation is a shortened form of a once popular mode of transport that was both in plentiful supply and cheap and easy to hire, hence the colloquialism.

Hack

(from Hackney carriage)

Sp.

The A406 begins in Chiswick at Junction 1 of the M4 and passes through the suburbs of Ealing, Willesden, Wembley, Southgate, Tottenham, Woodford and Barking to a junction with the A13 north of Woolwich.  By what name is it more commonly known?

North Circular

1.

Of the 52 nations that comprise the Commonwealth which has the highest population density?

Singapore

(7800 people per sq km)

2.

Which female protagonist in a Pulitzer Prize winning play offers the following advice: “So the two together mean white woods, like an orchard in spring.  You can remember it by that.”?

Blanche Dubois

(in A Streetcar Named Desire)

3.

Indian forces commenced military hostilities against which European nation on the 17th of December 1961? The conflict lasted 18 hours, resulted in 52 deaths and ended with the Indians achieving their objectives.

Portugal

(with the Indians gaining control of Goa)

4.

The public house in the village of Penruddock just off the A66 Keswick Penrith road is named after which breed of sheep that is closely associated with the Lake District?

The Herdwick

5.

Michel Roux’s recipe for 300ml of classic mayonnaise sauce calls for the following ingredients: 2 egg yolks, 2 tablespoons of white wine vinegar or lemon juice, a pinch of salt and pepper, 250 ml of groundnut oil and one tablespoon of…....?

(Dijon) mustard

6.

7.

Macula

8.

Madonna of the Pinks was painted in or around 1507 probably for a Perugian nun.  It was bought for the National Gallery for £35m in 2004 having been attributed to which artist by Renaissance scholar Nicholas Penny in 1991?

Raphael

Sp.

The word supercilious is derived from the Latin word for which bodily feature?

eyebrow

(supercilium)

1.

The source of which river is in Northamptonshire near a decisive battlefield of the English Civil War?  After meandering south westerly over 85 miles it becomes a tributary of another river near a decisive battlefield of the War of the Roses.

Avon

(Naseby and Tewkesbury)

2.

What English surname was derived during the Middle Ages from the occupation of poet or minstrel?  It was borne by the second man to have collected a European Cup winner’s medal at 2 different football clubs.

3.

Who was the Member of Parliament for North East Fife from 1987 until he retired in 2015?  He had competed for Britain in the final of the 4 by 100m sprint relay in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, although the team finished last.

Sir Ming Campbell

4.

In which French dialect, langues d’oil, was the song P’tit Quinquin, meaning 'little child', written in 1853?  It has become an unofficial anthem of Lille and the Nord Pas de Calais region in general.

Picard

5.

Which sorceress, the sister of Europa and the daughter of Oceanus and Parthenope, shares her name with a geographic region that is bounded by the Balkan Mountains to the North, the Aegean Sea to the South and the Black Sea to the East?

Thrace

6.

The Wanamaker Grand Court Organ in Philadelphia is the largest playable instrument in the world.  It features a six manual console.  The Choir, the Great and the Swell form the first three manuals but what is the fourth?

The Solo

7.

Which Pennine village is served by a station on the Settle and Carlisle Railway that is four miles to the east and 400 feet higher than the village it purports to serve?  The station is the first to be encountered after traversing the Ribblehead viaduct when travelling northwards.

Dent

8.

Sp.

Why did Karl Marx only drink Red Bush tea?

Because all proper tea is theft