ROUND 1 - 'The Three Rs'

1.

Name the twelve letter English noun, with Ancient Greek origins, which contains 8 vowels.

2.

The following French phrase rarely crops up in everyday conversation so how is it useful?

"Buvez de ce whisky que le patron juge fameux."

(in English: "Drink some of this whisky which the boss finds excellent.")

3.

How can you add eight 8s to get the number 1000? (only use addition )

4.

What digit is the most frequent between the numbers 1 and 1000 (inclusive)?

5.

Fabula De Petro Cuniculo is the Latin version of which classic 1902 book?

6.

Aurae Inter Salices is the Latin version of which classic book first published in 1908?

7.

Ancient Egyptian and which other language are inscribed on the Rosetta stone?

8.

One of the earliest written stories in Middle English is Beowulf.  The mead hall of which king of the Geats is being attacked by Grendel, later slain by the hero?

Sp1

In which inn does Jim Hawkins live at the start of Treasure Island?

Sp2

What animal is Hathi in Jungle Book?

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ROUND 2 - 'Light Relief'

Choose a number between one and ten

1.

This unit of length is used for measuring light waves.  It is one tenth of a nanometer, which is to say one ten billionth of a metre.  What is it called?

2.

Which colourful US commander was relieved of his command of the Third Army on Oct 7th 1945, following aggressive statements towards the USSR and trivialising denazification?

3.

A work of high relief is Mount Rushmore.  If George Washington is on the left and Lincoln on the right which two are in the middle?

4.

"For this relief much thanks. 'Tis bitter cold and I am sick at heart." are lines from which Shakespeare play?

5.

“In the darkness there must come out to light.” is a line from which Bob Marley song?

6.

The Life of Riley, Change, and Lucky You were hits in the 1990s for which band?

7.

There was considerable relief on February 2nd 1852 when the world’s first public convenience for men was opened on which very famous street in Central London?

8.

Which famous Alfred Hitchcock film was the first Hollywood movie to feature a toilet being flushed?

9.

Name the leader of the Charge of the Light Brigade and his overall Commanding Officer.  Both are also terms in fashion.

10.

On Sept 8th 1879 eight carbon arc lamps were unveiled as ‘Artificial Sunshine’ thus beginning which long standing event?

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ROUND 3 - Pairs

1.

Developed in the 1960s, the Chorleywood Process is now used almost exclusively in the UK manufacture of which 'daily' product that was first made over 30,000 years ago?

2.

The Kraft process, employed for the first time in the 1890s, is now used almost exclusively in the industrial production of which common everyday commodity that was first made almost 2000 years ago in China?

3.

Of the 92 Premier League and Football League Clubs only two have managers born in the 1940s.  Name both managers and both clubs.

4.

Only two current Premier League clubs have had their manager in place for more than five years.  Name both managers and both clubs.

5.

In the1962 film The Longest Day, which British actor, with strong ties at that time to the White House, played the part of Lord Lovat, the D-Day commander of forces on Sword Beach who was piped ashore by his personal bagpiper?

6.

In the 1977 film A Bridge Too Far, which British actor played the part of General Horrocks, Commander of the land forces attacking the bridges along the Rhine in 1944.  Four years earlier this actor had enjoyed considerable success in the film adaptation of one of Frederick Forsyth's novels.

7.

What, in 1897, did the leader of the Independent Labour Party Keir Hardie describe as "bread and circuses, without the bread"?

8.

With which event, in 1901, are Leon Czogolz and the City of Buffalo associated?

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ROUND 4 - Chronology

The only link is that the events referred to happened in chronological order

1.

In Cape Town, South Africa, Louis Waskansky received it, and Denise Darvall sadly donated it.  With which event are these individuals linked?

2.

"My brother need not be idolised…in death beyond what he was in life…"  Who spoke these words after a prominent assassination in the United States?

3.

A conflict on the Ussiri River, the border between two countries, table tennis and a bold gamble - all resulted in an improbable meeting between which two men?

4.

Lieutenant Colonel Netanyahu died, along with all the militants in this operation from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine together with soldiers from another country.  In which city did this take place?

5.

With which event are two Sikhs, Beant Singh and Satwant Singh, associated following the storming of their sacred shrine The Golden Temple of Amritsar?

6.

"Oh here we are, and here we are, and here we go" was the first line sung at which 'global jukebox'?

7.

Debris and bodies scattered along an 81 mile corridor, a 155 feet long crater and eleven deaths on the ground were key features of which horrific event?

8.

Which simple Christmas Day announcement brought to an end an institution that had endured for 69 years during which time it had been feted by The Beatles in a 1968 song?

Sp1

Hundreds of protestors are killed but only after an iconic photograph is taken showing a lone man standing in front of a column of tanks.  Where?

Sp2

Give the years for the eight events described in questions 1 to 8 above (Tiananmen Square took place in 1989).

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ROUND 5 - 'Land'

1.

Published in 1956, The Last Battle was the seventh and final novel in a series set in which fictional land?

2.

Which group won Best Album at the Brit Awards in 2004 for their debut album called Permission to Land?

3.

What is the most populous country in the world to have a name ending in the letters 'land'?

4.

Which 'land', featured in a play called The Birds by Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, has come to be used as a general term for a state of absurdly over-optimistic fantasy?

5.

Reading from what turned out to be the wrong card, which individual mistakenly named La La Land as the winner of the Best Picture Oscar at the 2017 Academy Awards Ceremony?

6.

In a famous novel, what name is given to the land that is made up of four countries called Winkie, Gillikin, Munchkin and Quadling?

7.

Which animated film is set in Pepperland?

8.

What is the only country in the world to display a map of its land on its flag?

Sp

In which well-known poem do the title characters go to “the land where the Bong-tree grows”?

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ROUND 6 - Pairs

1.

Who is the current editor of The Times newspaper?

2.

Who is the current editor of The Spectator magazine?

3.

Who was the first black captain of the West Indies cricket team?

4.

Which England coach and assistant tour manager, a former international, died during a test match on the 1981 tour to the West Indies?

5.

According to the classic text book 1066 and All That, there are only two memorable dates in British history – the Norman Conquest in 1066 and which other event that happened over a thousand years earlier?

6.

Which 14th century battle does 1066 and All That describe thus: “This decisive battle of the world was fought during a total eclipse of the sun and naturally ended in a victory for the All-Black Prince, who very romantically won his Spurs by slaughtering one third of the French nobility.”?

7.

Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven all died in which city?

8.

Which composer has a steak dish named after him?

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ROUND 7 - Hidden theme

1.

The Barbizon School was a nineteenth-century French art movement which brought nature as the main focus rather than as a mere backdrop.  The inspiration for the movement’s formation was an 1824 Paris exhibition by which artist?

2.

Which title is shared by: a 1962 Elvis Presley Golden Globe-nominated film, in which Return To Sender was part of the soundtrack; a 1987 album by the heavy metal band Motley Crue; a 1976 UK top 10 hit by Sailor?

3.

Which comedy travel documentary series, created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, and starring Karl Pilkington, ran for 3 series between 2010 and 2012, becoming the most-watched non-terrestrial TV programme since 2005?

4.

Which play, written in 1959 but set in 1879, about a coal strike in the north of England, tells the story of 4 army deserters?  The town’s authorities, unknowing of their deserter status and keen to reduce local unemployment, hire them as army recruiters, with violent, disastrous consequences, as the 4 turn their guns on the locals in a twisted attempt to avenge the deaths of innocent people that they had witnessed in their recent war service abroad.

5.

What was the appropriate surname of the couple, Richard and Mildred, who won the landmark civil rights victory against Virginia State in the US Supreme Court in June 1967, which ended laws prohibiting inter-racial marriage throughout the USA?

6.

What is the science-fiction film of 2016 in which the eponymous character, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, loses the use of his hands after a car accident and, in seeking a remedy, becomes a powerful sorcerer in a battle with dark forces who threaten world destruction?

7.

Which Christian name links phrases, sayings or descriptions which mean: a certain weather type; a free spirit; an all-rounder; and don’t work too hard?

8.

Name the legendary British horseracing trainer who, over a 36-year period from 1975 to 2011 won 25 British Classics.  He was champion trainer 10 times.  With most of his big-race successes skewed towards the last century rather than this, a relatively long fallow period was effectively rescued by his association with the horse Frankel in the later years before his death in 2013.

Sp

Which National Hunt racehorse still holds the highest rating for a hurdler, from horseracing’s definitive assessment body, Timeform, since Timeform’s National Hunt inception in the early 1960’s?  In 1976 he achieved a clean sweep of the English, Welsh and Scottish Champion Hurdles retaining his English Champion Hurdle crown in 1977.  After switching from hurdling to steeplechasing he then finished runner-up to Little Owl in the 1981 Cheltenham Gold Cup.

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ROUND 8 - 'Today'

Four of the theme words used are sound-alikes

1.

Since 1981, 4 of England’s 19 cricket captains have played for Essex CCC, accounting for over a third of the total number of Test matches England have played in that time.  Name all 4 cricketers.

2.

Which Manchester-based retailer, founded in 1865 as a shoe retailer, has over 1,300 shops in the UK and Ireland, though it no longer sells shoes.  Its business is now centred on repairing them instead, along with watch repairs, key-cutting and dry-cleaning (the company having purchased Johnson’s Cleaners in 2017, which had previously been a concession within some of its stores).

3.

Give the person’s name & job-title whose predecessors since the war include: Thomas Catto; Cameron Cobbold; Rowland Baring; Leslie O’Brien; and Gordon Richardson.

4.

Between 1935 and 1962, which actress was nominated for a then-record 10 Oscars for Best Actress (winning 2 of them), an Academy Awards record only bettered subsequently, in nominations and wins, by Katharine Hepburn (12 / 4), Jack Nicholson (12 / 3) and Meryl Streep (21 / 3)?

5.

Which hereditary peer founded the National Motor Museum in the grounds of his stately home in 1952, then 2 years later was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for homosexual ‘gross offences’ with an RAF serviceman?  The latter episode is often cited as a landmark on the road to the 1957 Wolfenden Report recommending de-criminalisation of homosexual activity in private between consenting adults.

6.

Which 3 words, appearing consecutively in a dictionary, mean:

An obsessive preoccupation
To operate on a horse to improve its breathing
A mischievous imp

7.

In the 1970’s milk TV advertising campaign, what was the name of the advert's central characters, milk thieves who used red and white striped straws to suck up their booty?

8.

In 1983, whom did miners’ leader Arthur Scargill dub “the American butcher of British industry”?

Sp

Which ex-footballer’s itinerant career of over 500 games and 220 goals between 1979 and 1995, saw service at Wigan Athletic, Stockport County, Oldham Athletic, Portsmouth, Newcastle United and Coventry City?  He is now a racehorse trainer and radio broadcaster.

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This bonus round was set by young Thomas - the only member of the Electric Pigs to achieve Oxbridge status.  The rest of the 'knuckle-scraping' Pigs furrowed their collective Neanderthal brow when faced with this test of their science-based knowledge and declared it "too 'ard".  If you, on the other hand, find it a more stimulating challenge, please let us know and we will encourage our prodigy to provide more of the same!

Bonus Round - Double Species Name

Each answer contains a word that is repeated when used in the scientific name of an animal - e.g. 'Gorilla' (as in gorilla gorilla') or 'Bufo' (as in bufo bufo)

1.

Thomas Young gives his name to Young’s modulus which describes the stiffness of a material. What other name does this go by?

2.

Loki, Eris, and Apep are the Norse, Greek and Roman gods of what?

3.

Which city whose population is greater than 10 million is home to the longest continually run institution of higher learning in the Americas?

4.

Zubrowka is a dry Polish vodka flavoured with which aromatic herb?

5.

Defined as a formulated thought or opinion, what are discussed by Locke, Descartes, Russell, Hume, Plato and others?

6.

What is a swelling of the lymph nodes? They are a displayed symptom of diseases such as gonorrhoea, syphilis, tuberculosis and others.

7.

Which pokemon has for 22 years been the main mascot for the franchise?

8.

Which deodorant range is called Axe in North America? It has individual scents which include Excite, Black, Gold, Apollo and Africa.

Sp

Which English singer has had 10 top 20 singles in the last 6 years? She has had 3 solo number ones called, How Do We (party), RIP, and I Will Never Let You Down. She has also featured in DJ Fresh’s number one Hot Right Now.

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ROUND 1 - 'The Three Rs'

1.

Name the twelve letter English noun, with Ancient Greek origins, which contains 8 vowels.

onomatopoeia

2.

The following French phrase rarely crops up in everyday conversation so how is it useful?

"Buvez de ce whisky que le patron juge fameux."

(in English: "Drink some of this whisky which the boss finds excellent.")

It is a pangram

(i.e. it uses every letter of the alphabet at least once)

3.

How can you add eight 8s to get the number 1000? (only use addition )

888 +88 + 8+ 8+8

4.

What digit is the most frequent between the numbers 1 and 1000 (inclusive)?

1

(The numbers between 1 and 9 are used equal times from 1 to 999 but the addition of 1000 in the question begins a new cycle and thus the number 1 pulls ahead)

5.

Fabula De Petro Cuniculo is the Latin version of which classic 1902 book?

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

6.

Aurae Inter Salices is the Latin version of which classic book first published in 1908?

Wind In The Willows

7.

Ancient Egyptian and which other language are inscribed on the Rosetta stone?

Greek

8.

One of the earliest written stories in Middle English is Beowulf.  The mead hall of which king of the Geats is being attacked by Grendel, later slain by the hero?

Hrothgar

Sp1

In which inn does Jim Hawkins live at the start of Treasure Island?

Admiral Benbow

Sp2

What animal is Hathi in Jungle Book?

An elephant

ROUND 2 - 'Light Relief'

Choose a number between one and ten

1.

This unit of length is used for measuring light waves.  It is one tenth of a nanometer, which is to say one ten billionth of a meter.  What is it called?

2.

Which colourful US commander was relieved of his command of the Third Army on Oct 7th 1945, following aggressive statements towards the USSR and trivialising denazification?

George S Patton

3.

A work of high relief is Mount Rushmore.  If George Washington is on the left and Lincoln on the right which two are in the middle?

Thomas Jefferson & Theodore Roosevelt

4.

"For this relief much thanks. 'Tis bitter cold and I am sick at heart." are lines from which Shakespeare play?

Hamlet

5.

“In the darkness there must come out to light.” is a line from which Bob Marley song?

Could You Be Loved

6.

The Life of Riley, Change, and Lucky You were hits in the 1990s for which band?

The Lightning Seeds

7.

There was considerable relief on February 2nd 1852 when the world’s first public convenience for men was opened on which very famous street in Central London?

Fleet Street

8.

Which famous Alfred Hitchcock film was the first Hollywood movie to feature a toilet being flushed?

Psycho

9.

Name the leader of the Charge of the Light Brigade and his overall Commanding Officer.  Both are also terms in fashion.

Lord Cardigan & Lord Raglan

10.

On Sept 8th 1879 eight carbon arc lamps were unveiled as ‘Artificial Sunshine’ thus beginning which long standing event?

Blackpool Lights

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ROUND 3 - Pairs

1.

Developed in the 1960s, the Chorleywood Process is now used almost exclusively in the UK manufacture of which 'daily' product that was first made over 30,000 years ago?

Bread

(the Chorleywood process greatly decreases the production time and facilitates the use of lower protein home-grown wheat)

2.

The Kraft process, employed for the first time in the 1890s, is now used almost exclusively in the industrial production of which common everyday commodity that was first made almost 2000 years ago in China?

Paper

3.

Of the 92 Premier League and Football League Clubs only two have managers born in the 1940s.  Name both managers and both clubs.

Roy Hodgson - Crystal Palace

Neil Warnock - Cardiff City

4.

Only two current Premier League clubs have had their manager in place for more than five years.  Name both managers and both clubs.

Sean Dyche - Burnley

Eddie Howe - Bournemouth

5.

In the1962 film The Longest Day, which British actor, with strong ties at that time to the White House, played the part of Lord Lovat, the D-Day commander of forces on Sword Beach who was piped ashore by his personal bagpiper?

Peter Lawford

6.

In the 1977 film A Bridge Too Far, which British actor played the part of General Horrocks, Commander of the land forces attacking the bridges along the Rhine in 1944.  Four years earlier this actor had enjoyed considerable success in the film adaptation of one of Frederick Forsyth's novels.

Edward Fox

7.

What, in 1897, did the leader of the Independent Labour Party Keir Hardie describe as "bread and circuses, without the bread"?

Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee (accept 60th anniversary as queen)

8.

With which event, in 1901, are Leon Czogolz and the City of Buffalo associated?

The assassination of President McKinley

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ROUND 4 - Chronology

The only link is that the events referred to happened in chronological order

1.

In Cape Town, South Africa, Louis Waskansky received it, and Denise Darvall sadly donated it.  With which event are these individuals linked?

The first successful heart transplant

2.

"My brother need not be idolised…in death beyond what he was in life…"  Who spoke these words after a prominent assassination in the United States?

Edward Kennedy (speaking after the assassination of Robert Kennedy)

3.

A conflict on the Ussiri River, the border between two countries, table tennis and a bold gamble - all resulted in an improbable meeting between which two men?

President Richard Nixon and Chairman Mao

(after conflict between the Russians and Chinese along the River Ussuri border, China sent a table tennis team to play in the US as a gesture of friendship prompting Nixon to seek an opportunity to try and bring China out of the Soviet sphere of influence)

4.

Lieutenant Colonel Netanyahu died, along with all the militants in this operation from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine together with soldiers from another country.  In which city did this take place?

Entebbe

5.

With which event are two Sikhs, Beant Singh and Satwant Singh, associated following the storming of their sacred shrine The Golden Temple of Amritsar?

Assassination of Indira Gandhi

(they were the assassins)

6.

"Oh here we are, and here we are, and here we go" was the first line sung at which 'global jukebox'?

Live Aid

7.

Debris and bodies scattered along an 81 mile corridor, a 155 feet long crater and eleven deaths on the ground were key features of which horrific event?

The Lockerbie Bombing

8.

Which simple Christmas Day announcement brought to an end an institution that had endured for 69 years during which time it had been feted by The Beatles in a 1968 song?

USSR

(Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, accept Soviet Union)

Sp1

Hundreds of protestors are killed but only after an iconic photograph is taken showing a lone man standing in front of a column of tanks.  Where?

Tiananmen Square

Sp2

Give the years for the eight events described in questions 1 to 8 above (Tiananmen Square took place in 1989).

1967, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1991

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ROUND 5 - 'Land'

1.

Published in 1956, The Last Battle was the seventh and final novel in a series set in which fictional land?

Narnia

2.

Which group won Best Album at the Brit Awards in 2004 for their debut album called Permission to Land?

The Darkness

3.

What is the most populous country in the world to have a name ending in the letters 'land'?

Thailand

4.

Which 'land', featured in a play called The Birds by Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, has come to be used as a general term for a state of absurdly over-optimistic fantasy?

Cloud Cuckoo Land

5.

Reading from what turned out to be the wrong card, which individual mistakenly named La La Land as the winner of the Best Picture Oscar at the 2017 Academy Awards Ceremony?

Faye Dunaway

6.

In a famous novel, what name is given to the land that is made up of four countries called Winkie, Gillikin, Munchkin and Quadling?

Oz

(from The Wizard of Oz)

7.

Which animated film is set in Pepperland?

Yellow Submarine

8.

What is the only country in the world to display a map of its land on its flag?

Cyprus

Sp

In which well-known poem do the title characters go to “the land where the Bong-tree grows”?

The Owl and the Pussycat

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ROUND 6 - Pairs

1.

Who is the current editor of The Times newspaper?

John Witherow

2.

Who is the current editor of The Spectator magazine?

Fraser Nelson

3.

Who was the first black captain of the West Indies cricket team?

Frank Worrell

4.

Which England coach and assistant tour manager, a former international, died during a test match on the 1981 tour to the West Indies?

Ken Barrington

5.

According to the classic text book 1066 and All That, there are only two memorable dates in British history – the Norman Conquest in 1066 and which other event that happened over a thousand years earlier?

The Roman Invasion

(55BC)

6.

Which 14th century battle does 1066 and All That describe thus: “This decisive battle of the world was fought during a total eclipse of the sun and naturally ended in a victory for the All-Black Prince, who very romantically won his Spurs by slaughtering one third of the French nobility.”?

Crecy

7.

Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven all died in which city?

Vienna

8.

Which composer has a steak dish named after him?

Gioachino Rossini

(Tournedos Rossini)

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ROUND 7 - Hidden theme

1.

The Barbizon School was a nineteenth-century French art movement which brought nature as the main focus rather than as a mere backdrop.  The inspiration for the movement’s formation was an 1824 Paris exhibition by which artist?

John Constable

2.

Which title is shared by: a 1962 Elvis Presley Golden Globe-nominated film, in which Return To Sender was part of the soundtrack; a 1987 album by the heavy metal band Motley Crue; a 1976 UK top 10 hit by Sailor?

Girls, Girls, Girls

3.

Which comedy travel documentary series, created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, and starring Karl Pilkington, ran for 3 series between 2010 and 2012, becoming the most-watched non-terrestrial TV programme since 2005?

An Idiot Abroad

4.

Which play, written in 1959 but set in 1879, about a coal strike in the north of England, tells the story of 4 army deserters?  The town’s authorities, unknowing of their deserter status and keen to reduce local unemployment, hire them as army recruiters, with violent, disastrous consequences, as the 4 turn their guns on the locals in a twisted attempt to avenge the deaths of innocent people that they had witnessed in their recent war service abroad.

Sergeant Musgrave’s Dance

5.

What was the appropriate surname of the couple, Richard and Mildred, who won the landmark civil rights victory against Virginia State in the US Supreme Court in June 1967, which ended laws prohibiting inter-racial marriage throughout the USA?

Loving

6.

What is the science-fiction film of 2016 in which the eponymous character, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, loses the use of his hands after a car accident and, in seeking a remedy, becomes a powerful sorcerer in a battle with dark forces who threaten world destruction?

Doctor Strange

7.

Which Christian name links phrases, sayings or descriptions which mean: a certain weather type; a free spirit; an all-rounder; and don’t work too hard?

Jack

(Jack Frost / Jack The Lad / Jack of all trades / "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy")

8.

Name the legendary British horseracing trainer who, over a 36-year period from 1975 to 2011 won 25 British Classics.  He was champion trainer 10 times.  With most of his big-race successes skewed towards the last century rather than this, a relatively long fallow period was effectively rescued by his association with the horse Frankel in the later years before his death in 2013.

Sp

Which National Hunt racehorse still holds the highest rating for a hurdler, from horseracing’s definitive assessment body, Timeform, since Timeform’s National Hunt inception in the early 1960’s?  In 1976 he achieved a clean sweep of the English, Welsh and Scottish Champion Hurdles retaining his English Champion Hurdle crown in 1977.  After switching from hurdling to steeplechasing he then finished runner-up to Little Owl in the 1981 Cheltenham Gold Cup.

Theme: All the answers contain a name which follows ‘Carry On’ among the ‘Carry On’ series of films...

Constable ; Girls ; Abroad ; Sergeant ; Loving ; Doctor ; Jack ; Henry ; Nurse

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ROUND 8 - 'Today'

Four of the theme words used are sound-alikes

1.

Since 1981, 4 of England’s 19 cricket captains have played for Essex CCC, accounting for over a third of the total number of Test matches England have played in that time.  Name all 4 cricketers.

Keith Fletcher (7 Tests)

Graham Gooch (34) Nasser Hussain (45) Alastair Cook (59)

2.

Which Manchester-based retailer, founded in 1865 as a shoe retailer, has over 1,300 shops in the UK and Ireland, though it no longer sells shoes.  Its business is now centred on repairing them instead, along with watch repairs, key-cutting and dry-cleaning (the company having purchased Johnson’s Cleaners in 2017, which had previously been a concession within some of its stores).

Timpson’s

3.

Give the person’s name & job-title whose predecessors since the war include: Thomas Catto; Cameron Cobbold; Rowland Baring; Leslie O’Brien; and Gordon Richardson.

Mark Carney

(Governor Of The Bank Of England)

4.

Between 1935 and 1962, which actress was nominated for a then-record 10 Oscars for Best Actress (winning 2 of them), an Academy Awards record only bettered subsequently, in nominations and wins, by Katharine Hepburn (12 / 4), Jack Nicholson (12 / 3) and Meryl Streep (21 / 3)?

Bette Davis

5.

Which hereditary peer founded the National Motor Museum in the grounds of his stately home in 1952, then 2 years later was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for homosexual ‘gross offences’ with an RAF serviceman?  The latter episode is often cited as a landmark on the road to the 1957 Wolfenden Report recommending de-criminalisation of homosexual activity in private between consenting adults.

Lord Montagu of Beaulieu

6.

Which 3 words, appearing consecutively in a dictionary, mean:

An obsessive preoccupation
To operate on a horse to improve its breathing
A mischievous imp

Hobbyhorse

Hobday

Hobgoblin

7.

In the 1970’s milk TV advertising campaign, what was the name of the advert's central characters, milk thieves who used red and white striped straws to suck up their booty?

Humphreys

(”Watch out! There’s a Humphrey about!”)

8.

In 1983, whom did miners’ leader Arthur Scargill dub “the American butcher of British industry”?

Sir Ian McGregor

(head of National Coal)

Sp

Which ex-footballer’s itinerant career of over 500 games and 220 goals between 1979 and 1995, saw service at Wigan Athletic, Stockport County, Oldham Athletic, Portsmouth, Newcastle United and Coventry City?  He is now a racehorse trainer and radio broadcaster.

Micky Quinn

Theme: All the answers contain the name of a current or former presenter of Radio 4’s Today programme...

Mishal Husein ; Peter Hobday ; Martha Kearney ; Evan Davis ; Sarah Montague ; John Timpson ; John Humphrys ; Sue McGregor; Caroline Quinn

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