Who was the first US president to appear on the front cover of TIME magazine?  He did so a week after the magazine was first published, just five months before his death in office.

The unfortunate Harding appeared only once on TIME's front cover.  Which US president appeared there a record 55 times during the course of his political career?  The last issue to accord him this honour appeared on May 2nd 1994.

Though considered by Gibbon and other western historians to have been one of the five good ones, the name of which Roman Emperor, born in 76 AD in modern-day Spain, is traditionally followed in Jewish references by the curse “May his bones be crushed”?

After suppressing the long running Bar Kokhba revolt, the Roman Emperor Hadrian ordered that the name of which historic and troublesome province be wiped forever off the map and merged into the larger province of Syria Palestina?

Lying beside the mouth of the river Medway and with a population of just over 12,000 what is the largest town of the Isle of Sheppey?

Which 1838 oil painting depicts a final journey from Sheerness to Rotherhithe?

According to Nietzsche, what was God’s second mistake?

Which fictional character offered the following literary advice to his employer:

“You would not enjoy Nietzsche, Sir. He is fundamentally unsound”?

So you are lounging in a pub in downtown Buenos Aires, watching the football.  In small letters on the top left of the screen it says:

ARSE 1: NOB 1

Which two Argentinian league clubs are playing?

In 1933 a question was tabled in the House of Commons about the unfeasible size of the sprite's genitalia on the sculpture Prospero and Ariel which had recently been unveiled over the front entrance of the BBC's Broadcasting House in London.  Who was the controversial sculptor?

On 19th August 1975 the Test Match between England and Australia had to be abandoned after a protest demanding the release of which prisoner?

Name the American Fortune 500 company, founded in 1886, whose health care products include Tylenol, Neutrogena and Acuvue contact lenses.

One of only two politicians to serve in 3 of the 4 great offices of state without ever becoming Prime Minister (i.e. he served as Chancellor, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary).  He retired from politics in 1965.  How was he popularly known?

Born in 1968 and executed in 2001 which American domestic terrorist perpetrated the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people and injured over 680 others?

Which city, also known as Benares and Kashi, on the banks of the river Ganges in the state of Uttar Pradesh in North India is the holiest of the seven sacred cities in Hinduism and Jainism, and played an important role in the development of Buddhism?

Whose name appeared in the opening credits of films from 1958 to 1971 as Secretary of the British Board of Film Censors?

Coloured brown on the London Underground map, which line runs between Harrow & Wealdstone in suburban north-west London and Elephant & Castle in south London?

Born 1893 which senior officer of the United States Army during World War II was the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and oversaw the U.S. military's policy-making in the Korean War?

Which international test cricketer played 149 games for his country between 1997 and 2014, scoring 11,814 runs?  He shares a surname with a leader of his country (first as Prime Minister and later as President) from 1977 to 1989.

Complete the final two words of this quotation, originally said of William Pitt the Elder, but said by Churchill’s private secretary John Martin to be equally true of him:

“Nobody left his presence without feeling a ……..”

What name connects the following 3 people:

The son in law of James Callaghan; an American comedian and TV presenter; an American rapper and record producer whose real first name is Shawn?

What connects the following 4 titles:

The Dark Tower; The love of the Last Tycoon; Sanditon; Amerika?

Which comedy series of the 2000s had characters called Lois, Francis, Reese and Dewey?

“We’re no strangers to love. You know the rules and so do I”, are the opening lines of which 1990s song?

“Would you dance if I asked you to dance or would you run and never look back” are the opening lines of which 2001 song?

Which 1990s drama series had characters named Frank Furillo, Mick Belker, Andy Renko and Neal Washington?

What connects the following 4 titles:

The Power; The Glorious Heresies; How To Be Both; A Girl Is A Half Formed Thing?

What name connects the following 3:

South African tennis player ranked 8 in men’s singles (Oct 2018); the real name of Neo in the Matrix films; an American actress who played the parts of Lady Dedlock in the BBC version of Bleak House and DSI Stella Gibson in the BBC drama The Fall?

Which American comedy TV series had characters Elliot Reid, Perry Cox, Bob Kelso, Janitor and The Todd?

Name this partially reusable heavy-lift space vehicle designed and manufactured by SpaceX.  Its maiden launch was on 6th February this year when it carried a Tesla Roadster (an electric sports car) that belonged to SpaceX's founder, Elon Musk.

A title given to the legendary medieval German folk hero, Lohengrin who travelled in a boat pulled by these creatures. .Amongst other literary works, he is the subject of a famous opera by Richard Wagner.

In astronomy this is catalogued as Messier 16 and is a young and open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens.  The name refers to visual impressions of the dark silhouette near its centre an area made famous for containing the three giant gas clouds known as The Pillars of Creation imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995.

This 1984 American drama film based on a 1978 novel of the same name starred Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage and focusses on the friendship between the two main characters as teenage boys through to their traumatic experiences in the Vietnam War.  The film title is the nickname given to Modine's character.

This precious object studded with many jewels originally belonged to the Mughal emperors of India and was the symbol of their reign.  It was captured by the Persians in the 18th century and taken away as a war trophy.  A replacement based on the original was later commissioned and stood in the Red Fort until the Indian rebellion of 1857.  What was it?

Name the lady played by Michael Palin in a Monty Python sketch who gets beaten up and then has to guess the name of her assailant.  She keeps coming back for more in the hope she will get a good kicking from Alastair Cooke.  When asked if she has a very unusual name, she replies: “Yes, it’s Simon”.

Name the American professional baseball team which has won eleven World Series Championships, the second most in Major League Baseball after the New York Yankees and the most in the National League.  Busch Stadium has been their home ballpark since 2006.

Complete the next line of this verse to a famous song:

“I may be right I may be wrong
But I'm perfectly willing to swear
That when you turned and smiled at me...........?

This name was given to a type of early modern human whose bones were originally found in the 19th century at a cave near this site of the same name in South West France.

This very large, mostly terrestrial, bird of prey is endemic to Africa and is usually found in the open grasslands and savannah of the sub-Saharan region.  Its Latin name is 'Sagittarius Serpentarius' and it appears on the coat of arms of Sudan and South Africa. Name it.

Known for her incisive but warm and compassionate reporting style and also for her quaint accent, what nationality is Lyse Doucet, Chief International Correspondent for the BBC?

After some ladylike kicking against the pricks at the BBC who eventually, in 2007, became the first woman to commentate on a Premier League football game for Match of the Day?

Who in 2009 became the first female to win an Oscar for Best Director?  Her film was also voted the Best Picture, again the first time this award was given to a woman director.

Who was the first woman to win the Pulitzer prize for Literature?  She did so in 1921 for her novel The Age of Innocence?

Who was the American born Sunday Times reporter killed along with a French photographer during the Siege of Homs in February 2012?  Famous for her eye-patch and reckless bravery, her family have since gathered evidence that the Syrian government had directly ordered her targeted assassination.

In which EU country did Daphne Anne Caruana Galizia die in a car bomb explosion in October 2017?  She was a journalist investigating links between her government and organised crime.

In November 2018 Ilhan Omar from Minnesota became the first Muslim former inhabitant of a refugee camp and also the first hijabi to be elected to the United States Congress.  In which country was she born?

Apart from being the first woman from Northern Ireland to become president, why was the inauguration of Mary McAleese as the 8th president of the Republic of Ireland in 1997 a significant first in world politics?

Who is the Bishop of Stockport? She became the first woman to be consecrated a bishop by the Church of England in January 2015?

In July 2014 Judith Weir became the first woman to be appointed to which post first held by Nicholas Lanier in 1626?

Retired English football coach born Gateshead 1936, best known for his spell at Southampton;

2001 war film about the battle for Stalingrad starring Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz.

A founder of the rock band Cream;

1978 hit by Gerry Rafferty.

1987 American Romcom fantasy starring Robin Wright and Mandy Patinkin;

2004 Bollywood style adaptation of a Jane Austen novel.

The final words spoken by Hamlet;

Song written by the Four Seasons that was a hit for The Tremeloes in 1967.

Group formed in 1989 by the brothers Fairbrass;

The longest reigning King of Prussia who ironically died in his armchair in 1786.

Song with the opening lines ”Dig if you will a picture of you and I engaged in a kiss”;

1995 film based on a novel by Alan Paton starring James Earl Jones and Richard Harris.

Chelsea midfielder aged 28 formerly of Leicester City - middle name Noel;

Surname of prolific architect 1830-1905 whose works include Strangeways and Manchester Town Hall.

The MP for Camberwell and Peckham since 1997;

2004 film starring Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning set in Mexico City in which he plays her bodyguard.

Character played by Gary Oldman in the Harry Potter films;

You want it Darker by Leonard Cohen was the opening theme tune of this BBC drama of September 2018.

Born on this day in 1901, this famous nuclear scientist was the central figure in Germany's efforts to develop a nuclear bomb during World War II.  Amongst many other achievements, he was responsible for the matrix formulation of quantum mechanics.  Who was he?

Deceased on this day in 1560 at the age of just 16, Francis II of France had only a brief reign during which he was under the control of his wife's relatives, the Guise family, whose failures allowed the outbreak of a 30 year civil war between Catholics and Protestants.  His wife is a famous person in British history.  Who was she?

Deceased on this day in 1791, Mozart was commemorated by the Austrian musician, Falco in a song that became a hit throughout Europe including the UK and also in the US where it topped the singles charts in 1986.  What was it called?

Born on this day in 1782, he was the first American president to be born in the United States (as opposed to a British subject in colonial America).  He is chiefly remembered in America today for being vigorously (and ultimately unsuccessfully) opposed to the inclusion of Texas as a state of the Union.  Who was he?

Born on this day in 1946 who, along with Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo formed the highly popular and successful musical trio known as The Three Tenors?

Deceased on this day in 2012 at the age of ninety-one, this world-famous Jazz pianist was considered a music legend and was most well-known for his single Take Five.  Name him.

Born on this day in 1932 this rock and roll singer, songwriter and pianist's most celebrated work dates from the mid-1950s when his dynamic music and charismatic showmanship presaged the rise of rock and roll and influenced many other rhythm and blues artists.  He was chosen by Rolling Stone Magazine as the eighth greatest artist of all time.

Deceased on this day in 1969, Princess Alice of Battenberg was commemorated after her death as one of the few gentiles recognised as 'Righteous Among the Nations' by Israel's Holocaust Memorial Institution, Yad Vashem, for her role in hiding a Jewish family from the Nazis during the Second World War.  Who is her more famous son?

Born on this day in 1905 in Austria, this American theatre and film director (and occasional actor) was especially known for pushing the boundaries of censorship in confronting Hollywood taboos such as drug addiction (The Man With The Golden Arm), rape (Anatomy of a Murder) and homosexuality (Advise & Consent).  Who was he?

Deceased on this day in 1995, this British mountaineer was Sir John Hunt's deputy leader in the successful expedition to be the first to climb Mount Everest in 1953.  Two years later he led another successful expedition to be the first to climb the world's third highest mountain, Kanchenjunga.  Name him.

Situated in the North West of the country and with an area slightly larger than the UK what is Mexico’s largest state?

Having St John’s as its capital what is the full name of Canada’s most easterly province?

Who reached number 2 in the US singles chart in 1979 with the Bruce Springsteen song Fire? They also had a UK Top 10 hit two years later with Slow Hand.

Which particularly unsuccessful manager of the England football team once wrote his squad list on the back of a fag packet?  His secretary then dutifully typed it up and released it to the press, thus inadvertently calling up Ron Benson of Plymouth Argyle and Tony Hedges, a 46 year old York City veteran, for international duty.

What is the German word for a snout?  Germans also use the word colloquially for a moustache, particularly an untidy one of undisciplined and luxuriant growth.

What name is given in North America to a relish made by pickling a combination of vegetables in a canning jar?  Broadly speaking, it is similar to what the British call piccalilli.

Legendary footballers Nobby Stiles, Stan Bowles and Brian Kidd were all born here within sight of the sluggish river Irk.  So too was comedian Les Dawson and left wing playwright Jim Allen.  The Palladium variety club stood here in its heyday; later it became the Electric Circus which breathed life into Manchester’s emergent Punk Rock scene.  Which district of Manchester are we talking about?

The Duke of Edinburgh, Eric Sykes, Bobby Charlton and Eric Clapton are just some of the people who have paid to have their portrait painted by which former Gloucestershire and England cricketer who retired in 2004?  Always eccentric and determined to do things his own way, he took up painting after seeing a Rembrandt and thinking “I could do that”.

What long distance footpath runs from Milngavie, near Glasgow to Fort William?

What name is given to the breed of dog produced by crossing a Russian Harlequin Hound with a Norwegian scent hound?  Perhaps unfairly, they are frequently barred from all South Manchester pubs except the Griffin due to their (alleged) tendency to pass wind under the table and dry-hump anything that moves.

Who was the first US president to appear on the front cover of TIME magazine?  He did so a week after the magazine was first published, just five months before his death in office.

The unfortunate Harding appeared only once on TIME's front cover.  Which US president appeared there a record 55 times during the course of his political career?  The last issue to accord him this honour appeared on May 2nd 1994.

Though considered by Gibbon and other western historians to have been one of the five good ones, the name of which Roman Emperor, born in 76 AD in modern-day Spain, is traditionally followed in Jewish references by the curse “May his bones be crushed”?

After suppressing the long running Bar Kokhba revolt, the Roman Emperor Hadrian ordered that the name of which historic and troublesome province be wiped forever off the map and merged into the larger province of Syria Palestina?

Lying beside the mouth of the river Medway and with a population of just over 12,000 what is the largest town of the Isle of Sheppey?

Which 1838 oil painting depicts a final journey from Sheerness to Rotherhithe?

According to Nietzsche, what was God’s second mistake?

Which fictional character offered the following literary advice to his employer:

“You would not enjoy Nietzsche, Sir. He is fundamentally unsound”?

So you are lounging in a pub in downtown Buenos Aires, watching the football.  In small letters on the top left of the screen it says:

ARSE 1: NOB 1

Which two Argentinian league clubs are playing?

In 1933 a question was tabled in the House of Commons about the unfeasible size of the sprite's genitalia on the sculpture Prospero and Ariel which had recently been unveiled over the front entrance of the BBC's Broadcasting House in London.  Who was the controversial sculptor?

On 19th August 1975 the Test Match between England and Australia had to be abandoned after a protest demanding the release of which prisoner?

Name the American Fortune 500 company, founded in 1886, whose health care products include Tylenol, Neutrogena and Acuvue contact lenses.

One of only two politicians to serve in 3 of the 4 great offices of state without ever becoming Prime Minister (i.e. he served as Chancellor, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary).  He retired from politics in 1965.  How was he popularly known?

Born in 1968 and executed in 2001 which American domestic terrorist perpetrated the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people and injured over 680 others?

Which city, also known as Benares and Kashi, on the banks of the river Ganges in the state of Uttar Pradesh in North India is the holiest of the seven sacred cities in Hinduism and Jainism, and played an important role in the development of Buddhism?

Whose name appeared in the opening credits of films from 1958 to 1971 as Secretary of the British Board of Film Censors?

Coloured brown on the London Underground map, which line runs between Harrow & Wealdstone in suburban north-west London and Elephant & Castle in south London?

Born 1893 which senior officer of the United States Army during World War II was the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and oversaw the U.S. military's policy-making in the Korean War?

Which international test cricketer played 149 games for his country between 1997 and 2014, scoring 11,814 runs?  He shares a surname with a leader of his country (first as Prime Minister and later as President) from 1977 to 1989.

Complete the final two words of this quotation, originally said of William Pitt the Elder, but said by Churchill’s private secretary John Martin to be equally true of him:

“Nobody left his presence without feeling a ……..”

Theme: Each answer includes the name of a member of the Conservative Government who resigned over Brexit...
David Davis, Brexit Secretary; Jo Johnson, Transport Minister; Boris Johnson, Foreign Secretary
Dominic Raab, Brexit Secretary; Esther McVey, Work and Pensions Secretary; Shailesh Vara, Northern Ireland Minister; Anne-Marie Trevelyan, Education Minister's Private Secretary; Steve Baker, Brexit Minister; Ben Bradley, Conservative Party Vice-Chair; Ranil Jayawardena, Ministerial Aide; Suella Braverman, Junior Brexit Secretary

What name connects the following 3 people:

The son in law of James Callaghan; an American comedian and TV presenter; an American rapper and record producer whose real first name is Shawn?

What connects the following 4 titles:

The Dark Tower; The love of the Last Tycoon; Sanditon; Amerika?

Which comedy series of the 2000s had characters called Lois, Francis, Reese and Dewey?

“We’re no strangers to love. You know the rules and so do I”, are the opening lines of which 1990s song?

“Would you dance if I asked you to dance or would you run and never look back” are the opening lines of which 2001 song?

Which 1990s drama series had characters named Frank Furillo, Mick Belker, Andy Renko and Neal Washington?

What connects the following 4 titles:

The Power; The Glorious Heresies; How To Be Both; A Girl Is A Half Formed Thing?

What name connects the following 3:

South African tennis player ranked 8 in men’s singles (Oct 2018); the real name of Neo in the Matrix films; an American actress who played the parts of Lady Dedlock in the BBC version of Bleak House and DSI Stella Gibson in the BBC drama The Fall?

Which American comedy TV series had characters Elliot Reid, Perry Cox, Bob Kelso, Janitor and The Todd?

Name this partially reusable heavy-lift space vehicle designed and manufactured by SpaceX.  Its maiden launch was on 6th February this year when it carried a Tesla Roadster (an electric sports car) that belonged to SpaceX's founder, Elon Musk.

A title given to the legendary medieval German folk hero, Lohengrin who travelled in a boat pulled by these creatures. .Amongst other literary works, he is the subject of a famous opera by Richard Wagner.

In astronomy this is catalogued as Messier 16 and is a young and open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens.  The name refers to visual impressions of the dark silhouette near its centre an area made famous for containing the three giant gas clouds known as The Pillars of Creation imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995.

This 1984 American drama film based on a 1978 novel of the same name starred Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage and focusses on the friendship between the two main characters as teenage boys through to their traumatic experiences in the Vietnam War.  The film title is the nickname given to Modine's character.

This precious object studded with many jewels originally belonged to the Mughal emperors of India and was the symbol of their reign.  It was captured by the Persians in the 18th century and taken away as a war trophy.  A replacement based on the original was later commissioned and stood in the Red Fort until the Indian rebellion of 1857.  What was it?

Name the lady played by Michael Palin in a Monty Python sketch who gets beaten up and then has to guess the name of her assailant.  She keeps coming back for more in the hope she will get a good kicking from Alastair Cooke.  When asked if she has a very unusual name, she replies: “Yes, it’s Simon”.

Name the American professional baseball team which has won eleven World Series Championships, the second most in Major League Baseball after the New York Yankees and the most in the National League.  Busch Stadium has been their home ballpark since 2006.

This name was given to a type of early modern human whose bones were originally found in the 19th century at a cave near this site of the same name in South West France.

This very large, mostly terrestrial, bird of prey is endemic to Africa and is usually found in the open grasslands and savannah of the sub-Saharan region.  Its Latin name is 'Sagittarius Serpentarius' and it appears on the coat of arms of Sudan and South Africa. Name it.

Known for her incisive but warm and compassionate reporting style and also for her quaint accent, what nationality is Lyse Doucet, Chief International Correspondent for the BBC?

After some ladylike kicking against the pricks at the BBC who eventually, in 2007, became the first woman to commentate on a Premier League football game for Match of the Day?

Who in 2009 became the first female to win an Oscar for Best Director?  Her film was also voted the Best Picture, again the first time this award was given to a woman director.

Who was the first woman to win the Pulitzer prize for Literature?  She did so in 1921 for her novel The Age of Innocence?

Who was the American born Sunday Times reporter killed along with a French photographer during the Siege of Homs in February 2012?  Famous for her eye-patch and reckless bravery, her family have since gathered evidence that the Syrian government had directly ordered her targeted assassination.

In which EU country did Daphne Anne Caruana Galizia die in a car bomb explosion in October 2017?  She was a journalist investigating links between her government and organised crime.

In November 2018 Ilhan Omar from Minnesota became the first Muslim former inhabitant of a refugee camp and also the first hijabi to be elected to the United States Congress.  In which country was she born?

Apart from being the first woman from Northern Ireland to become president, why was the inauguration of Mary McAleese as the 8th president of the Republic of Ireland in 1997 a significant first in world politics?

Who is the Bishop of Stockport? She became the first woman to be consecrated a bishop by the Church of England in January 2015?

In July 2014 Judith Weir became the first woman to be appointed to which post first held by Nicholas Lanier in 1626?

Retired English football coach born Gateshead 1936, best known for his spell at Southampton;

2001 war film about the battle for Stalingrad starring Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz.

A founder of the rock band Cream;

1978 hit by Gerry Rafferty.

1987 American Romcom fantasy starring Robin Wright and Mandy Patinkin;

2004 Bollywood style adaptation of a Jane Austen novel.

The final words spoken by Hamlet;

Song written by the Four Seasons that was a hit for The Tremeloes in 1967.

Group formed in 1989 by the brothers Fairbrass;

The longest reigning King of Prussia who ironically died in his armchair in 1786.

Song with the opening lines ”Dig if you will a picture of you and I engaged in a kiss”;

1995 film based on a novel by Alan Paton starring James Earl Jones and Richard Harris.

Chelsea midfielder aged 28 formerly of Leicester City - middle name Noel;

Surname of prolific architect 1830-1905 whose works include Strangeways and Manchester Town Hall.

The MP for Camberwell and Peckham since 1997;

2004 film starring Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning set in Mexico City in which he plays her bodyguard.

Character played by Gary Oldman in the Harry Potter films;

You want it Darker by Leonard Cohen was the opening theme tune of this BBC drama of September 2018.

Born on this day in 1901, this famous nuclear scientist was the central figure in Germany's efforts to develop a nuclear bomb during World War II.  Amongst many other achievements, he was responsible for the matrix formulation of quantum mechanics.  Who was he?

Deceased on this day in 1560 at the age of just 16, Francis II of France had only a brief reign during which he was under the control of his wife's relatives, the Guise family, whose failures allowed the outbreak of a 30 year civil war between Catholics and Protestants.  His wife is a famous person in British history.  Who was she?

Deceased on this day in 1791, Mozart was commemorated by the Austrian musician, Falco in a song that became a hit throughout Europe including the UK and also in the US where it topped the singles charts in 1986.  What was it called?

Born on this day in 1782, he was the first American president to be born in the United States (as opposed to a British subject in colonial America).  He is chiefly remembered in America today for being vigorously (and ultimately unsuccessfully) opposed to the inclusion of Texas as a state of the Union.  Who was he?

Born on this day in 1946 who, along with Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo formed the highly popular and successful musical trio known as The Three Tenors?

Deceased on this day in 2012 at the age of ninety-one, this world-famous Jazz pianist was considered a music legend and was most well-known for his single Take Five.  Name him.

Born on this day in 1932 this rock and roll singer, songwriter and pianist's most celebrated work dates from the mid-1950s when his dynamic music and charismatic showmanship presaged the rise of rock and roll and influenced many other rhythm and blues artists.  He was chosen by Rolling Stone Magazine as the eighth greatest artist of all time.

Deceased on this day in 1969, Princess Alice of Battenberg was commemorated after her death as one of the few gentiles recognised as 'Righteous Among the Nations' by Israel's Holocaust Memorial Institution, Yad Vashem, for her role in hiding a Jewish family from the Nazis during the Second World War.  Who is her more famous son?

Born on this day in 1905 in Austria, this American theatre and film director (and occasional actor) was especially known for pushing the boundaries of censorship in confronting Hollywood taboos such as drug addiction (The Man With The Golden Arm), rape (Anatomy of a Murder) and homosexuality (Advise & Consent).  Who was he?

Deceased on this day in 1995, this British mountaineer was Sir John Hunt's deputy leader in the successful expedition to be the first to climb Mount Everest in 1953.  Two years later he led another successful expedition to be the first to climb the world's third highest mountain, Kanchenjunga.  Name him.

Situated in the North West of the country and with an area slightly larger than the UK what is Mexico’s largest state?

Having St John’s as its capital what is the full name of Canada’s most easterly province?

Who reached number 2 in the US singles chart in 1979 with the Bruce Springsteen song Fire? They also had a UK Top 10 hit two years later with Slow Hand.

Which particularly unsuccessful manager of the England football team once wrote his squad list on the back of a fag packet?  His secretary then dutifully typed it up and released it to the press, thus inadvertently calling up Ron Benson of Plymouth Argyle and Tony Hedges, a 46 year old York City veteran, for international duty.

What is the German word for a snout?  Germans also use the word colloquially for a moustache, particularly an untidy one of undisciplined and luxuriant growth.

What name is given in North America to a relish made by pickling a combination of vegetables in a canning jar?  Broadly speaking, it is similar to what the British call piccalilli.

Legendary footballers Nobby Stiles, Stan Bowles and Brian Kidd were all born here within sight of the sluggish river Irk.  So too was comedian Les Dawson and left wing playwright Jim Allen.  The Palladium variety club stood here in its heyday; later it became the Electric Circus which breathed life into Manchester’s emergent Punk Rock scene.  Which district of Manchester are we talking about?

The Duke of Edinburgh, Eric Sykes, Bobby Charlton and Eric Clapton are just some of the people who have paid to have their portrait painted by which former Gloucestershire and England cricketer who retired in 2004?  Always eccentric and determined to do things his own way, he took up painting after seeing a Rembrandt and thinking “I could do that”.

What long distance footpath runs from Milngavie, near Glasgow to Fort William?

What name is given to the breed of dog produced by crossing a Russian Harlequin Hound with a Norwegian scent hound?  Perhaps unfairly, they are frequently barred from all South Manchester pubs except the Griffin due to their (alleged) tendency to pass wind under the table and dry-hump anything that moves.