ROUND 1 - Stockport style - Verbal

1.

Apart from being Nobel Laureates, what else connects Marie and Pierre Curie, J J Thomson, Niels Bohr, and William Henry Bragg?

2.

Which novel, published in 1852, was subtitled Life Among the Lowly and was for a time the best-selling book in the USA after the Bible?

3.

4.

Her middle name was Sydenstricker; she was also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzou.  Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

5.

By what name was Adelard Cunin better known?  Seven of his associates died on 14th February 1929.

6.

Which is the only territory of the mainland Americas that is still part of a European country?

7.

With 148 caps, which New Zealander, who retired in 2015, is the most capped male rugby union player?

8.

Who was the last former British PM to return to another Cabinet role, having done so in the 1970s?

9.

In 1737, Benjamin Franklin published a dictionary of more than 200 phrases to describe what human condition, examples of which are: 'burdock’d'; 'he’s kiss’d black Betty'; 'has dipp’d his bill'; 'his flag is out'; 'got the glanders'; 'got on his little hat'; 'nimptopsical'; 'been too free with Sir John Strawberry'; 'wasted his paunch'?

10.

Which Oxford college was founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham as 'The College of St Mary of Winchester in Oxford'?  Its present name came to be used to distinguish it from the existing college of St Mary, which is now known as Oriel College.

11.

Which Oxford college was founded in 1886 by a great-niece of William Wordsworth, who named it after a French noble and monk, who became Bishop of Lincoln?

12.

Which director, whose middle name was Blount, appeared as himself in Sunset Boulevard? 

13.

Known locally as 'kwaJimu' ('Jim’s Land'), by what name is this mission station and trading post on the Buffalo River better known?  In January 1879, it was the scene of a famous battle.

14.

Apart from being Nobel Laureates, what else connects J J Thomson, William Lawrence Bragg, Niels Bohr, and James Chadwick?

15.

Who was once introduced as “the first trained killer to lead a political party”?   He was born in India and lived in Northern Ireland from the age of 4.  He was sent to school in England, where his Irish brogue led to him being known by a different name from his birth name, which was Jeremy.

16.

Who was the first President of the Royal Astronomical Society?  He was also a musician and a composer of 24 symphonies.

17.

In which novel of 1831, set in the year 1482, is the protagonist elected Pope of Fools on Twelfth Night and carried in carnival procession through the streets?

18.

In which building is the Domesday Book manuscript kept?  Its postcode is TW9 4DU.

19.

20.

Which monarch, who died in 1832, as heir apparent, held the courtesy title of 'King of Rome'?  His mother was Marie Louise of Austria, his father’s second wife.  Following his death, age 21, he was awarded the nickname 'the Eagle'.  (name and regnal number required)

21.

Who was the first person to hold the office of Deputy Prime Minister of the UK?  He was the MP for Limehouse until the constituency was abolished in 1950.

22.

Who was the first British p.o.w. to succeed in escaping from Colditz?  He was MP for Abingdon from 1953 until his death from unnatural causes in 1979. 

23.

Established in 1894 in Flagstaff and named after its founder, at which observatory was Pluto discovered in 1930?

24.

Born Rubén Zaldívar in 1901, by which name was the dictator who rose to power as part of the 1933 'Revolt of the Sergeants' better known?

25.

Which social reformer was the first woman to be depicted on US coinage when her portrait appeared on the short-lived dollar between 1979 and 1981?  She died before the ratification of the 19th Amendment which guaranteed the right of women to vote and which was colloquially named after her.

26.

Yerba Buena was the original name of a Californian settlement that became which city in 1847 when it was renamed by Lieutenant Washington Bartlett?  It was arranged around a plaza that remains as the present day Portsmouth Square, south of Telegraph Hill.

27.

Which is the third largest island in Italy? Its only monarch stayed for 300 days following the Treaty of Fontainebleau.

28.

In 1988, who became the first goalkeeper to save a penalty in an FA Cup Final and the first goalkeeper to lift the cup as captain of the winning team?  In 2015, he became the oldest person to be selected in the squad for a match in Football League history while representing Stevenage as a substitute in the League Two Play-Off semi-final second leg, at the age of 56.

29.

Which cathedral has the longest nave and greatest overall length of any Gothic cathedral in Europe and is the burial place of St Swithun?  The crypt, which frequently floods, houses a statue by Antony Gormley, called Sound II.  Its postcode is SO23 9LS.

30.

During the span of its usage until its retirement in 1977, which implement has gone by many names, including 'The Regretful Climb', 'The Silence Mill', 'Capet’s Necktie', 'The Patriotic Shortener' and 'The Half Moon'?

Sp1

Gitega became the new capital of which country on 16 January 2019?

Sp2

Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, was renamed in honour of its first President, who resigned on 19 March 2019.  What is its new name?

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ROUND 2 - Stockport style - Written

Each answers shares a common feature

1.

Which parliamentary constituency was abolished in 1983?  Its last MP was John Gummer.

2.

Which publication, founded in 1945 by Pierre Lazareff and his wife Hélène Gordon, is the world's largest fashion magazine, with 43 international editions in over 60 countries?

3.

What is the surname of the character played by Martin Shaw in the legal drama TV series created by G F Newman?

4.

In what year was Eton college founded, and did Johannes van Eyck die?

5.

What nickname was given to the character in the TV series MASH due to his ability to hear helicopters before anyone else?

6.

Which company’s name is used in the name of the Lansdowne Road sports stadium in Dublin?

7.

Which top 20 hit from Kate Bush’s album Lionheart contains the lines: “Ooh, yeah, you're amazing! We think you're incredible”?

8.

In poetry, how is an 'enclosed rhyme' rhyming scheme denoted?

9.

What is Pip’s surname in the novel Great Expectations?

10.

In the film Airplane!, what is the name of the large blow-up doll who is the plane's autopilot?

Sp.

According to the Book of Samuel, who was the mother of Samuel?

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ROUND 3 - WithQuiz style - 'Mr Men Bingo'

1.

What was the stage name of Ferdinand LaMothe, an American ragtime and early jazz pianist born in New Orleans in 1890?  He wrote King Porter Stomp, Wolverine Blues, and Black Bottom Stomp.

2.

Which capital city was known until 1918, and briefly during Nazi occupation, as Reval?  It is often dubbed the 'Silicon Valley of Europe'.  It is the birthplace of Skype and was a European Capital of Culture for 2011.

3.

What is the stage name of rapper Dylan Mills?  He released his debut album Boy in da Corner in 2003 and had a hit single with Bonkers in 2009.

4.

Which TV programme that ran for three series from 2003 to 2006 featured a number of well-known men talking about any issues of modern life which irritate them?  Regular contributors included Jeremy Clarkson, Bob Geldof, Bill Nighy, John Peel, Arthur Smith, Tim Rice and Rick Wakeman.

5.

Which archipelago comprises five inhabited islands and numerous small rocky islets, whose main settlements are Hugh Town and New Grimsby?

6.

Starting in 1927, what was created by Gutzon Borglum?  The location was given its present name in 1930 and was known previously by names such as 'The Six Grandfathers' and 'Keystone Cliffs'. 

7.

In which film does Mae West say to Cary Grant "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?"

8.

In music theory, what term is given to the musical interval that spans seven semitones, with a frequency ratio of 3:2 (or very nearly so)?

9.

In financial circles, what term is used for a small, brief recovery in the price of a declining stock?

10.

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ROUND 4 - WithQuiz style - 'Haydn Seek'

The answers share a theme- note that some answers my depend on part words and sound-alikes to comply with the theme.

1.

Which 1986 film starred then-newlyweds Sean Penn and Madonna?  She plays a missionary nurse who wants to obtain opium to ease the suffering of her patients and he helps her to get hold of a stolen supply of the drug.

2.

Which film of 1971 opens with the 'humble narrator' protagonist seated with his acolytes Dim, Georgie and Pete in the Korova Milk Bar?

3.

What were the first two names of the wife of the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I?  She was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last of the House of Habsburg.

4.

Which member of the Russell Group was founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb, Graham Wallas, and George Bernard Shaw for the betterment of society, and started awarding its own degrees in 2008?

5.

What three-word term is used to describe the medal-round ice hockey match at the 1980 Winter Olympics in which the amateur USA team beat the professional players of the Soviet Union who had won the gold medal in five of the previous six Olympics? .

6.

Which dormant title in the peerage of England was held by 20 members of the de Vere family from 1141?  The 17th holder of the title has become the most famous of the line because of his emergence as a popular alternative candidate as the author of the works of Shakespeare.

7.

What is the full name of the trade union that was founded in 1976 via the merger of two unions that had previously represented people of different gender?  Its General Secretary is Chris Keates.  With over 300,000 members, it is the second-largest union representing this profession.

8.

Which novel of 1929, based on the author’s own experiences, is a first-person account of a love affair during WW1 between Frederic Henry, an American paramedic serving in the ambulance corps of the Italian army, and an English nurse named Catherine Barkley?

Sp

Which 1951 film directed by John Huston is based on a 1935 novel of the same name by C S Forester? It garnered the Academy Award for Best Actor.

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ROUND 5 - WithQuiz style - 'Not in Full Working Order'

The answers share a theme - note that some answers my depend on part words and sound-alikes to comply with the theme.

1.

Which Muppets characters are named after two New York City hotels?

2.

In which town was Agatha Christie born? It is the home of Kents Cavern, an important Stone Age site.

3.

Which actress has had roles in the films The Last Picture Show, Taxi Driver, and The Lady Vanishes?  She also stared in a popular 80s TV show as Maddie Hayes?

4.

Which singer, actress, choreographer and dancer had a worldwide hi  with the song Mickey in 1981?

5.

Which American company, founded in 1869, has employed a number of people who have moved on to government positions, notable examples being the USA Secretary of the Treasury, Steven Mnuchin; the President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi; and the current Governor of the Bank of England?

6.

Which journalist, born in 1946, has been a columnist for The Guardian since 1998, and has previously worked as social affairs editor for the BBC?  In 2003 she published Hard Work: Life in Low-pay Britain about an experimental period voluntarily living on the minimum wage.

7.

Which dictator who ruled from 1983 to 1989 was captured by the USA and sentenced to 40 years imprisonment, was subsequently extradited to France, and from there back to his native country, where he died in 2017 following surgery for a brain tumour?

8.

Which four words complete the following lyrics of Cole Porter’s Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye: “There's no love song finer but how strange the change - - - -”?

Sp1

Which novel published in 1925 begins with the line “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since”?  Alternative titles that were considered include Among Ash-Heaps and Millionaires and On the Road to West Egg.

Sp2

What is the surname of the character played by Sidney Poitier in the 1967 film In the Heat of the Night?  He reprised the role in a sequel whose title included his name.

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ROUND 6 - WithQuiz style - 'A Final Treat'

The answers share a theme- note that some answers my depend on part words and sound-alikes to comply with the theme.

1.

Which chart-topping duet of 1984 ended a 9-week run at the top for Two Tribes by Frankie Goes To Hollywood?  It contains the line: “Should've known better than to cheat a friend”.

2.

Which ensemble was led by Simon Jeffes from 1972 to 1997, its most famous piece probably being Telephone and Rubber Band?  Their Scherzo and Trio is the theme music for Radio 4’s Round Britain Quiz.

3.

Which 1973 film, directed by Clint Eastwood, features a mysterious stranger who rides into a town called Lago?  He orders that every building in the town be painted blood red and, when he rides out of town, he pauses to replace 'Lago' on the town sign with 'Hell'.

4.

Which 1967 novel by the Australian Joan Lindsay, set in 1900, was turned into a film directed by Peter Weir?

5.

Which global magazine was first published as a London listings magazine in 1968 with 'Whispering' Bob Harris as co-editor?  Its title was inspired by a Dave Brubeck album. 

6.

Which hard rock band, formed in 1985, has released albums including Appetite For Destruction, and Chinese Democracy?  The vocalist’s stage name could be interpreted as an anagram of an activity between consenting adults, and the guitarist’s stage name could be regarded as a euphemism for a bodily function.

7.

Cobi Jones holds the record for most appearances, and Landon Donovan holds the goal scoring record, for which founding member of Major League Soccer?

8.

What hyphenated word completes these lines from Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky: “One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went … !”?

Sp1

Which 1965 film is based on the true WW2 story as recounted in the book Skis Against the Atom, concerning a raid on a Norwegian heavy water plant? 

Sp2

Which ship was originally the collier Bethia, built in 1784?  It was purchased by the Royal Navy for a single mission to acquire breadfruit plants and to transport them to the West Indies in the hope that they would grow well there and become a cheap source of food for slaves?  Its remains were rediscovered in 1957.

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Tiebreaker

On 16th September 2018, Denise Mueller-Korenek broke the land speed cycling record while riding in the slipstream of a dragster racer on Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.  What speed did she achieve in mph, to 1 decimal place?

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ROUND 1 - Stockport style - Verbal

1.

Apart from being Nobel Laureates, what else connects Marie and Pierre Curie, J J Thomson, Niels Bohr, and William Henry Bragg?

They had a child who was also a Nobel Laureate

2.

Which novel, published in 1852, was subtitled Life Among the Lowly and was for a time the best-selling book in the USA after the Bible?

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

3.

Henry IV

4.

Her middle name was Sydenstricker; she was also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzou.  Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Pearl S Buck

5.

By what name was Adelard Cunin better known?  Seven of his associates died on 14th February 1929.

'Bugs' Moran

(they died in the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre)

6.

Which is the only territory of the mainland Americas that is still part of a European country?

French Guiana

7.

With 148 caps, which New Zealander, who retired in 2015, is the most capped male rugby union player?

Richie McCaw

8.

Who was the last former British PM to return to another Cabinet role, having done so in the 1970s?

Alec Douglas-Home

(he was Foreign Secretary between 1970 and 1974)

9.

In 1737, Benjamin Franklin published a dictionary of more than 200 phrases to describe what human condition, examples of which are: 'burdock’d'; 'he’s kiss’d black Betty'; 'has dipp’d his bill'; 'his flag is out'; 'got the glanders'; 'got on his little hat'; 'nimptopsical'; 'been too free with Sir John Strawberry'; 'wasted his paunch'?

Being inebriated

(or drunk)

10.

Which Oxford college was founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham as 'The College of St Mary of Winchester in Oxford'?  Its present name came to be used to distinguish it from the existing college of St Mary, which is now known as Oriel College.

New College

11.

Which Oxford college was founded in 1886 by a great-niece of William Wordsworth, who named it after a French noble and monk, who became Bishop of Lincoln?

St Hugh’s College

12.

Which director, whose middle name was Blount, appeared as himself in Sunset Boulevard? 

Cecil B De Mille

13.

Known locally as 'kwaJimu' ('Jim’s Land'), by what name is this mission station and trading post on the Buffalo River better known?  In January 1879, it was the scene of a famous battle.

Rorke’s Drift

(named after Jim Rorke, an Irish merchant)

14.

Apart from being Nobel Laureates, what else connects J J Thomson, William Lawrence Bragg, Niels Bohr, and James Chadwick?

They studied at Manchester University

15.

Who was once introduced as “the first trained killer to lead a political party”?   He was born in India and lived in Northern Ireland from the age of 4.  He was sent to school in England, where his Irish brogue led to him being known by a different name from his birth name, which was Jeremy.

Paddy Ashdown

16.

Who was the first President of the Royal Astronomical Society?  He was also a musician and a composer of 24 symphonies.

William Hersche

17.

In which novel of 1831, set in the year 1482, is the protagonist elected Pope of Fools on Twelfth Night and carried in carnival procession through the streets?

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

18.

In which building is the Domesday Book manuscript kept?  Its postcode is TW9 4DU.

The National Archives

(at Kew)

19.

Joseph Cotten

20.

Which monarch, who died in 1832, as heir apparent, held the courtesy title of 'King of Rome'?  His mother was Marie Louise of Austria, his father’s second wife.  Following his death, age 21, he was awarded the nickname 'the Eagle'.  (name and regnal number required)

Napoleon II

21.

Who was the first person to hold the office of Deputy Prime Minister of the UK?  He was the MP for Limehouse until the constituency was abolished in 1950.

Clement Attlee

22.

Who was the first British p.o.w. to succeed in escaping from Colditz?  He was MP for Abingdon from 1953 until his death from unnatural causes in 1979. 

Airey Neave

23.

Established in 1894 in Flagstaff and named after its founder, at which observatory was Pluto discovered in 1930?

The Lowell Observatory

24.

Born Rubén Zaldívar in 1901, by which name was the dictator who rose to power as part of the 1933 'Revolt of the Sergeants' better known?

(Fulgencio) Batista

25.

Which social reformer was the first woman to be depicted on US coinage when her portrait appeared on the short-lived dollar between 1979 and 1981?  She died before the ratification of the 19th Amendment which guaranteed the right of women to vote and which was colloquially named after her.

Susan B Anthony

26.

Yerba Buena was the original name of a Californian settlement that became which city in 1847 when it was renamed by Lieutenant Washington Bartlett?  It was arranged around a plaza that remains as the present day Portsmouth Square, south of Telegraph Hill.

San Francisco

27.

Which is the third largest island in Italy? Its only monarch stayed for 300 days following the Treaty of Fontainebleau.

Elba

(its monarch being Napoleon Bonaparte)

28.

In 1988, who became the first goalkeeper to save a penalty in an FA Cup Final and the first goalkeeper to lift the cup as captain of the winning team?  In 2015, he became the oldest person to be selected in the squad for a match in Football League history while representing Stevenage as a substitute in the League Two Play-Off semi-final second leg, at the age of 56.

Dave Beasant

29.

Which cathedral has the longest nave and greatest overall length of any Gothic cathedral in Europe and is the burial place of St Swithun?  The crypt, which frequently floods, houses a statue by Antony Gormley, called Sound II.  Its postcode is SO23 9LS.

Winchester Cathedral

30.

During the span of its usage until its retirement in 1977, which implement has gone by many names, including 'The Regretful Climb', 'The Silence Mill', 'Capet’s Necktie', 'The Patriotic Shortener' and 'The Half Moon'?

The guillotine

Sp1

Gitega became the new capital of which country on 16 January 2019?

Sp2

Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, was renamed in honour of its first President, who resigned on 19 March 2019.  What is its new name?

ROUND 2 - Stockport style - Written

Each answers shares a common feature

1.

Which parliamentary constituency was abolished in 1983?  Its last MP was John Gummer.

Eye

2.

Which publication, founded in 1945 by Pierre Lazareff and his wife Hélène Gordon, is the world's largest fashion magazine, with 43 international editions in over 60 countries?

Elle

3.

What is the surname of the character played by Martin Shaw in the legal drama TV series created by G F Newman?

Deed

4.

In what year was Eton college founded, and did Johannes van Eyck die?

1441

5.

What nickname was given to the character in the TV series MASH due to his ability to hear helicopters before anyone else?

Radar

6.

Which company’s name is used in the name of the Lansdowne Road sports stadium in Dublin?

Aviva

7.

Which top 20 hit from Kate Bush’s album Lionheart contains the lines: “Ooh, yeah, you're amazing! We think you're incredible”?

Wow

8.

In poetry, how is an 'enclosed rhyme' rhyming scheme denoted?

ABBA

9.

What is Pip’s surname in the novel Great Expectations?

Pirrip

10.

In the film Airplane!, what is the name of the large blow-up doll who is the plane's autopilot?

Otto

Sp.

According to the Book of Samuel, who was the mother of Samuel?

Hannah

Theme: Each answer is a palindrome

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ROUND 3 - WithQuiz style - 'Mr Men Bingo'

1.

What was the stage name of Ferdinand LaMothe, an American ragtime and early jazz pianist born in New Orleans in 1890?  He wrote King Porter Stomp, Wolverine Blues, and Black Bottom Stomp.

 Jelly Roll Morton

2.

Which capital city was known until 1918, and briefly during Nazi occupation, as Reval?  It is often dubbed the 'Silicon Valley of Europe'.  It is the birthplace of Skype and was a European Capital of Culture for 2011.

Tallinn

3.

What is the stage name of rapper Dylan Mills?  He released his debut album Boy in da Corner in 2003 and had a hit single with Bonkers in 2009.

Dizzee Rascal

4.

Which TV programme that ran for three series from 2003 to 2006 featured a number of well-known men talking about any issues of modern life which irritate them?  Regular contributors included Jeremy Clarkson, Bob Geldof, Bill Nighy, John Peel, Arthur Smith, Tim Rice and Rick Wakeman.

Grumpy Old Men

5.

Which archipelago comprises five inhabited islands and numerous small rocky islets, whose main settlements are Hugh Town and New Grimsby?

 Isles of Scilly

6.

Starting in 1927, what was created by Gutzon Borglum?  The location was given its present name in 1930 and was known previously by names such as 'The Six Grandfathers' and 'Keystone Cliffs'. 

Mount Rushmore Memorial

7.

In which film does Mae West say to Cary Grant "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?"

She Done Him Wrong

8.

In music theory, what term is given to the musical interval that spans seven semitones, with a frequency ratio of 3:2 (or very nearly so)?

Perfect fifth

9.

In financial circles, what term is used for a small, brief recovery in the price of a declining stock?

Dead Cat Bounce

10.

In the lyrics of Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3

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ROUND 4 - WithQuiz style - 'Haydn Seek'

The answers share a theme - note that some answers my depend on part words and sound-alikes to comply with the theme.

1.

Which 1986 film starred then-newlyweds Sean Penn and Madonna?  She plays a missionary nurse who wants to obtain opium to ease the suffering of her patients and he helps her to get hold of a stolen supply of the drug.

Shanghai Surprise

2.

Which film of 1971 opens with the 'humble narrator' protagonist seated with his acolytes Dim, Georgie and Pete in the Korova Milk Bar?

A Clockwork Orange

3.

What were the first two names of the wife of the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I?  She was the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last of the House of Habsburg.

Maria Theresa

4.

Which member of the Russell Group was founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidney Webb, Beatrice Webb, Graham Wallas, and George Bernard Shaw for the betterment of society, and started awarding its own degrees in 2008?

London School of Economics.

5.

What three-word term is used to describe the medal-round ice hockey match at the 1980 Winter Olympics in which the amateur USA team beat the professional players of the Soviet Union who had won the gold medal in five of the previous six Olympics? .

Miracle on Ice

6.

Which dormant title in the peerage of England was held by 20 members of the de Vere family from 1141?  The 17th holder of the title has become the most famous of the line because of his emergence as a popular alternative candidate as the author of the works of Shakespeare.

Earl of Oxford

7.

What is the full name of the trade union that was founded in 1976 via the merger of two unions that had previously represented people of different gender?  Its General Secretary is Chris Keates.  With over 300,000 members, it is the second-largest union representing this profession.

National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers

8.

Which novel of 1929, based on the author’s own experiences, is a first-person account of a love affair during WW1 between Frederic Henry, an American paramedic serving in the ambulance corps of the Italian army, and an English nurse named Catherine Barkley?

A Farewell To Arms

Sp

Which 1951 film directed by John Huston is based on a 1935 novel of the same name by C S Forester? It garnered the Academy Award for Best Actor.

The African Queen

Theme: Each answer contains the nickname of a Haydn Symphony

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ROUND 5 - WithQuiz style - 'Not in Full Working Order'

The answers share a theme - note that some answers my depend on part words and sound-alikes to comply with the theme.

1.

Which Muppets characters are named after two New York City hotels?

Statler and Waldorf

2.

In which town was Agatha Christie born? It is the home of Kents Cavern, an important Stone Age site.

Torquay

3.

Which actress has had roles in the films The Last Picture Show, Taxi Driver, and The Lady Vanishes?  She also stared in a popular 80s TV show as Maddie Hayes?

Cybill Shepherd

4.

Which singer, actress, choreographer and dancer had a worldwide hi  with the song Mickey in 1981?

Toni Basil

5.

Which American company, founded in 1869, has employed a number of people who have moved on to government positions, notable examples being the USA Secretary of the Treasury, Steven Mnuchin; the President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi; and the current Governor of the Bank of England?

Goldman Sachs

6.

Which journalist, born in 1946, has been a columnist for The Guardian since 1998, and has previously worked as social affairs editor for the BBC?  In 2003 she published Hard Work: Life in Low-pay Britain about an experimental period voluntarily living on the minimum wage.

Polly Toynbee

7.

Which dictator who ruled from 1983 to 1989 was captured by the USA and sentenced to 40 years imprisonment, was subsequently extradited to France, and from there back to his native country, where he died in 2017 following surgery for a brain tumour?

Manuel Noriega

8.

Which four words complete the following lyrics of Cole Porter’s Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye: “There's no love song finer but how strange the change - - - -”?

"from major to minor"

Sp1

Which novel published in 1925 begins with the line “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since”?  Alternative titles that were considered include Among Ash-Heaps and Millionaires and On the Road to West Egg.

The Great Gatsby

Sp2

What is the surname of the character played by Sidney Poitier in the 1967 film In the Heat of the Night?  He reprised the role in a sequel whose title included his name.

Tibbs

Theme: Each answer contains a reference to Fawlty Towers

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ROUND 6 - WithQuiz style - 'A Final Treat'

The answers share a theme - note that some answers my depend on part words and sound-alikes to comply with the theme.

1.

Which chart-topping duet of 1984 ended a 9-week run at the top for Two Tribes by Frankie Goes To Hollywood?  It contains the line: “Should've known better than to cheat a friend”.

Careless Whisper

2.

Which ensemble was led by Simon Jeffes from 1972 to 1997, its most famous piece probably being Telephone and Rubber Band?  Their Scherzo and Trio is the theme music for Radio 4’s Round Britain Quiz.

Penguin Café Orchestra

3.

Which 1973 film, directed by Clint Eastwood, features a mysterious stranger who rides into a town called Lago?  He orders that every building in the town be painted blood red and, when he rides out of town, he pauses to replace 'Lago' on the town sign with 'Hell'.

High Plains Drifter

4.

Which 1967 novel by the Australian Joan Lindsay, set in 1900, was turned into a film directed by Peter Weir?

Picnic at Hanging Rock

5.

Which global magazine was first published as a London listings magazine in 1968 with 'Whispering' Bob Harris as co-editor?  Its title was inspired by a Dave Brubeck album. 

Time Out

6.

Which hard rock band, formed in 1985, has released albums including Appetite For Destruction, and Chinese Democracy?  The vocalist’s stage name could be interpreted as an anagram of an activity between consenting adults, and the guitarist’s stage name could be regarded as a euphemism for a bodily function.

Guns N’ Roses

(Axl Rose/Oral Sex, and Slash)

7.

Cobi Jones holds the record for most appearances, and Landon Donovan holds the goal scoring record, for which founding member of Major League Soccer?

LA Galaxy

8.

What hyphenated word completes these lines from Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky: “One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went … !”?

Snicker-snack

Sp1

Which 1965 film is based on the true WW2 story as recounted in the book Skis Against the Atom, concerning a raid on a Norwegian heavy water plant? 

The Heroes of Telemark

Sp2

Which ship was originally the collier Bethia, built in 1784?  It was purchased by the Royal Navy for a single mission to acquire breadfruit plants and to transport them to the West Indies in the hope that they would grow well there and become a cheap source of food for slaves?  Its remains were rediscovered in 1957.

HMS Bounty

Theme: Each answer contains the name of a chocolate bar

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Tiebreaker

On 16th September 2018, Denise Mueller-Korenek broke the land speed cycling record while riding in the slipstream of a dragster racer on Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.  What speed did she achieve in mph, to 1 decimal place?

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