ROUND 1 - Stockport format - Verbal

1.

In which competition have the runners up over the past 7 years been Manchester City (three times), Chelsea (twice), Bristol Academy and Birmingham City?

2.

Who is the present editor of the Daily Mail?

3.

Elgar’s First Symphony was dedicated by the composer “To Hans Richter, Mus. Doc. True Artist and true Friend." and premiered in 1908. In which specific venue, in which city was this première?

4.

Occasionally the Post Office allows ‘semi-mnemonic’ post codes to be issued. With this in mind who would you be mailing if you used the post code ‘S6 1SW’?

5.

The famous Greek mathematician Euclid was a native of which city?

6.

Which deciduous tree has the genus name ‘fagus’?

7.

The title of a song on The Vibrators’ debut album, and specifically one particular line from that song, which postulated how someone can tell when you are dead, would later provide the inspiration for the name of another punk band. Name that Northern Irish band.

8.

What is the title of the song from the musical Mary Poppins that promotes an activity traditionally undertaken during the Chinese holiday of QingMing?

9.

Who is this young man?

10.

Which single county connects Oxfordshire to Cambridgeshire?

11.

By what Latin name is Gerard de Kremer, born in the County of Flanders in 1512, and commemorated by having a Belgian museum dedicated to cartography, named in his honour, better known?

12.

The minor road over the Hardknott Pass connects the Duddon Valley to which of the Lake District dales to its West?

13.

In which town can you find the Gustav Holst Memorial Fountain?

14.

Whose 2011 autobiography was entitled Known and Unknown - A Memoir?

15.

What type of number can be defined as: 'Any number that can be made by dividing one integer by another'?

16.

This season Manchester United Women’s team will play in the FA Women’s Super League. Which local stadium provides their home venue?

17.

Who is the present editor of the Guardian? 

18.

What is the nickname usually ascribed to Shostakovich’s 7th symphony?

19.

Occasionally the Post Office allows ‘semi-mnemonic’ post codes to be issued. With this in mind who would you be mailing if you used the post code ‘CV4 8UW’? 

20.

What is the common name given to the Euclidean theorem stating that ‘in an isosceles triangle the angles at the base equal one another, and, if the equal straight lines are produced further, then the angles under the base equal one another’?  

21.

Which deciduous tree has the genus name ‘castanea’?

22.

The inspiration for the name of which punk band came from a faded piece of graffiti celebrating Walton and Hersham’s successful challenge for the Athenian Football League title back in the 1960s?

23.

What is the title of the song from the musical My Fair Lady that has an opening line promoting an activity that would not be undertaken by someone suffering from gamophobia?

24.

Who is this young man?

25.

Three English counties starting with the letter ‘B’ are connected. Which is the most northerly of these

26.

By what Latin name is Gerard Gerards, born in Holland in 1466 or 1467 and commemorated by having an EU Education policy named after him, better known?

27.

The minor road over the Buttertubs pass connects Thwaite in Swaledale with which of the Yorkshire Dales to its South?

28.

In which British city can you walk past a statue of Desperate Dan?   

29.

Which US poet and civil rights activist born 1928 is well known for a series of 7 autobiographies? The first in 1969 was called I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

30.

What shape is described by the equation 'y=ax2 + bx + c'?

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Occasionally the theme word may be contained in a longer word

1.

Which date is traditionally celebrated in the US as Groundhog Day?

2.

In the National Lampoon series of films which actor played the part of Clark Griswold?

3.

For what product is the village of Penderyn in the Brecon Beacons famed?

4.

Which southern English port lies at the confluence of the rivers Rother, Tillingham and Brede?

5.

Which food product was originally promoted in the early 20th century as ‘Coming from Contented Cows’? 

6.

What is the Hebrew word meaning ‘the institute’?

7.

In Rigoletto what is the profession of the title character?

8.

On September 23rd 1955 Alec Guinness met a fellow actor outside a Hollywood restaurant. According to his account he looked at the actor’s car with suspicion and said "If you get in that car, you will be found dead in it by this time next week." Who was the car’s owner?

9.

Who spent 18 months in the 1970s on what he called his “Lost Weekend” with partner May Pang?

10.

Which Beatles song was interpreted by cult leader Charles Manson as a message predicting inter-racial war in the US?

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ROUND 3 - Stockport format - Written - 'Tenacity'

From the west coastline of the South American continent to the east coastline of the African continent name the 10 countries through which the Equator passes.

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ROUND 4 - WithQuiz format - 'Scouseland'

Each answer contains the name of a place in Merseyside - when the answer is a person the full name must be given.

Bingo format choose your question number.

1.

Name this former footballer, who played his last professional game in 2008 for Macclesfield Town

2.

Who succeeded Michael Heseltine as Deputy Prime Minister in May 1997?

3.

Who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role of Father Chuck O’Malley in the 1944 film Going My Way? The following year he became the first actor ever to be nominated for playing the same character in different films, when he was shortlisted for playing the same role in The Bells of St. Mary’s, opposite Ingrid Bergman.

4.

What is the name of the northernmost of County Kerry’s major peninsulas?

5.

Name this former West Indies cricketer, who had a Test batting average greater than 58.

6.

What was the full name of Liz Hurley’s character in the 1997 film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery?

7.

Which commentator was the voice of Saturday afternoon wrestling on ITV from 1955 to 1988?

8.

After the disbanding of The Jam in 1982, Paul Weller formed the Style Council. What was their debut UK single, which reached number four in March 1983?

9.

Who played Mr Bumble in the 1968 film Oliver!?

10.

Name this British star of motor sport.

11.

Distinguished by spots and stripes on its flanks, what name is given to a juvenile salmon aged from one to three years? In the lifecycle of a salmon they are the stage between fry and smolt.

12.

Which song was the first to win the Eurovision Song Contest having been sung in a language other than that of its own country?

13.

Playing Doreen, who co-starred with Albert Finney in the 1960 kitchen sink drama Saturday Night and Sunday Morning?

14.

Name this member of England’s 1966 World Cup-winning squad.

15.

Who played DCI David Bilborough in early episodes of the 1990s ITV drama Cracker?

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ROUND 5 - WithQuiz format - 'Year of the Herring'

Players must identify a year from five clues.  However, one of the five clues is a red herring (an event that took place in a different year).

If a player correctly identifies the year they may then score an additional point by correctly identifying the red herring (there is no need to identify the year of the red herring - just which of the 5 clues it is).

Years range from the 1960s to the 2000s (three from each decade).

Bingo format - Choose your question number

1.

1) Argentina invades the Falkland Islands

2) Spurs win the FA Cup

3) UK number ones include Ebony & Ivory, Come On Eileen and Eye of the Tiger

4) Birth of Prince William (Duke of Cambridge)

5) Assassination of Indira Gandhi

2.

1) Gene Cernan is the last man (to date) to walk on the moon

2) Marriage of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips

3) Lester Piggott wins the Epsom Derby on Nijinsky

4) The Sting, American Graffiti and Papillon are box-office hit

5) Pink Floyd release Dark Side of the Moon

3.

1) Independence for Jamaica

2) Cuban Missile Crisis

3) John Lennon and Cynthia Powell marry

4) Lady Chatterley’s Lover obscenity trial

5) Release of first Bond film, Dr No

4.

1) Nick Leeson brings down Barings Bank

2) South Africa wins Rugby Union World Cup

3) Eric Cantona banned after kicking a Crystal Palace fan

4) Death of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell

5) O J Simpson on trial for murder

5.

1) Live Aid concerts in London and Philadelphia

2) Bank of England £1 note ceases to be legal tender

3) End of the miners’ strike

4) Wreck of the Titanic located

5) EastEnders begins on BBC television

6.

1) Kate Winslet receives Oscars for Best Actress and Supporting Actress

2) Publication of last in the series: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

3) Jenson Button wins F1 Drivers’ Championship

4) Barack Obama succeeds George W Bush as US President

5) Roberto Mancini succeeds Mark Hughes as Manchester City manager

7.

1) Linford Christie becomes Olympic 100 metres champion

2) The Queen has an annus horribilis

3) Manchester Metrolink opens

4) Wayne’s World, Aladdin, Basic Instinct and Sister Act are box-office hits

5) Birth of Dolly the sheep, first cloned mammal

8.

1) Arsenal win the league with a last-minute goal at Anfield

2) Cinema release of Batman, Dead Poets Society and Born on the Fourth of July

3) John McCarthy and Terry Waite released from captivity in Lebanon

4) A fatwa sends Salman Rushdie into hiding

5) Nick Faldo wins US Masters

9.

1) Engagement of David Beckham and Victoria Adams

2) Trafford Centre opens for business

3) Film releases include A Bug’s Life, There’s Something About Mary and Saving Private Ryan

4) UK and Irish Governments sign Good Friday Agreement

5) Camelot launches UK National Lottery

10.

1) First tweet on Twitter

2) Last commercial flight by Concorde

3) Italy wins the FIFA World Cup

4) Execution of Saddam Hussein

5) Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy spends nine weeks at UK number one

11.

1) Convicted spy George Blake escapes from Wormwood Scrubs

2) North Vietnamese forces launch Tet Offensive

3) Candlestick Park, San Francisco stages last-ever live concert performance by The Beatles

4) London’s Post Office Tower opens to the public

5) PM Harold Wilson wins snap General Election

12.

1) UK Foot and Mouth crisis

2) Murder of Jill Dando

3) Jeffrey Archer sentenced to four years for perjury

4) Blair leads Labour to second election landslide

5) Dennis Tito becomes first ‘space tourist’

13.

1) Turkey annexes Northern Cyprus

2) Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in first of their three fights

3) Idi Amin seizes power in Uganda

4) Decimalisation in UK

5) First-ever cricket one-day international (Australia v England)

14.

1) Woodstock Festival

2) Matt Busby retires as Manchester United manager

3) Colonel Gadaffi seizes power in Libya

4) Kray twins receive life sentences for murder

5) Donald Campbell killed on Coniston Water

15.

1) Bohemian Rhapsody is UK Christmas number one

2) Borg and Navratilova are Wimbledon champions

3) Box-office hits include The Deer Hunter, Grease and Jaws 2

4) Birth of Louise Brown, world’s first ‘test-tube baby’

5) Permanent radio broadcasts begin from House of Commons

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ROUND 6 - WithQuiz format - 'Think of a Number'

Every answer contains a number or numbers.

Bingo format choose your question.

1.

Which 1996 John Landis-directed comedy film has the central characters Lucky Day, Dusty Bottoms and Ned Nederlander?

2.

What is the common name of the game of strategy that is played on a board with twenty-four intersections or points? Dating back to Roman times and possibly earlier, the game is also known as the mill game, merrills or cowboy checkers.

3.

Which pop band was formed in Sheffield in 1980 and was named after a fictional group in the Anthony Burgess novel, A Clockwork Orange?

4.

Which song, the first of three consecutive UK Christmas number ones for the group, has these the opening lines:

"Candle light and soul forever / A dream of you and me together / Say you believe it, say you believe it"?

5.

Described as ‘a rather curious number and a very respectable age for a hobbit’ which birthday was Bilbo Baggins about to celebrate in chapter one of The Fellowship of the Ring?

6.

Which basketball team won its most recent NBA championship in 1983, beating the LA Lakers in the final series?

7.

On television, who was the Most Special Agent of the World Intelligence Network?

8.

Fireman Guy Montag is the lead character in which dystopian novel of 1953. He was played by Oskar Werner in the 1966 film version.

9.

What begins in Bridgnorth and ends sixteen miles later in Kidderminster?

10.

What is the official number of the road connecting Liverpool and Salford that is colloquially known as the East Lancs Road?

11.

Which journalist, author and political adviser is played by Steve Coogan in the 2013 film Philomena?

12.

13.

Although there are several different versions of its origins, according to most sources what was first produced by Canadian fishing guide George LaLonde’s wife, Sophia, to accompany his dinner?

14.

Which city-centre Manchester nightclub was opened by Peter Stringfellow in 1976?

15.

Currently the largest single party in the Italian parliament, what is the name (in English) of the political movement launched in 2009 and co-founded by comedian Beppe Grillo?

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ROUND 7 - WithQuiz format - 'This Summer'

Questions are about people and events in the news during the quizzing close season. 

Bingo format choose your question.

1.

Who was the teenage sensation who beat Venus Williams on her way to the fourth round at this year’s Wimbledon championships?

2.

Who was the captain of gallant runners up New Zealand in this year’s ICC Cricket World Cup?

3.

Glastonbury 2019 headline act Michael Ebenazer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Junior is better known by which name?

4.

Which city recorded the UK’s highest ever temperature of 38.7°C on 25 July?

5.

The last ever Volkswagen Beetle rolled off the production line in July. In which country was it manufactured?

6.

Who were the winners of University Challenge, beating St Edmund Hall, Oxford in April’s final?

7.

Who scored the first of Manchester City’s six goals against Watford in May’s FA Cup Final?

8.

9.

Who plays Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, in the year’s biggest-grossing box office hit Avengers: Endgame?

10.

Which reservoir in Whaley Bridge hogged the news headlines for a few days in early August?

11.

What name was assigned to the hurricane which devastated The Bahamas earlier this month?

12.

Who is the Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong, who has had a rather ‘challenging’ summer?

13.

Written by David Lagercrantz following the death of Stieg Larsson, what is the title of the latest novel in the Millennium series, which was published last month?

14.

Who plays Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders, which returned to BBC television last month?

15.

British actress June Spencer celebrated her one hundredth birthday in June. Which character does she play in The Archers, having first appeared in 1950?

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Tiebreaker

What is the total population (as of the 2011 census) living on the 94 inhabited Scottish Islands?

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ROUND 1 - Stockport format - Verbal

1.

In which competition have the runners up over the past 7 years been Manchester City (three times), Chelsea (twice), Bristol Academy and Birmingham City?

FA Women’s Super League

2.

Who is the present editor of the Daily Mail?

Geordie Greig

3.

Elgar’s First Symphony was dedicated by the composer “To Hans Richter, Mus. Doc. True Artist and true Friend." and premiered in 1908. In which specific venue, in which city was this première?

Free Trade Hall, Manchester

4.

Occasionally the Post Office allows ‘semi-mnemonic’ post codes to be issued. With this in mind who would you be mailing if you used the post code ‘S6 1SW’?

Sheffield Wednesday Football Club

5.

The famous Greek mathematician Euclid was a native of which city?

Alexandria

6.

Which deciduous tree has the genus name ‘fagus’?

Beech

7.

The title of a song on The Vibrators’ debut album, and specifically one particular line from that song, which postulated how someone can tell when you are dead, would later provide the inspiration for the name of another punk band. Name that Northern Irish band.

Stiff Little Fingers

(“if it wasn’t for your stiff little fingers no-one would know you were dead”)

8.

What is the title of the song from the musical Mary Poppins that promotes an activity traditionally undertaken during the Chinese holiday of QingMing?

Let’s Go Fly a Kite

9.

Who is this young man?

Jacob Rees-Mogg

10.

Which single county connects Oxfordshire to Cambridgeshire?

Northamptonshire

11.

By what Latin name is Gerard de Kremer, born in the County of Flanders in 1512, and commemorated by having a Belgian museum dedicated to cartography, named in his honour, better known?

Mercator

12.

The minor road over the Hardknott Pass connects the Duddon Valley to which of the Lake District dales to its West?

Eskdale

13.

In which town can you find the Gustav Holst Memorial Fountain?

Cheltenham

14.

Whose 2011 autobiography was entitled Known and Unknown - A Memoir?

Donald Rumsfeld

15.

What type of number can be defined as: 'Any number that can be made by dividing one integer by another'?

A rational number 

16.

This season Manchester United Women’s team will play in the FA Women’s Super League. Which local stadium provides their home venue?

Leigh Sports Village

17.

Who is the present editor of the Guardian? 

Katharine Viner

18.

What is the nickname usually ascribed to Shostakovich’s 7th symphony?

The Leningrad

19.

Occasionally the Post Office allows ‘semi-mnemonic’ post codes to be issued. With this in mind who would you be mailing if you used the post code ‘CV4 8UW’? 

University of Warwick

20.

What is the common name given to the Euclidean theorem stating that ‘in an isosceles triangle the angles at the base equal one another, and, if the equal straight lines are produced further, then the angles under the base equal one another’?  

Pons asinorum

21.

Which deciduous tree has the genus name ‘castanea’?

Chestnut

22.

The inspiration for the name of which punk band came from a faded piece of graffiti celebrating Walton and Hersham’s successful challenge for the Athenian Football League title back in the 1960s?

Sham 69

23.

What is the title of the song from the musical My Fair Lady that has an opening line promoting an activity that would not be undertaken by someone suffering from gamophobia?

Get Me to the Church on Time

(gamophobia being a fear of marriage)

24.

Who is this young man?

25.

Three English counties starting with the letter ‘B’ are connected. Which is the most northerly of these

Bedfordshire

26.

By what Latin name is Gerard Gerards, born in Holland in 1466 or 1467 and commemorated by having an EU Education policy named after him, better known?

Erasmus

27.

The minor road over the Buttertubs pass connects Thwaite in Swaledale with which of the Yorkshire Dales to its South?

Wensleydale

28.

In which British city can you walk past a statue of Desperate Dan?   

29.

Which US poet and civil rights activist born 1928 is well known for a series of 7 autobiographies? The first in 1969 was called I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

30.

What shape is described by the equation 'y=ax2 + bx + c'?

A parabola

ROUND 2 - Stockport format - Written - Hidden theme - ‘03/02/59’

Occasionally the theme word may be contained in a longer word

1.

Which date is traditionally celebrated in the US as Groundhog Day?

February 2nd

2.

In the National Lampoon series of films which actor played the part of Clark Griswold?

Chevy Chase

3.

For what product is the village of Penderyn in the Brecon Beacons famed?

Whisky

4.

Which southern English port lies at the confluence of the rivers Rother, Tillingham and Brede?

Rye

5.

Which food product was originally promoted in the early 20th century as ‘Coming from Contented Cows’? 

Carnation Evaporated Milk

6.

What is the Hebrew word meaning ‘the institute’?

Mossad

7.

In Rigoletto what is the profession of the title character?

Jester

8.

On September 23rd 1955 Alec Guinness met a fellow actor outside a Hollywood restaurant. According to his account he looked at the actor’s car with suspicion and said "If you get in that car, you will be found dead in it by this time next week." Who was the car’s owner?

James Dean

9.

John Lennon

10.

Which Beatles song was interpreted by cult leader Charles Manson as a message predicting inter-racial war in the US?

Helter Skelter

(from The White Album)

Theme: Each answer contains a key word or phrase from the lyrics of Don McLean’s song American Pie

(03/02/59 was ‘The Day the Music Died’ i.e. the day Buddy Holly’s plane crashed)

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ROUND 3 - Stockport format - Written - 'Tenacity'

From the west coastline of the South American continent to the east coastline of the African continent name the 10 countries through which the Equator passes.

Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Sao Tome & Principe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia

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ROUND 4 - WithQuiz format - 'Scouseland'

Bingo format choose your question.

1.

Name this former footballer, who played his last professional game in 2008 for Macclesfield Town

Richard Edghill

(Edge Hill)

2.

Who succeeded Michael Heseltine as Deputy Prime Minister in May 1997?

John Prescott

(Prescot)

3.

Who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role of Father Chuck O’Malley in the 1944 film Going My Way? The following year he became the first actor ever to be nominated for playing the same character in different films, when he was shortlisted for playing the same role in The Bells of St. Mary’s, opposite Ingrid Bergman.

Bing Crosby

(Crosby)

4.

What is the name of the northernmost of County Kerry’s major peninsulas?

Dingle peninsula

(Dingle)

5.

Name this former West Indies cricketer, who had a Test batting average greater than 58.

Everton Weekes

(Everton)

6.

What was the full name of Liz Hurley’s character in the 1997 film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery?

Vanessa Kensington

(Kensington)

7.

Which commentator was the voice of Saturday afternoon wrestling on ITV from 1955 to 1988?

Kent Walton

(Walton)

8.

After the disbanding of The Jam in 1982, Paul Weller formed the Style Council. What was their debut UK single, which reached number four in March 1983?

Speak Like a Child

(Speke)

9.

Who played Mr Bumble in the 1968 film Oliver!?

Harry Secombe

(Seacombe)

10.

Name this British star of motor sport.

Mike Hailwood

(Halewood)

11.

Distinguished by spots and stripes on its flanks, what name is given to a juvenile salmon aged from one to three years? In the lifecycle of a salmon they are the stage between fry and smolt.

Parr

(Parr)

12.

Which song was the first to win the Eurovision Song Contest having been sung in a language other than that of its own country?

Waterloo

(by ABBA in 1974)

(Waterloo)

13.

Playing Doreen, who co-starred with Albert Finney in the 1960 kitchen sink drama Saturday Night and Sunday Morning?

Shirley Ann Field

(Anfield)

14.

Name this member of England’s 1966 World Cup-winning squad.

George Eastham

(Eastham)

15

Who played DCI David Bilborough in early episodes of the 1990s ITV drama Cracker?

Christopher Eccleston

(Eccleston)

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ROUND 5 - WithQuiz format - 'Year of the Herring'

Players must identify a year from five clues.  However, one of the five clues is a red herring (an event that took place in a different year).

Bingo format - Choose your question number

1.

1) Argentina invades the Falkland Islands

2) Spurs win the FA Cup

3) UK number ones include Ebony & Ivory, Come On Eileen and Eye of the Tiger

4) Birth of Prince William (Duke of Cambridge)

5) Assassination of Indira Gandhi

2.

1) Gene Cernan is the last man (to date) to walk on the moon

2) Marriage of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips

3) Lester Piggott wins the Epsom Derby on Nijinsky

4) The Sting, American Graffiti and Papillon are box-office hit

5) Pink Floyd release Dark Side of the Moon

3.

1) Independence for Jamaica

2) Cuban Missile Crisis

3) John Lennon and Cynthia Powell marry

4) Lady Chatterley’s Lover obscenity trial

5) Release of first Bond film, Dr No

Red herring is 4 (1960)

4.

1) Nick Leeson brings down Barings Bank

2) South Africa wins Rugby Union World Cup

3) Eric Cantona banned after kicking a Crystal Palace fan

4) Death of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell

5) O J Simpson on trial for murder

Red herring is 4 (1991)

5.

1) Live Aid concerts in London and Philadelphia

2) Bank of England £1 note ceases to be legal tender

3) End of the miners’ strike

4) Wreck of the Titanic located

5) EastEnders begins on BBC television

Red herring is 2 (1988)

6.

1) Kate Winslet receives Oscars for Best Actress and Supporting Actress

2) Publication of last in the series: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

3) Jenson Button wins F1 Drivers’ Championship

4) Barack Obama succeeds George W Bush as US President

5) Roberto Mancini succeeds Mark Hughes as Manchester City manager

7.

1) Linford Christie becomes Olympic 100 metres champion

2) The Queen has an annus horribilis

3) Manchester Metrolink opens

4) Wayne’s World, Aladdin, Basic Instinct and Sister Act are box-office hits

5) Birth of Dolly the sheep, first cloned mammal

8.

1) Arsenal win the league with a last-minute goal at Anfield

2) Cinema release of Batman, Dead Poets Society and Born on the Fourth of July

3) John McCarthy and Terry Waite released from captivity in Lebanon

4) A fatwa sends Salman Rushdie into hiding

5) Nick Faldo wins US Masters

9.

1) Engagement of David Beckham and Victoria Adams

2) Trafford Centre opens for business

3) Film releases include A Bug’s Life, There’s Something About Mary and Saving Private Ryan

4) UK and Irish Governments sign Good Friday Agreement

5) Camelot launches UK National Lottery

10.

1) First tweet on Twitter

2) Last commercial flight by Concorde

3) Italy wins the FIFA World Cup

4) Execution of Saddam Hussein

5) Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy spends nine weeks at UK number one

11.

1) Convicted spy George Blake escapes from Wormwood Scrubs

2) North Vietnamese forces launch Tet Offensive

3) Candlestick Park, San Francisco stages last-ever live concert performance by The Beatles

4) London’s Post Office Tower opens to the public

5) PM Harold Wilson wins snap General Election

12.

1) UK Foot and Mouth crisis

2) Murder of Jill Dando

3) Jeffrey Archer sentenced to four years for perjury

4) Blair leads Labour to second election landslide

5) Dennis Tito becomes first ‘space tourist’

13.

1) Turkey annexes Northern Cyprus

2) Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in first of their three fights

3) Idi Amin seizes power in Uganda

4) Decimalisation in UK

5) First-ever cricket one-day international (Australia v England)

14.

1) Woodstock Festival

2) Matt Busby retires as Manchester United manager

3) Colonel Gadaffi seizes power in Libya

4) Kray twins receive life sentences for murder

5) Donald Campbell killed on Coniston Water

15

1) Bohemian Rhapsody is UK Christmas number one

2) Borg and Navratilova are Wimbledon champions

3) Box-office hits include The Deer Hunter, Grease and Jaws 2

4) Birth of Louise Brown, world’s first ‘test-tube baby’

5) Permanent radio broadcasts begin from House of Commons

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ROUND 6 - WithQuiz format - 'Think of a Number'

Every answer contains a number or numbers.

Bingo format choose your question.

1.

Which 1996 John Landis-directed comedy film has the central characters Lucky Day, Dusty Bottoms and Ned Nederlander?

Three Amigos

2.

What is the common name of the game of strategy that is played on a board with twenty-four intersections or points? Dating back to Roman times and possibly earlier, the game is also known as the mill game, merrills or cowboy checkers.

Nine Men’s Morris

3.

Which pop band was formed in Sheffield in 1980 and was named after a fictional group in the Anthony Burgess novel, A Clockwork Orange?

Heaven 17

4.

Which song, the first of three consecutive UK Christmas number ones for the group, has these the opening lines:

"Candle light and soul forever / A dream of you and me together / Say you believe it, say you believe it"?

2 Become 1

(Spice Girls)

5.

Described as ‘a rather curious number and a very respectable age for a hobbit’ which birthday was Bilbo Baggins about to celebrate in chapter one of The Fellowship of the Ring?

Eleventy-one

(111)

6.

Which basketball team won its most recent NBA championship in 1983, beating the LA Lakers in the final series?

Philadelphia 76ers

7.

On television, who was the Most Special Agent of the World Intelligence Network?

Joe 90

8.

Fireman Guy Montag is the lead character in which dystopian novel of 1953. He was played by Oskar Werner in the 1966 film version.

Fahrenheit 451

9.

What begins in Bridgnorth and ends sixteen miles later in Kidderminster?

Severn Valley railway

10.

What is the official number of the road connecting Liverpool and Salford that is colloquially known as the East Lancs Road?

A580

11.

Which journalist, author and political adviser is played by Steve Coogan in the 2013 film Philomena?

Martin Sixsmith

12.

Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover

(Paul Simon)

13.

Although there are several different versions of its origins, according to most sources what was first produced by Canadian fishing guide George LaLonde’s wife, Sophia, to accompany his dinner?

Thousand Island Dressing

14.

Which city-centre Manchester nightclub was opened by Peter Stringfellow in 1976?

The Millionaire Club

15

Currently the largest single party in the Italian parliament, what is the name (in English) of the political movement launched in 2009 and co-founded by comedian Beppe Grillo?

Five Star Movement

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ROUND 7 - WithQuiz format - 'This Summer'

Questions are about people and events in the news during the quizzing close season. 

Bingo format choose your question.

1.

Who was the teenage sensation who beat Venus Williams on her way to the fourth round at this year’s Wimbledon championships?

Cori ‘Coco’ Gauff

2.

Who was the captain of gallant runners up New Zealand in this year’s ICC Cricket World Cup?

Kane Williamson

3.

Glastonbury 2019 headline act Michael Ebenazer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Junior is better known by which name?

Stormzy

4.

Which city recorded the UK’s highest ever temperature of 38.7°C on 25 July?

Cambridge

5.

The last ever Volkswagen Beetle rolled off the production line in July. In which country was it manufactured?

6.

Who were the winners of University Challenge, beating St Edmund Hall, Oxford in April’s final?

7.

Who scored the first of Manchester City’s six goals against Watford in May’s FA Cup Final?

8.

9.

Who plays Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, in the year’s biggest-grossing box office hit Avengers: Endgame?

Robert Downey Junior

10.

Which reservoir in Whaley Bridge hogged the news headlines for a few days in early August?

Toddbrook

11.

What name was assigned to the hurricane which devastated The Bahamas earlier this month?

Dorian

12.

Who is the Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong, who has had a rather ‘challenging’ summer?

Carrie Lam

13.

Written by David Lagercrantz following the death of Stieg Larsson, what is the title of the latest novel in the Millennium series, which was published last month?

The Girl Who Lived Twice

14.

Who plays Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders, which returned to BBC television last month?

Cillian Murphy

15

British actress June Spencer celebrated her one hundredth birthday in June. Which character does she play in The Archers, having first appeared in 1950?

Peggy Woolley

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Tiebreaker

What is the total population (as of the 2011 census) living on the 94 inhabited Scottish Islands?

103,702

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