ROUND 1 - Pairs

1.

(Always good to start with a beer!)  Moorhouse’s is an independent brewery founded in 1865 in which Lancashire mill town?

2.

The second largest brewer in the UK under family ownership after Shepherd Neame, Theakston’s is brewed in which North Yorkshire market town?

3.

Which city was the venue of the famous Congress held at the end of the Napoleonic Wars?  Several treaties were signed during the Congress which dramatically reshaped Europe.

4.

The independence of the USA was recognised by Great Britain in which treaty signed in 1783?

5.

Which US country music singer sang vocals with KLF on their 1991 international hit Justified and Ancient?

6.

When translated from the Spanish which sovereign island nation has a name meaning 'Ancient and Bearded'?

7.

“I don’t make mistakes, I make prophesies that instantly don’t come true” is a famous quote by which sporting commentator and journalist who died aged 97 in March 2021?

8.

“Even in moments of tranquillity, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose pants are on fire”.  Who wrote these words about Murray Walker whilst working as the TV Critic for the Observer newspaper in the 1980s?

Sp1

What is the only star sign represented by an inanimate object?

Sp2

Which was the only Spice Girl with a name that is actually a spice?

Go to Round 1 questions with answers

ROUND 2 - Hidden theme

1.

Standing on the corner of Berry Street and Leece Street, in which city would you find the remains of the former Anglican parish church of St Luke?  It is commonly known by locals as 'the bombed-out church'.

2.

More feared in the White House than his master, what is the name of President Biden’s pet alsatian dog?

3.

Which Edgar Allan Poe short story, published in 1842 and filmed several times over the years, has an unnamed narrator telling us about his imprisonment by the Spanish Inquisition and his desperate attempts to avoid a slow and painful death in his place of confinement?

4.

Named after an English explorer and geologist what is the biggest and best known hill station in Malaysia.  The area is still a major tourist attraction thanks to its cool climate and abundant and varied flora and fauna.

5.

In the 19th century what name was given to a small suitcase which could separate into two equal sections?  Typically made of stiff leather and often belted with lanyards they gradually became smaller and accompanied doctors on their visits.

6.

Which 1999 supernatural horror film with a largely improvised script was the first widely released film to be marketed primarily by the internet?  An official website was launched featuring fake police reports, newsreel style interviews and appeals to the public to come forward if they had any information about the missing three film students.

7.

The death of Dawn Sturgess on July 8th 2018 was directly attributed to which infamous diplomatic incident which had taken place four months earlier?

8.

Who wrote this definition?

"Politician, noun:

1. One versed in the arts of government; one skilled in politicks.

2. A man of artifice; one of deep contrivance."

Sp1

It is 50 years since Clint Eastwood first appeared on cinema screens as Dirty Harry.  What was Harry’s surname?

Sp2

In what month is International Masturbation Day celebrated annually?  It came into being in 1995 in the USA to celebrate Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders who was sacked by President Clinton for suggesting that masturbation be placed on the sex education curriculum for all students.

Go to Round 2 questions with answers

ROUND 3 - Pairs

1.

Footballer Thomas Delaney played for which country at Euro 2020 played earlier this year?

2.

Footballer Daniel O’Shaughnessy played for which country at Euro 2020?

3.

Which versatile American singer, musician and political activist (1933-2003) was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon?

4.

James Newell Osterberg (born 1947) is the real name of which American singer, songwriter, musician and actor?

5.

In 1960 what was the first American film to break the rules and show a toilet on screen.  Much to the distress of many, the director also insisted that we hear the sound of the toilet being flushed.

6.

Alfred Hitchcock’s father was a greengrocer in London’s Covent Garden.  As a tribute to him Hitchcock insisted on setting his penultimate film in and around this location.  What was the name of this 1972 film in which Barry Foster played a serial killer.

7.

In which English cathedral is King John buried?

8.

In which English cathedral is King Edward the Second buried?

Sp1

Using the western calendar give any year in the Chinese Tang dynasty.

Sp2

...and which Chinese dynasty lasted from AD 1368-1644?

Go to Round 3 questions with answers

ROUND 4 - Hawaii Five 0 ...... but without the Hawaii

Each answer has 5 letters and ends with the letter 'O'

1.

Surname of comic character that transformed the career of Phil Silvers in the 1950s from obscure comedian to national TV star.

2.

Surname of former BBC Crimewatch presenter who was shot dead outside her own home in Fulham in 1999.  The case remains unsolved.

3.

First Anglican cathedral to be built in England since St Paul’s in London.

4.

Small market town in the Scottish Borders region where the rivers Tweed and Teviot meet.  Other popular attractions include its ruined abbey and nearby Floors castle.

5.

Swedish city whose football team were beaten by Nottingham Forest in the 1980 European Cup Final.

6.

“When Andrea told me he was joining us, the first thing I thought was God exists".  Whose transfer to Juventus in 2011 is a star-struck Gianluigi Buffon describing here?

7.

Based more on skill than blood lust, a form of Japanese martial art that uses bamboo swords and lots of protective armour.

8.

National Art Museum considered to have one of the world’s finest collections of European art. The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch and Goya’s The Third of May 1808 are just two of its many attractions.

Sp1

1996 Coen brothers film describing itself as 'a homespun murder story' that earned Frances McDormand an Oscar for Best Actress.

Sp2

A popular form of Cuban dance music originating in the 1930s but now largely incorporated into Salsa.  It is the title of a song in West Side Story.

Go to Round 4 questions with answers

ROUND 5 - Pairs

1.

Which 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad is set in the fictional South American republic of Costaguana?

2.

Which dystopian novel published in 1985 is set in the fictional Republic of Gilead previously known as the USA?

3.

Who was the United States Secretary of State on September 11th 2001?

4.

Who was the British Home Secretary September 11th 2001?

5.

In the ancient church of St Bean in the tiny village of Fowlis Wester in Perthshire you can see a tiny bit of the MacBean tartan donated to the church by an American descendant of the family in the late 20th century.  Why is this scrap of tartan unique?

6.

On the 12th April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel into space.  From which present day country did he begin his historic journey.

7.

Which song became, in July 2018, the first song in history to have four separate stints at Number One in the UK charts?  Just one week later it was at number 97 thus setting another, less enviable record - that of the fastest ever descent from the top of the charts.

8.

Sitting at 28 metres below sea level which city provided the lowest lying venue for matches played in the Euro 20 football competition held this summer?

Go to Round 5 questions with answers

ROUND 6 - The New Generation Game

The answer to each question is someone born in the same year as the the person in the previous answer died

All questions require first name and second name to be given

1.

English poet (1552-1599) best known for his epic poem The Faerie Queene celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth the First.

2.

Seville born leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age (1599-1660).  His Venus at her Mirror also known as The Rokeby Venus is the first known female nude painted by a Spanish artist (the Spanish Inquisition were a bit sniffy about that sort of thing).

3.

Anglo-Irish physician, naturalist and collector (1660-1753).  He bequeathed his massive collection of over 71,000 items to the British nation, thus providing the foundation of The British Museum as well as The British Library and the Natural History Museum in London.

4.

English architect (1753-1837).  He specialised in the Neo-Classical style and famously designed the Bank of England and Dulwich Picture Gallery.  Like the previous answer (with whom he is often confused) he was an avid collector and his former home in Lincoln’s Inn Fields is now a popular and quirky museum and art gallery.

5.

He remains a popular figure in US frontier history (1837-1876).  Tradition says that when he was shot and killed while playing poker in a Deadwood saloon he was holding what has become known as the dead man’s hand of cards i.e. two pairs: black aces and eights.

6.

Novelist, journalist and social activist born in San Francisco in 1876.  He was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing.  His two most famous works were set in the Klondike Gold Rush, one of them being White Fang.  His early death in 1916 prompted many suspicions of suicide.

7.

British politician (1916-1995).  The wisest thing he did as Prime Minister was to keep Britain out of the war in Vietnam.  Possibly his least wise decision was to sue the pop group The Move for promoting their single Flowers in the Rain with a postcard featuring a caricature depicting the Prime Minister in bed with his female assistant, Marcia Williams.

8.

Manchester United French international footballer born near Paris in 1995.  The transfer fee that took him from Monaco to Old Trafford was a record at the time for a teenager.  His Latin poet namesake was better known for writing epigrams than scoring goals.

Go to Round 6 questions with answers

ROUND 7 - English Towns and Villages

1.

"We built the world / Every metropolis came from Ironopolis" that is a line from a poem paying homage to which large town on Teeside?

2.

Historically part of Lancashire this town is not in Lancashire.  Instead it is the second largest urban area in Cumbria.  It lies at the tip of a peninsula, hence author Bill Bryson’s rather cruel description of it being “the cul-de-sac at the end of the world”. Which town?

3.

The Severn Valley Railway is a 16 mile heritage line that runs along the Severn Valley from Bridgnorth in Shropshire to which Worcestershire town?

4.

Described by Sir John Betjeman as “probably the loveliest town in England” which Shropshire town, near the confluence of the rivers Corve and Teme has around 500 listed buildings including many examples of medieval and Tudor-style half-timbered buildings?

5.

“Yes, I remember ??????????,
The name, because one afternoon,
Of heat the express-train drew up there,
Unwontedly.  It was late June.”

Supply the missing word from the opening of a famous poem by Edward Thomas written in 1917 after passing through a small village station in rural Gloucestershire.

6.

Which Berkshire village on the Thames was the home of the artist Stanley Spencer?  Many of his religious paintings controversially used the village and its villagers as a backdrop to biblical events including, most famously, The Resurrection.

7.

Which county town is situated 38 miles southwest of Bristol and lies in a vale of the same name wedged between the Quantock, Blackdown and Brendon hills?

8.

In which East Anglian resort would you find Sewell House, childhood home of the author of Black Beauty and just a few doors away from the poignantly titled medieval Hospital for Decayed Fishermen.  The original Nelson’s Column stands not far away.

Sp1

Wyatt Earp was descended from a family of saddle makers in which Black Country town?

Sp2

What is the name of the English Catholic martyr who was pressed to death in 1586 for refusing to enter a plea to the charge of harbouring Catholic priests.  She was canonised in 1970.

Go to Round 7 questions with answers

ROUND 8 - Father Megson’s Bumper Compendium of Games

Contains:  1 pair of Blockbusters; 1 pair of 'Run Ons'; 1 Pair of Rhyming Couplets; 1 Pair of Pot Pourri questions

1.

Blockbuster where initial letters of answer are given:
NB: Said to be the smallest museum in Ireland, a tiny house in Galway city commemorates the humble beginnings of the wife and inspiration of James Joyce.  What was her name?

2.

Blockbuster where initial letters of answer are given:

AH: New York born entrepreneur, philanthropist and art collector who died in 1990.  His father deliberately gave him his first name because he wanted his son to have the same name as the graphic symbol used by the Socialist Labour Party of America.

3.

Run-On where last word of first answer is, or sounds like, the first word of second answer:

Former Dutch international footballer who played for four English Premier League clubs between 2001 and 2011 (Chelsea, Middlebrough, Liverpool and Sunderland;

Stephen Sondheim song from his musical A Little Night Music.  It quickly became his most popular song and Judy Collins twice took it into the charts in the 1970s.

4.

Run-On: where last word of first answer is, or sounds like, the first word of second answer:

Ex Footballer and BBC sports broadcaster who announced in 1991 that he was “a son of the Godhead” and that the world would shortly end;

Husband and wife R&B duo who came to prominence in 1966 with the release of their first album River Deep – Mountain High.

5.

Rhyming couplet:

Each question is really two questions. The 2 answers will provide a rhyming couplet.  So for example: 'Mild expression of reproach often used by Fr Megson in the confession box AND Current British Home Secretary'

...would give the answer: Sweet Feckin’ Hell / Priti Patel

Character in the world’s longest-running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine.  She was easily recognised by her wrinkled stockings, her pinny and distinctive style of hair curlers.

6.

Rhyming couplet:

A neutral subatomic particle whose existence was first postulated by Wolfgang Pauli in 1930.  It has a mass close to zero and a half-integral spin which rarely reacts with normal matter. Three kinds are known, associated with the electron, muon and tau particle;

This publication first appeared in July 1938 along with a free 'whoopie mask' for a very reasonable 2d (two old pennies).  Its immediate aim was to outdo the popularity of its friendly rival The Dandy.

7.

Pot pourri:

What is the name of the anthology film series, created and directed by Steve McQueen and shown on BBC One in November 2020.  It consists of five films that tell distinct stories about the lives of West Indian immigrants in London from the 1960s to the 1980s.

8.

Pot pourri:

Which river, draining the Lammermuir Hills and a tributary of the Tweed, has the same name as a comedy character on TV.

Sp1

Blockbuster:

RP: Name given to a Church of England parish or church that is exempt from the jurisdiction of the diocese and the province in which it lies and subject to the direct jurisdiction of the monarch?

Sp2

Pot pourri:

Later on this season, when the going gets tough and the financially elite get knackered, the path will be clear for the mighty FC Sheriff Tiraspol to lift the Champion’s League trophy for the first time.  Yes folks, football is coming home this time and no mistake………..but to which country?

Go to Round 8 questions with answers

ROUND 1 - Pairs

1.

(Always good to start with a beer!)  Moorhouse’s is an independent brewery founded in 1865 in which Lancashire mill town?

Burnley

2.

The second largest brewer in the UK under family ownership after Shepherd Neame, Theakston’s is brewed in which North Yorkshire market town?

Masham

3.

Which city was the venue of the famous Congress held at the end of the Napoleonic Wars?  Several treaties were signed during the Congress which dramatically reshaped Europe.

Vienna

4.

The independence of the USA was recognised by Great Britain in which treaty signed in 1783?

Treaty of Paris

5.

Which US country music singer sang vocals with KLF on their 1991 international hit Justified and Ancient?

Tammy Wynette

6.

When translated from the Spanish which sovereign island nation has a name meaning 'Ancient and Bearded'?

Antigua and Barbuda

7.

“I don’t make mistakes, I make prophesies that instantly don’t come true” is a famous quote by which sporting commentator and journalist who died aged 97 in March 2021?

Murray Walker

8.

“Even in moments of tranquillity, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose pants are on fire”.  Who wrote these words about Murray Walker whilst working as the TV Critic for the Observer newspaper in the 1980s?

Clive James

Sp1

What is the only star sign represented by an inanimate object?

Libra or The Scales

Sp2

Which was the only Spice Girl with a name that is actually a spice?

Ginger

ROUND 2 - Hidden theme

1.

Standing on the corner of Berry Street and Leece Street, in which city would you find the remains of the former Anglican parish church of St Luke?  It is commonly known by locals as 'the bombed-out church'.

Liverpool

2.

More feared in the White House than his master, what is the name of President Biden’s pet alsatian dog?

Major

3.

Which Edgar Allan Poe short story, published in 1842 and filmed several times over the years, has an unnamed narrator telling us about his imprisonment by the Spanish Inquisition and his desperate attempts to avoid a slow and painful death in his place of confinement?

The Pit and the Pendulum

4.

Named after an English explorer and geologist what is the biggest and best known hill station in Malaysia.  The area is still a major tourist attraction thanks to its cool climate and abundant and varied flora and fauna.

The Cameron Highlands

5.

In the 19th century what name was given to a small suitcase which could separate into two equal sections?  Typically made of stiff leather and often belted with lanyards they gradually became smaller and accompanied doctors on their visits.

Gladstone bag

6.

Which 1999 supernatural horror film with a largely improvised script was the first widely released film to be marketed primarily by the internet?  An official website was launched featuring fake police reports, newsreel style interviews and appeals to the public to come forward if they had any information about the missing three film students.

The Blair Witch Project

7.

The death of Dawn Sturgess on July 8th 2018 was directly attributed to which infamous diplomatic incident which had taken place four months earlier?

The Salisbury Poisonings

8.

Who wrote this definition?

"Politician, noun:

1. One versed in the arts of government; one skilled in politicks.

2. A man of artifice; one of deep contrivance."

Dr (Samuel) Johnson

Sp1

It is 50 years since Clint Eastwood first appeared on cinema screens as Dirty Harry.  What was Harry’s surname?

Callahan

Sp2

In what month is International Masturbation Day celebrated annually?  It came into being in 1995 in the USA to celebrate Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders who was sacked by President Clinton for suggesting that masturbation be placed on the sex education curriculum for all students.

May (7th)

Theme: Each answer contains the name of a UK Prime Minister

Go back to Round 2 questions without answers

ROUND 3 - Pairs

1.

Footballer Thomas Delaney played for which country at Euro 2020 played earlier this year?

Denmark

2.

Footballer Daniel O’Shaughnessy played for which country at Euro 2020?

Finland

3.

Which versatile American singer, musician and political activist (1933-2003) was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon?

Nina Simone

4.

James Newell Osterberg (born 1947) is the real name of which American singer, songwriter, musician and actor?

Iggy Pop

5.

In 1960 what was the first American film to break the rules and show a toilet on screen.  Much to the distress of many, the director also insisted that we hear the sound of the toilet being flushed.

Psycho

6.

Alfred Hitchcock’s father was a greengrocer in London’s Covent Garden.  As a tribute to him Hitchcock insisted on setting his penultimate film in and around this location.  What was the name of this 1972 film in which Barry Foster played a serial killer.

Frenzy

7.

In which English cathedral is King John buried?

Worcester

8.

In which English cathedral is King Edward the Second buried?

Gloucester

Sp1

Using the western calendar give any year in the Chinese Tang dynasty.

AD 618 – 907

Sp2

...and which Chinese dynasty lasted from AD 1368-1644?

The Ming dynasty

Go back to Round 3 questions without answers

ROUND 4 - Hawaii Five 0 ...... but without the Hawaii

Each answer has 5 letters and ends with the letter 'O'

1.

Surname of comic character that transformed the career of Phil Silvers in the 1950s from obscure comedian to national TV star.

Bilko

(Sergeant)

2.

Surname of former BBC Crimewatch presenter who was shot dead outside her own home in Fulham in 1999.  The case remains unsolved.

Dando

(Jill)

3.

First Anglican cathedral to be built in England since St Paul’s in London.

Truro

4.

Small market town in the Scottish Borders region where the rivers Tweed and Teviot meet.  Other popular attractions include its ruined abbey and nearby Floors castle.

Kelso

5.

Swedish city whose football team were beaten by Nottingham Forest in the 1980 European Cup Final.

Malmo

6.

“When Andrea told me he was joining us, the first thing I thought was God exists".  Whose transfer to Juventus in 2011 is a star-struck Gianluigi Buffon describing here?

Pirlo

(Andrea)

7.

Based more on skill than blood lust, a form of Japanese martial art that uses bamboo swords and lots of protective armour.

Kendo

8.

National Art Museum considered to have one of the world’s finest collections of European art. The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch and Goya’s The Third of May 1808 are just two of its many attractions.

Prado

Sp1

1996 Coen brothers film describing itself as 'a homespun murder story' that earned Frances McDormand an Oscar for Best Actress.

Fargo

Sp2

A popular form of Cuban dance music originating in the 1930s but now largely incorporated into Salsa.  It is the title of a song in West Side Story.

Mambo

Go back to Round 4 questions without answers

ROUND 5 - Pairs

1.

Which 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad is set in the fictional South American republic of Costaguana?

Nostromo

2.

Which dystopian novel published in 1985 is set in the fictional Republic of Gilead previously known as the USA?

The Handmaid’s Tale

3.

Who was the United States Secretary of State on September 11th 2001?

Colin (Luther) Powell

4.

Who was the British Home Secretary September 11th 2001?

David Blunkett

5.

In the ancient church of St Bean in the tiny village of Fowlis Wester in Perthshire you can see a tiny bit of the MacBean tartan donated to the church by an American descendant of the family in the late 20th century.  Why is this scrap of tartan unique?

It has been to the moon and back

(Alan Bean took it there when he became the 4th man to walk on the moon in 1969)

6.

On the 12th April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel into space.  From which present day country did he begin his historic journey.

Kazakhstan

7.

Which song became, in July 2018, the first song in history to have four separate stints at Number One in the UK charts?  Just one week later it was at number 97 thus setting another, less enviable record - that of the fastest ever descent from the top of the charts.

Three Lions

(aka It's/Football’s Coming Home)

(the fastest descent record was beaten by Wham!’s Last Christmas in January 2021 – sorry Rachael but facts are facts)

8.

Sitting at 28 metres below sea level which city provided the lowest lying venue for matches played in the Euro 20 football competition held this summer?

Baku

(capital of Azerbaijan)

Go back to Round 5 questions without answers

ROUND 6 - The New Generation Game

The answer to each question is someone born in the same year as the the person in the previous answer died

All questions require first name and second name to be given

1.

English poet (1552-1599) best known for his epic poem The Faerie Queene celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth the First.

Edmund Spenser

2.

Seville born leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age (1599-1660).  His Venus at her Mirror also known as The Rokeby Venus is the first known female nude painted by a Spanish artist (the Spanish Inquisition were a bit sniffy about that sort of thing).

Diego Velazquez

3.

Anglo-Irish physician, naturalist and collector (1660-1753).  He bequeathed his massive collection of over 71,000 items to the British nation, thus providing the foundation of The British Museum as well as The British Library and the Natural History Museum in London.

(Sir) Hans Sloane

4.

English architect (1753-1837).  He specialised in the Neo-Classical style and famously designed the Bank of England and Dulwich Picture Gallery.  Like the previous answer (with whom he is often confused) he was an avid collector and his former home in Lincoln’s Inn Fields is now a popular and quirky museum and art gallery.

(Sir) John Soane

5.

He remains a popular figure in US frontier history (1837-1876).  Tradition says that when he was shot and killed while playing poker in a Deadwood saloon he was holding what has become known as the dead man’s hand of cards i.e. two pairs: black aces and eights.

Wild Bill Hickok

6.

Novelist, journalist and social activist born in San Francisco in 1876.  He was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing.  His two most famous works were set in the Klondike Gold Rush, one of them being White Fang.  His early death in 1916 prompted many suspicions of suicide.

Jack London

7.

British politician (1916-1995).  The wisest thing he did as Prime Minister was to keep Britain out of the war in Vietnam.  Possibly his least wise decision was to sue the pop group The Move for promoting their single Flowers in the Rain with a postcard featuring a caricature depicting the Prime Minister in bed with his female assistant, Marcia Williams.

Harold Wilson

8.

Manchester United French international footballer born near Paris in 1995.  The transfer fee that took him from Monaco to Old Trafford was a record at the time for a teenager.  His Latin poet namesake was better known for writing epigrams than scoring goals.

Anthony Martial

Go back to Round 6 questions without answers

ROUND 7 - English Towns and Villages

1.

"We built the world / Every metropolis came from Ironopolis" that is a line from a poem paying homage to which large town on Teeside?

Middlesbrough

2.

Historically part of Lancashire this town is not in Lancashire.  Instead it is the second largest urban area in Cumbria.  It lies at the tip of a peninsula, hence author Bill Bryson’s rather cruel description of it being “the cul-de-sac at the end of the world”. Which town?

Barrow-in – Furness

3.

The Severn Valley Railway is a 16 mile heritage line that runs along the Severn Valley from Bridgnorth in Shropshire to which Worcestershire town?

Kidderminster

4.

Described by Sir John Betjeman as “probably the loveliest town in England” which Shropshire town, near the confluence of the rivers Corve and Teme has around 500 listed buildings including many examples of medieval and Tudor-style half-timbered buildings?

Ludlow

5.

“Yes, I remember ??????????,
The name, because one afternoon,
Of heat the express-train drew up there,
Unwontedly.  It was late June.”

Supply the missing word from the opening of a famous poem by Edward Thomas written in 1917 after passing through a small village station in rural Gloucestershire.

Adlestrop

6.

Which Berkshire village on the Thames was the home of the artist Stanley Spencer?  Many of his religious paintings controversially used the village and its villagers as a backdrop to biblical events including, most famously, The Resurrection.

Cookham

7.

Which county town is situated 38 miles southwest of Bristol and lies in a vale of the same name wedged between the Quantock, Blackdown and Brendon hills?

Taunton

8.

In which East Anglian resort would you find Sewell House, childhood home of the author of Black Beauty and just a few doors away from the poignantly titled medieval Hospital for Decayed Fishermen.  The original Nelson’s Column stands not far away.

Great Yarmouth

Sp1

Wyatt Earp was descended from a family of saddle makers in which Black Country town?

Walsall

Sp2

What is the name of the English Catholic martyr who was pressed to death in 1586 for refusing to enter a plea to the charge of harbouring Catholic priests.  She was canonised in 1970.

St Margaret Clitherow

Go back to Round 7 questions without answers

ROUND 8 - Father Megson’s Bumper Compendium of Games

Contains:  1 pair of Blockbusters; 1 pair of 'Run Ons'; 1 Pair of Rhyming Couplets; 1 Pair of Pot Pourri questions

1.

Blockbuster where initial letters of answer are given:
NB: Said to be the smallest museum in Ireland, a tiny house in Galway city commemorates the humble beginnings of the wife and inspiration of James Joyce.  What was her name?

Nora Barnacle

2.

Blockbuster where initial letters of answer are given:

AH: New York born entrepreneur, philanthropist and art collector who died in 1990.  His father deliberately gave him his first name because he wanted his son to have the same name as the graphic symbol used by the Socialist Labour Party of America.

Armand Hammer

3.

Run-On where last word of first answer is, or sounds like, the first word of second answer:

Former Dutch international footballer who played for four English Premier League clubs between 2001 and 2011 (Chelsea, Middlebrough, Liverpool and Sunderland;

Stephen Sondheim song from his musical A Little Night Music.  It quickly became his most popular song and Judy Collins twice took it into the charts in the 1970s.

Bolo Zenden The Clowns

4.

Run-On where last word of first answer is, or sounds like, the first word of second answer:

Ex Footballer and BBC sports broadcaster who announced in 1991 that he was “a son of the Godhead” and that the world would shortly end;

Husband and wife R&B duo who came to prominence in 1966 with the release of their first album River Deep – Mountain High.

David Icke and Tina Turner

5.

Rhyming couplet:

Each question is really two questions. The 2 answers will provide a rhyming couplet.  So for example: 'Mild expression of reproach often used by Fr Megson in the confession box AND Current British Home Secretary'

...would give the answer: Sweet Feckin’ Hell / Priti Patel

Character in the world’s longest-running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine.  She was easily recognised by her wrinkled stockings, her pinny and distinctive style of hair curlers.

Eric Satie / Norah Batty

6.

Rhyming couplet:

A neutral subatomic particle whose existence was first postulated by Wolfgang Pauli in 1930.  It has a mass close to zero and a half-integral spin which rarely reacts with normal matter. Three kinds are known, associated with the electron, muon and tau particle;

This publication first appeared in July 1938 along with a free 'whoopie mask' for a very reasonable 2d (two old pennies).  Its immediate aim was to outdo the popularity of its friendly rival The Dandy.

Neutrino / The Beano

7.

Pot pourri:

What is the name of the anthology film series, created and directed by Steve McQueen and shown on BBC One in November 2020.  It consists of five films that tell distinct stories about the lives of West Indian immigrants in London from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Small Axe

8.

Pot pourri:

Which river, draining the Lammermuir Hills and a tributary of the Tweed, has the same name as a comedy character on TV.

Blackadder

Sp1

Blockbuster:

RP: Name given to a Church of England parish or church that is exempt from the jurisdiction of the diocese and the province in which it lies and subject to the direct jurisdiction of the monarch?

Royal Peculiar

Sp2

Pot pourri:

Later on this season, when the going gets tough and the financially elite get knackered, the path will be clear for the mighty FC Sheriff Tiraspol to lift the Champion’s League trophy for the first time.  Yes folks, football is coming home this time and no mistake………..but to which country?

Transnistria

(yes, yes, QMs, accept Moldova if you must.  But Fr Megson won’t be pleased. Just because a renegade country’s railway is run by gangsters doesn’t make a country illegal)

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