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WithQuiz League paper  12/10/22

Set by: Albert

QotW: R5/Q6

Average Aggregate Score: 80.5

(Season's Ave. Agg.: 77.4)

"No low-scoring here .... Plenty of variety in the style of round on offer too: Run-ons, Hidden themes, a full tester on the most populous constituency in the UK."

"Despite the odd blooper it was an excellent paper."

"The quiz itself generated a good combined score."

 

ROUND 1 - Only Connect

What surname connects the 3 clues?

1.

Winner of the Formula 1 world championship in 1976;

actor who played Mike Gambit in The Avengers TV series;

main character in the TV series Life on Mars.

2.

Singer who co-founded the Beach Boys;

soul singer with hits Reet Petite and I Get The Sweetest Feeling;

actor who played Victor Meldrew.

3.

English rugby union international who played in the 2003 side which won the World Cup;

creator of Ali G;

Canadian singer/songwriter.

4.

Actress who played Nursie in Blackadder II;

Irish comedian often seen on panel shows;

actress who played Pansy Parkinson in the Harry Potter series.

5.

American stand-up comedian, based in the UK;

actor who played Lonely in the TV series Callan;

New Zealand model/actress married to Rod Stewart 1990–2006.

6.

UK Prime Minister 1976–79;

SNP MP who unseated Jo Swinson in 2019;

Clint Eastwood character in, inter alia, Magnum Force and The Enforcer.

7.

Lead singer of The Killers;

bass guitarist with T Rex;

technical nature of globe artichoke and broccoli.

8.

TV detective played by Stephen Tompkinson;

family in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air;

family in Mary Poppins.

Sp.

American comedienne married to Desi Arnaz;

current host of Radio 2’s breakfast show;

actor who played the title rôle in the TV series Hazell.

Go to Round 1 questions with answers

ROUND 2 - Hidden theme

1.

Who now regrets her decision to wear a spider brooch during a well-publicised event in September 2019, as she believes it distracted from the seriousness of the proceedings?

2.

What is the name of the police officer who was match commander at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough?  In November 2019 he was acquitted of gross negligence manslaughter at Preston Crown Court.

3.

Who presents Royal History’s Biggest Fibs on BBC4?

4.

Which building, which he saw frequently, did J R R Tolkein say was the model for Sauron’s temple to Morgoth in Lord of the Rings?

5.

Simon Cowell’s first TV appearance was in 1989, when he won a set of kitchen scales.  On which programme?

6.

What position in public life is currently held by Sarah Clarke?  It is best known for an annual event which traces its history to an incident of 1642.

7.

What is the surname of the real-life mother and daughter who play the fictional mother and daughter in the acclaimed films The Souvenir and its imaginatively-named sequel The Souvenir II?

8.

Which 1970 non-fiction book by Dee Brown tells the story of Native Americans in the 19th century American West?

Sp1

Who was ITV’s senior football commentator from 1998 until 2020, when he was replaced by Sam Matterface?

Sp2

Who was the MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook for over 32 years, from 1964 to 1997?

Go to Round 2 questions with answers

ROUND 3 - Run Ons

The last word, or the last part of the last word, of the first answer is the first, or the first part of the first, of the second - no example needed by now, surely.

First names and surnames are required in this round. Definite and indefinite articles may be ignored. Usual caveats (whatever they might be) apply.

1.

English playwright, winner in 1925 of the Nobel prize for literature and in 1938 of an Oscar

&

1994 film starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, based on a Stephen King novella.

2.

Play by Tennessee Williams named after a treasured collection owned by one of its characters

&

Successful 1960s Liverpool band managed by Brian Epstein, perhaps best known for their cover of a song from the musical Carousel.

3.

1987 film based on a novel by John Updike, starring Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michell Pfeiffer

&

1973 British film set on Summerisle, an isolated Scottish island.

4.

Founder of a religious movement known, amongst other things, for its mass weddings

&

Name of George Orwell’s fictional ideal English pub (there’s a bar with the name, although not his ten requirements, on Deansgate).

5.

Satirical black comedy set in an eponymous country house, written by Julian Fellowes and filmed with an all-star cast

&

Political comedy series set in Pawnee, Indiana.

6.

Legend and title of an opera by Sir Harrison Birtwistle which begins when a stranger who volunteers to take a blow if the striker will accept one in return a year later is decapitated by one of King Arthur’s Round Table, picks up his head and leaves

&

1973 song by the Moody Blues, much re-issued and re-recorded.

7.

1960 Fellini film, one of whose characters’ names gives rise to the term for intrusive press photographers

&

Novelist, poet and journalist who created, with her husband, the gardens at Sissinghurst Castle, Kent.

8.

Knighted English composer, prolific provider of film scores including that for Bridge on the River Kwai

&

English novelist, author of several books set in the fictional Five Towns.

Sp.

English baron and successful writer, who coined the phrase “the pen is mightier than the sword” and wrote the infamous opening sentence “It was a dark and stormy night”  (only his double-barrelled surname required)

&

20th century English writer, author in 1918 of the hugely successful Eminent Victorians.

Go to Round 3 questions with answers

ROUND 4 - Announced theme

After a rather lovely family holiday there this summer, some questions on the Isle of Wight

1.

In southern England generally and the Isle of Wight in particular, what name is given to a steep-sided coastal gorge?  The island has twenty of them, the best-known being home to the UK’s oldest amusement park.

2.

What is the playhouse for Queen Victoria’s children situated in the grounds of Osborne House called? It shares its name with an area of North London.

3.

Departure points for ferry and hovercraft crossings to the island are Portsmouth, Southampton, Southsea and which other town, on the edge of the New Forest?

4.

A statue of which musician stands outside Dimbola Lodge in Freshwater?  He was famed for a 1970 performance on the island.

5.

Which town’s relatively sheltered location beneath the island’s highest point, St Boniface Down, produces a microclimate which allows many species of subtropical plants to flourish?  In consequence, the island’s Botanical Gardens are here.

6.

In which castle, located just outside the island’s county town of Newport, was Charles I imprisoned for fourteen months not long before his execution?

7.

Appearing on the county flag, which river flows north through Newport before entering the Solent at Cowes?

8.

Which family with Italian roots is well-known for running an eponymous ice-cream making business on the island?  The best-known member of the family became a film director whose films include Truly Madly Deeply, The Talented Mr Ripley and The English Patient.

Sp1

What was the Roman name for the Isle of Wight?

Sp2

Derived from a word which means to seal, particularly boats, how are natives of the Isle of Wight known locally?

Sp3

(Purely for entertainment purposes) What’s brown and steams and comes out of Cow(e)s?

Go to Round 4 questions with answers

ROUND 5 - Pot pourri

...with a pair or two.

First names and surnames are required for the answers to questions 1 and 2.

1.

Who were the two players in the 'battle of the sexes' tennis match held, in a blaze of publicity, at the Houston Astrodome in 1973?

2.

In 1998 Karsten Braasch, a German tennis professional whose training regime had been described by one journalist as “centred around a pack of cigarettes and more than a couple bottles of ice cold lager”, won back-to-back single-set matches against two female players who had claimed that they could beat any man ranked outside the top 200 (he was then ranked 203).  Who were they?

3.

In 2014 Professor Sir Michael Edwards was the first Briton to become an 'immortal' by being elected to what (non-UK) 40-member body?

4.

In the minor distraction from everyday affairs which occupied some of us for parts of 2020 and 2021, we became accustomed to undergoing PCR tests.  What does PCR stand for?

5.

Bodies which used to be known as UFOs are now officially described as UAPs.  What does UAP stand for?

6.

What criterion must a film satisfy in order to pass the Bechdel test (for sexism)?

7.

What is the title of the only comic book (sorry, 'graphic novel') to have won a Pulitzer Prize (in 1992)?

8.

The pseudonym used by Norma McCorvey in an American civil court case decided in 1973, was much in the news earlier this year. What was it?

Sp1

Earlier this year, Jesus College, Cambridge applied for a faculty to remove a carved memorial to one of its benefactors from its chapel because of his alleged association with slavery.  It was refused, after a court hearing which attracted some publicity.  Name either the 17th century benefactor or the 17th/18th century sculptor.

Sp2

Akshata Murty achieved a measure of fame earlier this year, largely because of her husband’s then job.  Who is he?

Go to Round 5 questions with answers

ROUND 6 - Name that role

Each of each pair of actors has played the same role - what is it?

1.

Keith Michell and Jonathan Rhys Myers

2.

Glenda Jackson and Anne-Marie Duff

3.

Ian Holm and Martin Freeman

4.

Robert Downey Jr and Johnny Lee Miller

5.

Alec Guinness and Ewan McGregor

6.

Sean and Jason Connery

7.

Mel Gibson and Tom Hardy

8.

Judi Dench and Emily Blunt

Sp1

Brian Cox and Mads Mikkelsen

Sp2

Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp

Go to Round 6 questions with answers

ROUND 7 - Pot Luck

1.

'Hallyu' is the name given to the rise in global popularity of which country’s culture since the early 1990s?

2.

Bokmal is the official written standard for which language?

3.

Which is the only Harry Potter book in which Lord Voldemort does not appear (although he is referred to)?

4.

Five African countries are current members of the Commonwealth despite having never been part of the British Empire.  Name two.

5.

The codename for the Queen’s funeral was 'Operation London Bridge'.  What was the codename for the return of her body to London in the event of her dying in Scotland?

6.

Although she continues to use her maiden name professionally, what is Liz Truss’s married name?  She shares it with a former Arsenal defender and a former host of the X Factor.

7.

Boris Johnson’s eventual downfall was precipitated by his initial denial of any knowledge of sexual misconduct by which former deputy Chief Whip?

8.

Who was known as 'the most trusted man in America' until his death in 2009?

Sp1

The only American men to sing on the original version of Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas were members of which band, known for the hits Ladies Night, Get Down On It and Joanna?

Sp2

What nickname is shared by three string quartets by Mozart, and six by Haydn, all written to honour King Friedrich Wilhelm II?

Go to Round 7 questions with answers

ROUND 8 - Hidden theme

1.

From which country does the fictional character Borat, played by Sacha Baron Cohen, come?

2.

Of which country is the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh an internationally-recognised part?

3.

One of the (many) excuses given by Putin for the invasion of Ukraine was the alleged presence of neo-Nazis, both generally in the government and in a specific unit of the Ukrainian national guard.  What was the name of the unit?

4.

What is the title of the 1967 comedy version of the Faust legend, starring Peter Cooke, Dudley Moore and Eleanor Bron?  The ghastly remake of 2000 is best shunned.

5.

After the 'Great Stink' of 1858, which engineer was commissioned to create a sewerage system for London, which he did with great success?

6.

What name is given to a musically trained clergyman who leads some services in synagogue with his singing, particularly on important holy days?  He may also be called a cantor.

7.

Which philosophical novel by Dostoyevsky was published as a serial in 1879 and 1880?  There have been several filmed versions but it is probably fair to say that none was a huge box-office success even the one, in 1958, starring Yul Brynner and William Shatner.

8.

Which novel by Aldous Huxley takes its name from a phrase in Milton’s Samson Agonistes?

Sp1

The celestial coordinate system based on the horizon uses two coordinates to locate astronomical bodies.  One is altitude; what is the other?

Sp2

What generic name is given to organic chemical compounds containing a double nitrogen bond
(–N=N–)?  Many are vividly coloured and some are used for dying textiles and leather.

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ROUND 1 - Only Connect

What surname connects the 3 clues?

1.

Winner of the Formula 1 world championship in 1976;

actor who played Mike Gambit in The Avengers TV series;

main character in the TV series Life on Mars.

Hunt

(James; Gareth; Gene)

2.

Singer who co-founded the Beach Boys;

soul singer with hits Reet Petite and I Get The Sweetest Feeling;

actor who played Victor Meldrew.

Wilson

(Brian; Jackie; Richard)

3.

English rugby union international who played in the 2003 side which won the World Cup;

creator of Ali G;

Canadian singer/songwriter.

Cohen

(Ben; Sacha; Leonard)

4.

Actress who played Nursie in Blackadder II;

Irish comedian often seen on panel shows;

actress who played Pansy Parkinson in the Harry Potter series.

Byrne

(Patsy; Ed; Scarlet)

5.

American stand-up comedian, based in the UK;

actor who played Lonely in the TV series Callan;

New Zealand model/actress married to Rod Stewart 1990–2006.

Hunter

(Reginald D; Russell; Rachel)

6.

UK Prime Minister 1976–79;

SNP MP who unseated Jo Swinson in 2019;

Clint Eastwood character in, inter alia, Magnum Force and The Enforcer.

Callaghan

(James; Amy; Harry)

7.

Lead singer of The Killers;

bass guitarist with T Rex;

technical nature of globe artichoke and broccoli.

Flowers

(Brandon; Herbie)

8.

TV detective played by Stephen Tompkinson;

family in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air;

family in Mary Poppins.

Banks

(Alan)

Sp.

American comedienne married to Desi Arnaz;

current host of Radio 2’s breakfast show;

actor who played the title rôle in the TV series Hazell.

Ball

(Lucille, Zoe, Nicholas)

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ROUND 2 - Hidden theme

1.

Who now regrets her decision to wear a spider brooch during a well-publicised event in September 2019, as she believes it distracted from the seriousness of the proceedings?

(Brenda) Hale

2.

What is the name of the police officer who was match commander at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough?  In November 2019 he was acquitted of gross negligence manslaughter at Preston Crown Court.

(David) Duckenfield

3.

Who presents Royal History’s Biggest Fibs on BBC4?

(Lucy) Worsley

4.

Which building, which he saw frequently, did J R R Tolkein say was the model for Sauron’s temple to Morgoth in Lord of the Rings?

Radcliffe Camera

5.

Simon Cowell’s first TV appearance was in 1989, when he won a set of kitchen scales.  On which programme?

Sale of the Century

6.

What position in public life is currently held by Sarah Clarke?  It is best known for an annual event which traces its history to an incident of 1642.

(Lady Usher of the) Black Rod

7.

What is the surname of the real-life mother and daughter who play the fictional mother and daughter in the acclaimed films The Souvenir and its imaginatively-named sequel The Souvenir II?

Swinton

8.

Which 1970 non-fiction book by Dee Brown tells the story of Native Americans in the 19th century American West?

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Sp1

Who was ITV’s senior football commentator from 1998 until 2020, when he was replaced by Sam Matterface?

(Clive) Tyldesley

Sp2

Who was the MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook for over 32 years, from 1964 to 1997?

(Roy) Hattersley

Theme: Each answer contains the name of an area of Greater Manchester

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ROUND 3 - Run Ons

The last word, or the last part of the last word, of the first answer is the first, or the first part of the first, of the second - no example needed by now, surely.

First names and surnames are required in this round. Definite and indefinite articles may be ignored. Usual caveats (whatever they might be) apply.

1.

English playwright, winner in 1925 of the Nobel prize for literature and in 1938 of an Oscar

&

1994 film starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, based on a Stephen King novella.

George Bernard Shaw /

Shawshank Redemption

2.

Play by Tennessee Williams named after a treasured collection owned by one of its characters

&

Successful 1960s Liverpool band managed by Brian Epstein, perhaps best known for their cover of a song from the musical Carousel.

The Glass Menagerie /

Gerry and the Pacemakers

3.

1987 film based on a novel by John Updike, starring Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon and Michell Pfeiffer

&

1973 British film set on Summerisle, an isolated Scottish island.

The Witches of Eastwick / Wicker Man

4.

Founder of a religious movement known, amongst other things, for its mass weddings

&

Name of George Orwell’s fictional ideal English pub (there’s a bar with the name, although not his ten requirements, on Deansgate).

Sun-Myung Moon /

Moon Under Water

5.

Satirical black comedy set in an eponymous country house, written by Julian Fellowes and filmed with an all-star cast

&

Political comedy series set in Pawnee, Indiana.

Gosford Park /

Parks and Recreation

6.

Legend and title of an opera by Sir Harrison Birtwistle which begins when a stranger who volunteers to take a blow if the striker will accept one in return a year later is decapitated by one of King Arthur’s Round Table, picks up his head and leaves

&

1973 song by the Moody Blues, much re-issued and re-recorded.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight /

Nights in White Satin

7.

1960 Fellini film, one of whose characters’ names gives rise to the term for intrusive press photographers

&

Novelist, poet and journalist who created, with her husband, the gardens at Sissinghurst Castle, Kent.

La Dolce Vita /

Vita Sackville-West

8.

Knighted English composer, prolific provider of film scores including that for Bridge on the River Kwai

&

English novelist, author of several books set in the fictional Five Towns.

Malcolm Arnold /

Arnold Bennett

Sp.

English baron and successful writer, who coined the phrase “the pen is mightier than the sword” and wrote the infamous opening sentence “It was a dark and stormy night”  (only his double-barrelled surname required)

&

20th century English writer, author in 1918 of the hugely successful Eminent Victorians.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton /

Lytton Strachey

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ROUND 4 - Announced theme

After a rather lovely family holiday there this summer, some questions on the Isle of Wight

1.

In southern England generally and the Isle of Wight in particular, what name is given to a steep-sided coastal gorge?  The island has twenty of them, the best-known being home to the UK’s oldest amusement park.

Chine

2.

What is the playhouse for Queen Victoria’s children situated in the grounds of Osborne House called? It shares its name with an area of North London.

Swiss Cottage

3.

Departure points for ferry and hovercraft crossings to the island are Portsmouth, Southampton, Southsea and which other town, on the edge of the New Forest?

Lymington

4.

A statue of which musician stands outside Dimbola Lodge in Freshwater?  He was famed for a 1970 performance on the island.

Jimi Hendrix

5.

Which town’s relatively sheltered location beneath the island’s highest point, St Boniface Down, produces a microclimate which allows many species of subtropical plants to flourish?  In consequence, the island’s Botanical Gardens are here.

Ventnor

6.

In which castle, located just outside the island’s county town of Newport, was Charles I imprisoned for fourteen months not long before his execution?

Carisbrooke

7.

Appearing on the county flag, which river flows north through Newport before entering the Solent at Cowes?

Medina

8.

Which family with Italian roots is well-known for running an eponymous ice-cream making business on the island?  The best-known member of the family became a film director whose films include Truly Madly Deeply, The Talented Mr Ripley and The English Patient.

Minghella

Sp1

What was the Roman name for the Isle of Wight?

Vectis

Sp2

Derived from a word which means to seal, particularly boats, how are natives of the Isle of Wight known locally?

Caulkheads

Sp3

(Purely for entertainment purposes) What’s brown and steams and comes out of Cow(e)s?

The Isle of Wight ferry

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ROUND 5 - Pot pourri

...with a pair or two.

First names and surnames are required for the answers to questions 1 and 2.

1.

Who were the two players in the 'battle of the sexes' tennis match held, in a blaze of publicity, at the Houston Astrodome in 1973?

Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King

2.

In 1998 Karsten Braasch, a German tennis professional whose training regime had been described by one journalist as “centred around a pack of cigarettes and more than a couple bottles of ice cold lager”, won back-to-back single-set matches against two female players who had claimed that they could beat any man ranked outside the top 200 (he was then ranked 203).  Who were they?

Venus and Serena Williams

3.

In 2014 Professor Sir Michael Edwards was the first Briton to become an 'immortal' by being elected to what (non-UK) 40-member body?

Académie Française

(whose members are known as 'les immortels')

4.

In the minor distraction from everyday affairs which occupied some of us for parts of 2020 and 2021, we became accustomed to undergoing PCR tests.  What does PCR stand for?

Polymerase Chain Reaction

5.

Bodies which used to be known as UFOs are now officially described as UAPs.  What does UAP stand for?

Unexplained Aerial Phenomenon

6.

What criterion must a film satisfy in order to pass the Bechdel test (for sexism)?

It must contain a conversation between at least two women which is at least in part about something other than a man

7.

What is the title of the only comic book (sorry, 'graphic novel') to have won a Pulitzer Prize (in 1992)?

Maus

8.

The pseudonym used by Norma McCorvey in an American civil court case decided in 1973, was much in the news earlier this year. What was it?

(Jane) Roe

(in Roe v Wade; Henry Wade was the local Texas district attorney)

Sp1

Earlier this year, Jesus College, Cambridge applied for a faculty to remove a carved memorial to one of its benefactors from its chapel because of his alleged association with slavery.  It was refused, after a court hearing which attracted some publicity.  Name either the 17th century benefactor or the 17th/18th century sculptor.

Either

(Tobias) Rustat

(the benefactor)

or

or (Grinling) Gibbons

(the sculptor)

Sp2

Akshata Murty achieved a measure of fame earlier this year, largely because of her husband’s then job.  Who is he?

(Rishi) Sunak

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ROUND 6 - Name that role

Each of each pair of actors has played the same role - what is it?

1.

Keith Michell and Jonathan Rhys Myers

Henry VIII

2.

Glenda Jackson and Anne-Marie Duff

Elizabeth I

3.

Ian Holm and Martin Freeman

Bilbo Baggins

4.

Robert Downey Jr and Johnny Lee Miller

Sherlock Holmes

5.

Alec Guinness and Ewan McGregor

Obi-Wan Kenobi

6.

Sean and Jason Connery

Robin Hood

7.

Mel Gibson and Tom Hardy

Mad Max

8.

Judi Dench and Emily Blunt

Queen Victoria

Sp1

Brian Cox and Mads Mikkelsen

Hannibal Lecter

Sp2

Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp

Willy Wonka

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ROUND 7 - Pot Luck

1.

'Hallyu' is the name given to the rise in global popularity of which country’s culture since the early 1990s?

South Korea

2.

Bokmal is the official written standard for which language?

Norwegian

3.

Which is the only Harry Potter book in which Lord Voldemort does not appear (although he is referred to)?

The Prisoner of Azkaban

4.

Five African countries are current members of the Commonwealth despite having never been part of the British Empire.  Name two.

(Two of)

Gabon, Togo, Mozambique, Rwanda or Cameroon

(technically a very small portion of Cameroon was a British Trust Territory, but we will allow it)

5.

The codename for the Queen’s funeral was 'Operation London Bridge'.  What was the codename for the return of her body to London in the event of her dying in Scotland?

Operation Unicorn

6.

Although she continues to use her maiden name professionally, what is Liz Truss’s married name?  She shares it with a former Arsenal defender and a former host of the X Factor.

O’Leary

7.

Boris Johnson’s eventual downfall was precipitated by his initial denial of any knowledge of sexual misconduct by which former deputy Chief Whip?

(Chris) Pincher

8.

Who was known as 'the most trusted man in America' until his death in 2009?

(Walter) Cronkite

Sp1

The only American men to sing on the original version of Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas were members of which band, known for the hits Ladies Night, Get Down On It and Joanna?

Kool and the Gang

Sp2

What nickname is shared by three string quartets by Mozart, and six by Haydn, all written to honour King Friedrich Wilhelm II?

Prussian

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ROUND 8 - Hidden theme

1.

From which country does the fictional character Borat, played by Sacha Baron Cohen, come?

Kazakhstan

2.

Of which country is the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh an internationally-recognised part?

Azerbaijan

3.

One of the (many) excuses given by Putin for the invasion of Ukraine was the alleged presence of neo-Nazis, both generally in the government and in a specific unit of the Ukrainian national guard.  What was the name of the unit?

Azov

(Brigade or Regiment)

4.

What is the title of the 1967 comedy version of the Faust legend, starring Peter Cooke, Dudley Moore and Eleanor Bron?  The ghastly remake of 2000 is best shunned.

Bedazzled

5.

After the 'Great Stink' of 1858, which engineer was commissioned to create a sewerage system for London, which he did with great success?

(Sir Joseph) Bazalgette

6.

What name is given to a musically trained clergyman who leads some services in synagogue with his singing, particularly on important holy days?  He may also be called a cantor.

Chazzan

(pronounced with a guttural “ch”, or Hazzan)

7.

Which philosophical novel by Dostoyevsky was published as a serial in 1879 and 1880?  There have been several filmed versions but it is probably fair to say that none was a huge box-office success even the one, in 1958, starring Yul Brynner and William Shatner.

The Brothers Karamazov

8.

Which novel by Aldous Huxley takes its name from a phrase in Milton’s Samson Agonistes?

Eyeless in Gaza

Sp1

The celestial coordinate system based on the horizon uses two coordinates to locate astronomical bodies.  One is altitude; what is the other?

Azimuth

Sp2

What generic name is given to organic chemical compounds containing a double nitrogen bond
(–N=N–)?  Many are vividly coloured and some are used for dying textiles and leather.

Azo

(accept diazo or diazene)

Theme: Each answer contains the consecutive letters 'AZ'

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