ROUND 1 - Hidden theme - 'We're fresh out of Waldorfs'

1.

Who retired for three months in 1929 to Craigweil House in Bognor, Sussex?

2.

Which name is applied to members of a sub-family of wading birds including the genera Threskiornis and Gerontica characterised by downward curving bills?

3.

Which group were the subject of the successful musical Jersey Boys?

4.

Which city park in Dallas, Texas contains the world’s most famous grassy knoll?

5.

Which European County boasted eight different Counts with the name Amadeus before being raised to a Duchy in 1418?  It was later incorporated into the Kingdom of Sardinia.

6.

Which former England wicket-keeper now has his own art gallery in Chipping Sodbury?

7.

Which road bridge can be found between Albert Bridge and Victoria/Grosvenor Railway Bridge?

8.

Which team drew the 1990 FA Cup final with Manchester United 3-3 before losing in a replay?

Sp.

Who wrote Venus in Furs among other works and thus had a sexual proclivity named after him?

Go to Round 1 questions with answers

ROUND 2 - Announced theme - 'Champions League Veterans'

Each answer contains the name, or the soundalike of a name, of one of the top 100 European Champions League appearance makers

1.

Which location in South Africa was made a World Heritage Site in 1999, though it’s most famous resident had already left?

2.

Which Spanish actress won an Oscar in 2008 for her role in Vicky, Cristina Barcelona?

3.

Who was elected MP for Brent South in 1987?  He had moved to the UK from Ghana aged 15, later served as a cabinet minister under Tony Blair and is now in the House of Lords.

4.

Which author, born Co. Mayo in 1991, shares her name with an award for Irish literature?  She is yet to win it.

5.

Which song from Abbey Road, about a fictitious murderer, was described by Ringo as "the worst track we ever had to record"?  (two of the top 100 European footballers are hidden in here)

6.

Which Portuguese prince (1394-1460) is regarded as the instigator of the European Age of Discovery, having sponsored various voyages to Africa?

7.

In Carrotblanca, Looney Tunes' tribute to Casablanca, Bugs Bunny gets the Bogart role.  Who plays Louis, the randy, French Chief of Police?

8.

In which modern-day country was Tom Stoppard born?

Sp.

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ROUND 3 - Run Ons

1.

 A 1979 hit for the group XTC,

&

the 1992 formula one world champion.

2.

Jackie Paper’s rascal friend who liked frolicking in the autumn mist,

&

a TV show in which entrepreneurs pitch for investment.

3.

The protagonists of Edward Lear’s poem about a marine voyage,

&

the girl band fronted by Nicole Scherzinger.

4.

The British gymnast who won gold at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics,

&

a 1998 film starring Jason Statham and Vinnie Jones.

5.

The first English football club to pay £1 million for a player,

&

the winner of the best actor Oscar in 2007 for The Last King of Scotland.

6.

National trust stately home and country estate in Cheshire,

&

a famous tractor manufacturer, now headquartered in Duluth, Georgia.

7.

The actor best known for his roles in Red Dwarf and Death in Paradise,

&

the author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

8.

The oil tanker that disastrously ran aground off the coast of Brittany in 1978,

&

the stage name of the British rapper whose real name is Dylan Kwabena Mills.

Sp1

The founder of the Methodists,

&

the star of the film Passenger 57.

Sp2

A long-running BBC sci-fi series,

&

a hit by the Baha Men.

Go to Round 3 questions with answers

ROUND 4 - Pairs with a hidden theme

1.

George Lucas named which film character, first seen in 1981, after his family dog?

2.

Which 1987 film, directed by the Coen Brothers, tells the story of a childless couple, played by Holly Hunter and Nicolas Cage, and their attempts to kidnap one of the quintuplets of a rich businessman?

3.

Which 2 baseball teams compete in the 'Subway Series'?

4.

Which NFL team play their home matches at the US Bank stadium in Minneapolis?

5.

Born in London in 1882, which writer is considered to be one of the most important modernist authors?  Her works include To The Lighthouse and The Waves.

6.

Born in New York in 1783, which historian and short-story writer was one of the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe?  He died in 1859 and was buried under a simple headstone at Sleepy Hollow cemetery.

7.

Running from 2006 to 2011 which US TV series starred Miley Cyrus as an average teenage girl, who lives a double life as a famous pop singer?

8.

Running from 1993-2001 which police series starred Chuck Norris as former US Marine turned law enforcer?

Sp.

Which 19th century murder ballad became a worldwide hit for Olivia Newton-John in 1971?

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ROUND 5 - 'Horsing around' - Pairs involving horses somehow

1.

Which band had a number one hit in the USA, Canada and Finland with their 1971 song A Horse with No Name?

2.

Which singer-songwriter is sometimes backed by the band Crazy Horse?

3.

Which American thoroughbred racehorse still holds the fastest times for all three races in the Triple Crown?  Most famously, he won the 1973 Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths.

4.

Name any one of the three stallions that founded the modern thoroughbred horse breed.

5.

Who wrote the novel Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions, the Autobiography of a Horse in 1877?

6.

Who wrote the novel War Horse in 1982?

7.

The largest cavalry charge in history, involving 18,000 riders, occurred in 1683 at which battle?

8.

The Battle of Courtrai, fought in 1302 between France and Flanders, is better known as what, after the equipment taken by the Flemish from the fallen French knights and kept as souvenirs?

Sp.

Which member of the horse family native to South Africa (and now recognised to be a subspecies of the plains zebra) was hunted to extinction in the late 19th century?  It differed from other zebras in its less prominent stripes.

Go to Round 5 questions with answers

ROUND 6 - Hidden theme

1.

Which 1999 British TV series, starring Charlie Hunnam and Aiden Gillen, centred around Canal Street in Manchester?  It recently had an unsuccessful reboot in America.

2.

Which newspaper, founded in 1986, is currently owned by Evgeny and Alexander Lebedev?

3.

Coined by KW Jeter in 1987, which sci-fi subgenre and design style can be described as being “inspired by Victorian-era industrialism”?

4.

'Rotational Based', 'Hands and Arms based' and 'Single plane' are all types of what?

5.

Born Jefferey Allen Townes in 1965, what is the name of Will Smith’s DJ, friend and producer, famous for Summertime and regularly being thrown out of the Banks’ residence in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air?

6.

Anton Chigurh, played by Javier Bardem, is a hitman and the main villain in which 2007 Oscar winning film?

7.

The Red Dead Redemption video game series is made by which gaming studio, also famous for producing the Grand Theft Auto series?

8.

Which Disney character was loosely based on King Claudius from Hamlet?

Sp.

Winners of the Stanley Cup in 2019, which NHL Ice hockey team plays at the Enterprise Center in Missouri?

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ROUND 7 - Pairs

1.

Anna Tellwright is the eponymous heroine of which 1902 novel?

2.

Josiah Wedgwood was also connected with that part of the country; to which scientist was his daughter Susannah mother?

3.

Who was awarded a PhD in Economic History from Cambridge University in 2000 for a thesis entitled Political Thought of the Recoinage Crisis of 1695–7?

4.

Notorious for different reasons, who was the author of a doctoral thesis on The Gall Wasp Genus in 1919?  He caused a much bigger stir with two reports published in 1948 and 1953.

5.

What was the surname of the two Fabians who founded the LSE and The New Statesman?

6.

Beatrice Webb’s nephew became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1947.  Who was he?

7.

Which composer helped carry Beethoven’s coffin in 1827 before rapidly ending up in his own at age 31?  In between he wrote 9 symphonies and a huge number of other pieces including a famous quintet.

8.

Much more famous as a conductor during his lifetime, this Bohemian-born composer used the summers to write works including ten symphonies and the song-cycle Das Lied von der Erde.  Who was he?

Go to Round 7 questions with answers

ROUND 8 - Pairs with alliterative answers - plus 4 spares

Apart from the spares each answer consists of two words and they begin with the same letter, questions are also paired

1.

Which tube station, on the Northern Line, is found between Hampstead and Brent Cross?

2.

Which tube station, on the Circle and District Lines, is found between Victoria and South Kensington?

3.

Who declared in 1937 that "We live in the era of ultimate conflict with Christianity"?  He’d been a devout Catholic in his youth.

4.

Which of his allies did Hitler refer to as "That fat little sergeant"?  He was a military man but always an officer.

5.

Who was the composer of Boris Godunov and Pictures at an Exhibition?

6.

Which composer’s works include Belshazzar’s Feast, Troilus and Cressida, Façade and (the very topical) Crown Imperial?

7.

Who wrote the 1989 book Citizens, a History of the French Revolution?  He went on to make major documentary series for the BBC and be knighted in 2018.

8.

Which non-fiction writer, born 1951 in Des Moines, Iowa, retired from writing books in 2020 having sold over 16 million copies?

Sp1

After his baby son Theo developed hydrocephalus in the 1960, which Welsh-born author helped develop an improved surgical valve for draining fluid from the brain?

Sp2

Which Russian-born author was also a world authority on blue butterflies of the tribe Polyommatini?  His taxonomic work inspired his poem On Discovering a Butterfly.

Sp3

Called the Red Queen by Phillipa Gregory, Lady Margaret Beaufort founded two Cambridge Colleges.  Name either of them.

Sp4

Britain’s first public museum, the Ashmolean in Oxford, once housed the world’s last stuffed remains of what species?

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ROUND 1 - Hidden theme - 'We're fresh out of Waldorfs'

1.

Who retired for three months in 1929 to Craigweil House in Bognor, Sussex?

King George V

2.

Which name is applied to members of a sub-family of wading birds including the genera Threskiornis and Gerontica characterised by downward curving bills?

Ibis

3.

Which group were the subject of the successful musical Jersey Boys?

(Frankie Valli and) The Four Seasons

4.

Which city park in Dallas, Texas contains the world’s most famous grassy knoll?

Dealey Plaza

5.

Which European County boasted eight different Counts with the name Amadeus before being raised to a Duchy in 1418?  It was later incorporated into the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Savoy

6.

Which former England wicket-keeper now has his own art gallery in Chipping Sodbury?

Jack Russell

7.

Which road bridge can be found between Albert Bridge and Victoria/Grosvenor Railway Bridge?

Chelsea Bridge

8.

Which team drew the 1990 FA Cup final with Manchester United 3-3 before losing in a replay?

Crystal Palace

Sp.

Who wrote Venus in Furs among other works and thus had a sexual proclivity named after him?

(Leopold) Sacher-Masoch

Theme: Each answer contains the name of a famous hotel or hotel chain

ROUND 2 - Announced theme - 'Champions League Veterans'

Each answer contains the name, or the soundalike of a name, of one of the top 100 European Champions League appearance makers

1.

Which location in South Africa was made a World Heritage Site in 1999, though it’s most famous resident had already left?

Robben Island

2.

Which Spanish actress won an Oscar in 2008 for her role in Vicky, Cristina Barcelona?

Penelope Cruz

3.

Who was elected MP for Brent South in 1987?  He had moved to the UK from Ghana aged 15, later served as a cabinet minister under Tony Blair and is now in the House of Lords.

Paul Boateng

4.

Which author, born Co. Mayo in 1991, shares her name with an award for Irish literature?  She is yet to win it.

Sally Rooney

5.

Which song from Abbey Road, about a fictitious murderer, was described by Ringo as "the worst track we ever had to record"?  (two of the top 100 European footballers are hidden in here)

Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

6.

Which Portuguese prince (1394-1460) is regarded as the instigator of the European Age of Discovery, having sponsored various voyages to Africa?

Henry the Navigator

7.

In Carrotblanca, Looney Tunes' tribute to Casablanca, Bugs Bunny gets the Bogart role.  Who plays Louis, the randy, French Chief of Police?

Pepe le Pew

8.

In which modern-day country was Tom Stoppard born?

Czech Republic

Sp.

The Aga Khan

... and they were:

 Arjen Robben, Toni Kroos, Jerome Boateng, Maxwell or David Silva, Wayne Rooney, Thierry Henry, Pepe, Petr Cech, Oliver Kahn

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ROUND 3 - Run Ons

1.

 A 1979 hit for the group XTC,

&

the 1992 formula one world champion.

Making Plans for Nigel Mansell

2.

Jackie Paper’s rascal friend who liked frolicking in the autumn mist,

&

a TV show in which entrepreneurs pitch for investment.

Puff the Magic Dragon’s Den

3.

The protagonists of Edward Lear’s poem about a marine voyage,

&

the girl band fronted by Nicole Scherzinger.

The Owl and the Pussycat Dolls

4.

The British gymnast who won gold at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics,

&

a 1998 film starring Jason Statham and Vinnie Jones.

Max Whitlock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

5.

The first English football club to pay £1 million for a player,

&

the winner of the best actor Oscar in 2007 for The Last King of Scotland.

Nottingham Forest Whitaker

6.

National trust stately home and country estate in Cheshire,

&

a famous tractor manufacturer, now headquartered in Duluth, Georgia.

Dunham Massey Ferguson

7.

The actor best known for his roles in Red Dwarf and Death in Paradise,

&

the author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Danny John Jules Verne

8.

The oil tanker that disastrously ran aground off the coast of Brittany in 1978,

&

the stage name of the British rapper whose real name is Dylan Kwabena Mills.

Amoco Cadizzee Rascal

Sp1

The founder of the Methodists,

&

the star of the film Passenger 57.

John Wesley Snipes

Sp2

A long-running BBC sci-fi series,

&

a hit by the Baha Men.

Dr Who Let the Dogs Out

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ROUND 4 - Pairs with a hidden theme

1.

George Lucas named which film character, first seen in 1981, after his family dog?

Indiana Jones

2.

Which 1987 film, directed by the Coen Brothers, tells the story of a childless couple, played by Holly Hunter and Nicolas Cage, and their attempts to kidnap one of the quintuplets of a rich businessman?

Raising Arizona

3.

Which 2 baseball teams compete in the 'Subway Series'?

New York Yankees and New York Mets

4.

Which NFL team play their home matches at the US Bank stadium in Minneapolis?

Minnesota Vikings

5.

Born in London in 1882, which writer is considered to be one of the most important modernist authors?  Her works include To The Lighthouse and The Waves.

Virginia Woolf

6.

Born in New York in 1783, which historian and short-story writer was one of the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe?  He died in 1859 and was buried under a simple headstone at Sleepy Hollow cemetery.

Washington Irving

7.

Running from 2006 to 2011 which US TV series starred Miley Cyrus as an average teenage girl, who lives a double life as a famous pop singer?

Hannah Montana

8.

Running from 1993-2001 which police series starred Chuck Norris as former US Marine turned law enforcer?

Walker, Texas Ranger

Sp.

Which 19th century murder ballad became a worldwide hit for Olivia Newton-John in 1971?

Banks of the Ohio

Theme: Each answer contains the name of a US State

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ROUND 5 - 'Horsing around' - Pairs involving horses somehow

1.

Which band had a number one hit in the USA, Canada and Finland with their 1971 song A Horse with No Name?

America

2.

Which singer-songwriter is sometimes backed by the band Crazy Horse?

Neil Young

3.

Which American thoroughbred racehorse still holds the fastest times for all three races in the Triple Crown?  Most famously, he won the 1973 Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths.

Secretariat

4.

Name any one of the three stallions that founded the modern thoroughbred horse breed.

(any one of)

The Godolphin Arabian (or Godolphin Barb),

The Darley Arabian,

The Byerley Turk

5.

Who wrote the novel Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions, the Autobiography of a Horse in 1877?

Anna Sewell

6.

Who wrote the novel War Horse in 1982?

Michael Morpurgo

7.

The largest cavalry charge in history, involving 18,000 riders, occurred in 1683 at which battle?

(or Siege of Vienna)

8.

The Battle of Courtrai, fought in 1302 between France and Flanders, is better known as what, after the equipment taken by the Flemish from the fallen French knights and kept as souvenirs?

Sp.

Which member of the horse family native to South Africa (and now recognised to be a subspecies of the plains zebra) was hunted to extinction in the late 19th century?  It differed from other zebras in its less prominent stripes.

Quagga

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ROUND 6 - Hidden theme

1.

Which 1999 British TV series, starring Charlie Hunnam and Aiden Gillen, centred around Canal Street in Manchester?  It recently had an unsuccessful reboot in America.

Queer as Folk

2.

Which newspaper, founded in 1986, is currently owned by Evgeny and Alexander Lebedev?

The Independent

3.

Coined by KW Jeter in 1987, which sci-fi subgenre and design style can be described as being “inspired by Victorian-era industrialism”?

Steampunk

4.

'Rotational Based', 'Hands and Arms based' and 'Single plane' are all types of what?

Golf swing

5.

Born Jefferey Allen Townes in 1965, what is the name of Will Smith’s DJ, friend and producer, famous for Summertime and regularly being thrown out of the Banks’ residence in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air?

(DJ) Jazzy Jeff

6.

Anton Chigurh, played by Javier Bardem, is a hitman and the main villain in which 2007 Oscar winning film?

No Country for Old Men

7.

The Red Dead Redemption video game series is made by which gaming studio, also famous for producing the Grand Theft Auto series?

Rockstar Games

8.

Which Disney character was loosely based on King Claudius from Hamlet?

Scar from the Lion King

Sp.

Winners of the Stanley Cup in 2019, which NHL Ice hockey team plays at the Enterprise Center in Missouri?

St Louis Blues

Theme: Each answer contains the name of a genre of music...

Folk, Indie, Jazz, Country, Rock, Swing, Ska, Punk, Blues

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ROUND 7 - Pairs

1.

Anna Tellwright is the eponymous heroine of which 1902 novel?

Anna of the Five Towns

2.

Josiah Wedgwood was also connected with that part of the country; to which scientist was his daughter Susannah mother?

Charles Darwin

3.

Who was awarded a PhD in Economic History from Cambridge University in 2000 for a thesis entitled Political Thought of the Recoinage Crisis of 1695–7?

Kwasi Kwarteng

4.

Notorious for different reasons, who was the author of a doctoral thesis on The Gall Wasp Genus in 1919?  He caused a much bigger stir with two reports published in 1948 and 1953.

5.

What was the surname of the two Fabians who founded the LSE and The New Statesman?

Webb

6.

Beatrice Webb’s nephew became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1947.  Who was he?

Stafford Cripps

7.

Which composer helped carry Beethoven’s coffin in 1827 before rapidly ending up in his own at age 31?  In between he wrote 9 symphonies and a huge number of other pieces including a famous quintet.

8.

Much more famous as a conductor during his lifetime, this Bohemian-born composer used the summers to write works including ten symphonies and the song-cycle Das Lied von der Erde.  Who was he?

Go back to Round 7 questions without answers

ROUND 8 - Pairs with alliterative answers - plus 4 spares

Apart from the spares each answer consists of two words and they begin with the same letter, questions are also paired

1.

Which tube station, on the Northern Line, is found between Hampstead and Brent Cross?

Golders Green

2.

Which tube station, on the Circle and District Lines, is found between Victoria and South Kensington?

Sloane Square

3.

Who declared in 1937 that "We live in the era of ultimate conflict with Christianity"?  He’d been a devout Catholic in his youth.

Heinrich Himmler

4.

Which of his allies did Hitler refer to as "That fat little sergeant"?  He was a military man but always an officer.

Francisco Franco

5.

Who was the composer of Boris Godunov and Pictures at an Exhibition?

Modest Mussorgsky

6.

Which composer’s works include Belshazzar’s Feast, Troilus and Cressida, Façade and (the very topical) Crown Imperial?

William Walton

7.

Who wrote the 1989 book Citizens, a History of the French Revolution?  He went on to make major documentary series for the BBC and be knighted in 2018.

Simon Schama

8.

Which non-fiction writer, born 1951 in Des Moines, Iowa, retired from writing books in 2020 having sold over 16 million copies?

Bill Bryson

Sp1

After his baby son Theo developed hydrocephalus in the 1960, which Welsh-born author helped develop an improved surgical valve for draining fluid from the brain?

Roald Dahl

Sp2

Which Russian-born author was also a world authority on blue butterflies of the tribe Polyommatini?  His taxonomic work inspired his poem On Discovering a Butterfly.

Vladimir Nabokov

Sp3

Called the Red Queen by Phillipa Gregory, Lady Margaret Beaufort founded two Cambridge Colleges.  Name either of them.

(either)

Christ's College

(or)

St Johns College

Sp4

Britain’s first public museum, the Ashmolean in Oxford, once housed the world’s last stuffed remains of what species?

Dodo

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