The History Men introduce their paper thus....

Various formats have been used amongst the rounds as announced.  We have set a target aggregate score per match of 75 points and we hope everyone will get a few 2s.

Do enjoy yourself - it’s only a pub quiz!

ROUND 1 - Announced theme - 'Black and Tans'

The words 'black' or 'brown' appear in every answer

1.

Which 13-year-old girl became Britain’s youngest Olympian and medal winner displaying her skill on the skateboard at the Tokyo games in 2021?

2.

Who is the MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South?  She became the 'Baby of the House' when elected aged 20 in 2015 and remained 'Baby' until the 2019 election.

3.

Marsha Hunt and Claudia Lennear both claim to be the subject of a song which reached No 2 in the UK singles chart in 1971 as both were in a relationship with the composer.  Name the song and the performing group.

4.

What name or epithet connects the following:

a) T’Challa the King of Wakanda

b) a political group founded by Bobby Seale and Huey P Newton

c) Donald Neilson?

5.

What name or epithet connects the following:

a) Eusebio da Silva Ferreira

b) Irish footballer Paul McGrath

c) the ship formerly known as the Wicked Wench?

6.

Which song reached No 2 in the UK singles charts in 1982 having escaped censorship on Radio 1 and Radio 2 because it was thought to be a love song?  The composer later explained it was about heroin and a girl as “both provided me with pleasurable times”.  Name the song and the performing group.

7.

Which investment banker, who once described himself as “a simple crofter with 10 acres” in a 2018 debate, succeeded Angus Robertson as leader of the SNP in Westminster?

8.

Which fictional 14-year-old girl had the ride of her life in Liverpool as told in a book published in 1935?  Life was to (approximately) imitate Art 86 years later.  Name the girl and the novel.

Sp.

Who was the only schoolboy of African-American heritage in the first 15 series of South Park?  He appeared in the very first episode Cartman Gets an Anal Probe.

Go to Round 1 questions with answers

ROUND 2 - Hidden theme

The usual caveats apply

1.

Who is the mother of actor Jack Quaid?  Despite a stellar career she has never won, or even been nominated for, an Academy Award (Oscar) in any category.

2.

What is the SI unit of electrical inductance?

3.

Dying in 2009 aged 111 years 1 month 1 week and 1 day he was known as 'The Last Fighting Tommy' having fought at Passchendaele.  What was his name?

4.

Which actress, who has had a long career in the entertainment world, played Dr Who Companion Mel Bush for the sixth and seventh incarnations of the Doctor?

5.

Which singer won the Brit Award for Best Solo Female Artist in 2020?  She has had two successful albums: High Expectations (2019) and About Last Night (2022)?

6.

Which town of 11,000 people is the closest town to the site of the Glastonbury Festival?  It once had England’s oldest prison until it closed in 2013.

7.

Which poet had unrequited love for Laura de Noves for 21 years until her death in Avignon from the Black Death in 1348?

8.

Satirising hip-hop culture what is the name of the Welsh band whose singles include Guns Don’t Kill People, Rappers Do (2004) and Your Missus is a Nutter (2005)?  They caused controversy with the latter song when they sang it as the pre-match entertainment for the Wales-England World Cup qualifier in 2005 dedicating it to David and Victoria Beckham.

Sp.

EastEnders has had many unnatural deaths.  Which character was murdered in 2014?  The underaged killer was convicted in 2016 but served only three years in prison.

Go to Round 2 questions with answers

Ben Wallace has served as Secretary of State for Defence under three PMs.  Since 1970 he has had 22 predecessors.  Each answer contains the name of one of them.

Usual caveats. They are in no particular order, but it might help to know that there are 3 Labour and 5 Tories.

(please note that you will earn points for the answers to the questions not for the name of the actual Defence Secretary)

1.

Which Buddy Holly song became the Rolling Stones first top ten single in 1963?  The song reappeared in an advert for Scotch tape in 1985.

2.

Vulpes zerda, the world’s smallest canid, is popularly known by what name?  It is also the nickname of the Algerian national football team.

3.

Who was Prime Minister for the 17 years between the ministries of the Westminster School educated 3rd Duke of Portland, and the Old Wykehamist Henry Addington?

4.

Which food company discontinued its trade mark in 2002 after 90 years?  A spokesperson said:

“We are not bowing to political correctness but, like with any great brand, we have to move with the times”.

5.

Which popular gin-based drink was first produced in 1823 and is now made by Diageo?  Alternatives using other spirits are also marketed.

6.

Patented in 1858 which jar is commonly used for home canning to preserve food?

7.

From the Cornish for 'hill of swallows' which is the highest point of Bodmin Moor?

8.

Where is the Trafford Training Centre home to Manchester United FC’s training ground and football academy?

Sp.

Whose corneas were controversially used as donor transplants on 17th January 1977?  His other organs could not be used.

Go to Round 3 questions with answers

ROUND 4 - Announced theme - “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”

Each answer is a woman or girl whose forename is a flower or flowering plant.

The full name is required unless otherwise stated.

1.

Who overcame adversity to become Strictly Come Dancing series winner in 2021?

2.

Which actress starred as Marianne in the 2020 miniseries Normal People and as Kya in the 2022 film Where the Crawdads Sing?

3.

Which actress played Samantha Stewart in the long running ITV drama series Foyle’s War?

4.

Who was the first African-American actress to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, a Tony and an Emmy)?  Her most significant role was as Rose Maxson in the stage and film version of Fences.

5.

Who was the second wife of Sir Paul McCartney and mother of his youngest child, Beatrice?

6.

Who was the author of the 1973 book Fear of Flying, controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality, and which helped launch the second wave of feminism?

7.

What was the forename of the wife of Herman Munster?  A vampire, her maiden name was Dracula.  (forename only required)

8.

What is the forename of the MP for Hampstead and Kilburn?  She played a significant role in the campaign to release British prisoners in Iran.  Her aunt has been prime minister of Bangladesh since 2009.  (forename only required)

Sp.

First appearing in the Beano in 1938, and later in the Sparky before returning to the Beano, who was 'the Strongman’s Daughter'?

Go to Round 4 questions with answers

ROUND 5 - Pairs

Reverse paired with Round 6

1.

Who said (for the third time in a speech) on St Patrick’s Day 2022: “I might be Irish but I’m not stupid”?  Both these statements might be incorrect.

2.

Which of Prokofiev’s piano concertos is only played with the left hand?  It was commissioned by one armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein but never played by him.

3.

By what name is Labour MP Lady Nugee better known?  She does not use her honorific title derived from her marriage to a knighted Lord Justice of Appeal.

4.

Which late night Channel 4 TV programme is hosted by Anna Richardson?  Despite complaints Ofcom chose not to investigate as it did not show any sexual activity.

5.

In which year of the 1960s did the following events all occur:

a) the last judicial hangings in the UK

b) Cassius Clay (later Mohammed Ali) defeated Sonny Liston

c) Nikita Khrushchev was deposed in the USSR

d) Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben island?

6.

Which 1973 film directed by Nicolas Roeg, and which included controversial marital love-making scenes, was based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier?

7.

Two countries have won the Miss World competition six times each since it started in 1951.  Name either.

8.

In the Bible who was the sister of Leah and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin?  She shares her name and with a popular day-time maths graduate and with a member of the band S Club 7.

Go to Round 5 questions with answers

ROUND 6 - Pairs

Reverse paired Round 5

1.

In the Bible who was the mother of the prophet Samuel?  She shares her name with a title character in a 1986 Woody Allen film and with a member of the band S Club 8?

2.

The USA has won the World’s Strongest Man Contest on 12 occasions.  Which country is second with 9 wins so far?

3.

Which 1963 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, with Tippi Hedren in her screen debut, was based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier?

4.

In which year of the 1970s did the following all occur?

a) the last judicial beheading in France

b) Red Rum wins the Grand National for the third time

c) Star Wars is premiered

d) Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are launched on an epic Grand Tour?

5.

Who was the English host of the 2022 Channel 4 TV programme Language of Love where couples try to pair off despite not knowing each other’s language?  The Daily Telegraph described it as “Love Island Lite” and “a good advert for the benefits of taking GCSE Spanish”

6.

By what name is Hollywood A-lister Lady Haden-Guest better known? She does not use her honorific title derived from her marriage to the fifth Baron Haden-Guest.

7.

Which of Beethoven’s piano concertos was not premiered by Beethoven himself at the keyboard?

8.

Which Prime Minister said: “That I was born in Dublin no more makes me Irish than had I been born in a stable would have made me a horse”?

Go to Round 6 questions with answers

ROUND 7 - Announced theme - 'Pontification'

Each answer contains one of the top eight most popular names chosen by popes as their regnal name. They are not in any order.

1.

Which Old Harrovian has been nominated twice for a Best Actor Academy Award most recently for The Power of the Dog?

2.

Who is the fictional, famously curmudgeonly, Head of Diagnostic Medicine in the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, New Jersey? (both names needed)

3.

What name connects:

a) a novel by Ian McEwan

b) a former record label that launched Billy Piper, Atomic Kitten, and Blue

c) a juice company mostly owned by Coca-Cola?

4.

Which broadcaster, journalist and former Liberal MP who died in 2009 is now less well remembered than his famous grandfather, famous brother, famous children and even perhaps his famous dog?

5.

Which artist who was born in Haverford West in 1876 was overshadowed in life by the works of her younger brother and of her lover Auguste Rodin but has gained a considerable reputation after death?

6.

A member of the Auden Group, and friend of Christopher Isherwood, which poet and academic died in 1995?  Australian satirist Barry Humphries is his son-in-law.

7.

What is the name of the mascot for the film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer formerly used for Goldwyn Studios?

8.

Which papal name was chosen by Jude Law’s character in The Young Pope (the thirteenth with that name); and by a character in the futuristic Babylon 5 series (the fifteenth with that name)?

Go to Round 7 questions with answers

ROUND 8 - Bingo

Have you been unlucky tonight?  Have all the easy questions fallen to other seats?  Perhaps Lady Luck will favour you now.  Pick a number from 1-15 for your question (the remaining questions are spares)

1.

Which are the only two field events not to be part of the Olympic Decathlon?

2.

Which country has won the Nobel Prize for Literature on the most occasions?

3.

Who was the longest serving female presenter of Blue Peter?  She is married to satirist Charlie Brooker and is the sister of a suspended Labour MP

4.

Who is known as the Countess of Forfar when doing trips to Scotland on behalf of the King?

5.

On a 'QWERTY' keyboard what is the last letter on the right of the bottom line?

6.

What first name connects astronaut Aldrin, painter Landseer and architect Lutyens?

7.

Which author introduced the 'Three Laws of Robotics' in the 1942 short story Runaround?

8.

Three English queens are interred in the St Peter ad Vincula chapel in the grounds of the Tower of London.  Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard are two of them.  Who is the third?

9.

With an atomic number of 93 which is the first of the trans-uranic elements?

10.

Which former cabinet minister has allegedly been nicknamed 'Mr Bean' and 'Frank Spencer' by his own backbenchers because he is “a rather pathetic individual who gets everything wrong”?

11.

Tegucigalpa is the capital of which country?  Its airport is considered one of the most difficult for commercial pilots, but international flights are now being transferred to a new airport in nearby Comayagua.

12.

One of the happiest Thomas Hardy books, which Wessex novel has characters called Fancy Day and Dick Dewy?

13.

The hormone testosterone is mostly produced in the male testes.  Women produce smaller amounts and do not have testes (or very few do).  For women therefore, most testosterone is produced by two other types of paired organs.  Name either.

14.

Which composer, one of the 'Mighty Five', is also well known as the co-discoverer of the aldol reaction in organic chemistry? (surname only required)

15.

Go to Round 8 questions with answers

ROUND 1 - Announced theme - 'The Black and Tans'

The words 'black' or 'brown' appear in every answer

1.

Which 13-year-old girl became Britain’s youngest Olympian and medal winner displaying her skill on the skateboard at the Tokyo games in 2021?

Sky Brown

2.

Who is the MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South?  She became the 'Baby of the House' when elected aged 20 in 2015 and remained 'Baby' until the 2019 election.

Mhairi Black

3.

Marsha Hunt and Claudia Lennear both claim to be the subject of a song which reached No 2 in the UK singles chart in 1971 as both were in a relationship with the composer.  Name the song and the performing group.

Brown Sugar;

The Rolling Stones

4.

What name or epithet connects the following:

a) T’Challa the King of Wakanda

b) a political group founded by Bobby Seale and Huey P Newton

c) Donald Neilson?

5.

What name or epithet connects the following:

a) Eusebio da Silva Ferreira

b) Irish footballer Paul McGrath

c) the ship formerly known as the Wicked Wench?

Black Pearl

6.

Which song reached No 2 in the UK singles charts in 1982 having escaped censorship on Radio 1 and Radio 2 because it was thought to be a love song?  The composer later explained it was about heroin and a girl as “both provided me with pleasurable times”.  Name the song and the performing group.

Golden Brown;

The Stranglers

7.

Which investment banker, who once described himself as “a simple crofter with 10 acres” in a 2018 debate, succeeded Angus Robertson as leader of the SNP in Westminster?

8.

Which fictional 14-year-old girl had the ride of her life in Liverpool as told in a book published in 1935?  Life was to (approximately) imitate Art 86 years later.  Name the girl and the novel.

Velvet Brown;

National Velvet

Sp.

Who was the only schoolboy of African-American heritage in the first 15 series of South Park?  He appeared in the very first episode Cartman Gets an Anal Probe.

Token Black

(accept Tolkien Black)

ROUND 2 - Hidden theme

The usual caveats apply

1.

Who is the mother of actor Jack Quaid?  Despite a stellar career she has never won, or even been nominated for, an Academy Award (Oscar) in any category.

Meg Ryan

2.

What is the SI unit of electrical inductance?

Henry

3.

Dying in 2009 aged 111 years 1 month 1 week and 1 day he was known as 'The Last Fighting Tommy' having fought at Passchendaele.  What was his name?

Harry Patch

4.

Which actress, who has had a long career in the entertainment world, played Dr Who Companion Mel Bush for the sixth and seventh incarnations of the Doctor?

Bonnie Langford

5.

Which singer won the Brit Award for Best Solo Female Artist in 2020?  She has had two successful albums: High Expectations (2019) and About Last Night (2022)?

Mabel

6.

Which town of 11,000 people is the closest town to the site of the Glastonbury Festival?  It once had England’s oldest prison until it closed in 2013.

Shepton Mallet

7.

Which poet had unrequited love for Laura de Noves for 21 years until her death in Avignon from the Black Death in 1348?

8.

Satirising hip-hop culture what is the name of the Welsh band whose singles include Guns Don’t Kill People, Rappers Do (2004) and Your Missus is a Nutter (2005)?  They caused controversy with the latter song when they sang it as the pre-match entertainment for the Wales-England World Cup qualifier in 2005 dedicating it to David and Victoria Beckham.

Goldie Lookin' Chain

Sp.

EastEnders has had many unnatural deaths.  Which character was murdered in 2014?  The underaged killer was convicted in 2016 but served only three years in prison.

Lucy Beale

Theme: Each answer contains the name of a Blue Peter dog...

Meg, Henry, Patch, Bonnie, Mabel, Shep, Petra, Goldie and Lucy

Go back to Round 2 questions without answers

ROUND 3 - Announced theme - 'Defenders of the Realm'

Ben Wallace has served as Secretary of State for Defence under three PMs.  Since 1970 he has had 22 predecessors.  Each answer contains the name of one of them.

Usual caveats. They are in no particular order, but it might help to know that there are 3 Labour and 5 Tories.

(please note that you will earn points for the answers to the questions not for the name of the actual Defence Secretary)

1.

Which Buddy Holly song became the Rolling Stones first top ten single in 1963?  The song reappeared in an advert for Scotch tape in 1985.

Not Fade Away

(John Nott 1981-83)

2.

Vulpes zerda, the world’s smallest canid, is popularly known by what name?  It is also the nickname of the Algerian national football team.

Desert fox

(accept Fennec fox)

(Liam Fox 2010-11)

3.

Who was Prime Minister for the 17 years between the ministries of the Westminster School educated 3rd Duke of Portland, and the Old Wykehamist Henry Addington?

William Pitt the Younger

(George Younger 1986-89)

4.

Which food company discontinued its trade mark in 2002 after 90 years?  A spokesperson said:

“We are not bowing to political correctness but, like with any great brand, we have to move with the times”.

(George Robertson 1997-99)

5.

Which popular gin-based drink was first produced in 1823 and is now made by Diageo?  Alternatives using other spirits are also marketed.

(Francis Pym 1979-81)

6.

Patented in 1858 which jar is commonly used for home canning to preserve food?

Mason jar

(Roy Mason 1974-76)

7.

From the Cornish for 'hill of swallows' which is the highest point of Bodmin Moor?

(Des Browne 2006-08)

8.

Where is the Trafford Training Centre home to Manchester United FC’s training ground and football academy?

(Lord Carrington 1970-74)

Sp.

Whose corneas were controversially used as donor transplants on 17th January 1977?  His other organs could not be used.

Gary Gilmore

(Ian Gilmour 1974)

Go back to Round 3 questions without answers

ROUND 4 - Announced theme - “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”

Each answer is a woman or girl whose forename is a flower or flowering plant.

The full name is required unless otherwise stated.

1.

Who overcame adversity to become Strictly Come Dancing series winner in 2021?

Rose Ayling-Ellis

2.

Which actress starred as Marianne in the 2020 miniseries Normal People and as Kya in the 2022 film Where the Crawdads Sing?

Daisy Edgar-Jones

3.

Which actress played Samantha Stewart in the long running ITV drama series Foyle’s War?

Honeysuckle Weeks

4.

Who was the first African-American actress to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, a Tony and an Emmy)?  Her most significant role was as Rose Maxson in the stage and film version of Fences.

Viola Davis

5.

Who was the second wife of Sir Paul McCartney and mother of his youngest child, Beatrice?

Heather Mills

6.

Who was the author of the 1973 book Fear of Flying, controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality, and which helped launch the second wave of feminism?

Erica Jong

7.

What was the forename of the wife of Herman Munster?  A vampire, her maiden name was Dracula.  (forename only required)

Lily (Munster)

8.

What is the forename of the MP for Hampstead and Kilburn?  She played a significant role in the campaign to release British prisoners in Iran.  Her aunt has been prime minister of Bangladesh since 2009.  (forename only required)

Tulip (Siddiq)

Sp.

First appearing in the Beano in 1938, and later in the Sparky before returning to the Beano, who was 'the Strongman’s Daughter'?

Pansy Potter

Go back to Round 4 questions without answers

ROUND 5 - Pairs

Reverse paired with Round 6

1.

Who said (for the third time in a speech) on St Patrick’s Day 2022: “I might be Irish but I’m not stupid”?  Both these statements might be incorrect.

2.

Which of Prokofiev’s piano concertos is only played with the left hand?  It was commissioned by one armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein but never played by him.

3.

By what name is Labour MP Lady Nugee better known?  She does not use her honorific title derived from her marriage to a knighted Lord Justice of Appeal.

4.

Which late night Channel 4 TV programme is hosted by Anna Richardson?  Despite complaints Ofcom chose not to investigate as it did not show any sexual activity.

Naked Attraction

5.

In which year of the 1960s did the following events all occur:

a) the last judicial hangings in the UK

b) Cassius Clay (later Mohammed Ali) defeated Sonny Liston

c) Nikita Khrushchev was deposed in the USSR

d) Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben island?

6.

Which 1973 film directed by Nicolas Roeg, and which included controversial marital love-making scenes, was based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier?

Don’t Look Now

7.

Two countries have won the Miss World competition six times each since it started in 1951.  Name either.

either

Venezuela

or

India

8.

In the Bible who was the sister of Leah and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin?  She shares her name and with a popular day-time maths graduate and with a member of the band S Club 7.

Rachel

Go back to Round 5 questions without answers

ROUND 6 - Pairs

Reverse paired with Round 5

1.

In the Bible who was the mother of the prophet Samuel?  She shares her name with a title character in a 1986 Woody Allen film and with a member of the band S Club 8?

Hannah

2.

The USA has won the World’s Strongest Man Contest on 12 occasions.  Which country is second with 9 wins so far?

Iceland

3.

Which 1963 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, with Tippi Hedren in her screen debut, was based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier?

4.

In which year of the 1970s did the following all occur?

a) the last judicial beheading in France

b) Red Rum wins the Grand National for the third time

c) Star Wars is premiered

d) Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are launched on an epic Grand Tour?

1977

5.

Who was the English host of the 2022 Channel 4 TV programme Language of Love where couples try to pair off despite not knowing each other’s language?  The Daily Telegraph described it as “Love Island Lite” and “a good advert for the benefits of taking GCSE Spanish”

Davina McCall

6.

By what name is Hollywood A-lister Lady Haden-Guest better known? She does not use her honorific title derived from her marriage to the fifth Baron Haden-Guest.

Jamie Lee Curtis

7.

Which of Beethoven’s piano concertos was not premiered by Beethoven himself at the keyboard?

Fifth Piano Concerto

(the Emperor)

8.

Which Prime Minister said: “That I was born in Dublin no more makes me Irish than had I been born in a stable would have made me a horse”?

Duke of Wellington

Go back to Round 6 questions without answers

ROUND 7 - Announced theme - 'Pontification'

Each answer contains one of the top eight most popular names chosen by Popes as their regnal name. They are not in any order.

1.

Which Old Harrovian has been nominated twice for a Best Actor Academy Award most recently for The Power of the Dog?

Benedict Cumberbatch

(Benedict 15)

2.

Who is the fictional, famously curmudgeonly, Head of Diagnostic Medicine in the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, New Jersey? (both names needed)

(Gregory 16)

3.

What name connects:

a) a novel by Ian McEwan

b) a former record label that launched Billy Piper, Atomic Kitten, and Blue

c) a juice company mostly owned by Coca-Cola?

Innocent

(Innocent 13)

4.

Which broadcaster, journalist and former Liberal MP who died in 2009 is now less well remembered than his famous grandfather, famous brother, famous children and even perhaps his famous dog?

Clement Freud

(Clement 14)

5.

Which artist who was born in Haverford West in 1876 was overshadowed in life by the works of her younger brother and of her lover Auguste Rodin but has gained a considerable reputation after death?

Gwen John

(John 21)

6.

A member of the Auden Group, and friend of Christopher Isherwood, which poet and academic died in 1995?  Australian satirist Barry Humphries is his son-in-law.

Stephen Spender

(Stephen 9)

7.

What is the name of the mascot for the film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer formerly used for Goldwyn Studios?

Leo the Lion

(Leo 13)

8.

Which papal name was chosen by Jude Law’s character in The Young Pope (the thirteenth with that name); and by a character in the futuristic Babylon 5 series (the fifteenth with that name)?

Pius

(Pius 12)

A History Man pontificates....

The numbering is complicated because antipopes have been removed from the papal lists - though subsequent popes of the same name have taken on subsequent numbers.  Hence Benedict 16^th was actually the 15^th official Benedict.

Who is this simple Ulster Protestant to query the infallibility of the Vatican?

Go back to Round 7 questions without answers

ROUND 8 - Bingo

Have you been unlucky tonight?  Have all the easy questions fallen to other seats?  Perhaps Lady Luck will favour you now.  Pick a number from 1-15 for your question (the remaining questions are spares)

1.

Which are the only two field events not to be part of the Olympic Decathlon?

Hammer and Triple Jump

2.

Which country has won the Nobel Prize for Literature on the most occasions?

France

(16 times)

3.

Who was the longest serving female presenter of Blue Peter?  She is married to satirist Charlie Brooker and is the sister of a suspended Labour MP

Konnie Huq

4.

Who is known as the Countess of Forfar when doing trips to Scotland on behalf of the King?

5.

On a 'QWERTY' keyboard what is the last letter on the right of the bottom line?

'M'

6.

What first name connects astronaut Aldrin, painter Landseer and architect Lutyens?

Edwin

7.

Which author introduced the 'Three Laws of Robotics' in the 1942 short story Runaround?

Isaac Asimov

8.

Three English queens are interred in the St Peter ad Vincula chapel in the grounds of the Tower of London.  Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard are two of them.  Who is the third?

Lady Jane Grey

(the 'Nine Day Queen')

9.

With an atomic number of 93 which is the first of the trans-uranic elements?

Neptunium

10.

Which former cabinet minister has allegedly been nicknamed 'Mr Bean' and 'Frank Spencer' by his own backbenchers because he is “a rather pathetic individual who gets everything wrong”?

Sir Gavin Williamson

11.

Tegucigalpa is the capital of which country?  Its airport is considered one of the most difficult for commercial pilots, but international flights are now being transferred to a new airport in nearby Comayagua.

Honduras

12.

One of the happiest Thomas Hardy books, which Wessex novel has characters called Fancy Day and Dick Dewy?

Under the Greenwood Tree

13.

The hormone testosterone is mostly produced in the male testes.  Women produce smaller amounts and do not have testes (or very few do).  For women therefore, most testosterone is produced by two other types of paired organs.  Name either.

either

Adrenal glands

(aka suprarenal glands)

or

Ovaries

14.

Which composer, one of the 'Mighty Five', is also well known as the co-discoverer of the aldol reaction in organic chemistry? (surname only required)

15.

Go back to Round 8 questions without answers