There are various themes and formats to the rounds, which the QM will read out as he/she goes through.

As usual there are some sound-alikes and part-words.

Some listeners may be offended by some of the language used in the following quiz (then again, probably not).

ROUND 1 - Bingo Round - Deaths in 2022

Pick the date of the 2022 death to get your question - the question is always the same: Who was he or she?

21/1

He wrote and performed for several British comedy programmes, including Do Not Adjust Your Set and The Frost Report, before creating Monty Python’s Flying Circus with some Cambridge graduates and an American animator-filmmaker.  He famously portrayed a nude organist.

15/2

This American humorist, political satirist, and journalist, was editor-in-chief for National Lampoon (1978-1981) and international affairs correspondent for Rolling Stone magazine (1986-2001).  He wrote more than 20 books, the best known of which is Holidays in Hell about his visits to war zones.

23/3

Born Marie Korbelová in Prague, she served in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1997 and, more notably, from 1997 to 2001.  In 2012, Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

18/4

This Accrington-born composer is best known works include The Triumph of Time (1972) and the operas The Mask of Orpheus (1986), Gawain (1991), and The Minotaur (2008).

17/5

He was best known for his film scores to Chariots of Fire (1981), Blade Runner (1982) and Alexander (2004), and for his music in the 1980 documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan.

8/6

This RC priest joined the CND in 1960.  He was general secretary from 1980-85, chair from 1987-90, and later honorary vice-president.  In the 1980s, he led resistance to Cruise Missiles at Greenham Common.

14/7

This Czech lived in Canada in the 1970s, married her second husband in the USA in 1977, had three children, and helped in his career and early political aspirations.  She divorced him in 1992.  He was a Republican, in the Independence Party, a Democrat, a Republican, unaffiliated, and a Republican again in 2012.  Her first name is required.

30/8

This ex-world leader had "the imagination to see that a different future was possible and the courage to risk his entire career to achieve it." (Joe Biden); was "a politician and statesman who… realized that reforms were necessary and tried to offer his solutions to the acute problems" (Vladimir Putin).

13/9

This film director, screenwriter, and critic rose was a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement.  Arguably the most influential post-war French filmmaker, his debut as a writer/director was the 1960 crime drama Breathless (in French À bout de souffle, literally Out of Breath).

14/10

Scottish actor Anthony McMillan gained national recognition as a forensic psychologist in a 1993-96 TV series, and worldwide recognition as Valentin Zukovsky in the Bond films GoldenEye (1995) and The World is Not Enough (1999).  Taken In tribute to a jazz saxophonist, what was his stage name?

 7/11

He achieved prominence in the 1950s, playing smooth, upper-class comic roles utilising his "Ding dong" and "Hello" catchphrases.  He appeared in the Carry On and Doctor in the House film series, and provided the voice of the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter films.

Sp.

Dying on September 28th, aged 59, which rapper is probably best known for his 1995 Grammy Award-winning hit single Gangsta’s Paradise?

Go to Round 1 questions with answers

ROUND 2 - Hidden theme

All the people in this round have something in common

1.

As Postmaster General, he started the Premium Bond scheme, and introduced subscriber trunk dialling and post codes.  Who, as Transport Minister, implemented the Beeching cuts, oversaw significant road construction, and introduced parking meters, panda crossings, MOT’s, and traffic wardens?

2.

Born in Stretford in 1892, he famously crashed his plane in Galway with his navigator on June 15th 1919.  He died on December 19th in the same year, after another plane crash near Rouen.  Who was he?

3.

This entrepreneur and philanthropist owned the largest textile manufacturing concern in the UK, and was Manchester's first multi-millionaire.  Who left most of his estate, valued at £2,574,922 (£289 million as of 2021), to his third wife Enriqueta in 1888?

4.

This footballer played for Manchester City and Liverpool, and gained one Scottish cap in 1933.  His managerial career included the GB Olympic team in 1948 and Scotland in 1958.  Knighted in 1968, who was he?

5.

He started work as a coal-miner.  He arrived at Manchester City in 1894, and scored the FA Cup final goal as City won their first ever trophy in 1904.  He also played for Manchester United, and gained 48 caps for Wales.  Who was he?

6.

He holds the record for rejecting British honours (five of them including a knighthood in 1968), but accepted an honorary MA from Manchester University in 1945.  Which artist’s painting, Piccadilly Circus, London, sold at auction for £5.6 million in 2011?

7.

Born in Halifax, in WW2 he became the first radio newsreader to use a regional accent, "to make it more difficult for Nazis to impersonate BBC broadcasters".  Who hosted Have a Go on BBC radio from 1946 to 1967, with catchphrases such as "How do, how are yer?", and "What's on the table, Mabel?"?

8.

Whose gravestone has his name, the description "Broadcaster" and "Cultural Catalyst", the dates 1950 – 2007, and a quotation from The Manchester Man by Mrs G Linneaus Banks?

Sp1

What do Colour Sergeant John Prettyjohns of the Royal Marines on November 5th 1854, and Major Henry Kelly of the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment on October 4th 1916, have in common?

Sp2

Philip Baybutt (1844 – 1907) was the first British citizen to receive which award?

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ROUND 3 - A Science Round

Questions are reverse paired

1.

The first scientific paper published by John Dalton was entitled Extraordinary Facts Relating to the Vision of Colours, with Observations.  It described his and his brother’s defective perception of which two colours?

2.

In the formula, 'V=IR', 'V' is voltage measured in volts, 'I' is current measured in amperes, but what does 'R' stand for and what SI unit is it measured in?

3.

This dense colourless oily liquid was invented by Ascanio Sobrero in Turin in 1847.  Since the late 1860s, it has been used as a vasodilator to treat heart conditions.  During WW1, a factory in Gretna, in Dumfries and Galloway, used at least 336 tonnes per week.  What is this substance called?

4.

C/1995 O1 was one of the most widely observed comets of the 20th century and one of the brightest seen for many decades.  Visible to the naked eye for a record 18 months, it passed perihelion on April 1st 1997.  It was named after the two people who discovered it on July 23rd 1995.  What was it called?

5.

The comet D/1993 F2 broke apart and collided with Jupiter in July 1994, providing the first direct observation of an extra-terrestrial collision of Solar System objects.  This generated a huge amount of popular media coverage.  It was discovered orbiting Jupiter on March 24th 1993 by a married couple of US astronomers and a Canadian amateur astronomer.  What was it called?

6.

B-1 was invented by two Czech chemists in the late 1950s.  It was renamed after a suburb of Pardubice (pronounced Par-duu-bit-suh), where manufacturing started in 1964.  700 tons were exported to the main consumer Libya, between 1975 and 1981.  What was B-1 renamed?

7.

In the formula, 'E=mc²', 'm' equals mass measured in kilograms, and 'c' is the speed of light measured in metres per second, but what does 'E' stand for and what SI unit is it measured in?

8.

'Impossible colours' are colours that do not appear in ordinary visual functioning.  Which impossible colour is situated 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Stockport and 4.6 miles (7.4 km) south-east of Manchester?  Two words are required in the answer

Sp1

Since 1961, citizens of more than 40 countries have flown in space.  After the Soviet Union and the USA, name any of the first four nationalities, chronologically, to be represented in space.

Sp2

Iran launched its first satellite in 2009, North Korea in 2012, and South Korea in 2013.  Who launched their first satellite in 2018?

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ROUND 4 - Bingo Round - The Origins of Phrases

Pick your set of initials.

Warning: Some of the origins may be apocryphal, but never let the truth get in the way of a good story!

HAL

Laurence Foley, an undefeated Australian middleweight boxer in the 1890s, won a fight with prize money of over £1000.  A New Zealand paper celebrated his win with what joyous headline?

VC

Giambattista Vico's magnum opus is the 1725 book Scienza Nuova or New Science, attempts a systematic organization of the humanities as a single science. His records and explanation of the ways in which societies rise and fall, and rise again, may have given rise to which expression?

WHE

Queen Catherine de’ Medici may have discovered political secrets and plots in the Louvre Palace, by using a network of listening tubes to hear what was said in different rooms.  This gave rise to which phrase?

TBHTB

In 1104, a couple impressed the Prior of Little Dunmow with their love and devotion so much, that he awarded them a flitch, which may have given rise to which expression?

TBSU

In ancient India, it was common to spread or throw, balls of ghee onto sculptures of various deities to secure favours from them, such as good fortune, harvests, and health.  This practice gave rise to which expression?

PASII

In the late 19th century, before volume controls, how did people lower the sound coming out of the gramophone horns?

EDIEWIGBAB

In the early1920s, which mantra-like conscious autosuggestion did the Frenchman Émile Coué introduce, as part of his method of psychotherapy and self-improvement?

BYU

Starting in 1886, Arthur Balfour was surprisingly appointed to various government positions by the PM, the Marquess of Salisbury, before succeeding him in 1902.  These appointments supposedly gave rise to which phrase?

BE

Which term, now sometimes used in a disapproving manner, was supposedly coined by the mathematician, occultist, and political advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, John Dee in his 1576 book General and Rare Memorials pertayning to the Perfect Arte of Navigation?

Go to Round 4 questions with answers

ROUND 5 - 'A Film By Any Other Name…'

By what names are the following films better known in the English-speaking world?

1.

Which 1938 screwball comedy is called You Shouldn't Kiss Leopards in Germany?

2.

Which 1959 romantic comedy is called Jazz is for Girls Only in Russia?

3.

Which 1965 film musical is called All Together Passionately in Italy or Smiles and Tears in Spain?

4.

Which 1971 musical fantasy film is called The Boy Who Drowned in Chocolate Sauce in Denmark?

5.

Which 1984 sci-fi film is called Electronic Murderer in Poland?

6.

Which 1994 drama film is called Rita Hayworth: Key to Escape in Finland?

7.

Which 2007 romcom is called One Night Big Belly in China?

8.

Which 1995 comedy-drama is called The Happy Dumpling-To-Be Who Talks and Solves Agricultural Problem in Hong Kong?

Sp1

Which 1997 British comedy film is called Six Naked Pigs in China?

Sp2

In its native France, this 2007 Oscar-winning biopic was called La Môme, which translates as The Kid.  What was this film called in the UK and USA?  Hint: The title is still in French.

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ROUND 6 - 'Where Everything’s Done Proper'

Thanks to Sean Bean and Patrick Stewart

1.

This company’s brands include Taylors of Harrogate and Yorkshire Tea. The company’s first shop was opened in 1919 by Frederick Belmont, a Swiss confectioner. The family-owned company now has six branches, but refuses to open any outside Yorkshire. What are the shops called?

2.

He was born and died in Leeds, and is buried in Scarborough.  No procedure exists to posthumously remove a knighthood as the honour expires when a person dies, but episodes of Top of the Pops hosted by him are not repeated.  Who is he?

3.

Halifax Bank has its HQ in Halifax, Yorkshire Bank has its in Leeds, First Direct is also in Leeds, Skipton Building Society is in Skipton, Provident Financial is in Bradford, and Bradford and Bingley was in Bingley.  Where does Yorkshire Building Society have its HQ?

4.

With its headquarters in Leeds, Tetley's was the highest selling bitter brand in the world.  But, since 1995, largely due to advertising featuring Jack Dee and later Peter Kay, which is now the highest selling bitter in the world?

5.

Based in Settle, which brewery produces Pen-y-Ghent bitter, Whernside Pale Ale, and Ingleborough Gold?

6.

In 1935, a group of Hull trawler owners formed a co-operative venture called British Cod Liver Oil.  In April 2015, its manufacturing facility in Hull closed, and sales and marketing of the brand moved to London.  Now a Procter & Gamble subsidiary, what is this supplier of vitamins, minerals, and supplements in the UK and abroad called?

7.

Upperthong is the venue of the annual World Welly Wanging Championship, and has two well-known actors buried at the parish churchyard.  Both appeared in the same long-running TV sitcom.  Name either one of them.

8.

Claiming to be ‘Britain’s Longest established restaurant chain’, which business was established in 1928 in a wooden hut in White Cross, Guiseley?

Sp1

In 664, leading churchmen and nobles settled on formula for calculating the date of Easter, which is still used today.  In which town was this synod held?

Sp2

If Yorkshire had been an independent country in 2012, where would it have ranked in the Olympic medals’ table?

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ROUND 7 - Run Ons

1.

2.

3.

One main aim of James Cook’s 1768 to 1771 voyage was to view what astronomical phenomenon?

&

what was Will Rogers looking at when he said to his niece: "See what will happen if you don’t stop biting your fingernails?"?

4.

Since 1972, Bruce Springsteen has mainly been backed by which group of musicians?

&

there are about 22 species of the Australasian marsupial family Peramelidae; their rodent-like bodies and tails are up to 31 inches long; with tapered muzzles, and hind limbs longer than the front, what are they commonly called?

5.

6.

In which military engagement did King Harold take part in September 1066?

&

which concert venue opened on September 11th 1996?

7.

At Piglet’s door, a "Good Hum" comes to Winnie-the-Pooh; complete the line: "The more it snows …"

&

the Quick Firing 2-pounder was a 40mm autocannon, used in WW2 as an anti-aircraft gun by the Royal Navy; what nickname was given to this weapon due to the sound of its discharge?

8.

Which 1984 novel by Milan Kundera is about two women, two men, a dog in the 1968 Prague Spring?

&

in which 1999 comedy-drama film does John Cusack play a puppeteer who finds a portal that leads into the mind of the title character?

Sp1

One of Paul Simon's biggest solo hits, what was the lead single from the 1986 Graceland album?

&

which chain of over 10,000 stores in 20 countries, was founded by Karl and Theo Albrecht in 1946?

Sp2

What well-known stage direction appears in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale Act III, Scene 3

&

which adventurer and TV presenter is currently Chief Scout of the Scout Association?

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ROUND 8 - Bingo Round - French Arts

Quizzers are each invited to pick a question topic from the list of French Arts

Architecture

Which structure was proposed by Édouard René de Laboulaye, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, and built by Gustave Eiffel?

Cinema

L'arrivée d'un Train en Gare de La Ciotat (The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station), filmed in Paris in 1895, is often considered to be the official birth of cinema.  Who made this film? (surname will suffice)

Comics

To protect French comics from the American influx, the ‘Law of July 16th 1949 on Publications Aimed at the Youth’ banned almost all US comics from the French market.  With a weekly circulation of 300,000 copies, twice that of Coeurs Vaillants and dwarfing the 76,000 of Tintin, which US comic character was the first target?

Dance

Premiered at the Alhambra Theatre in London in 1919, by the famous French company, the Ballets Russes, El Sombrero de Tres Picos (The Three-Cornered Hat or Le Tricorne), was commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev.  Name either the composer, the choreographer or the designer of the sets and costumes.

Literature

Published in 1913, Swann’s Way was the first of the seven volumes of À la Recherche du Temps Perdu.  Which notable French critic of the time, somewhat arrogantly described it as a "little masterpiece…almost too luminous for the eye"?

Music

In 1913, this composer wrote: "I can only eat white foods: eggs, sugar, scraped bones, fat from dead animals, veal, salt, coconuts, chicken cooked in white water, rice, turnips…" and so on.  Most of his works were short and for solo piano.  Titles included Flabby Preludes, Desiccated Embryos, and The Dreamy Fish.  Who was he?

Painting

The Impressionist movement took its name from an 1872 oil on canvas called Impression, Soleil Levant.  Impression, Sunrise depicts the port of Le Havre, where its artist was brought up.  Who was that artist?

Poetry

Known for symbolist works such as A Season in Hell and Illuminations, this poet had a sometimes-violent romantic relationship with fellow poet Paul Verlaine.  The footballer Eric Cantona named him as one of his heroes, but the British press thought he meant an action film hero.  Name the poet.

Sculpture

At the first Duke of Wellington’s home, Apsley House, there is a 3.45 metre nude statue by Antonio Canova called Mars the Peacemaker.  Who modelled for the head of this statue?

Theatre

‘The Theatre of the Absurd’ was a term coined by the critic Martin Esslin in a 1960 essay.  In his 1961 book of the same title, he focuses on four playwrights.  Name any one of those four.

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ROUND 1 - Bingo Round - Deaths in 2022

Pick the date of the 2022 death - the question is always the same: Who was he or she?

21/1

He wrote and performed for several British comedy programmes, including Do Not Adjust Your Set and The Frost Report, before creating Monty Python’s Flying Circus with some Cambridge graduates and an American animator-filmmaker.  He famously portrayed a nude organist.

Terry Jones

15/2

This American humorist, political satirist, and journalist, was editor-in-chief for National Lampoon (1978-1981) and international affairs correspondent for Rolling Stone magazine (1986-2001).  He wrote more than 20 books, the best known of which is Holidays in Hell about his visits to war zones.

P J O'Rourke

23/3

Born Marie Korbelová in Prague, she served in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 1997 and, more notably, from 1997 to 2001.  In 2012, Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Madeleine Albright

(1993-1997 US Ambassador to the United Nations, 1997-2001 US Secretary of State)

18/4

This Accrington-born composer is best known works include The Triumph of Time (1972) and the operas The Mask of Orpheus (1986), Gawain (1991), and The Minotaur (2008).

Sir Harrison Birtwistle

17/5

He was best known for his film scores to Chariots of Fire (1981), Blade Runner (1982) and Alexander (2004), and for his music in the 1980 documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan.

Vangelis

(or accept Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou)

8/6

This RC priest joined the CND in 1960.  He was general secretary from 1980-85, chair from 1987-90, and later honorary vice-president.  In the 1980s, he led resistance to Cruise Missiles at Greenham Common.

Bruce Kent

14/7

This Czech lived in Canada in the 1970s, married her second husband in the USA in 1977, had three children, and helped in his career and early political aspirations.  She divorced him in 1992.  He was a Republican, in the Independence Party, a Democrat, a Republican, unaffiliated, and a Republican again in 2012.  Her first name is required.

Ivana Trump

(neé Zelníčková)

(accept also Winklmayr; Mazzucchelli; Rubicondi)

30/8

This ex-world leader had "the imagination to see that a different future was possible and the courage to risk his entire career to achieve it." (Joe Biden); was "a politician and statesman who… realized that reforms were necessary and tried to offer his solutions to the acute problems" (Vladimir Putin).

13/9

This film director, screenwriter, and critic rose was a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement.  Arguably the most influential post-war French filmmaker, his debut as a writer/director was the 1960 crime drama Breathless (in French À bout de souffle, literally Out of Breath).

Jean-Luc Godard

14/10

Scottish actor Anthony McMillan gained national recognition as a forensic psychologist in a 1993-96 TV series, and worldwide recognition as Valentin Zukovsky in the Bond films GoldenEye (1995) and The World is Not Enough (1999).  Taken In tribute to a jazz saxophonist, what was his stage name?

Robbie Coltrane

 7/11

He achieved prominence in the 1950s, playing smooth, upper-class comic roles utilising his "Ding dong" and "Hello" catchphrases.  He appeared in the Carry On and Doctor in the House film series, and provided the voice of the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter films.

Leslie Phillips

Sp.

Dying on September 28th, aged 59, which rapper is probably best known for his 1995 Grammy Award-winning hit single Gangsta’s Paradise?

Coolio

(accept Artis Ivey Jr.)

ROUND 2 - Hidden theme

All the people in this round have something in common

1.

As Postmaster General, he started the Premium Bond scheme, and introduced subscriber trunk dialling and post codes.  Who, as Transport Minister, implemented the Beeching cuts, oversaw significant road construction, and introduced parking meters, panda crossings, MOT’s, and traffic wardens?

Ernest Marples

2.

Born in Stretford in 1892, he famously crashed his plane in Galway with his navigator on June 15th 1919.  He died on December 19th in the same year, after another plane crash near Rouen.  Who was he?

John Alcock

(as in Alcock and Brown who made the first ever non-stop transatlantic flight)

3.

This entrepreneur and philanthropist owned the largest textile manufacturing concern in the UK, and was Manchester's first multi-millionaire.  Who left most of his estate, valued at £2,574,922 (£289 million as of 2021), to his third wife Enriqueta in 1888?

John Rylands

4.

This footballer played for Manchester City and Liverpool, and gained one Scottish cap in 1933.  His managerial career included the GB Olympic team in 1948 and Scotland in 1958.  Knighted in 1968, who was he?

Sir Matt Busby

5.

He started work as a coal-miner.  He arrived at Manchester City in 1894, and scored the FA Cup final goal as City won their first ever trophy in 1904.  He also played for Manchester United, and gained 48 caps for Wales.  Who was he?

Billy Meredith

6.

He holds the record for rejecting British honours (five of them including a knighthood in 1968), but accepted an honorary MA from Manchester University in 1945.  Which artist’s painting, Piccadilly Circus, London, sold at auction for £5.6 million in 2011?

L S Lowry

7.

Born in Halifax, in WW2 he became the first radio newsreader to use a regional accent, "to make it more difficult for Nazis to impersonate BBC broadcasters".  Who hosted Have a Go on BBC radio from 1946 to 1967, with catchphrases such as "How do, how are yer?", and "What's on the table, Mabel?"?

Wilfred Pickles

8.

Whose gravestone has his name, the description "Broadcaster" and "Cultural Catalyst", the dates 1950 – 2007, and a quotation from The Manchester Man by Mrs G Linneaus Banks?

Antony H Wilson

(accept Tony Wilson)

Sp1

What do Colour Sergeant John Prettyjohns of the Royal Marines on November 5th 1854, and Major Henry Kelly of the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment on October 4th 1916, have in common?

Won the Victoria Cross

Sp2

Philip Baybutt (1844 – 1907) was the first British citizen to receive which award?

The US Medal of Honor

(in 1864 as a Union soldier during the American Civil War)

Theme: Each of these people is buried in Southern Cemetery

Go back to Round 2 questions without answers

ROUND 3 - A Science Round

Questions are reverse paired

1.

The first scientific paper published by John Dalton was entitled Extraordinary Facts Relating to the Vision of Colours, with Observations.  It described his and his brother’s defective perception of which two colours?

Red and Green

2.

In the formula, 'V=IR', 'V' is voltage measured in volts, 'I' is current measured in amperes, but what does 'R' stand for and what SI unit is it measured in?

'R' for resistance, measured in ohms

3.

This dense colourless oily liquid was invented by Ascanio Sobrero in Turin in 1847.  Since the late 1860s, it has been used as a vasodilator to treat heart conditions.  During WW1, a factory in Gretna, in Dumfries and Galloway, used at least 336 tonnes per week.  What is this substance called?

Nitroglycerin (NG)

(accept also trinitroglycerin (TNG), glyceryl trinitrate (GTN), or 1,2,3-trinitroxypropane)

4.

C/1995 O1 was one of the most widely observed comets of the 20th century and one of the brightest seen for many decades.  Visible to the naked eye for a record 18 months, it passed perihelion on April 1st 1997.  It was named after the two people who discovered it on July 23rd 1995.  What was it called?

Hale Bopp

(after Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp)

5.

The comet D/1993 F2 broke apart and collided with Jupiter in July 1994, providing the first direct observation of an extra-terrestrial collision of Solar System objects.  This generated a huge amount of popular media coverage.  It was discovered orbiting Jupiter on March 24th 1993 by a married couple of US astronomers and a Canadian amateur astronomer.  What was it called?

Shoemaker-Levy

(after Carolyn & Eugene M. Shoemaker, and David Levy)

6.

B-1 was invented by two Czech chemists in the late 1950s.  It was renamed after a suburb of Pardubice (pronounced Par-duu-bit-suh), where manufacturing started in 1964.  700 tons were exported to the main consumer Libya, between 1975 and 1981.  What was B-1 renamed?

Semtex

(after the suburb Semtín)

7.

In the formula, 'E=mc²', 'm' equals mass measured in kilograms, and 'c' is the speed of light measured in metres per second, but what does 'E' stand for and what SI unit is it measured in?

'E' for energy, measured in joules

8.

'Impossible colours' are colours that do not appear in ordinary visual functioning.  Which impossible colour is situated 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Stockport and 4.6 miles (7.4 km) south-east of Manchester?  Two words are required in the answer

Reddish Green

Sp1

Since 1961, citizens of more than 40 countries have flown in space.  After the Soviet Union and the USA, name any of the first four nationalities, chronologically, to be represented in space.

one of ...

Czechoslovak (accept Czech),

Polish,

East German, (do not accept just German) or

Bulgarian
(Vladimír Remek, Mirosław Hermaszewski, Sigmund Jähn and Georgi Ivanov; all in 1978 /79, on Soyuz 28, 30, 31 and 33)

Sp2

Iran launched its first satellite in 2009, North Korea in 2012, and South Korea in 2013.  Who launched their first satellite in 2018?

New Zealand

Go back to Round 3 questions without answers

ROUND 4 - Bingo Round - The Origins of Phrases

Pick your set of initials.

Warning: Some of the origins may be apocryphal, but never let the truth get in the way of a good story!

HAL

Laurence Foley, an undefeated Australian middleweight boxer in the 1890s, won a fight with prize money of over £1000.  A New Zealand paper celebrated his win with what joyous headline?

'Happy as Larry'

VC

Giambattista Vico's magnum opus is the 1725 book Scienza Nuova or New Science, attempts a systematic organization of the humanities as a single science. His records and explanation of the ways in which societies rise and fall, and rise again, may have given rise to which expression?

'Vicious Circles'

(accept Vicious Cycles)

WHE

Queen Catherine de’ Medici may have discovered political secrets and plots in the Louvre Palace, by using a network of listening tubes to hear what was said in different rooms.  This gave rise to which phrase?

'Walls Have Ears'

TBHTB

In 1104, a couple impressed the Prior of Little Dunmow with their love and devotion so much, that he awarded them a flitch, which may have given rise to which expression?

'To Bring Home the Bacon'

TBSU

In ancient India, it was common to spread or throw, balls of ghee onto sculptures of various deities to secure favours from them, such as good fortune, harvests, and health.  This practice gave rise to which expression?

'To Butter Someone Up'

PASII

In the late 19th century, before volume controls, how did people lower the sound coming out of the gramophone horns?

(They) 'Put a Sock in It'

EDIEWIGBAB

In the early1920s, which mantra-like conscious autosuggestion did the Frenchman Émile Coué introduce, as part of his method of psychotherapy and self-improvement?

'Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better'

BYU

Starting in 1886, Arthur Balfour was surprisingly appointed to various government positions by the PM, the Marquess of Salisbury, before succeeding him in 1902.  These appointments supposedly gave rise to which phrase?

'Bob’s Your Uncle!'

(Balfour was the nephew of Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury)

BE

Which term, now sometimes used in a disapproving manner, was supposedly coined by the mathematician, occultist, and political advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, John Dee in his 1576 book General and Rare Memorials pertayning to the Perfect Arte of Navigation?

'British Empire'

o back to Round 4 questions without answers

ROUND 5 - 'A Film By Any Other Name…'

By what names are the following films better known in the English-speaking world?

1.

Which 1938 screwball comedy is called You Shouldn't Kiss Leopards in Germany?

Bringing Up Baby

2.

Which 1959 romantic comedy is called Jazz is for Girls Only in Russia?

Some Like It Hot

3.

Which 1965 film musical is called All Together Passionately in Italy or Smiles and Tears in Spain?

The Sound of Music

4.

Which 1971 musical fantasy film is called The Boy Who Drowned in Chocolate Sauce in Denmark?

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

5.

Which 1984 sci-fi film is called Electronic Murderer in Poland?

Terminator

6.

Which 1994 drama film is called Rita Hayworth: Key to Escape in Finland?

The Shawshank Redemption

7.

Which 2007 romcom is called One Night Big Belly in China?

Knocked Up

8.

Which 1995 comedy-drama is called The Happy Dumpling-To-Be Who Talks and Solves Agricultural Problem in Hong Kong?

Babe

Sp1

Which 1997 British comedy film is called Six Naked Pigs in China?

The Full Monty

Sp2

In its native France, this 2007 Oscar-winning biopic was called La Môme, which translates as The Kid.  What was this film called in the UK and USA?  Hint: The title is still in French.

La Vie en Rose

(apparently, most French people know Edith Piaf by the nickname ‘la Môme’)

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ROUND 6 - 'Where Everything’s Done Proper'

Thanks to Sean Bean and Patrick Stewart

1.

This company’s brands include Taylors of Harrogate and Yorkshire Tea. The company’s first shop was opened in 1919 by Frederick Belmont, a Swiss confectioner. The family-owned company now has six branches, but refuses to open any outside Yorkshire. What are the shops called?

Betty's Tea Rooms

(the company is 'Bettys and Taylors of Harrogate')

2.

He was born and died in Leeds, and is buried in Scarborough.  No procedure exists to posthumously remove a knighthood as the honour expires when a person dies, but episodes of Top of the Pops hosted by him are not repeated.  Who is he?

Jimmy Savile

3.

Halifax Bank has its HQ in Halifax, Yorkshire Bank has its in Leeds, First Direct is also in Leeds, Skipton Building Society is in Skipton, Provident Financial is in Bradford, and Bradford and Bingley was in Bingley.  Where does Yorkshire Building Society have its HQ?

Bradford

4.

With its headquarters in Leeds, Tetley's was the highest selling bitter brand in the world.  But, since 1995, largely due to advertising featuring Jack Dee and later Peter Kay, which is now the highest selling bitter in the world?

John Smith’s

(in Tadcaster)

5.

Based in Settle, which brewery produces Pen-y-Ghent bitter, Whernside Pale Ale, and Ingleborough Gold?

Three Peaks Brewery

6.

In 1935, a group of Hull trawler owners formed a co-operative venture called British Cod Liver Oil.  In April 2015, its manufacturing facility in Hull closed, and sales and marketing of the brand moved to London.  Now a Procter & Gamble subsidiary, what is this supplier of vitamins, minerals, and supplements in the UK and abroad called?

Seven Seas

7.

Upperthong is the venue of the annual World Welly Wanging Championship, and has two well-known actors buried at the parish churchyard.  Both appeared in the same long-running TV sitcom.  Name either one of them.

either

Bill Owen

or

Peter Sallis

(Compo and Clegg from Last of the Summer Wine)

8.

Claiming to be ‘Britain’s Longest established restaurant chain’, which business was established in 1928 in a wooden hut in White Cross, Guiseley?

Harry Ramsden’s

Sp1

In 664, leading churchmen and nobles settled on formula for calculating the date of Easter, which is still used today.  In which town was this synod held?

Whitby

Sp2

If Yorkshire had been an independent country in 2012, where would it have ranked in the Olympic medals’ table?

12th

(with 7 gold medals, including Jessica Ennis, Alistair Brownlee and Nicola Adams, 2 silver and 3 bronzes)

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ROUND 7 - Run Ons

1.

To Be, or Not To Be, that is the Question of Sport

2.

Which Ernest Hemingway novel tells the story of an ageing Cuban fisherman?

&

the Americans call it a teeter-totter; what do we call it?

The Old Man and the Sea/Seesaw

3.

One main aim of James Cook’s 1768 to 1771 voyage was to view what astronomical phenomenon?

&

what was Will Rogers looking at when he said to his niece: "See what will happen if you don’t stop biting your fingernails?"?

The Transit of Venus de Milo

4.

Since 1972, Bruce Springsteen has mainly been backed by which group of musicians?

&

there are about 22 species of the Australasian marsupial family Peramelidae; their rodent-like bodies and tails are up to 31 inches long; with tapered muzzles, and hind limbs longer than the front, what are they commonly called?

The E Street Bandicoots

5.

The Beautiful South Sudan

6.

In which military engagement did King Harold take part in September 1066?

&

which concert venue opened on September 11th 1996?

The Battle of Stamford Bridgewater Hall

7.

At Piglet’s door, a "Good Hum" comes to Winnie-the-Pooh; complete the line: "The more it snows …"

&

the Quick Firing 2-pounder was a 40mm autocannon, used in WW2 as an anti-aircraft gun by the Royal Navy; what nickname was given to this weapon due to the sound of its discharge?

Tiddly-Pom-pom gun

8.

Which 1984 novel by Milan Kundera is about two women, two men, a dog in the 1968 Prague Spring?

&

in which 1999 comedy-drama film does John Cusack play a puppeteer who finds a portal that leads into the mind of the title character?

The Unbearable Lightness of Being John Malkovich

Sp1

One of Paul Simon's biggest solo hits, what was the lead single from the 1986 Graceland album?

&

which chain of over 10,000 stores in 20 countries, was founded by Karl and Theo Albrecht in 1946?

(You can) Call Me Aldi

Sp2

What well-known stage direction appears in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale Act III, Scene 3,

&

which adventurer and TV presenter is currently Chief Scout of the Scout Association?

Exit pursued by a Bear Grylls

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ROUND 8 - Bingo Round - French Arts

Quizzers are each invited to pick a question topic from the list of French Arts

Architecture

Which structure was proposed by Édouard René de Laboulaye, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, and built by Gustave Eiffel?

The Statue of Liberty

(accept Liberty Enlightening the World, or, La Liberté éclairant le monde)

Cinema

L'arrivée d'un Train en Gare de La Ciotat (The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station), filmed in Paris in 1895, is often considered to be the official birth of cinema.  Who made this film? (surname will suffice)

The Lumière Brothers

(Auguste and Louis)

Comics

To protect French comics from the American influx, the ‘Law of July 16th 1949 on Publications Aimed at the Youth’ banned almost all US comics from the French market.  With a weekly circulation of 300,000 copies, twice that of Coeurs Vaillants and dwarfing the 76,000 of Tintin, which US comic character was the first target?

Tarzan

Dance

Premiered at the Alhambra Theatre in London in 1919, by the famous French company, the Ballets Russes, El Sombrero de Tres Picos (The Three-Cornered Hat or Le Tricorne), was commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev.  Name either the composer, the choreographer or the designer of the sets and costumes.

one of...

Manuel de Falla (composer),

Léonide Massine (choreographer),

Pablo Picasso (designer)

Literature

Published in 1913, Swann’s Way was the first of the seven volumes of À la Recherche du Temps Perdu.  Which notable French critic of the time, somewhat arrogantly described it as a "little masterpiece…almost too luminous for the eye"?

Marcel Proust

(about himself)

Music

In 1913, this composer wrote: "I can only eat white foods: eggs, sugar, scraped bones, fat from dead animals, veal, salt, coconuts, chicken cooked in white water, rice, turnips…" and so on.  Most of his works were short and for solo piano.  Titles included Flabby Preludes, Desiccated Embryos, and The Dreamy Fish.  Who was he?

Éric Satie

Painting

The Impressionist movement took its name from an 1872 oil on canvas called Impression, Soleil Levant.  Impression, Sunrise depicts the port of Le Havre, where its artist was brought up.  Who was that artist?

Claude Monet

Poetry

Known for symbolist works such as A Season in Hell and Illuminations, this poet had a sometimes-violent romantic relationship with fellow poet Paul Verlaine.  The footballer Eric Cantona named him as one of his heroes, but the British press thought he meant an action film hero.  Name the poet.

Arthur Rimbaud

Sculpture

At the first Duke of Wellington’s home, Apsley House, there is a 3.45 metre nude statue by Antonio Canova called Mars the Peacemaker.  Who modelled for the head of this statue?

Napoleon

Theatre

‘The Theatre of the Absurd’ was a term coined by the critic Martin Esslin in a 1960 essay.  In his 1961 book of the same title, he focuses on four playwrights.  Name any one of those four.

one of...

Arthur Adamov,

Samuel Becket,

Jean Genet,

Eugène Ionesco

(accept Harold Pinter, who was named in later editions of the same book)

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