ROUND 1 - Pairs

1.

Which actress known for her collaborations with director Mike Leigh in such films as Secrets & Lies, Topsy-Turvy and Vera Drake, plays Princess Margaret in the fifth series of The Crown?

2.

Which former James Bond plays the part of her former boyfriend Group Captain Peter Townsend in the fifth series of The Crown?

3.

Which European Cup winning former Liverpool striker, who died last week aged 71, also played for Everton, Ipswich Town and Preston North End amongst others?

4.

Which guitarist, renowned for his jerky, slashing style and song writing ability, died last week aged 75?

5.

In which business sector was the failed company headed by CEO Sam Bankman-Fried?

6.

Alan Jope has announced his retirement as CEO after a 35 year career at which global consumer company?

7.

With which country does Russia share its shortest border?

8.

Through which 4 capital cities does the river Danube flow?

Sp.

Which Number One song of the 1970s contains the line: "It hides a nasty stain that’s lying there"?

Go to Round 1 questions with answers

ROUND 2 - 'Censorship'

1.

Once a celebrated TV personality and winner of Strictly Come Dancing, who is now President of
the British Board of Film Classification?

2.

The famous disclaimer:

"All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental"

started appearing in 1932 after a 20 million dollar pay out by MGM which followed a movie about which infamous non-American historical figure who had been murdered 15 years before?

3.

Which 1983 music video's disclaimer refers to "persons living , dead or undead"?

4.

Name the classic TV programme which began:

"The story you are about to see is true.  The names have been changed to protect the innocent."

5.

Give the title of Edna O’ Brien’s first novel in 1960 which was banned as 'filth' in Ireland?

6.

Which famous trial, which took place in Tennessee in 1925, featured two of the best-known orators of the era, William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow, as opposing attorneys?

7.

Hadi Matar stated:

"I don't like the person.  I don't think he's a very good person. I don't like him very much.  He's someone who attacked Islam; he attacked their beliefs, the belief systems."

What incident in August 2022 drew attention to his opinion ?

8.

The 2015 terrorist attack in Paris on a satirical magazine spawned which popular slogan of solidarity?

Sp1

Understandably banned as unsocialist by Stalin and also by modern Cuba and North Korea, for what other reason is Animal Farm banned in the UAE?

Sp2

What was the title of the edition of Oz which led to a 6 week trial in 1971?

Sp3

Which 12 words follow this quote attributed to Voltaire:

"I disapprove of what you say, ...... "?

Go to Round 2 questions with answers

ROUND 3 - Pairs

1.

What name is given to a Google search that yields only a single result?

2.

What is the web browser, a popular alternative to Google, run by the Mozilla Corporation?

3.

What name is given to a biological process that sets itself naturally to a 24-hour cycle?

4.

E200+ numbers are preservatives and most E400+ numbers are emulsifiers and stabilisers, but what are E100+ numbers?

5.

In the Old Testament, who was Jacob’s wife and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, his youngest sons?

6.

What was the name of the officer of the Pharaoh who buys Joseph when he is sold into slavery by his jealous brothers?

7.

In cricket, who is the youngest ever English player to score a Test century?

8.

In cricket, who is the oldest ever English player to score a Test century?

Go to Round 3 questions with answers

ROUND 4 - Run Ons

Forenames required where appropriate

1.

Common butterfly in UK between May and October,

&

Islamic terrorist group in Somalia and Kenya.

2.

RAF navigator shot down and captured during Gulf War,

&

Acute diarrhoeal disease caused by infection of the intestine.

3.

Character played by Gary Oldman in Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban,

&

US rap collective whose albums include Elephunk and Monkey Business.

4.

British actress whose roles include Cinderella (2015) Elizabeth Layton in Darkest Hour (2017) and Mrs de Winter in Rebecca (2020),

&

American actor who played Sonny Corleone in The Godfather.

5.

Former Columbian drug lord,

&

Marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean located off the coasts of Norway and Russia.

6.

A 1982 film starring a couple who realize that they can collect easy money by murdering swingers coming to parties in their apartment block,

&

The 37-year old murderer who committed suicide after a six hour stand-off with Northumbria police in 2010.

7.

The Latin phrase meaning ‘second to none’,

&

An 85 year old American actor, two time Oscar winner for best actor and nominated numerous times across four decades, the first coming in 1967; in 1973 he played the part of a convicted criminal incarcerated on Devil’s Island.

8.

An English football league team who ply their trade at the Kassam Stadium,

&

An American serial killer who raped and murdered at least 30 women and girls during the 1970s and was executed in 1989.

Sp.

An English pop band best known for their 1991 song I’m Too Sexy,

&

A police killer who shot an officer after a botched Blackpool jewellers robbery in 1972 triggering a massive man hunt.

Go to Round 4 questions with answers

ROUND 5 - Pairs

1.

In the circulatory system of blood-flow through the human body, blood is returned to the right-side of the heart through the body’s largest vein.  What is this vein called?

2.

In 1935 there was an unlikely marriage between an English homosexual to a German lesbian.  Name BOTH the celebrated male poet and the equally-famous novelist father of the bride.

3.

Which co-founder of The Oxford Movement, who in the 1830’s sought a renewal of Roman Catholic thought and practice within the Church of England, was canonised by the Pope in 2019?  There are schools and colleges named in his honour throughout the UK, in particular in Preston, Warrington, Coventry, Luton and Hove amongst many other places.

4.

In which English cathedral is the largest surviving medieval map of the world, the Mappa Mundi, displayed?

5.

The Three Choirs Festival, inaugurated in 1715, still an annual event and the longest-running non-competitive music festival in the world, is held in which 3 English cathedrals?

6.

In the circulatory system of blood-flow through the human body, the right-hand chamber of the heart pumps blood into the lungs and also into the body’s largest artery.  What is this artery called?

7.

'Drunk & Sobers' was the collective name the sporting public of Nottingham gave to the city’s 2 most celebrated representatives of the local football and cricket teams in 1967.  Sobers was the great West Indies and Nottinghamshire all-rounder, Sir Garfield Sobers.  'Drunk' helped Forest to the runners-up spot in Division One that season and, most famously, was the linchpin of Scotland’s win over world champions England at Wembley at that season’s end.  The rest of his time was (allegedly) spent in Nottingham’s pubs.  Who was 'Drunk'?

8.

Which town was the location of the last battle of the War of the Roses in 1471, where Edward IV led Yorkists to victory over the House of Lancaster?

Sp.

Which Rusholme born writer and music critic wrote:

“There can be no summer in England without cricket”?

Go to Round 5 questions with answers

ROUND 6 - Literary Pairs

1.

Who created Detective Inspector Jack Frost, who made his first novel appearance in 1984's Frost at Christmas?

2.

Who wrote the series of novels featuring Brother Cadfael?

3.

Which famous book begins:

“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”

4.

Which famous book begins:

"You’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”

5.

Name the writer of the famous Christmas poem which has these lines:

"All this was a long time ago, I remember,
And I would do it again, but set down,
This set down
This: were we led all that way for
Birth or Death?"

6.

Name the poet who wrote:

"Be nice to yu turkeys dis Christmas,
Cos’ turkeys just wanna have fun,
Turkeys are cool , turkeys are wicked,
An’ every turkey has a mum."

7.

Name the book by a modern best-selling female author (with a pseudonym) which was published this autumn and which is described below:

"It is a sprawling crime novel and one of the Times Books of the Year.  It begins with the discovery of the body of the creator of a popular cartoon in Highgate Cemetery."

8.

Name the book by a modern best-selling male author published this autumn and which is described below:

"It’s the 17th century and the hunt is on to track down the killers of Charles I.  The Indemnity and Oblivion Act pardoned all those involved in the civil war except, crucially, the regicides.  Moving between England and America (to which several of the regicides fled), it is at once a gripping thriller and a meditation on democracy and republicanism."

Sp1

Which 1967 novel opens with the lines:

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”

Sp2

Which celebrated investigator solves the mystery in The 4.50 from Paddington?

Go to Round 6 questions with answers

ROUND 7 - Pairs

1.

What was the difference between the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on 6th August 1945 and
the one dropped on Nagasaki 3 days later, in terms of the chemical substance used to detonate each?  (you do NOT have to allocate each substance to the correct bomb, just state what the 2 substances were)

2.

Which Philip Larkin poem contains the lines:

“And that will be England gone,
The shadows, the meadows, the lanes,
The guidhalls, the carved choirs,
There’ll be books; it will linger on
In galleries; but all that remains
For us will be concrete and tyres”?

3.

Which poem of Sir Henry Newbolt, also often put to music as a sea-shanty, has the lines:

“If the Dons sight Devon
I’ll quit the port o’ Heaven,
An’ drum them up the Channel as we drummed them long ago”?

4.

The 18th-century scientist Carl Linnaeus was the first to hierarchically classify nature.  His
classifications (listed alphabetically here) included:

• Classes

• Genus

• Kingdoms

• Orders

• Species

Starting with the most general, puts these 5 divisions in descending order of size.

5.

There are 2 players in England’s 26-man World Cup squad who were born and brought up in Coventry.  Both came through the Coventry City youth system and made their mark early in their career in the first team, before, in the usual way, being cashed-in for a song to (so-called) ‘bigger clubs’. Name EITHER player.

6.

There are 4 Yorkshire-born players in England’s 26-man World Cup squad.  Name 3 of them.

7.

Which philosopher and mathematician invented the algebraic and geometric convention of using 'a', 'b' and 'c' as symbols for the known and 'x', 'y' and 'z', for the unknown - including 'x' and 'y' as the 2 axes of a graph?

8.

Which ancient civilisation from nearly 6,000 years ago devised the chronological units that had 60
seconds for a minute, 60 minutes for an hour, 7 days for a week, as well as 360 degrees for a circle?

Go to Round 7 questions with answers

ROUND 8 - Hidden theme

1.

Which Manchester city centre thoroughfare contains modern European restaurant Panacea, the Lokum II Caffe and IT businesses AYKO Digital, Final Stage and Connected IT Contract Limited.  It has junctions with Ridgefield, Bow Street and St James’s Square and also has access to the 'Hidden Gem' Church?

2.

This 2005 comedy-drama film starring Joel Edgerton and Chiwetel Ejiofor tells the story of a Northamptonshire shoe firm that radically changes its product range to stay in business.  It was turned into a stage musical that opened on Broadway in April 2013 with songs written by Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein.  What is its name?

3.

The 1980s pop duo Mel and Kim of the Stock, Aitken and Waterman stable hit No.1 in 1987 with their hit Respectable.  They had a string of chart hits from their debut in 1986 until Mel’s death from cancer in 1990.  The girls were sisters but what was their surname?

4.

What were legendary US criminals Bonnie and Clyde’s surnames?  (both surnames needed for the points)

5.

This English retail consultant and broadcaster began her career as a Saturday girl in John Lewis.  She then worked for Harrod’s and Topshop before being appointed Creative Director of Harvey Nichols.  By the age of 30 she was on the Harvey Nichols board.  In 2011 she was appointed by then PM, David Cameron, to lead an independent review into Britain’s high streets.  Who is she? (forename and surname required)

6.

 This Scottish philosopher born in 1795 was one of the leading, eminent and famous thinkers in Victorian Britain.  He wrote on many subjects and developed the philosophical concept of Natural Supernaturalism before his death in 1881.  Who is he?

7.

This American supermodel was born in 1995, the daughter of a former Olympic decathlon champion.  She rose to fame in a very well-known US reality TV show but has since become one of the world’s highest paid models.  Appearing in numerous campaigns for LOVE and Vogue magazines, she was the highest paid of all in 2017 and is an ambassador for Estée Lauder.  Who is she? (forename and surname required).

8.

Which current cabinet minister is a cousin of legendary Clash and Big Audio Dynamite guitarist Mick Jones?

Sp.

Which singer’s biggest hit was a cover of Doris Day’s Secret Love.  She was runner-up in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest with the song I Belong?

Go to Round 8 questions with answers

ROUND 1 - Pairs

1.

Which actress known for her collaborations with director Mike Leigh in such films as Secrets & Lies, Topsy-Turvy and Vera Drake, plays Princess Margaret in the fifth series of The Crown?

Lesley Manville

2.

Which former James Bond plays the part of her former boyfriend Group Captain Peter Townsend in the fifth series of The Crown?

Timothy Dalton

3.

Which European Cup winning former Liverpool striker, who died last week aged 71, also played for Everton, Ipswich Town and Preston North End amongst others?

David Johnson

4.

Which guitarist, renowned for his jerky, slashing style and song writing ability, died last week aged 75?

Wilko Johnson

5.

In which business sector was the failed company headed by CEO Sam Bankman-Fried?

Crypto currency

(the company was FTX)

6.

Alan Jope has announced his retirement as CEO after a 35 year career at which global consumer company?

Unilever

7.

With which country does Russia share its shortest border?

North Korea

8.

Through which 4 capital cities does the river Danube flow?

Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade

Sp.

Which Number One song of the 1970s contains the line: "It hides a nasty stain that’s lying there"?

I’m Not in Love

(10 CC)

ROUND 2 - 'Censorship'

1.

Once a celebrated TV personality and winner of Strictly Come Dancing, who is now President of
the British Board of Film Classification?

Natasha Kaplinsky

2.

The famous disclaimer:

"All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental"

started appearing in 1932 after a 20 million dollar pay out by MGM which followed a movie about which infamous non-American historical figure who had been murdered 15 years before?

Rasputin

(Russian emigrés, Prince Yusupov and Princess Irina Alexandrovna, contested their portrayal in Rasputin and the Empress)

3.

Which 1983 music video's disclaimer refers to "persons living , dead or undead"?

Thriller

(by Michael Jackson)

4.

Name the classic TV programme which began:

"The story you are about to see is true.  The names have been changed to protect the innocent."

Dragnet

5.

Give the title of Edna O’ Brien’s first novel in 1960 which was banned as 'filth' in Ireland?

The Country Girls

6.

Which famous trial, which took place in Tennessee in 1925, featured two of the best-known orators of the era, William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow, as opposing attorneys?

The Scopes (Monkey) Trial

(where a science teacher in Tennessee faced prosecution for teaching the theory of evolution)

7.

Hadi Matar stated:

"I don't like the person.  I don't think he's a very good person. I don't like him very much.  He's someone who attacked Islam; he attacked their beliefs, the belief systems."

What incident in August 2022 drew attention to his opinion ?

The attack on Sir Salman Rushdie

(in New York)

8.

The 2015 terrorist attack in Paris on a satirical magazine spawned which popular slogan of solidarity?

"Je suis Charlie"

(Charlie Hebdo attack)

Sp1

Understandably banned as unsocialist by Stalin and also by modern Cuba and North Korea, for what other reason is Animal Farm banned in the UAE?

The subject of talking pigs is not in line with Muslim values

Sp2

What was the title of the edition of Oz which led to a 6 week trial in 1971?

The School Kids’ issue

Sp3

Which 12 words follow this quote attributed to Voltaire:

"I disapprove of what you say, ...... "?

"...but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Go back to Round 2 questions without answers

ROUND 3 - Pairs

1.

What name is given to a Google search that yields only a single result?

A Googlewhack

2.

What is the web browser, a popular alternative to Google, run by the Mozilla Corporation?

Firefox

3.

What name is given to a biological process that sets itself naturally to a 24-hour cycle?

Circadian rhythm

4.

E200+ numbers are preservatives and most E400+ numbers are emulsifiers and stabilisers, but what
are E100+ numbers?

Food colourants

5.

In the Old Testament, who was Jacob’s wife and the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, his youngest
sons?

Rachel

6.

What was the name of the officer of the Pharaoh who buys Joseph when he is sold into slavery by
his jealous brothers?

Potiphar

7.

In cricket, who is the youngest ever English player to score a Test century?

Denis Compton

(aged 20 in 1938)

8.

In cricket, who is the oldest ever English player to score a Test century?

Jack Hobbs

(aged 46 in 1929)

Go back to Round 3 questions without answers

ROUND 4 - Run Ons

Forenames required where appropriate

1.

Common butterfly in UK between May and October,

&

Islamic terrorist group in Somalia and Kenya.

Red Admiral /

al Shabab

2.

RAF navigator shot down and captured during Gulf War,

&

Acute diarrhoeal disease caused by infection of the intestine.

John Nichol /

Cholera

3.

Character played by Gary Oldman in Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban,

&

US rap collective whose albums include Elephunk and Monkey Business.

Syrius Black /

Black Eyed Peas

4.

British actress whose roles include Cinderella (2015) Elizabeth Layton in Darkest Hour (2017) and Mrs de Winter in Rebecca (2020),

&

American actor who played Sonny Corleone in The Godfather.

Lily James /

James Caan

5.

Former Columbian drug lord,

&

Marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean located off the coasts of Norway and Russia.

Pablo Escobar /

Barents Sea

6.

A 1982 film starring a couple who realize that they can collect easy money by murdering swingers
coming to parties in their apartment block,

&

The 37-year old murderer who committed suicide after a six hour stand-off with Northumbria police in 2010.

Eating Raoul /

Raoul Moat

7.

The Latin phrase meaning ‘second to none’,

&

An 85 year old American actor, two time Oscar winner for best actor and nominated numerous times across four decades, the first coming in 1967; in 1973 he played the part of a convicted criminal incarcerated on Devil’s Island.

Nulli Secundus /

Dustin Hoffman

8.

An English football league team who ply their trade at the Kassam Stadium,

&

An American serial killer who raped and murdered at least 30 women and girls during the 1970s and was executed in 1989.

Oxford United /

Ted Bundy

Sp.

An English pop band best known for their 1991 song I’m Too Sexy,

&

A police killer who shot an officer after a botched Blackpool jewellers robbery in 1972 triggering a massive man hunt.

Right Said Fred /

Frederick Sewell

Go back to Round 4 questions without answers

ROUND 5 - Pairs

1.

In the circulatory system of blood-flow through the human body, blood is returned to the right-side of the heart through the body’s largest vein.  What is this vein called?

Vena Cava

2.

In 1935 there was an unlikely marriage between an English homosexual to a German lesbian.  Name BOTH the celebrated male poet and the equally-famous novelist father of the bride.

W H Auden & Thomas Mann

(both needed)

(the marriage was unconsummated and was an arranged convenience to enable Thomas Mann’s daughter to get a British passport)

3.

Which co-founder of The Oxford Movement, who in the 1830’s sought a renewal of Roman Catholic thought and practice within the Church of England, was canonised by the Pope in 2019?  There are schools and colleges named in his honour throughout the UK, in particular in Preston, Warrington, Coventry, Luton and Hove amongst many other places.

Cardinal (John Henry) Newman

4.

In which English cathedral is the largest surviving medieval map of the world, the Mappa Mundi, displayed?

Hereford

5.

The Three Choirs Festival, inaugurated in 1715, still an annual event and the longest-running non-competitive music festival in the world, is held in which 3 English cathedrals?

Gloucester, Hereford & Worcester

(all 3 needed)

6.

In the circulatory system of blood-flow through the human body, the right-hand chamber of the heart pumps blood into the lungs and also into the body’s largest artery.  What is this artery called?

Aorta

7.

'Drunk & Sobers' was the collective name the sporting public of Nottingham gave to the city’s 2 most celebrated representatives of the local football and cricket teams in 1967.  Sobers was the great West Indies and Nottinghamshire all-rounder, Sir Garfield Sobers.  'Drunk' helped Forest to the runners-up spot in Division One that season and, most famously, was the linchpin of Scotland’s win over world champions England at Wembley at that season’s end.  The rest of his time was (allegedly) spent in Nottingham’s pubs.  Who was 'Drunk'?

Jim Baxter

8.

Which town was the location of the last battle of the War of the Roses in 1471, where Edward IV led Yorkists to victory over the House of Lancaster?

Tewkesbury

Sp.

Which Rusholme born writer and music critic wrote:

“There can be no summer in England without cricket”?

Neville Cardus

Go back to Round 5 questions without answers

ROUND 6 - Literary Pairs

1.

Who created Detective Inspector Jack Frost, who made his first novel appearance in 1984's Frost at Christmas?

R D Wingfield

2.

Who wrote the series of novels featuring Brother Cadfael?

Ellis Peters

3.

Which famous book begins:

“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”

David Copperfield

4.

Which famous book begins:

"You’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”

Catcher in the Rye

5.

Name the writer of the famous Christmas poem which has these lines:

"All this was a long time ago, I remember,
And I would do it again, but set down,
This set down
This: were we led all that way for
Birth or Death?"

T S Eliot

(The Journey of the Magi)

6.

Name the poet who wrote:

"Be nice to yu turkeys dis Christmas,
Cos’ turkeys just wanna have fun,
Turkeys are cool , turkeys are wicked,
An’ every turkey has a mum."

Benjamin Zephaniah

7.

Name the book by a modern best-selling female author (with a pseudonym) which was published this autumn and which is described below:

"It is a sprawling crime novel and one of the Times Books of the Year.  It begins with the discovery of the body of the creator of a popular cartoon in Highgate Cemetery."

Ink Black Heart

(by Robert Galbraith a.k.a. J K Rowling)

8.

Name the book by a modern best-selling male author published this autumn and which is described below:

"It’s the 17th century and the hunt is on to track down the killers of Charles I.  The Indemnity and Oblivion Act pardoned all those involved in the civil war except, crucially, the regicides.  Moving between England and America (to which several of the regicides fled), it is at once a gripping thriller and a meditation on democracy and republicanism."

Act of Oblivion

(by Robert Harris)

Sp1

Which 1967 novel opens with the lines:

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”

One Hundred Years of Solitude

(by Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

Sp2

Which celebrated investigator solves the mystery in The 4.50 from Paddington?

Miss Jane Marple

Go back to Round 6 questions without answers

ROUND 7 - Pairs

1.

What was the difference between the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on 6th August 1945 and
the one dropped on Nagasaki 3 days later, in terms of the chemical substance used to detonate each?  (you do NOT have to allocate each substance to the correct bomb, just state what the 2 substances were)

One used uranium, the other Plutonium

(at Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively)

2.

Which Philip Larkin poem contains the lines:

“And that will be England gone,
The shadows, the meadows, the lanes,
The guidhalls, the carved choirs,
There’ll be books; it will linger on
In galleries; but all that remains
For us will be concrete and tyres”?

Going, Going

3.

Which poem of Sir Henry Newbolt, also often put to music as a sea-shanty, has the lines:

“If the Dons sight Devon
I’ll quit the port o’ Heaven,
An’ drum them up the Channel as we drummed them long ago”?

Drake’s Drum

4.

The 18th-century scientist Carl Linnaeus was the first to hierarchically classify nature.  His
classifications (listed alphabetically here) included:

• Classes

• Genus

• Kingdoms

• Orders

• Species

Starting with the most general, puts these 5 divisions in descending order of size.

In the following order:

• Kingdoms

• Classes

• Orders

• Genus

• Species

5.

There are 2 players in England’s 26-man World Cup squad who were born and brought up in Coventry.  Both came through the Coventry City youth system and made their mark early in their career in the first team, before, in the usual way, being cashed-in for a song to (so-called) ‘bigger clubs’. Name EITHER player.

(one of)

Callum Wilson,

James Maddison

6.

There are 4 Yorkshire-born players in England’s 26-man World Cup squad.  Name 3 of them.

(3 from)

Harry Maguire (Sheffield),

Kalvin Phillips (Leeds),

Kyle Walker (Sheffield),

John Stones (Barnsley)

7.

Which philosopher and mathematician invented the algebraic and geometric convention of using 'a', 'b' and 'c' as symbols for the known and 'x', 'y' and 'z', for the unknown - including 'x' and 'y' as the 2 axes of a graph?

Rene Descartes

Sp.

Which ancient civilisation from nearly 6,000 years ago devised the chronological units that had 60
seconds for a minute, 60 minutes for an hour, 7 days for a week, as well as 360 degrees for a circle?

The Babylonians

Go back to Round 7 questions without answers

ROUND 8 - Hidden theme

1.

Which Manchester city centre thoroughfare contains modern European restaurant Panacea, the Lokum II Caffe and IT businesses AYKO Digital, Final Stage and Connected IT Contract Limited.  It has junctions with Ridgefield, Bow Street and St James’s Square and also has access to the 'Hidden Gem' Church?

John Dalton Street

2.

This 2005 comedy-drama film starring Joel Edgerton and Chiwetel Ejiofor tells the story of a Northamptonshire shoe firm that radically changes its product range to stay in business.  It was turned into a stage musical that opened on Broadway in April 2013 with songs written by Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein.  What is its name?

Kinky Boots

3.

The 1980s pop duo Mel and Kim of the Stock, Aitken and Waterman stable hit No.1 in 1987 with their hit Respectable.  They had a string of chart hits from their debut in 1986 until Mel’s death from cancer in 1990.  The girls were sisters but what was their surname?

Appleby

4.

What were legendary US criminals Bonnie and Clyde’s surnames?  (both surnames needed for the points)

Parker (Bonnie),

Barrow (Clyde)

5.

This English retail consultant and broadcaster began her career as a Saturday girl in John Lewis.  She then worked for Harrod’s and Topshop before being appointed Creative Director of Harvey Nichols.  By the age of 30 she was on the Harvey Nichols board.  In 2011 she was appointed by then PM, David Cameron, to lead an independent review into Britain’s high streets.  Who is she? (forename and surname required)

 Mary Portas

6.

 This Scottish philosopher born in 1795 was one of the leading, eminent and famous thinkers in Victorian Britain.  He wrote on many subjects and developed the philosophical concept of Natural Supernaturalism before his death in 1881.  Who is he?

Thomas Carlyle

7.

This American supermodel was born in 1995, the daughter of a former Olympic decathlon champion.  She rose to fame in a very well-known US reality TV show but has since become one of the world’s highest paid models.  Appearing in numerous campaigns for LOVE and Vogue magazines, she was the highest paid of all in 2017 and is an ambassador for Estée Lauder.  Who is she? (forename and surname required).

Kendall Jenner

8.

Which current cabinet minister is a cousin of legendary Clash and Big Audio Dynamite guitarist Mick Jones?

Grant Shapps

Sp.

Which singer’s biggest hit was a cover of Doris Day’s Secret Love.  She was runner-up in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest with the song I Belong?

Kathy Kirkby

Theme: Each answer contains the name of a place in Cumbria:

Dalton in Furness, Boot (in Eskdale), Appleby, Barrow in Furness, Maryport, Carlisle, Kendal, Shap, Kirkby Stephen.

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