ROUND 1 - Hidden theme

Some of the theme material in the answers forms part of larger words

1.

Who was the television anchor who, alongside Patrick Moore and James Burke, presented the Apollo 11 mission to the moon and first moon landing in 1969?  (forename and surname required)

2.

Martin Ruane was, literally, a huge star of ITV’s professional wrestling coverage in the 1970s and 80s.  Born in 1946 in London, he moved to Salford when he was 3 years old and lived there for the rest of his life.  He won the British Professional Heavyweight Championship in 1978 when he defeated Tony St Clair and was famed for his feud with another famous heavyweight of the era. What was his stage name?

3.

The late Robbie Coltrane played the giant and Hogwarts’ caretaker, Rubeus Hagrid, in the Harry Potter film series but which England rugby union international played his body and stunt double in every film?  He played lock forward for Northampton Saints, Bedford Blues and England, gaining 31 England and 3 Lions cap.

4.

Which city, the tenth largest in England, is situated on the River Sherbourne?

5.

Which English scientist, an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist who lived from 1731 to 1810, is credited with having discovered hydrogen in 1776?

6.

This film, a Mexican-American neo-Western starring Warren Oates and Isela Vega and featuring Kris Kristofferson amongst others, was made by Sam Peckinpah in 1974.  The plot involves a search for the man who has impregnated a powerful Mexican crime lord’s daughter.  It is regularly referenced in the ‘Film Club’ round of the long-running BBC Radio 4 panel comedy show I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, usually by Graeme Garden, with one or more words changed to fit that week’s theme of comedy film titles. What is the film’s name?

7.

Which show provided television debuts to the impressionists and comedians Hugh Dennis, Steve Coogan, John Culshaw, Harry Enfield and John Thomson?

8.

Which city in New Zealand is the principal city of the Otago region and is the second largest on the South Island?

Sp.

Which Daphne Du Maurier novel, her fourth, published in 1941 tells the story of a love affair between a headstrong noblewoman, Dona St Columb and a pirate?

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ROUND 2 - Political cartoons and associated questions

The cartoons are mostly an aesthetic accompaniment to the question

1.

Between March 8 and 13, 2020, at the start of the Covid outbreak, a major racing event and two football matches in the UK (one Champions League and one Premiership) are said to have significantly spread the virus.  Name any two of the venues.

2.

What is the formal job title of Letitia James' job?

3.

Which constituency was allegedly called "a shit hole" by the Home Secretary?

4.

Who is Nigel?

5.

Whose plane crashed?

6.

In what capacity did Penny Mordaunt carry the Sword of State?

7.

Who wrote the recent book, Endgame, in which Prince Harry seems to be free of the many, many faults which affect the rest of his family?

8.

Which outrageous event provoked this Parliamentary question in March 2018:

"Does the P.M. agree that it is essential to maintain a robust dialogue with Russia?"

Sp1

Who chairs the Covid enquiry?

Sp2

Give the full names of the two people pictured in the back of the police car.

Sp3

In which district of Santa Barbara does Prince Harry live?

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ROUND 3 - Hinted theme - 'A Walk in the Park'

1.

What title did Anthony Armstrong-Jones take in 1961 after marrying Princess Margaret?

2.

The head of the Howard family is the senior, non-Royal, peer of the realm in the UK.  As Earl Marshall he organizes state occasions such as the late Queen’s Funeral and King Charles III’s Coronation.  How is he better known?

3.

Which town lies 100 miles west of Cardiff by road?  Henry VII was born in its castle.  There is a college of the same name at Cambridge University, home to 700 students, and founded in 1347.

4.

Which League 2 Football Club claims to be the world’s greenest football club and plays its home games at The Bolt New Lane in Nailsworth?

5.

In the 1997 film LA Confidential Kim Basinger won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of a prostitute.  She plays a look-a-like of which 1940s femme fatale actress famed for her peek-a-boo hairstyle?

6.

Which BBC British crime drama ran for six series between 2013 and 2022?  The main female character was played by Helen McCrory.

7.

Which radio serial drama (soap opera) ran for 21 years on the BBC Light Programme and Radio 2 from 1948 to 1969?  The titular character’s much parodied catch phrase was: “I’m rather worried about Jim…”.

8.

In which sport is St Helen’s-born Michael Smith the number 1 ranked competitor and recent winner of the 2023 World Championship?

Sp.

Which town in Buckinghamshire is twenty three miles from central London, is home to the National Film and Television School, sits between junctions 2 and 3 on the M40 and was represented in Parliament by Benjamin Disraeli, who took the town’s name when he went to the Lords?

Go to Round 3 questions with answers

ROUND 4 - Run ons

1.

The Beatles’ 17th and final number 1 single;

&

Located on the Ooka River, Japan’s 2nd largest city by population.

2.

The whaling ship skippered By Captain Ahab in Moby Dick;

&

Latin phrase meaning 'what was to be shown'.

3.

Known as Caesaromagus to the Romans, this Essex town was granted city status in 2012;

&

Painter whose Manchester Murals can be in the Town Hall.

4.

1983 hit song written by David Bowie and Nile Rogers that begins:

“I know when to go out,
Know when to stay in,
Get things done.”

&

Perennially popular 2003 film in which Billy Bob Thornton plays the president of the United States.

5.

The last of the 1960’s trilogy of films featuring Michael Caine as Harry Palmer;

&

Title of the long-running radio programme that began as What do You Know? in 1953.

6.

Bowler nicknamed 'White Lightning' who, in 2000, became the first South African to take 300 test wickets;

&

Politician who became Scotland’s first First Minister in 1999.

7.

Name of the 'Railway Cat' in T S Eliot’s Book of Practical Cats;

&

British garage duo whose main chart hit was Sweet Like Chocolate in 1999.

8.

Budget British high-street homeware and fashion retailer founded in Preston in 1985 and now based in Knowsley;

&

French luxury perfumes and cosmetics house whose brands include La Vie Est Belle, Poeme and Tresor.

Sp1

1967 film featuring Frankie Howerd as Francis Bigger, Kenneth Williams as Kenneth Tinkle, Jim Dale as Jim Kilmore and Hattie Jacques as Lavinia, the Matron;

&

Iconic British brand located in Northamptonshire whose main products are available in black or cherry red.

Sp2

US sporting term for a long, hopeful football pass that has little chance of success;

&

Singer and actress known as the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul whose albums include Share My World, Growing Pains and Good Morning Gorgeous.

Go to Round 4 questions with answers

ROUND 5 - Pairs

1.

Before David Cameron, who was the last former Prime Minister to re-enter the Cabinet?

2.

With the exception of Home and Cameron who is the only other Foreign Secretary to be a member of the House of Lords during the last sixty years?

3.

Who am I? I died in September this year aged 90. I starred in over 100 episodes of a popular BBC secret agent television series between 1964 and 1968.

4.

Who am I? I died in September this year aged 82. I appeared in six Harry Potter films but am perhaps best known for playing a psoriasis-riddled crime writer hallucinating in his hospital bed in a 1986 TV drama series.

5.

In the five years since the Emmeline Pankhurst statue was unveiled in St Peter’s Square in December 2018, seven more statues of men have been unveiled in the City of Manchester.  Name any five or them.

6.

At Old Trafford Football Ground there are also six men immortalized in statues.  Name any five of the six.

7.

Here are lyrics to a song.  Name both the song and the artist (or band):

"Callin' out around the world, are you ready for a brand new beat?"

8.

Here are lyrics to a song.  Name both the song and the artist (or band):

"Take off your hat, kick off your shoes, I know you aint goin' anywhere."

Sp1

Here are lyrics to two more songs.  Name both the song and the artist (or band):

"Where are those happy days?  They seem so hard to find."

Sp2

... and:

"Anyone who ever loved could look at me, and know that I love you."

Go to Round 5 questions with answers

ROUND 6 - Hidden theme

1.

Which cocktail, also the name of a type of apple, contains the following ingredients: gin, grenadine and egg white?

2.

Which mass shooting that took place on December 14th 2012 in Connecticut is the deadliest school shooting in US history where 26 people were killed, 20 of them aged either 6 or 7?

3.

What is Dustin Hoffman’s character’s real name in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy?

4.

The current Desert Island Discs presenter, Lauren Laverne, began her career in which Brit pop band in the 1990s?

5.

In the Beano, who is the nominal leader of the Bash Street Kids?

6.

Until Ho Chi Minh declared independence in 1945, Vietnam was part of which colonial territory?

7.

Which rock group was founded in 1965 in Hanover by Rudolf Schenker.  Their biggest UK hit single was Wind of Change which reached No. 2 in 1991?

8.

Which American car was in production from 1955 to 2005, began life as a two-seat convertible and has been offered since as a four- and five-seat hard top and convertible before reverting to a two-seat model at the end of its life?  From 1955 to 2005 over 4.4 million were sold.

Sp.

Who is the current Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland?

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ROUND 7 - Pairs

1.

What name connects:

Company moving out of Stockport town centre to the suburbs in 2025,

Newest Cambridge college (1977),

Hollywood actor of more than 100 films over a 50-year career but whose only Academy award was a posthumous honorary one in 1973?

2.

What name connects:

Pop/rock singer, born 1945,

Late DJ, in the first intake of Radio 1 DJs & host of the children’s TV show Crackerjack (1973-79),

Actor who played George Bailey in a celebrated Hollywood fantasy.

3.

Here are lyrics to a song. Name both the song and the artist (or band).
I never thought it would happen with me and the girl from Clapham

4.

Here are the lyrics to a song.  Name both the song and the artist (or band):

"Hey little sister, what have you done?  Hey little sister, who's the only one?"

5.

Which current England footballer was loaned out to Leyton Orient in the 2010-11 season, then to Millwall in 2011-12, before he had made his league debut for his parent Premier League club?

6.

Which current England footballer was loaned out to Notts County for a full season in 2013-14, before he had made his league debut for his parent Premier League club?

7.

What name connects the aristocratic family in a British TV drama first broadcast in 2010 & an England post-war New Town which saw the development of the UK’s 2nd-busiest airport within its boundaries?

8.

Which British TV drama, first broadcast in 2013, counted among its cast one ex-Doctor Who and one future Best Actress Oscar winner, as the investigating detective duo - and - one future Doctor Who as one half of the parents whose 11 year-old son is found murdered?

Sp1

Apart from Oxford (1249) & Cambridge (1284), only 5 English universities were founded before 1900.  Durham, London & Manchester are 3 of them.  Name ONE of the other 2.

Sp2

It started with Porky Pig and was later adopted as the sign-off for other Warner Brothers cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.  What is this 3-word end tag-line used in the Looney Tunes and the Merrie Melodies cartoon series ?

Sp3

Here are the lyrics to a song.  Name both the song and the artist (or band):

"I can't seem to face up to the facts, I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax."

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ROUND 8 - Looking forward to anniversaries in 2024

1.

2024 will mark the 100th anniversary of the death of which composer who (amongst other things) wrote the theme music for the BBC’s television coverage of the 1990 Football World Cup?

2.

2024 also marks the 200th anniversary of the death of the French painter and lithographer Theodore Gericault.  His most famous work depicts the aftermath of the shipwreck of a frigate off the coast of Mauritania.  What is its title?

3.

August 3rd will be the 50th anniversary of the death of a controversial US aviator, author and inventor who featured as the first Time Magazine 'Man of the Year' in 1928.  Who was he?

4.

August 3rd will also be the 20th anniversary of the pioneering photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. What was the name of the photographic agency that he formed in 1947 with Robert Capa?

5.

April 29th would be the 100th birthday of a celebrated French ballerina, actress and singer now chiefly remembered for a name check in the song Where do you go to My Lovely? by Peter Sarstedt.  Who was she?

6.

In November 1964, the actress Jane Rossington spoke the first lines in the first episode of a celebrated TV series.  She also spoke the final lines of the final episode 24 years later.  What was that programme?

7.

On July 4th 2024, an actress, the oldest surviving Oscar winner (for On the Waterfront in 1954) will celebrate her 100th birthday; she also starred as the femme fatale Eve Kendall in North By Northwest.  Who is she?

8.

Fred Astaire was nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar in the highest grossing film of the year in 1974.  It was promoted with the tag-line: 'One small spark becomes a night of blazing suspense'.  Which film was it?

Sp1

September sees the 100th anniversary of the birth of an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, actor and socialite who is credited with the invention of the non-fiction novel with his 1966 work In Cold Blood.  Who was he?

Sp2

On June 1st 1974, which small village in Lincolnshire achieved lasting notoriety when 28 people were killed in an explosion at a chemical plant linked to the mining industry?

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ROUND 1 - Hidden theme

Some of the theme material in the answers forms part of larger words

1.

Who was the television anchor who, alongside Patrick Moore and James Burke, presented the Apollo 11 mission to the moon and first moon landing in 1969?  (forename and surname required)

Cliff Michelmore

2.

Martin Ruane was, literally, a huge star of ITV’s professional wrestling coverage in the 1970s and 80s.  Born in 1946 in London, he moved to Salford when he was 3 years old and lived there for the rest of his life.  He won the British Professional Heavyweight Championship in 1978 when he defeated Tony St Clair and was famed for his feud with another famous heavyweight of the era. What was his stage name?

Giant Haystacks

3.

The late Robbie Coltrane played the giant and Hogwarts’ caretaker, Rubeus Hagrid, in the Harry Potter film series but which England rugby union international played his body and stunt double in every film?  He played lock forward for Northampton Saints, Bedford Blues and England, gaining 31 England and 3 Lions cap.

Martin Bayfield

4.

Which city, the tenth largest in England, is situated on the River Sherbourne?

Coventry

5.

Which English scientist, an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist who lived from 1731 to 1810, is credited with having discovered hydrogen in 1776?

Henry Cavendish

6.

This film, a Mexican-American neo-Western starring Warren Oates and Isela Vega and featuring Kris Kristofferson amongst others, was made by Sam Peckinpah in 1974.  The plot involves a search for the man who has impregnated a powerful Mexican crime lord’s daughter.  It is regularly referenced in the ‘Film Club’ round of the long-running BBC Radio 4 panel comedy show I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, usually by Graeme Garden, with one or more words changed to fit that week’s theme of comedy film titles. What is the film’s name?

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

7.

Which show provided television debuts to the impressionists and comedians Hugh Dennis, Steve Coogan, John Culshaw, Harry Enfield and John Thomson?

Spitting Image

8.

Which city in New Zealand is the principal city of the Otago region and is the second largest on the South Island?

Dunedin

Sp.

Which Daphne Du Maurier novel, her fourth, published in 1941 tells the story of a love affair between a headstrong noblewoman, Dona St Columb and a pirate?

Frenchman’s Creek

Theme: Each answer contains the name of a coastal feature ...

cliff, stack, creek, cove, cave, head, spit, dune, bay

ROUND 2 - Political cartoons and associated questions

The cartoons are mostly an aesthetic accompaniment to the question

1.

Between March 8 and 13, 2020, at the start of the Covid outbreak, a major racing event and two football matches in the UK (one Champions League and one Premiership) are said to have significantly spread the virus.  Name any two of the venues.

(two from)

Cheltenham, Anfield and Old Trafford

2.

What is the formal job title of Letitia James' job?

Attorney General of New York

(answer must contain the name of 'New York' - 'Prosecutor' is OK instead of 'Attorney General')

3.

Which constituency was allegedly called "a shit hole" by the Home Secretary?

Stockton North

4.

Who is Nigel?

Nigel Adams

(a serving MP, who then resigned in pique)

5.

Whose plane crashed?

Prighozin

(of the Wagner Group)

6.

In what capacity did Penny Mordaunt carry the Sword of State?

Lord President of the Privy Council

7.

Who wrote the recent book, Endgame, in which Prince Harry seems to be free of the many, many faults which affect the rest of his family?

Omid Scobie

8.

Which outrageous event provoked this Parliamentary question in March 2018:

"Does the P.M. agree that it is essential to maintain a robust dialogue with Russia?"

The Salisbury poisonings

(of Sergei and Yulia Skripal but names not required)

Sp1

Who chairs the Covid enquiry?

Baroness Hallett

Sp2

Give the full names of the two people pictured in the back of the police car.

Nicola Sturgeon and Peter Murrell

Sp3

In which district of Santa Barbara does Prince Harry live?

Montecito

Go back to Round 2 questions without answers

ROUND 3 - Hinted theme - 'A Walk in the Park'

1.

What title did Anthony Armstrong-Jones take in 1961 after marrying Princess Margaret?

Earl of Snowdon

(accept Lord Snowdon)

2.

The head of the Howard family is the senior, non-Royal, peer of the realm in the UK.  As Earl Marshall he organizes state occasions such as the late Queen’s Funeral and King Charles III’s Coronation.  How is he better known?

Duke of Norfolk

3.

Which town lies 100 miles west of Cardiff by road?  Henry VII was born in its castle.  There is a college of the same name at Cambridge University, home to 700 students, and founded in 1347.

Pembroke

4.

Which League 2 Football Club claims to be the world’s greenest football club and plays its home games at The Bolt New Lane in Nailsworth?

Forest Green Rovers

5.

In the 1997 film LA Confidential Kim Basinger won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her portrayal of a prostitute.  She plays a look-a-like of which 1940s femme fatale actress famed for her peek-a-boo hairstyle?

Veronica Lake

6.

Which BBC British crime drama ran for six series between 2013 and 2022?  The main female character was played by Helen McCrory.

Peaky Blinders

7.

Which radio serial drama (soap opera) ran for 21 years on the BBC Light Programme and Radio 2 from 1948 to 1969?  The titular character’s much parodied catch phrase was: “I’m rather worried about Jim…”.

Mrs Dale’s Diary

8.

In which sport is St Helen’s-born Michael Smith the number 1 ranked competitor and recent winner of the 2023 World Championship?

Darts

Sp.

Which town in Buckinghamshire is twenty three miles from central London, is home to the National Film and Television School, sits between junctions 2 and 3 on the M40 and was represented in Parliament by Benjamin Disraeli, who took the town’s name when he went to the Lords?

Beaconsfield

Theme: Each answer refers to a UK National Park

Go back to Round 3 questions without answers

ROUND 4 - Run ons

1.

The Beatles’ 17th and final number 1 single;

&

Located on the Ooka River, Japan’s 2nd largest city by population.

The Ballad of John and Yoko/

Yokohama

2.

The whaling ship skippered By Captain Ahab in Moby Dick;

&

Latin phrase meaning 'what was to be shown'.

Pequod/

'quod erat demonstrandum'

3.

Known as Caesaromagus to the Romans, this Essex town was granted city status in 2012;

&

Painter whose Manchester Murals can be in the Town Hall.

Chelmsford/

Ford Maddox Brown

4.

1983 hit song written by David Bowie and Nile Rogers that begins:

“I know when to go out,
Know when to stay in,
Get things done.”

&

Perennially popular 2003 film in which Billy Bob Thornton plays the president of the United States.

Modern Love/

Love Actually

5.

The last of the 1960’s trilogy of films featuring Michael Caine as Harry Palmer;

&

Title of the long-running radio programme that began as What do You Know? in 1953.

Billion Dollar Brain/

Brain of Britain

6.

Bowler nicknamed 'White Lightning' who, in 2000, became the first South African to take 300 test wickets;

&

Politician who became Scotland’s first First Minister in 1999.

Allan Donald/

Donald Dewar

7.

Name of the 'Railway Cat' in T S Eliot’s Book of Practical Cats;

&

British garage duo whose main chart hit was Sweet Like Chocolate in 1999.

Skimbleshanks/

Shanks & Bigfoot

8.

Budget British high-street homeware and fashion retailer founded in Preston in 1985 and now based in Knowsley;

&

French luxury perfumes and cosmetics house whose brands include La Vie Est Belle, Poeme and Tresor.

Matalan/

Lancome

Sp1

1967 film featuring Frankie Howerd as Francis Bigger, Kenneth Williams as Kenneth Tinkle, Jim Dale as Jim Kilmore and Hattie Jacques as Lavinia, the Matron;

&

Iconic British brand located in Northamptonshire whose main products are available in black or cherry red.

Carry on Doctor/

Dr Martens

Sp2

US sporting term for a long, hopeful football pass that has little chance of success;

&

Singer and actress known as the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul whose albums include Share My World, Growing Pains and Good Morning Gorgeous.

'Hail Mary'/

Mary J Blige

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ROUND 5 - Pairs

1.

Before David Cameron, who was the last former Prime Minister to re-enter the Cabinet?

Alec Douglas-Home

(accept Lord Home - as Foreign Secretary in 1970)

2.

With the exception of Home and Cameron who is the only other Foreign Secretary to be a member of the House of Lords during the last sixty years?

Lord (Peter) Carrington

(1979-82)

3.

Who am I? I died in September this year aged 90. I starred in over 100 episodes of a popular BBC secret agent television series between 1964 and 1968.

(Ilya Kuryakin in The Man from U.N.C.L.E.)

4.

Who am I? I died in September this year aged 82. I appeared in six Harry Potter films but am perhaps best known for playing a psoriasis-riddled crime writer hallucinating in his hospital bed in a 1986 TV drama series.

Michael Gambon

(Philip Marlow in The Singing Detective)

5.

In the five years since the Emmeline Pankhurst statue was unveiled in St Peter’s Square in December 2018, seven more statues of men have been unveiled in the City of Manchester.  Name any five or them.

(five from)

Gandhi

(outside the Cathedral),

David Silva,

Sergio Aguero,

Vincent Kompany,

Colin Bell,

Francis Lee,

Mike Summerbee

(all outside the Etihad Stadium)

6.

At Old Trafford Football Ground there are also six men immortalized in statues.  Name any five of the six.

(five from)

George Best,

Bobby Charlton,

Denis Law,

Alex Ferguson,

Matt Busby,

Jimmy Murphy

7.

Here are lyrics to a song.  Name both the song and the artist (or band):

"Callin' out around the world, are you ready for a brand new beat?"

Dancing in the Street by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

or by Mick Jagger & David Bowie

8.

Here are lyrics to a song.  Name both the song and the artist (or band):

"Take off your hat, kick off your shoes, I know you aint goin' anywhere."

Wishing Well by Free

Sp1

Here are lyrics to two more songs.  Name both the song and the artist (or band):

"Where are those happy days?  They seem so hard to find."

SOS by Abba

Sp2

... and:

"Anyone who ever loved could look at me, and know that I love you."

Anyone Who Had a Heart by Cilla Black

or by Dionne Warwick

Go back to Round 5 questions without answers

ROUND 6 - Hidden theme

1.

Which cocktail, also the name of a type of apple, contains the following ingredients: gin, grenadine and egg white?

Pink Lady

2.

Which mass shooting that took place on December 14th 2012 in Connecticut is the deadliest school shooting in US history where 26 people were killed, 20 of them aged either 6 or 7?

Sandy Hook Elementary School

3.

What is Dustin Hoffman’s character’s real name in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy?

Rico Rizzo

4.

The current Desert Island Discs presenter, Lauren Laverne, began her career in which Brit pop band in the 1990s?

Kenickie

5.

In the Beano, who is the nominal leader of the Bash Street Kids?

Danny

6.

Until Ho Chi Minh declared independence in 1945, Vietnam was part of which colonial territory?

French Indochina

7.

Which rock group was founded in 1965 in Hanover by Rudolf Schenker.  Their biggest UK hit single was Wind of Change which reached No. 2 in 1991?

Scorpions

8.

Which American car was in production from 1955 to 2005, began life as a two-seat convertible and has been offered since as a four- and five-seat hard top and convertible before reverting to a two-seat model at the end of its life?  From 1955 to 2005 over 4.4 million were sold.

Ford Thunderbird

(or T-Bird colloquially)

Sp.

Who is the current Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland?

Leo Varadkar

Theme: Each answer contains a reference to the film musical Grease...

Pink Lady, Sandy, Rizzo, Kenickie, Danny, Frenchy, Scorpions, T-Birds, Leo

Go back to Round 6 questions without answers

ROUND 7 - Pairs

1.

What name connects:

Company moving out of Stockport town centre to the suburbs in 2025,

Newest Cambridge college (1977),

Hollywood actor of more than 100 films over a 50-year career but whose only Academy award was a posthumous honorary one in 1973?

Robinson

(Robinson’s Brewery,

Robinson College,

Edward G Robinson)

2.

What name connects:

Pop/rock singer, born 1945,

Late DJ, in the first intake of Radio 1 DJs & host of the children’s TV show Crackerjack (1973-79),

Actor who played George Bailey in a celebrated Hollywood fantasy.

Stewart

(Rod, Ed, James)

3.

Here are lyrics to a song. Name both the song and the artist (or band).
I never thought it would happen with me and the girl from Clapham

Up the junction

by Squeeze

4.

Here are the lyrics to a song.  Name both the song and the artist (or band):

"Hey little sister, what have you done?  Hey little sister, who's the only one?"

White Wedding

by Billy Idol

5.

Which current England footballer was loaned out to Leyton Orient in the 2010-11 season, then to Millwall in 2011-12, before he had made his league debut for his parent Premier League club?

Harry Kane

6.

Which current England footballer was loaned out to Notts County for a full season in 2013-14, before he had made his league debut for his parent Premier League club?

Jack Grealish

7.

What name connects the aristocratic family in a British TV drama first broadcast in 2010 & an England post-war New Town which saw the development of the UK’s 2nd-busiest airport within its boundaries?

Crawley

(Downton Abbey,

& Gatwick Airport)

8.

Which British TV drama, first broadcast in 2013, counted among its cast one ex-Doctor Who and one future Best Actress Oscar winner, as the investigating detective duo - and - one future Doctor Who as one half of the parents whose 11 year-old son is found murdered?

Broadchurch

(David Tennant,

Olivia Colman,

Jodie Whittaker)

Sp1

Apart from Oxford (1249) & Cambridge (1284), only 5 English universities were founded before 1900.  Durham, London & Manchester are 3 of them.  Name ONE of the other 2.

(one of)

UMIST (1824) or

Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1852)

Sp2

It started with Porky Pig and was later adopted as the sign-off for other Warner Brothers cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.  What is this 3-word end tag-line used in the Looney Tunes and the Merrie Melodies cartoon series ?

'That’s All Folks!'

Sp3

Here are the lyrics to a song.  Name both the song and the artist (or band):

"I can't seem to face up to the facts, I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax."

Psycho killer

by Talking Heads.

Go back to Round 7 questions without answers

1.

2024 will mark the 100th anniversary of the death of which composer who (amongst other things) wrote the theme music for the BBC’s television coverage of the 1990 Football World Cup?

Giacomo Puccini

2.

2024 also marks the 200th anniversary of the death of the French painter and lithographer Theodore Gericault.  His most famous work depicts the aftermath of the shipwreck of a frigate off the coast of Mauritania.  What is its title?

The Raft of the Medusa

3.

August 3rd will be the 50th anniversary of the death of a controversial US aviator, author and inventor who featured as the first Time Magazine 'Man of the Year' in 1928.  Who was he?

Charles Lindbergh

4.

August 3rd will also be the 20th anniversary of the pioneering photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. What was the name of the photographic agency that he formed in 1947 with Robert Capa?

Magnum

5.

April 29th would be the 100th birthday of a celebrated French ballerina, actress and singer now chiefly remembered for a name check in the song Where do you go to My Lovely? by Peter Sarstedt.  Who was she?

 Zizi Jeanmaire

6.

In November 1964, the actress Jane Rossington spoke the first lines in the first episode of a celebrated TV series.  She also spoke the final lines of the final episode 24 years later.  What was that programme?

Crossroads

7.

On July 4th 2024, an actress, the oldest surviving Oscar winner (for On the Waterfront in 1954) will celebrate her 100th birthday; she also starred as the femme fatale Eve Kendall in North By Northwest.  Who is she?

Eva Marie Saint

8.

Fred Astaire was nominated for a best supporting actor Oscar in the highest grossing film of the year in 1974.  It was promoted with the tag-line: 'One small spark becomes a night of blazing suspense'.  Which film was it?

The Towering Inferno

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September sees the 100th anniversary of the birth of an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, actor and socialite who is credited with the invention of the non-fiction novel with his 1966 work In Cold Blood.  Who was he?

Truman Capote

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On June 1st 1974, which small village in Lincolnshire achieved lasting notoriety when 28 people were killed in an explosion at a chemical plant linked to the mining industry?

Flixborough

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