WithQuiz End of Season Evening Quiz

As Time Goes By

ROUND 1 - “You Must Remember This” – Music and Pictures

15 pairs of questions

One point per correct answer

1a.

What is the title of the first piece of music you can hear?   ♪

1b.

The singer of the second piece of music cropped up in the same WithQuiz question as the composer of the first piece of music.  What was his band called?

2a.

Captioned “The Post Office’s WW2 superhero” what was his name?    

2b.

What was the name of the world's first programmable electronic computer he designed? 

3a.

To which American Songbook song is this the intro?   ♪

3b.

What is the real name of the female singer in this duet? 

4a.

What is the name of the company that made this model?

4b.

In which British city was this company based? 

5a.

What is the name of the quartet playing this theme music?   ♪

5b.

In what year did the TV programme to which this is the theme broadcast its first show?

6a.

Hanan Issa (middle) and Simon Armitage (right) are pictured with whom?

6b.

What is the official title of this woman on the left?

7a.

George Harrison was accused of copyright infringement over this song.  From which hit song was it said to have been copied?   ♪

7b.

In 1971 Harrison famously performed this song in a concert to raise funds for an emergency in which country?

8a.

Who took this picture?

8b.

The title of this picture is Le Violon d’…… . Which French neoclassical painter’s name completes the title?

9a.

The one-word title of this piece of music has a subtitle.  What is this subtitle?   ♪

9b.

For much of his life the composer of this music was a teacher.  At which school?

10a.

What was the name of the potter who created this work?

10b.

What was the name of the pottery company of which she was head of the creative department?

11a.

Who wrote this song?   ♪

11b.

Which 4-word phrase in the lyrics compares the music, as it is being played at that point, to the departure of a loved one?

12a.

What is the name of the person in the bath?

12b.

Whose bath is it?

13a.

What is the title of this Smiths song?   ♪

13b.

14a.

Who designed this Manchester edifice?

14b.

Which Asian city carries much of this designer’s work and is often referred to by his name?

15a.

Who is singing this?   ♪

15b.

This singer is in the middle of a World Tour.  What’s the tour called?

Go to Round 1 questions with answers

ROUND 2 - “A Kiss is Still a Kiss” - Questions from the FOWLs (Friends of WithQuiz League)

20 questions sent in with affection and many happy memories from the FOWLs
Two points per correct answer

Pulpit Fiction from Gerry Collins

Played for the Charabancs for many years.

Gerry writes:

“In grateful appreciation of many happy years spent amidst a congregation of such knowledgeable roués and female rakes - all furnished and burnished by decades of sin. What more fitting company could a de-frocked priest wish for?”

1.

Nothing gets Fr Megson pulsating in the pulpit more than this outrageously provocative opening sentence of a novel written in 1980:

"It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."

The title of the novel is Earthly Powers. Name the locally born author.

2.

Another quote that makes him urgently loosen his dog-collar is the following, made by which fictional character when invited to look at a photograph:

“It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window ….”

“Take it away” I said, “I'll start jumping”?

Provincial Pairs from Paddy Duffy

Played for the Opsimaths (2013 to 2015) whilst in Manchester working on University Challenge.  Had a fair bit to do with the Opsis winning the WithQuiz League twice in that period.

Now based in Glasgow, Paddy is a TV producer,  broadcaster and stalwart of the Northern Ireland Round Britain Quiz team which won last year’s RBQ competition with some aplomb.

3.

C S Lewis' inspiration for Narnia was Rostrevor, a town in which Northern Ireland county?

4.

Cecil Frances Alexander, the writer of hymns All Things Bright And Beautiful and Once In Royal David's City, wrote many of her works while living in Strabane, a town in which Northern Ireland county?

5.

Which Northern Ireland band's album 1977 references two of the band members' birth years, as well as the release of the first Star Wars film?

6.

Which Northern Ireland band's album Songs For Polar Bears references their former name, Polarbear?  Based on the name with which the band later found fame, you can perhaps see their train of thought.

7.

Which actor's early films included My Left Foot, The Crying Game, and Hear My Song, which he co-wrote?  He was born in 1958 in Enniskillen, meaning he definitely did not come up the Lagan in a bubble.

8.

Which actor's early roles included Crown Court and Harry's Game?  He was born in 1959 in Enniskillen, but his best-known character comes from Belfast, so he does.

Yorkie Pairs from John Tolan

Played for Ethel Rodin for many years up to 2006 when he retired to Yorkshire.

Returned as Guest Setter during the 2006/07 season and duly won the Question of the Season award with this:

"Sir Peter Teazle did it in 1757; Cardinal Beaufort did it in 1505; Captain Cuttle did it in 1922.  It usually takes about 2.5 minutes to accomplish it."

What is it?  Derby winners, of course.

9.

Name the 18th century inventor of the marine chronometer now known as H4; and the actor whose film roles include John Brook in Witness and Rick Deckard in Blade Runner.

10.

Name the broadcaster and author whose works include Cultural Amnesia; and the navigator who landed at Botany Bay in 1770.

11.

Who was the first French President to have been born in the 20th Century?

12.

Who was the first US President to have been born in the 20th Century?

13.

Iquique, where there was no rainfall for 14 years, and Bahia Felix, which has an average of 325 rainy days each year, are both in which country?

14.

In which country is Cherrapunji, which has an average rainfall of c450 inches per year? (compare with Manchester at c34 inches average p.a.; don't grumble about your weather!) 

London half dozen from David Burnage

David is a WithQuiz website user.  He’s written in from Muswell Hill where he runs the quiz in the Famous Royal Oak.

David writes:

“I write a fortnightly quiz in Highgate in London, and your quiz has supplied me with many great ideas for rounds over the last few years, so as a token of thanks, please find this selection of themed rounds to use at any time if you wish.”

I’ve just used 6 of David’s excellent questions which share a theme.

Each answer contains the same 5 letters scattered somewhere in its text

15.

What is the name of the fictional Welsh village that provides the setting for Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood?

16.

Until he died in 2020 who was thought to be the oldest surviving heart transplant patient in the UK?

17.

Red Fox, The Glory Boys and Harry’s Game are all thrillers written by which author, originally an ITN reporter?

18.

Which Minister for Europe in John Major’s government, is said to be the inspiration for Francis Urquart in TV’s House of Cards?

19.

Which sitcom that ran for 9 series broke new ground in 2004, when it invited the viewers to vote by text as to whether one of the main characters should be allowed to live?

20.

Who conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in 1931 at the first ever recording made at Abbey Road studios?

Go to Round 2 questions with answers

ROUND 3 - “The Fundamental Things Apply” - The Three ‘R’s

Each answer contains at least 3 letter 'R's (Reading, Writing and Arithmetic)

Two points for each correct answer

1.

Which Rolling Stones song includes these lyrics:

“Dogs begin to bark and hounds begin to howl / Watch out strange cat people /
BLANK on the prowl”?

2.

Which UK football club plays at Stark’s Park?

3.

Llandrindod Wells was the administrative centre for which former Welsh county?

4.

Which US state capital on the Susquehanna river was the nearest state capital to the Three Mile Island accident in 1979?

5.

Which 2022 absurdist comedy drama directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert starred Michelle Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis?

6.

The star nearest star to the sun, after the 3 Alpha Centauri stars, is a red dwarf named after a US astronomer. What’s it called?

7.

8.

In 1941 two American military commanders, Walter Short and Husband Kimmel, were demoted. What led to this?

9.

What was prompted by the closure of Palmer’s Shipyard in 1934?

10.

Who, in 1923 after winning a horse race, adopted the logo of a prancing horse for good luck? (surname will suffice)

11.

What links Morley, Rothwell and Wakefield?

12.

Who was the 19th US President serving from 1877 to 1881? (first and surname please)

13.

In 1812 the Massachusetts Governor redrew some boundaries causing one district to resemble a lizard. What word resulted?

14.

Who wrote both a famous quartet and quintet of novels, the first in each set being Justine and Monsieur? (full name please)

15.

From 1833 to 1877 the most hardened British criminals exiled to Australia went to which Tasmanian penal colony?

Go to Round 3 questions with answers

ROUND 1 - “You Must Remember This” – Music and Pictures

15 pairs of questions

One point per correct answer

1a.

What is the title of the first piece of music you can hear?

Traumerei

(by Robert Schumann)

1b.

The singer of the second piece of music cropped up in the same WithQuiz question as the composer of the first piece of music.  What was his band called?

Tubeway Army

(the singer was Gary Numan)

2a.

Captioned “The Post Office’s WW2 superhero” what was his name?

Tommy Flowers

2b.

What was the name of the world's first programmable electronic computer he designed? 

Colossus

3a.

To which American Songbook song is this the intro?

I Get a Kick Out of You

(by Cole Porter from the album Love for Sale by Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga)

3b.

What is the real name of the female singer in this duet? 

Stefani Germanotta

4a.

What is the name of the company that made this model?

Jowett

(the model is a Javelin)

4b.

In which British city was this company based? 

Bradford

5a.

What is the name of the quartet playing this theme music?

The Balanescu Quartet

(the theme to University Challenge)

5b.

In what year did the TV programme to which this is the theme broadcast its first show?

1962

6a.

Hanan Issa (middle) and Simon Armitage (right) are pictured with whom?

Kathleen Jamie

(they’re the Poets Laureate of Scotland, Wales & England)

6b.

What is the official title of this woman on the left?

Makar

(the official name given the Scottish Poet Laureate)

7a.

George Harrison was accused of copyright infringement over this song.  From which hit song was it said to have been copied?

He’s So Fine

(by the Chiffons – written by Ronnie Mack)

7b.

In 1971 Harrison famously performed this song in a concert to raise funds for an emergency in which country?

Bangladesh

8a.

Who took this picture?

Man Ray

8b.

The title of this picture is Le Violon d’…… . Which French neoclassical painter’s name completes the title?

Ingres

9a.

The one-word title of this piece of music has a subtitle.  What is this subtitle?

The Bringer of Jollity

(Jupiter from Holst’s Planets Suite)

9b.

For much of his life the composer of this music was a teacher.  At which school?

St Paul’s Girls’ School

10a.

What was the name of the potter who created this work?

Clarice Cliff

10b.

What was the name of the pottery company of which she was head of the creative department?

Newport Pottery

11a.

Who wrote this song?

Cole Porter

(Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye)

11b.

Which 4-word phrase in the lyrics compares the music, as it is being played at that point, to the departure of a loved one?

“From major to minor”

12a.

What is the name of the person in the bath?

Lee Miller

(WW2 photographer)

12b.

Whose bath is it?

Adolf Hitler’s

13a.

What is the title of this Smiths song?

How Soon Is Now

13b.

Andy Rourke or Mike Joyce

14a.

Who designed this Manchester edifice?

(Edwin) Lutyens

(it’s the Midland building on King Street)

14b.

Which Asian city carries much of this designer’s work and is often referred to by his name?

(New) Delhi

15a.

Who is singing this?
 

Taylor Swift

(the song is The Tortured Poet’s Department)

15b.

This singer is in the middle of a World Tour.  What’s the tour called?

The Eras Tour

ROUND 2 - “A Kiss is Still a Kiss” - Questions from the FOWLs (Friends of WithQuiz League)

20 questions sent in with affection and many happy memories from the FOWLs
Two points per correct answer

Pulpit Fiction from Gerry Collins

Played for the Charabancs for many years.

Gerry writes:

“In grateful appreciation of many happy years spent amidst a congregation of such knowledgeable roués and female rakes - all furnished and burnished by decades of sin. What more fitting company could a de-frocked priest wish for?”

1.

Nothing gets Fr Megson pulsating in the pulpit more than this outrageously provocative opening sentence of a novel written in 1980:

"It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me."

The title of the novel is Earthly Powers. Name the locally born author.

Anthony Burgess

2.

Another quote that makes him urgently loosen his dog-collar is the following, made by which fictional character when invited to look at a photograph:

“It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window ….”

“Take it away” I said, “I'll start jumping”?

Philip Marlowe

(in Farewell My Lovely)

Provincial Pairs from Paddy Duffy

Played for the Opsimaths (2013 to 2015) whilst in Manchester working on University Challenge.  Had a fair bit to do with the Opsis winning the WithQuiz League twice in that period.

Now based in Glasgow, Paddy is a TV producer,  broadcaster and stalwart of the Northern Ireland Round Britain Quiz team which won last year’s RBQ competition with some aplomb.

3.

C S Lewis' inspiration for Narnia was Rostrevor, a town in which Northern Ireland county?

Down

4.

Cecil Frances Alexander, the writer of hymns All Things Bright And Beautiful and Once In Royal David's City, wrote many of her works while living in Strabane, a town in which Northern Ireland county?

Tyrone

5.

Which Northern Ireland band's album 1977 references two of the band members' birth years, as well as the release of the first Star Wars film?

Ash

6.

Which Northern Ireland band's album Songs For Polar Bears references their former name, Polarbear?  Based on the name with which the band later found fame, you can perhaps see their train of thought.

Snow Patrol

7.

Which actor's early films included My Left Foot, The Crying Game, and Hear My Song, which he co-wrote?  He was born in 1958 in Enniskillen, meaning he definitely did not come up the Lagan in a bubble.

Adrian Dunbar

8.

Which actor's early roles included Crown Court and Harry's Game?  He was born in 1959 in Enniskillen, but his best-known character comes from Belfast, so he does.

Charles Lawson

Yorkie Pairs from John Tolan

Played for Ethel Rodin for many years up to 2006 when he retired to Yorkshire.

Returned as Guest Setter during the 2006/07 season and duly won the Question of the Season award with this:

"Sir Peter Teazle did it in 1757; Cardinal Beaufort did it in 1505; Captain Cuttle did it in 1922.  It usually takes about 2.5 minutes to accomplish it."

What is it?  Derby winners, of course. 

9.

Name the 18th century inventor of the marine chronometer now known as H4; and the actor whose film roles include John Brook in Witness and Rick Deckard in Blade Runner.

John Harrison

& Harrison Ford

10.

Name the broadcaster and author whose works include Cultural Amnesia; and the navigator who landed at Botany Bay in 1770.

Clive James

& James Cook

11.

Who was the first French President to have been born in the 20th Century?

Georges Pompidou

(born 5 July 1911 - De Gaulle was born 1890)

12.

Who was the first US President to have been born in the 20th Century?

 

John F Kennedy

(born 29 May 1917; Truman b. 1884, Eisenhower b. 1890)

13.

Iquique, where there was no rainfall for 14 years, and Bahia Felix, which has an average of 325 rainy days each year, are both in which country?

Chile

14.

In which country is Cherrapunji, which has an average rainfall of c450 inches per year? (compare with Manchester at c34 inches average p.a.; don't grumble about your weather!) 

India

London half dozen from David Burnage

David is a WithQuiz website user.  He’s written in from Muswell Hill where he runs the quiz in the Famous Royal Oak.

David writes:

“I write a fortnightly quiz in Highgate in London, and your quiz has supplied me with many great ideas for rounds over the last few years, so as a token of thanks, please find this selection of themed rounds to use at any time if you wish.”

I’ve just used 6 of David’s excellent questions which share a theme.

Each answer contains the same 5 letters scattered somewhere in its text

15.

What is the name of the fictional Welsh village that provides the setting for Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood?

Llareggub

16.

Until he died in 2020 who was thought to be the oldest surviving heart transplant patient in the UK?

Eddie Large

17.

Red Fox, The Glory Boys and Harry’s Game are all thrillers written by which author, originally an ITN reporter?

Gerald Seymour

18.

Which Minister for Europe in John Major’s government, is said to be the inspiration for Francis Urquart in TV’s House of Cards?

Tristan Garel Jones

19.

Which sitcom that ran for 9 series broke new ground in 2004, when it invited the viewers to vote by text as to whether one of the main characters should be allowed to live?

Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

20.

Who conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in 1931 at the first ever recording made at Abbey Road studios?

Edward Elgar

The letters are A - E - G - L - R

Go back to Round 2 questions without answers

ROUND 3 - “The Fundamental Things Apply” - The Three ‘R’s

Each answer contains at least 3 letter 'R's (Reading, Writing and Arithmetic)

Two points for each correct answer

1.

Which Rolling Stones song includes these lyrics:

“Dogs begin to bark and hounds begin to howl / Watch out strange cat people /
BLANK on the prowl”?

Little Red Rooster

2.

Which UK football club plays at Stark’s Park?

Raith Rovers

3.

Llandrindod Wells was the administrative centre for which former Welsh county?

Radnorshire

4.

Which US state capital on the Susquehanna river was the nearest state capital to the Three Mile Island accident in 1979?

Harrisburg

5.

Which 2022 absurdist comedy drama directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert starred Michelle Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis?

Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

6.

The star nearest star to the sun, after the 3 Alpha Centauri stars, is a red dwarf named after a US astronomer. What’s it called?

Barnard’s Star

7.

Created by Herbert and Mary Tourtel, who started to appear in the Daily Express in 1920?

Rupert Bear

(the cartoon strip)

8.

In 1941 two American military commanders, Walter Short and Husband Kimmel, were demoted. What led to this?

Pearl Harbor attack

(they were in command at Pearl Harbor at the time)

9.

What was prompted by the closure of Palmer’s Shipyard in 1934?

10.

Who, in 1923 after winning a horse race, adopted the logo of a prancing horse for good luck? (surname will suffice)

(Enzo) Ferrari

11.

What links Morley, Rothwell and Wakefield?

Rhubarb Triangle

12.

Who was the 19th US President serving from 1877 to 1881? (first and surname please)

13.

In 1812 the Massachusetts Governor redrew some boundaries causing one district to resemble a lizard. What word resulted?

Gerrymander

(Gov. Eldridge Gerry and salamander)

14.

Who wrote both a famous quartet and quintet of novels, the first in each set being Justine and Monsieur? (full name please)

Lawrence Durrell

15.

From 1833 to 1877 the most hardened British criminals exiled to Australia went to which Tasmanian penal colony?

Port Arthur

Go back to Round 3 questions without answers