ROUND 1 - Pairs

1.

Which 3 words, appearing consecutively in a dictionary, mean ...

- a crack that admits light or allows an attack

- weak or feeble in character

- cotton twill fabric?

2.

Which 3 words, appearing consecutively in a dictionary, mean ...

- skilful or dextrous

- no longer existing

- reduce tension in a crisis?

3.

How was Maggie Keenan a pioneer in 2021 ?

4.

In 1940 Albert Alexander was another pioneer patient but sadly did not live to tell the tale.  Why is he remembered ?

5.

Name the Coronation Street character (2001-2003), whom Gail Potter told: "You’re Norman Bates with a briefcase".

6.

Which professor is the Napoleon of Crime?

7.

How long is the tenure of the Poet Laureate and what are they paid ?

8.

Which royal post is occupied by Ms Errollyn Wallen CBE?

Sp1

Which Professor of Poetry at Leeds University is the current Poet Laureate?

Sp2

What was the nickname of P G Wodehouse?

Go to Round 1 questions with answers

ROUND 2 - A Round around some English counties

Name the county from some of its main attractions

1.

In which historic English county could you visit The Met Office, and the Greenway Estate (the former home of Agatha Christie)?

2.

In which historic English county could you visit the Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Museum and the Iron Age hill fort Maiden Castle?

3.

In which historic English county could you visit the National Gas Museum and The National Space Centre?

4.

In which historic English county would you find the HQ of the National Trust and STEAM, the museum of the Great Western Railway?

5.

 In which historic English county could you visit The Canal Museum, formerly known as the National Waterways Museum, and Wollaston, the original site of the Dr Martens shoe company?

6.

In which historic English county could you visit the Porcelain Museum and the Morgan Motor Company?

7.

In which historic English county could you visit Hogland House, the home and studio of the sculptor Henry Moore, and the site of the Roman town of Verulanium?

8.

In which historic English county could you visit the home of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge at Nether Stowey and the Helicopter Museum?

Sp1

In which historic English county could you find Market Rasen racecourse and the Battle of Britain Memorial Visitor Centre?

Sp2

Sp3

In which historic English county could you visit the village where Magna Carta was sealed in 1215 and the RHS gardens at Wisley?

Go to Round 2 questions with answers

ROUND 3 - Pairs

1.

Which English poet, brought up High-Church Anglican, was estranged from his family when he converted to Roman Catholicism and soon afterwards became a Jesuit priest, burning all his poems at that point?  His work wasn't published until 30 years after his death.

2.

Who was the celebrated British photographer best known for documenting the fashion, styles and celebrities of the 1960's?  He was married to Faye Dunaway in the 1980's and died aged 81 in 2019.

3.

This celebrated architect was a knight of the realm, President of the Royal Academy 1938-44 and recipient of the Order of Merit in 1942.  Notable credits include the Viceroy’s House of New Delhi, the Whitehall Cenotaph and Castle Drogo in Devon.  Who was he ?

4.

There are 2 structures in Manchester that were designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.  The cenotaph in St Peter's Square is one.  Name the other, either by address or the business which commissioned it.

5.

Which class of drug, used to treat high blood-pressure and heart failure, is indicated by names ending in '–pril'?

6.

Which class of drug, used to treat irregular heart rhythm, prevention of repeat heart-attacks and high blood-pressure, is indicated by names ending in '-lol'?

7.

Zia Yusuf is chairman of which UK political party ?

8.

Allan Leighton is chairman of which UK supermarket ?

Sp.

Which global car manufacturer bought Jaguar in 1989 and Land-Rover in 2000, before selling both to Tata of India in 2008 ?

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ROUND 4 - Hidden theme

One answer relies on a soundalike to fit the theme & one answer has part of a larger word that fits the theme

1.

 Which scientific law states that:

“The absolute pressure exerted by a given mass of an ideal gas is
inversely proportional to the volume it occupies if the temperature and amount of gas remain unchanged within a closed system.”?

2.

What is the name of the blood vessel unique in being the only one of its type in the human body
that carries oxygenated blood?  (a specific two-word answer is required)

3.

Who is the only English monarch to have been buried at Reading Abbey?  His remains were lost
after the ruin of the abbey following the reformation.  (name & regnal number required)

4.

What is the principal alcoholic ingredient in both a Metropolitan and an Alexander cocktail?

5.

What is the name of the famous English folk song with the chorus lyrics ...

“Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, Dan’l Whiddon, Harry Hawke, Old Uncle Tom Cobbley and all”?

6.

What is the name of the English professional snooker player banned for 12 years for match fixing
in 2012, at the time the longest ban ever handed down in the sport?  (forename and surname
required)

7.

Which 1995 Oscar-nominated Clint Eastwood film is a romantic drama set in Iowa in 1965 that
tells the story of the love affair between Italian war bride Francesca Johnson and National
Geographic journalist Robert Kincaid?

8.

Which 1968 Clint Eastwood film, his first in a starring role that wasn’t a western, is a crime
thriller set in New York where our hero plays a deputy sheriff from a rural county in Arizona sent
to the Big Apple to apprehend a fugitive?

Sp.

Who is missing from the following list detailing a classic line-up that was watched by millions every
Thursday night in the early 1970s ...

Flick, Babs, Ruth, Louise, Cherry and…..?

Go to Round 4 questions with answers

ROUND 5 - Pairs

1.

There have only been 4 teams who have won Rugby League’s Super League since it began in
1996.  Wigan Warriors, St Helens and Leeds Rhinos are 3 of them.  Who is the fourth ?

2.

In Rugby League’s Super League Grand Final of 2024, who was the inaugural winner of the Rob Burrow Award for Man of the Match?

3.

From what are these lines taken?

"Scatter his enemies
And make them fall.
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On him our hopes we fix."

4.

From what are these lines taken?

"We ne’er see our foes but we wish them to stay,
They never see us but they wish us away;
If they run, why we follow, and run them ashore,
For if they won’t fight us, what can we do more"?

5.

In terms of lifestyle, what links the Pre-Raphaelite beauty Lizzie Siddall, Florence Nightingale, Charles Dickens and Benjamin Franklin?

6.

Name a powerful synthetic opioid that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent and which features in an epidemic killing thousands in West Virginia and Ohio.  In prescription form its names include Actiq®, Duragesic®, and Sublimaze.

7.

Name the two Carry On stalwarts (both required) who had this exchange ...

"I’m a simple woman with simple tastes, and I want to be wooed"

"Oh, you can be as wude as you like with me!"

8.

Which radio and TV comedian observed ...

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.  If you can fake that, you’ve got it made."

Sp1

Which sports star played the bodyguard of Zukovsky, played by Robbie Coltrane, in the Bond film The World Is Not Enough?

Sp2

Name the animal who is the subject of this song ...

"A year ago last Thursday, I was strolling in the zoo,
When I met a man who thought he knew the lot.
He was laying down the law about the habits of baboons,
And the number of quills a porcupine has got.
So I asked him, ‘What’s that creature there?’
He answered, ‘er, hit’s a helk.’"

Go to Round 5 questions with answers

ROUND 6 - Pairs

1.

Which two rivers meet in Stockport to form the river Mersey?

2.

Which edifice connects boats between the River Weaver and the Trent & Mersey Canal?

3.

The controversy surrounding which serial child abuser caused Justin Welby to announce that he was stepping down from his position as Archbishop of Canterbury?

4.

Name the notorious villain in The Archers who was reported dead in November 2023 and whose vile antics from 2013 to 2016 led a listener to start a fundraiser which donated £175,000 to Women’s Aid.

5.

Name two of the actors who set off down the river in the film, Deliverance.

6.

"Eight legs, two fangs and an attitude" is a line from which film ?

7.

In which athletic event was a world record set by a British athlete in 1995 and still stands?

8.

Who became the first man to run the 100 metres below 10 seconds when he won gold at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City?

Sp.

What is the governing body of the Church of England?

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One answer relies on a soundalike to fit the theme

1.

Which British artist, notable for his graphic version of the Pre-Raphaelite style, painted the twelve works known as The Manchester Murals, depicting Mancunian history, which were permanently on display in Manchester’s Town Hall before its current closure for renovation?

2.

What name links a legendary producer and editor of the children’s TV programme Blue Peter for a quarter of a century between 1962 and 1988, and a comedian whose eponymous TV comedy shows ran between 1963 and 1986?  Both are still in the land of the living at 91 and 98 respectively.

3.

Who was the female Australian athlete who won gold in in both the 200 and 400 metres at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, silver in the 400 metres at the 1996 Olympics, gold in the 400 metres at the 1997 and 1999 World Championships and at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney (at which she lit the Olympic flame)?

4.

 In the 11th-century Lady Godiva famously rode naked on horseback through the streets of Coventry in protest at the high taxes imposed on the citizens of the city by her husband.  What was her husband’s name?  (the name alone will do but you’ll need his rank or title for the theme link)

5.

What was the name of the British independent airline, started in 1953 and at one time Gatwick’s 2nd-biggest resident operator?  With the majority of its business charter rather than scheduled, it declined as tour operators launched their own aircraft fleets and ceased trading when bought by British Airways for £1 in 1992.

6.

What is the name of the British satirical website providing parodic commentary on current affairs and other news stories, created by Neil Rafferty (former political correspondent for The Sunday Times) and Paul Stokes (former business editor of The Scotsman) in 2007?

7.

There are only 6 monarchs of England or Great Britain who were over 50 years old on ascension.  Here they are given in descending order of age at the time they came to the throne.  Who is missing?  (name & regnal number required)

Charles III (aged 73)

William IV (64)

Edward VII (59)

??????????????
George I (54)

James II (51)

8.

What is the Scottish Highland town lying near the head of the Cromarty Firth?  It has a population of just over 5,000, but is the home of Scottish Premier League football club Ross County, who as recently as 1994 were plying their trade in the Highland League.  Since that time they have reached the top division of Scottish football, the Scottish Cup Final in 2010 and won the Scottish League Cup in 2016.

Sp1

Who was the English playwright, author and radio, television and film writer, who wrote the play The Long and the Short and the Tall.  He co-wrote screenplays for the films Whistle Down the Wind, A Kind of Loving and Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain, and for television programmes Budgie and Worzel Gummidge?  His collaborator was his lifelong friend Keith Waterhouse, the pair having grown up together as boyhood friends in Leeds.

Sp2

In this list of the last 4 House of Commons speakers, one is missing.  Who?

Betty Boothroyd (1992-2000)

?????????????? (2000-2009)

John Bercow (2009-2019)

Lindsay Hoyle (2019 to date)

Sp3

Which royal House ruled Scotland continuously between 1371 and 1651, then was restored in 1660 after a republican interregnum?

Sp4

What is the world-renowned art school, part of University College London and its Faculty of Arts and Humanities ?

Go to Round 7 questions with answers

ROUND 8 - Pairs

1.

“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.”

Give the first and last names of his alter ego, a distinguished doctor.

2.

“Excellent!” I cried. “Elementary,” said he.

Give the first and last names of this medical companion of the famous sleuth.

3.

In the Premier League era, what was Justin Kluivert’s unique contribution, achieved in the
Wolverhampton Wanderers versus Bournemouth match on 30th November 2024?

4.

On 26th October 2024, two teams played each other for the first time in the 32 years of the Premier League era, the 937th pairing in that time.  Which were the two teams involved (names of both teams needed)?

5.

The author of the campus trilogy of novels, Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work,
has died aged 89.  Who was this?

6.

Which former Radio One and Radio 2 DJ started his career at Radio Caroline and died
earlier this year aged 79?

7.

Complete this Woody Allen quote, based on an old Yiddish proverb:

‘If you want to make God laugh…..’

8.

Complete this Oscar Wilde quote:

‘Bigamy is having one wife too many, Monogamy….’

Sp1

Which Manchester United player shares his name with the character played by Peter Lorre
in Casablanca?

Sp2

Leaving aside Wimbledon (and its current incarnation post-MK Dons), only one former Premier League side is currently not a Football League team.  Which team is that?

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ROUND 1 - Pairs

1.

Which 3 words, appearing consecutively in a dictionary, mean ...

- a crack that admits light or allows an attack

- weak or feeble in character

- cotton twill fabric?

chink / chinless / chino

2.

Which 3 words, appearing consecutively in a dictionary, mean ...

- skilful or dextrous

- no longer existing

- reduce tension in a crisis?

deft / defunct / defuse

3.

How was Maggie Keenan a pioneer in 2021 ?

She received the first Covid vaccine

4.

In 1940 Albert Alexander was another pioneer patient but sadly did not live to tell the tale.  Why is he remembered ?

The first to be treated with penicillin

5.

Name the Coronation Street character (2001-2003), whom Gail Potter told: "You’re Norman Bates with a briefcase".

Richard Hillman

6.

Which professor is the Napoleon of Crime?

(Professor James) Moriarty

7.

How long is the tenure of the Poet Laureate and what are they paid ?

Ten years,

A butt of sherry (i.e. 720 bottles)

8.

Which royal post is occupied by Ms Errollyn Wallen CBE?

Master of the King’s music

(accept 'Mistress', although both men and women have the title ‘Master’)

Sp1

Which Professor of Poetry at Leeds University is the current Poet Laureate?

Simon Armitage

Sp2

What was the nickname of P G Wodehouse?

Plum

ROUND 2 - A Round around some English counties

Name the county from some of its main attractions

1.

In which historic English county could you visit The Met Office, and the Greenway Estate (the former home of Agatha Christie)?

Devon

2.

In which historic English county could you visit the Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Museum and the Iron Age hill fort Maiden Castle?

Dorset

3.

In which historic English county could you visit the National Gas Museum and The National Space Centre?

Leicestershire

4.

In which historic English county would you find the HQ of the National Trust and STEAM, the museum of the Great Western Railway?

Wiltshire

5.

 In which historic English county could you visit The Canal Museum, formerly known as the National Waterways Museum, and Wollaston, the original site of the Dr Martens shoe company?

Northamptonshire

6.

In which historic English county could you visit the Porcelain Museum and the Morgan Motor Company?

Worcestershire

7.

In which historic English county could you visit Hogland House, the home and studio of the sculptor Henry Moore, and the site of the Roman town of Verulanium?

Hertfordshire

8.

In which historic English county could you visit the home of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge at Nether Stowey and the Helicopter Museum?

Somerset

Sp1

In which historic English county could you find Market Rasen racecourse and the Battle of Britain Memorial Visitor Centre?

Lincolnshire

Sp2

Hampshire

Sp3

In which historic English county could you visit the village where Magna Carta was sealed in 1215 and the RHS gardens at Wisley?

Surrey

Go back to Round 2 questions without answers

ROUND 3 - Pairs

1.

Which English poet, brought up High-Church Anglican, was estranged from his family when he converted to Roman Catholicism and soon afterwards became a Jesuit priest, burning all his poems at that point?  His work wasn't published until 30 years after his death.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

2.

Who was the celebrated British photographer best known for documenting the fashion, styles and celebrities of the 1960's?  He was married to Faye Dunaway in the 1980's and died aged 81 in 2019.

Terry O'Neil

3.

This celebrated architect was a knight of the realm, President of the Royal Academy 1938-44 and recipient of the Order of Merit in 1942.  Notable credits include the Viceroy’s House of New Delhi, the Whitehall Cenotaph and Castle Drogo in Devon.  Who was he ?

Sir Edwin Lutyens

(1869-1944)

4.

There are 2 structures in Manchester that were designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.  The cenotaph in St Peter's Square is one.  Name the other, either by address or the business which commissioned it.

100 King Street, or the 'Midland Bank building'

5.

Which class of drug, used to treat high blood-pressure and heart failure, is indicated by names ending in '–pril'?

ACE Inhibitors

6.

Which class of drug, used to treat irregular heart rhythm, prevention of repeat heart-attacks and high blood-pressure, is indicated by names ending in '-lol'?

Beta-blockers

7.

Zia Yusuf is chairman of which UK political party ?

Reform UK

8.

Allan Leighton is chairman of which UK supermarket ?

Asda

Sp.

Which global car manufacturer bought Jaguar in 1989 and Land-Rover in 2000, before selling both to Tata of India in 2008 ?

Ford

Go back to Round 3 questions without answers

ROUND 4 - Hidden theme

One answer relies on a soundalike to fit the theme & one answer has part of a larger word that fits the theme

1.

 Which scientific law states that:

“The absolute pressure exerted by a given mass of an ideal gas is
inversely proportional to the volume it occupies if the temperature and amount of gas remain unchanged within a closed system.”?

Boyle’s law

2.

What is the name of the blood vessel unique in being the only one of its type in the human body
that carries oxygenated blood?  (a specific two-word answer is required)

Pulmonary vein

3.

Who is the only English monarch to have been buried at Reading Abbey?  His remains were lost
after the ruin of the abbey following the reformation.  (name & regnal number required)

Henry the First

4.

What is the principal alcoholic ingredient in both a Metropolitan and an Alexander cocktail?

Brandy

5.

What is the name of the famous English folk song with the chorus lyrics ...

“Bill Brewer, Jan Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, Dan’l Whiddon, Harry Hawke, Old Uncle Tom Cobbley and all”?

Widdecombe Fair

6.

What is the name of the English professional snooker player banned for 12 years for match fixing
in 2012, at the time the longest ban ever handed down in the sport?  (forename and surname
required)

Stephen Lee

7.

Which 1995 Oscar-nominated Clint Eastwood film is a romantic drama set in Iowa in 1965 that
tells the story of the love affair between Italian war bride Francesca Johnson and National
Geographic journalist Robert Kincaid?

The Bridges of Madison County

8.

Which 1968 Clint Eastwood film, his first in a starring role that wasn’t a western, is a crime
thriller set in New York where our hero plays a deputy sheriff from a rural county in Arizona sent
to the Big Apple to apprehend a fugitive?

Coogan’s Bluff

Sp.

Who is missing from the following list detailing a classic line-up that was watched by millions every
Thursday night in the early 1970s ...

Flick, Babs, Ruth, Louise, Cherry and…..?

Dee Dee

Theme: Each answer contains the surname of a comedian:

Frankie Boyle, Henning Wehn, Lenny Henry , (2 for the price of 1) Jo Brand and Katy Brand, Josh Widdecombe, Stewart Lee,

Kevin Bridges, Steve Coogan, Jack Dee

Go back to Round 4 questions without answers

ROUND 5 - Pairs

1.

There have only been 4 teams who have won Rugby League’s Super League since it began in
1996.  Wigan Warriors, St Helens and Leeds Rhinos are 3 of them.  Who is the fourth ?

Bradford Bulls

2.

In Rugby League’s Super League Grand Final of 2024, who was the inaugural winner of the Rob Burrow Award for Man of the Match?

Bevan French

3.

From what are these lines taken?

"Scatter his enemies
And make them fall.
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On him our hopes we fix."

British National Anthem

(2nd verse)

4.

From what are these lines taken?

"We ne’er see our foes but we wish them to stay,
They never see us but they wish us away;
If they run, why we follow, and run them ashore,
For if they won’t fight us, what can we do more"?

Hearts of Oak

(Royal Navy anthem)

5.

In terms of lifestyle, what links the Pre-Raphaelite beauty Lizzie Siddall, Florence Nightingale, Charles Dickens and Benjamin Franklin?

They were all opiate addicts

6.

Name a powerful synthetic opioid that is similar to morphine but is 50 to 100 times more potent and which features in an epidemic killing thousands in West Virginia and Ohio.  In prescription form its names include Actiq®, Duragesic®, and Sublimaze.

Fentanyl

7.

Name the two Carry On stalwarts (both required) who had this exchange ...

"I’m a simple woman with simple tastes, and I want to be wooed"

"Oh, you can be as wude as you like with me!"

Hattie Jacques & Kenneth Williams

(Carry On Matron 1972)

8.

Which radio and TV comedian observed ...

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.  If you can fake that, you’ve got it made."

Tony Hancock

Sp1

Which sports star played the bodyguard of Zukovsky, played by Robbie Coltrane, in the Bond film The World Is Not Enough?

Jonah Lomu

Sp2

Name the animal who is the subject of this song ...

"A year ago last Thursday, I was strolling in the zoo,
When I met a man who thought he knew the lot.
He was laying down the law about the habits of baboons,
And the number of quills a porcupine has got.
So I asked him, ‘What’s that creature there?’
He answered, ‘er, hit’s a helk.’"

Gnu

(Flanders & Swann)

Go back to Round 5 questions without answers

ROUND 6 - Pairs

1.

Which two rivers meet in Stockport to form the river Mersey?

Goyt and Tame

2.

Which edifice connects boats between the River Weaver and the Trent & Mersey Canal?

Anderton Boat Lift

3.

The controversy surrounding which serial child abuser caused Justin Welby to announce that he was stepping down from his position as Archbishop of Canterbury?

John Smyth

4.

Name the notorious villain in The Archers who was reported dead in November 2023 and whose vile antics from 2013 to 2016 led a listener to start a fundraiser which donated £175,000 to Women’s Aid.

Rob Tichener

5.

Name two of the actors who set off down the river in the film, Deliverance.

(2 from)

John Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox.

6.

"Eight legs, two fangs and an attitude" is a line from which film ?

Arachnophobia

7.

In which athletic event was a world record set by a British athlete in 1995 and still stands?

Triple Jump

(Jonathan Edwards)

8.

Who became the first man to run the 100 metres below 10 seconds when he won gold at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City?

Jim Hines

Sp.

What is the governing body of the Church of England?

General Synod

Go back to Round 6 questions without answers

ROUND 7 - Hidden theme

One answer relies on a soundalike to fit the theme

1.

Which British artist, notable for his graphic version of the Pre-Raphaelite style, painted the twelve works known as The Manchester Murals, depicting Mancunian history, which were permanently on display in Manchester’s Town Hall before its current closure for renovation?

Ford Maddox Brown

2.

What name links a legendary producer and editor of the children’s TV programme Blue Peter for a quarter of a century between 1962 and 1988, and a comedian whose eponymous TV comedy shows ran between 1963 and 1986?  Both are still in the land of the living at 91 and 98 respectively.

Baxter

(Biddy and Stanley)

3.

Who was the female Australian athlete who won gold in in both the 200 and 400 metres at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, silver in the 400 metres at the 1996 Olympics, gold in the 400 metres at the 1997 and 1999 World Championships and at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney (at which she lit the Olympic flame)?

Cathy Freeman

4.

 In the 11th-century Lady Godiva famously rode naked on horseback through the streets of Coventry in protest at the high taxes imposed on the citizens of the city by her husband.  What was her husband’s name?  (the name alone will do but you’ll need his rank or title for the theme link)

Earl Leofric

(accept Leofric - also accept Earl of Mercia)

5.

What was the name of the British independent airline, started in 1953 and at one time Gatwick’s 2nd-biggest resident operator?  With the majority of its business charter rather than scheduled, it declined as tour operators launched their own aircraft fleets and ceased trading when bought by British Airways for £1 in 1992.

Dan Air

6.

What is the name of the British satirical website providing parodic commentary on current affairs and other news stories, created by Neil Rafferty (former political correspondent for The Sunday Times) and Paul Stokes (former business editor of The Scotsman) in 2007?

The Daily Mash

7.

There are only 6 monarchs of England or Great Britain who were over 50 years old on ascension.  Here they are given in descending order of age at the time they came to the throne.  Who is missing?  (name & regnal number required)

Charles III (aged 73)

William IV (64)

Edward VII (59)

??????????????
George I (54)

James II (51)

George IV

(57)

8.

What is the Scottish Highland town lying near the head of the Cromarty Firth?  It has a population of just over 5,000, but is the home of Scottish Premier League football club Ross County, who as recently as 1994 were plying their trade in the Highland League.  Since that time they have reached the top division of Scottish football, the Scottish Cup Final in 2010 and won the Scottish League Cup in 2016.

Dingwall

Sp1

Who was the English playwright, author and radio, television and film writer, who wrote the play The Long and the Short and the Tall.  He co-wrote screenplays for the films Whistle Down the Wind, A Kind of Loving and Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain, and for television programmes Budgie and Worzel Gummidge?  His collaborator was his lifelong friend Keith Waterhouse, the pair having grown up together as boyhood friends in Leeds.

Willis Hall

Sp2

In this list of the last 4 House of Commons speakers, one is missing.  Who?

Betty Boothroyd (1992-2000)

?????????????? (2000-2009)

John Bercow (2009-2019)

Lindsay Hoyle (2019 to date)

Michael Martin

Sp3

Which royal House ruled Scotland continuously between 1371 and 1651, then was restored in 1660 after a republican interregnum?

Stuart

Sp4

What is the world-renowned art school, part of University College London and its Faculty of Arts and Humanities ?

The Slade School of Fine Art

(accept the Slade)

Theme: Each answer contains the name of a member of England Rugby’s squad for the forthcoming Six Nations ...

George Ford / Fin Baxter / Tommy Freeman / Ben Earl / Theo Dan / Elliot Daley /  Jamie George / Fraser Dingwall / Tom Willis / George Martin / Will Stuart / Henry Slade

Go back to Round 7 questions without answers

ROUND 8 - Pairs

1.

“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.”

Give the first and last names of his alter ego, a distinguished doctor.

Henry Jekyll

2.

“Excellent!” I cried. “Elementary,” said he.

Give the first and last names of this medical companion of the famous sleuth.

John Watson

3.

In the Premier League era, what was Justin Kluivert’s unique contribution, achieved in the
Wolverhampton Wanderers versus Bournemouth match on 30th November 2024?

He was the first player in the Premier League era to score a hat trick of penalties in one match

(Bournemouth won 4-2)

4.

On 26th October 2024, two teams played each other for the first time in the 32 years of the Premier League era, the 937th pairing in that time.  Which were the two teams involved (names of both teams needed)?

Brentford and Ipswich Town

(Brentford won 4-3)

5.

The author of the campus trilogy of novels, Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work,
has died aged 89.  Who was this?

David Lodge

6.

Which former Radio One and Radio 2 DJ started his career at Radio Caroline and died
earlier this year aged 79?

Johnnie Walker

7.

Complete this Woody Allen quote, based on an old Yiddish proverb:

‘If you want to make God laugh…..’

‘…tell Him about your plans’

8.

Complete this Oscar Wilde quote:

‘Bigamy is having one wife too many, Monogamy….’

‘…is the same’

Sp1

Which Manchester United player shares his name with the character played by Peter Lorre
in Casablanca?

Ugarte

Sp2

Leaving aside Wimbledon (and its current incarnation post-MK Dons), only one former Premier League side is currently not a Football League team.  Which team is that?

Oldham Athletic

Go back to Round 8 questions without answers