ROUND 1

1.

What is the name of the spit of land that forms the most southerly point of the East Riding of Yorkshire?

2.

Who won the best Actor Oscar in both 1937 and 1938?

3.

What day of the year is it today in the ancient Roman calendar?

4.

What radio station would you find locally on 102FM?

5.

Allan Leighton is Chairman of which large UK business?

6.

Cameroon, Saudi Arabia, Republic of Ireland – who are the 4^th member of Ireland’s group at the 2002 football World Cup?

7.

Which famous personality did picture 1 become?

8.

Which famous personality did picture 2 become?

ROUND 2

1.

What Suffolk town sits at the most easterly point of England?

2.

On this day in 1692 the Earl of Breadalbane led the English forces in which famous historical event?

3.

Alphabetically which team comes first in football’s Nationwide Conference league?

4.

Which English cathedral was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott?

5.

Theoretically what is the least number of strokes a tennis player has to make to win a set?

6.

What was the former name of the African country now known as Burkina Faso?

7.

Prime Ministers Tony Blair (in the 20^th century) and Lord John Russell (in the 19^th century) were the last two Prime Ministers to do what?

8.

Who wrote the book ‘Playing the Moldovans at Tennis’?

ROUND 3

1.

What oft-quoted Variety magazine headline announced the marriage of Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe?

2.

In which town is Jennings’ brewery?

3.

Which country has the international car registration code ‘HKJ’?

4.

What kind of domestic animal is the Soay?

5.

Which famous personality did picture 3 become?

6.

Which famous personality did picture 4 become?

7.

What is the highest-pitched woodwind instrument?

8.

Which financial services company is headed by Vanni Treves?

ROUND 4 (the special February 14^th ‘Love makes the world go.....’ Round)

1.

Which famous 19^th century poet and friend of Shelley had the middle name of ‘Love’?

2.

Ada Lovelace, mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron is often referred to as the first what?

3.

What sort of flower is ‘Love-lies-bleeding’?

4.

Which Scottish Football League team play their home games at Love Street?

5.

Wet Wet Wet had a hit with ‘Love is all around’ in 1994 but who had a hit with the same song in 1967?

6.

Who had a hit with ‘Loving You’ in 1975?

7.

Where is Shakespeare’s play ‘Love’s Labours Lost’ set?

8.

In the BBC poll to find the nation’s favourite love poem which poem came out top?

ROUND 5

1.

In which county is St David’s Head, the most westerly point of Wales?

2.

Who won the best Actress Oscar in both 1967 and 1968?

3.

Which famous personality did picture 5 become?

4.

Which famous personality did picture 6 become?

5.

According to which calendar is this the Year of Light 6004?

6.

Sweden, England, Argentina – who are the 4^th member of England’s group at the 2002 Football World Cup?

7.

What’s the name of the former ENRON Chairman?

8.

What radio station would you find on 1215AM?

ROUND 6

1.

Which is the most northerly inhabited island of the Shetland group?

2.

On this day in 1542 King Henry VIII’s fifth wife was executed, who was she?

3.

Alphabetically which team comes last in football’s Nationwide Conference league?

4.

In 1924 the architect Giles Gilbert Scott won a national competition with a design codenamed K2.  What was K2?

5.

How many cue strokes does a snooker player make in a 147 break?

6.

Maputo is the capital of Mozambique.  What was its former colonial name?

7.

Who is the only US President to have served 2 non-consecutive terms?

8.

Who wrote the novel ‘Thinks….’?

ROUND 7

1.

Which famous sporting personality did picture 7 become?

2.

Which famous sporting personality did picture 8 (the one standing on the right) become?

3.

What event was described in the US newspaper headline ‘King’s moll Reno’d in Wolsey’s home town’?

4.

What kind of domestic animal is the Landrace?

5.

Which country has the international car registration code ‘LAR’?

6.

Where is the Hall & Woodhouse brewery (makers of Badger beers)?

7.

On which musical instrument would one play a paradiddle?

8.

What’s the name of the Baltimore-based rogue trader who has recently brought the Allied Irish Bank to its knees?

ROUND 8

1.

“Tanya blackmails Nurse Dunkley into a deal with Frank’s loved ones to turn off his life support machine.” From which current TV drama series is this blurb taken?

2.

 “Design student Tanya arrives at the factory and becomes the subject of Mack’s attention.”  From which current TV drama series is this blurb taken?

3.

The 1996 film ‘Shine’ was the story of which brilliant but disturbed pianist?

4.

Which 1942 musical film was based on the life of songwriter/performer George M Cohan?

5.

To resign an MP must accept nomination for 2 Stewardships: the Chiltern Hundreds is one what is the other?

6.

What name is given to a parliamentary motion expressing backbench opinion, put in the order paper by an MP without any real prospect of being debated?

7.

Which surname is shared by a 13^th century philosopher and experimental scientist, a 17^th century statesman and essayist, and a painter who died in 1992?

8.

Which surname is shared by a 19^th century prison reformer, a 20^th century writer of verse plays, and a contemporary actor, writer and comedian?

SPARES

1.

What is the largest inland lake in the UK?

2.

What is the largest natural lake in Wales?

3.

How many letters are there in the Greek alphabet?

4.

How many letters are there in the Russian alphabet?

5.

How many Nobel prizes are awarded?

6.

How many men have walked on the moon?

7.

Which popular 60’s group had their only number one hit with ‘Glad All Over’?

8.

In ‘The Simpson’s’ what was Maggie’s first word?

ROUND 1

1.

Spurn Head

2.

Spencer Tracey (‘Captains Courageous’ & ‘Boy’s Town’)

3.

The Ides of February

4.

Galaxy

5.

Consignia (the Post Office to you and me)

6.

Germany

7.

Carol Vorderman

8.

Richard Branson

ROUND 2

1.

Lowestoft

2.

The Glencoe Massacre (Earl of Breadalbane = John Campbell)

3.

Barnet

4.

Liverpool Anglican (must specify Anglican NOT Catholic)

5.

12 (4 aces in the 3 games served & 4 double faults in the 3 games served by the opponent)

6.

Upper Volta

7.

Become a father whilst in office (or at least to acknowledge the fact)

8.

Tony Hawks

ROUND 3

1.

‘Egghead weds hourglass’

2.

Cockermouth, Cumbria

3.

(The Hashemite Kingdom of) Jordan

4.

Sheep

5.

Charles Kennedy

6.

Hillary Clinton

7.

Piccolo

8.

Equitable Life

ROUND 4 (the special February 14^th ‘Love makes the world go.....’ Round)

1.

Thomas Love Peacock

2.

Computer Programmer

3.

Amaranth (a red one to be specific)

4.

St Mirren (Love Street, Paisley)

5.

The Troggs

6.

Minnie Ripperton

7.

Navarre

8.

‘How do I love thee?’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

ROUND 5

1.

Pembrokeshire

2.

Katherine Hepburn (‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’ and ‘The Lion in Winter’)

3.

Gary Linneker

4.

Chris Tarrant

5.

The Masonic Calendar

6.

Nigeria

7.

Kenneth Lay

8.

Virgin

ROUND 6

1.

Unst

2.

Catherine Howard

3.

Yeovil

4.

The old red telephone kiosk

5.

36

6.

Lourenco Marques

7.

Grover Cleveland

8.

David Lodge

ROUND 7

1.

Sir Stephen Redgrave

2.

Vinnie Jones

3.

Wallis Simpson divorce proceedings before she married Edward VIII (in Ipswich, the home town of Cardinal Wolsey)

4.

Pig

5.

Libya (The Libyan Arab Republic)

6.

Blandford Forum (Dorset)

7.

Drums

8.

John Rusnak

ROUND 8

1.

Footballers’ Wives

2.

Clocking Off

3.

David Helfgott

4.

Yankee Doodle Dandy

5.

The Manor of Northstead

6.

Early Day Motion

7.

Bacon (Roger, Francis and Francis)

8.

Fry (Elizabeth, Christopher and Stephen)

SPARES

1.

Lough Neagh (Northern Ireland)

2.

Llyn Tegid (or Lake Bala if, unlike Colin, you don’t speak Welsh)

3.

24

4.

30

5.

6

6.

12

7.

Dave Clark Five

8.

Daddy