ROUND 1 - Sporting Knights & Dames

Identify the individual

1.

West Indian cricket captain from 1974 to 1985, who also played for Lancashire.

2.

Australian F1 world champion 1959, 1960 and 1966; founder of eponymous racing team.

3.

The only knighted British boxer.

4.

The only female golfer to be made a dame.

5.

The most recent ex-footballer / manager to be knighted (in 2018).

6.

Britain’s most decorated female Olympic rower, who won medals in 5 Olympics, 2000–2016.

7.

Female British sailor who in 2005 broke the record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the world.

8.

Most successful British Paralympian ever, who won medals in swimming and cycling.

Sp1

British flat racing trainer who was champion trainer 10 times and trained 25 domestic Classic winners.

Sp2

British female athlete who won Olympic gold and BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1972 and has a track named after her in Belfast.

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ROUND 2 - 'Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire'

1.

On 7th August 1979 the author Kit Williams, accompanied by celebrity witness Bamber Gasgoigne, buried a gold hare in Ampthill Park.  This was the prize for a treasure hunt, the clues to which were contained in which book?

2.

Two huge hangars at Cardington Airfield on the edge of Bedford have been used as filming studios for the likes of the original Star Wars films and the more recent Batman movies, as well as spaces for artists such as Paul McCartney, U2 and the Spice Girls to rehearse elaborate stage productions for their tours.  When built in 1915, what kind of vehicle were they intended to house?

3.

Usually filled with jam and fruit at one end and a savoury filling at the other, thereby providing a main course and pudding in an easily portable form, by what name is the Bedfordshire suet crust dumpling best known?

4.

Founded as a College of Aeronautics and unique in Europe for having its own on-site airport, the campus of which postgraduate public research university lies halfway between Milton Keynes and Bedford?

5.

Located just outside the town of Sandy, The Lodge is the headquarters for which organization, founded by Emily Williamson in 1889 at her house in Fletcher Moss Botanical Garden?

6.

Long before Matt Hancock chowed down on his first kangaroo anus, which Honourable Member for Mid-Bedfordshire was the first serving MP to appear on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, in 2012?

7.

Which far-right activist was born Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, in Luton in 1982?

8.

The Zoological Society of London operates two zoos.  One is Regent’s Park Zoo in London.  Which is the other, just outside Dunstable?

Sp1

Which former rugby player, born in Bedford in 1966 and capped 34 times for England at lock, has developed a second career as a body and stunt double, most notably for Robbie Coltrane when playing Hagrid in the Harry Potter films?

Sp2

Which comedy pop band, formed in Leighton Buzzard in 1959, had top 5 hits in the mid 60s with Call Up The Groups and Pop Go the Workers, but became better known in their later years for their parody songs of better known hits?

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ROUND 3 - Run ons

The last word, or the last part of the last word, of the first answer is the first, or the first part of the first, of the second: no example needed by now, surely. First names and surnames are required in this round. Definite and indefinite articles may be ignored. Usual caveats (whatever they might be) apply.

1.

Character in a 20th century novel whose devastating attractiveness causes mass suicide,

&

American pop duo in the 60s and 70s who divorced in 1975, he becoming a congressman before dying in a skiing accident.

2.

 In WWII Gracie Fields added these lines to an already popular song of hers: “We’re going to ’ang old ’itler from the very ’ighest bough / Of …”.  What are the next 6 words of the original song, which are also its title?

&

English translation of the motto, according to Ian Fleming, of the Bond family.

3.

Name of the family home of Titus Groan,

&

in taxonomy, the class which includes slugs and snails.

4.

Smallpox was so called in contradistinction to this disease,

&

A comedy by Aristophanes in which the title character brings about the end of a war by persuading the women to withhold all sexual favours while it continues.

5.

Name of the tribunal presided over by a Judge Advocate,

&

Canadian philosopher, in particular of media theory, who had a tiny cameo rôle in a Woody Allen film.

6.

Boxing promoter and manager of fighters such as Frank Bruno and Chris Eubank,

&

sage who, referring to ability to manage adverse conditions, coined the sentence: “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked”.

7.

English title of a 1970 animated film based on The Magic Roundabout,

&

play by Tennessee Williams whose principal characters are Brick, Maggie and Big Daddy.

8.

Married artists, surnames Prousch and Passmore but who are always known by only their first names and who refer to themselves as living sculptures,

&

Star Trek actor who has had a long-running feud with William Shatner.

Sp.

Continuation of the quotation “Yesterday / We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning / We shall have what to do after firing. But today / Today we have …” (3 words)

&

missing words from the caption to a very well-known cartoon in Punch: “Oh no, my Lord, I assure you [blank] are excellent.” (3 words).

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ROUND 4 - Hidden theme

1.

Which song by Henry Purcell was composed for The Libertine, a play by Thomas Shadwell?  It contains the line: “Your flocks may now securely rest, while you express your jollity”.

2.

In which 2021 animated film does the titular family have to save the Earth from a global robot uprising?

3.

Who was Australian PM from 2018 to 2022?

4.

To whom did Donald Trump grant a presidential pardon in 2019?  When ennobled, he had taken Crossharbour as his barony.

5.

Who played prisoner Mark Cobden opposite Stephen Graham’s prison guard in the acclaimed 2021 BBC1 series Time?

6.

Now TV personalities in their own right, Robert and Bindi are the children of which Australian, who died in 2006?

7.

Which TV presenter and bass-baritone has released three albums, the most recent of which was entitled In a Winter Light?

8.

Written by Nina Simone in memory of her friend the playwright Lorraine Hansberry, which 1969 song became an anthem of the Civil Rights Movement?

Sp1

The woman who, at a Royal event in December 2022, repeatedly asked Ngozi Fulani where she really came from is the widow of which BBC chairman?  (first name and surname required)

Sp2

In which 2002 film does Jack Nicholson’s recently widowed character take a road trip across the Midwest in a Winnebago?

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ROUND 5 - Pot pourri

1.

Mammatous and lenticular are varieties of what natural phenomenon?

2.

What, introduced in 2022, are ronna, quetta, ronto and quecto?

3.

A defence contracting agreement between three countries, which excluded France, caused something of a fuss in late 2021.  By what 5-letter abbreviation was it known?

4.

In 2022, Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for her rôle in which fraudulent company?

5.

What is the common name for the condition known medically as epistaxis?

6.

What name links a 1st century British chieftain (or king) with one of the main characters in a book by Ian Fleming?

7.

What is the name of the web site and fake news organisation owned by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was recently ordered to pay damages in excess of $1 billion to some of his victims?

8.

In 1978 Mr Justice Foster dismissed an application for an injunction brought by one newspaper publisher to prevent another from launching its new tabloid, commenting that: “I for myself would find that the two papers are so different in every way that only a moron in a hurry would be misled”.  What were the two newspapers, both of which are still in print?

Sp1

Nigella Lawson has been much mocked for her bizarre pronunciation of the name of which common kitchen appliance, which she has asserted is a family joke?

Sp2

What is the common name of the condition known medically as nocturnal enuresis?

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ROUND 6 - Died this year Bingo

Bored with questions about those who died in 2022? Here are a few about those who died 50 years ago, in 1972 (coincidentally, the year the inflictor of this particular round was born). Pick a date.

01/01

Which singer, whose best-known song opens and closes the film Gigi, died on New Year’s Day?

27/03

Which man, whose works include Relativity and Ascending and Descending, died in Hilversum on 27th March?

25/04

Which man, who died on 25th April, appeared in Rebecca, All About Eve and Ivanhoe but is probably best remembered as the voice of Shere Khan in The Jungle Book?

27/04

Kwame Nkrumah, who died on 27th April, was the first Prime Minister of which country?

22/05

Which poet, who also wrote mystery novels under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, died on 22nd May?  His children include the Daily Telegraph food critic Tamasin and her much more famous brother.

28/05

Which man died on 28 May at 4 Route du Champ d’Entraînement, Paris?

26/08

Which man, who died on 26 August, had six years earlier become the first to sail single-handed round the world by the Clipper route?

15/09

Which former Archbishop of Canterbury, who died on 15th September, had officiated at Queen Elizabeth II’s wedding and coronation?

01/10

Which palaeoanthropologist, who died on 1st October, was, through his discoveries at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, instrumental in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa?

24/10

Which baseball player, who died on 24th October, was famous for breaking the colour barrier by signing for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947?

26/10

Which Russian-born aviation pioneer, who died on 26th October, founded his eponymous company in Connecticut in 1923?

01/11

Which poet, who died on 1st November and whose best known work was the 800 page Cantos, is perhaps better remembered for his role discovering and promoting the work of contemporaries such as Eliot and Hemingway and for the antisemitism that has blighted his reputation?

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ROUND 7 - Quotations - randomly paired

1.

2.

Who wrote this?

“It is a strange fact but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God Save The King than of stealing from a poor box”?

3.

Who wrote this?

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

4.

What 7 words precede these, from Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism?

“Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring / There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain / And drinking largely sobers us again”.

5.

Which politician said this?

“We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow”

6.

Which Shakespearean character speaks these lines?

“Question enrages him. At once, good night. / Stand not upon the order of your going / But go at once”?

7.

Complete this quotation, from Alexander Pope (7 words):

“Know then thyself; presume not God to scan”

8.

Who wrote this?

“The Right Hon. was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and forgotten to say ‘when!’.”

Sp1

Which Shakespearean character refers to:

“My salad days, when I was green in judgment”?

Sp2

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ROUND 8 - The End of the Line

All answers contain a word with a double 'z'

1.

In which 1967 film did Peter Cook play the twin roles of George Spigott and the Devil?

2.

In the Great War, what nickname was given by British troops to the German 77mm artillery shell?

3.

In Islam, what name is given to the official who calls the faithful to prayer?

4.

What name is given to the Mersey Ferry decorated in the kind of abstract design which had been used by merchant ships to confuse U-boats during the Great War and, to a lesser extent, during WW2?

5.

Which West African city is both the capital and the largest population centre of its country?

6.

Who torments the other characters in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot?

7.

What is the name of the curved knife used by chefs for mincing herbs and garlic?

8.

What name is given to the monochrome print-making process used for etchings and engravings?

Sp.

What is the name of the southern Italian cheese made from buffalo milk, which is, inter alia, a popular topping for pizza?

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ROUND 1 - Sporting Knights & Dames

Identify the individual

1.

West Indian cricket captain from 1974 to 1985, who also played for Lancashire.

Clive Lloyd

2.

Australian F1 world champion 1959, 1960 and 1966; founder of eponymous racing team.

Jack Brabham

3.

The only knighted British boxer.

Henry Cooper

4.

The only female golfer to be made a dame.

Laura Davies

5.

The most recent ex-footballer / manager to be knighted (in 2018).

Kenny Dalgliesh

6.

Britain’s most decorated female Olympic rower, who won medals in 5 Olympics, 2000–2016.

Katherine Grainger

7.

Female British sailor who in 2005 broke the record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the world.

Ellen MacArthur

8.

Most successful British Paralympian ever, who won medals in swimming and cycling.

Sarah Storey

Sp1

British flat racing trainer who was champion trainer 10 times and trained 25 domestic Classic winners.

Henry Cecil

Sp2

British female athlete who won Olympic gold and BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1972 and has a track named after her in Belfast.

Mary Peters

ROUND 2 - 'Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire'

1.

On 7th August 1979 the author Kit Williams, accompanied by celebrity witness Bamber Gasgoigne, buried a gold hare in Ampthill Park.  This was the prize for a treasure hunt, the clues to which were contained in which book?

Masquerade

2.

Two huge hangars at Cardington Airfield on the edge of Bedford have been used as filming studios for the likes of the original Star Wars films and the more recent Batman movies, as well as spaces for artists such as Paul McCartney, U2 and the Spice Girls to rehearse elaborate stage productions for their tours.  When built in 1915, what kind of vehicle were they intended to house?

Airships

(accept similar terms)

3.

Usually filled with jam and fruit at one end and a savoury filling at the other, thereby providing a main course and pudding in an easily portable form, by what name is the Bedfordshire suet crust dumpling best known?

Clanger

4.

Founded as a College of Aeronautics and unique in Europe for having its own on-site airport, the campus of which postgraduate public research university lies halfway between Milton Keynes and Bedford?

Cranfield

5.

Located just outside the town of Sandy, The Lodge is the headquarters for which organization, founded by Emily Williamson in 1889 at her house in Fletcher Moss Botanical Garden?

RSPB

6.

Long before Matt Hancock chowed down on his first kangaroo anus, which Honourable Member for Mid-Bedfordshire was the first serving MP to appear on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, in 2012?

Nadine Dorries

7.

Which far-right activist was born Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, in Luton in 1982?

Tommy Robinson

8.

The Zoological Society of London operates two zoos.  One is Regent’s Park Zoo in London.  Which is the other, just outside Dunstable?

Whipsnade

Sp1

Which former rugby player, born in Bedford in 1966 and capped 34 times for England at lock, has developed a second career as a body and stunt double, most notably for Robbie Coltrane when playing Hagrid in the Harry Potter films?

Martin Bayfield

Sp2

Which comedy pop band, formed in Leighton Buzzard in 1959, had top 5 hits in the mid 60s with Call Up The Groups and Pop Go the Workers, but became better known in their later years for their parody songs of better known hits?

The Barron Knights

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ROUND 3 - Run ons

The last word, or the last part of the last word, of the first answer is the first, or the first part of the first, of the second: no example needed by now, surely. First names and surnames are required in this round. Definite and indefinite articles may be ignored. Usual caveats (whatever they might be) apply.

1.

Character in a 20th century novel whose devastating attractiveness causes mass suicide,

&

American pop duo in the 60s and 70s who divorced in 1975, he becoming a congressman before dying in a skiing accident.

Zuleika Dobson

&

Sonny & Cher

2.

 In WWII Gracie Fields added these lines to an already popular song of hers: “We’re going to ’ang old ’itler from the very ’ighest bough / Of …”.  What are the next 6 words of the original song, which are also its title?

&

English translation of the motto, according to Ian Fleming, of the Bond family.

"The Biggest Aspidistra in the World"

&

"The world is not enough"

3.

Name of the family home of Titus Groan,

&

in taxonomy, the class which includes slugs and snails.

Ghormenghast

&

gastropodia

(accept gastropods)

4.

Smallpox was so called in contradistinction to this disease,

&

A comedy by Aristophanes in which the title character brings about the end of a war by persuading the women to withhold all sexual favours while it continues.

Syphilis

&

Lysistrata

5.

Name of the tribunal presided over by a Judge Advocate,

&

Canadian philosopher, in particular of media theory, who had a tiny cameo rôle in a Woody Allen film.

Court Martial

&

Marshall McLuhan

6.

Boxing promoter and manager of fighters such as Frank Bruno and Chris Eubank,

&

sage who, referring to ability to manage adverse conditions, coined the sentence: “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked”.

Frank Warren

&

Warren Buffet

(the Sage of Omaha)

7.

English title of a 1970 animated film based on The Magic Roundabout,

&

play by Tennessee Williams whose principal characters are Brick, Maggie and Big Daddy.

Dougal and the Blue Cat

&

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

8.

Married artists, surnames Prousch and Passmore but who are always known by only their first names and who refer to themselves as living sculptures,

&

Star Trek actor who has had a long-running feud with William Shatner.

Gilbert and George

&

George Takei

Sp.

Continuation of the quotation “Yesterday / We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning / We shall have what to do after firing. But today / Today we have …” (3 words)

&

missing words from the caption to a very well-known cartoon in Punch: “Oh no, my Lord, I assure you [blank] are excellent.” (3 words).

"naming of parts"

&

"parts of it"

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ROUND 4 - Hidden theme

1.

Which song by Henry Purcell was composed for The Libertine, a play by Thomas Shadwell?  It contains the line: “Your flocks may now securely rest, while you express your jollity”.

Nymphs and Shepherds

2.

In which 2021 animated film does the titular family have to save the Earth from a global robot uprising?

The Mitchells vs. The Machines

3.

Who was Australian PM from 2018 to 2022?

Scott Morrison

4.

To whom did Donald Trump grant a presidential pardon in 2019?  When ennobled, he had taken Crossharbour as his barony.

Conrad Black

5.

Who played prisoner Mark Cobden opposite Stephen Graham’s prison guard in the acclaimed 2021 BBC1 series Time?

Sean Bean

6.

Now TV personalities in their own right, Robert and Bindi are the children of which Australian, who died in 2006?

Steve Irwin

7.

Which TV presenter and bass-baritone has released three albums, the most recent of which was entitled In a Winter Light?

Alexander Armstrong

8.

Written by Nina Simone in memory of her friend the playwright Lorraine Hansberry, which 1969 song became an anthem of the Civil Rights Movement?

(To Be) Young, Gifted and Black

Sp1

The woman who, at a Royal event in December 2022, repeatedly asked Ngozi Fulani where she really came from is the widow of which BBC chairman?  (first name and surname required)

Marmaduke Hussey

(accept Duke)

Sp2

In which 2002 film does Jack Nicholson’s recently widowed character take a road trip across the Midwest in a Winnebago?

About Schmidt

Theme: Each answer contains the name of someone who has walked on the moon:

Alan Shepherd, Edgar Mitchell, David Scott, Neil Armstrong, Pete Conrad, Alan Bean, James Irwin, John Young, Charles Duke, Harrison Schmitt

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ROUND 5 - Pot pourri

1.

Mammatous and lenticular are varieties of what natural phenomenon?

Clouds

2.

What, introduced in 2022, are ronna, quetta, ronto and quecto?

New SI prefixes

(like mega and nano, for extremely large and extremely small amounts)

3.

A defence contracting agreement between three countries, which excluded France, caused something of a fuss in late 2021.  By what 5-letter abbreviation was it known?

Aukus

4.

In 2022, Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for her rôle in which fraudulent company?

Theranos

5.

What is the common name for the condition known medically as epistaxis?

Nosebleed

6.

What name links a 1st century British chieftain (or king) with one of the main characters in a book by Ian Fleming?

Caractacus

7.

What is the name of the web site and fake news organisation owned by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was recently ordered to pay damages in excess of $1 billion to some of his victims?

8.

In 1978 Mr Justice Foster dismissed an application for an injunction brought by one newspaper publisher to prevent another from launching its new tabloid, commenting that: “I for myself would find that the two papers are so different in every way that only a moron in a hurry would be misled”.  What were the two newspapers, both of which are still in print?

Morning Star and Daily Star

Sp1

Nigella Lawson has been much mocked for her bizarre pronunciation of the name of which common kitchen appliance, which she has asserted is a family joke?

Microwave

(mee-crow-wah-vey)

Sp2

What is the common name of the condition known medically as nocturnal enuresis?

Bedwetting

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ROUND 6 - Died this year Bingo

Bored with questions about those who died in 2022? Here are a few about those who died 50 years ago, in 1972 (coincidentally, the year the inflictor of this particular round was born). Pick a date.

01/01

Which singer, whose best-known song opens and closes the film Gigi, died on New Year’s Day?

Maurice Chevalier

27/03

Which man, whose works include Relativity and Ascending and Descending, died in Hilversum on 27th March?

Maurits Escher

25/04

Which man, who died on 25th April, appeared in Rebecca, All About Eve and Ivanhoe but is probably best remembered as the voice of Shere Khan in The Jungle Book?

George Sanders

27/04

Kwame Nkrumah, who died on 27th April, was the first Prime Minister of which country?

Ghana

22/05

Which poet, who also wrote mystery novels under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, died on 22nd May?  His children include the Daily Telegraph food critic Tamasin and her much more famous brother.

Cecil Day-Lewis

28/05

Which man died on 28 May at 4 Route du Champ d’Entraînement, Paris?

Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor

26/08

Which man, who died on 26 August, had six years earlier become the first to sail single-handed round the world by the Clipper route?

Francis Chichester

15/09

Which former Archbishop of Canterbury, who died on 15th September, had officiated at Queen Elizabeth II’s wedding and coronation?

Geoffrey Fisher

01/10

Which palaeoanthropologist, who died on 1st October, was, through his discoveries at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, instrumental in demonstrating that humans evolved in Africa?

Louis Leakey

24/10

Which baseball player, who died on 24th October, was famous for breaking the colour barrier by signing for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947?

Jackie Robinson

26/10

Which Russian-born aviation pioneer, who died on 26th October, founded his eponymous company in Connecticut in 1923?

Igor Sikorsky

01/11

Which poet, who died on 1st November and whose best known work was the 800 page Cantos, is perhaps better remembered for his role discovering and promoting the work of contemporaries such as Eliot and Hemingway and for the antisemitism that has blighted his reputation?

Ezra Pound

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ROUND 7 - Quotations - randomly paired

1.

Hamlet

2.

Who wrote this?

“It is a strange fact but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God Save The King than of stealing from a poor box”?

George Orwell

3.

Who wrote this?

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

Raymond Chandler

4.

What 7 words precede these, from Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism?

“Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring / There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain / And drinking largely sobers us again”.

"A little learning is a dangerous thing"

(accept “knowledge” with derision and a display of reluctance)

5.

Which politician said this?

“We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow”

Palmerston

6.

Which Shakespearean character speaks these lines?

“Question enrages him. At once, good night. / Stand not upon the order of your going / But go at once”?

Lady Macbeth

7.

Complete this quotation, from Alexander Pope (7 words):

“Know then thyself; presume not God to scan”

"...the proper study of mankind is man"

8.

Who wrote this?

“The Right Hon. was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and forgotten to say ‘when!’.”

P G Wodehouse

Sp1

Which Shakespearean character refers to:

“My salad days, when I was green in judgment”?

Cleopatra

Sp2

Browning

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ROUND 8 - The End of the Line

All answers contain a word with a double 'z'

1.

In which 1967 film did Peter Cook play the twin roles of George Spigott and the Devil?

Bedazzled

2.

In the Great War, what nickname was given by British troops to the German 77mm artillery shell?

Whizzbang

3.

In Islam, what name is given to the official who calls the faithful to prayer?

Muezzin

4.

What name is given to the Mersey Ferry decorated in the kind of abstract design which had been used by merchant ships to confuse U-boats during the Great War and, to a lesser extent, during WW2?

Dazzle boat

(or ship, or ferry)

5.

Which West African city is both the capital and the largest population centre of its country?

Brazzaville

(Republic of Congo)

6.

Who torments the other characters in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot?

Pozzo

7.

What is the name of the curved knife used by chefs for mincing herbs and garlic?

Mezzaluna

8.

What name is given to the monochrome print-making process used for etchings and engravings?

Mezzotint

Sp.

What is the name of the southern Italian cheese made from buffalo milk, which is, inter alia, a popular topping for pizza?

Mozzarella

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