ROUND 1 - Paired with Round 2

1.

Dick Swiveller, Kit Nubbles, Daniel Quilp, and Nell Trent are characters in which 1841 novel by Charles Dickens?

2.

In which county is Wincanton National Hunt racecourse?

3.

Which British medical scientist, then aged 85, won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology? A Vatican spokesman said the award was: “Completely out of order”.

4.

The University of Aberdeen English faculty has been derided for putting 'trigger warnings' on books in case snowflake students are upset by the content.  Name the 19th century Scottish novel AND its author with the trigger warning: 'contains depictions of murder, death, family betrayal and kidnapping'.

5.

The capital city of which country was known as Lourenço Marques until it changed to its present name in 1976?

6.

Give a year in the life of the artist El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos).

7.

Which organ of the body produces the hormone glucagon?

8.

St Peter ad Vincula is a chapel within the grounds of the Tower of London.  What is the translation of the Latin 'ad Vincula'?

Go to Round 1 questions with answers

ROUND 2 - Paired with Round 1

1.

Julius Caesar is reported to have said: “Alea iacta est” on 10th January 49BC when crossing the Rubicon.  What is the translation from the Latin?

2.

Which organ of the body produces the hormone melatonin?

3.

Give a year in the life of the artist Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi).

4.

The capital city of which country was known as Bathurst until it changed to its present name in 1973?

5.

The University of Highlands and Islands English faculty has also been derided for trigger warnings on books.  Name the 20th century American novel AND its author with the trigger warning: 'Contains graphic fishing scenes'.

6.

Which British scientist, then aged 84, shared the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics?  His 1960s theoretical work was vindicated by the discoveries at CERN in 2012.

7.

In which county is Fakenham National Hunt racecourse?

8.

Mr Dick, Tommy Traddles, Uriah Heep, and Little Em’ly are characters in which 1850 novel by Charles Dickens?

Go to Round 2 questions with answers

ROUND 3 - Hidden theme - 'Close but no cigar' 

Usual trickery with soundalikes

1.

Who first came to public notice as Permanent Secretary to the Department of Administrative Affairs before ending his career as Cabinet Secretary?  He is reported to have died in 2001 in St Dympna’s Home for the Elderly Deranged.

2.

Which actor played Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwart’s, in the Chris Columbus 2001 film Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone?

3.

In which Gloucestershire castle did Edward II (second) die on 21st September 1327, probably murdered?

4.

Which is the only song by an Israeli couple to reach No 1 in the UK singles charts?  The song was No 1 for 4 weeks in 1967

5.

In 1991 which cricket commentator, describing how Ian Botham was out having hit his wicket when he overbalanced, said:

“He just didn’t quite get his leg over”?

6.

Who was the only actor from Universal Studios to portray Dracula, the Mummy, Frankenstein’s monster, and the Wolfman in feature films?

7.

What has become the generic name for fake theatrical blood?  It derives its name from a London thoroughfare.

8.

The Philippino street food called kwek-kwek consists of which small food items?  They are coated in batter with annatto powder and deep-fried.

Go to Round 3 questions with answers

ROUND 4 - Announced theme - Multiple Oscar winners

Each answer contains the name of an actor who has won the Academy Award for Best Actor more than once - in all cases the actors are male

Usual trickery with soundalikes

1.

Which artist has been Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy since 2011?

2.

Which right-wing columnist was spoofed into accepting an award in 2020, having failed to notice that the 'Campaign to Unify the Nation Trophy' had the four-letter acronym engraved on the cup at the presentation?

3.

What started in Jiangxi in October 1934 and ended in Shaanxi in October 1935? 

4.

Jack Rosenthal’s 1977 television play Spend, Spend, Spend, and the 1998 musical by Steve Brown and Justin Greene with the same name, relates the sad rags-to-riches-to-rags story of which 1960s tabloid celebrity?

5.

Which poet claims to have been inspired by Pam Ayres to make a living in poetry?  Appearing on Desert Island Discs in 2019 he described the programme as having:

“...all the finality of a suicide note without the actual obligation of topping yourself”.

His luxury item was “a boulder of opium twice the size of my head”.

6.

Which poet was the creator of the gentleman detective Nigel Strangeways?  Between 1933 to 1966 he appeared in sixteen novels

7.

Which chemist synthesised LSD in 1938 but did not discover its psycho-pharmacological properties until 19th April 1943 when, after consuming 250 micrograms, he had a bad trip riding home on his bicycle?

8.

What is the seven-word aphorism first used by writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his 1839 play Richelieu which implies that violence is less effective as a means of social or political change than communication?

Go to Round 4 questions with answers

ROUND 5 - Announced theme - 'A Grand Day Out'

1.

Which 1959 movie, filmed in Australia and starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner, was based on a novel by Neville Shute?

2.

Which song, a hit for the Drifters in 1964, gave actor Bruce Willis a No 2 hit on the UK singles chart in 1987?

3.

Still a popular Country and Western song what was Billie Jo Spear’s biggest hit in 1975?  The song is told from the point of view of a middle-aged woman coaxing a hesitant husband outside to make love under the moonlight.

4.

Which 1975 movie, filmed in Australia, concerns the unexplained events occurring on St Valentine’s Day 1900?

5.

The Open Golf Championship course Royal Saint George’s, Prince’s Golf Club, and Ian Fleming’s fictional Royal Saint Mark’s Golf Club are all located in which town?

6.

What was the title of Beyoncé’s sixth studio album released in 2016?  Songs released as singles included Freedom, Formation and Sorry.

7.

Which song, a hit for the Drifters in 1961, gave the Searchers a No 1 UK hit in 1963, the first of their three UK No 1 hits?

8.

Which 1930 novel by Somerset Maugham derives its title from this line spoken by Sir Toby Belch in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night:

“Dost thou think because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more ….."?

Go to Round 5 questions with answers

ROUND 6 - Pot pourri of cherished WithQuiz formats

1.

Change one letter in the first answer to give the second answer.

a) the collective name for the four sacred books of the Hindus which comes from the Sanskrit word for knowledge,

b) the one word shortening of a US city from the Spanish word for 'Meadows'.

2.

Change one letter in the first answer to give the second answer.

a) the name of the metre-tall race from the Star Wars films who are hidden behind hooded brown rough handwoven robes and who scavenge the planet Tatooine,

b) the world’s most populous island.

3.

Run-on: the ending of the first answer will start the second answer.

a) a country whose national rugby union team is nicknamed 'The Pumas',

b) a singer born in 1939 who has duetted with many artists including David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Cher, and even a live performance with Bruce Willis.

4.

Run-on: the ending of the first answer will start the second answer.

a) Billy Joel song which includes the lyrics:

"He says: 'Bill, I believe this is killing me'

As a smile ran away from his face

'Well, I’m sure I could be a movie star

If I could get out of this place'”

b) an actress with children including Maddox, Pax, Knox and Zahara

5.

What word is common to:

a) the creator deity of the Zoroastrian faith also known as Hormaz and Oromasdes,

b) the Japanese car manufacturer whose car models have included the MX5 and RX7 and the Bongo Brawny commercial van?

6.

What word is common to:

a) a director and choreographer whose films include Sweet Charity and All that Jazz,

b) a road that ran from Exeter to Lincoln via Bath?

7.

Who is the missing BLANK in this list?

Bob Monkhouse (from 1980), Max Bygraves (from 1983), Les Dennis (from 1987),
Andy Collins (from 2002), Vernon Kay (from 2006), and BLANK (from 2020)

8.

Who is the missing BLANK in this now completed list?

…..Dorothea Waddingham (1936), Charlotte Bryant (1936), Margaret Allen (1949), Louisa Merrifield (1953), Styllou Christofi (1954), and BLANK (1955)

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ROUND 7 - 'Pick a Subject' Bingo! 

Pick a question subject then give an answer

1.

CITIES 1
I am standing in a city, the seventh largest by population in the United States, and the largest city not to have an NFL team.  In the past it has been part of The Viceroyalty of New Spain, and later part of The Mexican Republic.  The city is now a 140-mile drive to the present Mexican border.  The downtown area contains one of America’s most famous historical national monuments originally built in the 18th century.

2.

SPORT
Sharing its name with that of a tram station on the Manchester Metrolink, what was the world’s first purpose-built banked motor racing track when it opened in 1907?

3.

RIVERS
Called Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet, this river, at over 1800 miles, is one of the world’s longest tributaries.  Along with the main river it feeds, they collectively discharge the second most amount of water and third most sediment into the sea of any river system in the world?

4.

5.

6.

ANCIENT SITES
Squinting in the bright sunlight, I am at 25 degrees and 74 minutes North and 32 degrees and 60 minutes East.  Also known as KV62 since 1922 which ancient site am I visiting?

7.

AMERICAN HISTORY

Born in Virginia in 1856 this American author, orator, and educator was adviser to several US presidents.  His numerous quotes include:

“I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him”

and

“Great men cultivate love…only little men cherish a spirit of hatred”.

Can you name him?

8.

LITERATURE
Which novelist wrote in 1982, between his novels Other People (1981) and Money (1984), the factual book Invasion of the Space Invaders: An Addicts Guide to Battle Tactics, Big Scores and the Best Machines?

9.

TROPHIES
The FIFA World Cup trophy consists mainly of 5kg of 18 carat gold.  Which mineral, a copper carbonate hydroxide mostly found in Africa, is also present in bands in the base of the trophy?

10.

POP MUSIC
Ray Dorset of Mungo Jerry wrote a song in 1977 which he intended Elvis Presley to sing.  Due to the latter’s death this of course did not happen, but it reached number one for 2 weeks in 1980 and became a million seller for Scottish singer Kelly Marie.  Can you name the song?

11.

INGREDIENTS
Amarillo, Mosaic, Chinook and Challenger are all varieties of foodstuffs from what plant with the botanical name Humulus lupulus?

12.

MILITARY DRESS
Can you give the name of an adjustable belt worn over the shoulder designed to hold a weapon?  It might be confused with a TV character who first appeared in 1983 and who once said that he had “a thingy shaped like a turnip”?

Go to Round 7 questions with answers

ROUND 8 - 'Pick a Number' Bingo! 

Pick a question number then give an answer

1.

Since the Conquest what uniquely connects these aristocratic/royal ladies:

Matilda of Flanders, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Cecily Neville, Henrietta Maria of France, Anne Hyde, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Mary of Teck?

2.

In the children’s TV series Peppa Pig what kind of animal is the family’s dentist?

3.

Born in Iran who is the only British woman so far to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature?

4.

With lyrics by Tim Rice the song I Don’t Know How To Love Him is from which musical?

5.

Germany shares its longest land border (487 miles) with which of its nine neighbours?

6.

What surname connects the 7th Lord Lucan, a former Everton and Northern Ireland football manager, a former snooker World Champion and an American explorer?

7.

Two chemical elements are liquid at room temperature.  Name both.

8.

Elected to Westminster in 1918 Constance Gore-Booth is better known by which title derived from her marriage to an aristocrat?

9.

In 1978 photographer Janet Parker became the last person ever to die of smallpox.  In which city did she acquire her infection, the result of a laboratory accident?

10.

Now 82 and dubbed 'The Father of Disco' and pioneer of Euro disco and electronic dance music which composer, song writer and record producer has won three Oscars and four Grammy Awards? His film music includes Midnight Express, Flashdance, Top Gun, and The NeverEnding Story.

11.

What service was celebrated in a 1936 British film that moved along to a W H Auden poem and Benjamin Britten score?

12.

Based on a video game, Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal star in which HBO TV series depicting post-apocalyptic life in the USA following a pandemic of fungal infection?

13.

There have been almost 10 million IVF (test tube) babies born (some might even be Catholics). Who was the first, delivered in Oldham in July 1978 by Patrick Steptoe?

14.

With lyrics by Tim Rice, the song I Know Him So Well is from which musical?

15.

In the children’s TV series Octonauts what kind of animal is Captain Barnacles?

Go to Round 8 questions with answers

ROUND 1 - Paired with Round 2

1.

Dick Swiveller, Kit Nubbles, Daniel Quilp, and Nell Trent are characters in which 1841 novel by Charles Dickens?

2.

In which county is Wincanton National Hunt racecourse?

Somerset

3.

Which British medical scientist, then aged 85, won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology? A Vatican spokesman said the award was: “Completely out of order”.

Robert Edwards

4.

The University of Aberdeen English faculty has been derided for putting 'trigger warnings' on books in case snowflake students are upset by the content.  Name the 19th century Scottish novel AND its author with the trigger warning: 'contains depictions of murder, death, family betrayal and kidnapping'.

Kidnapped  by Robert Louis Stevenson

5.

The capital city of which country was known as Lourenço Marques until it changed to its present name in 1976?

Mozambique

6.

Give a year in the life of the artist El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos).

1541-1614

7.

Which organ of the body produces the hormone glucagon?

Pancreas

8.

St Peter ad Vincula is a chapel within the grounds of the Tower of London.  What is the translation of the Latin 'ad Vincula'?

'In chains'

ROUND 2 - Paired with Round 1

1.

Julius Caesar is reported to have said: “Alea iacta est” on 10th January 49BC when crossing the Rubicon.  What is the translation from the Latin?

'The die is cast'

2.

Which organ of the body produces the hormone melatonin?

The pineal gland

3.

Give a year in the life of the artist Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi).

1445-1510

4.

The capital city of which country was known as Bathurst until it changed to its present name in 1973?

Gambia

5.

The University of Highlands and Islands English faculty has also been derided for trigger warnings on books.  Name the 20th century American novel AND its author with the trigger warning: 'Contains graphic fishing scenes'.

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

6.

Which British scientist, then aged 84, shared the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics?  His 1960s theoretical work was vindicated by the discoveries at CERN in 2012.

Peter Higgs

7.

In which county is Fakenham National Hunt racecourse?

Norfolk

8.

Mr Dick, Tommy Traddles, Uriah Heep, and Little Em’ly are characters in which 1850 novel by Charles Dickens?

David Copperfield

Go back to Round 2 questions without answers

ROUND 3 - Hidden theme - 'Close but no cigar' 

Usual trickery with soundalikes

1.

Who first came to public notice as Permanent Secretary to the Department of Administrative Affairs before ending his career as Cabinet Secretary?  He is reported to have died in 2001 in St Dympna’s Home for the Elderly Deranged.

Sir Humphrey Appleby

(from Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister)

2.

Which actor played Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwart’s, in the Chris Columbus 2001 film Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone?

Richard Harris

3.

In which Gloucestershire castle did Edward II (second) die on 21st September 1327, probably murdered?

Berkeley Castle

4.

Which is the only song by an Israeli couple to reach No 1 in the UK singles charts?  The song was No 1 for 4 weeks in 1967

Cinderella Rockefella

5.

In 1991 which cricket commentator, describing how Ian Botham was out having hit his wicket when he overbalanced, said:

“He just didn’t quite get his leg over”?

Jonathan Agnew

6.

Who was the only actor from Universal Studios to portray Dracula, the Mummy, Frankenstein’s monster, and the Wolfman in feature films?

Lon Chaney Junior

7.

What has become the generic name for fake theatrical blood?  It derives its name from a London thoroughfare.

Kensington Gore

8.

The Philippino street food called kwek-kwek consists of which small food items?  They are coated in batter with annatto powder and deep-fried.

Quail eggs

Theme: Each answer contains the name of a US Vice-President since 1949 who has not achieved the Presidency:

Hubert Humphrey, Kamala Harris, Alben Barkley, Nelson Rockefeller, Spiro Agnew, Dick Cheney, Al Gore, and Dan Quayle

Go back to Round 3 questions without answers

ROUND 4 - Announced theme - Multiple Oscar winners

Each answer contains the name of an actor who has won the Academy Award for Best Actor more than once - in all cases the actors are male

Usual trickery with soundalikes

1.

Which artist has been Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy since 2011?

Tracy Emin

(Spencer Tracy 1937 & 1938)

2.

Which right-wing columnist was spoofed into accepting an award in 2020, having failed to notice that the 'Campaign to Unify the Nation Trophy' had the four-letter acronym engraved on the cup at the presentation?

Katie Hopkins

(Anthony Hopkins 1991 & 2020)

3.

What started in Jiangxi in October 1934 and ended in Shaanxi in October 1935?

(Fredric March 1932 & 1946)

4.

Jack Rosenthal’s 1977 television play Spend, Spend, Spend, and the 1998 musical by Steve Brown and Justin Greene with the same name, relates the sad rags-to-riches-to-rags story of which 1960s tabloid celebrity?

5.

Which poet claims to have been inspired by Pam Ayres to make a living in poetry?  Appearing on Desert Island Discs in 2019 he described the programme as having:

“...all the finality of a suicide note without the actual obligation of topping yourself”.

His luxury item was “a boulder of opium twice the size of my head”.

John Cooper Clarke

(Gary Cooper 1941 & 1952)

6.

Which poet was the creator of the gentleman detective Nigel Strangeways?  Between 1933 to 1966 he appeared in sixteen novels

Cecil Day Lewis

(Daniel Day Lewis 1989 & 2007 & 2012)

7.

Which chemist synthesised LSD in 1938 but did not discover its psycho-pharmacological properties until 19th April 1943 when, after consuming 250 micrograms, he had a bad trip riding home on his bicycle?

Albert Hofmann

(Dustin Hoffmann 1979 & 1988)

8.

What is the seven-word aphorism first used by writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his 1839 play Richelieu which implies that violence is less effective as a means of social or political change than communication?

'The pen is mightier than the sword'

(Sean Penn 2003 & 2008)

Go back to Round 4 questions without answers

ROUND 5 - Announced theme - 'A Grand Day Out'

1.

Which 1959 movie, filmed in Australia and starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner, was based on a novel by Neville Shute?

On the Beach

2.

Which song, a hit for the Drifters in 1964, gave actor Bruce Willis a No 2 hit on the UK singles chart in 1987?

Under the Boardwalk

3.

Still a popular Country and Western song what was Billie Jo Spear’s biggest hit in 1975?  The song is told from the point of view of a middle-aged woman coaxing a hesitant husband outside to make love under the moonlight.

Blanket on the Ground

4.

Which 1975 movie, filmed in Australia, concerns the unexplained events occurring on St Valentine’s Day 1900?

Picnic at Hanging Rock

5.

The Open Golf Championship course Royal Saint George’s, Prince’s Golf Club, and Ian Fleming’s fictional Royal Saint Mark’s Golf Club are all located in which town?

Sandwich

6.

What was the title of Beyoncé’s sixth studio album released in 2016?  Songs released as singles included Freedom, Formation and Sorry.

Lemonade

7.

Which song, a hit for the Drifters in 1961, gave the Searchers a No 1 UK hit in 1963, the first of their three UK No 1 hits?

Sweets For My Sweet

8.

Which 1930 novel by Somerset Maugham derives its title from this line spoken by Sir Toby Belch in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night:

“Dost thou think because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more ….."?

Cakes and Ale

Go back to Round 5 questions without answers

ROUND 6 - Pot pourri of cherished WithQuiz formats

1.

Change one letter in the first answer to give the second answer.

a) the collective name for the four sacred books of the Hindus which comes from the Sanskrit word for knowledge,

b) the one word shortening of a US city from the Spanish word for 'Meadows'.

Vedas Vegas

2.

Change one letter in the first answer to give the second answer.

a) the name of the metre-tall race from the Star Wars films who are hidden behind hooded brown rough handwoven robes and who scavenge the planet Tatooine,

b) the world’s most populous island.

Jawa Java

3.

Run-on: the ending of the first answer will start the second answer.

a) a country whose national rugby union team is nicknamed 'The Pumas',

b) a singer born in 1939 who has duetted with many artists including David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Cher, and even a live performance with Bruce Willis.

Argentina - Tina Turner

4.

Run-on: the ending of the first answer will start the second answer.

a) Billy Joel song which includes the lyrics:

"He says: 'Bill, I believe this is killing me'

As a smile ran away from his face

'Well, I’m sure I could be a movie star

If I could get out of this place'”

b) an actress with children including Maddox, Pax, Knox and Zahara

Piano Man - Angelina Jolie

5.

What word is common to:

a) the creator deity of the Zoroastrian faith also known as Hormaz and Oromasdes,

b) the Japanese car manufacturer whose car models have included the MX5 and RX7 and the Bongo Brawny commercial van?

Mazda

(Ahura Mazda and Mazda Vehicle Company)

6.

What word is common to:

a) a director and choreographer whose films include Sweet Charity and All that Jazz,

b) a road that ran from Exeter to Lincoln via Bath?

Fosse

(Bob Fosse and Fosse Way)

7.

Who is the missing BLANK in this list?

Bob Monkhouse (from 1980), Max Bygraves (from 1983), Les Dennis (from 1987),
Andy Collins (from 2002), Vernon Kay (from 2006), and BLANK (from 2020)

Gino D’Acampo

(hosts of Family Fortunes)

8.

Who is the missing BLANK in this now completed list?

…..Dorothea Waddingham (1936), Charlotte Bryant (1936), Margaret Allen (1949), Louisa Merrifield (1953), Styllou Christofi (1954), and BLANK (1955)

Ruth Ellis

(the last hangings of women in the UK)

Go back to Round 6 questions without answers

ROUND 7 - 'Pick a Subject' Bingo! 

Pick a question subject then give an answer

1.

CITIES 1
I am standing in a city, the seventh largest by population in the United States, and the largest city not to have an NFL team.  In the past it has been part of The Viceroyalty of New Spain, and later part of The Mexican Republic.  The city is now a 140-mile drive to the present Mexican border.  The downtown area contains one of America’s most famous historical national monuments originally built in the 18th century.

2.

SPORT
Sharing its name with that of a tram station on the Manchester Metrolink, what was the world’s first purpose-built banked motor racing track when it opened in 1907?

Brooklands

(near to Weybridge in Surrey)

3.

RIVERS
Called Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet, this river, at over 1800 miles, is one of the world’s longest tributaries.  Along with the main river it feeds, they collectively discharge the second most amount of water and third most sediment into the sea of any river system in the world?

Brahmaputra

4.

Vilnius

(now in Lithuania of course)

5.

Britain's Coinage

(it tests the quality and purity of coins of the Royal Mint)

6.

ANCIENT SITES
Squinting in the bright sunlight, I am at 25 degrees and 74 minutes North and 32 degrees and 60 minutes East.  Also known as KV62 since 1922 which ancient site am I visiting?

Tomb of Tutankhamun

7.

AMERICAN HISTORY

Born in Virginia in 1856 this American author, orator, and educator was adviser to several US presidents.  His numerous quotes include:

“I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him”

and

“Great men cultivate love…only little men cherish a spirit of hatred”.

Can you name him?

Booker T Washington

8.

LITERATURE
Which novelist wrote in 1982, between his novels Other People (1981) and Money (1984), the factual book Invasion of the Space Invaders: An Addicts Guide to Battle Tactics, Big Scores and the Best Machines?

Martin Amis

9.

TROPHIES
The FIFA World Cup trophy consists mainly of 5kg of 18 carat gold.  Which mineral, a copper carbonate hydroxide mostly found in Africa, is also present in bands in the base of the trophy?

Malachite

10.

POP MUSIC
Ray Dorset of Mungo Jerry wrote a song in 1977 which he intended Elvis Presley to sing.  Due to the latter’s death this of course did not happen, but it reached number one for 2 weeks in 1980 and became a million seller for Scottish singer Kelly Marie.  Can you name the song?

Feels Like I'm In Love

11.

INGREDIENTS
Amarillo, Mosaic, Chinook and Challenger are all varieties of foodstuffs from what plant with the botanical name Humulus lupulus?

Hops

12.

MILITARY DRESS
Can you give the name of an adjustable belt worn over the shoulder designed to hold a weapon?  It might be confused with a TV character who first appeared in 1983 and who once said that he had “a thingy shaped like a turnip”?

Baldric

Go back to Round 7 questions without answers

ROUND 8 - 'Pick a Number' Bingo! 

Pick a question number then give an answer

1.

Since the Conquest what uniquely connects these aristocratic/royal ladies:

Matilda of Flanders, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Cecily Neville, Henrietta Maria of France, Anne Hyde, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Mary of Teck?

They have each given birth to TWO future monarchs

2.

In the children’s TV series Peppa Pig what kind of animal is the family’s dentist?

Elephant

3.

Born in Iran who is the only British woman so far to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Doris Lessing

4.

With lyrics by Tim Rice the song I Don’t Know How To Love Him is from which musical?

Jesus Christ, Superstar

5.

Germany shares its longest land border (487 miles) with which of its nine neighbours?

Austria

6.

What surname connects the 7th Lord Lucan, a former Everton and Northern Ireland football manager, a former snooker World Champion and an American explorer?

Bingham

(John, Billy, Stuart and Hiram)

7.

Two chemical elements are liquid at room temperature.  Name both.

Mercury and Bromine

8.

Elected to Westminster in 1918 Constance Gore-Booth is better known by which title derived from her marriage to an aristocrat?

Countess Markiewicz

(abstentionist Sinn Fein MP)

9.

In 1978 photographer Janet Parker became the last person ever to die of smallpox.  In which city did she acquire her infection, the result of a laboratory accident?

Birmingham

10.

Now 82 and dubbed 'The Father of Disco' and pioneer of Euro disco and electronic dance music which composer, song writer and record producer has won three Oscars and four Grammy Awards? His film music includes Midnight Express, Flashdance, Top Gun, and The NeverEnding Story.

Giorgio Moroder

11.

What service was celebrated in a 1936 British film that moved along to a W H Auden poem and Benjamin Britten score?

The Night Mail

(accept postal service or Royal Mail or similar)

12.

Based on a video game, Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal star in which HBO TV series depicting post-apocalyptic life in the USA following a pandemic of fungal infection?

The Last Of Us

13.

There have been almost 10 million IVF (test tube) babies born (some might even be Catholics). Who was the first, delivered in Oldham in July 1978 by Patrick Steptoe?

Louise Brown

14.

With lyrics by Tim Rice, the song I Know Him So Well is from which musical?

Chess

15.

In the children’s TV series Octonauts what kind of animal is Captain Barnacles?

Polar Bear

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