1.

How is the south transept of Westminster Abbey better known?

2.

Ikey Solomons was used by a 19^th century author as the model for which fictional villain?

3.

Who retired as chairman of CND in 1990?

4.

What do the deaths of Jean Paul Marat (1793) and Marion Crane (1960) have in common?

5.

How long is the Channel Tunnel (plus/minus 3 miles)?

6.

Who is the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster?

7.

The Star-spangled Banner is played in Act One of which opera?

8.

Which Irish city lies closest to Shannon Airport?

9.

Who is the druid priestess who gives her name to an opera written in 1831 by Bellini?

10.

What condition was Viagra originally developed to treat?

11.

How many years separated the execution of Mary Queen of Scots and the similar fate suffered by King Charles I of England?

12.

In 1954 who became the first BBC Sportsperson of the Year?

13.

The artist Agnolo Di Cosima (1503-1572) is better known by what name?

14.

What is the connection between the setting of the TV comedy The League Of Gentlemen and the comedian Roy Chubby Brown?

15.

Which footballer was Martin O’ Neill referring to when he said: “Even when I signed him I didn't think he looked like a footballer - more like a back-packer stranded in the Himalayas!”?

16.

Who, on picking up his Oscar award in 1997, said: “This is a great day for the Isle of Wight”?

17.

What present day country is roughly equivalent to the area ruled over by the biblical Queen of Sheba?

18.

Name the Film Star in picture E.

19.

Who is currently the Prime Minister of France?

20.

Complete this line from the Witches scene in Macbeth, and, by so doing, give the title of a 1962 Ray Bradbury novel:

“By the pricking of my thumbs…..”?

21.

The Parsec, a unit of astronomical distance, is a contraction of which 2 words?

22.

Featured in several paintings by Constable, the River Stour forms a natural boundary between which two English counties?

23.

Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and novelist Albert Camus were both born in which country?

24.

Who was the Pequod’s only survivor?

25.

Baroness Blackburn died in 2002. What was her better known name before her ennoblement?

26.

Name either of the two boxers who met in the so-called Brawl in Montreal in 1980?

27.

Which London theatre proudly boasted that “we never closed” during the second world war?

28.

The famous Guardian crossword compiler, Araucaria devised the anagram SYNTHETIC CREAM from the name of which football club?

29.

Name the bird of prey in picture C.

30.

What is Denis Law’s native city?

31.

In literature Bertha Mason was his first wife. Who was his eponymous second wife?

32.

Who did Peter O’Toole play in the film The Lion In Winter?

33.

In Northern Scandanavia what yellow-coloured native berry is used widely to flavour both food and drinks?

34.

Which Irish politician was known as The Long Fellow?

35.

Not counting Phil Neal (who was only caretaker manager), name the 3 footballers who won European Cup medals and went on to manage Manchester City FC.

36.

Name the animal in picture H

37.

Which Police Force has responsibility for law and order in the county of Shropshire?

38.

All Rise is the latest album by which renowned Jazz trumpeter and composer?

39.

What name is given to the charge made by a restaurant for allowing wine not bought on the premises to be drunk there?

40.

Name the scented flower found in a variety of colours shown as picture A.

41.

What (aptly) was the first record ever played on MTV?

42.

Name the flower with tall spikes found in a variety of colours shown as picture G.

43.

What is the meaning of the abbreviated Latin phrase “infra dig.”?

44.

Which non metallic mineral is mined using the Frasch process?

45.

The Anvil Chorus comes from which Verdi Opera?

46.

Which religious order runs the boys’ public school, Stonyhurst, near Preston?

47.

In which film are both Kevin Spacey and Danny De Vito cruelly killed by James Cromwell, who is better known for his kindly ownership of Babe the talking pig?

48.

Name the poisonous acid found both in rhubarb and wood sorrel.

49.

What is the full name of the character played by Nigel Hawthorne in the TV comedy Yes Minister?

50.

What is the heraldic term for black?

51.

Neptune’s Staircase is a series of locks on which canal?

52.

Which Tsar of Russia liberated the serfs in 1861 and was assassinated in 1881?

53.

What is the largest known beetle?

54.

The events of which novel take place on June 16th 1904?

55.

Name the scented flower with white blossom shown as picture D.

56.

Why is a touchdown in rugby football called a try?

57.

In which English city did the Post Office first introduce post codes in 1959?

58.

We did a lot of work last term on land-locked countries. To prove that you were listening could you now stand up and tell the class the name of the only land-locked country to make the last 16 of the football World Cup in 2002?

59.

Who was Ethel Le Neve’s travelling companion on the S.S. Montrose?

60.

Who was the last USA president to have been born in the 19th century?

61.

Musically speaking, where is a Volkswagen, registration number LMW281F, preserved for posterity?

62.

What were the years of the two General Elections that returned Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister after her initial success in 1979?

63.

What two words complete this classic definition of murder: “Culpable homicide with……”?

64.

Name the flower found in a variety of colours shown as picture F.

65.

Who led the 666 Squadron during the Battle of Britain?

66.

Which country lies between Guyana and French Guiana?

67.

Name the Film Star in picture B.

68.

In which film does Tom Cruise play a detective who detects and stops crimes before they happen?

69.

In the TV series 24 for which department does Jack Bauer work?

Answers

1.

Poet’s Corner

2.

Fagin (in Oliver Twist)

3.

Bruce Kent

4.

Both were “clean” kills - Marat was murdered in his bath; Crane was stabbed in the shower in “Psycho”

5.

31 miles (accept 28 - 34 miles)

6.

Cormac Murphy-O’Connor

7.

Madame Butterfly

8.

Limerick

9.

Norma

10.

Angina

11.

62 (1587-1649)

12.

Chris Chattaway

13.

Bronzino

14.

Royston Vasey is Roy Chubby Brown's real name as well as being the name of the town in The League of Gentlemen

15.

Robbie Savage

16.

Anthony Minghella (director of The English Patient)

17.

Yemen

18.

Orlando Bloom

19.

Jean Pierre Raffarin

20.

“Something wicked this way comes”

21.

Parallax Second

22.

Essex and Suffolk

23.

Algeria

24.

Ishmael (narrator of Moby Dick)

25.

Barbara Castle

26.

Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran

27.

The Windmill

28.

Manchester City

29.

Osprey

30.

Aberdeen

31.

Jane Eyre (he being Mr Rochester, of course)

32.

King Henry II (of England)

33.

The cloudberry, less often called the salmonberry (accept either)

34.

Eamonn DeValera

35.

Kevin Keegan, Frank Clarke, Billy McNeill

36.

Wolverine or Glutton

37.

West Mercian Police Force

38.

Wynton Marsalis

39.

Corkage

40.

Freesia

41.

Video Killed The Radio Star (by the Buggies)

42.

Gladiolus

43.

Beneath one's dignity (infra dignitatem)

44.

Sulphur

45.

Il Trovatore

46.

The Jesuits

47.

L.A. Confidential

48.

Oxalic acid

49.

Sir Humphrey Appleby

50.

Sable

51.

The Caledonian Canal

52.

Alexander II

53.

The Goliath beetle

54.

Ulysses (James Joyce)

55.

Jasmine

56.

In the original scoring system only goals counted (“Drop” goals and “Converted” goals) - so a touchdown only allowed you to “try” for a goal

57.

Norwich

58.

Paraguay

59.

Dr Crippen

60.

Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969)

61.

On the sleeve photo of the Abbey Road album by the Beatles

62.

1983 and 1987

63.

Malice Aforethought

64.

Dahlia

65.

Biggles

66.

Surinam

67.

Elijah Wood

68.

Minority Report

69.

Counter Terrorist Unit (accept CTU )