Questions

Please to remember the 5^th of November, Gunpowder Treason and Plot.  We haven't forgot!  Surely we wouldn't do it for the second time in 3 years?  Would we!!

ROUND 1

1.

In what year was the Gunpowder Plot?

2.

How was John Johnson involved in the Gunpowder Plot?

3.

What are the three main constituents of Gunpowder?

4.

The salts of which element impart a red colour to a firework's flame or explosion?

5.

Who was the Roman goddess of fire?

6.

Which Norse god was conceived as a fire demon, his name deriving from the Germanic for flame?

7.

The explosive nitro-glycerine is used in medicine to treat which common complaint?

8.

What substance is formed by mixing Kieselguhr and nitro-glycerine?

ROUND 2

1.

Where does Fireman Sam live?

2.

What is the name of the phoenix in the Harry Potter stories?

3.

At what temperature does paper spontaneously ignite?

4.

Which organisation has the motto Blood and Fire?

5.

Which radioactive isotope is contained in most common household fire detectors?

6.

What is the effect on the human body of ingesting the powder squirted from a powder fire extinguisher?

7.

Which US car company produces the Firebird car

8.

Which group had a number one hit in the 90' s with Firestarter?

ROUND 3

1.

In which country is the worlds largest oil refinery?

2.

What is the name of the Italian village devastated in last month's earthquake?

3.

Whose autobiography is entitled A Long Walk to Freedom?

4.

Whose autobiography is entitled Bananas Can’t Fly?

5.

What is a young pigeon known as?

6.

In which novel is the skeleton of Allardyce left as a directional pointer?

7.

In which novel does Sir Danvers Carew meet a violent death?

8.

What type of animal is a Duroc?

ROUND 4

1.

Which government minister is nicknamed two brains?

2.

Name either of the two men arrested last month on suspicion of being the Washington sniper.

3.

Which actor appeared in the films Interview with a Vampire, Nil by Mouth & Hannibal?

4.

Which actor appeared in The Godfather, Apocalypse Now and M.A.S.H.?

5.

Who have just been crowned 2002 World Baseball Champions?

6.

Which American cyclist has won the last 3 Tour de France competitions?

7.

Which city is the setting for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

8.

Which city is the setting for Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew?

ROUND 5

1.

What event triggered the suspension of the Gold Standard in 1931?

2.

What was the name of the ship on which there was a mutiny on the way to Australia in 1797?

3.

Who was the first Englishman to win the European Footballer of the year award?

4.

Who is the youngest footballer to play in a World Cup Finals event (i.e. not just in a qualifying game)?

5.

Which artist painted Six Apparitions of Lenin on a Grand Piano?

6.

Which sculptor sculpted The Angel of The North?

7.

What type of pasta in Italian means small tongues?

8.

How many bottles of Champagne are in a Nebuchadnezzar?

ROUND 6

1.

In The Wizard of Oz on whom does Dorothy's house land?

2.

Who wrote the novel Bonfire of the Vanities?

3.

Why has Sir William Stubbs been in the news recently?

4.

Why has John Bercow been in the news this week?

5.

Name the 3 actors who played The Good, The Bad & The Ugly.

6.

Name 3 of the 5 Travelling Willbury's.

7.

In what circumstance did Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee meet their fiery end in 1967?

8.

What was the name of the schoolteacher killed on the doomed flight of the Challenger Space Shuttle in 1986?

ROUND 7

1.

What is the medical term for the lower jawbone?

2.

What is the medical term for the collar bone?

3.

What is the main claim to fame of the ex Sheffield United Footballer, Brian Deane?

4.

Who, last season, scored the ten thousandth goal in the Premiership?

5.

Which brewery in Alloa produces a mild called Jacobite?

6.

Which Lancashire brewery produces Guy Fawkes bitter?

7.

What was the first album released on the Virgin record label?

8.

Who played the keyboards on a number of the Beatles later hits - including Get Back?

ROUND 8

1.

What is measured on The Mercalli Scale?

2.

What is the more common name for The Chile Pine tree?

3.

Which actor was born Issur Danielovitch?

4.

Which actress was originally chosen to play Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz before Judy Garland?

5.

Name one of the two Scottish counties that merged to form Galloway.

6.

What is the name of the stone age village unearthed in the sands on Orkney?

7.

Which cartoonist created the comic strip Andy Capp?

8.

Which cartoonist created the comic strip Peanuts?

SPARES

1.

What sport is played on a surface 9 feet by 5 feet?

2.

Who composed the Opera Eugene Onegin?

3.

Invar is an alloy of which 2 metals?

4.

What army rank is immediately above Captain?

5.

In Brideshead Revisited what was the name of Sebastian Flyte’s Teddy Bear?

6.

What tool has a bick, a table, a face, a swage hole, a pritchet hole and a heel?

Answers

ROUND 1

1.

1605

2.

It was the alias used by Guy Fawkes

3.

Potassium Nitrate (saltpetre), Charcoal and Sulphur

4.

Strontium

5.

Vesta

6.

Loki

7.

Angina (Pectoris)

8.

Dynamite

ROUND 2

1.

Pontypandy

2.

Fawkes

3.

451 degrees Fahrenheit or 233 degrees Celsius

4.

The Salvation Army

5.

Americium

6.

The squirts (clue's in the question) - it is a powerful laxative - so that'll be diarrhoea then

7.

Pontiac

8.

The Prodigy

ROUND 3

1.

South Korea

2.

San Guiliano di Puglia

3.

Nelson Mandela

4.

Des O’Connor

5.

Squab

6.

Treasure Island

7.

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

8.

A pig

ROUND 4

1.

Tessa Jowell

2.

John Lee Malvo or John Allen Mohammed

3.

Gary Oldman

4.

Roben Duvall

5.

Anaheim Angels

6.

Lance Armstrong

7.

Verona

8.

Padua

ROUND 5

1.

The Invergordon Mutiny

2.

HMS Hermione

3.

Stanley Matthews in 1956

4.

Norman Whiteside in Spain in 1982

5.

Salvador Dali

6.

Anthony Gormley

7.

Linguini

8.

20

ROUND 6

1.

Wicked witch of the East

2.

Tom Woolfe

3.

He was recently sacked by Estelle Morris as head of the Qualifications & Curriculum Authority

4.

He is the Tory shadow cabinet member who's resigned over the unmarried & gays adoption issue

5.

Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach

6.

Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, George Harrison & Jeff Lynne

7.

They were burnt alive in the Apollo I launch pad fire

8.

Christa McAuliffe

ROUND 7

1.

Mandible

2.

Clavicle

3.

He scored the first ever goal in the Premiership

4.

Les Ferdinand

5.

Maclays

6.

Mitchells

7.

Tubular Bells

8.

Billy Preston

ROUND 8

1.

The intensity of an earthquake

2.

Monkey Puzzle tree

3.

Kirk Douglas

4.

Shirley Temple

5.

Wigtownshire or Kirkcudbrightshire

6.

Skara Brae

7.

Reg Smythe

8.

Charles Schultz

SPARES

1.

Table Tennis

2.

Tchaikovsky

3.

Iron (65%) & Nickel (35%)

4.

Major

5.

Aloysius

6.

Blacksmith's Anvil