Questions

ROUND 1

1.

Which male tennis player has won the most grand slam singles titles in the open era?

2.

Who, last weekend, became the oldest player to win a grand slam tennis title?

3.

How was Lord Dacre, who died at the weekend, originally known?

4.

A British Newspaper and a German magazine published the Hitler Diaries, wrongly authenticated by Lord Dacre, in 1983.  Name either.

5.

Who was the Greek god of wine?

6.

Who was the Egyptian god of the dead?

7.

What is the capital of Mozambique?

8.

What is the capital of Malawi?

ROUND 2

1.

In the film Gangs of New York, what is the name of the gang led by Liam Neeson and later by Leonardo di Caprio?

2.

Jack Nicholson has just won a Golden Globe, and is the favourite to win an Oscar, for his role in which film?

3.

The musical term Allegro indicates a piece should be played at what tempo?

4.

The musical term Adagio indicates a piece should be played at what tempo?

5.

Who was the last player to score in every round of the FA cup?

6.

Which footballer has scored most goals in World Cup final tournaments?

7.

The Chinese year about to end was the year of what?

8.

The Chinese new year that starts next weekend is the year of what?

ROUND 3

1.

In sport what do Oxford University, Old Etonians and the Royal Engineers

have in common?

2.

Which is the oldest football club in the Nationwide League?

3.

In which island group was the prehistoric village of Skara Brae?

4.

In which county was the Sutton Hoo treasure discovered?

5.

Who had a hit in 1974 with Y Viva Espana?

6.

Which Spanish duo had hits with Yes Sir 1 Can Boogie and Sorry I’m A Lady?

7.

What is the integer solution of the equation x³ + 8 = 0?

8.

What is the tangent of 45 degrees?

ROUND 4

1.

Film director Gerald Thomas was particularly connected with which series of films?

2.

What was the last Carry On film?

3.

To the nearest gram how many grams are there in one pound?

4.

To the nearest millilitre how many millilitres are there in one pint?

5.

Francis II was the last holder of which Royal Crown (until 1806)?

6.

Which Holy Roman Emperor was known as Barbarossa?

7.

Which film’s opening line is:

“I believe in America”?

8.

Which film’s opening line is:

“Did you hear that?  They’ve shut down the main reactor.  We’ll be destroyed for sure.  This is madness”?

ROUND 5 – Picture Round

1.

Which novel?

2.

Which TV show?

3.

Which football club?

4.

Which jockey?

5.

Which actress?

6.

Which author?

7.

Which film?

8.

Which album?

ROUND 6 – Name the Year 

1.

Galileo dies and Isaac Newton born.

2.

Wolfe dies at Quebec and Pitt the Younger born.

3.

Emily Davison killed by the king’s horse at Epsom and the Panama Canal opened.

4.

Monopoly is published and George V dies.

5.

The Shah of Iran flees into exile and Anthony Blunt exposed as the Fourth Man.

6.

Mao Tse Tung declares a Communist Republic in China and Middlesex and Yorkshire tie for the County Championship.

7.

Ipswich Town become Football League Champions and John Glenn becomes the first American in space.

8.

Nixon resigns as US President and Lord Lucan disappears.

ROUND 7

1.

Which bay off Canada experiences the highest tidal range in the world?

2.

Which estuary in Brittany is the site of the world’s only full-scale tidal power station?

3.

At which sea battle in 1571 did the Holy League defeat the Ottoman Turks?

4.

The Battle of Aboukir Bay (1798) is more commonly known as what?

5.

The Macca and Growler partnership owns a string of racehorses.  Who are Macca and Growler?

6.

Which horse, owned by Sir Alex Ferguson, won last year’s 2000 Guineas?

7.

By what English name is the plant Knifophia commonly known?

8.

By what English name is the flower Dicentra spectabilis commonly known?

ROUND 8

1.

Which song contains the lines:

“What’ll you do when you get lonely, and nobody's waiting by your side?”?

2.

Which song contains the lines:

“Though nothing will keep us together, we could steal time, just for one day”?

3.

A chasseur sauce contains shallots, white wine and which other principal ingredient?

4.

Which vegetable would you expect to fund in a dish described as Florentine?

5.

IMHO is a common chatroom acronym. What does it mean?

6.

Similarly, what is meant by the acronym OTOH?

7.

Who wrote the Flashman novels?

8.

Who wrote the Hornblower novels?

SPARES

1.

In which island group are Hierro and Gomera?

2.

Which TV series was set in Oxbridge General Hospital?

3.

In the English version of Scrabble, what is the value of the Y?

4.

In 1995, what colour shirts did Manchester United wear for the second half of their match against Southampton at The Dell?

5.

How much did 1001 clean your carpet for?

6.

Kiki Haakonsen was the first winner of which international contest?

7.

How many degrees are there in each internal angle of a decagon?

8.

The Lusitania railway links Madrid with which city?

Answers

ROUND 1

1.

Pete Sampras

2.

Martina Navratilova (46)

3.

Hugh Trevor-Roper

4.

The Sunday Times and Stern Magazine

5.

Dionysus

6.

Anubis

7.

Maputo

8.

Lilongwe

ROUND 2

1.

The Dead Rabbits

2.

About Schmidt

3.

Fast or Lively

4.

Slow

5.

Peter Osgood

6.

Gerd Muller with 14 (10 in 1970 and 4 in 1974)

7.

The horse

8.

The ram

ROUND 3

1.

All won the F.A. Cup

2.

Notts County­

3.

Orkneys

4.

Suffolk

5.

Sylvia

6.

Baccara

7.

- 2 (negative 2)

8.

1

ROUND 4

1.

Carry On films

2.

Carry On Columbus

3.

454

4.

568

5.

Holy Roman Emperor

6.

Frederick I

7.

The Godfather

8.

Star Wars

ROUND 5 – Picture Round

1.

Bridget Jones' Diary

2.

Black Books

3.

Everton

4.

Tony McCoy

5.

Meera Syal

6.

J K. Rowling

7.

Groundhog Day

8.

Sticky Fingers (The Rolling Stones)

ROUND 6 – Name the Year

1.

1642

2.

1759

3.

1913

4.

1936

5.

1979

6.

1949

7.

1962

8.

1974

ROUND 7

1.

Bay of Fundy

2.

The Rance Estuary

3.

Lepanto

4.

The Battle of the Nile

5.

Steve McManaman and Robbie Fowler

6.

Rock of Gibraltar

7.

Red Hot Poker

8.

Bleeding Heart (also accept Dutchman’s Breeches)

ROUND 8

1.

Layla (Derek and the Dominoes)

2.

Heroes (David Bowie)

3.

Mushrooms

4.

Spinach

5.

In my humble opinion

6.

On the other hand

7.

George MacDonald Fraser

8.

C S Forester

SPARES

1.

The Canaries

2.

Emergency Ward 10

3.

4

4.

Blue and White

5.

Less than half a crown

6.

Miss World

7.

144

8.

Lisbon