Question-person:  The line below, shown in bold typeface, should be read to participants before the start of the quiz.  You will find the ‘hidden’ words associated with November 5^th shown in capitals and 'exploding' amongst the answers.  If the participants haven’t spotted the hidden word during the course of each round’s questions and answers then reveal it at the end of the round (accompanied, no doubt, by copious groans).

 “To show that we’ve noticed the date, there are 8 words associated with November 5^th hidden in the answers – one per round.”

ROUND 1

1.

Who was the first chairman of BBC Radio’s Any Questions?

Freddy Grisewood

2.

What word links a 14^th century English rebel and a 12^th century example of Khmer architecture?

Wat (Wat Tyler and Angkor Wat)

3.

If the shorter side of a sheet of A4 paper is taken to be 1, what is the length of the longer side, either to three places of decimals, or more precisely and economically?

1.414 or √2

4.

What is the noun of assemblage for a group of owls?

PARLIAMENT

5.

What is the sum of the internal angles in a hexagon?

720 degrees

6.

Which architect’s works include the Queen’s House at Greenwich and the Banqueting House in Whitehall?

Inigo Jones (“In I go” may have been uttered by Guy Fawkes – but this is NOT the November 5^th answer)

7.

Which composer’s works include A German Requiem and Four Serious Songs?

 Johannes Brahms

8.

(PICTURE A) Which film was advertised by this poster?

Oklahoma

ROUND 2

1.

What have Cullompton, Ross Spur and Chieveley got in common?

All Motorway Service Areas

2.

Which current TV personality was born in 1935 in Cudworth, near Barnsley, and educated at Barnsley Grammar School?

Michael PARKINson

3.

Which exclusive British luxury car maker makes the Blenheim model?

Bristol Cars

4.

In which alphabet would you find letters called shin, dhal and jim?

Arabic

5.

Who was the only US President in the last century, not to have been elected as either President or Vice- President?

 Gerald Ford

6.

(PICTURE B) Which film was advertised by this poster?

Modern Times

7.

What is measured on the Mercalli scale?

The intensity of earthquakes

8.

Which word links the film Reds, Coronation Street and an infamous atrocity in the history of the N. Ireland troubles?

Warren (Warren Beatty, Tony Warren who created Coronation Street and Warrenpoint)

ROUND 3

1.

Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren released 2 pop singles in 1960/61.  The first was called Goodness Gracious Me.  What was the title of the second?

BANGERs and Mash

2.

Professor Sir Harry Kroto won the Nobel Chemistry prize in 1996 for the discovery of Buckminster Fullerene.  What type of element is Buckminster Fullerene?

Carbon

3.

Which British city is 61 miles from Birmingham, 64 miles from Southampton and 67 miles from Bristol?

 Oxford

4.

(PICTURE C) Which film was advertised by this poster?

Midnight Cowboy

5.

Which Pope was responsible for the phrase “Not Angles but Angels”?

Pope Gregory the Great

6.

In which British city are the areas Sneinton, Lenton and Colwick?

Nottingham

7.

The names of two books of the Old Testament begin with the letter ‘L’.  Name them.

Lamentations and Leviticus

8.

Since 1902 four Tory leaders have lasted for a shorter period in position than Iain Duncan-Smith’s 2 years 1 month and 17 days.  Two of these are Austen Chamberlain and Andrew Bonar-Law.  Name the other two.

Anthony Eden and Sir Alec Douglas-Home

ROUND 4

1.

What was created in 1946 by Frenchman, Louis Reard and given a name to reflect what he felt were its ‘explosive’ qualities?

The Bikini

2.

(PICTURE D) Which film was advertised by this poster?

The Seven Year Itch

3.

Which Tom Wolfe novel could be described as a satire on the decaying class, racial and political structure of New York in the 1980s?

BONFIRE of the Vanities

4.

Of which branch of the arts was Bill Brandt a celebrated exponent?

Photography

5.

Which building won this year’s Stirling prize for architecture?

The Laban dance centre in Deptford

6.

What creature’s name literally means “Man of the Woods”?

Orang-Utan

7.

Sully Prudhomme, Theodor Mommsen and BjÝrnstjerne BjÝrnson were the first three winners of which award?

The Nobel Prize for Literature

8.

Alphabetically, what is the first element in the Periodic Table?

Actinium

ROUND 5

1.

Which well known TV cricket commentator died in September this year?

Peter West

2.

What word can mean the block by which hair is attached to the heel of a violin bow, a depression in the face of a brick or a band of horn on the underside of a horse’s hoof?

A frog

3.

Give the value of pi to three decimal places.

3.142

4.

In John of Gaunt’s famous speech in Richard II, which line precedes the line “This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings”?

“This blessed PLOT, this earth, this realm, this England”

5.

Which temperature has the same value in both Centigrade and Fahrenheit?

-40

6.

Which architect’s works include Buckingham Palace and Marble Arch?

John Nash

7.

Which composer’s works include Till Eulenspiegel and Seven Last Songs?  (full name required)

 Richard Strauss

8.

(PICTURE E) Which film was advertised by this poster?

Bullitt

ROUND 6 

1.

Which cities lie at either end of the A57 trunk road?

Liverpool and Lincoln

2.

Which TV drama featured the lead character Eddie ‘Fitz’ Fitzgerald?

CRACKER

3.

Which exclusive sports car is made in Blackpool?

TVR

4.

In which alphabet would you find letters called daleth, zayin and teth?

Hebrew

5.

Three US Presidents have won the Nobel Peace Prize.  Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 was one of them.  Who were other two?

 Woodrow Wilson (1919) and Jimmy Carter (2002)

6.

(PICTURE F) Which film was advertised by this poster?

Good Morning Vietnam

7.

What is measured in Scoville units?

The heat of chilli peppers

8.

What word links the period between July 24^th and August 23^rd, a John Mortimore creation and King Richard I?

Leo (star sign, Leo McKern played Rumpole of the Bailey and Lionheart)

ROUND 7

1.

Your Song was Elton John’s first chart success.  What was his second in April 1972?

ROCKET Man

2.

For what invention was Sir Peter Mansfield recently awarded a Nobel Prize?

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

3.

Which British city is 55 miles from Leeds, 118 miles from Newcastle-upon-Tyne and 82 miles from Nottingham?

 Hull

4.

(PICTURE G) Which film was advertised by this poster?

The English Patient

5.

Which Pope said “I want to throw open the windows of the Church so that we can see out and the people can see in?

Pope John XXIII

6.

In which British city are the areas Butetown, Splott and Roath?

Cardiff

7.

Who succeeded Moses as leader of the Israelites?

Joshua

8.

Who said of Michael Howard’s bid to lead the Tories: “Yes I jolly well can support him – and therefore what excuse has anyone else?”?

Ann Widdecombe

ROUND 8

1.

Which standard item of office stationery was discovered accidentally in 1970 by US chemist Spencer Silver working for the 3M corporation?

Post-it notes

2.

(PICTURE H) Which film was advertised by this poster?

The Silence of the Lambs

3.

In which Walter Scott novel is Harry Bertram kidnapped by the smuggler Dirk Hatteraick and carried off to Holland?

GUY Mannering

4.

What did Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, George Rodger and David Seymour found in 1947?

Magnum, the world famous photography agency

5.

Who presents the Channel Four programme, Grand Designs?

Kevin McCloud

6.

What bird’s name is derived from the Gaelic words meaning “Horse of the Woods?

Capercaillie

7.

Emil Jannings, Warner Baxter and George Arliss were the first three winners of which award?

The Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Actor

8.

Alphabetically, what is the last element in the Periodic Table?

Zirconium

SPARES

1.

Which planet is nearest to the sun?

Mercury

2.

What is the English name of the territory whose official name is Republika e ShqipÁrisÁ and whose two main dialects are known as Gheg and Tosk?

Albania

3.

A Mr. Chicken was the last private resident of which residence?

10 Downing Street

4.

What did Bernardette Soubrious see in 1858?

Visions of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes

5.

Which is the only country in the world to have both the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn passing through it?

Brazil

6.

Ashton in Northants hosts which world championship?

Conkers

7.

In which year did the Mallard achieve the fastest recorded speed by a steam locomotive?

1938 (allow + or - 2 years)

8.

Which Queen of England married her brother-in-law?

Catherine of Aragon (wife of Henry VIII was previously married to his brother Prince Arthur)