ROUND 1 - Geography

1.

Which sea is also called the Euxine Sea?

The Black Sea

2.

Which explorer “discovered” the River Niger?  (“Discovered” in the sense of Europe discovering it was there – the locals already knew)

Mungo Park

3.

Which river is Hamburg on?

Elbe

4.

Viti Levu is the largest island in which group?

Fiji

5.

What town is at the sea end of the Colneis peninsular in East Anglia?

Felixstowe

6.

On which peninsular would you find Heswall and Hoylake?

The Wirrall

7.

Which peninsular lies between Burry Inlet and Swansea Bay?

The Gower

8.

Campbeltown is on which peninsula lying between the Firth of Clyde and the Atlantic?

Kintyre

ROUND 2 - Sport

1.

In which city’s Olympics did Princess Anne appear?

Montreal

2.

What was special about Barony Fort’s ride in the 1977 Grand National?

He carried the first female jockey in the race (Charlene Brew)

3.

Only one German player has been World Player of the Year.  Who?

Lothar Matthäus (1991)

4.

Only one Dutch player has been World Player of the Year.  Who?

Marco van Basten (1992)

5.

What number did Roger Bannister wear on his vest when he broke the four-minute mile?

41

6.

What was the name of the Tour de France winner who died this month?

Marco Pantani

7.

Who was the last English football manager to win the English league championship (i.e. either Premiership or the old First Division)?

Howard Wilkinson (Leeds United – 1991)

8.

Which goalkeeper played only 125 minutes of football for Manchester United, and once opened the bowling for Delph?

Andy Goram

ROUND 3 – ‘Pope Uri’

1.

Who won Best Supporting Actor at this month’s BAFTA awards?

Bill Nighy

2.

(Picture A) Of whom is this a picture?

Bette Davis

3.

(Picture B) Of whom is this a picture?

Brigitte Bardot

4.

What is the sub-title of the film The Pirates of the Caribbean?

Curse of the Black Pearl

5.

What is the sub-title of the film Master and Commander?

Far Side of the World

6.

(Picture C) After his comments on women’s football The Mirror printed this mock-up picture of whom?

Sepp Blatter (FIFA boss) – he is reported as saying that “women footballers should wear hotpants”

7.

(Picture D) Of which retiring sort is this a picture?

Iain Duncan-Smith

8.

Who was the guest conductor for the Carnegie Hall’s opening night?

Tchaikovsky

ROUND 4 – The Crossword

Question-person, please hand a crossword grid to each team and read the following:

“Both teams are completing the same diagram. There are 8 cryptic clues.  If both teams fail to solve a clue, I’ll give you the correct answer.  All definitions are verified by Chambers Dictionary (2003).  When it’s your go, say which clue you want to try and solve, I will read it out and give you a copy.  It will help if you write the answers in as you go.”

ROUND 5 – Indoor Pursuits

1.

There are only 3 Michelin three-star restaurants in Britain.  One is Gordon Ramsay’s in Chelsea, another is the Waterside Inn.  Who is the chef at the Waterside Inn?

Michel Roux

2.

…and the third is the Fat Duck at Bray.  Who is the chef here?

Heston Blumenthal

3.

In darts what is known as “Bed & Breakfast”?

Scoring 26 points in one throw when hitting a single 20, a single 1 and a single 5

4.

In billiards, what does a cannon score?

2 points

5.

What are Skat, Quadrille and Crapette?

Card games

6.

On Waddington’s box, the board game is titled “Cluedo or ….” what?

Mystery at Tudor Close

7.

Who has reached more quarter-finals of the snooker World Championship than anyone else?

Jimmy White

8.

In darts what is known as a “Shanghai”?

Hitting a triple, a double and a single of the same number with one 3 dart throw

ROUND 6 – “Taking a measured single”

(The question-person should tell the teams that there is a theme and that “the answers are all single words”) 

1.

What is another name for the Snow Leopard?

Ounce

2.

What means ‘island’ in Scotland, and also ‘to move by slow degrees’?

Inch

3.

What can mean ‘diamond’ or ‘a concretion in a bodily organ’?

Stone

4.

What type of flour, made from chickpeas, is used to make, for example, an onion bhaji?

Gram

5.

What type of gun did Dirty Harry use?

Magnum (1.5 litres or 2 bottles)

6.

What is a ‘series’ or ‘the length of a cricket pitch’?

Chain (22 yards)

7.

What is ‘a fish you could roost on perhaps’?

Perch (5.5 yards)

8.

Which king of Babylon, son of Nebuchadnezzar, “drank wine before the thousand” in the book of Daniel (5:1)?

Balthazar (12 litres or 16 bottles) – accept Belshazzar – even though it’s not a measure

ROUND 7 – “Double trouble”

Name the 2 actors/sporting characters thrown together in each of these pictures

(for questions 1 to 4 the real names are what’s required; for questions 5 to 8 one of the half pictures is a character from the Lord of the Rings and either the actor’s name or the name of the character being played will suffice)

ROUND 8 - Music

1.

Who is the biggest-selling female pop-artist of all time?

Mariah Carey

2.

How old were Jimmi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones and Kurt Cobain when they died?

27

3.

What’s Orville Burrell’s stage name? (He/she topped the charts in 2001)

Shaggy

4.

Which song has been recorded by the greatest number of different artists?        

Yesterday (written by Paul McCartney)

5.

Which song has entered the charts on the greatest number of different occasions?

My Way (written by Paul Anka)

6.

Last year, who said “I don t want to go on stage with someone wearing a f****** coronet and sporting the old ermine”?

Keith Richards

7.

Who wrote the aria Birthday Ode for Queen Anne in 1713?

Handel

8.

Who wrote a chorus in 1723 whose usual English version is Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring?

J S Bach

SPARES

1.

Who was the last English football manager to win the FA Cup?

Joe Royle (1995)

2.

Last year, who said “It’s a great honour for me” to David Beckham?

The Queen (giving him his OBE)

3.

Which peninsular lies between Cardigan Bay and Caernarvon Bay?

Llyn or Lleyn

4.

In what county is Bray, famous for its restaurants?

Berkshire

5.

In cricket, which county’s badge has six martlets on it?

Sussex

6.

Who retired from first class cricket in 2003 having played 62 Tests, averaging 43.67, and having scored England’s highest ever one-day score of 167 not out?

Robin Smith

7.

Who composed The Goldberg Variations?

J S Bach

8.

What was on the registration plate of the Lotus 7 driven by Danger Man/The Prisoner?