ROUND 1 - Verbal paired

1.

What would be today’s equivalent of 1892’s Small Heath v Ardwick Football match?

Birmingham City v Manchester City

2.

Who preceded Neville Chamberlain as leader of the British Conservative party?

Stanley Baldwin

3.

With which letter of the alphabet do the names of the greatest number of the 26 counties of Ireland start?

L (Laois – Louth – Limerick – Longford – Leitrim)

4.

What type of musical instrument is the rebec?

Stringed (like a violin)

5.

Which is the most southerly state of India?

Tamil Nadu

6.

Which part was played by Finlay Currie in the celebrated David Lean 1946 film of Great Expectations?

Abel Magwitch

7.

Which Granada drama series that ran from 1970 to 1972 featured Vaughan Williams 6^th Symphony as its theme music and centred on the lives of the Ashtons from Liverpool?

Family at War

8.

About whose death was the following written:

“I can’t remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride”

Buddy Holly (American Pie by Don McLean)

9.

Which was the first of Dickens’ novels?

Pickwick Papers

10.

Who is the female Labour MP for Liverpool Riverside?

Louise Ellman

11.

Which European capital city lies on the Senne river?

Brussels

12.

Who was the narrator for the TV documentary series The World at War?

Laurence Olivier

13.

What celebrated 18^th century literary figure was played by Robbie Coltrane in the Blackadder series?

Dr Samuel Johnson

14.

Which chemical element is named after Paris?

Lutetium (Lutetia is the Latin name for Paris)

15.

Who played the part of murderer John Christie in the 1970 film 10 Rillington Place?

Richard Attenborough

16.

In the name of an 1892 Football League Division 2 team what 2 words followed Burslem?

Port Vale

17.

Who preceded Ramsay MacDonald as Prime Minister during his first term of office?

Stanley Baldwin

18.

Only one of the 26 counties of Ireland borders the county of Donegal.  Which is it?

Leitrim

19.

What type of musical instrument is the sackbut?

Brass (like a trombone)

20.

Which is the most northerly state of India?

Jammu & Kashmir

21.

Who played Estella in the celebrated David Lean 1946 film of Great Expectations?

Jean Simmons

22.

Which Granada drama series, which ran from 1993 to 1995, featured Dr Fitzgerald and starred Geraldine Somerville and Barbara Flynn amongst others?

Cracker

23.

About whose death was the following written:

“When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d,
And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,
I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.”?

Abraham Lincoln (poem by Walt Whitman)

24.

Which was the last (and unfinished) Dickens novel?

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

25.

Who is the male Labour MP for Manchester Blackley?

Graham Stringer

26.

Which European capital city lies on the Vistula river?

Warsaw

27.

Who wrote the theme music for the TV documentary series The World at War?

Carl Davis

28.

Who wrote the 18^th century pastoral poem The Deserted Village?

Oliver Goldsmith

29.

The chemical element Strontium is named after the Scottish village of Strontian.  On which west coast peninsula is Strontian?

Ardnamurchan

30.

Which actor played the part of hangman Albert Pierrepoint in the 2005 film Pierrepoint?

Timothy Spall

ROUND 2 - Written (Themed)

All answers contain the name of an area or district of Greater Manchester

1.

Who played the part of the shark-obsessed fisherman, Quint, in Jaws?

Robert Shaw

2.

What parliamentary role is currently fulfilled by Lieutenant-General Sir Michael Willcocks?

Black Rod

3.

Where is the headquarters of the Supermarket chain, William Morrison?

Bradford

4.

Which 1930s Cole Porter song was deemed too sensual and banned from radio for decades since it was written from the viewpoint of a prostitute?

Love for Sale

5.

Who won an Academy award for playing the part of Karen Crowder in the recent film Michael Clayton?

Tilda Swinton

6.

Who was Nelson’s commander at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801? 

Admiral Hyde Parker

7.

In 2005 actor Robert Lindsay played a detective in an ITV drama series.  What was the title of the series?

Jericho

8.

Which politician was famed for saying to his opponent on the 1997 election night: “... and Sir James... you have nothing to be smug about... I think we have shown tonight that the Referendum Party is dead in the water, and you can get back off to Mexico in the knowledge that your attempt to buy the British political system has failed.”?

David Mellor

9.

Who preceded Eddie George as Governor of the Bank of England?

Robin Leigh-Pemberton

10.

Which left-arm Yorkshire spin bowler played 28 times for England between 1950 and 1957?

Johnny Wardle

ROUND 3 - Verbal paired

1.

Which 2 London underground lines terminate at Ealing Broadway?

District & Central

2.

Which is the most northerly of the Munro mountains of Scotland?

Ben Hope

3.

Who wrote The Minute Waltz, the theme tune for Radio 4’s Just A Minute?

Frederic Chopin

4.

Place the capitals of the 3 Baltic States in order, north to south.

Tallin, Riga, Vilnius

5.

Which 1964 pop song had the lines: “My mother was a tailor / She sewed my new blue jeans”?

House of the Rising Sun (The Animals)

6.

Who was the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster before Basil Hume?

Cardinal John Heenan

7.

Which English monarch was the last of the Normans?

Stephen

8.

In W H Auden’s famous poem Night Mail written to accompany the GPO film, what is the line that follows: “This is the Night Mail crossing the border”?

“Bringing the cheque and the postal order”

9.

On which river does the Scottish city of Perth lie?

Tay

10.

Who painted The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch?

Henry Raeburn

11.

Which 3 consecutive dictionary words mean: yellowish-brown; greenish-blue; a string of flying ducks or geese?

Teak; Teal; Team

12.

What is the most southerly permanently inhabited island of the Outer Hebrides?

Vatersay

13.

If you belong to NAPO what is your profession?

Probation Officer (specifically National Association of Probation Officers)

14.

In which year did Britain change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar (+/- 2 years leeway)?

1752

15.

In addition to Chad, Algeria and Egypt which 4 African countries are crossed by the Tropic of Cancer?

Mauretania, Mali, Niger and Libya

16.

Lying between Victoria and Vauxhall stations, which is the only station on the Victoria tube line that does not interchange with another tube line or national rail line?

Pimlico

17.

Which is the most southerly of the Munro mountains of Scotland?

Ben Lomond

18.

Who wrote By The Sleepy Lagoon, the theme tune for Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs?

Eric Coates

19.

What is the name of the detached piece of Russia sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania?

Kaliningrad

20.

Which 1965 pop song contains the line: “And if you hear vague traces of skippin’ reels of rhyme”?

Mr Tambourine Man (Bob Dylan)

21.

What is the name of the Catholic bishopric based in Bristol?

Clifton

22.

Which English monarch was the first of the House of Plantagenet?

Henry II

23.

Who wrote the music to accompany the famous GPO documentary film Night Mail?

Benjamin Britten

24.

On which river does the city of Limerick lie?

Shannon

25.

Who painted Whistlejacket?

George Stubbs

26.

Which 3 consecutive dictionary words mean: pale brown; a Swiss wind; to divide?

Biscuit; Bise; Bisect

27.

Fair Isle is the most remote permanently inhabited island within the British Isles.  What is the second most remote?

Foula (part of the Shetlands)

28.

If you have the initials ACA after your name to what profession do you belong?

Accountant (specifically Chartered Accountant)

29.

If (as, incidentally, still happens on the island of Foula) you use the Julian calendar, what Gregorian date would be your New Year’s Day?

January 13th

30.

Which 4 South American countries are crossed by the Tropic of Capricorn?

Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil

ROUND 4 - Written

1.

What is the name of the type of bridge shown?

Clapper Bridge

2.

Who was the first celebrity to be eliminated from the first series of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here back in 2002?

Uri Geller

3.

Which Welsh county has the highest percentage of Welsh speakers per head of population?

Gwynedd

4.

Who is this former Labour Cabinet Minister?

Sir Stafford Cripps

5.

In the garden of a house built on the site of the Ayresome Park stadium there is a plaque to a national hero.  To which nation was he a hero?

North Korea (to Pak Doo Ik who scored the winning goal when North Korea beat Italy 1-0 in the 1966 World Cup)

6.

Elgar’s 1^st Symphony was dedicated to Hans Richter.  Where was it premiered in 1908?

The Free Trade Hall, Manchester (Richter was the conductor of the Hallé)

7.

Which European city is shown here?

Stockholm

8.

How is the fictional character Daffyd Thomas better known?

The only gay in the village (from Little Britain)

9.

What was the better known name of the English rock band originally called Warsaw?

Joy Division

10.

What is the name of this actress, best known for her comedy roles?

Belinda Lang

Extra Time - Written

1.

Who played the part of Ronald Merrick in the TV drama Jewel in the Crown?

Tim Piggott-Smith

2.

Which brewery makes Lancaster Bomber beer?

Thwaites

3.

Who wrote the poem Ash Wednesday?

T S Eliot

4.

What is the main city of Kurdish Iraq?

Kirkuk

5.

What is name given to a hare’s nest?

Form

6.

Tiger Woods and which other 2 sportsmen are fronting the current Gillette razor advertisement?

Thierry Henry and Roger Federer

7.

Princess Anne’s son, Peter Phillips, is engaged to a Canadian Management Consultant.  What’s her name?

Autumn Kelly

8.

To which well known singer is Elvis Costello married?

Diana Krall

9.

British monarch, George V, was well known for his pursuit of which hobby?

Stamp-collecting (or Philately)

10.

What name links a former editor of The Independent newspaper, the Yorkshire mining village of Fitzwilliam and a 19^th Century British land agent?

Boycott (Rosie B, Geoffrey B and Captain Charles B)

Tiebreaker

How many games did Trevor Francis play for Manchester City?

26