Question Paper 3^rd February 2010

set by SPW

To see the answers move the mouse over the area immediately to the right of each question whilst at the same time pressing the select button on the mouse -  when you print the page the answers show up on the printed copy

ROUND 1 – Hidden theme

The theme can be revealed after the answer to question 8

1.

Who co-starred with Stephanie Powers in the TV series Hart to Hart?

Robert Wagner

2.

What was the name of the character played by Wendy Richard in the TV series Are You being Served?

Miss Brahms

3.

Which sports commentator was, for decades, a regular feature of Saturday afternoons until abruptly dropped by ITV in 1988?

Kent Walton

4.

Who is the Chief Executive of Manchester City Council?

Sir Howard Bernstein

5.

Which film, based on the novel which won the 1982 Booker Prize, won the Oscar for best picture in 1993?

Schindler’s List

6.

To which interviewer did Tony Blair recently disclose that he would have invaded Iraq even if he had known that it possessed no weapons of mass destruction?

Fern Britton

7.

Which notorious British murderer was nicknamed The Black Panther?

Donald Neilson

8.

Which Chancellor of the Exchequer introduced Value Added Tax?

Anthony Barber

Each answer contains the names of a well known composer:

Wagner, Brahms, Walton, Bernstein, Liszt, Britten, Nielsen And Barber

ROUND 2 – Identify the missing member of each group

1.

Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, David Owen and …..

Bill Rodgers

(The four Labour politicians who formed the Social Democratic Party in 1981 – known as the Gang of Four)

2.

Roy Plomley, Sue Lawley, Kirsty Young and ……

Michael Parkinson

(The four presenters of Desert Island Discs)

3.

France, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States and …….

China

(The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council)

4.

France, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, Japan, Canada and ……

Italy

(The member states of the G8)

5.

Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, Betty Travis and …….

Diana Ross

(The original members of the Supremes)

6.

Sir Martin Gilbert, Sir Lawrence Freedman, Sir Roderic Lyne, Lady Prashar and…..

Sir John Chilcot

(The members of the Iraq Inquiry panel)

7.

Melbourne, Paris, London and ……

New York

(Cities hosting a Grand Slam tennis tournament)

8.

Rick, Neil, Mike and …….

Vyvyan

(The names of The Young Ones – the cult 80s TV series)

ROUND 3 - Unthemed

1.

Which stadium’s record attendance was for the 1939 F A Cup semi-final between     Grimsby Town and Wolves?

Old Trafford

2.

For the translation of what is Jean-François Champollion most famous?

The Rosetta Stone

3.

Verdi composed 3 operas based on works of Shakespeare.  Name 2 of them.

(2 from) Macbeth, Otello and Falstaff

4.

Prior to this season Manchester City’s last semi-final appearance was in the 1981    F A Cup.  Who did they beat in that match?

Ipswich Town

5.

How many faces does an icosahedron have?

20

6.

Whose operas include Lucia di Lammermoor and Emilia di Liverpool?

Donizetti

7.

Which lost city located above the Urubamba Valley was rediscovered by Hiram     Bingham in 1911?

Macchu Picchu

8.

An icosahedron is one of the 5 Platonic solids.  Name 2 of the others.

(2 from) Tetrahedron, Cube, Octahedron and Dodecahedron

ROUND 4 – Picture Round

1.

Name the city.

Florence

2.

Name the city.

Rome

3.

Name this edible British wild plant.

Wild Garlic or ramsons

4.

Name this British plant, of which the berries are (just about!) edible.

Blackthorn

(accept sloe, though strictly that only refers to the berries)

5.

Name the classic 1989 album.

The Stone Roses

6.

Name the classic 1995 album.

Different Class

(by Pulp)

7.

Name the Oscar nominated film.

Precious

8.

Name the Oscar nominated film.

An Education

ROUND 5 – Themed

Each answer contains the name of a British Prime Minister

1.

Who starred as  Louis de Pointe du Lac in the film Interview with a Vampire?

Brad Pitt

2.

Which city is served by Tullamarine Airport?

Melbourne

3.

From which Peter Gabriel hit do these lyrics come: “My heart going boom, boom, boom.  ‘Son’, he said, ‘Grab your things, I've come to take you home.’”?

Solsbury Hill

4.

Who starred as Tchaikovsky in the Ken Russell film The Music Lovers and as Father Ralph de Bricassart in a famous TV series?

Richard Chamberlain

5.

Which John Steinbeck novel featured the Trask and Hamilton families?

East of Eden

6.

From which hit of 1982 do these lyrics come: “I'm in heaven when you smile.  And when you walk across the street, it makes my heart go boom, boom, boom.  Let it all come down.”?

Jackie Wilson Said

7.

Which former England cricketer suffers from Klippel-Feil syndrome which    accounts for his distinctive appearance?

Gladstone Small

8.

Author of the autobiography Margrave of the Marshes, whose real name was John Ravenscroft?

John Peel

ROUND 6 – Hidden theme

The theme can be revealed after the answer to question 8

1.

Who was England’s right back in the 1966 World Cup Final?

George Cohen

2.

Who was the designer of the Spitfire?

R J Mitchell

3.

Which guidebook writer (1907-1991) was best known for his Guides to the Lakeland Fells?

Alfred Wainwright

4.

Which Vienna born film director (1890-1976) made his two best known films before moving to Hollywood in 1936?

Fritz Lang

5.

Which American photographer (1902–1984) is best known for his black and white photographs of the American west?

Ansell Adams

6.

Which TV journalist (1902-1987) was credited with the probably apocryphal catchphrase “I’m standing here” by Graeme Garden?

Fyfe Robertson

7.

Who co-wrote the Michael Jackson song, the title of which was also to be the title of Jackson’s planned concert dates last summer?

Paul Anka

8.

Who scored Manchester City’s last winning goal in an FA cup final?

Neil Young

Each answer contains the name of a Canadian singer/songwriter:

Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Rufus (or Martha) Wainwright, kd Lang, Bryan Adams, Robbie Robertson, Paul Anka and Neil Young

ROUND 7 – Hidden theme

The theme can be revealed after the answer to question 8

1.

What area of New York was given its name by resident artists in 1968 by using the name of a street that bounded it?

SoHo

(standing for South of Houston Street)

2.

In the US, what name is given to a male hospital patient, or corpse, who cannot be identified on admittance?

John Doe

3.

Which major music festival takes place in Perth and Kinross every July and is televised by the BBC?

T in the Park

4.

What was the title of the Beatles first UK number 1 single?

From Me To You

5.

Jamie Foxx won the best actor Oscar in 2005 for his role in which film?

Ray

6.

Which 1992 Tom Cruise/Nicole Kidman film tells the story of Irish immigrants seeking their fortune in 19^th century America?

Far and Away

7.

Which Liverpool band’s best known song is the 1988 single There She Goes?

The La’s

8.

MGM registered their lion’s roar as a sound trademark.  Similarly RKO registered their tower transmitting Morse Code.   What did 20^th Century Fox register as a sound trademark in 2001?

The single word “D’oh!”

Each answer contains one of the names of the notes of the sol-fa scale:

Doh, Re, Mi, Fah, Soh, Lah, Ti, Doh

ROUND 8 - Unthemed

1.

Whose cyberpunk novels include Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive?

William Gibson

2.

The Americans call it rutabaga.  By what name do we know this vegetable?

Swede

3.

Aoraki, which means ‘Cloud Piercer’, is it’s country’s highest mountain.  By what name is it more commonly known?

Mount Cook

(in New Zealand)

4.

Which daytime TV show is set around Mill Health Centre?

Doctors

5.

The Americans call it cilantro.  By what name to we know this herb?

Coriander

6.

Whose novels include Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle of three novels?

Neal Stephenson

7.

Dick van Dyke co-starred with his son Barry in which medical drama, often seen on daytime TV?

Diagnosis Murder

8.

Which mountain, which has Uhuru Peak as its highest point, has a name which translates as ‘White Mountain’?

Mount Kilimanjaro

(not Mont Blanc!)

Spares

1.

In which year was the pound note officially withdrawn from circulation?

1988

2.

Which chain of restaurants has a total of six outlets - three in Manchester, one in Leeds and two in Massachusetts?

Croma

3.

The film Nowhere Boy is about the early life of which singer?

John Lennon

4.

With what did Desperate Dan shave himself?

A blowtorch

(and sometimes a meat cleaver)

5.

Who commanded the Prussian forces at the Battle of Waterloo?

Field Marshall Gebhard Blucher

6.

Whom did Dante Gabriel Rosetti have exhumed and why?

His wife, Lizzie Siddall, in order to recover his poems

7.

What is the longest river flowing entirely in Wales?

River Towy

8.

Complete this set: Fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, a near fanatical devotion to the Pope and…..

Nice red uniforms

(the chief weapons of the Spanish Inquisition according to Monty Python)