Round One: General Knowledge
A Which Shakespeare play includes the quote,” The quality of mercy is not strained”?
Answer- The Merchant of Venice
B Which Shakespeare play includes the quote, “Is this a dagger I see before me”?
Answer- Macbeth
A What was the name of the dragon in the children’s TV series The Herbs?
Answer- Tarragon
B What was the name of the witch in the children’s TV series The Herbs?
Answer- Belladonna
A Which of the world’s capital cities is served by Kastrup International Airport?
Answer- Copenhagen
B Which of the world’s capital cities is served by Uplands International Airport?
Answer- Ottawa
A Who created the fictional character of Billy Liar?
Answer- Keith Waterhouse
B Who created the fictional character of Walter Mitty?
Answer- James Thurber
Round Two: Sport and Games
A Which American heavyweight boxer nicknamed the Atomic Bull gained the WBC world title in 1994?
Answer- Oliver McCall
B Which British heavyweight boxer nicknamed the Dancing Destroyer gained the WBO world title in 1994?
Answer- Herbie Hide
A Between 1967 and 1988 who made a record 793 appearances for West Ham United FC?
Answer- Billy Bonds
B Between 1958 and 1978 who made a record 848 appearances for Liverpool FC?
Answer- Ian Callaghan
A In rugby union’s Guinness Premiership which team’s badge depicts a large fish?
Answer- Sale Sharks
B In rugby union’s Guinness Premiership which team’s badge depicts the head of a large feline?
Answer- Leicester Tigers
A Which cricketer captained England in 23 test matches between 1986 and 1988?
Answer- Mike Gatting
B Which cricketer captained England in 31 test matches between 1977 and 1981?
Answer- Mike Brearley
Round Three: General Knowledge
A Who did Gary Oldman portray in the film JFK?
Answer- Lee Harvey Oswald
B Who did Val Kilmer portray in the film Tombstone?
Answer- Doc Holliday
A In which capital city was Marie Antoinette born?
Answer- Vienna
B In which capital city was Simon Bolivar born?
Answer- Caracas
A What nine letter word is the heraldic term meaning “looking behind”?
Answer- Regardant
B What nine letter word is the heraldic term for a sun with a human face?
Answer- Splendour
A Which company has used the advertising slogan Where Do You Want to Go to Today?
Answer- Microsoft
B Which company has used the advertising slogan, The Appliance of Science?
Answer- Zanussi
Round Four: Individual Round
Tonight’s Topics- Mediterranean Islands,
Superheroes, Spanish Football Stadiums and Eurovision
A What is the main town and capital of Sardinia?
Answer- Cagliari
B What is the main town and capital of Sicily?
Answer- Palermo
A Matt Murdock is the secret identity of which super hero?
Answer- Daredevil
B Which super hero did Dr Donald Blake transform into?
Answer- The Mighty Thor
A Which Spanish football club plays its home matches at the Estadio Municipal de Riazor?
Answer- Deportivo de la Coruna
B Which Spanish football club plays its home matches at the Estadio Mestalla?
Answer- Valencia
A What was the title of the song with which Nicole won the Eurovision Song Contest for Germany?
Answer- A Little Peace
B Johnny Logan first won Eurovision with What’s Another Year. Which song earned him his second Eurovision victory?
Answer- Hold Me Now
Round Five: General Knowledge
A Which city replaced Toledo as its nation’s capital?
Answer- Madrid
B Which city replaced Krakow as its nation’s capital?
Answer- Warsaw
A In which decade did the Seven Year War between Britain and France begin?
Answer- 1750s (1756)
B in which decade was the planet of Neptune discovered?
Answer- 1840s (1846)
A What was the name of the Norwegian Prime Minister assassinated on February 28th, 1986?
Answer- Olof Palme
B Which Norwegian fascist politician was executed on October 24th, 1945 for high treason?
Answer- Vidkun Quisling
A Which novel opens with a chapter entitled The Trail of the Meat?
Answer- White Fang
B Which novel opens with a chapter entitled The Sound of the Shell?
Answer- The Lord of the Flies
Round Six: Arts and Entertainment
A In which 1976 film did Roy Scheider play the older brother of Dustin Hoffman?
Answer- Marathon Man
B in which 1954 film did Rod Steiger play the older brother of Marlon Brando?
Answer- On the Waterfront
A In which TV comedy did Reece Dinsdale play the wayward son of John Thaw?
Answer- Home to Roost
B In which TV comedy did Nicholas Lyndhurst play a hapless spy called Peter Chapman?
Answer- The Piglet Files
A Who composed the Liberty Bell March, the theme music for Monty Python’s Flying Circus?
Answer- John Philip Sousa
B Who composed the music and also penned the lyrics for the musical Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street?
Answer- Stephen Sondheim
A Which chart topping artist of the 1960s was born Charles Westover?
Answer- Del Shannon
B Which chart topping disco diva was born Yvette Marie Stevens?
Answer- Chaka Khan
Round Seven: General Knowledge
A Which 19th century Congressman representing Tennessee in the House of Representatives died in the city of San Antonio?
Answer- Davy Crockett
B Which MP serving Kingston upon Hull from 1780 to 1784 is famed for leading a parliamentary campaign against the slave trade?
Answer- William Wilberforce
A Which novel had the working title of Mr Gradgrind’s Facts?
Answer- Hard Times
B Which novel had the working title of Elinor and Marianne?
Answer- Sense and Sensibility
A What was the Roman name for Dover?
Answer- Dubris
B What was the Roman name for Lincoln?
Answer- Lindum
A Which flower is used as a symbol by the American, New Zealand and Australian Cancer Societies?
Answer- Daffodil
B Which flower is traditionally worn by students when sitting exams at Oxford University?
Answer- Carnation
Round Eight: Connection Round
1 Which equine mail delivery service ran in the USA from April 1860 to November 1861?
2 Which Dickens novel has the subtitle The Parish Boy’s Progress?
3 What is the state capital of Massachusetts?
4 In which 1989 film did Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell play a pair of LA narcotics cops?
5 What word represents the letter F in the
NATO phonetic alphabet?
Answers
1 The Pony Express
2 Oliver Twist
3 Boston
4 Tango and Cash
5 Foxtrot
The connection is names of dances for-
Pony, Twist, Boston, Tango, Foxtrot
Spares
A What is the actual first name of basketball legend Magic Johnson?
Answer- Earvin
B What is the actual first name of the golf superstar Tiger Woods?
Answer- Eldrick
The Trivia Challenge
1 In March 2007, who was described as a Stalinist by Lord Turnbull?
Answer- Gordon Brown
2 Which famous historical event took place between the Fedyukhim Heights and the Causeway Heights?
Answer- The Charge of the Light Brigade
3 What is the name of the British female seaman, one of 15 captured by Iran in March 2007?
Answer- Faye Turney
4 What was the title of the debut album of Oasis?
Answer- Definitely Maybe
5 Which villain created by Ian Fleming has the first name of Julius?
Answer- Dr No
6 In which river did the Pied Piper drown the rats that were infesting the town of Hamelin?
Answer- River Weser
7 What five letter word is defined as one tenth of a nautical mile?
Answer- Cable
8 How are Nestor, Orpheus, Castor, Pollux, Tiphus, Calais and 44 others collectively known?
Answer- The Argonauts
9 Becky Sharp is the central character of which classic novel?
Answer- Vanity Fair
10 In March 2007, which footballer scored five goals for Northern Ireland in international matches?
Answer- David Healy
11 Which series of films features a space craft called the Nebuchadnezzar?
Answer- The Matrix films
12 Which song contains the lyric, “No chocolate covered candy hearts to give away”?
Answer- I Just Called to Say I Love You
13 Which sporting world champion was born in The Hague, Netherlands on April 20th, 1967?
Answer- Raymond Van Barneveld
14 Which American President had the middle name of Birchard?
Answer- Rutherford B Hayes
15 In April 2007, Winifred Phillips became the first ever woman to join the ranks of which 300 year old institution?
Answer- Chelsea Pensioners
16 Of which Hollywood legend was it once said, “He is the nearest thing we will ever get to a human Mickey Mouse”?
Answer- Fred Astaire
17 Which 22 year old from Stevenage has made an incredible start to his Formula One career by finishing in the Top three in his first two Grand Prix races of 2007?
Answer- Lewis Hamilton
18 Which novel later an Oscar winning film is narrated by Big Chief Bronden?
Answer- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
19 What began with the words, “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”?
Answer- The Gettysburg Address
20 How are Jane Spofford, Alexander Medford and Sukie Ridgemont collectively known in the title of a novel later filmed?
Answer- The Witches of Eastwick