STARTER 1  Which Yorkshireman was ordained a priest at Norwich in 1514, and became an Augustinian friar at Cambridge?  He was made bishop of Exeter in 1551, some 16 years after the appearance of the first complete printed English Bible which he had translated.

 

LAKES

1)  Which is the largest lake in Great Britain, in terms of area?

 

2)  Which is the deepest lake in Great Britain?

 

3)  Which is the largest lake in Great Britain in terms of volume of water?

 

 

STARTER 2   The name of which imaginary land of idleness and luxury may derive from the Latin for the “Land of Cakes”?  It appears in the title of an overture by Edward Elgar.

 

 

NEW TOWNS

1)  Which new town and borough in the administrative county of Hertfordshire, lies along the Great North Road in the northern periphery of the London metropolitan region? It was the first new town to be designated by British planners under the New Towns Act, 1946, with the aim of catering to the needs of London's overspill population.

 

 

2)  Which new town and borough in Northamptonshire lies on the crest of the ridge of hills that crosses the county from southwest to northeast and yields iron ore from the formation known as the Northampton Sands?  An influx of people from Scotland produced a Scottish enclave, and the town was designated a new town in 1950.

 

3)  Which new town in Shropshire lies north and east of the hill of the Wrekin, and was designated a new town in 1963 to draw off population and industry from the city of Birmingham and the Black Country?

 

 

STARTER 3   What is the popular name for prepatellar bursitis, the acute inflammation of the region around the knee cap?

 

LOCAL RADIO STATIONS

In which town or city are the following local radio stations located:

1)  Radio Victory

 

2) Metro Radio

 

3)  Pennine Radio

 

 

STARTER  4    What name was given to the standardized prefabricated cargo ships of about 10,000 tons much used by the USA during World War II?

 

ALBUMS

1)  Whose album Tales from Topographic Oceans  reached number one in the album charts on the 5th January 1974?

 

2)  ditto Step by Step, 30th June 1990?

 

3)  ditto Walthamstow, 27th February 1993?

 

 

STARTER 5   Which phrase, still in current usage, originated in the early days of the motor car when it was used to explain that a person would make a journey using his own vehicle?

 

COMPOSERS

Give the first name of the following composers:

1)  Butterworth, b 1855, d Pozieres, Battle of the Somme 1916?

 

2)  Mussorgsky, 1839-1881?

 

 3)  German pianist 1819-1896, Schumann, wife of Robert

 

STARTER 6   Giovanni Battista were the forenames of which cellist and conductor, born and died in London, 1899-1970, knighted 1949, Hon. Freemen of Manchester 1958?

 

RACERS

1)  What was the surname of Andrew James, born 1897, Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland, who died in a crash in 1937, near Chemnitz, Germany?  He was a Scottish motorcycle-racing champion who won the Isle of Man TT six times.

 

2)  Which driver dominated motor racing in the 1950s, winning the world driving championship in 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, and 1957? He had won 24 world-championship Grand Prix races when he retired from racing in 1958.

 

 

 3)  Who was the New Zealand-born motor racing driver, the youngest to win an international Grand Prix contest for Formula I cars, viz. the U.S. race in 1959, when he was 22?  He was killed in an accident while testing a car on the Goodwood track.

 

 

STARTER 7  Which official ceremony was performed by King George VI in July 1948, Prince Philip in November 1956, and HM The Queen in July 1976?

 

THE NUMBERS GAME

1)  Subtract the basic rate of income tax from the standard rate of VAT.

 

2)  Add the number of the motorway connecting Glasgow and Edinburgh to the number of whole kilometres in a mile.

 

3)  Add the decade of the twentieth century in which the jet engine was invented to the decade of the twentieth century in which Pablo Picasso died.

 

STARTER 8   In the Beatles song “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”, what adjectives describe trees and skies?

 

FAMOUS PAINTINGS

1)  Who was the English painter of “Horse frightened by a Lion”?

 

2)  Who was the Dutch painter of “Woman with a Water Jug”?

 

3)   Who was the English painter of “Mrs Siddons as the Tragic Muse”?

 

 

STARTER 9   What is the first name of the sportsman, Luiz Nazario da Lima, born 22nd  September 1976 near Rio de Janeiro, and raised in poverty?  After scoring 102 goals in 126 matches in local leagues, he left for Europe, where he joined PSV Eindhoven in 1994. He scored 55 goals in 56 games from 1994 to 1996 before joining Barcelona.

 

FILM DIRECTORS ETC

1)  Who was the director of the 1973 film Mean Streets?

 

2)  Which director and writer collaborated in The Servant and The Go-Between?

 

3)  Who directed the 1987 film Cry Freedom?

 

STARTER 10   Who was the a major American crime-syndicate boss in New York and New Jersey, born near Naples, went to America as a child and in the 1920s became a follower of Lucky Luciano. He was one of the assassins of crime czar Giuseppe Masseria in 1931.   As a rackets boss, he specialized in labour racketeering, gambling, and hijacking. In 1951 he was convicted of violating gambling laws, sentenced to two to three years in prison, and, in 1953, ordered to be deported to Italy.  His original name was Giuseppe Antonio Doto.

 

ASSASSINATIONS

1)    On the 13th July 1793, who drew a knife from under her dress and stabbed her victim through the heart?

 

2)  Who was the prime minister of Sweden, assassinated in 1986 by an unidentified gunman?

 

3)  Who was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace in 1994 and was assassinated in 1995?

 

 

STARTER 11   Olivia, a Cardiff papergirl who finds out her father is an 1980s pop star, and launches a singing career against the wishes of her mother, is the story of which film released today in the UK?

 

PLAINS

1)  The Great Nullarbor Plain is in which country?

 

2)  What is the approximate area of Salisbury Plain – 60 sq m, 100 sq. m, 150, sq m. 240 sq m., 300 sq m., 800 sq m?

 

3)  Name the three Canadian provinces in the northern Great Plains region of North America.

 

STARTER 12   In the English legal system, what term is the equivalent of the Scottish “pursuer”?

 

SOCCER GROUNDS BY POSTCODE

1)   OL11 5DS

 

2)   IV15 9QW

 

3)  SR5 1SU

 

 

 

STARTER 13  In 1995, Englishman Andrew Wiles, with help from his former student, Richard Taylor, used sophisticated tools from algebraic geometry, to solve what problem?

 

ENGINEERS

1)  The unit of electrical conductance, symbolized S, is named after which German-born engineer-inventor brothers, William (1823–83) or his brother, Werner (1816–92).

 

2)  Who was the French engineer who, in about 1866, invented the battery that bears his name?  In a slightly modified form, the battery, now called a dry cell, is produced in great quantities and is widely used in devices such as flashlights and portable radios.

 

3)  The Royal Albert Bridge (completed 1859) was the last railway bridge designed by which British engineer?  The bridge spans an estuary in a series of 19 arches and connects Cornwall’s  oldest borough to Plymouth.

 

STARTER 14  Who carried out an assassination in the USA almost 12 months after escaping from the Missouri State Penitentiary?  He then fled to Toronto, secured a Canadian passport through a travel agency, flew to London, then to Lisbon, where he secured a second Canadian passport, then flew back to London.  About three weeks later he was apprehended by London police at Heathrow Airport as he was about to embark for Brussels. Back in the US, he pleaded guilty, forfeiting a trial, and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. Months later, he recanted his confession, without effect.  In June 1977 he escaped from Brushy Mountain Prison, Tennessee, and remained at large for 54 hours before being recaptured in a massive manhunt. In renouncing his guilt, he raised the spectre of a conspiracy behind the murder, but offered scant evidence to support his claim. Later in life his pleas for a trial were encouraged by some civil-rights leaders, notably the King family.

 

US STATES

1)   Name either of the two cities in Alabama with a higher population than the capital.

 

2)  Name any of the three cities in Illinois with a higher population than the capital.

 

3)  Which city in Wisconsin has over three times the population of its capital?

 

 

STARTER 15  What have the following cricketers in common?  Sidney Barnes, Albert Trott, Jack Iverson, Billy Bruce, Jim Burke, Harold Gimlett, Arthur Shrewsbury, Andrew Stoddart, David Bairstow?

 

SONGS FROM MUSICALS

1)  Everything’s Coming up Roses?

 

2)  Seventy-Six Trombones?

 

3)  Love Changes Everything?

 

STARTER 16   There are seven days in a week and fifty two weeks in a year.  But 7 x 52 = 364, explain the missing day?

 

CRIME & PUNISHMENT

1)  In 1798, which European country was the first in the world to abolish the death penalty?

 

2)  Mike Tyson was convicted of who’s rape?

 

3)  What is the name of the game-show panellist who committed suicide after being found guilty of shoplifting?

 

 

 

STARTER 17   What 21st century term means a list of web-pages a surfer has visited and recommends?   In 2001 the term also came to mean public online journals where cyber diarists let the world in on the latest twists and turns of their love, work and internal lives.

 

THE FALKLANDS WAR

1)  Who was the commander of the British task force?

 

2)  Who was the head of the Argentinean air force?

 

3)  Name the two British frigates sunk during the war.

 

STARTER 18    Who was the American boxer, 1878-1946, who knocked out Bob Fitzsimmons in 1907 and won the world heavyweight championship by beating Tommy Burns in Sydney in 1908?  He lost his title to Jess Willard in Havana in 1915.  He was an unpopular champion, served a prison sentence in 1919, and died in a car accident in North Carolina. [He shares his surname with a player at this quiz.]

 

MONOPOLY

1)  The original version of the game featured the streets of which US city?

 

2)  In the UK version, which three properties make up the orange set?

 

3)  What appears between Mayfair and Park Lane?