Where 454 G in a P =
454 grams in a pound
and 14 F – SVD = 14 February – St Valentine’s Day
complete:
1. 1066 – B of H ______________________________________
2. 26 L in the A ______________________________________
3. 50 S in the
4. 1 J – N Y D ______________________________________
5. 16 O in a P ______________________________________
6. 1961 F M in S ______________________________________
7. 5 L and 2 F F the 5000 _________________________________
8. 9 P in the S S ______________________________________
9. 1492 - C S the O B ______________________________________
10. 1666 – G F of L ______________________________________
11. 23 A - S G D ______________________________________
12. 1966 E W W C ______________________________________
13. 2001: A S O ______________________________________
14. 9 L of a C ______________________________________
15. 10 G B H on the W
_______________________________________
Round 2 Pot
Luck 1
1.
In December 2005, which former
2.
In Music, what instrument is James
Galway famous for playing?
3.
Bowls:
name either the men’s or ladies’ individual gold medal winner at the
2006 Commonwealth Games?
4.
In Motoring, what became compulsory in
British cars in 1983?
5. Words: what word can go before ‘cup’, ‘scotch’ and
‘fly’ to make three new words?
6.
In Gardening, what insects does a
buddleia plant attract?
7.
In Dressmaking, what name is given to
the scissors with serrated blades which are used for cutting cloth?
8.
In Meteorology, which Admiral devised a
measurement scale which still bears his name today?
9.
In Cockney rhyming slang, what is a
Joanna?
10.
What horse won the Totesport Gold Cup at
Round 3 Entertainment
1. Television: what is the surname of Jack and Vera, long
time residents of
2. Television: what was the name of the much-loved steeplejack, traction engine builder and TV personality who died in 2004?
3. Games: what board game would involve you in
detective work at Tudor Close?
4. In Films, who was
looking for courage in The Wizard of Oz?
5. Music: which pop star of the 70s, who dressed as a
clown for his first number one, recently returned to head the charts again?
6. Films: from which famous film of 1942 does the hero
say this: ‘Of all the gin joints in all
the towns in all the world, she walks into mine’?
7. Theatre: ‘Food, glorious food’ is a song from which
1960 musical by Lionel Bart?
8. By what name were
TV cookery stars Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright better known?
9.
Film (based on a Nobel prize winning novel):
which doctor did Omar Sharif play in the film of the same name set in
10.
Books (also a television adaptation): which famous fictional sisters were
called: Jane, Elizabeth,
1. Which salad, containing apple, celery and
walnuts in mayonnaise, is named after the
2. What did John Montagu invent, allegedly so that he could eat with
one hand while playing cards with the other?
3. Who founded the
4. Which North American beetle, whose
original diet was the buffalo burr, a member of the potato family, is now a
world-wide pest?
5.
Which drink is advertised with the slogan ‘made in
6. In cooking, ‘florentine’ means garnished
with what vegetable?
7.
The Italian song ‘O Sole Mio’ was given new words to advertise what summertime
treat?
8. Which famous drinks company's name originates from a medical
condition concerning stomach pains that it was initially intended to cure?
9. Which type of snack is named after the French words for ‘twice
cooked’?
10. Which two popular fruits are anagrams of each other?
1. Which of Henry VIII’s wives
gave birth to his only son Edward, later to become Edward VI?
2. Where in
3. To whom is the parish church at Overbury dedicated?
4. Who led the Labour Party to victory in the 1945 General Election?
5. Which mountain is known locally as
Chomolungma, which means 'Goddess mother of the world?
6. Who was the Egyptologist who discovered and excavated the tomb of
Tutankhamun in 1922?
7. Pitcairn Island, in the Pacific Ocean, was settled by the mutineers
from which famous ship?
8. Geography: there are at least
two European capital cities whose name
begins and ends with the same letter.
Can you name at least one of them?
9. From which port did the
Titanic sail to begin its fateful maiden voyage on April 10, 1912?
10. Which naturalist drew on his
observations of life on the Galapagos Islands, off the west coast of South
America, to demonstrate his major theory?
1. Woolworth’s is
named after the surname of its founder.
Which of his other names did he use as a brand name for his own goods?
2. Kelvedon Wonder
and Little Marvel are types of what?
3. In which room of
the house would you be most likely to use the inventions of Kenneth Wood?
4. Pets: which type of dog was named after Charles II?
5. What type of
material is cheesecloth?
6. In what indoor
game might you score ‘one for his nob’?
7. ‘Dutch’, ‘draw’
and ‘wheel’ are all types of which common garden tool?
8. Furniture: if you had a ‘tantalus’, what would you keep
in it?
9. What
labour-saving device did Edwin Beard Budding, an engineer from Stroud, invent in
1830?
10.
Used in most
homes, by what name is the chemical ‘sodium hypochlorite’ better known?
1.
In the Second World War, who
was known in
2. Which type of
music in the 50s used a washboard as one of the instruments?
3. Which
revolutionary small car was launched by Austin and Morris in 1959?
4. In the 1957 film
about prisoners of war in
5. According to the
Animals, what was the name of the house in
6. Football: which
7. On television,
where would you have found Dougal,
8. Elvis
Presley: which colour links a hit song
about his footwear and a film made after he served in the Army?
9. Medicine: in which country did the world’s first heart
transplant take place?
10.
A former
sports commentator on radio, who was the original regular host of the BBC
television panel game What’s My Line?
Round 8 Science and Nature
1. In Maths, which
numerical system is based on 1s and 0s?
2. In 1877, which
American inventor made the first ever sound recording?
3. In the periodic
table of elements, what metallic element has the chemical symbol ‘Pb’?
4. In the solar
system, which planet is the third furthest away from the sun?
5. In computing,
what was launched by Microsoft in November 1985?
6. Which bird’s name
sounds like a letter of the alphabet?
7. What kind of fish
is a dogfish?
8. What poisonous
gas is found in the exhaust fumes of car engines?
9. In Medicine,
which common pain-killing drug is derived from salicylic acid?
10.
What, in the
animal world, is a leveret?
1.
In the TV quiz, Mastermind, what
colour was the contestant’s chair?
2. In transport, on
the
3.
Television:
what was the name of Steptoe and Son's horse?
4.
Geography: of which island is
5.
Words:
what is the only English anagram of GROWN?
6.
Television: which Clive starred in Dad’s Army?
7.
Sport:
how many points do you get for potting the pink ball in snooker, in
normal play?
8.
In Education, what does the G stand for
in GCSE?
9.
History:
what are the Thankful Villages?
10.
Motoring:
which carmaker's name translates into English as 'people's car'?
Round 10
Picture Round
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