ROUND ONE BETTY NICOL (10)

  1. Which stadium is home to the English Rugby Football Union? TWICKENHAM
  2. The author of ‘The Road to Wigan Pier,’ ‘Homage to Catalonia’ and ‘Nineteen-Eighty Four’ was known by what surname? George ORWELL (real name Eric Arthur Blair)
  3. What is the surname of the longest serving Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom (since 1817)? Gordon BROWN (Nicholas Vansittart Chancellor of the Exchequer of Great Britain from 1812 to 1817 then for the U. K. from 1817 until 1823)
  4. What name is given to the two days each year that day and night are of equal length? EQUINOX (EQUINOCTIAL POINT)
  5. Which Gospel is the third book of the New Testament? LUKE
  6. Americans call it a faucet. What do other English speaking countries call it? TAP
  7. Who starred in ‘Silkwood,’(1983) ‘The Witches of Eastwick’ and ‘Moonstruck’ (both 1987)? CHER
  8. Which island did the Romans call Hibernia? IRELAND
  9. Which London Underground line is coloured black on maps? NORTHERN LINE
  10. The highest waterfall in North America takes its name from a valley and a national park and means ‘they are killers’ in the Miwok language. Name the waterfall.YOSEMITE (Ahwahneechee were referred to as killers – yohhe’meti)

ROUND TWO MUSIC FROM STAGE MUSICALS (10)

  1. Greased LightningGrease (1971 film 1978)
  2. One Night in BangkokChess (1984)
  3. I Dreamed a DreamLes Miserables (1980 – 1985 film 2012)
  4. Wouldn’t it be LoverlyMy Fair Lady (1956 film 1964)
  5. Getting to Know YouThe King and I (1951 film 1956)
  6. Can You Feel the Love Tonight?The Lion King (1997 film 1994)
  7. L’amour est un Oiseau RebelleCarmen (1875)
  8. My Favourite ThingsThe Sound of Music (1959 film 1965)
  9. AmericaWest Side Story (1957 film 1961)
  10. Good Morning BaltimoreHairspray (2002 film 1988)

ROUND THREE OLYMPIC NUMBERS (10)

  1. How many hurdles are laid out in each lane in the 400m hurdles? TEN
  2. How many rings are there on the Olympic flag? FIVE
  3. How many cyclists are there in each team for the men’s team pursuit competition? FOUR
  4. How many times has London hosted the Olympic Games? THREE (1908, 1948 and 2012)
  5. How many times has the summer Olympic Games been hosted by a country in the southern hemisphere? TWO (Both Australia - Melbourne 1956 and Sydney 2000. Rio de Janeiro will host in 2016)
  6. How many events are there in the heptathlon? SEVEN
  7. How many stadia were used to host football matches at the 2012 summer Olympics? SIX (HampdenPark, St. James Park, Old Trafford, City of Coventry Stadium, Millennium Stadium Cardiff and Wembley)
  8. The Amsterdam summer Olympic games of 1928 was known officially as the Games of the what number of Olympiad? NINE (London is officially known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad – cancelled Olympic games of 1916 in Berlin and 1940 in Tokyo (then Helsinki) and 1944 in London still counted)
  9. What is the most gold medals won by one competitor at a single summer Olympic games? EIGHT (Michael Phelps, 2008)
  10. How many countries, not cities, have hosted the summer Olympic Games four times? ONE (U. S. A. 1904 St. Louis, 1932 Los Angeles, 1984 Los Angeles and 1996 Atlanta)

ROUND FOUR COVERS (20)

  1. I Saw Her Standing ThereThe TubesThe Beatles
  2. My GenerationThe ZimmersThe Who
  3. Ruby TuesdayJulian LennonThe Rolling Stones
  4. My White BicycleNazarethTomorrow ft Steve Howe
  5. DelilahSensational Alex Harvey BandTom Jones
  6. L. A. WomanBilly IdolThe Doors
  7. Crocodile RockNelly Furtado ft Elton JohnElton John
  8. Somebody to LoveBrittany MurphyQueen
  9. SuffragetteCityFrankie Goes to HollywoodDavid Bowie
  10. Barbara StreisandDuck Soup (Armand Van Helden)Boney M/MC Hammer

ROUND FIVE DOUBLES (20)

  1. Name two of the three green properties on a standard London Monopoly board. Regent Street, Oxford Street and Bond Street
  2. Which two signs of the zodiac begin with a vowel? Aries and Aquarius
  3. Name two of the three British Prime Ministers during World War II. Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee
  4. Name two of the four capital cities that lie on the River Danube. Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade
  5. Name two of the four U. S. Presidents to win a Nobel Peace Prize. Theodore Roosevelt (1906), Woodrow Wilson (1919), Jimmy Carter (2002) and Barak Obama (2009)
  6. What are the first and last letters of the twenty four letters in the Greek alphabet? Alpha and omega
  7. Which two words appear on a Victoria Cross? For Valour
  8. Kuwait has land borders with which two countries? Iraq and Saudi Arabia
  9. Name the two mascots of the 2012 London Olympic Games. Wenlock and Mandeville
  10. Who were the parents of Elizabeth I of England? Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

TIE BREAKS (6)

  1. The Grossglockner is the highest mountain in which country? Austria (Germany is Zugspitze)
  2. The surname of the author of ‘Catcher in the Rye’ comes from the same root as the name of a classic horse race? Name either the author or the horse race. Jerome David Salinger comes from St. Leger
  3. What is the third letter of the Greek alphabet? Gamma
  4. Cynophobia is a fear of which animal? Dog
  5. Which poet wrote the line ‘Oh to be in England now that April’s there’? Robert Browning from ‘Home Thoughts from Abroad’
  6. Sir Alexander Fleming was born in 1881 and died in which year? 1955

SCORES BEFORE TIE BREAK TOP 5 TEAMS FROM 10: Quizzy Rascals 65/70, Amstel Standin’ 65, Only Smarties have the Answer 61, Queenie’s Crew 61, The Bitches of Prestwick 61

Quizzy Rascals 5/6, Amstel Standin’ 3/6 Only Smarties have the Answer third place.

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