It’s Sunday, week 9 of Lockdown 3! As usual, no Fagan’s theme quiz!
This week. we’ve done nothing of interest to mention here!
It’s a quiz of 20 questions, but there’s no theme this week.
All you need to do is name the film from the posters.
There’s no “sound-a-likes” or embedded words.
The use of electronic devices to divine the answers, with the exception of hearing aids and pacemakers, is forbidden.
It’s Sunday, week 8 of Lockdown 3! As usual, no Fagan’s theme quiz!
This week, we’ve been calculating how many people we can get drunk with at each stage as we emerge from lockdown!
It’s a quiz of 20 questions and one theme.
There’s a clue to the theme in the quiz title and a bonus point if you can guess the theme itself.
There may be “sound-a-likes” or embedded words.
The use of electronic devices to divine the answers, with the exception of hearing aids and pacemakers, is forbidden.
1. Which Queen song was not scheduled to be released as a single until DJ Kenny Everett obtained an early pressing and played it 14 times in two days, generating a massive demand for the song?
2. Artist and Song?
3. Which song did former astronaut Chris Hadfield sing when aboard the International Space Station in 2013?
4. Artist and Song?
5. Which song did John Denver write in 1973 as an ode to his then wife in ten-and-a-half minutes one day on a ski lift?
6. Artist and Song?
7. Which war novel, by American author Stephen Crane, takes place during the American Civil War and is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle?
8. Artist and Song?
9. Which Sheffield drinking establishment can be found at 23 Trippet Lane and, when open, hosts Saturday afternoon Northern Soul days.
10. Artist and Song?
11. What is the colloquial name of the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge in New York City, due to where its Manhattan end is located?
12. Artist and Song?
13. Which film starred Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond, Honor Blackman as Bond girl Pussy Galore and Gert Fröbe as the title character?
14. Artist and Song?
15. Who was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1483 until his death in 1485, being the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty?
16. Artist and Song?
17. Which American actor, film director, composer, and producer first achieved success in a TV Western and rose to international fame with his role as the “Man with No Name”?
18. Artist and Song?
19. Which character in Lewis Carroll’s 1865 book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland appears at the very beginning of the book wearing a waistcoat, and muttering “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!?
20. Artist and Song?
Bonus: What links the answers?
It’s Sunday, week 7 of Lockdown 3! As usual, no Fagan’s theme quiz!
This week, we’ve been on half term. It’s much like every other week really!
It’s a quiz of 20 questions and one theme.
There’s a clue to the theme in the quiz title and a bonus point if you can guess the theme itself.
There may be “sound-a-likes” or embedded words.
The use of electronic devices to divine the answers, with the exception of hearing aids and pacemakers, is forbidden.
1. Who am I – Big Cigar, Born at Blenheim, wrote a History of the English Speaking Peoples?
2. Who am I – Big Hat, Big Cigar, Big Bridges?
3. Who am I – Part alter ego of Wonder Woman, part the place your mum buys her pants?
4. Who am I – I had a Beagle, a big beard and my final book was the Formation of Vegetable Mould, through the Actions of Worms 1881?
5. Who am I – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford or Sir Francis Bacon or Christopher Marlowe or William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby?
6. Who am I – 1643 to 1727?
7. Who am I – “I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king”?
8. Who am I – Middle name Winston and was the Walrus?
9. Who am I – It has been suggested that a 19th Century wrestling move is named after him due to navel strategies he used to surround the opponent to win the Battle of the Nile?
10. Who am I – My body was exhumed from Westminster Abbey on 30 January 1661 and was subjected to a posthumous execution, as were the remains of John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton?
11. Who am I – I was born in 1874 in County Kildare, Ireland and I am most famous for my expedition in 1914 that crushed my Endurance and failed despite which, no lives were lost?
12. Who am I – I lead three incredible voyages, the first of which I was appointed leader due to my skill and knowledge of astronomy and the last of which saw my demise at Kealakekua Bay in1779, in a confrontation with the Indigenous people of Hawaii?
13. Who am I – A British Army officer, writer and founder of a world-wide youth movement which he wrote a book about that was published in 1908 and is the 4th best selling book of the 20th century?
14. Who am I – A learned and merciful man of a gracious and level-headed nature who encouraged education, proposing that primary education be taught in English and who successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by the time of his death had become the dominant ruler in England?
15. Who am I – Better known by his title than his name, a leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, served twice as prime minister and responsible for ending the Napoleonic Wars?
16. Who am I – The longest serving Prime Minister of the 20th Century, educated in school sin Lincolnshire at and graduated from Oxford with Second-Class Honours, in the four-year Chemistry Bachelor of Science degree?
17. Who am I – Born Michael Patrick Smith, made famous by playing Frank alongside Betty and Jessica on TV in 1973 and 1975 and has performed in various productions on the West End and on Broadway?
18. Who am I – First name Alexandrina, named after her godfather, Tsar Alexander I, proposed to her husband, had nine children, survived at least six attempts on her life and became queen at the age of 18?
19. Who am I – Said to have “died” on 9 November, 1966 and replaced by a look-a-like, just for not wearing shoes?
20. Who am I – Born in Ayrshire, Scotland in 1881, accepted with a scholarship into St Mary’s Hospital Medical School at the age of 25, earned a gold medal in 1908 for being the University’s highest ranked medical student, discovered one of the most widely used medications and named it after the Latin name for mould?
Bonus: Who are they?
It’s Sunday, week 6 of Lockdown 3! As usual, no Fagan’s theme quiz!
This week, we requested refunds for our Chester Zoo tickets that were booked for next week because, like, that ain’t happening, innit!
It’s a quiz of 20 questions and one theme.
There’s a clue to the theme in the quiz title and a bonus point if you can guess the theme itself.
There may be “sound-a-likes” or embedded words.
The use of electronic devices to divine the answers, with the exception of hearing aids and pacemakers, is forbidden.
1. Name the artist and song?
2. Which Beach Boys songs was covered for the BBC launch of the BBC Music brand in 2014, featured an assortment of artist including Elton John, Kylie Minogue, Stevie Wonder, Brian May as well as Brian Wilson and was released as a charity single for Children In Need?
3. Name the artist and song?
4. What is a sucrose sugar product with a distinctive brown colour due to the presence of molasses or a slang term for heroin?
5. Name the artist and song?
6. In which 1999 comedy movie do four high school friends try every trick in the book to ensure that they lose their virginity before prom night?
7. Name the artist and song?
8. Which song is played at traditional events such as Wimbledon and The Proms, is one of New Zealand’s two national anthems and whose author is unknown, although attribution to the composer John Bull is sometimes made?
9. Name the artist and song?
10. Who was the Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia?
11. Name the artist and song?
12. Which one of the nine Austrian states is also a city that, until the beginning of the 20th century, was the largest German speaking city in the world?
13. Name the artist and song?
14. Which 1974 movie starring Roger Moore as a manager of a South African mine shares its name with both a UK radio station and a UK TV station?
15. Name the artist and song?
16. Romanian Nadia Comăneci is generally recognized as the first person to score what at the Olympic Games?
17. Name the artist and song?
18. In 1687 Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia included a computation for what, the answer to the computation being “979 feet per second in air”?
19. Name the artist and song?
20. Which English television and radio presenter is best known as a presenter of the popular children’s series Blue Peter from 1962 to 1972 and also also presented the BBC Radio 4 PM programme?
Bonus: What connects all the answers?
It’s Sunday, week 5 of Lockdown 3! As usual, no Fagan’s theme quiz!
This week, we stayed indoors a lot and experimented with audio visuals in the quiz!.
It’s a quiz of two halves this week, with 20 questions and one theme.
There may be “sound-a-likes” or embedded words.
The use of electronic devices to divine the answers, with the exception of hearing aids and pacemakers, is forbidden.
1. Which English actress, born in 1932, is best known for her role as Sybil, Basil’s wife, in Fawlty Towers and her BAFTA award-nominated role as Queen Elizabeth II in A Question of Attribution by Alan Bennett.
2. Who was the only surviving legitimate child of King James V who acceded to the throne in 1542, aged 6?
3. What name was given to the 1960s subculture that included art, music, clothes and use of hallucinogenic drugs?
4. Who did Julie jilt John for?
5. Which member of comedy trio The Goodies opened the pilot episode of the BBC radio comedy panel game I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue with Jo Kendall singing the words of Three Blind Mice to the tune of Ol’ Man River?
6. What was originally a two or three-wheeled passenger cart which is generally pulled by one man carrying one passenger?
7. Which ventriloquist’s act included the puppets Orville the Duck and Cuddles the Monkey?
8. In the TV programme and film The Magic Roundabout, who is the operator of the roundabout – the only character to be voiced by the same actor in both the TV show and film?
9. Which ex-Sheffield Wednesday and Stocksbridge park Steels footballer holds record for the most scoring in consecutive matches (11)?
10. Which building has been a residence of the British Royal Family since the 17th century, and is currently the official London residence of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and other lesser royals?
11. Name this Scottish duo and the song they are singing?
12. In the children’s nursery rhyme, what did we go round on a cold and frosty morning?
13. What’s the name of the band singing this 1986 song that reach number 26 in the UK charts?
14. Which British politician was the first Labour Party member to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 and then from 1929–1931?
15. Who is the lead singer of this 1985 hit that also featured in the film The Breakfast Club, helping it to the number 1 spot in the US?
16. What Gothic novel was first published in 1818 and was written by the daughter of proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft?
17. Name the band and song in this early video which is somewhat less polished than their later works?
18. Which County Durham new town was founded in 1948 and named after a celebrated Durham miners’ leader and, as such, is one of the few places in the British Isles to be directly named after an individual?
19. Name the band and song?
20. On the internet, what is the introductory page of a website, typically serving as a table of contents for the site, commonly called?
It’s Sunday, week 4 of Lockdown 3! As usual, no Fagan’s theme quiz!
This week, we realised we forgot to set week 3’s quiz!
Back to the usual format this week, 20 questions, one theme.
There may be “sound-a-likes” or embedded words.
The use of electronic devices to divine the answers, with the exception of hearing aids and pacemakers, is forbidden.
1. Which English television and radio presenter, and model is best known for co-hosting Let’s Do Lunch with Gino D’Acampo and a program with Des O’Conner that features the pair’s first names?
2. Who is missing from this 80s TV line up. Matthew Kelly, Sarah Kennedy, Henry Kelly and…?
3. What was Scottish popular beat combo The Shamen’s biggest hit, released in August 1992 it was one of the most controversial UK number-one hits of the 1990s due to its perceived oblique endorsement of recreational drug use, and it was initially banned by the BBC?
4. What is the name of the motor vehicles that NASA landed on Mars in 2012 for a two-year mission that was extended indefinitely and is still operational today?
5. In TV’s Midsomer Murders, what is the surname of both the original Detective Chief Inspector and his replacement, who, in the programme was the original’s younger cousin?
6. What are the names of the two major baseball teams in Los Angeles?
7. What is the name of the small bird with glossy blue-black upper parts, a pure white under parts, a distinctive white rump with a forked tail that spends much of its time on the wing collecting insect prey and lives in mud nests, usually sited below the eaves of buildings?
8. 2008 American comedy-drama film stars Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston as the owners of a Labrador retriever which set a record for the largest Christmas Day box office ever upon its release?
9. In 1983, who performed “the illusion of the century” in front of a live audience on Liberty Island, making the Statue of Liberty disappear, which holds the Guinness World Record for the largest illusion ever performed by an illusionist?
10. Which social insect comprises of over 250 species in the genus Bombus, part of Apidae family?
11. Which English rock band was formed in 1969, have released 24 studio albums with Demons and Wizards being the most successful and are still producing music today, albeit with rhythm guitarist Mick Box being the only original member?
12. Who is the fictional sleuth in an American mystery novel series created by publisher Edward Stratemeyer as the female counterpart to his Hardy Boys series?
13. Which British Writer, Broadcaster and former politician caused a sensation when publishing her diaries as they revealed a four-year affair with future Prime Minister John Major?
14. One of the signatories of King Charles I’s death warrant in 1649, who later became Lord Protector of the British Isles from 1653 until his death in 1658?
15. Who played the younger brother of Derek “Del Boy” Trotter in the BBC TV comedy Only Fools and Horses, which first aired in 1981and ran until 1991 as a series and 2003 as sporadic Christmas Specials?
16. What do Hamlet’s father and Banquo have in common as they appear in Hamlet and Macbeth?
17. Which Australian external territory is an island in the Indian Ocean 960 miles from Australia and was named by Captain William Mynors of the Royal Mary, an English East India Company vessel, when he sailed past it?
18. What part of an apple contains Cyanide and would kill you if even in sufficient quantities?
19. Which poem by the English poet Christina Rossetti, commonly performed as a Christmas carol, was published under it’s original name – A Christmas Carol – in 1872?
20. Which ex-footballer followed Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley as manager of Liverpool football club?
It’s Sunday, week 2 of Lockdown 3! As usual, no Fagan’s theme quiz!
This week, we went sledging.
Back to the usual format this week, 20 questions, one theme.
There may be “sound-a-likes” or embedded words.
The use of electronic devices to divine the answers, with the exception of hearing aids and pacemakers, is forbidden.
1. Wata – an abbreviation from the German WasserTanzen – is a type of aquatic therapy which was developed in Switzerland where a person is gently guided underwater, pulled, swayed, and “flown” while being regularly brought to the surface for breath. How is this known in English?
2. A crossbow bolt is also know as what?
3. What began as a collection by Sir Hans Sloane, is now housed in a building designed by Alfred Waterhouse, used to be the home of Dippy and has been called “A Cathedral to Science”?
4. Which song was a number one hit for popular beat combo Adam & The Ants, in September 1981?
5. Unemployment Benefit is commonly referred to as what, in the UK?
6. What is the name of a large hemispherical brass percussion instrument (one of the timpani) with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting its tension?
What is the title of the American crime drama television series starring Angela Lansbury as 7. mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher?
8. What word means to assemble troops, especially for inspection or in preparation for battle?
9. What do the Americans (incorrectly) call Autumn?
10. What are the parallel sloping beams that support a roof called?
11. What, in the UK, has two Houses that work on behalf of UK citizens to check and challenge the work of Government, make and shape effective laws, and debate/make decisions on the big issues of the day?
12. Originally on May Day, but now usually on the 30th October, what is the name associated with this day, on which children and teenagers engage in pranks and vandalism?
13. Which British television sitcom starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb was broadcast on Channel 4 from 2003 until 2015 and in 2010, became the longest-running comedy in Channel 4 history in terms of years on air?
14. In which town do the TV characters Barney Gumble, Chief Clancy Wiggum, Edna Krabappel, Reverend Timothy Lovejoy and Waylon Smithers live?
15. Which 2002 British biographical comedy-drama film about Manchester’s popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records, was named after a Happy Mondays single?
16. George Blake, Ian Brady, Charles Bronson, Pete Doherty and Leslie Grantham have all been detained at Her Majesty’s please at which prison?
17. Which large instrumental ensemble is based in Manchester, England and supports a choir, youth choir, youth training choir, children’s choir and a youth orchestra?
18. What phrase commonly refers to the two possible physiological reactions to highly stressful or threatening situations: to defend oneself or to run away?
19. Which 1981 BBC cartoon series was narrated by Kenneth Williams and became popular with children and adults, as it bridged the gap between the end of weekday children’s programming and the early evening news, the principal character being a blue, floating creature drawn as a caricature of Williams?
20. What is the name of a species of woodboring beetle that sometimes infests the structural timbers of old buildings, named after the tapping or ticking sound made by the adult insects?
It’s Sunday, week 1 of Lockdown 3! As usual, no Fagan’s theme quiz!
This week, we re-booted Lockdown 2.
In a change to the usual format, there’s two separate parts to this quiz. Each has a theme for you to guess from the title and the answers.
In some cases the theme spans two questions – these are always consecutive questions though, so no need to hunt for a pattern.
There may be “sound-a-likes” or embedded words.
The use of electronic devices to divine the answers, with the exception of hearing aids and pacemakers, is forbidden.
1. The number of minutes in a quarter in Gridiron (American) Football or the age, in the UK, a minor can be sent to prison to await trial?
2. The minimum age in most US states at which a person may gamble or the number of spots on a standard cubical die?
3. Only nine Bank of England notes of a certain value were issued in connection with the Marshall Plan on 30 August 1948. Nicknamed Giant, how much was each note worth?
4. Which British television sitcom, first shown on Channel 4 between 1990 and 1998, is set in the offices of GlobeLink News, a fictional TV news company, was recorded close to transmission and made use of contemporary news events to give the programme a greater sense of realism?
5. Chroma key compositing, or chroma keying, is a visual-effects and post-production technique for compositing (layering) two images or video streams together based on colour hues, how is this technique commonly described?
6. How did Bruce Forsythe introduce Anthia Redfern in TVs The Generation Game?
7. Which American actor has been one of The Dirty Dozen, a James Bond villain, one of Kelly’s Heroes in movies but is probably best known as a New York City Detective Lieutenant who was fond of using the catchphrases, “Who loves ya, baby?” and “Cootchie-coo!”?
8. People who are strongly inclined to do, use, or indulge in something repeatedly are know as what?
9. In the UK TV series Dr. Who, who is the renegade alien Time Lord and the archenemy of the title character the Doctor?
10. Which song, sung by Noel Harrison, was introduced in the film The Thomas Crown Affair in 1968 and has been covered by many artists including Dusty Springfield, Johnny Mathis, Neil Diamond and, for the movie remake in 1999, Sting?
11. “A teenage, Italian gang in the Bronx, NYC, 1963. They have their confrontations with other gangs. Drugs and weapons are uncool. Adult life awaits them.” – was the description of which a 1979 film which was nominated for the “Worst Fake Accent – Female” at the Stinkers Bad Movie Awards?
12. What is a thin pieces of impervious material installed to prevent the passage of water into a structure from a joint or as part of a weather resistant barrier system?
13. Who is the fairy tale stock character who comes to the rescue of a damsel in distress and must engage in a quest to liberate her from an evil spell or enemy?
14. What three word phrase is an alternate phrase for the principle of causality, establishing one event or action as the direct result of another?
15. As an adjective it means “having a slim or delicate build” or as verb it means “to treat as unimportant : make light of”.
16. At the end of Sunset Boulevard, delusional crackpot Norma Desmond stalks toward a camera, thinking it’s a movie camera (in reality, it’s a news camera and everyone is there because she’s about to be arrested for murder), saying, “All right, Mr. DeMille”. Complete that sentence.
17. Which 1982 song by British trio Imagination, was a major European hit that peaked at number 2 in the UK?
18. What is a heavy cotton cloth pressure-sensitive tape with strong adhesive and tensile properties that is widely used in theatre, photography, film, radio and television production, and industrial staging work?
19. Which independent production company produced programmes such as Derry Girls, Have I Got News for You, Drop the Dead Donkey and Father Ted?
20. Which American drama television series (2008-2015) the follows former “psychic” Patrick Jane, a consultant to the California Bureau of Investigation and his boss, using the highly developed observational skills he previously employed to “read” people’s minds?
Bonus points for guessing each theme.
It’s Sunday, week 4 of Lockdown with Haircuts, and not Christmas Lockdown – The One that never happened! As usual, no Fagan’s theme quiz!
This week, we read a Facebook post from Tom @Fagan’s.
It’s the usual 20 questions for the quiz.
A little different this week for the theme, in some cases the theme spans two questions – these are always consecutive questions though, so no need to hunt for a pattern.
There may be “sound-a-likes” or embedded words.
The use of electronic devices to divine the answers, with the exception of hearing aids and pacemakers, is forbidden.
1. Which large island off the east coast of the North American is separated from the mainland by the Strait of Belle Isle and blocks the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River, creating the world’s largest estuary – the Gulf of Saint Lawrence?
2. Who is the English cricketer who kept wicket for his country between 1987 and 1998, broke the world record for dismissals in a test match in 1995 and now known for his abilities as an artist, as a cricket wicketkeeping coach, and a football goalkeeping coach?
3. Which TV service was launched in 1961, broadcasting to most of Cumbria, southern Scotland and parts of Northumberland and continued until 2002 following a takeover?
4. One of several vegetables in the species Brassica oleracea in the genus Brassica, what is this annual plant that reproduces by seed and, typically, only the head is eaten – the edible white flesh sometimes called “curd”?
5. Which sea area, as used by the BBC’s Shipping Forecast, is bordered by Fisher, Dogger and Humber sea areas and, up to 1956, was named as Heligoland?
6. Who is the English television presenter and journalist who was a main presenter on the now defunct breakfast programme GMTV and since April 2014 has worked on ITV’s breakfast show Good Morning Britain and hosted game shows such as The Krypton Factor, Tipping Point and Ninja Warrior UK?
7. Which children’s comic strips and books were adapted into a TV series, using cardboard cut-outs filmed in live-action, that was first shown on the BBC in 1957, ran until 1966, was revamped in colour from 1974 to 1975 and re-appeared a 2nd time in 1998 as a traditional animation series?
8. Which is the biggest UK county, home of legendary bad guys Guy Fawkes and Dick Turpin and if it was a country, would have come 12th in the 2012 Olympic games, having scooped 7 Gold, 2 Silver and 3 Bronze medals?
9. What is the nickname of the English football team Huddersfield Town A.F.C.?
10. Which song by the popular American beat combo Simon & Garfunkel from their album Bridge Over Troubled Water became one of their biggest hits in 1969 and opens with the lines “I am just a poor boy, Though my story’s seldom told”?
11. British transportation company FirstGroup acquired a controlling stake in which North American intercity bus company as part of their agreement to buy the US firm Laidlaw for £1.9 billion?
12. Which ship, launched on May 11, 1820 at the Royal Navy’s dockyards on the River Thames, was the British naval vessel aboard which Charles Darwin served as naturalist on a voyage to South America and around the world between 1831 an 1836?
13. Which company’s 1990s TV adverts featured Joan Collins, Larry Hagman, Harry Enfield, Burt Reynolds and others flicking up their flaming thumbs and asking the viewer “Don’t you just love being in control?”?
15. Originally created by H. C. McNeile and published under his pen name Sapper and continued by Gerard Fairlie who is the fictional First World War veteran who, fed up with his sedate lifestyle, advertises looking for excitement, and becomes a gentleman adventurer? The character has appeared in novels, short stories, on the stage, in films, on radio and television, and in graphic novels?
15. The Sheffield Directory of 1842 records which company as being a “wholesale confectioner, lozenge maker and British wine trader”? Possibly their best-known product was created by accident in 1899 when a sales representative supposedly tripped over and dropped a tray of samples he was showing a client, mixing them up. After he scrambled to re-arrange them, the client was intrigued by the new creation.
16. Which is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes, is set largely on Dartmoor and was the first appearance of Holmes since his apparent death in The Final Problem? The success of this book led to the character’s eventual revival.
17. Which beverage brand from Gaymer’s Cider Company was apparently designed for the American market in 1939 but never shipped out due to the outbreak of the Second World War: it was sold in the UK as a special offer during the war and until 1950, and then became a standard product of the company?
18. Which competitive sport was featured in BBC One Man and His Dog from 1976 to 2013, when it become part of the rural affairs show Countryfile?
19. Simon Templar, featured in a series of novels and short stories by Leslie Charteris published between 1928 and 1963 and later, other authors collaborated with Charteris on books until 1983 – what is the characters nickname?
20. Yosser Hughes, the troubled “hard man” whose life is falling apart in Alan Bleasdale’s groundbreaking 1980s TV drama Boys from the Blackstuff was played by which English actor?
It’s Sunday, week 3 of Lockdown with Haircuts, or is it week 1 of Christmas Lockdown – The U Turn! Who knows, either way there’s no Fagan’s theme quiz or any other type of quiz in a pub. At least we’re not Southers!
This week, our biggest achievement was getting to the end of the working year.
It’s the usual 20 questions for the quiz.
And it’s a quiz of two halves again.
There may be “sound-a-likes” or embedded words.
The use of electronic devices to divine the answers, with the exception of hearing aids and pacemakers, is forbidden.
1. What eating establishment can be found at 8/10 Cambridge Street in Sheffield’s city centre and features Butterfly King Prawns, Verdure, Slow Cooked Beef in Chianti Sauce and chips on it’s menu?
2. What is a large single building or part of a complex subdivided into separate prison cells?
3. What is an audio or video recording of a performance not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority?
4. The number of minutes in a quarter in Gridiron (American) Football or the age, in the UK, a minor can be sent to prison to await trial?
5. A song by Bob Dylan, a “High stakes” board game or a phrase you might hear an auctioneer say to close the bidding?
6. In the UK TV series Dr. Who, who is the renegade alien Time Lord and the archenemy of the title character the Doctor?
7. Only nine Bank of England notes of a certain value were issued in connection with the Marshall Plan on 30 August 1948. Nicknamed Giant, how much was each note worth?
8. In many cultures, doing what at other people is considered rude because it’s associated with blame allocation and, without their consent, makes them an object of scrutiny?
9. Chroma key compositing, or chroma keying, is a visual-effects and post-production technique for compositing (layering) two images or video streams together based on colour hues, how is this technique commonly referred?
10. Which American actor has been one of The Dirty Dozen, a James Bond villain and one of Kelly’s Heroes in movies but is probably best known as a TV New York City Detective Lieutenant who was fond of using the catchphrases, “Who loves ya, baby?” and “Cootchie-coo!”?
11. How might jewellers or pawnbrokers advertise the fact that they will pay you money for one of the most widely accepted precious metals?
12. The minimum age in most US states at which a person may gamble or the number of spots on a standard cubical die?
13. In the TV series The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – adapted from the books by Douglas Adams – what, unusually, did the character Zaphod Beeblebrox have two of?
14. Operation Chastise was an attack on Germany carried out on 16–17 May 1943 by the Royal Air Force’s 617 Squadron, how is it better known?
15. Which novel – and in 1960 a film – by Johann David Wyss was published in 1812 and featured a family of immigrants whose ship en route to Port Jackson, Australia, goes off course and is shipwrecked in the East Indies?
16. People who are strongly inclined to do, use, or indulge in something repeatedly are know as what?
17. How did Bruce Forsythe introduce Anthia Turner in TVs The Generation Game?
18. Which 1976 single by popular beat combo Level 42, from their album Running in the Family, was the band’s biggest hit reaching number 3 in the UK?
19. Which British television sitcom, first shown on Channel 4 between 1990 and 1998, is set in the offices of GlobeLink News, a fictional TV news company, was recorded close to transmission and made use of contemporary news events to give the programme a greater sense of realism?
20. Which song, sung by Noel Harrison, was introduced in the film The Thomas Crown Affair in 1968 and has been covered by many artists including Dusty Springfield, Johnny Mathis, Neil Diamond and, for the movie remake in 1999, Sting?