11. Who was the best known employee of Sunshine Desserts?
12. Which day of the
week was verdict day on
Crown Court?
13. Much performed in
Central Perk, who wrote
the classic Smelly Cat?
14. What is Elle
Bishop’s “special
ability”?
15. Sydney Anne
Bristow was the main
character in which
show?
16. Which two actresses
from This Life went on to
become Big Women?
17. What was the name
of the window cleaner in
Crinkly Bottom?
18. First seen in the
Sixties, which character
is probably the most
famous member of the
Bantu tribe to have been
on TV?
19. Which show
announced this year it
was to release its own
his and hers fragrances?
20. A special edition of which children’s favourite
won second prize in the
youth section of the Prix
Jeunesse in 1974?
21. Which programme
recently featured a
crossover with its
German counterpart
SOKO Leipzig?
22. The first edition of
Grandstand on a
Saturday was
shortened to
accommodate an
episode of which
programme?
23. Which future TV star
appeared on Blind Date
as a contestant
searching for, in her own
words, a “real
hornbucket”?
24. Which TV presenter
appeared as a
contestant on University
Challenge in 1981, 1984,
2003 and 2005?
25. Which comedy was
once included on the
GCSE syllabus for
school children by
Britain’s Northern
Examining Board?
26. Which Last of the
Summer Wine character
was accused, in 1991, of
creating a bad image for
elderly people?
27. Liz Georges was the
first to voice which
character?
28. Who were described
by Nasa as “an attempt
to bring a note of realism
to the fantasy of the
space race”?
29. In a 2008 list of TV
characters measured by
greatest wealth,
Montgomery Burns from
The Simpsons was
second to whom?
30. Watching, starring
Paul Bown and Emma
Wray, was developed
from a sketch on which
show?
31. A regional version of
the controversial Johnny
Speight play If there
Weren’t Any Blacks
You’d Have to Invent
Them in the mid
Seventies starred which
two comedy
heavyweights?
32. Which hero has
“throughout the ages”
cowered above the rest?
33. What was the title of
the sequel to the film
Romancing the Stone?
34. Which band of
heroes were mean green
and on the screen in
1990?
35. Lili Von Shtupp, as
portrayed by Madeleine
Kahn, was an
affectionate send up of
which film actress?
36. Who reminds Steven
Spielberg of Disney’s
idea of a mad scientist?
37. Which film actor is
known by his fans as the
Dragon?
38. Which actress did
David Niven refer to as
“Miss United Dairies
herself”?
39. Which two actresses
have been slated to star
as the red and white
queens in Tim Burton’s
upcoming adaptation of
the Alice in Wonderland
story?
40. In which gangster
film did the guns fire ice
cream?
41. According to
Quentin Tarantino, what
is the name of the
greatest animal actor
that ever was?
42. Ryan Reynolds once
bought which of his co stars
a $300 stuffed toy?
43. What was the first
name of the Jim Dale
character in Carry On
Cowboy?
44. Which film star was
once given the freedom
of every toy shop in
Tokyo?
45. According to
Michael Winner, Oliver
Reed’s chances of
breaking into
Hollywood were
hampered when he was
sick all over which
superstar?
46. “Love is here to stay
and so is her family” was
the tag line for which
romance?
47. For which team is
Janine Melnitz the
receptionist?
48. Many people trailed
to see Meet Joe Black in
order to see a trailer. For
which, at the time,
eagerly anticipated film?
49. What was Helen
Parr’s super hero
identity?
50. Before Quantum of
Solace, what was the last
official Bond release not
to feature the iconic
phrase: “The name’s
Bond, James Bond”?
11. The 87th precinct is
the setting for the main
novels of which author?
12. For which
organisation did Rosa
Klebb work?
13. In Alice in
Wonderland, who sings
the song beginning
“Beautiful soup, so rich
and green, waiting in a
hot tureen”?
14. What did Peter Pan
want Wendy to sew back
on?
15. What was taken
from a dog for the three
witches brew in
Shakespeare’s
Macbeth?
16. "No fruits, no
flowers, no leaves, no
birds”. Words used by
Thomas Hood to
describe which month?
17. In which Dickens
novel are the
schoolchildren forced to
eat brimstone and
treacle?
18. Where did Tom
Brown spend his
schooldays, before he
attended the university at
Oxford?
19. Which crippled
orphan had the surname
Whittier?
20. Who left most of
their estate to
Martin Luther King in
1967?
21. “Love is like the
measles; we all have to
go through it” are words
attributed to which
writer?
22. Nikki Porter was
private secretary to
whom?
23. In which novel does
Miss Lemon make her
only typing mistake in
Hercule Poirot’s employ?
24. Which of Winnie the
Pooh’s friends lived at
the Chestnuts?
25. What did Oliver
Goldsmith call his
deserted village?
26. Who is the male
protagonist in Graham
Greene’s Brighton Rock?
27. Which poet once
worked as a dresser in
Guy’s Hospital?
28. Who created the
village of Macondo?
29. Shakespeare’s
Abhorson made his
living how?
30. Who has a righthand
man called Willie
Garvin?
31. Author Rudyard
Kipling is said to have
written only in which
colour ink?
32. The late Michael
Crichton once handed in
a piece of work written
by which author, in order
to see whether, as he
suspected, his college
professor had a downer
on him?
33. Which author ate
poisonous mushrooms
in 2008?
34. Who first referred to
Shakespeare as the
Swan of Avon?
35. Who was Captain
WE Johns’ female
equivalent of Biggles?
36. According to
Betjeman, which town
was not fit for humans
now?
37. Which author was
killed defending his
wife’s honour in 1837?
38. Leslie Linder was
responsible for
deciphering writings by
which author?
39. Which bird did
William Wordsworth call
a blithe newcomer?
40. “Where the bee
sucks, so suck I.”
Shakespeare’s words,
but who sings them in
which play?
41. Whose ill-gotten
gains were used to buy a
plot of land called
Potter’s Field?
42. Who dallied with
Michaelis before a much
more famous liaison?
43. Which DH Lawrence
novel has Mexico as its
setting?
44. What has a badger
as its symbol and black
and yellow as its
colours?
45. Which fictional crime
writer created the
detective Sven Hjerson?
46. What was Evadne
Mount’s first published
novel?
47. Which classic has its
events told through the
letters of Anna and
John?
48. Terry Deary’s
ambition is to write a
novel one tenth as good
as which book?
49. Which novel is
narrated by a 139-yearold
Australian?
50. Which doctor’s wife
commits suicide by
taking arsenic, having
been refused money by
a lover?
11. Turquoise is an
opaque blue green
mineral that is a hydrous
phosphate of aluminium
and which other
element?
12. Which was the first
product introduced by
Heinz?
13. What name is given
in the northern
hemisphere to the full
moon that falls closest to
the autumn equinox?
14. Used greatly in cake
decorating, what colour
is candied angelica?
15. The Hundred
Flowers movement
encouraged government
criticism in which
country in the Fifties?
16. Which political party
had the Golden Lion in
Ashburton, Devon, as its
meeting place?
17. What was the first
shoe brand to get a
listing in the Oxford
English Dictionary?
18. What can be
obtained by boiling the
crushed yellow roots
of the Glycyrrhiza
glabria?
19. What is regularly
called blue but is also
called, in different parts
of the world, red, yellow,
white, black and
vermillion?
20. Who was the first
president of Israel?
21. Other than means of
transport, rocket,
submarine and zeppelin
are all types of what?
22. Cat fur is the name
given to grey mould on
which food stuff?
23. Which mythical
creature was the
offspring of Poseidon
and Medusa?
24. On the newest
version of Monopoly
Here and Now the world
edition (2008), which city
is to be found in place of
Bow Street?
25. Who took out patent
174,465?
26. How is Joseph
Ratzinger better known?
27. Of what did
Hipparchus make the
first scientific catalogue?
28. Who founded the
Kalighat Home for Dying
Destitutes?
29. Which is the lowest
number that, when spelt
out, contains all five
English vowels?
30. Which pasta form
translates into English as
butterflies?
31. In Norse myth,
whose death signalled
the beginning of the
Battle of Ragnarok?
32. What are mellivores
partial to?
33. Which European
language bears no
relation to any other,
making it unique?
34. Which of the Cluedo
characters is called
Madame Curry in
Switzerland?
35. Cecile, Annette,
Marie, Yvonne and which
other made up a
newsworthy quintet in
the Thirties?
36. Needles, columns,
plates and stars are four
of the six different types
of what?
37. Who infamously
once arrived at Floors
Farm in Scotland
unannounced?
38. Captain Roy Brown
is credited with killing
whom?
39. Which leader was
nicknamed the Great
Crocodile?
40. Who owns the
largest known art
collection in the world?
41. Which flower has
more varieties, at
least 30,000, than any
other?
42. Which New England
dish, conceived by the
wives of Brittany
fisherman, has a name
which derives from the
type of cauldron it is
cooked in?
43. What was once
known as a Christ-cross
row?
44. Who was the first
head of state to declare
war on the US?
45. Which Dutch native
was executed for the
crimes Clara Benedix is
now thought to have
committed?
46. The man labelled
the inventor of the
fashion magazine had a
more famous wife. Who
was she?
47. Who was the only
woman convicted of
stagecoach robbery in
the old Wild West?
48. In which conflict
were floating mines first
used?
49. “An Englishman, 25
years old, about 5ft 8in
tall, indifferent build,
walks with a forward
stoop, pale appearance,
red-brownish hair, small
and hardly noticeable
moustache, talks
through his nose and
GENn not pronounce the
‘s’ properly.”
A £25 reward was once
offered for the capture of
the above person
dead or alive. Who was
he?
50. Which wild flower is
known as the Poor
man’s weather
glass?
11. Which town is
twinned with Ivry-Sur-
Seine?
12. After who is Shildon
library named?
13. Which couple live at
28 Acacia Avenue?
14. Near which town did
the Battle of the
Standard take place in
August 1138?
15. What line of
business was the
company Wilkinson’s of
Sedgefield in?
16. Who or what were
the Spennymoor
Biltonians?
17. Mrs Clements made
the best in the land and
travelled all over
England taking orders
for it – orders for what?
18. What is said to be
haunted by “Old Hell
Cat”?
19. Legend has it that
Cow Green Reservoir
destroyed the habitat of
which mermaid?
20. What name is Mike
and Jules Keen’s home
known by?
21. Among many other
similar titles, Queen
Victoria was Countess of
which North-East village?
22. Escomb village
became famous for its
fruit fairs on the front
green. Which fruit?
23. “Hey for the buff and
the blue, Hey for the cap
and the feather, Hey for
the bonny lass true.”
Where did this particular
bonny lass come
from?
24. Which place is
known as the Maypole
village?
25. Which market town
was the ancient capital of
Cleveland?
26. Which bloody event
is commemorated by the
folk ballad called The
Bonny Moor Hen?
27. Who was the first
Bishop of Lindisfarne?
28. Of which town is
Century Radio
personality Stephanie
purportedly the
Princess?
29. By what name is
Frosterley marble known,
locally?
30. Who opened a
boutique in Consett
called His and Hers in
1970?
31. What is mined at
Boulby, a few miles north
of Whitby?
32. Which village was
once known as “the
smuggling capital of
Northumberland”?
33. During which event
did Coffee Johnny have
a white hat on?
34. In which year did
Old Hartlepool merge
with West Hartlepool?
35. In which town was
the Lily Laundry to be
found?
36. Which town was the
scene of an explosion in
1836, when two boys
accidentally set fire to a
barrel of gunpowder
outside Mr Beecham’s
ironmongery shop?
37. Brought up in
Spennymoor, Anne
Wood will probably be
remembered for her
creation of which kids’
characters in 1996?
38. In which town did
the Burns Pit Disaster
take place?
39. Which Albany
Northern League team
play their home games at the Mount Pleasant
Ground?
40. Newcastle counts
which US city among its
official sister cities?
41. Where did the
Pollard Boar make its
lair?
42. On which street was
the world’s first Sunday
school situated?
43. In Shabby Streets by
CA Alington makes
mention of how many
different North-East
place names?
44. Who did West
Auckland beat to win the
football World
Cup/Thomas Lipton
Trophy in 1909?
45. Gowk is Yorkshire
dialect for which
bird?
46. Which famous
landscaper went to the
village school on the
Wallington estate?
47. Which fictional
captain’s name can be
found in the Latin
inscription on the
coat of arms of
Spennymoor?
48. Which club’s first
badge incorporated a
coffin and a candle, with
the club’s main meeting
being at the Candlemas
Wake in February?
49. What are the two
colours of the flag of
Northumberland?
50. In which village did a
vicar marry a Pigg,
christen a Lamb and
bury a Hogg, all in the
same week?
11. What was the name
of the Beatles’ lovely
meter maid?
12. One quarter of S
Club Juniors now make
up which made-for-theweekend
band?
13. Which Yazoo hit was
written by Alison Moyet?
14. Which number one
mentions Sudanese
deserts, Japanese
gardens and the
vineyards of Bordeaux?
15. Roddy Frame was
the flashpoint of which
Scottish act?
16. Which Adam Ant top
ten solo single was
produced by Phil
Collins?
17. When Gina G won
the race to represent the
UK in Eurovision, which
other chart act finished
third?
18. Brinsley Forde, the
guitarist and vocalist with
Aswad, provided the rap
on whose number ten hit
in 1991?
19. Drowned, Reinvention
and
Confessions have been followed, in 2008, by
which three words?
20. Seal was propelled
into the big time by
appearing as vocalist on
a number one by which
artist?
21. Which woman often
has lemons thrown at her
while she is in concert,
thanks to the lyrics of her
first big hit?
22. Which Mancunian
rockers promoted their
latest album by allowing
New York buskers to play
tracks from it before it
was released?
23. On which U2 song
do Boyzone sing
uncredited backing
vocals?
24. Who was backed for
some of his solo career
by the Willing Sinners?
25. Sisters Jacqui and
Louise Chantrel formed
the backing band of
which female singer?
26. “One day I’ll be
waiting there, no empty
bench in Soho Square”
are the words engraved
on the London bench
tribute to which singer?
27. Which act, complete
with a Polish singer, were
formed as an off-shoot
from Blue Rondo a La
Turk?
28. Which song by
which artist was
responsible for the
introduction of parental
advice stickers, warning
of explicit lyrics?
29. Which kissing singer
demolished a cake at an
awards ceremony in an
unusual way?
30. Which Anthill
Runaway sang on a
British number one?
31. Who killed a science
student, a teacher and a
judge in 1968?
32. With which duo did
Dee C Lee first find
success, albeit as a
backing singer?
33. In which song do we
meet the sisters Jean
Marie, Sally Joy and
Felicity, as well as their
unfortunate brother?
34. Jimmy Helms, who
was making us an offer
we couldn’t refuse in the
Seventies, returned to
the charts in the late
Eighties as lead singer of
which band?
35. In 1989, former chart
stars James and Bobby
Purify turned up in the
lyrics of which song?
36. Laurie Blue Adkins is
the last three given
names of which onename
singer?
37. Which London-born
number one hit-making
woman has a middle
name that is also that of
a drink?
38. In Up the Junction,
by Squeeze, what time in
the morning is the
couple’s daughter born?
39. Under what name
did Anny Chancel have
chart success?
40. Gemma Clarke
played drums for which
successful chart band?
41. That Petrol Emotion
rose from the ashes of
which Irish band?
42. What was the name
of the record label
founded by ex-Equal
Eddy Grant?
43. Madonna was not
the only pop singer to
marry a Penn brother.
Who else did?
44. On which UK
number one single does
the band Orchid get a
credit?
45. Which band,
originating from Athens,
had their first UK top ten
hit in 1989?
46. Which Sixties chart
band had a drummer
called Challenger?
47. Which was the first
act to appear on Top of
the Pops with a single
that had not yet reached
the top 40?
48. Whose biggest hit in
the United Kingdom
has their backing
singers chanting
“onomatopoeia”?
49. Which hit was
belatedly dedicated to
former S Club 7 member
Rachel Stevens?
50. Her brother was in
the Trash Can Sinatras
and she sang on a UK
number one. What was
the title of that number
one?
11. Who is the oldest
man to captain a football
World Cup winning
team?
12. Which Rugby league
side reached three
successive Premiership
finals in the Eighties,
losing on each
occasion?
13. Which Olympic
gold-winning athlete had
the nickname of
Grasshopper?
14. Who was the first
cricketer to take 100
catches in international
one-day cricket?
15. On which course did
Tom Watson win his first
British Golf Open?
16. In which sport would
you compete for the
Hattersley Salver?
17. In which country did
Niki Lauda take his last
Grand Prix victory?
18. What colours are
worn by the King of the
Mountains during the
Tour de France?
19. Which 2008
Olympian has a father
who used to compete against Sebastian Coe?
20. Who hit a century in
22 minutes in a county
cricket game in July 1993?
21. Which American
football player had the
nickname Sweetness?
22. In 1996, which golfer
admitted to losing half a
million pounds through
gambling?
23. Who was the only
Welshman to score a try
on the British Lions tour
to Australia in 1990?
24. Which European
horseracing venue’s start
times vary according to
the phase of the moon?
25. Which Chinese-born
athlete struck gold at the
1924 Paris Summer
Olympics?
26. Who was the first
Australian to become
500cc world
motorcycling champion?
27. When translated into
English, which cyclist
had the nickname of the
Badger?
28. On the first day of
the 2008-09 football
season, who was the
only English Premiership
squad member to have
been born in the Sixties?
29. Who was the first
jockey to win an English
Classic on a horse he
had bred himself?
30. In the Summer
Olympics, which nation
broke a 50-year
India/Pakistan monopoly
of men’s hockey?
31. How were Borotra,
Brugnon, Cochet and
Lacoste known
collectively?
32. In Britain, what is the
name of the only animal
to win the Cesarewitch,
the St Leger and the
Derby (twice)?
33. Which sportsman
was once knocked out
boxing an orang-utan?
34. Which England
cricket captain also
played hockey for
London University?
35. If you went up the
Junction to win the
Curzon Cup, what would
you be doing?
36. Who ended Steffi
Graf’s 66-match winning
streak, when beating her
at the 1990 German
Open?
37. Name the UK javelin
thrower who finished
fourth at the
Commonwealth Games
in Auckland?
38. Which NBA team
used to have Go the
Gorilla as its mascot?
39. Who were the first
winners of the
International Football
Cup?
40. Which jockey was
runner up in the Grand
National three times
between 1986 and 1990?
41. Who was the first
athlete to break the 13-
minute barrier in the
men’s 5000 metres?
42. Bridgehampton,
Sebring and the
Riverside have what in
common?
43. In which sport would
infringement of the fiveminute
rule result in
disqualification?
44. In which city did
Steve Redgrave first
strike Olympic gold?
45. In 1976, who was
the first woman to
referee a men’s football
match?
46. Which was the last
team to reach the final of
football’s European Cup
with the entire starting 11
being from the same
country?
47. Who was the first
female golfer to land the
British and US Opens in
the same year?
48. Who won two
Wimbledon titles in one
day in 1996?
49. In the Nineties,
who was the first F1
driver to win the
first race of the season
and NOT go on to
then win the World
Championship in that
season?
50. Which golfer always
marks his ball on greens
with a penny made in the
Sixties?
