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11. Which series had heroes modelled on James Garner and Brigitte Bardot, as well as villains based on Claude Rains and Laurence Olivier?

12. Who plays drums in the band The Meddling Kids?

13. What is the surname of the family that have a dog called Spartacus?

14. Which martial arts expert fought the Gum Drop Kid?

15. What, and in which series, is next door to Speedy’s sandwich bar?

16. Which cartoon child was born on February 22, 1963?

17. What had the production title of 100,000 BC?

18. Which serial killer turned out, disappointingly, to be Sheriff Thomas McAllister?

19. With which long-running programme was Linda Barrett briefly associated?

20. In the first episode of which series did Holly Gribbs die?

21. Who did James Patterson tell off for only writing one novel a year?

22. What began with a Starling and ended with a Gayle?

23. Which series was a spin-off from Dad’s Army?

24. Which title character worked as a researcher for Eagle TV’s Searchlight show?

25. In which show was information gathered from Sid the Snitch?

26. Who was the founder of Mouth newspaper?

27. Which series was based on the US programme You Again?

28. In which programme did the first lesbian kiss to be televised in Britain take place?

29. Which MP was interviewed by Brian Walden in a one-off Christmas show in 1994?

30. Which former author hosted the talk show Vermont Today?

31. Who did WC Fields call a “plumber’s idea of Cleopatra”?

32. What was the first film made by Disney company Touchstone?

33. Who was a 5ft 6in cube with the face of a squashed cabbage?

34. Who is “the double-headed director”?

35. The logo for Amblin Films is a prop from which film?

36. The personal film company of which star was called Batjac?

37. Who had Brazil in every curve of her body?

38. Which actress extinguishes her cigarette in a tray of eggs in To Catch a Thief?

39. Which film had the production title of Wimpy?

40. Which actor tells Pamela Sue Martin to take off her skirt in The Poseidon Adventure (1972)?

41. In which film did Linda Darnell play an Indian?

42. “Movie, what movie?” is a tag-line associated with which film?

43. In which film can you have a drink at the Swinging Star nightspot?

44. Which actress was an inspiration for Marilyn Monroe’s portrayal of Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes?

45. Which horror film was appropriately edited at 666 5th Avenue in New York?

46. Through a poster of which actress does Andy Dufresne escape in The Shawshank Redemption?

47. Whose two methods of acting were with his teeth in and his teeth out?

48. “Can’t talk, can’t act – she’s sensational”. Which famous actress’ opinion of Ava Gardner?

49. Which film “almost starred Bela Lugosi”?

50. Which actress has played Supergirl and Lana Turner?

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11. Who wrote his best-known book because he wanted "to poison a monk"?

12. What was Pinocchio's hat made from?

13. At which establishment did Jimmy, Nosey and Potty all teach?

14. Released in 2013, what has Stephen King titled the much anticipated follow-up to The Shining?

15. What was the name of the dog in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

16. Who had a mouth like a fireplace and a chimney for a nose?

17. Who inherits Plumfield Estate?

18. Who connect Joyce, Carroll and Kipling? This should be connects?

19. Which Rankin creation supports Hibernian?

20. The Brothers Grimm started to work on their own dictionary but only got as far as which letter?

21. Created by Patricia Highsmith, which instrument was played moderately by Tom Ripley?

22. Who suffered from the Morbids and the Demons?

23. Which child of the 1990s is an arachnophobe but not frightened of monkey bars?

24. Who is to update Poirot?

25. Who thought that people could be split into sponges, sand-glasses, strain-bags and mogul diamonds?

26. Which animal was atop the umbrella of Mary Poppins?

27. And which Harry Potter character is believed to have disguised his wand as an umbrella?

28. In which novel is there a computer called Earth?

29. In which specific type of confectionary does Charlie Bucket find his golden ticket?

30. Who had an American pen-friend called Mancini?

31. What nationality was Ian Fleming's criminal mastermind Dr No?

32. Who writes the Rutshire Chronicles?

33. Who was responsible for starting the Angel Fish and Aquarium Club?

34. Who was called the Dickens of Detroit?

35. What did the foolish Abel Drugger sell?

36. In which sort of factory did Arthur Seaton work?

37. Which John was often called barbecue?

38. The alter-ego of which author died of cancer of the pseudonym?

39. Which secret agent had a mother that was a nurse before she was tragically blown up?

40. Which author lived at Mulberry Hill?

41. Which author co-founded the Orange Prize?

42. Who has fallen out with his keyboard and now only speaks to his computer?

43. Who is credited with inventing the cocktail party?

44. William Boyd, the man charged with updating 007, has described which of Fleming's Bond novels as a turkey and an aberration?

45. The first case of which detective, solved when she was eight, involved stolen cake?

46. Who wrote his own obituary and published it six years before his death?

47. In which novel does a woman own Death, Ashes and Dust, among many others?

48. In which novel does the great Belgian detective Hercule Poirot die (by matchbox)?

49. Which 2013 novel ends with a passage from Ulysses?

50. Which author swapped a pudding for a strawberry?

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11. Which is the largest desert in the world?

12. Which Suffolk town has a disappearing cat population?

13. Who was born above a corner shop and died at the Ritz?

14. Of which organisation is Andre Cox currently the General?

15. What was Uriel’s biblical job?

16. In which city’s train station are all clocks deliberately set one minute fast?

17. Which fashion designer was responsible for the Nazi uniform?

18. The design of which company logo supposedly includes a hidden Danish flag?

19. What did Michelangelo give Adam that he didn’t have previously?

20. Who once sent Harpo Marx a barbed wire harp?

21. Who was mother to four English kings?

22. Aristotle believed there were only three and China as a country believes there are five. There are in fact seven. Seven what?

23. Who was the only American to get a favourable mention in Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf?

24. Who are Lizzie, Harry, Homer and Henry?

25. Where can you take a course in politicising Beyonce?

26. Who or what was assigned number 6113 in 1996?

27. Which company’s certificate of authenticity included a Countess as a watermark?

28. Who swapped half a pizza company for a full car?

29. “British wife wins Nobel Prize” was a British newspaper’s description of which triumph?

30. Which was the first of the Walton sextuplets to be born?

31. Under what colourful name did the colourful Isabelle Collin Dufresne become known?

32. What is the official drink of the USAmerican state of Rhode Island?

33. Which was the first national airline to officially ban smoking on its planes?

34. Who might have been first shot by Matt or Rob or at least two others?

35. Which country is the world’s largest producer of cherries?

36. What did your name have to be in order to travel around the world with Jordan Axani?

37. Glass Gem is much sought after. What is it?

38. In terms of deaths, what was the world’s worst ever volcanic eruption?

39. Who is probably the most famous man to have been a sports writer for the New York Morning Telegraph?

40. Over three-quarters of the world’s opals are produced by which company?

41. Who owned Miss, Bang, Shot and Damn?

42. Who once won his country’s election by receiving more than 215,000 more votes than there were members of the electorate?

43. Which was the first death to be recorded as Aortic Dissection?

44. What was designed by Louis and modelled on Dorothy?

45. Which seafood dish takes its name from the French Revolutionary Calendar?

46. Which country has a name which translates as hippopotamus?

47. Which leader was once offered a million dollars for a 1980s VW Beetle?

48. Thomas Selfridge once piloted a plane designed by which Scot?

49. What was sent out of business by a Mr Bigg in 1975?

50. How did Robert C Hershey appropriately die in 1974?

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11. “At Penhill crags he tore his rags, at Hunter’s Thorn he blew his horn, at Capplebank stee he brak his knee, at Grishill beck he brak his neck.” What is the name of the well-worn old favourite being described here?

12. “No presents, no bonuses, no humbug of any sort” was the motto of whom?

13. Who was up in the air selling black puddens a penny a pair?

14. What was the birthplace of the Fighting Bradfords?

15. And where were the Battling Cooper boys born?

16. In which town can Dorothy Browne’s cross be found?

17. What do Willie Brand and Parkin Raine share?

18. Between which two places did the Cinder Track run?

19. Who attempted to sing the cat pie and the row in the guttor although somewhat inebriated in gin?

20. Attwood’s Foundry, supplier of cannonballs for the Crimean War, was to be found in which town?

21. Where was once dubbed Durham’s Little Hiroshima?

22. Which football team are nicknamed the Real Red Devils?

23. Which part of Coundon has a namesake in London?

24. What were once called “sable, solemn, still and sulphurous”?

25. If Adam is probably Alan, and Jane is probably Sarah, then who is Eva (probably)?

26. If you were sampling “Yorkshire’s lunatic broth” what would you be enjoying?

27. Which author famously lodged in Whitby, at 5 East Terrace?

28. Which town has snake stones on its coat of arms?

29. To which village would you go to read about the Parable of the Vinegar?

30. Which civil parish includes Byshottles in its official name?

31. Which town bought Mission Eleven 0 One?

32. Through the middle of which village does the Waterfall Beck run?

33. In which town was the bell of Big Ben cast, only for it to famously crack?

34. Where will you find the Montpelier of the North?

35. What was the strangest village in Britain in 2005?

36. In which town or village is the Pickled Parson a permanent guest?

37. With which nationality would you associate Hutton Hall, St Peter’s, Gainford and St Mary’s, Tudhoe?

38. Between which villages will you find the HOW triangle?

39. What did Harry Jenkins claim to be before he died in Bolton-on-Swale?

40. Where is Keel Row shopping centre?

41. What was described in 1957 as “the town that has no heart”?

42. In which hamlet did a seer, on April 24th, watch to see, from the vantage point of Old Hell Road, the spectral bodies of those about to die?

43. Who or what was the Hedley Kow?

44. Lynn Matthews, of Sunderland, almost won what in 1974?

45. Charles Robinson Sykes, from Brotton, was responsible for the design of what?

46. What were the surnames of the three Bishop Auckland players lent to Manchester United to help the team following the 1958 Munich air crash?

47. Which designer’s place of birth is generally accepted to be Stockton, although Middleton St George also lays claim?

48. With which country did Tyne Tees television do a programme exchange in 1966?

49. Alnwick is reputed to have a history of distilling which spirit?

50. Which music star played Middleton St George training college on May 12, 1973?

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11. In which song do we meet a banker, a fireman, a nurse and a barber?

12. Collectively, who are Wish, Layzie, Krayzie, Flesh-N and Bizzy?

13. Who have recently called themselves “The Soul Boys of the Western World”?

14. What was the name of MC Kat’s home girl?

15. Which Canadian singer is known as the Godfather of Grunge?

16. Pray, by MC Hammer, sampled which Prince song?

17. Etc was the companion album to which album by whom?

18. Anthony, godson of Sonny Bono, can be found in which band?

19. Which dance track’s full title includes the “word” nuxx?

20. Which song connects Simon and Garfunkel, Suggs and the Vamps?

21. Which female singer’s own record label was the named Beehive records?

22. In which successful dance act will you find the son of Berry Gordy?

23. The Bedsit Tapes were a famous bootleg featuring which duo?

24. Who split their songs into categories, normally blue and red?

25. Which female’s stage name is usually abbreviated to LB?

26. Which was the Thompson Twins’ first album as a trio?

27. Which iconic rap song includes Superman and Dracula within its lyrics?

28. An off-the-cuff remark by Kylie Minogue inspired the title of which hit?

29. Which 1982 album smelt of fruit?

30. Which U2 hit single was supposedly inspired by Visage?

31. Which member of the Jam co-managed the Vapours?

32. Who might have been called Burning Peacocks?

33. The Postcard record label was originally centred on Orange Juice, Aztec Camera and which other act?

34. Which band are Starchild, Catman, Demon and Spaceman?

35. Which band had an appropriately named record label called Reception?

36. The laugh on which 1983 hit was inspired by Grandmaster Flash?

37. Butterfly Farm was one of the original names of which girl group?

38. Which band has remodelled Sergeant Pepper with the help of Miley Cyrus, among others?

39. Noel Gallagher has been recorded as saying he would give up all ten of his albums in order to have written which 1970s album?

40. Lily Rose Allen, now Cooper, is ultra-famous, but under which name does near namesake Louisa Rose Allen perform?

41. Which nu/heavy metal outfit are known by numbers rather than names?

42. Which Midlands band described themselves as playing multi-tone music, rather than two-tone?

43. The follow-up to which number one was going to be a song called Masters of the Force?

44. Which 1980 hit paraphrased Simon and Garfunkel?

45. Who are Derek, Matt and Dan?

46. Which album had the original title of Invisible Hands?

47. Who changed their name from Face 2 Face in time for chart success?

48. In the lyrics of which disco classic are Charlie Chan and Sherlock Holmes mentioned?

49. Who replaced Marilyn with Barbara in 1984?

50. For who did Charles, Brad and John provide the vocals?

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11. Which tennis star once caddied for Rory McIlroy?

12. In which sport might you have seen Daddles the duck?

13. With which sport would you associate the Maurice Podoloff Trophy?

14. Which was the first country to ever boycott the Winter Olympic Games?

15. Petco Park, the venue of Great Britain’s famous Davis Cup victory over the US in 2013, is home to which sporting team?

16. What is the name of the last horse to win the Grand National underweight?

17. What was Quinton Ross thought to infamously be?

18. Who once won 11 matches just to qualify for the Snooker World Championships?

19. Who was the first (West) German to miss a penalty at the World Cup finals?

20. Who partnered Serena Williams to her only two Grand Slam mixed doubles titles?

21. Which former world number two is now a nun?

22. Who was the first left arm bowler to take nine wickets in an official Test match?

23. Who is known as the “sledgehammer of eternal justice”?

24. Which golfer earned himself a £114,000 BMW for shooting a hole in one at the 2014 European Masters?

25. Who was once known as Project 45?

26. Who is the tallest player to have represented the Harlem Globetrotters?

27. Which two left-handers have won the BDO world darts championship?

28. What did Fiorentina win in 1959?

29. Which cricket ground is famous for the tree inside its boundary?

30. Who used to take his fillings out because he was afraid his mind would be controlled otherwise?

31. What nationality are the three boxers who were the only brothers to have held world championships at the same time?

32. Which two countries were involved in the Olympic water polo match known as the “blood in the water” game?

33. Which was the last team, other than Real Madrid, to break the world football transfer record?

34. Which cricketer was playing in the T20 match in which Chris Gayle hit 175, as well as the T20 match in which Aaron Finch hit 156?

35. Which ice-hockey player was once banned for 47 matches?

36. Which driver was the only one to finish all F1 races in the 2013 season?

37. Who, in 2014, had his first century break at the Crucible for nine years?

38. Which star is featured in silhouette on the Australian Open tennis tournament logo?

39. Who was the first referee to use “vanishing spray” in an official competitive English football match?

40. The 2014 European Ryder Cup team featured how many Major winners?

41. Who has ridden winners in the Melbourne Cup, The Breeders Cup, the Arc De Triomphe and the English Derby?

42. What was the surname of the first father and son to play in the same US Masters golf tournament?

43. Who designed the bike used by Chris Boardman to propel him to 1992 success?

44. Which four American football teams have humans incorporated in their logos?

45. In which sport are Ostrich and Phoenix unlikely terms?

46. Jenny Pitman was the first, but which two other women have trained a Grand National winner?

47. Who was the first Australian to make it on to both the batting and the bowling boards at Lords?

48. What did Gerd Mueller once say was the only fault that he could see in Lionel Messi?

49. Which cricketer has a front lawn that reputedly is grass he “acquired” from the Wacca cricket ground?

50. Which tennis star learnt English by listening to the American comedy channel?







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