Answer Green

Owning team answers correctly for full points

Answer Blue

Owning player's team-mate answers for bonus (1 point)

Answer Violet

Opposition answers correctly for a bonus. 

Answer Red

Neither team answers correctly

Round 1

Team Questions

Subject: "Last"

Answers

Team A1

Who had 48 UK Top 50 albums between 1967 & 1993 ~ titles including ‘Make the Party Last’  and ‘Last the Whole Night Long’ ?

James Last (Orchestra)

Team B1

Recording under the name of a German composer who died in 1921, which UK male vocalist reached N^o 3 in the UK album chart in 1967 with ‘The Last Waltz’ ?

Engelbert Humperdinck

Team A2

Created by Roy Clarke, which BBC TV comedy was first screened in 1972 ?

Last of the Summer Wine

Team B2

Screened in 1971, which BBC historical serial was based on the books of James Fenimore Cooper ?

Last of the Mohicans

Team A3

Who had a UK N^o 2 single in July 1975 with ‘The Last Farewell’ ?

Roger Whittaker

Team B3

Who had a UK N^o 8 single in July 1979 with ‘Last Train To London’ ?

ELO

Team A4

In which 1984 film is a teenage video-game whiz-kid abducted by the survivors of a distant planet who need his “combat” skills to outwit their enemies ?

The Last Starfighter

Team B4

Written & directed by James Clavell, which 1970 film - an historical epic starring Michael Caine and Omar Sharrif - is set during the Thirty Years War ?

The Last Valley

Round 2

Team 

Subject: Literary Terms

Answers

Team A1

What name is given to a series of lines, usually verse, where the first letters of each line (and sometimes the last) read down to make a word or phrase ?

Acrostic

Team B1

What name was given in medieval times to a book containing stories and images of real and imagined creatures ?

Bestiary

Team A2

A term coined by John Stuart Mill in 1868, what name describes an imaginary society whose evil qualities are meant to serve as a moral or political warning ?

Dystopia

Team B2

What name is given to a satirical attack on a person in prose or verse, most commonly in the form of a vicious character sketch ?

Lampoon

Team A3

Also a punctuation mark, what name is given to a figure of speech such as an aside addressed to some absent person or quality - e.g. "O Death, where is thy sting?" or Hamlet's "Frailty, thy name is woman"?

Apostrophe

Team B3

An aphorism is a short pithy maxim, usually making a general observation.  What name is given to an aphorism which is universally accepted ?

Proverb

Team A4

What name is given to the humorous verse form invented by Edmund Bentley in which the first line is typically the name of the person who is the poem's subject ?

Clerihew  (i.e. Edmund Bentley's middle name)

Team B4

From the Greek, what name is given to the emotional purging & purification that an audience experiences while watching a harrowing tragic drama ?

Catharsis

Round 3

Team 

Subject: Blankety Blank

Answers

Which word (or words) from a ‘regrettable’ quotation has been replaced by “Blank” or “Blankety Blank”.

Team A1

Idi Amin to Queen Elizabeth II in 1975 - “In view of the success of my economic revolution in Uganda, I offer myself to be appointed Head of the Blank.” ?

Commonwealth

Team B1

A remark attributed to the chairman of IBM in 1943 - “I think there is a world market for about five Blanks.” ?

Computers

Team A2

Prime Minister John Major speaking on BBC2 in 1996 - “With the retirement of Blankety Blank, something sad will have gone out of English cricket.” ?

‘Dickie’ Bird

Team B2

Brian Johnson welcoming listeners to Grace Road, Leicester c.1973 - “You’ve come over at a very appropriate time; Ray Illingworth has just Blankety Blanked at the pavilion end.” ?

“Relieved himself”

Team A3

Margaret Thatcher in 1983 on the occasion of her deputy’s elevation to the House of Lords - “Every Prime Minister should have a Blank.” ?

Willie (Whitelaw)

Team B3

Rather prophetically, just a month before a notorious incident in 1998, the Western Mail printed “What the Welsh Assembly needs now to capture the public imagination is … for Blankety Blank to be caught with his trousers down.” ?

Ron Davies

Team A4

Henry Ford II (the second) in 1957 pronouncing on the model of car which bore his son’s name - “The Blank is here to stay.” ?

Edsel (Ford Edsel)

Team B4

(The blank here is name of its inventor) General Motors announce a move to a new engine type in 1969 - “The Blank will eventually dwarf such … technological developments as … the Polaroid camera and colour television.” ?

Wankel (rotary engine)

Round 4

Individual 

Subject: Recent News

Answers

Team A1

Which Fijian golfer won the US Masters at Augusta this year ?

Vijay Singh

Team B1

Which Uruguayan scored both of Chelsea’s goals in their FA Cup semi-final victory over Newcastle United ?

Gustavo Poyet

Team A2

Accepting his Bafta fellowship, which veteran actor launched a bitter attack on the British movie establishment, saying they’d made him feel like an “outsider” ?

Michael Caine

Team B2

Knighted eight years ago, which actor recently became a US citizen ?

Anthony Hopkins

Team A3

Which union leader said there is "institutional racism at the heart of Government" & accused Home Secretary Jack Straw of "giving life to the racists" ?

Bill Morris

Team B3

Which MP’s body lay on view at the Freedom Hall, Tottenham Green Leisure Centre so people could pay their respects before his funeral last Tuesday ?

Bernie Grant

Team A4

The film’s charity premiere was held in Leicester Square in support of Comic Relief, who stars opposite Harry Enfield in Kevin & Perry Go Large ?

Kathy Burke

Team B4

Who made a keynote speech at the opening of the Model UN Millennium Summit calling upon youngsters to practice ‘safe sex’ ?

Geri Halliwell

Round 5    Team Questions ~ Themed Round

There is a specific link between each of the answers to the four questions that follow.

Teams should write down the four answers and the specific link between those answers and should then exchange papers for marking. Teams only have 1 MINUTE after the reading of the final question to complete their sheets.

TO THE QUESTION-MASTER & TIME-KEEPER

Read the questions as normal, allowing time for teams to jot down some notes.  When you have read the final question (number 4) time one minute.  After the expiry of that one minute, ask the teams to exchange their papers for marking.

Please do not give any answers until after the papers are exchanged

Two points are scored for each correct answer.  Two points are scored for identifying the correct link.

Answers

Q1

Which member of the Royal family - first name will do - was born on 10 March 1964 ?

Edward

Q2

He is also a Labour MP, what is the first name of Tony Benn’s son ?

Hilary

Q3

What was the surname of the character played by Phillip Thomas in "Miami Vice" ?

Tubbs

Q4

What is the more familiar name for the common disorder Epistaxis ?

Nosebleed

The specific link being The League of Gentlemen (Edward & Tubbs run the Local shop and the strange meat sold by the butcher, Hilary, gave everyone in Royston Vasey a nosebleed)

Prior to taking the half-time break the teams were told the subjects for round 9 are as follows ...

Business & Economics

Famous Women (late 19^th/early 20^th century)

Fish

Latin Tags & Phrases

Team members decide over the half-time break which of the subjects each will take in round 9.

Round 6

Team 

Subject: Assassins & Assassinations

Answers

Team B1

In 1170, who was assassinated by Fitzorse, Tracy, Morville and Brito  ?

Thomas á Becket

Team A1

He was Mary Queen of Scots’ second husband, who was blown up in Edinburgh by a group of conspirators in 1567 ?

Lord (Stewart) Darnley

Team B2

Who was shot dead by Nazis in his Vienna Chancellery in 1934 ?

(Dr Engelbert) Dollfuss

Team A2

In 1922, who was killed in an ambush laid for him between Bandon & Macroom in the Irish Republic ?

Michael Collins

Team B3

What was the surname of the disappointed office-seeker who assassinated US President James Garfield in 1881 ?

(Charles) Guiteau

Team A3

What was the surname of the bankrupt Liverpool broker who assassinated British Prime Minister Sir Spencer Perceval in 1812 ?

(John) Bellingham

Team B4

Which Secretary General of the South African Communist party was gunned down outside his home in a Johannesburg suburb in 1993 ?

(Chris) Hani

Team A4

Which former fashion designer was shot dead in Milan in 1995 ?

(Maurizio) Gucci

Round 7

Team 

Subject: European towns & cities

Answers

Team B1

Bregenz and Klagenfurt are provincial capitals in which country ?

Austria

Team A1

Similarly, Constanta and Timisoara ?

Romania

Team B2

Broadly speaking, where in France will you find the towns of Bastia and Calvi ?

Corsica

Team A2

Similarly, Quimper (say “Com-per”) and Rennes ?

Brittany

Team B3

Which Italian port city is the capital of Puglia (say “Pool-ya”) ?

Bari

Team A3

Similarly, Liguria ?

Genoa

Team B4

The birthplace of the artist Albrecht Dürer, which German city on the Pegnitz river was an important meeting place for the Meistersinger ?

Nuremberg

Team A4

Which German city on the Baltic was formerly the administrative headquarters of the Hanseatic League ?

Lűbeck

Round 8

Team 

Subject: World War II

Answers

Team B1

In separate campaigns, which two countries did Russia invade in 1939 ?

Poland & Finland

Team A1

Which two countries were invaded & conquered by Germany in April 1941 ?

Greece & Yugoslavia

Team B2

Popularised by the US comedian Bob Burns in the mid-30s, which ‘spoof’ trombone-like instrument gave its name to an anti-tank weapon used in WWII ?

Bazooka

Team A2

What was the name of the device used by German U-Boats enabling them to run on diesel and recharge their batteries while remaining submerged ?

Schnorkel

Team B3

Named after a fashionable area of London, which fortified site 25 miles southwest of Tobruk was overrun by Rommel’s Afrika Corps in May 1942 ?

Knightsbridge

Team A3

Which architectural style shared its name with the Germans’ final line of defence in Italy ~ running from Pisa, through Florence to Ancona ?

Gothic (Line)

Team B4

Which armed merchantman courageously attacked the German battleship Admiral Scheer in 1940, enabling 32 of the convoy she was escorting to escape ?

Jervis Bay

Team A4

Before she was sunk on encountering an enemy flotilla in 1940, which Royal Navy destroyer rammed & severely damaged the German heavy cruiser Hipper ?

(HMS) Glowworm

Round 9

Individual 

Players choose subjects

Answers

Subject One: Business & Economics

Team B1

If the cost of acquiring a business exceeds the net value of its assets, which one-word term describes the excess ?

Goodwill

Team A1

What two-word term do economists use to designate the fundamental price of something in terms of the benefits foregone to acquire it ?

Opportunity Cost

Subject Two: Famous Women (late 19^th-early 20^th C)

Team B2

Which Polish-born German communist, together with another co-founder of the Spartacist League, was murdered in January 1919 ?

(Rosa) Luxemburg

Team A2

She died in 1912; which campaigner for housing reform and public open spaces was in 1894 a co-founder of the National Trust ?

(Octavia) Hill

Subject Three: Fish

Team B3

What type of fish is a Porbeagle ?

(Mackerel) Shark

Team A3

Of which genus of fish is the Bonito a variety ?

Tuna or Tunny

Subject Four: Latin tags & phrases

Team B4

A question posed in John's Gospel in the New Testament and also a film title, which two-word Latin phrase translates into English as "whither goest thou? " ?

Quo Vadis

Team A4

Now the name of a sweet wine produced in Italy, which two word Latin phrase translates into English as "the tears of Christ" ?

Lachryma Christie