1. What Nationality Was Anne Frank?

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First Round

1.  What nationality was Anne Frank?

2. What is the Latin word for ‘cloud’ – a word often used in Astronomy??

3. Which comedian used to open his shows with a ‘party trick’ involving his reflection in a shop window?

4. What name did the Japanese give to the so-called ‘Divine Wind’ that scattered a potential Mongol invasion fleet?

5. What is the main ingredient of Borsch?

6. Who fronted the City Slickers?

7. Which Egyptian prince won Jerusalem back from the Christians in 1187?

8. What is the common term for sunburnt eyeballs?

9. To whom did Eric Morecambe claim that he was playing all the right notes – but not necessarily in the right order?

10. A German Mastiff is also known by what name?

1. German 2. Nebula 3. Harry Worth 4. Kamikaze 5. Beetroot 6. Spike Jones 7. Saladin 8. Snow Blindness 9. Andre Previn 10. Great Dane

Round 2 : Initial Letter Round - all the answers start with the letter D (for people this will be the surname)

1. Who arrived in Britain when the mysterious ‘Demeter’ crashed into Whitby harbour?

2. Which inventor disappeared, presumably overboard, from the ship Dresden?

3. Which scientific effect causes sound to increase in pitch when the source is traveling towards you, and decrease when traveling away ( the same idea as used by police radar traps) ?

4. The horse "High Hat" features in which film?

5. Where do Scottish League club Queen of the South hail from?

6. Which composer composed the symphony that was often used in Hovis adverts?

7. Which is allegedly the only word in the English language to end in ‘MT’?

8. What is the real name of the ‘Count of Monte Cristo’?

9. Which city is sometimes referred to as the ‘Elbe Florence’?

10. What was the original capital of the state of Michigan?

1. Dracula 2. Diesel 3. Doppler Effect 4. Day at the Races (Marx Brothers) 5. Dumfries 6. Dvorak 7. DREAMT 8. Edmond Dantes 9. Dresden 10. Detroit

Round 3 : Link Round - all the answers contain the name of a bird

1. Who became a Radio 1 disk jockey in 1970, the first female to occupy such a post on a national BBC station?

2. Which twins have become probably the first set of twins in the House of Commons, representing constituencies on Merseyside?

3. Which play by Chekhov produced the emblem used by the Moscow Arts Theater?

4. In which book, based in the Southern USA. does the white lawyer Atticus Finch defend a black man Tom Robinson?

5. Which Michael Caine films tells of German soldiers taking over an English village disguised as Poles?

6. Which criminal organization was the major enemy of UNCLE?

7. Which ecclesiastical rank is just below the pope?

8. Which role did Jodie Foster play in ‘Silence of the Lambs’?

9. What is the two-name nickname, of American origin, for the Great Bear constellation?

10, Who wrote about a land inhabited by very small people, who engaged in a major dispute about whether it was best to open a boiled egg at the small end or the big end?

1 Anne Nightingale 2. (Maria and Angela) Eagle 3. Seagull 4. To Kill a Mockingbird 5. The Eagle has Landed 6. THRUSH 7. Cardinal 8. Clarice Starling 9. Big Dipper 10. Jonathon Swift

Round 4 : Acrostic Round - the initial letters of the answers spell out a country (for people this will be the surname)

1. Which beach in Rio de Janeiro became well-known in the 60s because of Astrid Gilberto and Stan Getz?

2. Three British jet bombers of the early 50s began with which letter?

3 What character did Jimmy Nail play in ‘Auf Wiedersehen Pet’?

4. What name is given to the breeding grounds of penguins, a name which makes reference to another bird?

5. Which Belgian border town had a population over five times as large during the Middle Ages?

6. Which film of 1977 tells of a Mars mission that was aborted and then took place in a TV studio?

7. Which famous train ran between Paris and Istanbul?

8. Which former dock in Liverpool houses the Tate Gallery?

9. Where did the German navy scuttle itself after the First World War?

10. Odysseus went on his adventures after returning from which city?

1. Ipanema 2. V (Valiant, Victor, Vulcan) 3. Oz Osbourne 4. Rookeries 5 Ypres 6. Capricorn One 7. Orient Express 8. Albert Dock 9. Scapa Flow 10. Troy

Round 5 : Specialist Round - all the questions are on London

1.  What was London known as under the Romans?

2.  The Tower of London was built originally using stone from which town in Normandy?

3.  The London Marathon crosses which bridge over the Thames?

4.  Which area of London has entered the Russian language as the word for a Railway station?

5.  Which station was the London terminus of the Great Central, a railway built in the late 19th Century?

6.  Which county technically lost its independent existence when its absorbed completely by Greater London?

7.  The church containing the famous ‘Bow Bells’ is situated on which road?

8.  How many times was Dick Whittington Lord Mayor of London?

9.  In 1889, Ben Tillett lead which group of workers in a struggle for an 8 hour day and 6d an hour?

10.  Which leader of Westminster Council was indicted in 1996 for vote-rigging?

1. Londinium 2. Caen 3. Tower Bridge 4. Vauxhall 5. Marylebone 6. Middlesex 7. Cheapside 8. Four 9. Dockers 10. Shirley Porter

Connection Round - all the answers have a certain connection (which is not given)

1.  What was the name of the Steptoes’ horse?

2.  Who is the narrator of a set of stories written by Joe Harris about Brer Rabbit?

3.  Which TV program featured Zaza the cat and Kiki the frog?

4.  With surname Braithwaite, who is the love of Adrian Mole’s life?

5.  Who played Scott Robinson in ‘Neighbours’;?

6.  Who played the female Russian commander in the film ‘2010:The Year We Make Contact’?

7.  What name was adopted by Cable and Wireless when it was de-nationalized?

8.  What six-letter word is a more scientific name for a jellyfish?

9.  Which five-letter word was the title of a Roxy Music album from 1975?

10.  Dennis Bergkamp moved to Inter Milan in 1993, from which club?

1. Hercules 2. Uncle Remus 3. Hector’s House 4. Pandora 5. Jason Donovan 6. Helen Mirren 7. Mercury 8. Medusa 9. Siren 10. Ajax Amsterdam

Tie Break Question (if required) When was GMT adopted as the world standard? 1884

Pub Quiz No 20

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1. B Week

2. B Bryan Poole (originally backed by the Tremeloes)

3. A The Meadows

4. B Coal Tit

5. D Spain

6. B Apple

7. B Mireille Mathieu

8. B Le Havre

9. A Potatoes

10. D San Diego

11. C Square root of 2

12. A Bernoulli Effect