Tonight, once more, the responsibility of ensuring that the trivia-obsessed denizens of Highgate have a fun Tuesday evening is ours. The quiz goes OK, perhaps a little bit on the hard side or perhaps the quizzers are saving up their knowledge in case they get called up for the snowball. I certainly am. I’m distraught, then, when my ticket doesn’t come up and the winning question is about Formula One. Who made the first British car to win the British Grand Prix? I know it. Does the ticket-holder? Yes, he does, and my ever-growing Snowball enemies list gains another entry.

Here’s our questions – answers on request.

Round One (Stu)

Round Two (Oli)

Beer round (me)

1. Which long time European dictator’s name derived from the Serbo-Croat for “you – that”, in reference to his style of issuing orders?
2. Who is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having performed the most stunts of any living actor? Outtakes, including horrible injuries, are shown as the credits roll in all his films.
3. Who turned down the 1972 Oscar for Best Actor, sending native American activist Sacheen Littlefeather to the ceremony to explain his reasons?
4. Which former Arsenal and Liverpool footballer, now at Real Zaragoza, had to play several games in 2005 wearing an electronic tag, following a conviction for drinkdriving?
5. How is singer-songwriter Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou better known?

Tie-break: thanks to a landmark study published recently, humankind now knows that dog fleas jump higher than cat fleas do. How high does the average dog flea jump?

Round Three (Pete)

Round Four (me)

1. A question about musicians.
     a)Who would you find a 5 metre high statue of in Barranquilla, Columbia?
     b) Who would you find a 4 metre high statue of in Vilnius, Lithuania?
2. What did the Fonze do in an episode of Happy Days 1977? It has given rise to an expression denoting the moment when a formerly acclaimed television programme has gone into terminal decline.
3. The famous unabomber got his nickname from an acronym used by the police deriving from his two principle targets. What were they?
4. On the day that Labour leader John Smith died, an episode of which medical drama was cancelled due to the unfortunate coincidence of the series’s name?
5. Which sitcom character’s vocabulary was generally restricted to approximately four words, although his first words on screen were the surprisingly eloquent “How did that gobshite get on the television?”
6. According to the FAQ section of the US Secret Service website, what is the reason that Secret Service agents wear sunglasses?
7. Who resigned from Cincinnati city council in 1974 after admitting to hiring a prostitute, but returned to the council in 1975 and served as mayor of the city from 1977-78? He subsequently left politics and pursued a much more notable career in broadcasting.
8. Australian prime ministers Paul Keating and John Howard, Canadian cyclist Louis Garneau, and most recently Michelle Obama have all contravened which unwritten rule of international diplomacy?
9. The title character from which 1987 cult classic drinks 9.5 glasses of red wine, 1 pint of cider, 1 shot of lighter fluid, 2.5 shots of gin, 6 glasses of sherry, 13 whiskeys and 1/2 a pint of ale during the course of the film?
10. What is the Icelandic word for birch?