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From Worldtraveller

I set rounds one and three, Pete did rounds two and beer, and Oli did round four.

Questions

Round One

1. In P&O Ferries, what do the P and O stand for?
2. Anyone who was reasonably young in the early 1990s is probably familiar with the Russian folk tune Korobeiniki. Why?
3. Three people with the same name: one died in Cusco, Peru in 1572, another in the same place in 1781, and a third in Las Vegas in 1996. Who were they?
4. The first president of Zimbabwe passed a law in 1982 forbidding citizens from making jokes about his name. Who was he?
5. Which countries produce the most a) coffee and b) cocoa beans?
6. What famous words were spoken in Ujiji on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in 1871?
7. Halle Berry and Paul Verhoeven have turned up to collect theirs in person but most recipients don't. What?
8. Where would you find the Spirit of Ecstasy?
9. Apart from the Vatican City and Rome, the two closest capital cities in the world lie just over a mile apart on opposite banks of the ninth-longest river in the world. Which two capitals are they?
10. "War and Peace", "Revolutionary Heroism" and "The correct handling of contradictions among the people" are some of the essays which appear in which legendary book?

Round Two

1. The Cutty Sark gets its name from a line in which poem?
2. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released on 1 June 1967, and its first CD release was on 1 June 1987. Why, specifically, was this date chosen?
3. Following a recipe change, which product was recently announced to be Kosher in London but not in Manchester?
4. Which actor and comedian, a life-long fan of the Proclaimers, wrote the sleeve notes to their Best of album, and recently helped them score their biggest chart hit?
5. To mark the 100th anniversary of his birth, Laurence Olivier's Trilogy of Shakespeare films is being remastered. Which English Composer wrote the scores for all three?
6. Only two people who haven't been canonised have colleges at both Oxford and Cambridge named after them. Who?
7. What is a. Tahcycardia. b. Dextrocardia. c. Cardiomegaly. d. Acardia
8. Before Saturday became established as the 'second' day off in the working week, what day did Sheffield steelworkers have off?
9. Complete the quotation from the Arctic Monkeys: 'Yeah I'd like to tell you all my problem /You're not from New York City, you're from...'
10. The Territory occupied by the Habsburg empire in 1914 now forms part or all of 12 European countries. Which ones?

Beer Round

1. According to the 2005 British Resuscitation Council guidelines, by which two word term are the following heart rhythms collectively known: asystole, pulseless ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation, electro-mechanical dissociation?
2. In deference to nationalist sentiment, how is the Queen's signature rendered on Scottish pillar boxes?
3. Which Sex Pistols track tells the story of a young fan having an abortion?
4. According to R&B act TLC, what is the term for men "who can't get no love from me, riding in the passenger's side of his best friends car, trying to holler at me"?
5. Which book was first published in London in 1858, and is now in its 39th edition? Illustrations from the original specimens were produced by Dr Henry Vandyke Carter; the current edition has full colour illustrations and is available on CD-ROM.

Tie-break: What is the average number of a London bus?

Round Three

1. Which spiritual leader's title means "ocean of wisdom" in Mongolian?
2. Which country's four official languages are English, Mandarin, Tamil and Malay?
3. Which is furthest east, Santiago de Chile or New York?
4. This law enforcement body has been the subject of a TV series and three films. Strangely, it was located in Chicago during the TV series but Los Angeles in the films, and one of the officers who had been white in the TV series was black in the films. What is it?
5. Who was the only female competitor at the 1976 Montreal olympics who didn't have to have a gender test?
6. What did former Secretary of State for Overseas Development Reg Prentice do on 8 October 1977 that has not been done since?
7. Three bands from the 1990s: a) who took their name from a character in 'To Kill A Mockingbird'? b) who took their name from a character in 'The Clangers'? c) who took their name from a character in 'Alice's adventures in Wonderland'?
8. What did the Czech Republic, Georgia, Montenegro and Serbia do on May 10th his year that they had never done before?
9. Douglas Adams supposedly bought the first one in the UK, and Stephen Fry the second. What?
10. Name all the countries in the world which end with -stan

Round Four

1. Which 1980s gay anthem, which declares the singer's wish to have a man who is "no seven stone weakling or a man who thinks he's a girl", was written by Reverend George Hargreaves, now leader of the Christian Party?
2. If something that comes from the east is Oriental, what are things from a) the west, b) the north, c) the south called?
3. Which currently sitting MP was described as "the straight choice" on official party leaflets during the by-election campaign which first brought him into parliament, and was reported in the Guardian at the time to have "romped home with a giant swing" when he won?
4. Arnold Schwarzenegger first said "I'll be back" in his film, The Terminator. However, he has uttered the phrase in a further six films. Name three.
5. A recent BBC Radio 6Music poll set out to find out the worst lyrics of any song ever. In each of the following extracts from nominated songs, fill in the blanks, (which can be more than one word):

   a) Des'ree - Life:

   I don't want to see a ghost,

   It's the sight that I fear most,

   I'd rather have a __________________

   b) Snap - Rhythm Is A Dancer

   I'm as serious as _____________,

   When I say Rhythm is a Dancer.

   c) Razorlight - Somewhere Else

   And I met a girl,

   she asked me my name,

   I told her _________________.

   d) ABC - That Was Then But This Is Now

   More Sacrifices than an Aztec priest,

   Standing here straining at that leash,

   All fall down,

   Can't complain, mustn't grumble,

   Help yourself to ______________________________

6. What welsh pop-rap group were responsible for the 2004 single 'your mother's got a penis'?
7. It is the year 3000. The Psychlos, a race of dreadlocked aliens, are raping Earth of its natural resources to revive their own dead planet. John Travolta plays Terl, the blustering Psychlo chief of security. What film am I talking about?
8. What links a surface of revolution generated by revolving a circle in three dimensional space about an axis coplanar with the circle, which does not touch the circle, the shape of a popular piece of confectionary and the inner tube of a bike tyre?
9. Which children's TV series is to be investigated in Poland to see if it promotes a homosexual lifestyle?
10. Famous last words of characters in Hamlet - name the character:

    a) The rest is silence [dies]

    b) No, no! the drink, the drink! O my dear Hamlet! The drink, the drink! // I am poison'd. [Dies.]

    c) He is justly serv'd. // It is a poison temper'd by himself. // Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet. // Mine and my father's death come not upon thee, // Nor thine on me! [Dies.]

    d) God 'a'mercy on his soul! // And of all Christian souls, I pray God. God b' wi' you. (dies offstage)

    e) O, I am slain! [Dies]

Answers

Round One

1. Peninsular and Oriental
2. Tetris theme
3. Tupac Amaru I, II and Shakur
4. Canaan Banana
5. a) Brazil b) Cote d'Ivoire
6. Dr Livingstone I presume?
7. Razzie awards
8. Bonnet of a Rolls Royce
9. Kinshasa and Brazzaville
10. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung - Little Red Book

Round Two

1. Tam o'Shanter by Burns
2. "It was twenty years ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play"
3. Mars Bars
4. Matt Lucas
5. William Walton
6. Isaac Wolfson and Jesus
7. a) Fast heartbeat, b) heart on the right, c) enlarged heart, d) being born with no heart
8. Heart attack
9. Wednesday, hence Sheffield Wednesday FC
10. Rotherham
11. Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine

Beer Round

1. Cardiac arrest
2. ER
3. Bodies
4. Scrubs
5. Gray's Anatomy

The connection, obviously, is that the answers are all medical TV shows.

Tie-break - the sum of all London bus route numbers is 160,675, and there are 718 bus routes, so the average bus route number is 223.78

Round Three

1. Dalai Lama
2. Singapore
3. Santiago is at 70.40W, NY is at 73.55W
4. Police Squad
5. Princess Anne
6. Defected from Labour to the Conservatives
7. a) Boo Radleys b) Soup Dragons c) Mock Turtles
8. Entered the Eurovision Song Contest
9. Apple Macintosh computers
10. Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

Round Four

1. So Macho by Sinitta
2. a) Occidental, b) Boreal, c) Austral (one team put 'soft as shite' which we liked but sadly couldn't give points for).
3. Simon Hughes
4. a) Piece of toast, b) Cancer, c) What it was, d) Another piece of apple crumble
5. Terminator II, Twins, Commando, Running Man, Total Recall, Last Action Hero. He also said I'm back in Kindergarten Cop, I may be back in The Sixth Day, and She'll be back in Terminator III
6. Goldie Looking Chain
7. Battlefield Earth
8. All are toruses
9. Teletubbies
10. a) Hamlet, b) Gertrude, c) Laertes, d), Ophelia, e) Polonius

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