Round 1 – Starter Round



Round 1 – Starter Round

1 Who is reputed to have said that the best thing to come out of Swansea was the A484 to Llanelli ?

2. Gary Sobers was playing for which county when he scored 6 sixes off the bowling of Glamorgan’s Malcolm Nash ?

3. In 1839, the British army shot dead over 20 people in Newport belonging to which organization ?.

4. During World War 2, Manod Slate Quarry in Ffestiniog was used to house precious items from where ?

5. Where did Plaid Cymru win its first parliamentary seat in 1966 ?

6. Which Welsh industry suffered a three-year lockout in 1900/03 ?

7. Large numbers of people ascended Snowdon on June 29 1927, the railway beginning operations in the early hours. What was the reason for this activity ?

8. Which fictional seaside town features in ‘Under Milk Wood’ ?

9. The surname of which snooker player is also the name of a prison in Dublin ?

10. After a meeting in Birmingham, Lloyd George had to flee out of the back door because of strong reaction to Lloyd George’s opposition to what ?

1. Dylan Thomas 2. Nottinghamshire 3. Chartists 4. National Gallery 5. Carmarthen 6. Slate 7. Solar Eclipse 8. Llareggub 9. Mountjoy 10. Boer War

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Round 2 – Link Round (all answers contain a Welsh place name)

1. Who started playing cricket with Leicestershire in 1975 and moved to Hampshire in 1989?

2. Who was a camera operator on The African Queen, the director of Sons and Lovers and Girl on a Motorcycle and continued with technical help on films like Death on the Nile and Rambo ?

3 Which string puppet had a friend called Ted and another ‘friend’ Looby Loo who only came to life when no-one else was around ?

4. What is dried in rows called windrows and stored in stacks ?

5. Where in Pennsylvania did George Washington winter in 1777/78 ?

6. Who led the Charge of the Light Brigade, survived and became a Lieutenant-General in 1861 ?

7. What was the capital of the Confederate States of America until May 1861 ?

8. Which tree belongs to the Rowan family and grows at a higher altitude in Britain than any other tree ?

9. Which Cambridge college was founded in 1347 by Mary de St Pol ?

10. Who captained England to victory in the first Women’s Cricket World Cup in 1973?

1.. David Gower 2. Jack Cardiff 3. Andy Pandy 4. Hay 5. Valley Forge 6. Lord Cardigan 7. Montgomery 8. Mountain Ash 9, Pembroke College 10. Rachel Heyhoe-Flint

Round 3 - Acrostic Round (The first letter of each answer spells out the name of a town)

1. Which beach on Carmarthen Bay was used in the 1920’s for world land speed records ?

2. What is the largest archaeological monument in Britain at 240 kilometers long ?

3. Which twin city of Cardiff also gave its name to an Edict of 1598 allowing religious freedom to the Huguenots ?

4. Where was Britain’s only inland nuclear power station ?

5. Who was born in Boston in America but became High Sheriff of Denbigh in 1704 ?

6. What is the highest waterfall in Wales ?

7. Where did John Prescott punch someone during the 2001 election ?

8. What sport did the Cardiff Devils play ?

9. Cromlechs are normally known by which other Celtic name outside of Wales ?

10. What group of people had their base in Anglesey and were destroyed by the Romans under Agricola in the 70s AD. ?

1.. Pendine Sands 2. Offa’ Dyke 3. Nantes 4. Trawsfynydd 5. (Elihu) Yale 6. 6. Pistyll Rhaeadr 7. Rhyl 8. Ice Hockey 9. Dolmens 10. Druids

Round 4 - General Round

1. Which town in the Crimea is also the name of an area of Pontypool ?

2. Which railway celebrated its opening day in style when one of its locomotives went over a cliff ?

3. Talfryn Thomas played a popular Welsh character called Cheeseman in which TV program?

4. Which agency under the administration of the Welsh Assembly has responsibility for protecting, conserving and promoting an appreciation of the historic environment of Wales ?

5. Who resigned in 1986 over the Westland affair and was planning to mislead parliament over Cruise Missiles, according to the testimony of civil servant Sarah Tisdall who was jailed for leaking this information ?

6. What was the name of the railway bridge over the Menai Straits destroyed by fire in 1970 ?

7. Which hill between Abergavenny and Blaenavon gives a lie to the statement that the word ‘orange’ has no word to rhyme with ?

8. Llewelyn the Great married the daughter of which English king ?

9. Who is Shakespeare describing here : In faith, he is a worthy gentleman. Exceedingly well-read and profited in strange concealments ?

10. ‘Men of Harlech’ was allegedly inspired by the castle’s 8-year resistance to siege during which conflict ?

1. Sebastapol 2. Snowdon Mountain Railway 3. Dad’s Army 4. CADW 5. Michael Heseltine 6. Britannia 7. Blorenge 8. John 9. Owain Glyndwr 10. War of Roses

Round 5 - People

1. A statue is planned in Caerphilly to which native born comedian (although he only stayed there until he was three) ?

2. In 1967, which Newport and Wales Rugby Union player transferred to Salford Rugby League Club ?

3. Who criticized Labour councillors thus : They’re all the same, they’re short, they’re fat, they’re slimy and they’re fundamentally corrupt ?

4. Who won the Berlin Marathon in 1991 and ran in the Olympic Marathon in 1996

5. Which Cardiff singer started out as a rock-and-roll singer, backed by the Sunsets ?

6. Who was born in 1925 as Richard Jenkins in Pontrhydyfen ?

7. Who won the US Masters in 1991 and has a reputation for being one of the shortest golfers in the professional ranks ?

8. Who produced poems like Gwalia Deserta and Angry Summer and is a noted favorite of Neil Kinnock ?

9. Who painted the portrait of Dylan Thomas from about 1938 which is to be seen in the National Museum of Wales ?

10. Who was due to be officially punished for plundering and ravaging Panama City, but was made Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica by Charles II ?

1. Tommy Cooper 2. David Watkins 3. Rod Richards 4. Steve Brace 5. Shaking Stevens

6. Richard Burton 7. Ian Woosnam 8. Idris Davies 9. Augustus John 10. Henry Morgan

Round 6 Connection Round – all the answers are linked in a way which is not given

1. Who was elected as MP for Cynon Valley in the 2001 election ?

2,. In the Comic Relief version of Big Brother, who was continually trying to escape, was dressed in his coat, bags at the ready, every time the vote was due to be announced, but actually won in the end ?

3.. Which engine powered the Vickers VC 10 and the Handley Page Victor ?

4. Which comic strip appeared on the cover of the Eagle comic from 1950 ?

5. Where in Cambridgeshire was there a rebellion against the Normans until 1071, lead by Hereward the Wake ? A cathedral was built there from 1083 onwards

6. Which car was introduced by Lotus in 1962 ?

7. James Dean had his first leading role playing a rebellious son in which film based on a book by John Steinbeck ?

8. What was the name of the accords reached between Israel and Palestine in 1998 ?

9. What name was adopted by the poet John Hughes, who became extremely popular in the 1860s especially ?

10. Which railway company won a victory against a trade union in 1901, an event which had the effect of helping to establish the Labour Party ?

1. Ann Clwyd 2. Jack Dee 3. Conway 4. Dan Dare 5. Ely 6. Elan 7. East of Eden 8. Wye Accords 9. Ceiriog 10. Taff Vale

Tie-Break Question (if required) : What is the length of the main span of Telford’s Menai Bridge (in metric units) : 176m ?

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