FINGERS ON BUZZERS! 実験（する） your knowledge with University Challenge legend Bamber Gascoigne's 75 iconic questions

By Bamber Gascoigne
Updated: 20:52 BST, 22 January 2010

For 25 years, he was Britain’s most famous TV 質問（する） host as the presenter of University Challenge, and this 週末 Bamber Gascoigne turns 75. To celebrate this milestone, we’ve asked him to 収集する a 質問（する） for Daily Mail readers of his own favourite 75 general knowledge questions. Fingers on buzzers, it’s time to find out just how you’d fare on the programme...

TV icon: Bamber Gascoigne 現在のd 'University Challenge' for 25 years

YOUR STARTERS FOR TEN

1. The villain in the first James 社債 film, starring Sean Connery (pictured), was... Moriarty, Iago, Dr No

2. Who made a 発見 in his bath? Archimedes, Copernicus, Galileo

3. Whose horse was 黒人／ボイコット Bess? Don Quixote, Anna Sewell, 刑事 Turpin

Film classic: Who is Sean Connery playing in this film - the first James 社債 movie?

4. Who wrote Watership 負かす／撃墜する (pictured)? Richard Adams, Gerry Adams, Douglas Adams

5. Who had a long-苦しむing partner called Flo? Andy Warhol, Andy Capp, Andy Kaufmann

6. Mr Darcy is a character in.... Twelfth Night, Pride And Prejudice, Vanity Fair

7. Who was the bandleader? Henry Hall, Henry Holland, Henry Hudson

8. Who was an undeserving dustman? Alf Garnett, Alfred Doolittle, Alfred Gilbert

9. Who (1)偽造する／(2)徐々に進むd the Piltdown Man? Charles Darwin, Charles Dawson, Charles Dickens

10. Who was swallowed by a lion in Blackpool zoo? Albert Chevalier, Albert Einstein, Albert Ramsbottom

11. Whose catchphrase was ‘’er indoors’? 陸軍大佐 Chinstrap, Arthur Daley, Rumpole

12. Which appeared 定期的に in the Dandy? Dan Dare, Dennis the Menace, Desperate Dan

13. Shakespeare’s Merchant Of Venice features... Portia, Cordelia, Ophelia

14. Which is the 漫画家? David Lean, David Livingstone, David Low

15. Which was formed to （選挙などの）運動をする against the use of feathers? Apothecaries’ Society, Lord’s Day Observan ce Society, 王室の Society For The 保護 Of Birds

16. Harold Pinter wrote... The 管理人, The 芸能人, Entertaining Mr Sloane

17. Which Oxford housewife became famous for her marmalade? Mrs Beaton, Mrs Cooper, Mrs Glasse

18. Which is linked with Napoleon? St Clement Danes, St Dunstan, St Helena

The Spice Girls: From left to 権利, Geri Halliwell (Ginger spice), Melanie Chrisholm (Sporty Spice), Emma Bunton (Baby Spice), Melanie Brown (Scary Spice) and Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice)

19. Which Chamberlain became 首相 in 1937? Austen, Joseph, Neville

20. Which dates from the 早期に 1970s? Dead March in Saul, Dead Parrot Sketch, Dead Sea Scrolls

21. Which is linked with a Sleepy Lagoon? 砂漠 Island レコードs, 砂漠 Orchid, 砂漠 ネズミs

22. Which is by Vivaldi? Four Quartets, Four Rivers, Four Seasons

23 . Which was 推定するd upon? Dr Finlay, Dr Livingstone, Dr Who

24. Derby 郡 are known as the... Gunners, 押し通すs, Reds

25. Which of these Number 1 攻撃する，衝突するs of 2000 is by the Spice Girls (pictured)? American Pie, Let Love Lead The Way, Oops! - I Did It Again

...NOW A FEW TRICKY ONES

26. Nelson asked Hardy to kiss him at the 戦う／戦い of... Copenhagen, Trafalgar, The Nile

27. Which game is Irish? 投げつけるing, Pelota, Curling

28. 1858 was the year of... The 広大な／多数の／重要な 嵐／襲撃する, The 広大な／多数の／重要な Train 強盗, The 広大な／多数の／重要な Stink

29. Which has a chapel with a famous Prentice 中心存在? Tolpuddle, Roslin, Papplewick

30. Which is very 特に the 半端物 man out? George Eliot, George Borrow, George Sand

Timid: Who is this 風刺漫画 rabbit?

31. A powerful 小冊子 against smoking was written by... James I, Charles I, Charles II

32. Which was a 愛称 for a British organisation in India? Prester John, John Bull, John Company

33. Emily Davison died... During the Derby, dur ing the 広大な／多数の／重要な 疫病／悩ます of London, during the flu pandemic in 1918

34. Who painted his grandson blowing 泡s? Landseer, Millais, 燃やす-Jones

35. One of the 広大な／多数の／重要な treasures of the British Museum is the... Warwick Vase, Portland Vase, Colchester Vase

36. Which of these is competed for in 卓球? Davis Cup, Corbillon Cup, Calcutta

37. The British were 敗北・負かすd by the French in the 戦う／戦い of... Waterloo, Fontenoy, Cr?cy

38. The Brunel ship 開始する，打ち上げるd in Bristol is the... 広大な／多数の／重要な Britain, 広大な／多数の／重要な Eastern, 広大な／多数の／重要な Harry

39. Which might be the next word in the sequence Able, Because, Charity, Discuss? 平易な, Elephant, 正確に／まさに

40. Which lived longest? William Pitt the 年上の, William Gladstone, William Pitt the Younger

41. Who invented a 過程 for use in the 製造（する） of steel? Henry Bessemer, Henry Fielding, Henry Layard

42. Who 設立するd the 救済 Army? William Blackstone, William Blake, William Booth

43. Which is the most 最近の? The American Cup 革命, the French 革命, the Glorious 革命

44. Who became the first famous 死傷者 of the 鉄道 age? William Huskisson, William Jaggard, William Kent

45. Which has been around since 1898? Ship money, ships of the line, Jane’s Fighting Ships

46. Southdown is a 産む／飼育する of... cattle, deer, sheep

47. Who created the Wombles? Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Elizabeth Beresford, Elizabeth David

48. Who was born in Jamaica? Mary Seton, Mary Seacole, Mary Shelley

49. Who created the tenor 役割s in Britten’s オペラs? Peter Nissen, Peter Opie, Peter Pears

50. Which 絵 features a hare? Dignity And Impudence, Rain, Steam And 速度(を上げる）, And When Did You Last See Your Father?

51. Who 設立するd the SAS (emblem pictured)? David Stirling, James Stirling, Robert Stirling

52. Which is a television channel? Linear A, Linear B, S4C

53. Who made a 単独の flight to Australia in 1930? Alcock and Brown, Amy Johnson, Louis Bl?暴動

54. Which was 開始する，打ち上げるd most recently? Mail on Sunday, 観察者／傍聴者, Sunday 表明する

55. The Red Cross was 設立するd after... the Crimean War, the 戦う／戦い of Solferino, World War I

Marilyn Monroe models a diamond. But is it a Cullinan, Culloden or Culpepper?

56. Which is a diamond (as modelled by Marilyn Monroe, pictured)? Cullinan, Culloden, Culpepper

57. Which turned again? 刑事 Barton, D ick Whittington, Moby 刑事

58. Which is linked with Cecil Rhodes? De Beers, Debrett’s, De Havilland

59. Which is in Edinburgh? 王室の 交流, 王室の Mile, 王室の Pavilion

60. Which was a 操縦する? Peter Scott, Ronnie Scott, Sheila Scott

61. Winchester is in... Hampshire, Nottinghamshire, West Sussex

62. Who killed Duncan ten centuries ago? Macbeth, Richard III, Sweeney Todd

63. Coventry is associated with... Gracie Fields, Florence Nightingale, Lady Godiva

64. Rembrandt was... Flemish, French, Dutch

65. Jerusalem is where you find... the Taj Mahal, the ドーム of the 激しく揺する, the Ka’ba

... AND FIENDISH ONES TO FINISH

66. Somerset Maugham’s first 調書をとる／予約する was about... Lambeth Pottery, Lambeth Walk, Liza of Lambeth

67. Which of these was a Vandal? Gaiseric, Clovis, Attila

68. 調書をとる／予約するs on engraving and 植林学 were written by... Samuel Pepys, John Evelyn, Parson Woodforde

69. Who 提起する／ポーズをとるd for Millais as the 溺死するing Ophelia? Elizabeth Lutyens, Elizabeth Siddall, Elizabeth Woodville

70. Where was there a 会議 in 1439? Florence, Nicaea, Trent

71. Hambledon Club is part of the history of... cricket, croquet, 列／漕ぐ／騒動ing

72.Which is the 開拓する of steam engines? Thomas Tompion, Thomas Newcomen, Thom as Hardy

73. Who became, at 15, mistress to the Earl of Craven? Nell Gwyn, Ellen Terry, Harriet Wilson

74. The novel Tristram Shandy features... Yorick as a jester, Yorick as a parson, Jorvik as a Viking Centre

75. Who sailed around Tasmania in 1798? George Bass, George Berkeley, George Boole

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ANSWERS

1. Dr No - in the film Dr No, 1953, in which Sean Connery was also the first James 社債.
2. Archimedes - the water 追い出すd by his 団体／死体 恐らく gave him the 手がかり（を与える） to the nature of 明確な／細部 gravity.
3. 刑事 Turpin.
4. Richard Adams.
5. Andy Capp, in the longrunning （土地などの）細長い一片 風刺漫画 in the Daily Mirror, drawn by Reginald Smythe.
6. Pride And Prejudice.
7. Henry Hall.
8. Alfred Doolittle, in Shaw’s Pygmalion and then in My Fair Lady.
9. Charles Dawson, who in 1912 （人命などを）奪う，主張するd to have 設立する the skull of an 早期に human showing ape-like 特徴 (it was discovered in 1953 that he had 連合させるd fragments of a human skull with the lower jaw of an orang-utan).
10. Albert Ramsbottom, in the famous monologue The Lion And Albert 成し遂げるd by Stanley Holloway.
11. Arthur Daley - played by George Cole in the long-running TV series Minder (‘’er indoors’, Arthur’s wife, never appears).
12. Desperate Dan.
13. Portia.
14. David Low, the creator of 陸軍大佐 Blimp
and the TUC carthorse, whose 風刺漫画s appeared for many years in the London Evening 基準.
15. The 王室の Society For The 保護 Of Birds, in 1889, when London was the world centre of the plumage 貿易（する） and several 種類 were 存在 脅すd by the fashion for feathers on ladies’ hats.
16. The Caret aker.
17. Mrs Cooper, who began making Cooper’s Oxford Marmalade in the 1870s. Its 人気 on undergraduate breakfast （米）棚上げする／（英）提議するs led 結局 to a vastly wider market.
18. St Helena, the island in the south 大西洋 to which Napoleon was 追放するd in 1815 and where he died in 1821.
19. Neville, whose father (Joseph) and 年上の brother (Austen) were also famous 政治家，政治屋s.
20. The Dead Parrot Sketch, 成し遂げるd by John Cleese and Michael Palin in Monty Python’s 飛行機で行くing Circus.
21. 砂漠 Island レコードs, of which the 主題 tune is Eric Coates’s By The Sleepy Lagoon.
22. The Four Seasons, Vivaldi’s 始める，決める of violin concertos composed in
1723.
23. Dr Livingstone, who was 設立する in 1871 in a remote part of Africa by H.M. Stanley, who 迎える／歓迎するd him with the phrase: ‘Dr Livingstone, I 推定する.’
24. The 押し通すs.
25. Let Love Lead The Way (American Pie by Madonna, and Oops! - I Did It Again by Britney Spears).
26. Trafalgar - a request to the captain of HMS Victory for a 慰安ing embrace, just before Nelson’s death.
27. 投げつけるing - the 国家の game of the 共和国 of Ireland, 極端に 古代の in origin, 連合させるing elements of ホッケー and lacrosse.
28. The 広大な／多数の／重要な Stink - when the stench from 汚水 in the Thames, on a summer’s day, became so intolerable to 政治家，政治屋s in the Houses of 議会 that they finally did something about London’s 衛生設備.
29. Roslin.
30. George Borrow - the 半端物 man out in the sense that all three are writers but George Eliot and George Sand are women, publishing under pseudonyms.
31. James I, whose Counterblast To タバコ, in 1604, 述べるs the habit as ‘loathsome to the 注目する，もくろむ, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the 肺s, and in the 黒人／ボイコット stinking ガス／煙 thereof, nearest 似ているing the horrible Stygian smoke of the 炭坑，オーケストラ席 that is bottomless’.
32. John Company, which was the colloquial 指名する for the East India Company.
33. During the Derby. The suffragette was killed by the Ki ng’s horse in 1913.
34. Millais, whose 絵 泡s was bought by Pears for use on a poster advertising its soap. 35 Portland Vase, an 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の Roman 創造 in cameo glass from the 1st century BC.
36. Corbillon Cup.
37. Fontenoy, in 1745 during the War of the Austrian Succession.
38. 広大な／多数の／重要な Britain, 開始する，打ち上げるd in 1843 and brought home to Bristol for 復古／返還 and 陳列する，発揮する in 1970.
39. Any of the three. The first four words are an 完全に 無作為の 選択, except that their first letters follow the alphabet. So any word beginning with E can come next in the sequence.
40. William Gladstone, 述べるd by Queen Victoria as ‘an old, wild, and 理解できない man of eighty two and half’.
41. Henry Bessemer, in 1855-9.
42. William Booth, using its 現在の 指名する from 1878.
43. French 革命, beginning in 1789. (American 革命, 1775: Glorious 革命, 取って代わるing James II with William and Mary on the 王位 of Britain, 1688.)
44. William Huskisson - a Liverpool MP, who was run over by a locomotive, Dart, at the 開始 of the Liverpool and Manchester 鉄道 in 1830.
45. Jane’s Fighting Ships - an 年次の 出版（物） giving an illustration and technical 詳細（に述べる）s of every ship of 軍の significance in every 海軍.
47. Elizabeth Beresford.
46. Sheep.
48. Mary Seacole, who on her own 率先 made her way to Turkey during the Crimean War and nursed and fed 負傷させるd British 兵士s.
49. Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten’s lifelong companion.
50. Rain, Steam And 速度(を上げる）, in which J.M.W. Turner paints an impressionistic 見解（をとる） of a train スピード違反 across a Thames 橋（渡しをする） at Maidenhead, with a hare 猛烈に running 負かす／撃墜する the line ahead of it.
51. David Stirling formed the SAS (Special 空気／公表する Service) as a 特殊部隊員 部隊 in North Africa in 1941.
52. S4C (standing for Sianel Pedwar Cymru, Channel 4 むちの跡s, the Welsh-language channel which began broadcasting in 1982). Linear A and Linear B are Mycenaean scripts .
53. Amy Johnson.
54. Mail on Sunday, 開始する，打ち上げるd in 1982 (観察者／傍聴者 1791, Sunday 表明する 1918).
55. 戦う／戦い of Solferino, in 1859 in Italy’s 戦う／戦い for independence. スイスの 国民 Henri Dunant, was appalled by the savagery and 設立するd the Red Cross.
56. Cullinan, a 抱擁する diamond 設立する in South Africa in 1905 and now in the 栄冠を与える Jewels.
57. 刑事 Whittington, who heard the bells of London chiming ‘turn again Whittington, Lord 市長
of London’ when leaving the city as a disappointed 青年.
58. De Beers, formed by Rhodes as a 採掘 company in South Africa in
1880.
59. The 王室の Mile, stretching from Holyrood to the 城.
60. Sheila Scott, British aviatrix who three times flew 単独の 一連の会議、交渉／完成する the world.
61. Hampshire.
62. Macbeth (he killed him and got his 栄冠を与える in 1057, but in 戦う／戦い, not in his bed as in Shakespeare’s 見解／翻訳／版).
63. Lady Godiva (it is the city through which she rides naked, modesty 保存するd by her hair).
64. Dutch.
65. ドーム of the 激しく揺する.
66. Liza Of Lambeth, the 肩書を与える of Maugham’s first novel in 1897.
67. Gaiseric (Clovis was a Frank, and Attila a Hun).
68. John Evelyn (Sculptura, 1662; Sylva, 1664).
69. Elizabeth Siddall - a favourite model of the pre-Raphaelites, and later wife of Rossetti.
70. Florence.
71. Cricket - this village club in Hampshire was the team to （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 in the 18th century.
72. Thomas Newcomen, who developed steam engines to pump out Cornish tin 地雷s in the 18th century.
73. Harriet Wilson, a courtesan whose titillating Memoirs of 1825 begin with a famous 開始 宣告，判決: ‘I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of 15, the mistress of the earl of Craven.’
74. Yorick as a parson - an opinionated character in whom the author, also a parson (Laurence 厳しい), gently satirises himself.
75. George Bass, 祝う／追悼するd now in the Bass 海峡 between Tasmania and the 本土／大陸.