The following quiz round was submitted by Ted Smith from the UK. Many thanks Ted, a great idea.

The idea is that all the answers to the following questions follow each other in alphabetical order.

1. What name is given to the left hand side of a book

2. Who had a hit with Bittersweet Symphony

3. A religious service?

4. Who was the Roman goddess of the hearth?

5. A pulse similar to chick peas

6. Roger Lloyd Pack played Owen Newitt in which comedy?

7. Which company made the aircraft Viscount, Valiant and Vulcan?

8. What is the radio code name for the letter V?

9. A lake discovered in 1858 by John Speke?

10. A 1982 Oscar nominated film starring Julie Andrews where she played a transvestite entertainer?

11. What was the name of Rigsby’s cat in rising damp?

12. Where was Hamburger Hill?

13. What was then name of the first spacecraft to land Mars?

14. Which warriors come from Minnesota in American football?

15. Who had a hit with Y.M.C.A.

16. Nice on fish and chips

17. A food which is blue and comes from Dorset?

18. Who had a belated hit with Blue Velvet?

19. Which instrument is played by the leader of an orchestra

20. A loud, overbearing woman

21. An American state named after Queen Elizabeth I?

22. What is the name given to the science of grape growing?

23. In which comic would you see Sid the Sexist?

24. Which Company sponsored Man Utd & the England World cup Cricket team in 2003

25. What are the two ingredients of a Bloody Mary?

26. The Battle of Stalingrad ended the German invasion of Russia – what is Stalingrad now called?

27. Who wrote “Candide”?

28. To offer to do something without payment

29. Emetophobia is a fear of what

30. What do people do in a plebiscite?

ANSWERS

1. Verso

2. Verve, The

3. Vespers

4. Vesta

5. Vetch

6. Vicar of Dibley

7. Vickers

8. Victor

9. Victoria

10. Victor Victoria

11. Vienna

12. Vietnam

13. Viking

14. Vikings

15. Village People

16. Vinegar

17. Vinny – a cheese

18. Bobby Vinton

19. Violin

20. Virago

21. Virginia

22. Viticulture

23. Viz

24. Vodaphone

25. Vodka and Tomato juice

26. Volgograd

27. Voltaire

28. Volunteer

29. Vomiting

30. Vote