The theme this time is “first and last”. 10 topics, each with a “first” and “last” question so 20 questions in all.
- Sport
- Q. Who was the first Wimbledon Men’s Singles Champion in the “Open Era”?
- Q. Who won the last of his 7 Formula One World Championship titles in 2005?
- Politics
- Q. Who was the first (and to date, only) Welsh UK Prime Minister?
- Q. Who was the last (and again, to date, only) woman to have been UK Foreign Secretary?
- Films
- Q. Which was the first Carry On Film (1958)? Coincidentally it featured William Hartnell who would later become the first Dr Who!
- “Q. Breaking Dawn – Part 2” was the fifth and final production (2012) in which series of films?
- Books
- “Q. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife” are the first words of which classic novel?
- Q .What is the title of the third and final book in The Lord of the Rings?
- TV
- Q. Ant and Dec are fixtures on our TV screens but in which TV drama did they first meet and what were their characters’ names in the series?
- “Q. The Remorseful Day” was the 33rd and final episode of which TV crime drama?
- Olympics
- Q. Flora Duffy won the 2020 (in 2021) women’s triathlon, earning the first ever gold for her country. Which country?
- Q. Joe Joyce won the last medal for Team GB at Rio 2016 but in which sport?
- Music
- Q. “+” was which English singer-songwriter’s debut album?
- Q. The UK came last in the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest. Can you name the singer or the song?
- Explorers
- Q. Who led the expedition that was the first to reach the South Pole (1911)?
- Q. What was Eugene Cernan the last man to do (to date)?
- Famous Buildings
- Q. Which was completed first – the Eiffel Tower or the rebuilt (after the fire) Houses of Parliament/Palace of Westminster?
- Q. Which was completed last – the Sydney Opera House or the Royal National Theatre building on the South Bank?
- TV history
- Q. ITV launched in 1955. Which product was the first to be advertised?
- Q. The BBC had a cunning (?) plan to distract from the launch of ITV by killing off a favourite Archers radio character on the same evening. What was the name of the character who “met her last”?