E: 22/01 £500 (Lots of Help Needed)

freefan01

North-East question 31. . pitmatic was a dialect of english used bin the counties of northumberland and durham. . . it formed as a seperate dialect from northumbrian and geordie due to the specialised terms of the mineworkers.

caz2703

General Knowledge: 24. Which politician returned to work five days after the birth of her daughter?

Rachida Dati - can't post a link but I recall the story of a French politician and Google comfirmed my thoughts

mp3duck

5. The winner will receive £250; the runnerup £100. Each of the six category winners and the King of the Pictures will get £25. These prizes are only available to people living within the North-East and North Yorkshire. There is an additional £50 prize for the highest online entry from outside The Northern Echo’s circulation area.

May not be worth entering outside with Nortern Echo's circulation area with there only being a £50 prize on offer. Quite a lot of effot to cut n' paste all the answers.
(Thanks for all peope who have helped btw).

kateab

23 NE Steve Cram? If not, there is a radio presenter on Real who has been trying to break records. Could be her. http://www.realradionortheast.co.uk/presenters-shows/shows-j7rb/real-breakfast-show-with-beck-and-kelly-dvwf/world-record-wednesday/ktk3ilhb/

24 NE - Coffy Johnny?
26 NE - Barnard Castle
28 NE - Peterlee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg-jarping
29 NE - the Laing Art Gallery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Carpet
30 NE - Ripley Castle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripley_Castle
31 NE - Miners or mineworks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitmatic
34 NE - Josephine Butler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleges_of_the_University_of_Durham
35 NE - Sinners http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/4304904.Former_Government_minister_condemns_Newcastle_pub_s_topless_promotion/
36 NE Rothbury http://www.rothbury.co.uk/
37 NE The Bowes Museum
38 NE Onion bhaji flavoured crisps
39 NE Knaresborough http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knaresborough
41 NE Myers Flat? http://www.darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk/history/railway/sadr/3166117.How_railway_builders_took_on_the_fairies/
42 NE is actually Saltburn Miniature Railway http://homepage.ntlworld.com/colin.gatenby/page%208.htm
44 NE is Kenickie (this is defo Lauren Laverne!)
46 NE is Betty's http://homepage.ntlworld.com/colin.gatenby/page%208.htm
47 NE is Ripon Cathedral http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Owen
49 NE is I think Washington http://www.bowesrailway.co.uk

That's all for now... HNY everyone.

kateab

kateab

Sport
11 Andy Murray http://ontennis.com/category/main/aegon-summer-county-cup
12 Royal Sandwich http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Lyle
13 Trevor Berbick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_tyson
14 Karate http://www.wkf.net/
16 French Open http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Seles
17 Ten http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Career_accomplishments_of_Mark_Cavendish
18 Lester Piggott http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prix_de_l%27Arc_de_Triomphe#Winners
21 Michael Gray http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Sunderland_A.F.C.#Recent_times:_1997.E2.80.93present
24 is Daley Thompson - can't give you source!
26 is Joakim Haeggman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joakim_Haeggman

I am going to bed now the fireworks have stopped.

kateab

mlle_chosette

General Knowledge question 48 is Barbie! (As in the doll!) (It's not Marilyn Monroe as her parents weren't named George & Margaret, they just want to trick you into thinking it's Marilyn Monroe!)

kateab

Have just got another of the pictures.

8 NE is Rt Hon Hilary Armstrong MP (she's MP for NW Durham apparently)
http://www.adler.edu/UserFiles/Image/Hilary_Armstrong_Photo_1.jpg - even wearing same glasses!

kateab

Ms_Chocaholic

NORTH EAST

1. Kate Adie
2. Alan Milburn
3. Guy Fawkes
4. Bobby Thompson
5. Cardinal Basil Hume
6. PICTURE
7. PICTURE
8. Rt Hon Hilary Armstrong MP (she's MP for NW Durham apparently)
http://www.adler.edu/UserFiles/Image...ng_Photo_1.jpg - even wearing same glasses!
9. PICTURE
10. Joseph Swan
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?im...en-GB%26um%3D1

11. Who plays in goal for Fulchester United?
Billy The Fish

12. “The dole is my shepherd – I shall not work” was the philosophy of which comedian?
Bobby Thompson source

13. Which Royal is studying at Newcastle University?
Princess Eugenie

14. At which sporting ground was Spratt’s Corner?
Feethams source

15. Which former mining community is also known as Hoggersgate?
Tursdale source

16. Which businessman has a pig called Boris as a mascot?
George Reynolds
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/fea...ueful_reunion/

17. Which Sunderland man was the first metric martyr?
Steve Thoburn source

18. Under which town centre did the River Jordan once flow?

19. Where will you find Whipmawhopmagate?
York

20. Which football club is nicknamed the Seahorses?
Whitley Bay FC source

21. Which chart-topping band played at the Tan Hill pub?
Arctic Monkeys

22. Which village is also known as Doggie?
West Cornforth

23. Which radio presenter has held three world records?
Steve Cram? If not, there is a radio presenter on Real who has been trying to break records. Could be her. http://www.realradionortheast.co.uk/...sday/ktk3ilhb/


24. Under what name is blacksmith John Oliver mentioned in the Blaydon Races?
Coffy Johnny?

25. Bob Olley’s most famous sculpture stands in which town?
North Shields (see here the sculpture being Stan Laurel)

26. In which town was the naval historian who coined the phrase Parkinson’s Law born?
Barnard Castle

27. What did Michael Quadrini purchase in 1984?
The boat that became the Tuxedo Princess
http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/content/articles/2008/04/21/north_east_tuxedo_s13_w8_feature.shtml

28. Which town plays host to the World Jarping Championships each year?
Peterlee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg-jarping

29. In front of which building would you find the Blue Carpet?
The Laing Art Gallery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Carpet

30. Which castle has been home to the Ingilby family for the past 700 years?
Ripley Castle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripley_Castle

31. Pitmatic was spoken by which group of people?
Miners or mineworks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitmatic

32. Who painted The Bent Rod?

33. Where was the birthplace of the first woman to drive buses for a living?

34. Which is the newest college at Durham University?
Josephine Butler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College...sity_of_Durham

35. Which Newcastle bar was discussed and admonished in the House of Commons in 2009?
Sinners http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/new...ess_promotion/

36. Where is the Deugar supposed to roam?
Rothbury http://www.rothbury.co.uk/

37. Where did Joe Kipling find a letter from 1906 stuffed in a chimney?
The Bowes Museum

38. With what did Carole Wood attempt to become the flavour of the month?
Onion bhaji flavoured crisps

39. Which town is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Chednaresburg?
Knaresborough http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knaresborough

40. Into what is the Ripon and Richmond Chronicle now incorporated?
The Darlington & Stockton Times see here

41. Fairies from which village were blamed for hold-ups in the building of the Stockton and Darlington Railway line?
Myers Flat? http://www.darlingtonandstocktontime...n_the_fairies/
Apparently Myers Flat is an area not a village so this is incorrect

42. On which railway will you find a station called Forest Halt?
Saltburn Miniature Railway http://homepage.ntlworld.com/colin.gatenby/page%208.htm

43. From a place in which town did Elliott Conway acquire his nom de plume?
Darlington (he's an author and binna remembers him coming to their school and his name being Albert Hill (which is an area in Darlington, although his pseudonym was Elliot Conway (see here)

44. Councillor Cecilia Gofton’s daughter was lead singer of which band?
Kenickie - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Laverne

45. Which miner has a room named after him in the Israeli Senate?

46. Hearts, Tarts and Rascals is a book recounting the story of which establishment?
Betty's http://homepage.ntlworld.com/colin.gatenby/page 8.htm

47. In which cathedral did poet Wilfred Owen spend his final birthday?
Ripon Cathedral http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Owen


48. The Loopy Lisa brand sells what?
Fudge

49. Which is the nearest town to the Bowes Railway?
I think Washington http://www.bowesrailway.co.uk

50. A former member of which band once ran a pub in Butterknowle called the Sly Fox?

dooby

Ms_Chocaholic wrote: »

20. Which series added a female character to divert suspicion from three grown men sharing the same house?

I think this might be Father Ted

binna

NE

I think 40 is The Darlington & Stockton Times see here

I think 43 is Darlington. He's an author and I remember him coming to my school and his name being Albert Hill (which is an area in Darlington, although his pseudonym was Elliot Conway (see here)