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We are seeking City University team members for the world famous TV quiz show on BBC2. Candidates for the team will be selected in a series of heats held in:
The Great Hall, Northampton Square at 6:00pm on Tuesday the 19th of February.
It is free to take part and you do not need to book in advance. Do arrive on time.
The team will consist of four members and a reserve.
If you are selected and get through the first round all candidates must be available for all TV recording dates:
First round: 2 days 19th – 22nd June
Second Round: 2 days 12th – 13th July
So think about your holiday plans. If you are really successful and make the quarter finals, they will be filmed in the autumn term (dates will be confirmed)
Filming will take place in Manchester. The Students’ Union will organise your transport and accommodation.
No contestant should have appeared in the television stages of the show before.
Try some sample questions to see if you would like to take part. If science and not general knowledge is your thing, don’t worry there will be a separate science round.
Q. "I'M NOT AN ARTIST, I AM A MAN WHO PAINTS" IS A REMARK ATTRIBUTED TO WHICH PAINTER, MOST CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH HIS INDUSTRIAL SCENES OF SALFORD, THE CITY IN WHICH HE LIVED FOR ALMOST ALL OF HIS LIFE?
Q. WHAT WAS THE POPULAR NAME FOR THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY KNIGHTS OF SAINT FRANCIS, A CLUB FORMED BY THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER SIR FRANCIS DASHWOOD, WHOSE SECRET ACTIVITES INSPIRED BY THE MOTTO 'DO WHAT YOU WILL' WERE THE CAUSE OF MUCH SENSATIONAL SPECULATION?
Q. ALTHOUGH 'THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE' WAS THE FIRST OF THE SEVEN NARNIA BOOKS BY C.S. LEWIS TO BE PUBLISHED, WHICH NOVEL WAS THE PENULTIMATE ONE TO BE WRITTEN BUT COMES FIRST IN TERMS OF NARNIAN CHRONOLOGY?
Q. WHAT NAME DERIVED FROM THE INDO-EUROPEAN PEOPLE WHO, FROM THE TENTH CENTURY B.C., INHABITED THE ADRIATIC COASTAL REGION OF YUGOSLAVIA, ALBANIA AND NORTHERN GREECE? A ROMAN PROVINCE FROM 168 B.C., THE NAME WAS USED BY SHAKESPEARE AS THE SETTING FOR 'TWELFTH NIGHT'.