Stage 2

Introduction

A Stage 2 is a set of questions (usually six, one for each team in the finals of a quiz) with one common connection.The points system of a Stage 2 gives the team cracking the connection points based on when the Stage 2 is cracked, highest points on the first question and steadily diminishing thereafter. Consequently, the fundas connecting the answer to the Stage 2 will get less vague as the round progresses.

Example

Questions

*Q1 Born to Lord and Lady Henshingly-Croft in ,,she was privately tutored from the ages of three through eleven, then began formal schooling at Wimbledon High School for Girls until she was sixteen. Her parents then sent her to Scotland and Gordonstoun Boarding School, where she stayed for two years, and took up "exploring" as a hobby, dodging netball practice to go off rock-climbing instead. It was around this time she also took up shooting, only to be told off for showing "too keen an interest". At eighteen she went to a Swiss Finishing School, and it was in 1989, on her way home from a school sponsored skiing trip, her plane crashed deep in the heart of the Himalayas. The only survivor, she learned how to depend on her wits to stay alive in hostile conditions a world away from her sheltered upbringing. By the time she walked into the village of Tokakeriby, Nepal, two weeks later, her experiences had a profound effect on her. Unable to stand the claustrophobic suffocating atmosphere of upper-class British society, she realized that she was only truly alive when she was adventuring.Who?Answers

*Q2 Identify
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*Q3 The members of this band are Madonna Wayne Gacy, Ginger Fish, Tom Skold and the lead singer, who the band is name after. Earlier members have included Zsa Zsa Spacek, Olivia Newton Bundy, Daisy Berkowitz and Sara Lee Lucas. Each of them take their first name from a and second name . What is the name of the band?Answers

*Q4 Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3, 1847, he later adopted the middle name Graham out of admiration for a family friend. He is credited with the invention of the metal detector in 1881. The device was ivented to find the bullet in the body of U.S. President James Garfield. The metal detector worked, but didn't find the bullet because the metal bedframe the President was lying on confused the instrument.Who am I talking about?Answers

*Q5 Son of Mercury and Venus, he is supposed to have 2 distinct personalities - one a mischievous boy and another committing riotous debauchery. Who?Answers

*Q6 Who is the patron saint of bee keepers, epilepsy, fainting, plague, travellers and young people?Answers

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*A2 -
*A3 -
*A4 -
*A5 -
*A6 -

Connection

The connection here is

*C1 was born on 14th February 1968
*C2 masterminded the
*C3 have a song called Valentine's Day
*C4 applied for his patent for the telephone on Valentine's Day, 1876
*C5 is the little angel thing shown on some Valentine's Day cards
*C6 is the saint that the day was named after