Tuesday 2nd December 2003
Set by Centrefold (Wirral)
All rounds are general

Round 1
1a Name the battle fought in 1813 that was known as the Battle of the Nations.
LEIPZIG
1b The Seven Week War of 1866 was fought between TWO nations. Name one.
PRUSSIA and AUSTRIA
2a Who was the famous artist who worked as a labourer on the Panama Canal?
GAUGUIN
2b Which famous artist attended the same Art School in Aix as the writer Emile Zola?
PAUL CEZANNE
3a Which famous 20th century singer was born in Hoboken, New Jersey?
FRANK SINATRA
3b Which famous 20th century singer was born in Tupelo, Mississippi?
ELVIS PRESTLEY
4a On BBC Radio's Test Match Special, who is known as Blowers?
HENRY BLOFELD
4b Which well-known cricket writer was also the music critic of the Manchester Guardian?
NEVILLE CARDUS

Round 2
1a Who wrote the poems collectively known as "A Shropshire Lad"?
A.E. HOUSMAN
1b Which First World War poet wrote the poems "Aftermath" and "Everyone Sang"?
SIEGFRIED SASSOON
2a Which composer wrote "High Noon", the music for film of the same name?
DMITRI TIOMKIN
2b Who composed the music for the film "Titanic"?
JAMES HORNER
3a Name the leader who broke away from the Indian Congress Party and became leader of India's Muslims in the Period before Independence.
ALI JINNAH
3b Who became the first Prime Minister of an independent India?
PANDIT NEHRU
4a Who said "Religion is the opium of the people"?
KARL MARX
4b Who said "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him"?
VOLTAIRE

Round 3
1a If you ordered "Pomodori" in an Italian restaurant, what would you receive?
TOMATOES
1b If you ordered "Piselli" in an Italian restaurant, what would you receive?
PEAS
2a Yaounde is the capital of which African country?
CAMEROON
2b Abuja is the capital of which African country?
NIGERIA
3a Who or what is a "hoopoe"?
A BIRD
3b Who or what is an "opah"?
A FISH
4a What name is given to the Greek letter corresponding to "R"?
RHO
4b In the phonetic alphabet, what word is used for the letter "O"?
OSCAR

Round 4
1a What is the currency of Jordan?
DINAR
1b What is the currency of Myanmar (Burma)?
KYAT
2a What is the collective noun for a group of falcons?
CAST
2b What is the collective noun for a group of kangaroos?
TROOP or MOB
3a With regard to the transmission of text messages, for what does the Short Messaging Service abbreviation "F2F stand?
FACE TO FACE
3b With regard to the transmission of text messages, for what does the abbreviation "GAL" stand?
GET A LIFE
4a Who wrote the West End play "Beyond Reasonable Doubt"?
JEFFREY ARCHER
4b Who wrote the play "The Vortex"?
NOEL COWARD

Round 5
1a Which character sings the song "My Boy" in the musical "Carousel"?
BILLY BIGELOW
1b Katherine Hepburn played the role of Rose Sayer in which well-known film?
THE AFRICAN QUEEN
2a The A5 runs from London to which town?
HOLYHEAD
2b Jan Smuts Airport serves which city?
JOHANNESBURG
3a From which country does the wine Commandaria come?
CYPRUS
3b In which film does Marilyn Monroe stand over a subway grating, causing her skirts to lift waist high?
THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH
4a Which is the highest mountain in Austria?
GROSSGLOCKNER
4b Which is the highest mountain in Canada?
MOUNT LOGAN

Round 6
1a Which Strait separates the northern tip of Australia from Papua New Guinea?
THE TORRES STRAIT
1b Which famous London building is situated in Paternoster Square?
ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
2a Whose third symphony is known as the "Scottish" and his fourth as the "Italian?
MENDELSSOHN
2b Who wrote symphonies called 'Linz" and "Jupiter"?
MOZART
3a Who wrote the books "Space" and "Hawaii"?
JAMES MICHENER
3b Who wrote the books "Shout at the Devil" and "When the Lion Feeds"?
WILBUR SMITH
4a Who had her first US chart success in November 1988 with a cover version of Little Eva's 'The Locomotion'?
KYLIE MINOGUE
4b What is the letter "S" called in the Greek alphabet?
SIGMA

Round 7
1a Who wrote the song "Ole Man River"?
JEROME KERN
1b Who wrote the newspaper article headed "J'accuse" in defence of the French army officer Dreyfuss?
EMILE ZOLA
2a Who composed the opera "Boris Godounov"?
MUSSORGSKI
2b Which Elizabethan playwright wrote "The Jewel of Malta" and "Tamburlaine the Great"?
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
3a Who hypothesised that "equal volumes of different gases contain equal numbers of molecules"?
(AMEDEO) AVOGADRO
3b Who painted "The Birth of Venus" and "Mystic Nativity"?
SANDRO BOTTICCELLI
4a In which town did St Joan of Arc meet her death?
ROUEN
4b In which year did Peary reach the North Pole?
1909

Round 8
1a Which boxer was known as "Gentleman Jim"?
JAMES CORBETT
1b In which English county are the "Dukeries"?
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
2a Who painted 'The Anatomy Lesson"?
REMBRANDT
2b By what name is 28th Street, New York, better known?
TIN PAN ALLEY
3a Whose theme music for films included "Jaws" and "Superman"?
JOHN WILLIAMS
3b In which Dickens novel does Joe Gargery appear?
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
4a Which ship is reputed to have had Van der Decken as its captain?
THE FLYING DUTCHMAN
4b Which king ascended the throne following the death of Hardicanute in 1042?
EDWARD THE CONFESSOR

SPARE QUESTIONS
1. Who wrote the novel "Funeral in Berlin"?
LEN DEIGHTON
2. Who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968?
CECIL DAY LEWIS
3. What kind of animal was Rikki Tikki Tavi?
MONGOOSE
4. What six-letter word is said to mean "circle of animals"?
ZODIAC