Monday 10th November 2003
Set by The Residents (Liverpool)
All rounds are general

Round 1
1a What is the name of the oil tanker wrecked off the Spanish coast in 2002?
Prestige
1b From which tree is the pain-relieving drug aspirin derived?
Willow (Salix alba)
2a Which is the largest known planet in the solar system?
Jupiter
2b Name either of the two Gentlemen of Verona.
Valentine or Proteus
3a What is an old boy of Winchester School called?
Wykehamist
3b Who is the Patron Saint of music?
St Cecilia
4a Give a year in the life of Confucius.
551-479 BC
4b What is the most prevalent infectious disease in the UK?
The Common Cold

Round Two
1a What is the capital of the US state of South Carolina?
Columbia
1b What is the name of Beethoven's only opera?
Fidelio
2a What is the standard monetary unit of Brazil?
The Real
2b Who won Best Director Oscar for the film "Braveheart"?
Mel Gibson
3a Who (Nov. 2002) is the Prime Minister of Australia?
John Howard
3b The hot pepper sauce Tabasco is named after a state in which country?
Mexico
4a Who won the 2002 Embassy Snooker World championship?
Peter Ebdon
4b Which singer was top of NME's first Top 10 chart in November 1952?
Al Martino

Round Three
1a What is Moussorgsky's only completed opera called?
Boris Godunov
1b What is the standard monetary unit of Argentina?
The Peso
2a What is the most common type of fungal infection (a form of ringworm)?
Athlete's Foot (Tinea Pedis)
2b What name is given to the members of Charterhouse School?
Carthusian
3a Which country produces angostura bitters?
Venezeula
3b Which is the smallest known planet in the solar system?
Pluto
4a Name one of the Merry Wives of Windsor.
Mistress Ford or Page
4b Which oil tanker was wrecked off the coast of Brittany in 1999?
Erica

Round Four
1a Who won Best Director Oscar for the film "Saving Private Ryan"?
Steven Spielberg
1b Give a year in the life of Aristotle.
384-322 BC
2a Who was the muse of sacred poetry and mime?
Polyhymnia
2b Who (Nov. 2002) is the Prime Minister of New Zealand?
Helen Clark
3a The anti-malaria drug quinine is derived from which tree?
Cinchona
3b What is the capital of the US state of North Dakota?
Bismarck
4a Which DJ presented the first Top 10 on BBC radio in 1962?
Alan Freeman
4b Who won the 2002 British Open Golf championship?
Ernie Els

Round Five
1a Which organisation was founded in 1883 by Sir William A. Smith?
The Boys' Brigade
1b In what year was the Battle of Bannockburn?
1314
2a In what region of the world did the Desert Rats fight in WWII?
N. Africa (Sahara)
2b What type of creature is a 'turnstone'?
Bird (related to Plover/Sandpiper)
3a Who succeeded Rudi Giuliani as Mayor of New York?
Michael Bloomberg
3b Which US actor had a 1975 hit with the song "If"?
Telly Savalas
4a What is/was the occupation of a cordiner (or cordwainer)?
Shoemaker
4b In the nursery rhyme, whose son stole a pig and away did run?
The Piper

Round Six
1a What was the shipping area 'Fitzroy' formerly called?
Finisterre
1b Which artist said: "I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them"?
Pablo Picasso
2a Whose 'diary' was written by George and Weedon Grossmith in 1892?
Diary of A Nobody (Charles Pooter)
2b In the periodic table, 'W' is the symbol for what element?
Tungsten (Wolfram)
3a What is the name of David Blunkett's dog, retiring in 2003?
Lucy
3b Which English cathedral is the only one to have three preserved spires?
Lichfield
4a What is the English translation of the French word 'dejeuner'?
Lunch
4b Who won the 1998 Whitbread Literary Award with his collection of poems
entitled "Birthday Letters"?
Ted Hughes

Round Seven
1a Which US actor/singer had a 1977 hit with "Don't give up on us, baby"?
David Soul
1 b What is/was the occupation of a fletcher?
Making Arrow
2a In what year was the Battle of Naseby?
1645
2b Who succeeded Joseph Stalin as Russian Premier in 1953?
Georgy Malenkov
3a What is a turnsole?
A Plant (it faces the sun)
3b In which British city was the Boys Brigade movement founded?
Glasgow
4a Who wrote his verse autobiography "Summoned By Bells" in 1960?
John Betiaman
4b In which country did the Chindits fight in WWII?
Burma

Round Eight
1a In the periodic table, which element has the symbol 'Sn'?
Tin (stannum)
1b What is the English translation of the German word 'fruhstuck'?
Breakfast
2a In the nursery rhyme, whose daughter "came to visit me, all for the sake of my little nut tree"?
The King of Spain
2b Complete the name of the group: "The Jesus and Mary…. "
Chain
3a Which artist said: "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes"?
Andy Warhol
3b Which politician wrote "Buster's Diaries" in 1998?
Roy Hattersley
4a Which English cathedral has the tallest spire?
Salisbury
4b What was the shipping area 'German Bight' formerly called?
Heligoland (or Helgoland)

Spare Questions
1 Who created "The Simpsons"?
Matt Groening
2 Which group had a 1976 hit with "Girls, Girls, Girls"?
Sailor
3 In 40 years of Bond movies, how many actors have played James Bond?
Six (including David Niven)
4 Who plays Judge John Deed in the BBC TV series of that name?
Martin Shaw