Monday 20th October 2003
Set by St Charles (Liverpool)
All rounds are general

Round 1
1a Denzel Washington won Best Actor Oscar for which 2002 film?
Training Day
1b A dish served 'Du Barry' contains what vegetable?
Cauliflower
2a In 1935 what was founded by Bill W. and Dr. Bob in Akron, Ohio?
Alcoholics Anonymous
2b Who are the sponsors of Ellen McArthur's boat?
Kingfisher
3a In which city are most of Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" novels set?
Ankh Morpork
3b In computer games, what does the 'R' stand for in 'R PG'?
Role Playing Games
4a Yellow Leg, Amethyst Deceiver, and Horn of Plenty are varieties of what?
Mushrooms
4b Halle Berry won Best Actress Oscar for which 2002 film?
Monsters Ball

Round Two
1a Who did Charles Clark replace as Education Minister in 2002?
Estelle Morris
1b Who narrated the 1975 film version of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"?
Charles Gray
2a Who wrote the novel on which the TV show "Band of Brothers" was based?
Stephen E. Ambrose
2b Who (Dec. 2002) is the head of the English Nationwide Football League?
Brian Mawhinney
3a What is the correct name to describe the young of a sealion?
Pup
3b What is the largest ship in the British Royal Navy?
HMS Ocean
4a In what currency would Michelangelo have been paid for his work on the Sistine Chapel?
Ducats
4b What is the correct term for a male red deer? Hart

Round Three
1a In a tie breaker in tennis, after how many points do players change ends?
Six
1b What nationality is Booker and Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer?
South African
2a The former French territory of Afars and Issas became what in 1977?
Djibouti (Jibuti)
2b Name any of the major roles played by Majel Barrett Roddenberry, Gene's wife, in any of the "Star Trek" series.
Nurse Chapel or Lwaxana Troi or voice of computer
3a In what country was Booker and Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul born?
Trinidad
3b What is the judicial capital of the Republic of South Africa?
Blomfontein
4a Who (Dec. 2002) was the last Englishman to win a F1 Grand Prix race?
Johnny Herbert
4b What is the minimum number of points needed to win a tennis tie break?
Seven

Round Four
1a What term means using a gentle expression to soften a harsher one?
Euphemism
1b Who came second in BBC TV's 'Greatest Briton'?
I.K. Brunel
2a In which country are Hartz Mountain and Adamsons Peak?
Tasmania
2b What is the meaning of the Greek word 'euthanasia'?
Well (or Easy) Death
3a Who was the first man to win BBC Sports Personality of the Year twice?
Henry Cooper
3b What is the name of the Australian insect with a vicious sting, killing many?
Bulldog Ant
4a Bartholomew and Wiseman became better known as what duo?
Morecambe and Wise
4b Why did HM the Queen not attend the State Opening of Parliament in 1959 and 1963?
She was pregnant (Andrew and Edward)

Round Five
1a In which English county is the Wyre Forest and the Malvern Hills?
Worcestershire
1b What is the English equivalent of France's Pari Mutuel?
The Tote
2a Where do 'demersal' creatures live?
On the sea bed
2b What degenerative viral disease affects the sheep's nervous system?
Scrapie
3a Four flags were raised on Everest's summit in 1953 - the Union Jack
and the flag of Nepal were two - name either of the others.
United Nations or India
3b Which US office building is the largest in the world?
The Pentagon
4a What is the most common blood group in humans?
O
4b Which planet of the solar system is closest to Earth?
Venus

Round Six
1a Who is the presenter of BBC TV's "Bargain Hunt"?
David Dickinson
1b The Ordnance Survey base, what map projection on the British National Grid?
(Transverse) Mercator
2a There are four basic configurations of camera lens - concave, concavo-convex, concavo-concave and … Compound
2b Who is the presenter of BBC TV's "What the Victorians Did For Us"?
Adam Hart-Davis
3a Who first defined the "Four Freedoms" to the US congress in 1941?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
3b The "Four Noble Truths" are the basic concepts of which major religion?
Buddhism
4a How many years are there in a quadrennium?
Four
4b Which English officer of state is president of the Herald's College?
The Earl Marshal

Round Seven
1a What is Microsoft's latest Windows operating system called?
XP
1b Musician Jacqueline du Pre is associated with which instrument?
Cello
2a Which river flows through the entire length of Burma (Myanmar)?
Irrawaddy
2b Which British royal house immediately preceded the Hanoverians?
Stuarts
3a Who is the only British female athlete to win an Olympic Gold Medal in the 800 metres?
Ann Packer
3b What does'XP' stand for in Microsoft's Windows XP?
Experience
4a What is the rarely used full name of the instrument the 'cello?
Violoncello
4b Which Dutch-born female athlete won Olympic Gold Medals in the 80m Hurdles, 100m, 200m, and 4x100m Relay in 1948?
Fanny Blankers-Koen

Round Eight
1a The United Nations designated 2002 as the international year of the what?
Mountain
1b What is the scientific term for the resistance of fluids to flow caused by internal resistance?
Viscosity
2a How do the chicks of the fulmar protect themselves from predators?
(Projectile) Vomiting
2b Which actor narrated Jeff Wayne's 1970's album "War of the Worlds"?
Richard Burton
3a Also called sinews, what cord of tough, fibrous connective tissue joins muscle to bone in vertebrates?
Tendons
3b Which printing symbol is from the Greek for 'little star'?
Asterisk
4a How many programmes of C4's "Countdown" can you win before going on to the final stages?
Eight
4b In TV's "The Simpsons", what is the name of the store run by Apu?
Kwik E Mart

Spare Questions
1 In the Harry Potter books, what are galleons, sickles, and knuts?
Money
2 In what season did the FA introduce three points for a win?
1981/82
3 In matchplay golf, what does it mean to win by a 'dog licence'?
Win by 7 and 6
4. What in the building trade is a bolster?
Chisel (metal)
5 Which religious festival takes place every 12 years in Madhya Pradesh?
The Kumbh Mela