Tuesday 16th September 2003
Set by CTK Wanderers/Old Swan Cons (Liverpool)
All rounds are general

Round One
1a Kylie Minogue made her screen debut in which 1989 film?
The Delinquents
1b Which Welsh rebel burnt down most of the town of Cardiff in 1404?
Owen Glendower
2a From which drug are morphine and codeine derived?
Opium
2b The BCG vaccine is used to combat which illness?
Tuberculosis
3a Who took over from Roy Keane as captain of the Republic of Ireland in the 2002 UEFA World Cup?
Steve Staunton
3b Which Nationwide football team is known as "The Irons"?
Scunthorpe United
4a Which 16th century Spaniard captured and then ruled Mexico?
Hernando Cortes
4b Which hydrated aluminium silicate is also known as China Clay?
Kaolin

Round Two
1a Which heraldic term denotes an animal lying down with its head up?
Couchant
1b In Greek mythology, who was seduced by Zeus in the shape of a swan?
Leda
2a Which ancient musical instrument was known in Gaelic as the clarsach?
Harp
2b Which heraldic emblem is in the form of a star with wavy points or rays?
Estoile
3a In Greek mythology, which beautiful youth was chosen as cupbearer to Zeus?
Ganymede
3b A gastroscope is used to examine what part of the human body?
Stomach
4a What branch of biology deals with the study of fungi?
Mycology
4b Which musical instrument can have four or five pairs of strings?
Mandolin

Round Three
1a Who (October, 2002) is the Shadow Secretary of Health?
Dr. Liam Fox
1b What is the cube root of 64?
Four
2a What gives mornay sauce its flavouring?
Cheese
2b What name is given to a cable railway where the ascending and descending cars are counterbalanced?
Funicular
3a Fosse Way ran from Lincoln to where?
Exeter (accept Axminster)
3b Who presents the TV series "Room 101"?
Paul Merton
4a The football team Energie Cottbus play in which European country?
Germany
4b Whose ship was the "Golden Hind"?
Sir Francis Drake

Round Four
1a What is one third of one half?
A Sixth
1b Who (October, 2002) is the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer?
Michael Howard
2a What name is given to the car suspended from an airship?
A Gondola
2b A dish served 'dubarry' contains what vegetable?
Cauliflower
3a Who is the host of TV's "You've Been Framed"?
Lisa Riley
3b In America, Route 66 runs from Chicago to where?
Los Angeles
4a Whose ship, also used by Roald Amundsen, was called "Fram"?
Fridtjoff Nansen
4b The football team Fortuna Sittard play in which European country?
Holland

Round Five
1a Goodwood racecourse is three miles NE of which West Sussex city?
Chichester
1b Who is the Greek equivalent of the Roman god Vulcan?
Hephaestus
2a Which London musical is based on the songs of Abba?
Mamma Mia
2b Which post-war Prime Minister lived at Chelwood Gate, Sussex?
Harold McMillan
3a Which British composer wrote the comic opera "Albert Herring"?
Benjamin Britten
3b What was the name of the club for wartime plastic surgery patients treated by Sir Archibald Hector McIndoe?
Guinea Pig Club
4a In what decade of the 14th century was the Peasants' Revolt?
1380's (1381)
4b What is the US equivalent of the British Foreign Office?
State Department

Round Six
1a Who is the Greek equivalent of the Roman god Saturn?
Cronus
1b Gosforth Park racecourse is two miles north of which English city?
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
2a Which Scottish writer lived at Abbotsford, near Melrose, Borders?
Sir Walter Scott
2b Which Ian Fleming story is the basis of a musical starring Michael Ball?
Chitty, Chatty Bang Bang
3a What is the name of Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Society?
The Footlights Club
3b Which English composer wrote the musical work "Facade" - originally (1923) read through a megaphone?
William Walton
4a What is the name of the annual keynote speech given by the US President to Congress in which he sets out his agenda for the next year and highlights his accomplishments?
State of the Union (Message)
4b In what decade of the 18th century was the South Sea Bubble?
1720's (1720)

Round Seven
1a What, in an economic sense, is an impost?
A Tax or Duty
1b What (meaning golden) is the monetary unit of Poland?
Zloty
2a Which English king was known as 'Farmer George'?
George III
2b Who played the male lead in the 1971 sci-fi film "The Omega Man"?
Charlton Heston
3a Which couple tried to adopt two children on the internet?
The Kilshaws
3b Who chairs the BBC TV debating programme "Question Time"?
David Dimbleby
4a Which former Cistercian Abbey is near to Helmsley, Yorkshire?
Rievaulx Abbey
4b Which golfer won the 2002 US Masters championship?
Tiger Woods

Round Eight
1a What is the monetary unit of the Slovak Republic?
The Koruna
1b What, in a legal sense, is 'imposture'?
An act of fraud
2a Which film actor played the warden in the 1980 prison drama "Brubaker'?
Robert Redford
2b Which 17th/18th century public figure was known as "Tumbledown Dick"?
Richard Cromwell
3a Who was the 2002 PFA 'Footballer of the Year'?
Ruud van Nistlerooy
3b Who resigned from the DTI at the same time as Jo Moore?
Martin Sixsmith
4a Angus Deayton was the host of which satirical TV show?
Have I Got News For You
4b The ruins of which Cistercian Abbey are three miles SW of Ripon, North Yorkshire?
Fountains Abbey

Spare Questions
1 Camp X-Ray, holding AI-Qaida detainees, is on which island?
Cuba
2 Who, in 1976, established "The Muppet Show"?
Jim Henson
3 Who (October, 2002) is the Italian Prime Minister?
Silvio Berlusconi
4 Who (October, 2002) is the Leader of the House of Commons?
Robin Cook