Monday 29th September 2003
Set by Mersey Bowmen (Liverpool)
All rounds are general

Round One
1a Tux the Penguin is the logo of which computer operating system?
Linux
1b Who wrote the novel on which Spielberg's "Schindler's List" is based?
Thomas Keneally
2a Which BBC2 TV programme features Matilda and Bash?
Robot Wars
2b What is the highest rank in the British Royal Navy?
Admiral of the Fleet
3a The stars Rigel and Betelguese,rare part of which constellation?
Orion
3b Which Californian company has manufactured the Barbie Doll since 1959?
Mattel
4a Horse racing colours are registered annually with which organisation?
Weatherby's
4b Who played Mildred in the TV sitcom "George and Mildred"?
Yootha Joyce

Round Two
1a In which English county is Bosworth Field battle site?
Leicestershire
1b What is the line of latitude 66 degrees 30 minutes North better known as?
The Arctic Circle
2a Which female vocalist had Top 10 hits with Joe Cocker in 1983 and Bill Medley in 1987?
Jennifer Warnes
2b Which European capital city is built on a series of islands including Riddar, Stads, and Helgeands?
Stockholm
3a South Mimms and Clacket Lane are service areas on which motorway?
M25
3b Which is the only character to appear in all of Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" novels?
Death
4a Which composer's 'ninth' is called "Nimrod"?
Elgar (9th Enigma Variation)
4b Which US explorer first discovered the North Pole in 1909?
Robert Edwin Peary

Round Three
1a Which Italian refereed the England-Argentina game in the 2002 World Cup?
Pierlulgi Colina
1b Which Liverpool building was designed by Harvey Lonsdale Elmes?
St. George's Hall
2a Which German scientist is now credited with the discovery of calculus?
(Gottfried Wilhelm von) Leibnitz
2b Whose name completes this quartet - Pinsett, Redgrave, Foster, and …?
Cracknell
3a What name is applied to the sparkling German wines made by the 'methode champenoise'?
Sekt
3b The acronym 'TLD' stands for what in the web addresses 'com' and 'org'?
Top Level Domain
4a Which pop band had the 1970 best-selling single "In the Summertime"?
Mungo Jerry
4b Who played the male lead in the TV series "24"?
Keifer Sutherland

Round Four
1a Which was the first synthetic perfume?
Chanel No. 5
1b Dame Maggie Smith plays what part in the "Harry Potter" film series?
Professor Minerva McGonagall
2a Who is the patron saint of travellers?
St. Christopher
2b Who narrated the TV series "World at War"?
Sir Laurence Olivier
3a What shape is an item described as 'navicular'?
Boat-shaped
3b How many sides has a nonagon?
Nine
4a What colour is heliotrope?
Purple (accept Mauve)
4b The Appian Way runs from Brindisi to where?
Rome

Round Five
1a The dry white wine Chablis is made from what type of grape?
Chardonnay
1b Which sci-fi film is based on the short story "The Sentinel"?
2001-A Space Odyssey
2a Who wrote the "Goldberg Variations" for keyboard?
J. S. Bach
2b Name either English rail destination with a station called 'Harbour'.
Folkestone / Portsmouth
3a What is measured on the 'Scoville Scale'?
Relative heat of chilli peppers
3b What is the name of the highest form of clouds?
Cirrus
4a What is the name of the owl in "The Herbs"?
Sage
4b Which English king was murdered in Berkeley Castle in 1327?
Edward II

Round Six
1a Who is the subject of Dava Sobel's book "Longitude"?
John Harrison
1b Thom Yorke is the lead singer of which British rock band?
Radlohead
2a Who plays Gandalf in the "Lord of the Rings" film series?
Sir Iain McKellan
2b What was advertised with the slogan 'nice face, shame about the breath'?
Listerine mouthwash
3a Edmund Hoyle wrote reference books on the rules of what?
Card games
3b What musically links Beale, Burgundy, Basin and St. Philip?
New Orleans streets with the name 'blues'
4a What is the meaning of the Latin phrase 'inter alia'?
Amongst other things
4b How many English royal houses have there been since 1066?
Nine (accept ten if counting Blois)

Round Seven
1a What legally links the judiciary, the clergy, and the mentally ill?
Ineligible for jury service
1b Who was the Greek muse of choral song and dance?
Terpsichore
2a Which European capital city suffered a disastrous earthquake in 1755?
Lisbon
2b What, in polo, lasts for seven and a half minutes?
A chukka
3a Melchior, Caspar, and Balthazar are better known as who?
Three Wise Men (Kings)
3b Who directed the 1961 film "The Misfits"?
John Huston
4a Name one of the three sons of Noah.
Shem / Ham / Japeth
4b Who played Algernon Winston Spencer Castleray Razzmatazz in TV's "Tiswas" between 1977 and 1982?
Lenny Henry

Round Eight
1a The tune "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" was featured in which 1967 film?
Bonnie and Clyde
1b In which century did the first blood transfusion take place?
Seventeenth
2a Name either of the female leads who starred opposite Clark Gable in the 1953 film "Mogambo"?
Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly
2b In the nursery rhyme, "See-saw Margery Daw", how much will Johnny have per day?
A penny
3a Why will Johnny only have a penny a day?
'Cos he can't work any faster
3b The Sheffield Shield is competed for in which sport?
Cricket
4a Which pioneer photographer (1800-77) lived at Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire?
W. H. Fox Talbot
4b Who co-wrote the song "Rocket Man"?
Elton John & Bernie Taupin

Spare Questions
1 Who wrote "The Brethren" and "The Testament"?
John Grisham
2 Which group made the album "Sell Out", the cover of which featured one of the band members sitting on a pile of baked beans?
The Who
3 What was the Christian name of Bertie Wooster's valet Jeeves?
Reginald
4 How many people, including Chaucer, assembled at the Tabard Inn in Southwark to travel to Becket's shrine in Canterbury?
Thirty-one