Round 2
1a Who recorded the hit album 'Escapology'?
Robbie Williams
1b Which battle in July 1943, was the largest tank battle of the Second World War?
Kursk
2a Who is the mother of Lord Frederick Windsor?
Princess Michael of Kent
2b According to T.S.Eliot, which is the cruellest month?
April
3a In the 2003 World Athletics Championships, in which event did Darren Campbell win a medal?
100 metres
3b In which African county are the Kikuyu people mainly found?
Kenya
4a Who wrote the recent novel 'Atonement'?
Ian McEwan
4b Give a year in the life of Nicholas Copernicus?
1473 -1543

Round 3
1a Which is the densest planet in our solar system?
Earth
1b Who wrote the recent novel 'Brick Lane'?
Monica Ali
2a Which Cornish cheese, often wrapped in nettles, is named after the original producer spelled backwards?
Yarg
2b Which politician has written a novel entitled 'The Clematis Tree'?
Anne Widdecombe
3a Which battle of October 1944 between ships of the US and Japanese navies is the biggest ever naval battle?
Leyte Gulf
3b Which is the largest of the islands that make up Japan?
Honshu
4a In 1733 who developed the flying shuttle for the textile industry?
John Kay
4b In the 2003 World Athletics Championships, in which event did Kelly Holmes win a medal?
800 metres

Round 4
1a Give a year in the life of Johannes Kepler?
1541-1630
1b Which Sussex bowler took over 100 wickets in the 2003 season?
Mushtaq Ahmed
2a To which bird does Shelley refer as 'blithe spirit'?
Skylark
2b Which Welsh group recorded the 2003 hit album 'You Gotta Go There To Come Back'?
Stereophonics
3a In which African country are the Yoruba people mainly found?
Nigeria
3b Who wrote the music for the ballet 'Romeo and Juliet'?
Sergei Prokofiev
4a Who designed the Guggenheim Art Museum in Bilbao, opened in 1997?
Frank Gehry
4b Who is next in line to the throne after Princess Eugenie, who is currently sixth?
Earl of Wessex (Prince Edward)

Round 5
1a In which European city is the Tower of Belem?
Lisbon
1b Who took over the role of Dalgleish from Roy Marsden in the latest TV adaptation of P.D.James's work in 2003?
Martin Shaw
2a What have two women called Margaret Kempson and Margaret Roberts in common?
Both married Dennis Thatcher
2b What is the hobby of a 'gricer'?
Trainspotting
3a On which island is Talisker single malt whisk produced?
Skye
3b What general name is given to plants that feed on decaying organic matter?
Saprophytes
4a Which British city has a Shrub Hill railway station?
Worcester
4b In 2003, which Canadian became only the second left-hander to win one of golf's major championships?
Mike Weir

Round 6
la What is the new name for the 'Peterborough' column in the 'Daily Telegraph'?
London Spy
1b The 'Old Harry' Rocks are near which south coast resort?
Swanage
2a Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren played the leads in which Hitchcock film?
The Birds
2b What is the name for time measured by considering the rotation of the Earth relative to the distant stars?
Sidereal
3a Which maiden was seduced by Zeus disguised as a bull?
Europa
3b In 1976, which now very successful company did Steve Jobs co-found?
Apple computers
4a Which was the first British punk rock group to release a record, their line up included Captain Sensible and Rat Scabies?
The Damned
4b In betting slang what odds are known as 'double carpet?
33/1

Round 7
1a Who took the part of Adolf Hitler in the 2003 TV production of 'Hitler, the rise of evil'?
Robert Carlyle
1b Public Image Ltd was the group formed by John Lydon after the break-up of which punk group?
Sex Pistols
2a Which team won the 2003 Rugby League Super League championship?
Bradford Bulls
2b In 1930, American nurse Ellen Church became the first of a new kind of occupation, what was her job?
Airline stewardess (air hostess)
3a What name is given to the group of chalk rocks off the west coast of the Isle of Wight?
The Needles
3b In which European city is the best known Alcazar, built by King Pedro the Cruel?
Seville
4a Raclette cheese comes form which country?
Switzerland
4b To whom did Zeus appear as 'a shower of gold?
Danae

Round 8
1a In betting slang what odds are known as 'cockle' or 'net'?
10/1
1b Which west country town has a station called Pen Mill?
Yeovil
2a Name the effect observed when a body falling freely towards Earth deviates eastwards from a straight line due to the curvature of the Earth?
Coriolis effect
2b In late 2003, who left the editorship of the Daily Telegraph?
Charles Moore
3a Which multi-millionaire businessman and philanthropist was born in Dunfermline in 1835?
Andrew Carnegie
3b Which single malt whisky is distilled in the Orkneys? (it's the choice of Reginald Hill's character Andy Dalziel)
Highland Park
4a The symbiotic relationship of fungus and algae is known as what?
Lichen
4b Which Hitchcock film ends with a chase on the slopes of Mount Rushmore?
North By North-west

Spare Questions
1 In 1907, which was the first plastic to be made?
Bakelite
2 Name the unfinished novel by Jane Austen?
Sanditon
3 Who directed the Keystone Kops films?
Mack Sennett