Tuesday 2nd November 2004
Set by Warrington Quiz League
All rounds are general

Round 1
1a Who designed the Wellington bomber?
Sir BARNES WALLIS
1b What is the name of the stretch of water that separates Ireland and South Wales?
St. GEORGE'S CHANNEL
2a 'If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh?' is a quotation from which Shakespeare play?
THE MERCHANT of VENICE
2b Which group of people were emancipated in Britain in 1829?
ROMAN CATHOLICS
3a What was the name of the letters that implicated Mary Queen of Scots in the murder of Darnley?
The CASKET LETTERS
3b In 1978 who became ITN's first woman Newsreader?
ANNA FORD
4a Baggataway was the forerunner of which game?
LACROSSE
4b At what temperature does paper spontaneously ignite, the temperature is the title of a Ray Bradbury novel?
451 degrees Fahrenheit (FAHRENHEIT 451)

Round 2
1a Edwin Morgan has been appointed 'The Scots Makar' a post similar to a position that goes back to 1668 inEngland, what does his job involve?
Writing poetry
1b What is the name of the court case in Dickens's 'Bleak House'?
JARNDYCE v JARNDYCE
2a Who was the first female Prime Minister of France?
EDITH CRESSON
2b What type of animal is a wanderoo?
MONKEY
3a The unit of measurement equivalent to 10-10 metres is named after which Swedish physicist and astronomer?
ANGSTROM
3b What is the title of the book published in 1954 that is a black parody of Ballantyne's 'Coral Island'?
LORD OF THE FLIES
4a Which artist is the subject of the 2004 film 'Girl With a Pearl Earring'?
VERMEER
4b In what year was the Mini launched, did Fidel Castro become President of Cuba and Macmillan's conservatives return to power?
1959

Round 3
1a In which country is the volcano, Mount Cotopaxi?
ECUADOR
1b Who directed the 2004 film 'Lost In Translation'?
SOFIA COPPOLA
2a What name is given to the colourless, coagulable part of blood?
PLASMA
2b 'Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them' is a quotation from which Shakespeare play?
TWELFTH NIGHT
3a In a Dickens novel, who was married to Dora Spenlow and Agnes Wickfield?
DAVID COPPERFIELD
3b In which aircraft did Alcock and Brown cross the Atlantic in 1919?
VICKERS VIMY
4a What became legal in 1824 with the abolition of the Combination Acts?
TRADE UNIONS
4b Which system of weight is used for precious metals?
TROY

Round 4
1a What year saw the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the death of Guiseppe Verdi and the end of the Boxer Rebellion?
1901
lb Which horse won the Cheltenham Gold Cup five times between 1932-1937?
GOLDEN MILLER
2a What type of animal is a zorilla?
WEASEL
2b Whose last words were reputed to have been 'Thank God I have done my duty'?
Horatio NELSON
3a What is the title of Henri Charriere's novel about life on Devil's Island?
PAPILLON
3b Elizabeth of Bohemia, known as 'The Winter Queen', was the daughter of which monarch?
JAMES I
4a What was BBC Radio Four originally called?
The HOME SERVICE
4b Abraham Zapruder famously filmed which shooting?
Assassination of President J.F.KENNEDY

Round 5
1a What is the name of the country discovered by Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy?
NARNIA
1b How was Albino Luciano better known?
POPE JOHN PAUL I
2a Dying in Dec 2003, aged 98, this lady, aged 19, was the first to swim the English Channel - Who was she?
GERTRUDE EDERLE
2b Who was the first Frenchman to break the world mile record, clocking 3minutes 53.6 seconds on June 9th 1965?
Michel JAZY
3a Which car company had a model called the Barchetta?
FIAT
3b Which philosopher is associated with the phrase ' the greatest good of the greatest number?
JEREMY BENTHAM
4a On which play by George Bernard Shaw is 'My Fair Lady ' based?
PYGMALION
4b Which company makes the iPod and runs iTunes?
APPLE

Round 6
1a In Greek mythology, who died when he flew too close to the sun?
ICARUS
1b What was contained in the Ark of the Covenant?
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (writtenon tablets.)
2a With which musical instrument is John Coltrane associated?
SAXOPHONE (tenor)
2b Champagne and stout make up which drink?
BLACK VELVET
3a Which group had a 2004 no 1 album with 'Live in Hyde Park'?
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
3b What name is given to a substance that remains unchanged whilst aiding a chemical change in other bodies?
CATALYST
4a Which common wild flower is also known as 'Poor Man's Weather Glass'?
SCARLET PIMPERNEL
4b What words are written in Gaelic on Spike Milligan's tombstone?
I TOLD YOU I WAS ILL

Round 7
1a Charles Jeannneret was better known as whom?
LE CORBUSIER
1b Which common woodland flower is often known as 'windflower'?
(WOOD) ANEMONE
2a In 1859, who invented the flying trapeze?
Jules LEOTARD
2b Which composer of film music, dying in August 2004, won an Oscar for the music for 'Thoroughly Modern Millie'?
ELMER BERNSTEIN
3a Which apostle replaced Judas Iscariot?
St MATTHIAS
3b Children's author, Theodore Giesel was 100 years old in 2004. How is he better known?
Dr. SEUSS
4a Which athlete finally broke Lynn Davies's British long-jump record in 2002?
CHRIS TOMLINSON
4b 'A Grand Don't Come For Free'? was a best selling album in 2004 for Mike Skinner, under what name does he record?
THE STREETS

Round 8
1a Who had a hit with the same song 'Hi-Ho Silver Lining' in '67,'72 & '82?
JEFF BECK
1b Which play by George Bernard Shaw is about the arms trade and the Salvation Army?
MAJOR BARBARA
2a What do we call what Americans call 'variety meats'?
OFFAL
2b In Greek mythology, who stole the fire of the gods?
PROMETHEUS
3a What does a hygrometer measure?
HUMIDITY
3b Which car company had a make of car called the Rapier?
SUNBEAM
4a Which philosopher, reputedly, lived in a tub?
DIOGENES
4b Jack Teagarden famously played which musical instrument?
TROMBONE

Spare Questions
1 In which activity might you use the 'Sicilian defence'?
Chess
2 Which clothing material is obtained from the deer?
Buckskin
3 Which strait separates Sweden from Denmark?
Kattegat