Monday 8th November 2004
Set by Liverpool Quiz League
All rounds are general

Round One
1a Give a year in the life of French poet and writer Victor Hugo.
1802-1885
1b Which Irish Sea inlet separates Cumbria from Dumfries and Galloway?
Solway Firth
2a What word is used for the letter 'O' in the phonetic alphabet?
Oscar
2b How many pins are there in a game of skittles?
Nine
3a Which German statesman's real name was Karl Herbert Frahm?
Willy Brandt
3b How many acres are there in one square mile?
640
4a In the Bible, who was the grandfather of Noah, and son of Enoch?
Methusaleh
4b What are oriel, bay, and dormer types of?
Windows

Round Two
1a What name is given to a crane for hoisting a ship's anchor clear of the side, also for suspending or lowering a ship's boat?
Davit
1b What two words appear on the George Cross?
For Gallantry
2a In which region of the Russian CIS was Joseph Stalin born?
Georgia
2b Which English county town stands at the confluence of the Eden and Caldew rivers?
Carlisle
3a What or where on the human body is the pinna?
The outer ear
3b Since WWII, Wilf Wild, Sam Cowan, Jock Thomson, Les McDowall, George Poyser, etc., have managed which now Premier League club?
Manchester City
4a Which French-born writer and poet's works include "The Bad Child's Book of Beasts", and "Cautionary Tales"?
Hilaire Belloc
4b What Latin phrase means demeaning, or below one's dignity?
Infra Dig(nitatem)

Round Three
1a What causes oak apples?
Gall/fungus of an insect
1b What movement (founded 1883) was originally called 'Christ's Kingdom among Boys'?
The Boys' Brigade
2a What colour is melanite?
Black
2b The aircraft that brought home the England 2004 RU World Cup winners was specially named as what?
Sweet Chariot
3a What type of foodstuff is calimari?
Squid
3b Marilyn Monroe played which character in the 1959 film ""Some Like it Hot"?
Sugar Kane
4a In Greek myth, which huntsman was torn to pieces by his own hounds?
Actaeon
4b "The Waltz of the Flowers" is from which ballet?
The Nutcracker Suite

Round Four
1a Which Italian's sonnets were inspired by his unrequited love for Laura?
Francesco Petrach
1b Johann Fust financed whose printing press c. 1450?
Johannes Gutenburg
2a Which newspaper gave Sir Henry Morton Stanley the laconic instruction ""Find Livingstone"?
New York Herald
2b Which organisation for pedantic, educated women originated c. 1750, expanding in the 19th century?
The Blue Stocking Club
3a What is the oldest, strongest, and simplest form of Greek architecture?
Doric
3b Which northern-most French seaport was ceded to Cromwell in 1658, and sold to Louis XIV in 1662?
Dunkirk
4a Who wrote the Peter, Paul and Mary hit "Leaving on a Jet Plane"?
John Denver
4b In what year was Che Guevera killed; Dick Tiger was World Light Heavyweight champion; John Newcombe won his first Wimbledon championship?
1967

Round Five
1a Give a year in the life of English printer Luke Hansard.
1752-1828
1b Name either US state bordering the Hoover Dam.
Arizona / Nevada
2a What word in the phonetic alphabet is used for the letter 'H'?
Hotel
2b How many players make up a netball team on court?
Seven
3a Who, 1639-1713, was known as 'the father of English watch-making'?
Thomas Tompion
3b How many roods are there in one acre?
Four
4a In the Bible, who was a son of Abraham, and father of Jacob and Esau?
Isaac
4b What are stretcher bond and Flemish bond types of?
Bricklaying

Round Six
1a What nautical term is used for a large rope, or small cable?
Hawser
1b What two words appear on the Victoria Cross?
For Valour
2a What nationality is singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell?
Canadian
2b Coleraine, in County Derry (or County Londonderry), stands on the estuary of which river?
River Bann
3a Where in the human body is the soleus muscle?
Calf of the leg
3b Since WWII, Bill Murray, Alan Brown (twice), George Hardwick, and Ian McColl, etc., have been managers of which now Coca-Cola club?
Sunderland
4a Which US novelist and Nobel Prize winner's works include "Main Street", "Babbitt", and "Elmer Gantry"?
(Harry) Sinclair Iewis
4b The Liverpool University motto 'Fiat Lux' translates to what in English?
Let there be light

Round Seven
1a Which canine disease is characterised by catarrh, cough and strength loss?
Distemper
1b What, founded 1865, was originally the 'Christian Revival Association'?
The Salvation Army
2a What is the middle colour of the rainbow?
Green
2b Who designed and built the wooden sea-plane the 'Spruce Goose'?
Howard Hughes
3a Which cookery term means fried lightly and quickly?
Saute
3b Who played the part of the marshal in the 1952 film "High Noon"?
Gary Cooper
4a Which Roman poet was exiled to the Black Sea in AD8 by Augustus?
(Publius Ovidus Naso) Ovid
4b Which Australian term means to travel around carrying one's swag bag?
Waltzing Matilda

Round Eight
1a What is Rigoletto's profession in Guiseppe Verdi's tragedy-opera?
Court Jester
1b Which WWI London intellectual organisation included Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Clive and Vanessa Bell, E. M. Forster, etc?
The Bloomsbury Group
2a Who, with Joseph Addison, founded The Spectator in 1711?
Sir Richard Steele
2b Which English sculptor, engraver, and typographer (1882-1940) created the type designs such as Perpetua, Bunyan, etc?
Eric Gill
3a Which architect, whose works include the Guggenheim Museum of Art in New York, was immortalised in song by Paul Simon?
Frank Lloyd Wright
3b Which NW French region was united to England 1106-1204, to be renounced in 1259?
Normandy
4a With words and music by Cindy Walker, which song was Jim Reeves' only No. 1 hit in the UK?
Distant Drums
4b In which year did Charles Lindbergh fly the Atlantic and the film "The Jazz Singer" open in New York?
1927

Spare Questions
1 In Hinduism, who is the god of creation?
Brahma
2 How long is a vicennial period?
Twenty years
3 Who was the last King of Italy abdicating in 1946?
Umberto II
4 The Mavericks hit song "Just Wanna Dance the Night Away" was originally recorded by which post-WWII bandleader?
Edmundo Ros