Tuesday 9th November 2004
Set by Usual Suspects (Liverpool)
All rounds are general

Round One
1a What does the duty policeman shout at the start of a Parliamentary day?
Hats off, strangers
1b Name either player to be disqualified in the 2003 Open golf championship for an incorrect score card?
Jesper Parnevik/Mark Roe
2a What did Alfred Hitchcock enquire of a man who complained that his wife could not take a shower since watching the film "Psycho"?
Have you considered having her dry cleaned?
2b To which family of fish does the bream belong?
Carp (Cyprinldae)
3a What name was given to a Northern sympathiser with the South in the American Civil War?
Copperhead
3b Which Irish river rises on Cuilcagh Mountain, Co. Cavan?
River Shannon
4a What is the highest value Euro note in circulation?
500 Euros
4b ALIA is the national airline of which country?
Jordan

Round Two
1a Who wrote the book, later a film series, The Thin Man"?
Dashiel Hammett
1b Who presented the case for Diana, Princess of Wales, in TV's "Greatest Briton"?
Rosie Boycott
2a Give a year in the life of German painter/engraver Albrecht Durer.
1471-1525
2b Name either shipping weather forecast area abutting the coast of Norway.
N Utsire/S Utsire
3a Historian Richard Holmes championed who in TV's "Greatest Briton"?
Oliver Cromwell
3b Who wrote the book, later a film, "To Kill a Mocking Bird"?
(Nellie) Harper Lee
4a Name either shipping weather forecast area abutting the coast of Denmark.
Fisher/German Bight
4b Give a year in the life of Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore.
1781-1826

Round Three
1a Which annual publication gives information on European royalty, etc?
Almanach de Gotha
1b Which sporting contest, first run 1851, was originally called The 100 Guineas Cup?
The America's Cup
2a In which southern state capital is the Albert Park F1 racing circuit?
Melbourne
2b Which British possession was ceded to Germany in 1890, in exchange for Zanzibar?
Heligoland
3a Which North Atlantic inlet lies between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia?
Bay of Fundy
3b Which Flemish painter was born in Siegen, Westphalia, in 1577, and died in Antwerp in 1640?
(Peter) Paul Rubens
4a Which Flemish artist was born near Breda, North Brabant, c. 1520, and died in Brussels c. 1569?
Pieter Brueghel the Elder
4b Which explorer was the first editor of the South Polar Times, published 1902?
Sir Ernest Shackleton

Round Four
1a Which bluish-white brittle metallic element expands on solidifying, and is much used in the casting of printing type?
Antimony
1b What complaint did the people of Tudor and Stuart times cure by taking antimony (and they re-used the antimony)?
Constipation
2a Who invented the vacuum cleaner in 1901?
Hubert Cecil Booth
2b What aid to motor vehicles did Robert Bosch invent in 1902?
Spark Plug
3a Which US state has the Dakotas (E), Wyoming (S), Idaho (SSW), and Canada (N)?
Montana
3b Name either country to sign the 1884 Treaty of Valparaiso with Chile.
Peru/Bolivia
4a In which men's athletic event has a world record never been set during an Olympic Games?
Discus
4b Which US President died in 1841, after only six months in office?
William Henry Harrison

Round Five
1a What is shouted to signify the end of a Parliamentary day?
Who goes home?
1b Who won the Weetabix Ladies Open Golf championship in 2003?
Annika Sorenstam
2a What was Zsa Zsa Gabor's answer to the question "How many husbands have you had"?
You mean, in addition to my own!
2b The ptarmigan belongs to which bird family?
Grouse (Lagopus mutus)
3a What do stamp collectors understand by the abbreviation 'o.g.'?
Own Gum
3b The 1894 Congo Treaty was between Belgium and which other country?
Great Britain
4a Which US state has Illinois, Indiana and Ohio (N), West Virginia and Virginia (E), Tennessee (S), and Missouri (W)?
Kentucky
4b What do stamp collectors understand by the abbreviation 'f.u'?
Fine Used

Round Six
1a What trophy is awarded to the best stylist in Olympic boxing events?
Val Barker Trophy
1b Which composer wrote the "Academic Festival Overture" in celebrationof his receiving an honorary directorate from Breslau University in 1881?
Johannes Brahms
2a Who wrote the concert-overture "Consecration of the House" for the opening of the Josefstadt Theatre in Vienna?
Ludwig van Beethoven
2b Which US President had a sign reading 'the buck stops here'?
Harry S. Truman
3a During the American Civil War, when the first Confederate conscription law was passed in 1862, it included a provision that any man with at least how many slaves could be exempted from service?
Twenty
3b Which English river enters the North Sea at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk?
River Yare
4a What is the highest value of Euro coin in circulation?
Two Euros
4b PIA is the international airline of which country?
Pakistan

Round Seven
1a Which WWII German air strike took place from 20th May-1st June 1941?
Invasion of Crete
1b Which US soldier said in 1987: "I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea"?
Oliver North
2a Who declined the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize, awarded with Henry Kissinger?
Le Duc Tho
2b Guatemala and which other Central American state has a land border with Mexico?
Belize
3a Which British conductor, 1879-1961, said: "I have recently been all around the world and formed a very poor opinion of it"?
Sir Thomas Beecham
3b Off which cape did a British naval force engage the Italian task force on 28th March, 1941?
Cape Matapan (Tainaron)
4a Which Central American state does not have an Atlantic coastline?
El Salvador
4b Jean Paul Sartre declined the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature; who refused the same award in 1958?
Boris Pasternak

Round Eight
1a In which century did Cambridge, England, gain city status?
Twentieth (1951)
1b West Germany and which other country has lost two consecutive football World Cup finals?
Netherlands
2a What is the trade name of polymethylmethacrylate?
Perspex
2b Who was the last member of the Royal family to be born in Scotland?
The late Princess Margaret
3a England, France and which other country has won every football World Cup final it has played in?
Uruguay
3b What is the trade name of polytetrafluoethylene?
Teflon
4a Who was the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots?
Lord Darnley
4b In which century did Oxford gain city status?
Sixteenth (1546)

Spare Questions
1 What word describes a coarse canvas of jute or hemp for making sacks?
Burlap
2 Which architect planned the new Waterloo Bridge, London?
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott
3 Which TV programme began in 1971, and has changed its name every year since?
Film '71