Tuesday 16th November 2004
Set by Gladly Stoned (Wirral)
All rounds are general

ROUND 1
1a Which year did Queen Elizabeth II call her 'Annus Horribilis'?
1992
1b Of what is pedology the study?
SOIL (S)
2a Who wrote the 1922 novel known in translation as 'The cities of the plain'?
MARCEL PROUST
2b Which momentous natural event took place on 27'h August 1883?
ERUPTION OF KRAKATOA
3a What do Spaniards call a bullfight?
CORRIDA
3b Iqaluit, Capital of Canada's newest territory, Nunavut, is situated on which island?
BAFFIN ISLAND
4a In photography, what do the initials S.L.R. mean?
SINGLE LENS REFLEX
4b Who wrote 'Plain tales from the hills' (1888)?
RUDYARD KIPLING

ROUND 2
1a Give either real forename of Bing Crosby?
HARRY LILLIS
1b What name is given to Spanish high-class government-run hotels, which are mainly former stately homes, castles and palaces?
PARADORS
2a In which body of water are the Belcher Islands to be found?
HUDSON BAY
2b Which year was Dryden's 'Annus mirabilis', described in his poem of that name?
1666
3a Which momentous political event took place on the night of August 13, 1961?
BERLIN WALL ERECTED
3b In military terms, what do the initials S.L.R. mean?
SELF LOADING RIFLE
4a Of what is myology the study
MUSCLES
4b Give either real forename of Bob Hope?
LESLIE TOWNES

ROUND 3
1a Who had a No 1 hit in June 1986 with 'Spirit in the Sky'?
DOCTOR AND THE MEDICS
1b What relation was Henry Ito Henry II (of England)?
GRANDFATHER
2a The saguaro is the largest species of which type of plant?
CACTUS
2b Which surveying symbol was first used in 1842, by the Ordnance Survey, for levelling on the Quay at Liverpool?
BENCHMARK
3a In the USA in which month of the year is Martin Luther King Day?
JANUARY
3b In which sport do teams compete for the Louis Vuitton Cup?
SAILING (accept YACHTING)
4a Near which English town is Blenheim Palace located?
WOODSTOCK
4b The 'non-canonical' Bond film 'Never Say Never Again' (1983), starring Sean Connery, was basically a remake of which earlier Bond movie?
THUNDERBALL

ROUND 4
1a Which country won the 2003 America's Cup in Alinghi?
SWITZERLAND
1b Sagitta is the 3rd smallest constellation, lying in the Milky Way near Cygnus, what is its English meaning?
ARROW
2a What was founded in Turkey in 1877 as the equivalent of something founded in Geneva in 1863?
RED CRESCENT
2b What is the name of the castle in Kent, one of Henry VIII's coastal defences, now owned by English Heritage and the official residence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports?
WALMER CASTLE
3a What relation, by birth, was Pliny the Younger to Pliny the Elder?
NEPHEW (later adopted son)
3b Who had a No 1 hit in June 1987 with 'Star Trekkin'?
THE FIRM
4a Give the title of either film in which Timothy Dalton played James Bond.
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS/LICENCE TO KILL
4b In the USA in which month of the year is Columbus Day?
OCTOBER

ROUND 5
1a Give any year in the Papacy of the only English Pope, Nicholas Breakspear, Adrian IV?
1154-1159
1b What is the metric equivalent of 2.47 acres?
1 HECTARE
2a The F.I.N.A. is the governing body of which sport?
SWIMMING (Federation Internationale de Natation)
2b Plovdiv is the second largest city in which European country?
BULGARIA
3a Which celebrity is the author of the 2003 children's book 'The English Roses'?
MADONNA
3b Which 1983 film, based on a TV series, had 4 directors, including John Landis and Steven Spielberg? TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE
4a What is the imperial equivalent of 6.35 kilograms?
1 STONE
4b Which car manufacturer's name derives from the Latin for 'I roll'?
VOLVO

ROUND 6
1a Oran is the 2nd largest city of which African country?
ALGERIA
1b The F.I.D.E. is the governing body of which game?
CHESS (Federation Internationale des Echecs)
2a Which car company features a black prancing horse on its badges?
FERRARI
2b Which model (herself the grand-daughter of a novelist) wrote the 2003 book 'The Man With The Dancing Eyes'?
SOPHIE DAHL
3a Which 1962 western had 5 directors, including Henry Hathaway and John Ford?
HOW THE WEST WAS WON
3b Which alloy of copper and zinc is named after a London watchmaker?
PINCHBECK
4a Which shallow, flat-bottomed circular dish, used in laboratories, takes its name from a German bacteriologist?
V(J.R. Petri)
4b Which twentieth-century Pope's real name was Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli?
JOHN XXIII

ROUND 7
1a Born locally in 1578, John Middleton grew to be 9ft 3in tall, how was he more popularly known?
CHILD OF HALE
1b If micro is the S.I. prefix for 10 to the power of minus 6, which is the prefix for 10 to the 6th?
MEGA
2a Which scientific term can be defined as 'one of a set of chemically identical species of atom which have the same number of protons, but different numbers of neutrons?
ISOTOPE
2b Who is Dr Primrose, in a novel published in 1766?
THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD
3a Who scored 'nil points' with 'Cry Baby' at the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest?
JEMINI
3b What in Australia is the 'Ghan'?
TRAIN (From Adelaide to Darwin)
4a In the Boston Marathon, all the winners of the men's event since 1991 (with one exception) have come from the same country. Which country?
KENYA
4b What is a Gravindex Test used to detect?
PREGNANCY

ROUND 8
1a What is the more popular name of the Swiss Re Building in London, designed by Sir Norman Foster?
(EROTIC) GHERKIN
1b What was the name of Amy Johnson's plane used on her solo flight to Australia?
JASON
2a If kilo is the S.I. prefix for 10 to the power 3, which prefix denoted 10 to the minus 3?
MILLI
2b Which scientific term can be described as 'the development of a new individual from a single, unfertilised reproductive cell, often an egg'?
PARTHENOGENESIS
3a What is an Ishihara Test used to detect?
COLOUR BLINDNESS
3b Which country hosted the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest?
TURKEY
4a Who is Hawley Griffin, in a novel published in 1897?
THE INVISIBLE MAN
4b Annika Sorenstam became the first female golfer for 58 years to do what, at the Colonial Tournament in May 2003?
PLAY IN A MEN'S EVENT

SPARE QUESTIONS
1 What name is given to the part of a gun carriage consisting of an axle, pole and two wheels forming an ammunition carrier to which horses are attached?
LIMBER
2 What happened at Gravesend and then at Brogdale, near Faversham, Kent, on 10th August 2003?
HIGHEST TEMPERATURE RECORDED IN BRITAIN (38.5 C, 101.3 F)
3 What nationality is tennis player David Nalbandian?
ARGENTINIAN
4 Which group had No 1 hits in 2002 with 'Freak Like Me' and 'Round Round'?
SUGABABES