Tuesday 28th September 2004
Set by The Aces (Liverpool)
All rounds are general

Round One
1a How old was HRH Queen Elizabeth on her accession to the throne?
Twenty-five
1b Mary Mallon was kept in permanent detention from 1915-1938. By what name was she known?
Typhoid Mary
2a Who succeeded Roger Taylor as Great Britain's Davis Cup team captain?
Jeremy Bates
2b Which country occupies the Horn of Africa?
Republic of Somalia
3a Who was the beautiful wife of Uriah the Hittite, later wife of King David?
Bathsheba
3b Napoleon defeated the combined armies of two countries in the 1805 Battle of Austerlitz. Name either country.
Russia or Austria
4a Lake Erie and Lake Ontario are linked by which waterway?
Welland Ship Canal
4b 'The devil takes the hindmost' is a variant of which sport?
Cycling

Round Two
1a In which English county is the village of Middle Wallop?
Hampshire
1b Who in Greek mythology was the god of marriage and weddings?
Hymen (Hymanaeus)
2a Who wrote 'a little learning is a dangerous thing'?
Alexander Pope
2b Simon Lord Lovatt became the last person executed by what method on April 9th 1747?
Beheading
3a Which London palace, seized in 1530 by Henry VIII, was destroyed by fire in 1698?
Whitehall (aka York Palace)
3b How many hurdles are jumped in the Men's 100 metres Hurdles?
Ten
4a In which Dickens' novel does the cheerful Mark Tapley feature?
Martin Chuzzlewit
4b The Cumbrian town of Keswick stands at the northern end of which lake?
Derwentwater

Round Three
1a Which French writer and poet was the founder of surrealism in 1924?
Andre Breton
1b Name either US state forming a boundary between the Mason-Dixon Line.
Maryland or Pennsylvania
2a The computer acronym 'PDA' stands for what?
Personal Digital Assistant
2b In which UK newspaper is the cartoon strip 'Up and Running'?
Daily Mail
3a What name is given to an expounder of Muslim law?
Mufti
3b Which French composer wrote "Symphonie Fantastique" in 1830?
Hector (Louis) Berlioz
4a Which baseball team beat the NY Yankees to win the 2003 World Series?
Florida Marlins
4b In 1607, where was the first English settlement in America?
Jamestown, Virginia

Round Four
1a Which German composer wrote "Lohengrin" and "Parsifal"?
Richard Wagner
1b Who (Sept. 2004) is the Minister of Transport?
Alastair Darling
2a Who wrote the book "A Royal Duty"?
Paul Burrell
2b Who was the first English king of the House of Tudor?
Henry VII
3a Who (Sept. 2004) is the Solicitor General?
Harriet Harman
3b Who wrote "Rosemary's Baby"?
Ira Levin
4a Who was the last Stuart monarch?
Queen Anne
4b The gladiolus is a member of what plant family?
Iris

Round Five
1a In computer technology, what is the term 'Wi-Fi' short for?
Wireless Fidelity
1b In which year did Freddie Mercury die; Kuwait liberated by the USA; the film "Naked Gun 2½:The Smell of Fear" released?
1991
2a What was born of the blood of Medusa, after she was killed by Perseus?
Pegasus
2b Which adjective describes flora or fauna living at the bottom of the sea, or lake?
Benthic
3a In which year was the first-ever iron pier built for recreation at Southport; Abraham Lincoln elected US President; the first Pony Express ran?
1860
3b What branch of medicine is concerned with diseases of the mouth?
Stomatology
4a Who wrote the novel, later a film, "The African Queen"?
C. S. Forester
4b What is the lowest positive bid in the game of Bridge?
One Club

Round Six
1a What name is given to a leading instructor in the Hindu faith?
Maharishi
1b What is the condition of being a dwarf known as?
Nanism
2a All cards below what number are removed in the card game Bezique?
Seven
2b Which English singer, and child actress, who made her debut in the 1944 film "Medal for the General", has the middle names Sally Olwen?
Petula Clark
3a What is the modern name for Tyburn Road, London?
Oxford Street
3b In which castle was King Charles I imprisoned before his execution?
Carisbrooke Castle Isle of Wight)
4a Who discovered the circulation of the blood?
William Harvey
4b The genus of which evergreen shrub is closely related to tea?
Camellia

Round Seven
1a St. Cuthbert, c. 630-687, was buried in a specially built shrine in which north-east cathedral in AD 1104?
Durham
1b Which Paris Metro station has Egyptian statues on the platform?
Louvre
2a What artistic movement of the 1910's-20's, was the precursor of
surrealism?
Dada (Dadaism)
2b Who was the second wife of Napoleon Bonaparte?
Marie Louise of Austria
3a Which US blues singer/guitarist had the real name McKinley Morganfield?
Muddy Waters
3b What is the most westerly country of Africa?
Republic of Senegal
4a How old was King George VI of England when he died in 1952?
Fifty-Six
4b The Spanish established their first settlement in which US state?
Florida 1565

Round Eight
1a Which race horse in 1975 prevented Red Rum from winning three consecutive Aintree Grand Nationals?
L'Escargot
1b The Corinth Canal joins the Gulf of Corinth to which other gulf?
Saronic Gulf
2a In which Dickens' novel does the villainous James Carker feature?
Dombey and Son
2b How long was Rudolf Hess interred in Spandau jail, Berlin (plus or minus 1)?
41 years (1946-87)
3a Who wrote: 'he who can does, he who cannot teaches'?
George Bernard Shaw
3b Which WWII fortification ran from Cleve to Basle?
The Siegfried Line
4a Name one of the three tennis players since 1975 to win both the Junior and Senior titles at Wimbledon.
Pat Cash / Stefan Edberg / Martina Hingis
4b In which UK newspaper is there a 'Bizarre' page?
The Sun

Spare Questions
1 In which British city is the Citizen's Repertory Theatre?
Glasgow, Scotland
2 St. Petersburg stands on which Russian river?
River Neva
3 What was the first UK pop band to tour China?
Wham!
4 Who said: "Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried"?
Mae West