Monday 28th February 2005
Set by The Ovalteenies (Wirral)
All rounds are general

Round 1
1a Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms won a silver medal at which Olympic sport in 2004?
BADMINTON
1b What is the name of the tar like substance derived from petroleum - a soft lava of pitch resembling asphalt?
BITUMEN
2a What is Lord Carrington's first name?
PETER (Alexander Rupert)
2b What is Cuba's national sport, as played by Castro?
BASEBALL
3a Which actor was the voice of Hades in the Disney cartoon film of 1997 'Hercules'?
JAMES WOODS
3b What would be kept in a humidor?
CIGARS
4a Which literary character's last words, as he fell, were 'My precious'?
GOLLUM (aka SMEAGOL - Lord of the Rings)
4b Which Asian capital city lies on the Red River?
HANOI

Round 2
1a In which children's TV series does PC McGarry appear?
CAMBERWICK GREEN (accept TRUMPTON)
1b When actor Brian Reece played a policeman on TV and radio, what was his number?
(PC) 49
2a Name the author of the 1996 novel 'Last Orders'.
GRAHAM SWIFT
2b Who wrote 'Mrs DeWynter', an imagined sequel to 'Rebecca'?
SUSAN HILL
3a Which city is served by Malpensa Airport?
MILAN
3b Polar explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes has a triple barrelled surname, give one of his other two names.
TWISTLETON or WYKEHAM
4a Who directed the films Gallipoli and Picnic At Hanging Rock?
PETER WEIR
4b Who won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in 'Norma Rae'?
SALLY FIELD

Round 3
1a Who was the Victorian industrialist known as 'The Mole of Edge Hill'?
JOSEPH WILLIAMSON
1b What is the name of the heroine in the cartoon film 'Beauty and the Beast'?
BELLE
2a Of which country is Recep Tayyip Erdogan the Prime Minister?
TURKEY
2b Which car manufacturer has a double diamond as its logo?
RENAULT
3a What is the common English name for the vegetable known in America as rutabaga?
SWEDE
3b Whose most famous painting is 'The Scream'?
EDVARD MUNCH
4a Although he claims to have been born in Jerusalem, according to his birth certificate in which city was Yasser Arafat born?
CAIRO
4b What is the medical name for the breastbone?
STERNUM

Round 4
1a Who is the composer of the piano music 'Farewell to Stromness'?
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
1b In which region of the Russian Federation is the town of Beslan, scene of the school siege and tragedy?
NORTH OSSETIA
2a Whose autobiography is entitled 'An Accidental MP'?
MARTIN BELL
2b When Titanic left Southampton in 1912 what was its first port of call?
CHERBOURG
3a Which series of travel books were founded by Mark Ellingham and Natania Jonsz in 1982?
ROUGH GUIDES
3b Who was the chief arms negotiator for the UN in Iraq in 2000-3?
HANS BLIX
4a In which country was Sonia Gandhi born?
ITALY
4b Which is Iraq's second largest city?
BASRA

Round 5
1a What is the best know creation of architect Clough Williams-Ellis?
PORTMEIRION (VILLAGE)
1b In which bay is Ellis Island?
(Upper) NEW YORK BAY
2a In which field of science did Carl Sagan publish his influential works?
ASTRONOMY (accept Cosmology)
2b Which fictional detective was the creation of Ellis Peters?
BROTHER CADFAEL
3a In which English county is Peterlee?
DURHAM
3b What were the surnames of the painters with the soubriquets Hell, Peasant and Elder?
BREUGHEL
4a Who created the fictional detective Lord Peter Wimsey?
DOROTHY L SAYERS
4b For what activity was 'Peter the Painter' infamous?
ANARCHIST (The Siege of Sidney Street)

Round 6
1a Give a year in the life of artist Gustav Klimt.
1862-1918
1b What was the nationality of the artist Joan Miro?
SPANISH
2a Which country won the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest?
UKRAINE
2b Which number cannot be shown in Roman numerals?
ZERO
3a In May 2004, what position was held by Luc Vandervelde?
CHAIRMAN OF MARKS AND SPENCER
3b Which bird is also known as the yaffle?
GREEN WOODPECKER
4a Which South American town, named after a monk, gave its name to a popular food brand?
FRAY BENTOS
4b Who was the most famous person to be born in Tupelo, Mississippi?
ELVIS PRESLEY

Round 7
1a Which novel opens with the sentence, 'I knew there was no possibility of taking a walk that day'?
JANE EYRE
1b Who painted 'The Persistence of Memory'?
SALVADOR DALI
2a Which city is served by Pablo Picasso Airport?
MALAGA
2b In which year was the first artificial satellite launched?
1957
3a Who is the trainer of three times Cheltenham Gold Cup winner 'Best Mate'?
HENRIETTA KNIGHT
3b Chris Martin from the group Coldplay has married which American actress?
GWYNETH PALTROW
4a Which 2001 film was mostly set in Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire?
ENIGMA
4b Which gas forms bubbles in the bloodstream when a diver gets 'the bends'?
NITROGEN

Round 8
1a During which war did Gibraltar become a British possession?
WAR OF SPANISH SUCCESSION
1b Which food manufacturer originated in, and still has its headquarters in, Battle Creek, Michigan?
KELLOGGS
2a In 1996 whose published reminiscences were entitled, 'My Name Escapes Me'?
SIR ALEC GUINNESS
2b Which British king had his coronation delayed due to appendicitis?
EDWARD VII
3a Which former soap star plays Auntie Wainwright in 'Last of the Summer Wine'?
JEAN ALEXANDER
3b Which part was played by Patrick Newell in 'The Avengers'?
MOTHER
4a Which novel opens with the words, 'It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen'?
1984
4b Which children's literary character was the most famous created by Astrid Lindgren?
PIPPI LONGSTOCKING

Spare Questions
1. In which year did Rudyard Kipling win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
1907 (accept 1906-8)
2. When the oil rig 'Piper Alpha' caught fire, who was responsible for the fire-fighting operation?
RED ADAIR
3. Which Labour cabinet minister is the Leader of the House of Commons?
PETER HAIN
4. What nationality is the singer kd lang?
CANADIAN