Monday 7th March 2005
Set by Columba (Wirral)
All rounds are general

ROUND 1
1a Of which animal is Barbastelle a variety?
BAT
1b What animal has a breed called Kerry Blue?
DOG
2a What is the most widely spoken language in Switzerland?
GERMAN
2b Which is the largest of the United Arab Emirates?
ABU DHABI
3a What element has the atomic number 82?
LEAD
3b What is the boiling point of water on the Reaumer Scale?
80
4a Which country is home to the airline Iberia?
SPAIN
4b Which country is home to Varig Airlines?
BRAZIL

ROUND 2
1a In World War II, after the invasion of Poland, which was the next country to beinvaded by Germany in April 1940?
DENMARK
1b Who was the German Chancellor at the time of the signing of the unconditional surrender on May 7th 1945?
DOENITZ
2a What sport is played for the Corbillon Cup?
TABLE TENNIS
2b Which sport is referred to in Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra?
BILLIARDS
3a Which is the longest of Shakespeare's plays?
HAMLET
3b Whose works include 'Daisy Miller' and 'Portrait of a Lady'?
HENRY JAMES
4a Who wrote the opera 'Girl of the Golden West'?
PUCCINI
4b What was the name of the character played by Liza Minelli in the film Cabaret?
SALLY BOWLES

ROUND 3
1a Who became Chancellor of the Exchequer when John Major became Prime Minister in 1990?
NORMAN LAMONT
1b Who was President of the USA throughout World War 1?
WOODROW WILSON
2a How many years of marriage is a china wedding anniversary?
20
2b Which wedding anniversary is the tin anniversary?
TEN
3a Tapioca is produced from the root of which plant?
CASSAVA (accept YUCA)
3b Which fruits scientific name is 'Prunus Persica'?
PEACH
4a Which city hosted the 1988 summer Olympic Games?
SEOUL
4b Which city hosted the 1960 summer Olympic Games?
ROME

ROUND 4
1a Which country's vehicle registration letters are RCH?
CHILE
1b Cars from which country have the registration EAK?
KENYA
2a Who played Nora Batty in TV's 'Last of the Summer Wine'?
KATHY STAFF
2b Who was the second actor to play Dr Who on television?
PATRICK TROUGHTON
3a Which Saint whose feast day is 22 Jan is the Patron Saint of Vine growers and Vintners?
ST VINCENT
3b Who was proclaimed the patron Saint of Television in 1958?
ST CLARE (OF ASSISI)
4a What is the common English name of the plant myositis?
FORGET-ME-NOT
4b Which dyestuff and flavouring is obtained from the autumn crocus?
SAFFRON

ROUND 5
1a Who succeeded Brezhnev as President of the USSR in 1982?
YURI ANDROPOV
1b Who assassinated Robert Kennedy in 1968?
SIRHAN SIRHAN
2a Which British novelist wrote 'Bulldog Drummond'?
SAPPER (accept H.C. McNEILE)
2b What was the name of the dog in Jerome K. Jerome's 'Three Men in a Boat'?
MONTMERENCY
3a What is the nickname of Haydn's Symphony No 101 in D Major?
CLOCK SYMPHONY
3b From which piece of music does the tune 'The Great Gate of Kiev' come?
PICTURES FROM AN EXHIBITION
4a In human anatomy, what is the hallux?
BIG TOE
4b Which organ of the body is afflicted by Bright's disease?
KIDNEYS

ROUND 6
1a In acoustics, which unit measures the intensity or loudness of sound?
DECIBEL
1b Which word describes the property of a metal which allows it to be drawn out into wire?
DUCTILITY
2a Who wrote Schindler's Ark?
THOMAS KENEALLY
2b Who wrote Captain Corelli's Mandolin?
LOUIS DE BERNIERES
3a In Greek mythology who was the wife of Hades and daughter of Zeus and Demeter?
PERSEPHONE
3b Who is said to have given fire to mankind after stealing it from the Gods?
PROMETHEUS
4a Which winner of the Nobel Peace Prize was assassinated in 1981?
ANWAR SADAT
4b In which year was Trotsky murdered in Mexico City?
1940

ROUND 7
1a Who was the first Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity?
CONSTANTINE
1b Which society was founded in 1899 to distribute bibles to hotels?
THE GIDEONS
2a What is the main unit of currency in Cuba?
PESO
2b Whom did Fidel Castro replace as Cuban leader in 1959?
BATISTA
3a Which British King has had the longest reign since 1066?
GEORGE THE THIRD
3b Which King of Great Britain and Ireland married Caroline of Ansbach?
GEORGE THE SECOND
4a Name the King of Egypt who abdicated in 1952?
FAROUK
4b Who was Ptolemy XIV's mother?
CLEOPATRA

ROUND 8
1a What is the name of the blue cheese made from ewe's milk in SW France?
ROQUEFORT
1b What spirit is made from the juice of the blue agave plant?
TEQUILA
2a In which English County is the ship burial site 'Sutton Hoo'?
SUFFOLK
2b In which English county is Stonehenge?
WILTSHIRE
3a In which sport are only two of the seven players in each team allowed to score?
NETBALL
3b Which sport, at international level, is played by teams of ten in men's events but teams of twelve in women's events?
LACROSSE
4a In which European City would you find the Hermitage Museum and Art Gallery?
ST. PETERSBURG
4b Founded in 1818, in which European City would you find the Prado Museum?
MADRID

SPARE QUESTIONS
1 Give a year in the life of Mozart?
1756-1791
2 What is the name of the stone building in the centre of the great Mosque at Mecca?
THE KAABA
3 Who wrote the book 'I Claudius'?
ROBERT GRAVES
4 In which country was 'The Great Trek' of 1836-37 made?
SOUTH AFRICA
5 Which peers of the realm rank between Earls and Dukes?
MARQUESSES