Monday 21st March 2005
Set by The Lamb (Liverpool)
All rounds are general

Round One
1a Fraxinus excelsior is the botanical name for which tree?
Common/European Ash
1b Laertes, father of Odysseus, was king of which island?
Ithaca
2a The marine mammal, the dugong, is the supposed original of what?
The Mermaid
2b Which US astronomer discovered in 1929 that the universe was expanding?
Edwin Hubble
3a Which mythological monster had a goat's body, a serpent's tail and a lion's head?
The Chimaera
3b Poet and Nobel Prize winner W. B. Yeats is buried in which Irish county?
Co. Sligo
4a Who is the female vocalist with the group "M People"?
Heather Small
4b Otitis is inflammation of what part of the human body?
The Ear

Round Two
1a What colour flag does a track marshal display to a racing driver to indicate that the driver has been disqualified from the race?
Black
1b In which country would you be served a lamington sponge cake?
Australia
2a Which English artist was the subject of Jack Hazan's 1974 semi documentary film "A Bigger Splash"?
David Hockney
2b Which Promoter of the Faith proposes objections to a canonisation?
Devil's Advocate
3a Which Warner Bros. cartoon character has been voiced by Mel Blanc since 1936?
Bugs Bunny
3b What is the nearest English city to Dublin, Eire?
Liverpool
4a Uranus and Gaia(Ge)are the parents of which Olympian (demi-)gods?
The Titans
4b In what year were driving penalty points introduced in the UK?
1981

Round Three
1a Which Florentine artist painted "The Birth of Venus" and "Primavera"?
Sandro Botticelli
1b Which organisation requires a belief in the Great Architect of the Universe?
Freemasony
2a The spirit 'Absolut Vodka' is a product of which country?
Sweden
2b What/where is the country seat of the Duke of Norfolk?
Arundel Castle
3a What organisation was set up in Britain to help one-parent families?
Gingerbread
3b Canaletto painted views of Venice and which other city?
London
4a Poetically, what type of animal was T. S. Eliot's Thomas O'Malley?
A Cat
4b For what purpose is the Lutine Bell at Lloyd's of London sounded?
When a ship founders at sea (or similar)

Round Four
1a How many bells are sounded at the end of a watch at sea?
Eight
1b Which religious sect was founded c. 1827 by Rev. John Nelson Darby and Edward Cronin?
Plymouth Brethren
2a Photographically, APS is an abbreviation of what?
Advanced Photo System
2b Which cartoon cat constantly tries to eat the canary Tweety Pie?
Sylvester
3a Which lake in South America is the highest in the world?
Lake Titicaca
3b What was the pseudonym of French writer Francois Marie Arouet?
Voltaire
4a In World War II what did the acronym PLUTO stand for?
Pipe Line Under the Ocean
4b Which Greek herald died after losing a shouting contest with Hermes?
Stentor

Round Five
1a In mathematics, what number is equal to the sum of its factors?
Perfect Number
1b Churchill proclaimed in 1946 that an Iron Curtain had descended from the Baltic to which other sea?
Adriatic
2a Acer pseudoplatanus is the botanical name for which tree?
Sycamore
2b Which US artiste sung the theme tune to TV's "Rawhide" series?
Frankie Laine
3a Which TV character had the line: "Book him, Danno, murder one"?
Steve McGarrett
3b What apparatus is used for measuring electrical resistance?
Wheatstone Bridge
4a What word completes the following lines by Shelley: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings; Look on my world, ye Mighty, and …."?
Despair
4b Which explorer in 1909 turned back 97 miles short of the South Pole?
Ernest Shackleton

Round Six
1a Who was elected President of Czechoslovakia in December 1989?
Vaclav Havel
1b Who became President of the Philippines after the downfall of Marcos?
Corazon Aquino
2a In which country was the astronomer Copernicus born in 1473?
Poland (Torun)
2b In which building was King Richard II of England murdered?
Pontefract Castle
3a In which year were £1 coins introduced; John McEnroe won his second Wimbledon championship; Tom Watson won his second British Golf Open?
1983
3b How old was Lady Jane Grey when she had her nine days as Queen?
Fifteen
4a Ramon del Rio (alias Jacques Monard) killed which revolutionary in 1940?
Leon Trotsky
4b In which year was PAYE introduced; "Oklahoma" opened on Broadway; the Allies invaded Sicily and the Italian mainland?
1943

Round Seven
1a Astronauts Grissom, White, and Chafee died in 1967 at the launch pad of which US spacecraft?
Apollo 1
1b What was the name of America's first space satellite, launched 1958?
Explorer 1
2a How many times was Mohammed All World Heavyweight Boxing champion?
Three
2b What was first published in the London Daily Advertiser in 1730?
Stock Exchange Quotations
3a The plane carrying Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper crashed in which US state in 1959?
Iowa (near Mason City airport)
3b How many British Open titles did golfer Walter Hagen win?
Four
4a Who was 'kidnapped' by the Symbionese Liberation Front in 1974?
Patty Hearst
4b Which US sex offender and serial killer was killed in Walpole Prison, Massachusetts in 1973?
Albert DeSalvo

Round Eight
1a Which Caribbean island suffered an earthquake in 1907 killing 800 people and virtually destroying its capital city?
Jamaica (Kingston)
1b To the nearest whole year,'Prohibition' in America lasted for how long?
14 years (January 1920 to December 1933)
2a Which British Prime Minister introduced income tax in 1799 (at 10%)?
William Pitt the Younger
2b "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains" is the first line of which Keats' poem?
Ode to a Nightingale
3a Amis, Osborne, Sillitoe and Wilson were part of which radical group?
Angry Young Men
3b The Suez Canal was closed on June 5, 1967, and re-opened in which year?
1975 (June 5)
4a Which film character's favourite drink is Vodka Martini, shaken not stirred?
James Bond
4b Political cartoonist Thomas Nast's work in 'Harper's Weekly' was the origin of the representation of the US Democratic Party as what?
A Donkey

Spare Questions
1 Yangon is the capital of which Asian country?
Myanmar (Burma)
2 According to Rudyard Kipling, the female of which species is deadlier than the male?
Mongoose
3 Which US tourist attraction is wearing away at the rate of 5 ft. per annum?
Niagara Falls
4 Which Fleetwood Mac song did Bill Clinton adopt for his 1992 Presidential election theme?
Don't Stop