Tuesday 1st November 2005
Set by RBB (Northern)
All rounds are general

ROUND ONE
1a. What was the stage name of the female impersonator Arthur Lucan?
OLD MOTHER RILEY
1b. The films Yield to the Night (1956) and Dance with a Stranger (1985) both dealt with which person hanged for murder in 1955?
RUTH ELLIS
2a. Who is the Greek equivalent of the Roman Goddess Juno?
HERA
2b, What is the name of the thick French soup made from shellfish or lobster, with added cream and wine?
BISQUE
3a. In which 1996 film, an uncredited adaptation of The War of the Worlds, are the invaders defeated by a computer virus rather than an organic one?
INDEPENDENCE DAY
3b. Parr, smolt, and grilse are stages in the life cycle of which fish?
SALMON
4a, In 1969, R Frisch of Norway and J Tinbergen of the Netherlands were the first recipients of which of the Nobel Prizes?
ECONOMICS
4b. In which room of the Palace of Versailles was the 1919 Treaty of Versailles signed?
HALL OF MIRRORS

ROUND TWO
1a. In cookery, what is the name of the sachet containing dried thyme, bay and parsley?
BOUQUET GARNI
1b. What is the term, dating from 1991, for the practice of employees sharing workstations and such like, on a rota, rather than giving each employee a workstation?
HOT-DESKING
2a. What is the name of the earliest form of paper, made in Egypt from reeds?
PAPYRUS
2b. Which chain of large, mainly city-centre pubs was founded by Tim Martin?
(J. D.) WETHERSPOON'S
3a. In which American state are the towns of Dayton and Akron?
OHIO
3b. In biology, what is defined as: 'the unit-mass of living matter, the smallest capable of separate existence'?
CELL
4a. What breed of animal is a herdwick?
SHEEP
4b. In mythology, who was the herald of the Greek gods?
HERMES

ROUND THREE
1a. Which leader of the Scots was defeated by Edward I at the Battle of Falkirk and executed in 1305?
SIR WILLIAM WALLACE
1b. Give any year in the life of Robert the Bruce?
1274-1329
2a. Which tennis player died of AIDS in 1993, contracted from a contaminated blood transfusion after a heart bypass operation?
ARTHUR ASHE
2b. Which historic English building caught fire after being hit by lightening on 9 July 1984?
YORK MINSTER
3a. Curling is a major sport in Scotland - and which other country?
CANADA
3a. In which year did the Berlin Wall come down?
1989
4a. Which politician in the 1970s was alleged to have had a homosexual relationship with Norman Scott?
JEREMY THORPE
4b. American's won the British Open Golf Championship in every year from 1970 to 1978 apart from 1974 when who won?
GARY PLAYER (S AFRICA)

ROUND FOUR
1a. Which country's stamps bear the legend Magyar Posta?
HUNGARY
1b. Who chaired the inquiry into the 1981 Brixton Riots and later campaigned for the release of the 'Birmingham Six' and the 'Guildford Four'?
LORD SCARMAN
2a. Which street in London WI l is famous for its open air antiques market, held chiefly on Saturday?
PORTOBELLO ROAD
2b. What was the name of the double-decker bus designed by Douglas Scott and introduced into London transport in the 1950s?
ROUTEMASTER
3a. Which river separates the cities of Salford and Manchester?
RIVER IRWELL
3b. What was the name of the mediaeval trade route connecting China and Italy?
THE SILK ROAD
4a. In American football, what name is given to running or passing the ball over the goal line?
TOUCHDOWN
4b. Who first played the title role in the stage musical Pickwick when itopened in London in 1963?
HARRY SECOMBE

ROUND FIVE
1a. Who in 1998 became the oldest astronaut to go into space?
JOHN GLENN
1b. In mediaeval times, what was the name of the path that ran from Winchester to the shrine of Thomas A'Becket at Canterbury?
THE PILGRIMS' WAY
2a. Who wrote the book The Coast to Coast Walk St Bee's Head to Robin Hood's Bay?
ALFRED WAINWRIGHT
2b. The city of York stands on the confluence of the Foss and which other river?
OUSE
3a. The Fenn Street Gang was the sequel to which television comedy starring John Alderton, first screened in 1968?
PLEASE SIR
3b. 'Bubble and squeak' consists of potatoes and which other vegetable fried together?
CABBAGE
4a. On the banks of which river does Leeds stand?
AIRE
4b. In the television series Steptoe & Son, what was the name of the horse?
HERCULES

ROUND SIX
1a. Coming from the name of an island off the coast of Alaska, what is the name of the bear that is the largest living terrestrial carnivore?
KODIAK
1b. Which river, forming a boundary between Italy and Cisalpine Gaul, was crossed by the forces of Julius Caesar in BC49?
RIVER RUBICON
2a. Which is the anti-particle of the electron?
POSITRON
2b. What was the name of the moderate, minority party at the time of the Russian Revolution?
MENSHEVIKS
3a. On the 24th April in which year did the Easter Uprising begin in Dublin?
1916
3b. Which sport is won by the player who first reaches nine points; and these points can only be scored when the player holds service?
SQUASH
4a. Which Conservative government minister came to grief over his illicit sexual relations with Sarah Keays?
CECIL PARKINSON
4b. Using the word correctly, if something is 'decimated', by what percentage is it reduced?
TEN PER CENT

ROUND SEVEN
1a. What is the name of the extensive marshy pine forests in Siberia?
TAIGA
1b. Which famous boxer, born in 1934, had Jim Wicks as his manager throughout his career?
HENRY COOPER
2a. Which author, essayist, and poet, 1874-1936, wrote: Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it?
G K CHESTERTON
2b. What is the French phrase, translating as 'black beast', meaning a bugbear, or something greatly disliked?
BETE NOIR
3a. In which of Charles Dickens' novels does the villain Daniel Quilp appear?
THE OLD
CURIOSITY SHOP
3b. What has the chemical formula H2SO4?
SULPHURIC ACID
4a. Three types of sword are used in fencing; one is the foil; another is the epee; which is the third?
SABRE
4b. What is the name of the grassy plateau in the Bolivian and Peruvian Andes which contains Lake Titicaca?
ALTIPLANO

ROUND EIGHT
1a. William Longbeard in 1196 and John Austin in 1783 were the first and last to be hanged at which place of public execution in London?
TYBURN
1b. Which politician took the title Baroness Blackburn?
BARBARA CASTLE
2a. What did the Mormons cease practicing on 6 October 1890, thus allowing Utah to become a territory and then a state?
POLYGAMY
2b. In which of Charles Dickens's novels does the Circumlocution Office appear?
LITTLE DORRIT
3a. Who was appointed Dock Engineer to the Liverpool Docks in 1824?
JESSE HARTLEY
3b. Who was the mother of Queen Elizabeth I?
ANNE BOLEYN
4a. Which series of horror films features the character Michael Myers?
HALLOWEEN
4b. In which South African township did a series of riots begin on 16 June 1976?
SOWETO

SPARE QUESTIONS
1. Who was Shergar's jockey when it won the Derby in 1981?
WATER SWINBURN
2. In which year was the Berlin Wall erected?
1961
3. What is a peruke?
A WIG
4. The name of which usually brightly coloured garment is derived from the red ones originally worn by the Cambridge University Boating Club?
BLAZER
5. What non-sporting reason was the cause of there being no winner of the 1994 Baseball World Series?
THE PLAYERS WERE ALL ON STRIKE