Monday 7th November 2005
Set by (Sefton Cricket Club)
All rounds are general

Round One
1a Socrates was sentenced to die using what type of poison?
Hemlock
1b George Harrison of 'The Beatles' founded which film company?
Handmade Films
2a A hygrometer is used for measuring what?
Atmospheric Humidity
2b What type of creature is an Alaskan malamute?
Husky Dog
3a Which American-born composer was known as 'The March King'?
John Philip Sousa
3b Which US President had the nickname 'Old Hickory'?
Andrew Jackson
4a Which credit card company features the head of a centurion as its symbol?
American Express
4b Who stole the tarts from the Queen of Hearts?
The Knave of Hearts

Round Two
1a Which children's character lives at 52 Festive Road?
Mr. Benn
1b What is the name of the postmistress in "Postman Pat"?
Mrs. Goggins
2a Who founded Penguin, Pelican, and Puffin books?
Sir Allen Lane
2b Where in Africa was pop singer Freddie Mercury born?
Zanzibar (accept Tanzania)
3a What was stolen by Vincenzo Perrugia in 1911?
The Mona Lisa
3b How did. Emily Davison die in 1913?
Trampled by a horse (at the Epsom Derby)
4a What is the largest country on the. African continent?
Sudan
4b Robert Maxwell's.Pergamon Press specialised in what type of journal?
Scientific.

Round Three
1a In the Bible, how many tribes of Israel are there?
Twelve
1b After the two species of elephant, what is the next largest land mammal by weight?
Hippopotamus
2a How is the letter 'E' transmitted in the Morse Code?
A single dot
2b What did Keats describe as 'of mists and mellow fruitfulness'?
Autumn
3a Which title of British nobility is next below an earl?
Viscount
3b Who did Bill Clinton defeat in 1996 to win his second term of office?
Bob Dole
4a Which element, atomic number 74, is silver white in colour when pure?
Tungsten
4b What name connects Mahler, "The Planets", and the Eiffel Tower?
Gustav

Round Four
1a How many bones are there in the human body?
206
lb Which movie monster was discovered on Skull Island?
King Kong
2a What is the name of the lion in "The Lion,The Witch, and The Wardrobe"? Asian
2b What name is given to a ring-shaped coral island?
Atoll
3a The Krishna (or Kistna) River rises in the Western Ghats of India flowing into which arm of the Indian Ocean?
Bay of Bengal
3b The Republic of Indonesia constitutes most of which group of islands?
Malay Archipelago
4a Which 1987 film starring Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman, who are involved in international intrigue in North Africa, was a major flop?
Ishtar
4b The poems "Danny Deever", "Mandalay" and "Gunga Din" are from which Rudyard Kipling work (published 1892)?
Barrack-Room Ballads

Round Five
1a In the Bible, to where was Cain banished after murdering Abel?
The Land of Nod
1b Who said: "Mankind must put and end to war, or war will put an end to mankind"?
John F. Kennedy
2a The mould or fungus 'noble rot' is a vital part in the production of certain varieties of what?
Wine
2b The Feast Day of Lammas is celebrated on which date?
August 1st
3a Who did Andrew Cunanan murder in Miami in 1997?
Glanni Versace
3b Which soft drink is made from the dried root of the smilax plant?
Sarsaparilla
4a Who, in 1783, said: "There was never a good war, or a bad peace"?
Benjamin Franklin
4b Which artery supplies blood to the arm?
Brachial

Round Six
1a Which Austrian neurologist wrote "Totem and Taboo" in 1913?
Sigmund Freud
1b Which alphabetic system, using Roman letters, is used for the transcription of the Chinese language?
Pinyin
2a Which socialist educational organisation is named after the Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus?
The Fabian Society
2b What is represented by the white part of the French tricolour?
The House of Bourbon
3a Filippo Marinetti founded which art movement in 1909?
Futurism
3b In which British city was the Encyclopaedia Britannica first published?
Edinburgh
4a The former British protectorate of Nyasaland is now called what?
Malawi
4b Name one of the rhetoric, used in medieval schools, comprising the trivium.
Grammar / Rhetoric / Logic

Round Seven
1a Which French Post-Impressionist painter died in Polynesia in 1903?
Paul Gauguin
1b Which artistic movement was founded by Hunt, Millais, and Rosetti?
Pre-Raphaelites
2a Henrietta Maria was the wife of which English king?
Charles the First
2b The song "Mack the Knife" is from which theatrical work?
The Threepenny Opera
3a Who in 1863 painted "Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe" (Luncheon on the Grass)?
Edouard Manet
3b In which year did Joseph Stalin die; Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed; Korean War armistice signed?
1953
Who played Nicole Kidman's husband in the 1995 film "To Die For"?
Matt Dillon
4b In which country is Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Aida" set?
Egypt

Round Eight
1a Which creature catches its insect prey by shooting small jets of water?
Archer Fish
1b What is the electrically positive electrode called?
Anode
2a Which English playwright, actor, producer and composer (1899-1973) wrote "The Vortex" in 1924?
Sir Noel Coward
2b Where did Moses receive the Ten Commandments (Decalogue)?
Mount Sinai
3a By what name is Camille Javal better known?
Brigitte Bardot
3b From where or what specifically is the spice cinnamon obtained?
(Dried) tree bark
4a Which 'James Bond' actor plays a villain, patterned after Errol Flynn, in the 1991 film "The Rocketeer"?
Timothy Dalton
4b The Myanmar (Burmese) city of Mandalay stands on which river?
Irrawaddy

Spare Questions
1 How many wheels were there on the horse-drawn Hansom cab?
Two
2 Which of the Spice Girls advertised Milky Way on TV?
Emma Bunton (Baby Spice)
3 If written in words, which number would be the first to contain the letter 'a'?
One Hundred and One