Monday 28th November 2005
Set by Mersey Bowmen (Liverpool)
All rounds are general

Round One
1a Which musical instrument has a foot, a neck, a shoulder, and a crown?
The Harp
1b Who succeeded Eamonn Andrews as presenter of TV's "This is Your Life"?
Michael Aspel
2a Matt Groening is the creator of which TV cartoon family?
The Simpsons
2b What was the first Christian name of the composer Chopin?
Frederic
3a 'Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation' is the motto of which organisation?
BBC
3b Who created 'The Angel of the North' near Gateshead?
Anthony Gormley
4a What name is given to the young of a giraffe?
Calf
4b Who is the hero of John Buchan's 1916 novel "Greenmantle"?
Richard Hannay

Round Two
1a Who, according to Lady Caroline Lamb, was 'mad, bad, and dangerous to know'?
Lord Byron
1b Which cartoon strip character was created by Mary Tourtel?
Rupert Bear
2a Which area of London is named from the fact that King Edward III kept his hounds there?
The Isle of Dogs
2b In America, English icing (on a cake) is called what?
Frosting
3a What is the largest city in Switzerland?
Zurich
3b What nickname is often given to Schubert's Piano Quintet in A Major?
The Trout
4a In which British city is the Robert Gordon University?
Aberdeen
4b In the game of Monopoly, what is diagonally opposite 'Go'?
Free Parking

Round Three
la Who wrote the 1961 novel "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"?
Muriel Spark
1b Who was considered to be 'the voice of British tennis' from 1949 to 1992?
Dan Maskell
2a What is the literal meaning of the word 'antediluvian'?
Before the flood
2b Who is the Patron Saint of grocers?
St. Michael
3a Which politician was replaced by a tub of lard on TV's "Have I Got News For You"?
Roy Hattersley
3b Who plays the part of Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter films?
Robbie Coltrane
4a The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development is better known as what?
The World Bank
4b Fanny Sunesson caddied for who after parting company with Nick Faldo?
Sergio Garcia

Round Four
la Winchester is the administrative centre of which English county?
Hampshire
1b Edward Teach (aka Tache, or Thatch) was better known by what name?
Blackbeard
2a What is the real first name of FIFA President Sepp Blatter?
Joseph
2b Which animals suffer from 'glanders'?
Horses/Mules/Donkeys
3a Which English queen's first Christian name was Alexandrina?
Queen Victoria
3b What is the only national flag to feature a map of the country?
Cyprus
4a The book "Touching the Void" is the story of which famous mountaineer?
Joe Simpson
4b In Greek mythology, who was the youngest son of Priam and Hecuba?
Paris

Round Five
1a What name was applied in the 1920's to the unusually large number of children of school age resulting from the increase in births after WW1?
The Bulge
1b Name one of the authors of "1066 And All That"
Sellar/Yeatman
2a Japanese binocular maker Nippon Koguka turned itself into which current camera-making company?
Nikon
2b '.im' is the internet domain for where?
The Isle of Man
3a What is the name of Scott Adam's most famous cartoon character?
Dilbert
3b The Negev Desert is mainly in which Asian country?
Israel
4a Which US animator and film producer set up his own company in 1920 with Ub Iwerks, calling it 'Laugh-O-Grams'?
Walt Disney
4b Which Swiss town/summer resort is between the Lakes Brienz and Thun?
Interlaken

Round Six
1a Who wrote the 1858 novel "The Coral Island"?
R. M. Ballantyne
1b The King's Theatre, Royal Lyceum Theatre, Travers Theatre and Usher Hall are in which British city?
Edinburgh
2a Tenzin Gyatso is better known as who?
The (14th) Dalai Lama
2b Sisters Fayette and Shirley Porter, and Linda Turner were the three original what?
The Three Degrees
3a Of what hyphenated word is 'quasar' an abbreviation?
Quasi-stellar
3b Which British monarch first made a Christmas broadcast to the nation?
King George V
4a Mervyn King is currently the governor of what?
The Bank of England
4b Peter Blake and Jasper Johns were two of the original exponents of which artistic movement?
Pop Art

Round Seven
1a Who was appointed Dressmaker to the Queen in 1955?
Hardy Amies
1b Which cartoon character, called Waldo in the USA, and Charlie in France, was created in 1987 by Martin Handford?
Wally
2a For what reason did countries boycott the 1980 Summer Olympic Games?
USSR invasion of Afghanistan
2b What do either of the 'C's' stand for in 'CCD' used in digital photography?
Charge-coupled device
3a Who is the oldest actress to win an Academy Award (Oscar) (in 1989)?
Jessica Tandy
3b Which country has the longest coastline in the world?
Canada
4a Who composed the song "Putting on the Ritz"?
Irving Berlin
4b Which country has won football's World Cup twice, once in Brazil?
Uruguay

Round Eight
1a What was the name of the second weekly magazine owned and edited by Charles Dickens?
Household Words (accept All The Year Round)
1b "The Internationale" was which country's anthem until 1944?
Soviet Union
2a From which body of water was the 'Mary Rose' raised in 1982?
The Solent
2b Politically speaking, who was unfairly called 'Doris Karloff'?
Ann Widdecombe
3a Which actor played the role of Clayton Farlow in TV's "Dallas"?
Howard Keel
3b Which Welsh town was formed in 1921 by the amalgamation of Aberavon and Margam?
Port Talbot
4a Bobby Fischer became the first officially recognised US world chess champion by defeating which Russian player in Reykjavik in 1972?
Boris Spassky
4b In which Spanish city is the cathedral bell tower the 'Giralda'?
Seville

Spare Questions
1 Which 'wonder horse' won racing's Triple Crown in 1970?
Nijinsky
2 The adjective 'sciurine' refers to which animal?
Squirrels/Marmots/Chipmunks
3 Which national leader once outlawed Christmas pudding?
Oliver Cromwell
4 Who is the frontman of the British group 'Radiohead'?
Thom Yorke