Monday 31st October 2005
Set by Puzzlers (Northern)
All rounds are general

ROUND ONE
1a. What is the collective name for a flock of goldfinches?
A CHARM
1b. What country does Gruyere cheese come from?
SWITZERLAND
2a. What did Ettore Bugatti manufacture?
CARS
2b. What alcoholic drink is flavoured by hops?
BEER
3a. Which song, sung at the Last Night of the Proms, is Thomas Arne's most famous work?
RULE BRITANNIA
3b. What is the difference between a country's income and expenditure abroad called?
BALANCE OF PAYMENTS
4a. Which chess piece can move only one square at a time in any direction?
KING
4b. From which country does Chianti wine come?
ITALY

ROUND TWO
1a. Which British novelist wrote The Needle's Eye and The Middle Ground?
MARGARET DRABBLE
1b. Which soft yellow precious metal has the chemical symbol AU?
GOLD
2a.Which Arctic marine mammal has webbed flippers, a bristly moustache and large tusks?
WALRUS
2b. Who was the first wife of Henry VIII?
CATHERINE OF ARAGON
3a. Which non-metallic element, symbol Cl, is used as a disinfectant in swimming pools?
CHLORINE
3b. What distinguishes a Manx cat from other cats?
IT HAS NO TAIL
4a. Of what Asian country is New Delhi the capital?
INDIA
4b. In which sport might you see a long leg and a third man?
CRICKET

ROUND THREE
1a. Which line on a weather map links places of equal atmospheric pressure?
ISOBAR
1b. Which British dramatist wrote Ralph Roister Doister?
NICHOLAS UDALL
2a. To which island group does Islay belong?
THE INNER HEBRIDES
2b. What was the US equivalent of British music hall entertainment called?
VAUDEVILLE
3a. Which Chicago building was the tallest in the world when it was built in the 1970s?
SEARS TOWER
3b. Which US lawyer wrote Unsafe at Any Speed which led to car safety legislation?
RALPH NADER
4a. What is the capital of the state of Tennessee?
NASHVILLE
4b. Which Spanish priest was the founder of the Jesuits?
IGNATIUS LOYOLA

ROUND FOUR
1a. What does D stand for in CJD?
(Creutzfeldt-Jakob) DISEASE
1b. Which English explorer, after whom a river and a bay are named, was cast adrift by a mutinous crew in 1611?
HENRY HUDSON
2a. What is the English name for the Dutch port of Vlissingen?
FLUSHING
2b. Of which country is Zagreb the capital?
CROATIA
3a. Which British novelist wrote Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders?
DANIEL DEFOE
3b. Which sport is played with an oval ball on a field marked out as a gridiron?
AMERICAN FOOTBALL
4a. Which Whig politician is generally regarded as the first prime minister?
ROBERT WALPOLE
4b. Which ocean was at the heart of Michael Palin's Full Circle?
THE PACIFIC

ROUND FIVE
1a. In which county is Dartmoor?
DEVON
1b. What sort of creature is a fritillary?
A BUTTERFLY
2a. In which novel by Charles Dickens does Mr Micawber appear?
DAVID COPPERFIELD
2b. Of which planet are Titania and Oberon satellites?
URANUS
3a. Which suspension bridge near San Francisco was completed in 1937?
THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE
3b. In which royal residence in Norfolk did both George V and George VI die?
SANDRINGHAM
4a. Who was the chancellor of the Exchequer from 1979 to 1983?
GEOFFREY HOWE
4b. What name is given to gilded bronze used to embellish furniture?
ORMOLU

ROUND SIX
1a. What is the administrative centre of the Orkney Islands?
KIRKWALL
1b. What is the world's largest rodent?
THE CAPYBARA
2a. With which French philosopher and novelist was Simone de Beauvoir romantically linked?
JEAN-PAUL SATRE
2b. Which plant was St Patrick said to have used to illustrate the Holy Trinity?
SHAMROCK
3a. In which country is the city of Tijuana?
MEXICO
3b. Which writer was imprisoned as a result of his relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas?
OSCAR WILDE
4a. In which sport was the Wightman Cup first contested in 1923 between British and American women?
TENNIS
4b. In which country did Queen Beatrix succeed her mother Queen Juliana in 1980?
THE NETHERLANDS

ROUND SEVEN
1a. Which colourless liquid, once used as an anaesthetic, is also called trichloromethane?
CHLOROFORM
1b. Which politician and journalist wrote the series of essays called as Rural Rides?
WILLIAM COBBETT
2a. Which Hampshire village is best known for Lord Montagu's Motor Museum?
BEAULIEU
2b. Which British yachtsman sailed solo around the world in 1970-71?
CHAY BLYTH
3a. Who wrote The Woman in White, often called the first English detective novel?
WILKIE COLLINS
3b. Which member of the Royal Family took the surname Mountbatten in 1947 when he became a British citizen?
THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH
4a. What sort of a creature is an oriole?
A BIRD
4b. Which British portrait photographer designed the costumes for the musical My Fair Lady?
CECIL BEATON

ROUND EIGHT
1a. Which Russian port contains the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian railway?
VLADIVOSTOK
1b. On which river does the French city of Chartres stand?
RIVER EURE
2a. Which US dancer died in 1927 when her scarf caught in the wheel of the car in which she was travelling?
ISADORA DUNCAN
2b. Which Pulitzer Prize-winning author wrote The Bridge of San Luis Rey?
THORNTON WILDER
3a. In which Irish county is the castle that contains the famous Blarney Stone?
COUNTY CORK
3b. Which French city was besieged by the English until the arrival of Joan of Arc?
ORLEANS
4a. What is the point of infinite density at the centre of a black hole called?
SINGULARITY
4b. Which fire-breathing monster in Greek mythology was killed by Bellerophon?
CHIMERA

SPARE QUESTIONS
1. Who had a 1962 hit with Right Said Fred?
BERNARD CRIBBINS
2. Who played Gaz in The Full Monty?
ROBERT CARLYLE
3. Who painted the painting entitled "The Light of The World?
HOLMAN HUNT
4. Who won the 2005 Wimbledon Ladies Singles Final?
VENUS WILLIAMS