Tuesday 24th January 2006
Set by Liverpool Quiz League
All rounds are general

Round One
1a Who directed the 1940 film "The Grapes of Wrath"?
John Ford
1b In the TV series "Sex and the City", who played Samantha?
Kim Cattrall
2a In which European capital city are the Baths of Caracalla?
Rome
2b Who is attributed to be the author of "The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman"?
William Langland
3a A museum to whom stands in the shadow of Ely Cathedral?
Oliver Cromwell
3b Eliza Manningham Buller is director general of which government organisation?
MI5
4a Gary Cooper played which character in the 1952 film "High Noon"?
Will Kane
4b Who directed the 2004 film "The Aviator"?
Martin Scorsese

Round Two
1a The Spanish capital of Madrid stands on which river?
River Manzanares
1b Which film actor had the nickname 'Stoneface'?
Buster Keaton
2a The books of which religion include Jacob, Enos and Jarom?
Mormon
2b Which American poet wrote "Leaves of Grass", between 1855 and 1860?
Walt Whitman
3a What was the first name of the 19th century German motor engineer Daimler?
Gottlieb
3b Which British comedian married the lap dancer Nancy Sorrell in 2003?
Vic Reeves
4a Which picturesque wooded glen, its Gaelic name meaning 'the bristly country', is between Loch Achray and Loch Katrine, with Ben Venue to the south-west?
The Trossachs
4b The Cresta Run is adjacent to which Swiss winter sports centre?
St. Moritz

Round Three
1a Craig Charles plays which character in TV's "Red Dwarf"?
Dave Lister
lb Who in the 19th century founded the Christian Science Church?
Mary Baker Eddy
2a Who succeeded Walter Ulbricht as East German leader in 1973?
Erich Honecker
2b The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is a concert hall in which US city?
Los Angeles
3a What is the heraldic term for the tincture gold or yellow?
Or
3b Which Hollywood actor's real forenames were John Uhler?
Jack Lemmon
4a Which Hollywood actor's real name was Roy Harold Scherer Junior?
Rock Hudson
4b Which Irish singer is the father of Rosanna Davison, a former Miss World?
Chris de Burgh

Round Four
1a In slang terms, how much money is a 'monkey'?
£500 or $500
1b The Italian city of Turin stands on which river?
River Po
2a Phasmophobia is the fear of what?
Ghosts
2b Chromatophobia is the fear of what?
Colour
3a What breed of animal can be standard, miniature, or toy?
Poodle
3b What specific type of creature is a dogfish?
Small shark
4a The 33 mile Khyber Pass links Pakistan with which other country?
Afghanistan
4b Sir Toby Belch is a character in which Shakespeare play?
Twelfth Night

Round Five
1a Who wrote the 1998 Booker Prize winning novel "Amsterdam"?
Ian McEwan
lb Which was the only team to defeat Greece (the eventual winners) in the Euro 2004 football tournament?
Russia
2a Violetta Valery is the leading character in which Verdi opera?
La Traviata
2b In Greek mythology, who solved the riddle of the Sphinx?
Oedipus
3a Sharon Davies and Sarah Hardcastle have represented Great Britain at which sport?
Swimming
3b The Tebay service station is on which English motorway?
M6
4a In Roman mythology, what is the name for the spirits of the dead?
Manes
4b The lines 'The evil that men do lives after them. The good is often interred with their bones' are from which Shakespeare tragedy?
Julius Caesar

Round Six
1a What is the first name of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple?
Jane
1b Deadly Nightshade is another name for which plant?
Belladonna
2a In which year did Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?
1933
2b To which Royal house did King Henry the Eighth belong?
Tudor
3a Beethoven's Piano Concerto in E flat, op 73 (1809) has what other name?
Emperor Concerto
3b Which operatic soprano was known as 'La Divina'?
Maria Callas
4a James Barrie bequeathed the copyright of "Peter Pan" to which London hospital?
Great Ormond Street
4b In which year did Charles Dickens die?
1870

Round Seven
1a What are gazpacho and vichysoisse?
Cold Soups
1b Who was Pope during World War Two?
Pius XII
2a The poet Rodolfo features in which Puccini opera?
La Boheme
2b Which of Gustav Mahler's symphonies did he leave unfinished?
Tenth
3a Who is the father of Ophelia in Shakespeare's "Hamlet"?
Polonius
3b Which London thoroughfare has the nickname 'Tin Pan Alley'?
Denmark Street
4a In which country is Africa's northernmost point?
Tunisia
4b Which country's national anthem is called "The Soldier's Song"?
Eire

Round Eight
1a The song 'Ol' Man River' is from which musical?
Showboat
1b Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake) was the chief of which Indian tribe?
Lakota Sioux
2a Name either of the English League football team's nicknamed 'The Pilgrims'?
Plymouth Argyle or Boston United
2b Which lake was impounded by the creation of the Hoover Dam? Lake Mead
3a Of what is bohea a variety?
Chinese black tea
3b What does the 'G' stand for in the name of the cricketer W. G. Grace?
Gilbert
4a Which lake is closest to Ayers Rock (Uluru)?
Lake Amadeus
4b Who was the first reigning British monarch to visit America?
King George the Sixth

Spare Questions
1 The explorer Captain Cook was killed by natives of which island?
Hawaii
2 Which actor played Dr. Who in two films of the 1960's?
Peter Cushing
3 Who is the only US President never to have lived in the White House?
George Washington
4 Which famous writer committed suicide by shooting himself in 1961?
Ernest Hemingway