Monday 30th January 2006
Set by Ormskirk Quiz League
All rounds are general

Round One.
1A Who had a No 1 U.K. hit in 1962 in conjunction with Wendy Richard with the comedy song, "Come Outside"?
MIKE SARNE
1B Which Scottish football team play their home matches at Broadwood Stadium and go by the nickname "The Bully Wee"?
CLYDE
2A Which is the most southerly of all shipping forecast areas?
TRAFALGAR
2B What is the Christian name of Tim Henman's first child?
ROSE
3A Which Shakespeare play opens with the line, "O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention"?
HENRY V
3B In the world of show business, how is Michael Pennington better known?
JOHNNY VEGAS
4A Joseph Smith, British Consul in Venice, was a major patron of which 18'x' century local artist?
CANALETTO
4B What name is given to the loose fold of skin hanging from the throat of cattle or dogs?
A DEWLAP

Round Two.
1A Which American tennis player, winner of the 1963 Men's singles title at Wimbledon, has the same surname as an assassinated U.S. President?
"CHUCK" McKINLEY
1B Which ethical doctrine states that the pursuit of pleasure is the highest and final aim?
HEDONISM
2A Which title was given to his memoirs of life in Soviet prison camps by the author Aleksandr Solzenhitsyn?
THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO
2B To whom did Paul McCartney famously become engaged at Christmas 1967?
JANE ASHER
3A What is the subtitle of the 2003 film, "Pirates of the Caribbean"?
THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL
3B Who, in 1981, was the last cricketer before Andrew Flintoff to be voted BBC TV Sports Personality of the Year?
IAN BOTHAM
4A Who wrote the music for the ballet, "The Three Cornered Hat"?
MANUEL DE FALLA
4B Two chemical elements are liquid at room temperature. One is Mercury. Name the other.
BROMINE

Round Three.
1A Which medical term is derived from the Latin word for forty?
QUARANTINE
1B Which composer composed "The Sabre Dance" as part of his ballet, "Gayane" in 1942?
KHACHATURIAN
2A Which cricketer was the surprise choice as BBC TV Sports Personality of the Year in 1975?
DAVID STEELE
2B What is the subtitle of the 2005 film, "Star Wars III"?
REVENGE OF THE SITH
3A Which American singer/actor died, after a life of excess, on Christmas Day 1995?
DEAN MARTIN
3B Rodion Raskolnikov is the central character in which Dostoyevsky novel?
CRIME AND PUNISIIMENT
4A Which belief states that the soul is the principle of life in man and all living things?
ANIMISM
4B Which TV detective, played by Jack Shepherd, has the same surname as a 14th century religious reformer?
WYCLIFFE

Round Four.
1A What name is given to the brightly coloured fold of skin that hangs from the throat of a turkey?
A WATTLE
1B Which 17th century Flemish artist lived and worked in London for the last years of his life, and was knighted by King Charles I?
ANTHONY VAN DYKE
2A In the music world, whose nickname is Madge?
MADONNA
2B Which Shakespeare play opens with the line, "In sooth, I know not why I am so sad"?
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
3A Who is the mother of Beatrice McCartney?
HEATHER MILLS
3B To which name was the shipping area of Finisterre changed in 2002?
FITZROY
4A Which Scottish Football team play their home matches at Gaywood Park and go by the nickname of "The Red Lichties"?
ARBROATH
4B Which British actress/singer accompanied Serge Gainsbourg on the 1969 hit record, "Je t'aime, moi non plus"?
JANE BIRKIN

Round Five.
1A In which 1990's TV comedy series did Chris Barrie play the part of the manager of a leisure centre?
THE BRITTAS EMPIRE
1B Who, at January 1st, 2006, is currently the British Heavyweight boxing champion?
MATT SKELTON
2A What term is used to describe the tendency of a body to remain at rest unless acted upon by some external force?
INERTIA
2B The word Singh, taken by all Sikh males, is derived from the Sanskrit word for what?
A LION
3A Whereabouts in London is the Albert Memorial?
KENSINGTON GARDENS
3B Which army Chief of Staff seized power in Nigeria in a a coup in 1966, and led the federal army to victory in the civil war against the Biafrans?
YAKUBU GOWON
4A Which London born soldier, author and politician, executed by Irish Free State soldiers in 1922, wrote the novel, "Riddle of the Sands"?
ERSKINE CHILDERS
4B Business tycoon and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie amassed his fortune from which commodity?
STEEL

Round Six.
1A "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind" is a line from which poem?
ODE TO THE WEST WIND
1B Before the French revolution, the coronations of most French kings were held in which city?
RHEIMS
2A The German cities of Hamburg and Dresden stand on which river?
THE ELBE
2B Which actress, who played Shauni McClain in Baywatch, played the part of Ellie May Clampett in the 1993 film, "The Beverley Hillbillies"?
ERIKA ELENIAK
3A Which disease is caused by increased pressure within the eyeball, leading to impaired vision?
GLAUCOMA
3B Which battle of 1809 during the Peninsular War, has been likened to the retreat from Dunkirk during WWII?
BATTLE OF CORUNNA
4A Which actor played the part of Matt Hooper in the 1975 film, "Jaws", and the starring role of Roy Neary in the 1977 film, "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"?
RICHARD DREYFUSS
4B Which genus of plants gets its name from the fact that its small furry leaf resembles the ear of a mouse?
MYOSOTIS

Round Seven.
1A What colour are the flowers of the forget-me-not, whose botanical name is Myosotis Sylvatica?
BLUE
1B Which British actor played the part of Col. William Travis in the 1960 film, "The Alamo", and the part of Sgt Raymond Shaw, alongside Frank Sinatra, in the 1962 film, "The Manchurian Candidate"?
LAURENCE HARVEY
2A The Battle of Minden in 1759, in which British and Hanoverian troops under Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick defeated the French, occurred during which war?
THE SEVEN YEARS WAR
2B Which disease, similar to acute bronchitis, occurs when the air sacs of the lungs become grossly enlarged, causing shortage of breath and wheezing?
EMPHYSEMA
3A After playing the part of Jed Clampett for many years in the TV series, "The Beverley Hillbillies", Buddy Ebsen then played the part of which ageing private eye in the 1970's?
BARNABY JONES
3B The Spanish cities of Cordoba and Seville stand on which river?
THE GUADALQUIVIR
4A In 1309, Pope Clement V moved the entire Papal Court from Rome to which French town?
AVIGNON
4B "Idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean" is a line from which poem?
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER

Round Eight.
1A American businessman and art collector Jean Paul Getty I, made his fortune from which commodity?
OIL
1B Which Irish born writer wrote a collection of short stories entitled, "Dubliners"?
JAMES JOYCE
2A Who led the military coup which toppled the government of Patrice Lumumba in the Belgian Congo in 1960, and became President of the country, (renamed Zaire) in 1970?
JOSEPH MOBUTU
2B Whereabouts in London is the National Gallery, which houses "The Rokeby Venus"?
TRAFALGAR SQUARE
3A As Singh is the name taken by all Sikh men, what name is taken by Sikh women?
KAUR
3B What term is used to describe the betiding of the path of light, or sound, at the boundary of two different media?
DEFRACTION
4A At which weight is Ricky Hatton, currently WBA and IBF World Boxing champion?
LIGHT (or JUNIOR) WELTERWEIGHT
4B In which 1980's TV comedy series did Windsor Davies and Donald Sinden play the parts of rival antique dealers?
NEVER THE TWAIN

Spare Questions.
1. Which Shakespeare play has the subtitle, "What You Will"?
TWELFTH NIGHT
2. Which French artist spent the last few years of his life in Polynesia and is buried on one of the Marquesas Islands?
PAUL GAUGUIN
3. Which American female singer duetted with .loc Cocker in the 1982 smash hit record, "Up Where We Belong"?
JENNIFER WARNES