Monday 27th November 2006
Set by St Francis of Assisi (Liverpool)
All rounds are general

Round One.
1a Which Irish land agent's name has come to mean 'a refusal to do business with another party'?
(Captain Charles) Boycott
1b Which Prime Minister, born 1917, was assassinated on 31st October, 1984?
Indira Gandhi
2a Who was the first female presenter of BBC TV's "Blue Peter"?
Leila Williams
2b To date, which football club has provided the most players for England?
Aston Villa FC
3a The song "Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets" is from which 1958 film musical?
Damn Yankees
3b Which island lies off the coast of County Antrim, six miles north of Ballycastle?
Rathlin Island
4a What is the highest magnitude on the Richter Scale?
Twelve
4b Who, in Finland, 1954, became the second man after Roger Bannister to achieve a sub-four minute mile?
John Landy

Round Two
1a Which letter follows epsilon in the Greek alphabet?
Zeta
1b English synthesiser duo Marc Almond and David Ball formed which pop group in the early 1980's?
Soft Cell
2a Maesta, or maestade, denotes what type of singing?
Majestically/Dignity
2b Which actress played the title role in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 film "Lolita"?
Sue Lyon
3a Jefferson City is the capital of which American state?
Missouri
3b What type of creature is a gharial (or gavial)?
(Indian) Crocodile
4a Which English batsman became Glen McGrath's 500th Test victim in the 2005 Ashes series?
Marcus Trescothick
4b Which Italian term means 'in the church style', or unaccompanied?
A (or Alla) Cappella

Round Three
1a Which British athlete broke three world records in 19 days in 1985?
Steve Cram
1b What is the highest score available in one hand in the game of cribbage?
Twenty-nine
2a Which Philippine politician was assassinated on his return home from the USA in 1983?
Benigno Aquino
2b Who was the first female presenter of ITV's "Magpie"?
Susan Stranks
3a Which was the first British football ground to have an all-seater stadium?
Pittodrie/Aberdeen FC
3b Give a year in the life of English astronomer and mathematician Edmund Halley.
1646-1742
4a Foula and Papa Stour are islands of which Scottish group?
Shetlands
4b Who. presided over an extralegal court to punish British supporters during the American Revolution, without due process of law?
(CaptainWilliam) Lynch

Round Four
1a Which Australian was the first bowler to take 600 cricket Test wickets?
Shane Warne
1b Topeka is the capital of which American state?
Kansas
2a Sharp's, Skinner's, Keltek, and Ring O'Bells breweries are in which English county?
Cornwall
2b Who is the mother of actress Kate Hudson?
Goldie Hawn
3a Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant formed which British electronic music act?
The Pet Shop Boys
3b At 551 feet above sea level, which ground is the highest in English League football?
The Hawthorns (West Bromwich Albion)
4a What type of animal is a gwardar (pseudonaja nuchalis)?
(Western Brown) Snake
4b Which letter of the Greek alphabet precedes omega?
Psi

Round Five
1a The gypsy song "Beat out dat rhythm on a drum" is from which 1954 Otto Preminger film?
Carmen Jones
1b Which car manufacturer produces the Carisma range of cars?
Mitsubishi
2a Which Canadian-born architect designed the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao?
Frank Gehry
2b Which Norwegian led the South-Pole expedition in 1911?
Roald Amundsen
3a Which British novelist wrote the family saga "The Shell Seekers"?
Rosamunde Pitcher
3b Which doctor was convicted of complicity in Abraham Lincoln's assassination?
Samuel Mudd
4a Which Ugandan politician was overthrown in a military coup led by Idi Amin in 1971?
Milton Obote
4b What is the collective name for a group of humming birds, also goldfinches?
Charm (or Chirm)

Round Six
1a Which car manufacturer produces the Marea model?
Flat
1b What is a contour line of equal sunshine called?
Isohel
2a When 'Lucy Locket lost her pocket' which nursery rhyme character found it?
Kitty Fisher
2b Which group had a 1987 hit with 'Star Trekkin'?
The Firm
3a Which American company is known colloquially as 'Big Blue'?
IBM"
3b In the NATO phonetic alphabet, what is Q?
Quebec
4a Which is the largest English city never to have had a football team in the country's top division?
Hull
4b Which horse won the 2003 Aintree Grand National?
Monty's Pass

Round Seven
1a Abraham Lincoln was watching which play when he was assassinated?
Our American Cousin
1b Which British novelist wrote "The Plague Dogs", later a 1982 Martin Rosen animated adventure film?
Richard Adams
2a A 'peep' is a collective name for which group of animals?
Chickens
2b Travelling due east from New York; in which European country would you first make landfall?
Portugal
3a Which American explorer claimed to be the first person to reach the geographic North Pole in 1909?
Robert Edwin Peary
3b Which Catalan-born architect designed the Church of the Holy Family in Barcelona?
Antoni Gaudi
4a Travelling due west from Colombo, in which African country would you first make landfall?
Somalia
4b Which American company uses the slogan 'Think Different'?
Apple (Mac)

Round Eight
1a Which horse won the 2003 Epsom Derby?
Kris Kin
1b Which US labour leader, thought to have been murdered in 1975 was imprisoned in1967 for attempted bribery of a federal court jury?
Jimmy Hoffa
2a In the NATO phonetic alphabet, what is W?
Whisky
2b Give a year in the life of German astronomer Johannes Kepler.
1571-1630
3a What is a contour line of equal rainfall called?
Isohyet
3b In the nursery rhyme, who 'went to Gloucester in a shower of rain'?
Doctor Foster
4a Which vocalist, composer and conductor had the 1988 worldwide, chart-topping single and video "Don't Worry, Be Happy"?
Bobby McFerrin
4b 'Operation Mongoose' included plans to assassinate which head of state in 1961?
Fidel Castro

Spare Questions
1 Which Christian festival celebrates the Purification of the Virgin Mary?
Candlemas
2 Which spacecraft was the first to travel through the asteroid belt, and the first to take close-up pictures of the planet Jupiter?
Pioneer Ten
3 Who is-the-first-female in line to the British throne?
Princess Beatrice
4 Who was the first man to resign as President of the USA?
Richard Nixon