Tuesday 10th October 2006
Set by Ormskirk Quiz League
All rounds are general

Round One
1a Who did Pierre Trudeau succeed as Canadian Prime Minister in 1968?
Lester B. Pearson
1b What, in the mid 19th century, were Dundrearies or Piccadilly Weepers?
Long side whiskers
2a The dessert Pears Belle Helene consists of pears, and vanilla ice cream, garnished with a wafer biscuit or almond strips, and which other ingredient?
Chocolate sauce
2b Nancy Wilkinson won which trophy on its 1972 inauguration?
Mastermind
3a Which capital city lies furthest west on the African mainland?
Dakar (Senegal)
3b Which French river flows through Jarnac, Cognac, Saintes, and Rochefort, to the island of Oleron in the Bay of Biscay?
River Charente
4a Which club were beaten finalists in the first (1923) Wembley F.A. Cup Final?
West Ham United
4b Which club joined the County Cricket championship in 1921?
Glamorgan

Round Two
1a Which waterside loving tree is of the genus salix?
Willow
1b In Swift's "Gullivers Travels" what is the forename of the eponymous hero?
Lemuel
2a Viscum album is the scientific name for what?
Mistletoe
2b Which is the only Cambridge University college beginning with the letter 'E'?
Emmanuel College
3a The word 'proselyte' means what?
Convert
3b Who succeeded Charles de Gaulle as French President in 1969?
Georges Pompidou
4a Who was the fellow journalist and broadcaster husband of Nigella Lawson who died in 2001?
John Diamond
4b Which country did the USA bomb in 1986 in retaliation for an explosion in a Berlin discotheque frequented by USA service personnel?
Libya

Round Three
1a By what name is actor Krishna Bhanji better known?
Ben Kingsley
1b In the television series "Will and Grace", who plays Will (Truman)?
Eric McCormack
2a Which English racecourse is overlooked by Cleve Hill?
Cheltenham
2b Panama hats originated in which South American country?
Ecuador
3a Who was born Prince of Denmark and Greece in June 1921?
HRH Prince Philip
3b Actress Caryn Johnson is better known as whom?
Whoopi Goldberg
4a In the TV series "Desperate Housewives", who plays Susan (Mayer)?
Teri Hatcher
4b Trundle Hill overlooks which English racecourse?
Goodwood

Round Four
1a In Greek mythology, who was the wife of Hector, and mother of Astyanax?
Andromache
1b Which year of the Seven Years War is known as the 'Year of Victories'?
1759
2a Which artist (1606-1669) painted "Belshazzar's Feast"?
Rembrandt (van Rijn)
2b What is the capital of the Italian region of Piedmont?
Turin
3a Who released the 2005 best-selling album "Year of Victories"?
James Blunt
3b The city of Lincoln stands on which English river?
River Witham
4a Viewed from the earth, what is the brightest star in the Taurus constellation?
Aldebaran
4b Who, in Greek mythology, were known as 'the daughters of the evening', or 'the African sisters'; they guarded a tree of golden apples?
The Hesperides

Round Five
la Which politician gained the sobriquet 'The Beast of Bolsover'?
Dennis Skinner
1b Florence is the capital of which Italian region?
Tuscany
2a Which British artist (1827-1910) painted "The Scapegoat" in 1856?
William Holman Hunt
2b Reading, Berkshire, is at the confluence of the Thames and which other river?
Kennet
3a In which year was the Stars and Stripes adopted as the US flag, and the Battles of Saratoga and Bemis Heights take place?
1777
3b Which Britpop/alternative rock band released the "X and Y" album in 2005?
Coldplay
4a Who, in Greek mythology, is the mother of Achilles?
Thetis
4b The termite, or white ant, is related to which orthopterous insect?
Cockroach

Round Six
1a The Church of Ireland is divided into two provinces - Dublin and ?
Armagh
1b Which English poet and critic described Oxford as 'that sweet city with her dreaming spires'?
Matthew Arnold
2a The Crimean War was fought against Russia by Britain, France, the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) and which other country?
(Piedmont-)Sardinia
2b Where is the family seat of the Duke of Devonshire?
Chatsworth House
3a Which future US President was invited to join the British Cabinet at the outbreak of WW1, declining to become one of Woodrow Wilson's advisors?
Herbert Hoover
3b Which US President became ill at his inauguration, dying 30 days later?
William G. Harrison
4a Whose family seat is associated with Arundel Castle, West Sussex?
Duke of Norfolk
4b 'A cold coming we had of it', from the poem "The Journey to the Center" was written by which US-born British poet and critic?
T. S. Eliot

Round Seven
1a During WW2, which European monarch shared lodgings at the RAC HQ in London with General de Gaulle and Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Haakon (7th of Norway)
1b PIA is the national airline of which Asian country?
Pakistan
2a Which 'A' road starts at Selby, North Yorkshire, running through York and Middlesbrough etc, finishing south of Jarrow?
A19
2b Residents of Ambleside in 1940 would have seen which European monarch shopping on a bicycle?
Wilhelmina (of the Netherlands)
3a ALIA is the national airline of which Middle Eastern country?
Jordan
3b Which 'A' road starts at Bangor, North Wales, running through Conway and Colwyn Bay etc, finishing at Chester?
A55
4a Owners of which marque of sports car might join the Octagon Club?
MG
4b The grandfather of George Bush Senior donated which sporting trophy?
Walker Cup (Golf)

Round Eight
1a Which national organisation has more members than all three major political parties combined?
The National Trust
1b Who painted "The Surrender of Breda' (Las Lanzas) in the mid-17th century?
Velazquez
2a Of whose funeral in 1658 did English diarist John Evelyn write: 'it was the joyfullest funeral I ever did see, for there were none that cried but dogs'?
Oliver Cromwell's
2b What in the theatre is 'Kensington gore'?
Artificial blood
3a Which other name is in the title of Caius (keys) College, Cambridge?
Gonville
3b Which American said in 1776: 'we must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately'?
Benjamin Franklin
4a Which British possession was ceded to Germany in 1890?
Heligoland
4b A valedictory speech denotes what?
Farewell (or similar)

Spare Questions
1 Who instituted the British Legion in 1921?
Earl Haig
2 What does a planimeter measure?
The area of a plane figure (Maps/Drawings)
3 Musician Gerald Bright was better known as whom?
Geraldo
4 For which event were Britain's first commemorative stamps issued in 1924?
The British Empire Exhibition