Tuesday 5th September 2006
Set by Bishop Eton (Liverpool)
All rounds are general

Round One
1a What is the name of the play-within-the play in Shakespeare's comedy "A Midsummer Nights Dream"?
Pyramus and Thisbe
1b Which English Championship football team is nicknamed 'The Rams'?
Derby County
2a Which Chinese spice (Illicium verum) owes its name to its shape?
Star Anise
2b 'Remember, Oh You Germans, Britain Is Victorious' is a mnemonic for what?
Colours of the Rainbow/Spectrum
3a Who is the Patron Saint of librarians?
St. Jerome
3b Which US actress won the first of her four Oscars in 1933 for "Morning Glory"?
Katherine Hepburn
4a Who invented the Spinning Jenny c. 1764?
James Hargreaves
4b In which year did Indira Gandhi first become Indian Prime Minister?
1966

Round Two
1a Which US baseball team play home games at Shea Stadium?
New York Mets
1b An icosahedron has how many plane faces?
Twenty
2a Whose law states that 'work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion, and subordinates multiply at a fixed rate, regardless of the work produced'?
(Cyril Northcote) Parkinson
2b Which year of the 20th century is known as the 'Year of the Three Popes'?
1978
3a Which Greek island was described by Homer as the kingdom of Odysseus?
Ithaca
3b Who played the part of Polly Sherman in TV's "Fawlty Towers"?
Connie Booth
4a Nicknamed the Green Mountain State, which became the 14th state of the USA in 1791?
Vermont
4b A murmuration is the collective noun for a flock of which birds?
Starlings

Round Three
1a Which Scottish town, 'the capital of the Gaidhealtachd' was awarded city status in 2000 to mark the millennium?
Inverness
1b Who (1889-1949) is credited as director of both "Gone With the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz" in 1939?
Victor Fleming
2a The name of the shipping area Finisterre had its name changed to what in 2002, in honour of the founder of the Meteorological Office?
FitzRoy
2b Frederick Wentworth and Anne Elliot are the hero and heroine of which Jane Austen novel?
Persuasion
3a What is the lowest opening bid in the game of contract bridge?
One Club
3b Who was the first of the Tudor monarchs of England?
King Henry the Seventh
4a What is the sixth book of the New Testament of the Bible?
St. Paul's Letter to the Romans
4b How many Apollo-(Saturn) missions landed men on the moon, and brought them home safely? Six (11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17)

Round Four
1a Other than the Chiltern Hundreds, for which office can an MP apply in order to effectively resign from the House of Commons?
Stewardship of the Manor of Northstead
1b According to Greek mythology, how many Muses were there?
Nine
2a Which Austrian composer's works includes the symphonies "The Schoolmaster" (No. 55), and "The Clock" (No. 101)?
(Franz Joseph) Haydn
2b Which US singer/songwriter released a 2005 CD and DVD entitled "No Direction Home"?
Bob Dylan
3a Which word is given to the process of an iceberg breaking off a glacier where it reaches the sea?
Calving
3b Which 17th c. French artist, an exponent of Baroque Classicism, painted the "Seven Sacraments" series, the second of which hangs in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh?
Nicolas Poussin
4a What name is given to the scientific study of fungi?
Mycology
4b With which song did Sir Paul McCartney end the 2005 Live8 concert in Hyde Park, London?
Hey Jude

Round Five
1a On which Caribbean island is the Queens Park Oval Ground, the largest cricket ground in the West Indies?
Trinidad
1b How many edges has a cube?
Twelve
2a What is the most northerly of the BBC shipping forecast areas?
South East Iceland
2b 'Most Volcanoes Erupt Mulberry Jam Sandwiches Under Normal Pressure' is a mnemonic for what?
Planets of the Solar System (from the Sun out)
3a In Virgil's "Aeneid" where was the Trojan refugee Aeneas and his crew shipwrecked?
Carthage
3b Which Italian Renaissance artist painted The Madonna of the Pinks", acquired by the National Gallery, London, in 2004?
Raphael
4a Metrology is the study of what?
Measurement (Weights and Measures)
4b Where, other than Hyde Park, London, was there a UK Live8 concert on July 2nd, 2005?
Eden Project, Cornwall

Round Six
1a Which Welsh county borough was granted city status in 2002 to mark Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee?
Newport (Gwent)
1b Which American, an uncredited director of "Gone With the Wind", also directed "Goodbye Mr. Chips", both in 1939?
Sam Wood
2a Classically, a bouquet garni comprises parsley, thyme, and which other herb?
Bay (Leaf)
2b Lucy Snowe, an orphan, is the narrator of which Charlotte Bronte novel?
Villette
3a What, in geography, is described as 'an area with annual precipitation of less then 254mm'?
A Desert
3b Who was the last Stuart monarch of Great Britain and Ireland?
Queen Anne
4a What is the sixth book of the Old Testament of the Bible?
Joshua
4b In which year did David Ben Gurion first become Prime Minister of Israel?
1948

Round Seven
1a What is the name of the play-within-the-play in Shakespeare's tragedy "Hamlet"?
The Mouse-Trap
1b Who, in Norse mythology, is the spirit of evil and mischief?
Loki
2a Which French composer of romantic music wrote the ballets "Sylvia" and "Coppelia"?
Leo Delibes
2b Which English rock and blues guitarist released the 2005 album "Back Home", his first of new, original music in several years?
Eric Clapton
3a What is the lowest possible score when opening play in Scrabble (without using blank squares)?
Four
3b Who is the only woman to have won two Nobel Prizes?
Marie Curie
4a Which Yorkshire man invented cats eyes in 1935?
Percy Shaw
4b What is the collective noun for a company of peacocks?
Muster

Round Eight
1a Who became Speaker of the House of Commons in October 2000, the first Roman Catholic to hold the office since the Reformation?
Michael Martin
1b Which English Championship football team is nicknamed 'The Foxes'?
Leicester City
2a Whose law states that 'bad money drives good money out of circulation' or, more correctly: 'bad money drives out good if they exchange for the same price'?
(Sir Thomas) Gresham's
2b Name a year of the first century AD that was known as the 'Year of the Four Emperors'
(June) 68 - (Dec.) 69
3a Who is the Patron Saint of broadcasters?
St. Gabriel
3b Who played the part of Queen Elizabeth the First in TV's "Blackadder II"?
Miranda Richardson
4a Which US state is known as the First State, or Diamond State?
Delaware
4b Who, in 1995, was the first female commander/pilot of the Space Shuttle?
Eileen Collins

Spare Questions
1 Which Czech musicologist and pianist wrote the book "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", released in 1984?
Milan Kundera
2 Give a year in the life of the Roman general, statesman and dictator Julius Caesar?
100 or 102-44 BC
3 What title is given to the wife of an earl?
Countess
4 In which European city is the unfinished Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia (Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family)?
Barcelona
5 Who was appointed football manager of the Republic of Ireland in January 2006?
Steve Staunton
6 Which actress, born 1931, died 2005, had the original name Anna Maria Louisa Italiano?
Anne Bancroft