Monday 25th September 2006
Set by RBB (Northern)
All rounds are general

ROUND ONE
1a. Which planet is closest to the Sun?
MERCURY
1b. By what name is the day before All Saints' Day known?
HALLOWEEN
2a. Which American humorist created the character Walter Mitty?
JAMES THURBER
2b. What is the name for the buildings, mostly in. Kent, with cowls above tapering roofs, used as kilns for drying hops?
OAST HOUSES
3a. In October of which year was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
1962
3b. What is the collective name for the microscopic plants and animals that drift on the surface of the oceans?
PLANKTON
4a. Which British radio soap opera, broadcast between 1948 and 1969, was set in the fictional South London suburb of Parkwood Hill?
MRS DALE'S DIARY
4b. Before it was known as such, by what name was Ethiopia known?
ABYSSINIA

ROUND TWO
1a. Which singer and actor who died in 1977 had the first names Harry Lillis?
BING CROSBY
1b. Which battle was fought on and around Senlac Hill?
BATTLE OF HASTINGS
2a. The 'Merry Dancers' is a rural term of which aerial phenomenon?
THE AURORA
2b. Under what name did Rudolph Wanderone Junior, who died on 18 January 1996, become a world famous pool player?
MINNESOTA FATS
3a. In Greek mythology which king was punished by having plentiful food and drink - kept just out of reach?
TANTALUS
3b. Which English Christian name comes from the Greek for 'rock'?
PETER (or Piers)
4a. Which town in southwest Scotland is nicknamed the 'Queen of the South'?
DUMFRIES
4b. A 'Squab' is a name for the young of which bird?
A PIGEON (or rook)

ROUND THREE
1a. What is the name of the hill in County Meath which, up to the 6th century AD, was the place of coronation of the Irish Kings?
TARA
1b. What was the name of the first communications satellite, launched on 10 July 1962?
TELSTAR
2a. Which Great British building was destroyed by bombs on 14 November 1940?
COVENTRY CATHEDRAL
2b. In which decade were the first Wimbledon Tennis Championships held?
1870s (1877)
3a. The LA Lakers, the Chicago Bulls and the Houston Rockets all play which sport?
BASKETBALL
3b. Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), which 1939 film completes the trilogy of films?
SON OF FRANKENSTEIN
4a. Who played the title role in the 1995 film Nixon?
ANTHONY HOPKINS
4b. The name of which civil restriction comes from the French for 'cover the fire'?
CURFEW

ROUND FOUR
1a. Which tree has the varieties California Live, Cork, English, and Common?
OAK
1b. Coined in the Colt Factory, Surbiton, Surrey in 1967, which patriotic slogan became part of a national campaign in 1968?
'I'M BACKING BRITAIN'
2a. Which of Shakespeare's histories did Ian McKellern adapt for the screen in 1995, setting it in an imaginary fascist England in the 1930s?
RICHARD III
2b. What is the name of A A Milne's play based on part of 'The Wind in the Willows'?
TOAD OF TOAD HALL
3a. The name of which county comes from the Old English for 'the river ford of the stags'?
HERTFORDSHIRE
3b. What is the name of the Devon town which suffered considerable loss of life and much damage in floods following a thunderstorm on 16 August 1952?
LYNMOUTH
4a. Who lead the forces fighting Rome in the Third Servile War of 63-61 BC?
SPARTACUS
4b. In America, against what are the 'Anti-Trust Laws' directed?
MONOPOLIES

ROUND FIVE
1a. Which bank, founded in 1763, was ruined by the wild financial speculations of Nick Leeson?
BARING'S
1b. Still used for ecclesiastical purposes, 'Sarum' is the old name for which English city?
SALISBURY
2a. In which of H G Well's novels does the eponymous character try to turn animals into humans in the House of Pain?
THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU
2b. According to the lyrics of a hit single of the early 1960s, who lived 'in a land called Honalee'?
PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON
3a. What was the name of the migrant farmers in California in the 1930s who had fled from the Dust Bowl?
OKIES
3b. Two of the swords used in fencing are the foil and the epee, what is the third?
SABRE
4a. By what forename was the dissolute brother of the Bronte sisters' best known?
BRANWELL
4b Born in London in 1970, who in 1988 became the first black cover girl on the French edition of Vogue?
NAOMI CAMPBELL

ROUND SIX
1a. What is the name of the monument in Ypres which lists the names of over 55,000 British and Empire troops who fell in battle 1914-17 and who have no known grave?
MENIN GATE
1b. Which play features Jimmy, a university graduate now reduced to working at a sweet stall, and his wife Alison?
LOOK BACK IN ANGER
2a. Curling is a major sport in Scotland and which other country?
CANADA
2b. Which modern country was in 1790 the first to organise an official census?
USA
3a. In which South African township did riots begin on 16 June 1976?
SOWETO
3b. Who was the leader of the group that attacked, overran, but failed to hold the US Arsenal at Harper's Ferry in 1859?
JOHN BROWN
4a. In the Church of England, which office is below that of a bishop, but is the head of the chapter of a cathedral?
DEAN
4b. Which is the oldest ship still in commission in the Royal Navy?
HMS VICTORY

ROUND SEVEN
1a. Which tree has varieties Austrian, Corsican and Monterey?
PINE
1b. Which forename completes the 1986 advertising slogan for the privatisation of British Gas - 'Tell ……'?
SID
2a. How many 'Tolpuddle Martyrs' were there?
SIX
2b. Tanzania was formed in 1964 from Tanganyika and which other country?
ZANZIBAR
3a. What is the name of the Hawaiian garland of welcome?
LEI
3b. Which liberator and hero of the Texas rebellion founded the Texas Rangers in the 1840s?
SAM HOUSTON
4a. Who called the Sex Pistols 'foul mouthed yobs' after they had behaved with less than proper decorum on his television show?
BILL GRUNDY
4b. Who was the principal conductor of the Promenade Concerts from the death of Sir Henry Wood in 1944 until his own in 1967?
SIR MALCOLM SARGEANT

ROUND EIGHT
1a. Which Russian jeweller of French descent is famous for his intricate Easter eggs of gold and diamonds, which he made for the Russian Tsars?
PETER FABERGE
1b. Who is being warned in the Latin phrase caveat emptor?
(LET) THE BUYER (BEWARE)
2a. Which explorer was, in 1535, the first European to navigate the St Lawrence River?
JACQUES CARTIER
2b. In the 1940s, how did murderer John George Haig dispose of the bodies of his five or more victims?
DISSOLVED THEM IN ACID
3a. Which 1960s derring-do television series featured the character Jim Phelps?
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
3b. The confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers lies to the north of which city?
ST LOUIS
4a. What is the final stage in the passage of a Bill before it becomes an Act of Parliament?
THE ROYAL ASSENT
4b. Where was the location of the Royal Mint from 1300 to 1810?
THE TOWER OF LONDON

SPARE QUESTIONS
1. Which animal dwells in a form?
HARE
2. In the 1950s who was known as "The Man with the Golden Trumpet"?
EDDIE CALVERT
3. Which illuminated manuscript is a display in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin?
THE BOOK OF KELLS
4. For which football club did Gary Lineker play after leaving Everton in 1986 and before joining Tottenham Hotspur in 1989?
BARCELONA
5 What is the English name of the disease known to the French as 'la rage'?
RABIES (or hydrophobia)