Monday 19th February 2007
Set by The Aces (Liverpool)
All rounds are general

Round One
1a How old was Queen Victoria when she died?
Eighty-one
1b Which US President, the 16th, was born on February 12th, 1809?
Abraham Lincoln
2a Christopher Lee played which character in "The Lord of the Rings"?
Saruman
2b Which English king had a horse called White Surrey?
Richard the Third
3a Which actress starred in the silent films serial "The Perils of Pauline"?
Pearl White
3b What is the capital of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia?
Skopje
4a Who is the present Poet Laureate?
Andrew Motion
4b Which Leeds international footballer scored the only goal for Northern Ireland in their defeat of England in September 2005?
David Healy

Round Two
1a Ford's Theatre, where Abraham Lincoln was killed, is in which US city?
Washington
1b Queen Victoria reigned for how many completed years?
Sixty-three
2a What was the name of Napoleon Bonaparte's horse at the Battle of Waterloo?
Marengo
2b In 'The 'Lord of the Kings", what are the names of the walking, talking trees?
Ents
3a What is the capital of Belize, Central America?
Belmopan
3b In James Bond films, Admiral Sir Miles Messary was better known as whom?
M
4a Andrew Flintoff and which other cricketer shared the 2005 International Cricket Council Player of the Year (also Test Player of the Year)?
Jacques Kallis
4b Who, starting in 1747, wrote "The History of the English Language"?
Samuel Johnson

Round Three
1a Who writes the "Sharpe" series of historical novels?
Bernard Cornwell
1b Phil Lynott formed which Irish rock band in 1969?
Thin Lizzy
2a What was the name of the Earl of Leicester, killed at the 1265 Battle of Evesham?
Simon de Montfort
2b Who (born 1926) is the author of the "Flashman" novels, originally created by Thomas Hughes?
George MacDonald Fraser
3a Eric Clapton left The Bluesbreakers in mid-1966 to form which band?
Cream
3b The coronation of which English king took place in Gloucester Cathedral in 1216?
Henry the Third
4a Which Italian painter killed an opponent after a disputed tennis score in 1606?
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Mersii)
4b Which Italian of the Venetian school was court painter to Holy Roman Emperor Charles the Fifth?
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)

Round Four
1a What is the brightest star in the constellation Orion, and seventh brightest in the sky?
Rigel
1b The symphony 'No. 8 in B Minor' was which composer's last work?
Franz Schubert
2a Which American short story writer made his name with the 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises" (aka "Fiesta")?
Ernest Hemingway
2b Who beat Bjorn Borg in the 1981 Wimbledon Men's Singles Final?
John McEnroe
3a Who composed the one-act opera "Duke Bluebeard's Castle"?
Bela Bartok
3b Polaris is the brightest star in which constellation?
Ursa Minor
4a Which tennis player writes novels with Liz Nickles about a tennis champion turned sleuth, called Jordan Myles?
Martina Navratilova
4b Whose final (unfinished) novel was entitled "The Last Tycoon"?
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Round Five
1a In which year did Liverpool's Overhead Railway open?
1893
1b Who sailed from Liverpool in 1881 to 'declare his genius' in America?
Oscar Wilde
2a Which driver won the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally in a Mini-Cooper S?
Paddy-Hopkirk
2b In which 2004 film did Meg Ryan portray the life of boxing promoter Jackie Kallen?
Against the Ropes
3a What meat is traditionally used to make 'scouse'?
Mutton (or Lamb)
3b Which South African-born golfer won 'the 1994 US PGA championship?
Nick Price
4a Which actress (1916-1973) played the role of Cynthia Pilgrim in the 1947 film "The-Shocking Miss Pilgrim"?
Betty Grable
4b In which year was the Superman comic first issued; the steam locomotive "Mallard" set a world speed-record;-nylon was discovered by Du Pont?
1936

Round Six
1a What French word describes the technique of hammering a design from the underside of a thin piece of metal?
Repoussé
1b What word can mean to bridge, to encompass, to measure, etc?
Span
2a What type of insect is a locust?
Grasshopper
2b Which Arcadian god, son of Hermes, is the patron of shepherds and herdsmen, also of pastoral poets?
Pan
3a Which Surrey town, on the River Thames, contains the field of Runnymede?
Egham
3b In which year were there riots in Birmingham, Alabama; South Korean President Ngo Dinh Diem assassinated; President Kennedy visited Berlin?
1963
4a A deficiency of vitamin D leads to the development of what?
Rickets/Osteomalacia
4b Scurvy is caused by the lack of which vitamin?
Vitamin C/Ascorbic Acid

Round Seven
1a The nocturnal, arboreal mammal, the kinkajou, is related to which animal?
Raccoon
1b The Cockney slang term 'Vera' refers to what?
Gin (Vera Lynn)
2a Liverpool rock and roller Alan Caldwell used what stage name?
Rory Storm
2b At which English football ground did 56 spectators die in May, 1985?
Bradford City
3a Where in Scotland is Britain's most north-westerly point?
Cape Wrath
3b How did 'blind' scouse get its name?
Scouse without meat
4a Who was King of Italy when the Lateran Treaty was signed in 1929?
Victor Emmanuel the Third
4b Who, in 1933, was the first person to fly solo around the world?
Wiley Post

Round Eight
1a What, in Cockney slang, is a 'whistle'?
Suit (Whistle and Flute)
1b Which Pope signed the Lateran Treaty, along with Mussolini and Victor Emmanuel the Third?
Pope Pius the Eleventh
2a Fleetway Publications and Fleetway Editions began life as Amalgamated Press, owned by which newspaper magnate?
Alfred Harmsworth (1st Viscount Northcliffe)
2b Which Liverpool-based group had a UK 1976 No. 1 hit with "You To Me Are Everything"?
The Real Thing
3a Which Scottish football team play at Love Street?
St. Mirren
3b What is a gurnard?
Fish
4a In 1937, the German airship "Hindenburg" (LZ-129) blew up at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in which American state?
New Jersey
4b The Pensacola Mountains are on which continent?
Antarctica

Spare Questions
1 Novelist and Nobel Laureate Albert Camus was born in which country?
Algeria
2 Who, of the Hindu triad, is a god of contrasting features - creation and destruction, good and evil, and fertility and asceticism?
Shiva
3 Which acid is contained in the leaves of rhubarb?
Oxalic
4 Which car company produces the Arosa hatchback?
Seat
5 Who played the male lead in the 1971 film "Klute"?
Donald Sutherland