Tuesday 27th February 2007
Set by Ormskirk Quiz League
All rounds are general

Round One.
1A Which novel by F Scott Fitzgerald was made into a film in 1974 starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow?
THE GREAT GATSBY
1B Who coined the phrase, "The Gnomes of Zurich" in a speech in 1956 when referring to international financiers?
HAROLD WILSON
2A What was the name of the African city of Banjul, before it's name was changed in 1980?
BATHURST
2B The Irish twin sisters, Edele and Keavy Lynch were part of which successful 1990's pop group?
B'WITCHED
3A Which singer and actress played the part of Pinky Pinkham in the TV series, "The Roaring Twenties" from 1960-62?
DOROTHY PROVINE
3B In 1759, Martha Dandridge became the wife of which U.S. President?
GEORGE WASHINGTON
4A In Italian cooking, what are cipolle?
ONIONS
4B What kind of creature, is a dotterel?
A BIRD (A Type of Plover)

Round Two.
1A The City of Barcelona is the capital of which Spanish province?
CATALONIA
1B What is one of the nicknames of Wigan Rugby League Club, this name referring to the colour of their jerseys?
THE CHERRY and WHITES
2A The advert for which manufacturer's cars describes them as having, "The Power to Surprise"?
KIA
2B What colour are the small flowers of the garden plant, gypsophilia?
WHITE (accept PINK)
3A Which saint is often depicted in art, tied to a post and transfixed with arrows?
ST SEBASTIAN
3B Who wrote the music for the opera, "The Pearl Fishers"?
GEORGES BIZET
4A From which Gilbert and Sullivan opera comes the air, "A Wandering Minstrel, I"?
THE MIKADO
4B In which of Shakespeare's plays does the character Touchstone appear?
AS YOU LIKE IT

Round Three.
1A In Shakespeare's play, "The Merchant of Venice", with whom does Portia fall in love?
BASSANIO
1B In which Gilbert and Sullivan opera does this line appear? "I am the very model of a modern Major General"?
THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE
2A Which German born composer composed symphonies subtitled, "The Scottish", "The Italian" and "The Reformation"?
MENDELSSOHN
2B The lamb is the symbol of which female Saint, often placed at her side in religious paintings?
ST AGNES
3A The name of which plant, which grows in wet meadows and fenland, reminds one of a rather scruffy garden bird?
RAGGED ROBIN
3B According to its adverts, which manufacturers cars give you, "The Drive of Your Life"?
PEUGEOT
4A Which Rugby League Super League club's official colours are primrose and blue shirts?
WARRINGTON
4B What is the largest town and capital of the island of Corsica?
AJACCIO

Round Four.
1A Which falcon is Britain's smallest bird of prey, being just larger than a blackbird?
THE MERLIN
1B What is the meaning of the Italian word, "farfalle", the pasta taking its name from its shape?
BUTTERFLIES
2A Which politician, later to become British Prime Minister, married Mrs Wyndham Lewis in 1839?
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
2B From 1955 until 1974, Amanda Blake played the part of which character in the American TV series, "Gunsmoke"?
MISS KITTY (RUSSELL)
3A Gabriela Irimia, the current girl friend of Lib Dem MP Lembit Opik, and her twin sister Monica, appear together as a singing duo, under which name?
THE CHEEKY GIRLS
3B The crown colony of North Borneo, on joining the State of Malaysia in 1963, changed its name to which present day title?
SABAH
4A Which politician, in a famous speech, quoted Euripides by saying "Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad"?
ENOCH POWELL (Rivers of Blood Speech in 1968)
4B Who starred as Mowgli in the 1942 film version of Rudyard Kipling's novel, "Jungle Book"?
SABU

Round Five.
1A Which stretch of water divides the islands of Sardinia and Corsica?
STRAITS OF BONIFACIO
1B Of what are Alleys, Milkies, Peewees and Onion Skins all types?
MARBLES
2A Shane Warne has taken most wickets in the Ashes Test series for Australia, but who, with 128, has taken most for England?
IAN BOTHAM
2B What is the more common name for the bodily function "sternutation"?
SNEEZING
3A Which famous playwright's works include, "Ghosts" and "Peer Gynt"?
HENRIK IBSEN
3B In which year did the following events take place? Soviet victory at Stalingrad; Allies invade Italy; Greer Garson wins Oscar for best actress for her role as Mrs Miniver, and Leslie Howard dies in a plane crash.
1943
4A What name is given to a hybrid cross of a grapefruit and a tangerine?
UGLI FRUIT
4B Bob Louis and David Briggs were characters in which popular 1990's TV comedy series?
THE DETECTIVES

Round Six.
1A What name was given to a network of forced labour camps in the former Soviet Union?
GULAG
1B Used in English grammar, what is the meaning of the word, litotes?
UNDERSTATEMENT
2A In which French village did Claude Monet paint pictures of the lilies in his garden?
GIVERNY
2B Which Queen of Carthage was loved and then abandoned by Aeneas?
DIDO
3A Which "tough guy" American actor made his film debut, (it was un-credited), in Woody Allen's 1971 film, "Bananas"?
SYLVESTER STALLONE
3B Which American lake on the California/Nevada border is situated at a height of 6200 ft above sea level?
LAKE TAHOE
4A Which term in ballet means to jump in the air, rapidly crossing the legs before and behind each other?
ENTRECHAT
4B Name the Irish authoress, born in 1930, whose works include, "The Country Girls" and "The High Road".
EDNA O'BRIEN

Round Seven.
1A Which famous authoress, whose literary heroines include Mary Ann Shaughnessy and Tilly Trotter was born Kate McMullen in 1906?
CATHERINE COOKSON
1B Which term in ballet means to jump into the air from one foot and land on the other?
JETE
2A Which Lake, although mostly situated in Italy in Piedmont and Lombardy, extends some 13 kilometres into Switzerland at its most Northerly section?
LAKE MAGGIORE
2B Which British Oscar winning actor made his debut as Richard the Lionheart in the 1968 film, "The Lion in Winter"?
ANTHONY HOPKINS
3A Who is the Hindu goddess of destruction?
KALI
3B Which French artist, (1839-1906), painted many views of Mont Sainte Victoire, in his native Provence?
PAUL CEZANNE
4A Which word, derived from the name of an English physician who published expurgated works of Shakespeare, has come to mean the removal or modification of passages in literature, considered vulgar?
BOWDLERISATION
4B What name is given to the citadel or elevated fortified part of a Greek city?
ACROPOLIS

Round Eight.
1A Who once famously asked Debbie McGee on her TV chat show, "So what first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels"?
MRS. MERTON (accept CAROLINE AHERNE)
1B What type of foodstuff are chitterlings?
PIGS INTESTINES (Battered and fried after stewing.)
2A In which year did the following events take place? Labour Party founded; Mafeking is relieved; Elgar's "Dream of Gerontius" first performed; Ernest Rutherford discovers Gamma radiation.
1900
2B Which famous playwright and short story writer's works include "The Cherry Orchard" and "Uncle Vanya"?
ANTON CHEKHOV
3A What is the more common name for the act of osculation?
KISSING
3B Jack Hobbs has scored most runs for England in the Ashes test series, but who, with 5028, has scored most for Australia?
SIR DONALD BRADMAN
4A What name is given to the gentle art of skimming stones across the surface of water?
DUCKS and DRAKES
4B Which island, off the Sorrentine peninsula, lies due south of the city of Naples?
CAPRI

Spare Questions.
1. What is the name of a line on a map that connects areas of equal rainfall?
AN ISOHYET
2. What is the name of the small island situated between the islands of Malta and Gozo?
COMINO
3. "There and Back Again" is the subtitle of which well known book?
THE HOBBIT