Tuesday 23rd January 2007
Set by Monstrous Regiment (Liverpool)
All rounds are general

Round One
1a Which Scottish novelist wrote The Stars Look Down" and "The Citadel"?
A(rchibald) J(oseph) Cronin
1b Who on childrens' TV were Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snork?
The Banana Splits
2a In which year did Foinavon win the Aintree Grand National?
1967
2b Who did Charles de Gaulle succeed as Prime Minister of France?
Rene Coty
3a Prior to 2005, when did the England cricket team last win the Ashes on English soil?
1985
3b Which horse came first in the void 1993 Aintree Grand National?
Esha Ness
4a Who succeeded Nikita Khruschev as Russian leader in 1964?
Leonid Brezhnev
4b Who wrote the post-apocalyptic novels "The Day of the Triffids" and "The Kraken Wakes"?
John Wyndham

Round Two
1a Which tree has the Latin name 'sorbus aucuparia'?
Mountain Ash or Rowan
1b In which year did the film "West Side Story" win 10 Academy Awards; the farthing coin ceased to be legal tender; the Beeching Report was published?
1963
2a NASA's Johnson Space Centre is in which American state?
Texas (Houston)
2b The Latin name of which freshwater fish is 'esox lucius'?
Pike
3a In the TV cartoon "Wacky Races" who drove the Convert-a-Car?
Professor Pat Pending
3b Who plays the part of Jack Bauer in TV's "24"?
Kiefer Sutherland
4a In which year did Fulgencio Batista flee Cuba; Alaska is admited to the Union as the 49th state; Buddy Holly died?
1959
4b Who stayed in the command module when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon in 1969?
Michael Collins

Round Three
1a Which 32-mile long distance walk runs from Frodsham to Whitchurch?
The Sandstone Trail
1b What is the 'official working' language of Ethiopia?
Amharic
2a Phyllis Nelson had a 1985 UK one-hit wonder with which song?
Move Closer
2b Alan Hollinghurst won the 2005 Man Booker Prize with which novel?
The Line of Beauty
3a What is the most widely spoken of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages?
Farsi
3b Who had a 1977 one-hit wonder with "I've Never Been To Me"?
Charlene Marylinn D'Angelo
4a Who wrote the 2002 Man Booker Prize "Life of Pi"?
Yann Martel
4b The 93-mile West Highland Way runs from Milngavie (Mill-guy) near Glasgow to where?
Fort William

Round Four
1a In 2006, which Nationwide Women's Premier League side became champions for the fifth time in six seasons?
Arsenal
1b In 1404 Owain Glyndwr summoned a Welsh Parliament in which town?
Machynileth
2a What was the first inexpensive industrial development for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron, patented in 1855?
Bessemer Process
2b On which Scottish island are the stone circles of Callanish?
]Isle of Lewis
3a What is the better known name of Robert McGregor, born 1671?
Rob Roy
3b Rene Panhard and Emile Levassor manufactured what 'first' in 1889?
Motor vehicle
4a What is the name of the stone circle neat Stenness, Orkney?
The Ring o' Brodgar
4b Which England Women's Football team coach received an OBE in 2002?
Hope Powell

Round Five
1a Major Frank Burns and Colonel Sherman T. Potter feature in which TV/film comedy?
MASH
1b St. Piran's Cross is flown in which part of the British Isles?
Cornwall
2a What breed of dog, name of Chance, won Best in Show at Crufts 2006?
Australian Shepherd
2b Who, in May 2006, beat Peter Ebdon to win the 2006 World Snooker Championships at The Crucible, Sheffield?
Graeme Dott
3a Which Bolton-born philanthropist endowed the School of Tropical Medicine to Liverpool University; he also gifted Lancaster House to the nation?
Lord Leverhulme
3b Jean-Louis 'Scout' Finch is the narrator of which major 20th century novel?
To Kill a Mocking Bird
4a The Ikurriña is the name of the flag of which European province?
Basque Country
4b Charles Cruft took up employment with which dog food manufacturer?
Spratts

Round Six
1a Who is the protagonist/narrator of J. D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye"?
Holden Caulfield
1b Who wrote the solo keyboard music "The Well-Tempered Clavier"?
Johann Sebastian Bach
2a Berlin wool work is a style of what handicraft?
Embroidery
2b Mary Phelps Jacob patented what aid to women in 1910?
The brassiere
3a What marine animal is used to mark Poole Pottery?
Dolphin
3b Who, in the late 1920's, wrote the satirical opera "The Nose" based on a book by Nikolai Gogol?
Dmitri Shostakovich
4a What technological advancement was invented in the early 1960's by Douglas Englebart?
Computer Mouse
4b What type of creature is a yaffle?
(Green) Woodpecker

Round Seven
1a Which English county is home to Hardy's Egdon Heath Project?
Dorset
1b Who was the 'friend and attendant' of the Greek hero Achilles?
Patroclus
2a As at May 2006, which MP for Henley on Thames is Shadow Minister for Higher Education?
Boris Johnson
2b Ranthambhore, Kanha, and Bandhavgarh are national parks in which Asian country?
India
3a Which Athenian tragic dramatist wrote the trilogy "Oresteia"?
Aeschylus
3b As at May 2006, which MP for Neath, South Wales, is Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, also for Wales?
Peter Hain
4a The Palace of the Winds (aka Hawa Mahal) is in which Indian city?
Jaipur (the Pink City)
4b Castle Bolton is in which English county?
North Yorkshire

Round Eight
1a In tennis, what is the female equivalent of the Davis Cup?
Fed (Federation) Cup
1b 'They also serve who only stand and wait' is the last line of which of John Milton's poems?
On his Blindness
2a Who directed the 1982 film "Gandhi"?
Richard Attenborough
2b Historians assert that the game of squash originated at which public school?
Harrow
3a Methane, emitted by rotting vegetation, has what other name?
Marsh gas /Will-o'-the-wisp
3b Who was the first Plantagenet, or Angevin, monarch of England?
Henry the Second
4a Which US-born singer, real name Eleonora Fagan, said: "If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling"?
Billie Holiday
4b The medical complaint infectious parotitis is better known as what?
Mumps

Spare Questions
1 Which car manufacturer produces the Berlingo, Xsara Picasso, etc?
Citroen
2 What breed of terrier is named after a Sir Walter Scott character?
Dandle Dinmont
3 Connemara is a region in which Irish county?
Co. Galway
4 Which angel foretold the birth of Jesus Christ?
Gabriel