Monday 5th March 2007
Set by Dismounted (Northern)
All rounds are general

ROUND ONE
1a. Who played the part of Cruela De Vil in the 1996 live action film '101 Dalmatians'?
GLENN CLOSE
1b. After more than five months of bloody fighting where did the German 6th Army surrender to the Russians in February 1943?
STALINGRAD
2a. For which discovery did the Canadian scientists Banting and Best win the 1923 Nobel Prize for medicine?
INSULIN
2b. Who captained the European side to victory in the 2006 Ryder Cup?
IAN WOOSNAM
3a. At which gardens in Woking, Surrey are the headquarters of The Royal Horticultural Society?
WISLEY
3b. Who was the first President of all 50 states of the USA?
EISENHOWER
4a. In which city did Steve Redgave win the first of his Olympic gold medals?
LOS ANGELES (1984)
4b. Which element, at number 38 in the periodic table, was named after a Scottish village?
STRONTIUM

ROUND TWO
1a. Who gained an entry in the 'Guinness Book of Records' by writing 26 novels in a year?
BARBARA CARTLAND
1b. How old was footballer Stanley Matthews when he won his 54th and final cap for England?
(Allow one year either way)
42 (also accept 41 and 43)
2a. In which city can Brunel's ship 'Great Britain' be viewed?
BRISTOL
2b. Which is the largest lake completely within Canada?
THE GREAT BEAR LAKE
3a. Name one of the two South-East Asian countries where, in late 2003, the first human cases of infection by the H5N1 virus were detected?
THAILAND or VIETNAM
3b. In the 1985 film 'Back to the Future' how many miles per hour must the De Lorean car reach in order to achieve time travel?
88
4a. Together with helium, argon, krypton, xenon and neon, which element makes up the noble gases?
RADON
4b. The Appian Way runs from Rome to which other city?
BRINDISI

ROUND THREE
1a. Which German city was the setting for the original TV series of 'Auf Wiedersehen Pet'?
DUSSELDORF
1b. Which Oscar-winning director is the uncle of actor Nicholas Cage?
FRANCIS (FORD) COPPOLA
2a. During the 1970s and 1980s, who held regular infamous parties at 32c Ambleside Avenue, Streatham?
CYNTHIA PAYNE
2b. What unit of measurement is equal to 3.26 light years?
A PARSEC
3a. Which rival bank took over Nat West in 1999?
ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND
3b. Which is the largest Canadian province in area?
QUEBEC
4a. Which is the only category of Nobel Prize not to have been won by a woman?
ECONOMICS
4b. What was the name of the double murderer who, January 1977, got his wish to be executed by firing squad rather than face life imprisonment in Utah State Prison?
GARY GILMORE

ROUND FOUR
1a. How old was boxer George Foreman when he defeated MichaelMoorer to become the oldest World Heavyweight Champion? (Accept one year either way)
45 (also accept 44 and 46)
1b. In which town was serial-killer Harold Shipman practising as a GP at the time of his arrest in January 2000?
HYDE
2a. Which song was voted best in the last 25 years at the 2005 Brit Awards?
ANGELS (by Robbie Williams)
2b. In which current TV series are the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 2 and 94 of significance?
LOST
3a. What was unveiled in January 1985 with its inventor predicting "By the end of the century the petrol engine will be a thing of the past?
THE (SINCLAIR) C5
3b. In 1901 who won the first ever Nobel Prize for physics for his discovery of x-rays?
WILHELM RONTGEN
4a. In which game is the ball used known as a sliothar?
HURLING
4b. In what year was the song 'World in Motion' a number one hit for New Order and members of the England football squad?
1990

ROUND FIVE
1a. In 17 consecutive years up to 2001/02 which author's books were borrowed most often from UK public libraries?
CATHERINE COOKSON
1b. Between 1987 and 1994 which English county gained 73 acres of new land, now named Samphire Hoe?
KENT (additional land from Channel Tunnel dig)
2a. How often must a person over the age of seventy review his or her driving licence?
EVERY THREE YEARS
2b. In 1992 President George Bush said he wanted Americans to be more like 'The Waltons' and less like which other TV family?
THE SIMPSONS
3a. What was sold to the British Museum in 1816 for £36,000?
THE ELGIN MARBLES
3b. In which town in Southern Russia were more than 350 people, mostly children, massacred by Chechen extremists in September 2004?
BESLAN
4a. What is the name of the ice skater who, in 1992 was involved in a plot to break the legs of her rival?
TONYA HARDING (rival was Nancy Kerrigan)
4b. In the 1994 film 'Speed' how many miles per hour did the bus have to stay above in order to avoid being blown up?
50

ROUND SIX
1a. Which fictional French town was the setting for the TV serie 'Allo 'Allo?
NOUVION
1b. Which country did the Red Army leave in 1990 after 45 years of occupation?
HUNGARY
2a. Which US President won the Nobel Prize in 1906?
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
2b. In which modern day country can the remains of the 'Rose Red City' of Petra be found?
JORDAN
3a. Which musician is the father of the multi-Grammy winner North Jones?
RAVI SHANKAR
3b. Which real-life footballer was the only Scot to play for the Allies against the German team in the 1981 film 'Escape to Victory'?
JOHN WARK
4a. Which card game is won by accumulating 121 points?
CRIBBAGE
4b. The Trans-Siberian railway runs for 5722 miles from Moscow to which other city?
VLADIVOSTOK

ROUND SEVEN
1a. Which part of the body is affected by blepharitis?
THE EYELID (accept THE EYE)
1b. What was the name of the Street at which Fred and Rosemary West were living at the time of their arrest for murder in 1993?
CROMWELL STREET
2a. Who invented the clockwork radio?
TREVOR BAYLISS
2b. Which Beatles song mentions that there were '4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire?
A DAY IN THE LIFE
3a. The automobile division of which European manufacturer was purchased by the Ford Motor Company for $6.45 billion?
VOLVO
3b. Who is fifth in line to the British throne?
PRINCESS BEATRICE (After Charles, William, Harry and Andrew)
4a. Name the play. It premiered in 1904; its author died in 1937; when its copyright expired in 1987 an Act of Parliament extended the British rights in perpetuity?
PETER PAN
4b. In 1955 a black lady named Rosa Parkes ignited the civil rights movement when she refused to give up her place on a bus to a white man. In which USA state did that event occur?
ALABAMA

ROUND EIGHT
1a. Which country house has been the seat of the Dukes of Devonshire since the seventeenth century?
CHATSWORTH
1b. Which disease was first recognised following deaths at a convention in a Philadelphia Hotel in 1976?
LEGIONNAIRE'S DISEASE
2a. What is the alternative name for the scaly anteater?
PANGOLIN
2b. Which snooker player - known as "the Beckham of the baize" - died in 2006 at the age of 27?
PAUL HUNTER
3a. Before going on to develop her own label, at which fashion house was Stella McCartney the chief designer from 1997 to 2001?
CHLOE
3b. From which country was Paul McCartney deported in 1980 after spending nine days in jail there on suspicion of importing marijuana?
JAPAN
4a. On which island was 'Red Stripe' larger first brewed?
JAMAICA
4b. What name do we give to the insect which is known in the USA as a harvestman?
CRANE FLY or DADDY LONG LEGS

SPARE QUESTIONS
1. Which stand-up comedian created the character of The Pub Landlord?
AL MURRAY
2. Who founded the Habitat retail chain?
TERENCE CONRAN
3. What is the more common name for the ailment pertussis?
WHOOPING COUGH
4. Who played the part of Gordon Brittas in the TV series 'The Brittas Empire and the part of Arnold Rimmer in 'Red Dwarf'?
CHRIS BARRIE