Tuesday 13th November 2007
Set by Ormskirk Quiz League
All rounds are general

Round One.
1A What was the name of Salome's mother who persuaded her to ask for the head of John the Baptist?
HERODIAS
1B At which naval air station in New Jersey did the Hindenburg airship disaster occur in 1937?
LAKEHURST
2A Which Beatles song did The Overlanders take to No 1 in the UK charts in 1965?
MICHELLE
2B Which county championship side won cricket's Nat West Pro 40 title in 2007, but were relegated from Division One of the LV county championship?
WORCESTERSHIRE
3A In which English city is there a street called, "The Land of Green Ginger"?
KINGSTON UPON HULL
3B What name is given to the screen or wall decoration, usually found at the back of an altar?
A REREDOS
4A What nationality were the five composers who made up the group known as "The Mighty Handful"?
RUSSIAN
4B Which Italian city provides the setting for Shakespeare's play, "Romeo and Juliet"?
VERONA

Round Two.
1A Which member of the Labour Cabinet in the 1990's, was once a racing tipster for the Glasgow Herald?
ROBIN COOK
1B Who plays the part of Supt Foyle in the TV series, "Foyle's War" set in wartime Hastings?
MICHAEL KITCHEN
2A Who commanded the British fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar after the death of Nelson?
LORD COLLINGWOOD
2B As what is the P.O.W. Camp Oflag IV-C. near Leipzig in Eastern Germany better known?
COLDITZ CASTLE
3A Name the female estate agent who disappeared in 1986, after arranging to meet a client.
SUZI LAMPLUGH
3B Which Rugby Union winger was the first player to play fifty times for England?
RORY UNDERWOOD
4A The Australian Kookaburra, or Laughing Jackass, is a large type of which species of bird?
KINGFISHER
4B At 13,670 ft., Jebel Toubcal is the highest peak in which African mountain range?
ATLAS MOUNTAINS

Round Three.
1A Stretching 1000 miles from the Pakistan-Chinese border to a point in S.W. Afghanistan, which mountain range's highest point is Tirich Mir?
THE HINDU KUSH
1B The Mynah bird, much famed for its mimicry, is a member of which family of birds?
STARLING
2A Which Australian Rugby Union winger was the first man to score sixty tries in international matches?
DAVID CAMPESE
2B Who, in 1983, became the first American woman to go into space?
SALLY RIDE
3A For almost 100 years from the 1820's, what purpose did Colditz Castle serve?
WORKHOUSE or MENTAL INSTITUTION
3B Which British commander was mortally wounded at the Battle of Corunna in 1809?
SIR JOHN MOORE
4A Who plays the part of Inspector Lynley in the TV series, adapted from the novels of Elizabeth George?
NATHANIEL PARKER
4B Which Home Secretary in the 1980's introduced the "Short, Sharp Shock" treatment for young offenders at detention centres?
WILLIAM WHITELAW

Round Four.
1A In Shakespeare's play, "The Tempest", who is the deformed son of the witch Sycorax, and slave of Prospero?
CALIBAN
1B Arthur Honneger, Darius Milhaud and Francis Poulenc are the best-known composers of which so-called group?
LES SIX
2A What is the English translation, from the Greek, of the Christian invocation, "Kyrie Eleison"?
LORD HAVE MERCY
2B Passengers alighting at Temple Meads railway station find themselves in which English city?
BRISTOL
3A Which county championship side won their first ever major trophy, when they defeated Hampshire in the Friends Provident Trophy final at Lords in August, 2007?
DURHAM
3B Bernard Jewry is known professionally as Alvin Stardust, but under what name did he have a minor hit in 1962, with the song, "I'm A Moody Guy"?
SHANE FENTON
4A In 1930, the R101 airship crashed on its maiden flight on a hillside near which town, North of Paris?
BEAUVAIS
4B In the Bible, who is the mother in law of Ruth. Ruth later married Boaz, and their son Obed was the Grandfather of King David?
NAOMI

Round Five.
1A Which word, from the French for "Light of Hand", means cunning deception or trickery?
LEGERDEMAIN
1B On which mountain, in Southern California, is there an observatory which houses the 200 inch Hale telescope?
MT PALOMAR
2A After the dismissal of Nikita Khruschev in 1964, who became Premier of the Soviet Union, a position he held until shortly before his death in 1980?
ALEXEY KOSYGIN
2B Members of the Trade Union NACODS are employed in which industry?
MINING
3A The seven brightest stars in the constellation Ursa Major are known in Britain as the Plough. As what are they known in America?
THE BIG DIPPER
3B The works of which famous playwright include, "The Homecoming" and "The Birthday Party"?
HAROLD PINTER
4A "On A Tree by a River", (or Tit-willow) is a song from which Gilbert and Sullivan opera?
THE MIKADO
4B In the 1985 film, "Out of Africa", who starred as Denys Finch Hatton opposite Meryl Streep, as Karen Blixen?
ROBERT REDFORD

Round Six.
1A For what does the W stand in the name F.W. Woolworth, founder of the famous store?
WINFIELD
1B Mikis Theodorakis, a Greek born composer, is perhaps best remembered for the theme music for which 1964 film?
ZORBA THE GREEK
2A In the 1960's TV medical drama series, "Dr Kildare", what was the name of the senior doctor of Blair hospital, played by Raymond Massey?
DR GILLESPIE
2B Which disease is caused by lack of Calcium in the bones, which causes them to become brittle?
OSTEOPOROSIS
3A Child film star Shirley Temple became U.S ambassador to which African country in 1974?
GHANA
3B The works of which English artist include, "Burial at Sea" and "The Grand Canal, Venice"?
J M W TURNER
4A What name is given to the curved surface of a liquid, as it stands in a tube, caused by surface tension?
MENISCUS
4B Blue Vitriol is an archaic name for the hydrated sulphate of which common metal?
COPPER

Round Seven.
1A Green Vitriol is the archaic name of the hydrated sulphate of which common metal?
IRON
1B What name is given to the small, unsightly mounds of earth, often deposited on garden lawns by the action of worms beneath them?
WORM CASTS
2A The works of which French artist include "Luncheon of the Boating Party" and "The Piazza, San Marco in Venice"?
PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR
2B Who in 1948, became the first Prime Minister of the newly proclaimed State of Israel?
DAVID BEN GURION
3A Which disease, commonly called "Pinkeye", is caused by inflammation of the outermost layer of the eye, and the inner surface of the eyelids?
CONJUNCTIVITIS
3B Which controversial TV drama of 1980, caused a "diplomatic incident" between the U.K. and Saudi Arabia?
DEATH OF A PRINCESS
4A Which star of the 1960 film, "Never on a Sunday", became the Greek Minister for Culture and Science in 1981?
MELINA MERCOURI
4B Which famous cricketer had the initials M.C.C., the same as the equally famous Marylebone Cricket Club?
COLIN COWDREY

Round Eight.
1A Which 2000 film starred Mel Gibson as an advertising executive, who suddenly begins to hear women's thoughts?
WHAT WOMEN WANT
1B "The Major- General's Song" comes from which of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas"?
THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE
2A Which famous playwrights works include, "All My Sons", and "A View from the Bridge"?
ARTHUR MILLER
2B Which is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor?
THE POLE STAR (accept POLARIS or NORTH STAR)
3A Who General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, from 1956-69, until succeeded by Jack Jones? He was also M.P. for Nuneaton in the 1960's.
FRANK COUSINS
3B Who was Prime Minister of Hungary at the time of the uprising in 1956? He was later charged with treason by the Russians and hanged.
IMRE NAGY
4A Which astronomer constructed a reflecting telescope, which led to his discovery of Uranus in 1781?
WILLIAM HERSCHEL
4B What name is given to the seven branched candelabrum, one of the oldest symbols of the Jewish people?
THE MENORAH

Spare Questions.
1 Which MP (and war hero), was killed by a bomb in the House of Commons car park in 1979?
AIREY NEAVE
2 What was the Pharos at Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world?
A LIGHTHOUSE
3 La Paz is the capital city of which South American country?
BOLIVIA