Monday 1st October 2007
Set by Warrington Quiz League
All rounds are general

Round 1
1a In which year did Warrington and Widnes administratively become part of Cheshire rather than Lancashire?
1974
1b George 2nd was the last King to lead his troops into battle, at which 1743 battle?
Dettingen
2a Which chemical element has the symbol Zr?
Zirconium
2b Which pigment is obtained from cuttlefish and squid?
Sepia
3a What is the name of the housing for a ship's compass?
Binnacle
3b What kind of animal is a percheron?
Horse
4a Who had a hit in 1964 with the song 'The Crying Game'?
Dave Berry
4b On which river does the Irish city of Limerick stand?
Shannon

Round 2
1a Richard 3rd was the last King to die in battle, at which battle was it?
Bosworth (Field)
1b In which county is the Newmarket racecourse?
Suffolk
2a What name is given to the young of a whale?
Calf
2b What is the name of the stage adaptation of Monty Python and the Holy Grail which opened on Broadway in 2005?
Spamalot
3a Adam and Eve had three sons mentioned by name in the Bible, Cain and Abel were the two eldest, who was the youngest son?
Seth
3b The RAF's Nimrod reconnaissance plane was derived from which civil airliner?
Comet
4a Who wrote the book 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?
Harper Lee
4b Which island was the home of the dodo?
Mauritius

Round 3
1a Which TV and radio presenter wrote the autobiographical book 'Mustn't Grumble'?
Terry Wogan
1b Prior to the building of the current road bridge over the river Mersey at Runcorn, what form of road bridge was in operation?
A Transporter Bridge
2a Give any one of the signs of the Zodiac that is deemed to be an Earth sign?
Taurus, Virgo or Capricorn
2b Which footballer was the first to win 100 caps for England?
Billy Wright
3a What kind of animal is a boomslang?
Snake
3b What, on a ship, is the name of the lifebuoy suspended from a rope which is used for rescues and ship-to-ship transfers?
Breeches buoy
4a Which German physicist is known for his 'Uncertainty Principle'?
Werner Heisenberg
4b Who had a hit in 1965 with the song 'The Game of Love'?
Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders

Round 4
1a Which character, in American TV 'soap', was played by both Pamela Sue Martin and Emma Samms?
Fallon (Colby)
1b The Jewish calendar is based on that of which civilisation?
Babylon
2a Ben Travers wrote a series of farces, at which London theatre were they staged?
Aldwych
2b Other than Oxygen, which is the only chemical element to have symbol beginning with the letter 'O'?
Osmium
3a What is the alpha-numeric designation of the Airbus Super Jumbo?
A380
3b Name one of the three sons of Noah mentioned in he Bible.
Shem, Ham and Japheth
4a The lemur is found only on which island (and small surrounding islands)?
Madagascar
4b Who wrote the book 'Goodbye Mr Chips'?
James Hilton

Round 5
1a Which TV chef wrote the autobiographical book 'Humble Pie'?
Gordon Ramsay
1b In which county is the Brands Hatch motor racing track?
Kent
2a What is the usual name given in the movie world for a day's shooting on film, received back from the laboratories ready for viewing by those involved?
Rushes (also Dailies)
2b Founded in 1123, which is London's oldest hospital?
St Bartholomew's
3a How many items are in a set referred to as a hebdomad?
Seven
3b Tampere is the second largest city of which European country?
Finland
4a In which town or city is the company HQ of the car manufacturer Volkswagen?
Wolfsburg
4b Which American actress and former model was married to tennis star Andre Agassi between 1997 and 1999?
Brooke Shields

Round 6
1a In which children's book do Nancy and Peggy Blacken, and John and Susan Walker, first appear?
Swallows and Amazons
1b Give a year during which Sir Anthony Eden was Prime Minister?
1955-1957
2a Pisces and Cancer are two of the three signs of the Zodiac classed as Water signs, which is the third?
Scorpio
2b In which US state is the 'valleys of Ten thousand Smokes?
Alaska
3a Who was the deceased partner of Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'?
Jacob Marley
3b A devotion of prayers referred to as a novena lasts for how many successive days?
Nine
4a Which Austrian physicist is known for his 'Exclusion Principle'?
Wolfgang Pauli
4b The works of which composer are classified by a BWV number?
JS Bach

Round 7
1a Which Bond girl was played by both Claudine Auger in 'Thunderball' and Kim Basinger in 'Never Say Never Again'?
Domino
1b From which event does the Islamic calendar start?
Hegira (flight of Mohammed)
2a In which London hospital is the Florence Nightingale Museum?
St Thomas's
2b Who was the first English footballer to be paid £100 per week?
Johnny Haynes
3a In which British city is the Maddermarket Theatre?
Norwich
3b Who was the clerk to Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'?
Bob Cratchett
4a Suzy Kendall and Tuesday Weld were both married to which English comic actor, writer and musician?
Dudley Moore
4b On which river does the Irish city of Cork stand?
Lee

Round 8
1a Give a year during which Sir Alec Douglas Home was Prime Minister?
1963-1964
1b Which friend of Bertie Wooster is noted for his close study of newts?
Gussie Fink-Nottle
2a In which river are the 'Thousand Islands?
St Lawrence
2b What is the usual name given to the trolley, sometimes mounted on rails, on which a camera can be silently moved around during filming?
Dolly
3a Plovdiv is the second largest city of which European country?
Bulgaria
3b In which British city is the Belgrade Theatre?
Coventry
4a The works of which composer are classified by a D (for Deutsch) number?
Schubert
4b In which town or city, better known for its beer, is the company HQ of the car manufacturer Skoda?
Pilsen

Spare Questions
1 Which city is called the 'Bride of the Adriatic'?
Venice
2 Which writer described himself as looking like "a wedding cake that had been left out in the rain"?
W.H. Auden
3 What did Oscar Wilde say that a world map needs to leave room for?
Utopia