Monday 3rd September 2007
Set by RBB (Northern)
All rounds are general

ROUND ONE
1a. Give the title of either the 2004 TV movie or the 2006 film about the airline passengers who fought back against hijackers on 11th September 2001?
FLIGHT 93 OR UNITED 93
1b. Which ancient people were proverbially hard-working?
THE TROJANS
2a. Ironbridge, the first iron bridge, constructed between 1777 and 1779, spans which river?
THE SEVERN
2b. What is the name of the island off the Cumbrian coast, opposite Barrow-in-Furness?
WALNEY ISLAND
3a. Where were the London Zoological Gardens first opened in 1828?
REGENT'S PARK
3b. What was the name of the satirical TV programme, which ran from 1979 to 1928, and which featured Pamela Stephenson, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys-Jones and Rowan Atkinson?
NOT THE 9 O'CLOCK NEWS
4a In 'Oliver Twist' by Charles Dickens, by what nickname is Jack Dawkins known?
THE ARTFUL DODGER
4b. What sport appears in the phonetic alphabet?
GOLF

ROUND TWO
1a. In which chain of tea-shops were the waitresses known as 'nippies'?
LYON'S
1b. With which athlete did Mary Decker collide - or vice versa - during the final of the 3,000 metres at the 1984 Olympic Games?
ZOLA BUDD
2a. Who was president of Yugoslavia from 1953 until his death in 1980?
PRESIDENT TITO (Josip Broz)
2b. On which African River is the Aswan Dam?
THE NILE
3a. Which Sunday newspaper was launched in 1982 as a rival to The Sunday Times?
THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
3b. Which ruler abdicated on 96 November 1918?
KAISER WILHELM II
4a. Which company put 'Walkman' the first easily portable cassette player on the market in 1980?
SONY
4b. Designed by Christopher Cockerell, the experimental prototype of hich vehicle was first demonstrated off Cowes, Isle of Wight, on 30th May 1959?
THE HOVERCRAFT

ROUND THREE
1a. What-is-the-collective-name for the parts covering the jambs surrounding a door or window?
ARCHITRAVE
1b. Which Nazi war criminal was hanged in Tel Aviv on 31st May 1962?
ADOLPH EICHMANN
2a. Quatre Bras, a crossroads 25 kilometres south of Brussels, was a place of pivotal strategic importance in which 19th century battle?
WATERLOO
2b. What is the name of the East-Indian curry-soup whose name comes from the Tamil for 'curry-water'?
MULLIGATAWNY
3a. What is the family name of the dynasty who have ruled Monaco since 1297?
GRIMALDI
3b. In which English county is Canvey Island?
ESSEX
4a. According to the Book of Revelation, what is 'the number of the beast'?
666
4b. Which TV presenter wrote the book 'The English'?
JEREMY PAXMAN

ROUND FOUR
1a. What name was given to the remote prison and labour camps used to silence dissidents and objectors to the Soviet regime?
GULAGS
1b. About which prominent Conservative did Ann Widdecombe say, in 1997, that "he has something of the dark about him"?
MICHAEL HOWARD
2a. What name was given to the popular mid-19th Century hooped petticoat, which was made to project all around by bands of wire?
CRINOLINE
2b. What were mutton-chops and Piccadilly weepers popular with mid 19th century men?
(Long) SIDE-WHISKERS
3a. What is the collective name for the 14 images found in Christian, especially RC, churches, showing the trial and execution of Christ?
THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS
3b. What is the name for the two tubes which, in female mammals, carry eggs from the ovary to the uterus?
FALLOPIAN TUBES (or oviduct)
4a. Which frontiersman, killed at the Alamo in 1836, was Democratic Congressman for Tennessee from 1823 to 1831?
DAVY CROCKETT
4b. Which amphibian has three species native to Britain of which the great crested is the largest?
NEWT

ROUND FIVE
1a. Give a year in the life of the portrait painter Sir Joshua Reynolds.
1723-1792
1b. What name is given to the protrusion of a internal organ through the muscular wall, usually a round soft lump, and generally in the groin or navel?
A HERNIA
2a. What name is given to the side of a ship sheltered from the wind?
THE LEE-SIDE
2b. The music for which Latin American dance originated in Cuba?
THE RUMBA
3a. In baseball what is the name of the player equivalent to the bowler in cricket?
THE PITCHER
3b. Give a year in the life of author Jane Austen.
1775-1817
4a. What is composed of treads and risers?
A FLIGHT OF STAIRS
4b. Which country, in 1799, became the first to introduce income tax??
GREAT BRITAIN

ROUND SIX
1a. Which Country, in 1792, became the first to have a national census?
THE USA
1b. In the Frederick Forsyth novel 'Day of the Jackal', who was the main target of the assassin?
CHARLES DE GAULLE
2a. Which city was the headquarters of the pre-World War II organisation, the 'League of Nations'?
GENEVA
2b. Which 1889 comic novel features the characters George and Harris and the dog Montmorency?
THREE MEN IN A BOAT
3a. Name either actor who played the 'Likely Lads' in the TV series of the 1960s and 70s.
RODNEY BEWES/JAMES BOLAM
3b. Which male tennis player's first major titles were the Italian and French Championships in 1974?
BJORN BORG
4a. What 8th century Angelo-Saxon earthwork runs from Prestatyn, in the north, to Chepstow, on the Bristol Channel, in the south?
OFFA'S DYKE
4b. From what is the brandy 'Calvados' made?
CIDER (or apple-pulp)

ROUND SEVEN
1a. Which Indian Prime Minister was in office 1966-77 and 1980-84 and was assassinated on 31st October 1984?
INDIRA GANDHI
1b. Which course is home to the Royal Liverpool Golf Club?
HOYLAKE
2a. Give any year in the reign of Queen Anne.
1702-1714
2b. What nickname was given to the late 60's minority group noted for, amongst other things, white t-shirts and crombie jackets?
SKINHEADS
3a. Which actor's first film was 'Hangman's Noose' in 1928 and whose last film was 'The Shootist' in 1976?
JOHN WAYNE
3b. Give a year in the reign of King James I.
1603-1625
4a. According to British legend, who was mortally wounded when fighting his treacherous nephew Mordred?
KING-ARTHUR
4b. What name is given to the dried meat or kernel of the coconut?
COPRA

ROUND EIGHT
1a. What does the word 'weald' mean, as in e.g. 'the Weald of Kent'?
FOREST OR WOOD
1b. Who was the Deputy Chief Constable of Manchester, forced to resign because of his inquiry into an alleged 'shoot to kill' policy in Northern Ireland?
JOHN STALKER
2a. Which author, scriptwriter, broadcaster and general wit published, shortly, before his death, his autobiography 'A Kentish Lad'?
FRANK MUIR
2b. What is the name of the lower house of the Parliament of the Isle of Man?
THE HOUSE OF KEYS
3a. The windows in the transept of which English cathedral are called 'The Five Sisters'?
YORK MINSTER
3b. In which story does Sherlock Holmes have to deal with a deadly snake?
THE SPECKLED BAND
4a. On the 14th November of which year of the 1990's did the National Lottery start?
1994
4b. To which country do the Aleutian Islands belong?
USA

SPARE QUESTIONS
1. Originating in Germany, but also associated with the USA, what is the name of the salted and glazed biscuit shaped in the form of a knot?
PRETZEL
2. Which Labour politician was told to "Think the unthinkable" about pensions and social security, and was sacked in 1998 for doing just that?
FRANK FIELD
3. Who was the first chairman of the BBC TV series 'Call my Bluff?
ROBIN RAY