Tuesday 25th September 2007
Set by RBB (Northern)
All rounds are general

ROUND ONE
1a. Which steam railway features in the TV series "Heartbeat"?
NORTH YORK MOORS RAILWAY
1b. Which Scottish town is home to the football club Queens of the South?
DUMFRIES
2a. Which event in 1685 is also known as the 'Pitchfork Rebellion'?
MONMOUTH'S REBELLION
2b. Which actor who played Merry in 'The Lord of the Rings' film was a regular in the TV series 'Hetty Wainthropp Investigates'?
DOMINIC MONAGHAN
3a. Which leading Nazi committed suicide after his arrest by British soldiers close to the end of World War II?
HEINRICH HIMMLER
3b. Which pub is the local for Jim Royle in the TV series 'The Royle Family'?
THE FEATHERS
4a. Which Scottish town is home to the football club Raith Rovers?
KIRKCALDY
4b. Which bird was the logo for Penguin paperback's non-fiction books?
PELICAN

ROUND TWO
1a. Give either of the alternative names of the bird also known as the dunnock?
HEDGE SPARROW/HEDGE WARBLER
1b. In which of Dickens novels does the rag and bone dealer Mr Krook die by spontaneous combustion?
BLEAK HOUSE
2a. Which London pub off Fleet Street, was a favourite of Dr Samuel Johnson?
THE OLDE CHESHIRE CHEESE
2b. In which year did the 'Peasants Revolt' take place in England?
1381
3a. Which character's voice in the Lord of the Rings films was done by Andy Serkis?
GOLLUM/SMEAGOL
3b. Which steam railway featured in the TV series 'Oh Dr Beeching'?
SEVERN VALLEY RAILWAY
4a. Who was proclaimed Emperor of Rome, at York in 306 AD?
CONSTANTINE
4B. What is the more common name for the bird also known as the windhover?
KESTREL

ROUND THREE
1a. Which bird is the emblem of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds?
AVOCET
1b. Who succeeded St Peter to become the second Pope?
ST LINUS
2a. Who was the first Chancellor of West Germany?
KONRAD ADENEUER
2b. Who was the last bachelor Prime Minister of Britain before Edward Heath?
A J BALFOUR
3a. What was the former name of the Pacific Islands now known as Vanuatu?
NEW HEBRIDES
3b. Which soldier is depicted on an American $50 note?
ULYSSES S GRANT
4a. What is the collective name for a group of bishops?
BENCH
4b. The fate of which leading-Nazi, Reichmaster from May 1941, remained a mystery for many years after the end of the war?
MARTIN BORMAN

ROUND FOUR
1a. Which Dickens' hero stays with Mr Wickfield when attending school in Kent?
DAVID COPPERFIELD
1b. Which English Football League club are nicknamed 'The Glaziers'?
CRYSTAL PALACE
2a. Who is depicted on an American $5 note?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
2b. Which Pacific State was once known as the 'Friendly Islands'?
TONGA
3a. Who in 1865 was the last British Prime Minister to die in office?
LORD PALMERSTON (Henry Temple)
3b. Who was the Premier and Dictator of Japan 1941-44, hanged for war crimes in 1948?
HIDEKI TOJO
4a. Which English football league club are nicknamed 'The Addicks'?
CHARLTON ATHLETIC
4b. What is the collective name for a group of larks?
EXULTATION

ROUND FIVE
1a. Which is the administrative town of Surrey?
KINGSTON UPON THAMES
1b. Which film director, who died on the 12th February 2000, launched Brigitte Bardot's career with the 1956 film 'And 'God Created Women'?
ROGER VIDIM
2a. What is the shape of the pasta fusille?
SPIRAL
2b. Which English City holds an annual Goose Fair?
NOTTINGHAM
3a. Which modern philosopher, 1872-1970, said in 1928, "Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists of preventing others from enjoying themselves'?
BERTRAND RUSSELL
3b. Specifically, how did George Joseph Smith murder three wives in the years up to 1915?
DROWNING IN THE BATH
4a. Which explorer was, in 1521, the leader of the first European expedition to reach the Philippines?
FERINAND MAGELLAN
4b. On the banks of which river does Kendal stand?
RIVER KENT

ROUND SIX
1a. Which Kent brewery manufactures the beer 'Spitfire'?
SHEPHERD NEAME
1b. Which explorer was, in 1535, the first European to navigate the St. Lawrence River?
JACQUES CARTIER
2a. How did Dr Crippen, hanged in 1910, murder his wife?
HE POISONED HER
2b. Which Greek philosopher, 384-322 BC, said 'Man is by nature a political animal'?
ARISTOTLE
3a. Which English town has an annual Gypsy Fair?
APPLEBY
3b. What is the shape of the pasta farfalle?
BOW TIE/BUTTERFLY
4a. Which actor who played the young Indiana Jones in the film 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade' died of a drug overdose in 1993?
RIVER PHOENIX
4b. What is the name of the beer brewed by Cain's to mark Liverpool's City of Culture year?
CELEBRATION (2008)

ROUND SEVEN
1a. In 2000 which best selling novelist donated £500,000 to the National Council of One-Parent Families?
J K ROWLING
1b. Which Chancellor of the Exchequer, close to the end of World War II, introduced the policies that became known as 'Austerity Britain'?
STAFFORD CRIPPS
2a. A donjon is a part of which type of building?
CASTLE
2b. Which act passed in 1713 and not repealed until 1973 included a text to be read out by a magistrate at an unruly gathering of 12 or more people?
THE RIOT ACT
3a. What type of licence was first issued in Britain on the 1st June 1946?
TELEVISION LICENCE
3b. By what other name is the third battle of Ypres, which began on the 31st July 1917, also known?
PASSCHENDALE
4a. Who was the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry on the 11th October 1984, the day of the Brighton bomb at the Conservative Party Conference?
SIR NORMAN TEBBITT
4b. What was the name of the detective played by Richard Roundtree in films of the 1970's, that had a memorable theme tune by Isaac Hayes?
SHAFT

ROUND EIGHT
1a. What was the title of the 1960's TV series starring Robert Culp and Bill Crosby about two international tennis players who were also Secret agents?
I SPY
1b. What is the better known name for the South Transept of Westminster Abbey?
POET'S CORNER
2a. What is the name of the monument in Ypres that lists the names of over 55,000 British and Empire troops who fell in battle between 1914 and 1917 and who has no known grave?
MENIN GATE
2b. In which section of an orchestra would you find the Cor Anglais?
WOODWIND
3a. The Catskill Mountains form part of which larger range in the Eastern USA?
APPALACHIANS
3b. Which nineteenth century author invented the pillar box?
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
4a. What is the name of the ball or roll of minced meat, fish or potato, covered in breadcrumbs and deep-fried, its name comes from the French meaning "to crunch"?
CROQUETTE
4b. Complete the title of David Bowie's 1972 album 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the …
SPIDERS FROM MARS

SPARE QUESTIONS
1. The first British atomic bomb was detonated on Montebello Island on the 2nd October 1952, off the northwest coast of which country?
AUSTRALIA
2. Give one year in which Samuel Pepys kept his famous diary.
1660 (Jan)-1669 (May)
3. What is the name of the celebration of a Jewish boys arrival, at the age of 13, the age of responsibility?
BAR MITZVAH