Monday 15th December 2008
Set by 27 Club (Wirral)

Round 1
1a What was the name of William Wordsworth's sister, who was also a poet and pianist?
Dorothy
1b What was the name of Cliff Richard's first No. 1 hit in the UK?
Livin' Doll (July 1959)
2a Which actor, famous for his portrayal of gangsters, was born Emmanuel Goldenberg in Romania in 1893?
Edward G Robinson
2b Which American football team are known as the Vikings?
Minnesota
3a Which television crime series of the 1990s/2000s featured the character Andy Sipowicz played by Dennis Franz?
NYPD Blue
3b Who is the patron saint of ecologists?
Saint Francis
4a Of which family is the minnow a member?
Carp (accept Cyprinadae)
4b Mount Mitchell is the highest peak of which American mountain range?
Appalachian Mountains

Round 2
1a Which part of the body is affected by Meniere's Disease?
Ear
1b Which film of 1958 starred Ingrid Bergman as missionary Gladys Aylward?
Inn of the Sixth Happiness
2a In the UK they are called curtains; what are they called in the USA?
Drapes
2b Who succeeded John Quincy Adams as president of the USA in 1829?
Andrew Jackson
3a Which stretch of water separates Tasmania from mainland Australia?
Bass Strait
3b Which musical which won a record-breaking 12 Tony awards was based on a Mel Brooks film of 1968?
The Producers
4a What nationality is Liverpool FC footballer Sami Hyypia?
Finnish
4b 'Feel Like Making Love' and 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' were hit singles for which female artist?
Roberta Flack

Round 3
1a Who was Hitler's minister of propaganda?
Josef Goebbels
1b In the television series The Munsters, what was Lily Munster's maiden name?
Dracula
2a What was the Christian name of Judge Jeffreys (1645-1689)?
George
2b What was the name of the type of art particularly associated with Salvador Dali?
Surrealism
3a In Greek mythology, who was the wife of Zeus?
Hera
3b Who composed the Christmas Oratorio in 1734?
J S Bach
4a Other than Marcus Brutus, name one of the conspirators involved in the assassination of Julius Caesar in the Shakespeare play?
Cassius, Casca, Trebonius, Ligarius, Cinna, Metellus Cimber, Decius Brutus
4b What shape is a sagittate leaf?
Arrow-shaped

Round 4
1a Which dramatist and poet was murdered by Ingram Frazer in Deptford in 1593?
Christopher Marlowe
1b Who was Richard Nixon's running mate in the 1960 US presidential election?
Henry Cabot Lodge
2a In what year did the Aberfan disaster take place?
1966
2b Which US female singer who died in 2008 had hits with 'Shrimp Boats' and 'You Belong To Me'?
Jo Stafford
3a Which UK female singer who died in 2008 had hits with 'How much is that doggie in the window' and 'Jimmy Unknown'?
Lita Roza
3b In what year did The Great Train Robbery take place?
1963
4a Who was Walter Mondale's running mate in the 1984 US Presidential Election?
Geraldine Ferraro
4b Which poet died of septicaemia in the Aegean Sea in 1915?
Rupert Brooke

Round 5
1a Give a year in the life of English poet, William Blake.
1757-1827
1b What was Elvis Presley's first No. 1 record in the UK?
All Shook Up (June 1957)
2a Which famous Hollywood actor was born Roy Harold Scherer in Illinois in 1925?
Rock Hudson
2b Which American football team are known as the Steelers?
Pittsburgh
3a Which television crime series of the 1980s featured the character Henry Goldblume, played by Joe Spano?
Hill Street Blues
3b Who is the patron saint of cooks?
St Lawrence (accept Martha, Macarius)
4a Of which family is the Anchovy a member?
Herring (accept Clupeiforms)
4b Mount Marmolada is the highest peak of which European mountain range?
The Dolomites

Round 6
1a What part of the body is affected by Brights disease?
Kidneys
1b Which 1972 film starred Diana Ross as Billie Holiday?
Lady Sings The Blues
2a In the UK it is called a spanner, what do they call it in the USA?
Wrench
2b Name the writer of The History Boys, winner of the 2006 Tony award for best play?
Alan Bennett
3a Which stretch of water separates the North and South islands in New Zealand?
Cook Strait
3b Who succeeded Andrew Johnson as US President in 1869?
Ulysses S Grant
4a What nationality is former Liverpool FC footballer Jan Molby?
Danish
4b 'It's Oh So Quiet' and Venus as a Boy' were hit singles for which female artist?
Bjork

Round 7
1a Who was Hitler's Minister of Armaments arid War - also known as 'the first architect of the Third Reich'?
Albert Speer
1b What is the meaning of the adjective lachrymal?
Tearful (accept weepy or crying or equivalent)
2a In Roman mythology who was the wife of Jupiter?
Juno
2b Who composed the Hungarian Dances in 1869?
Brahms
3a What was the Christian name of Lord Byron?
George (accept Gordon or Noel)
3b What name was given to the type of art particularly associated with Jackson Pollock?
(Abstract) Expressionism (accept Action Painting)
4a Give the Christian name of either of Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Proteus or Valentine
4b In the Addams Family what type of pet was Pugsley's Aristotle?
Octopus

Round 8
1a Which football team play their home games at the Liberty Stadium?
Swansea City
1b Which Cunard liner launched in 1903 rescued 705 survivors of the Titanic disaster in 1912?
Carpathia
2a From whom did Henry Cooper first win the British heavyweight title in 1959?
Brian London
2b In the acronym NASDAQ, NA stands for National Association; what do any of the other letters stand for?
Securities Dealers Automated Quotations
3a What is the name of the Index of the Singapore stock exchange?
Straits Times Index
3b Which former US world heavyweight champion knocked out Henry Cooper in four rounds in 1966?
Floyd Patterson
4a Which US oceanographer led the teams which discovered the wrecks of the Titanic in 1985 and the Bismarck in 1989?
Robert Ballard
4b Which football team play their home games at the Don Valley Stadium?
Rotherham United

Spare Questions
1 Which British comedian was born in Hall Green, Birmingham in 1924 and died in Sydney in 1968?
Tony Hancock
2 What was the name of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog to whom she famously addressed a poem?
Flush
3 Name the year. Churchill makes his famous 'Iron Curtain' speech in Fulton Missouri, Henry Fonda stars as Wyatt Earp in 'My Darling Clementine', and murderer Neville Heath is hanged at Pentonville Prison.
1946