Tuesday 4th March 2008
Set by Rainhill Victoria (Liverpool)

ROUND ONE
1a Which US crime writer also wrote under the name of Evan Hunter?
Ed McBain
1b Give a year in the life of painter John Constable.
1776 - 1837
2a Who became the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury in 1961?
Dr Michael Ramsey
2b What is the SI unit of force?
Newton
3a What spirit drink is the base of a Tom Collins cocktail?
Gin
3b Which is the only US state with just one bordering US state?
Maine
4a In which year did all of the following occur: QE2 arrives in New York on her maiden voyage, the Kray twins were jailed for life and Boeing 747 makes its first test flight?
1969
4b The Wendigo is a mythical creature in the folklore of which native people?
Native Americans

ROUND TWO
1a What was the name of King Harold of England's brother who fought against him at the Battle of Stamford Bridge?
Tostig
1b In which year did all of the following occur: Prime Minister imposes direct rule on Northern Ireland, Idi Amin expels 50,000 Asians in 3 months and St Helens win the Rugby League Challenge Cup?
1972
2a How many points are awarded for a touchdown in American football?
Six
2b Which British writer also wrote under the name of Jack Harvey?
Ian Rankin
3a What type of fruit is a kumquat?
Orange
3b In the TV sitcom 'Friends' what is the name of Phoebe's twin sister?
Ursula
4a In the computing term GUI for what does the letter G stand?
Graphical (User Interface) accept graphic
4b The son of Hannah, his name meaning 'Name of God' who was the last of the Old Testament Hebrew judges?
Samuel

ROUND THREE
1a In the Old Testament who led the Israelites into the Promised Land?
Joshua
1b Named from the Gaelic for elbow, what is the name of the Irish bagpipes played by squeezing air with the arm?
Uillean pipes
2a The Bunyip is a mythical creature in the folklore of which native people?
Australian aborigine
2b For what role in the film musical 'Chicago' did Catherine Zeta Jones win the Best Supporting Actress Oscar?
Velma (Kelly)
3a Give a year in the life of composer Franz Josef Haydn.
1732-1809
3b Englishman Michael Ventris deciphered which ancient script in the early 1950s before dying in a car crash in 1956?
Linear B
4a Name either country that is bordered but not crossed by the Mekong river.
Thailand/Myanmar (Burma)
4b Originating in 1956, what is the double-barrelled name of the US Antarctic research station situated at the South Pole?
Amundsen-Scott

ROUND FOUR
1a Baikonur, Kapustin Yar and Plesetsk are all Russian centres for what activity?
Spaceship launches
1b In Norse mythology who is the queen of the underworld and the daughter of Loki?
Hel
2a Sting's 2006 album "Into the Labyrinth" is a collection of songs by John Dowland who was a 16th-17th century virtuoso on what instrument?
Lute
2b Who was the AC Milan coach when they lost the 2005 Champions League final to Liverpool?
Carlo Ancelotti
3a In the 1994 Cash for Questions affair, in which the Guardian exposed two Tory MPs taking payments from Mohamed Al-Fayed, who was the MP for Beaconsfield implicated?
Tim Smith
3b France, Holland and which other country fought on the American side in the US War of Independence?
Spain
4a In French what is a bergere, as in Les Folies Bergere?
Shepherd(ess)
4b Which Archbishop of Canterbury conducted the queen's coronation ceremony in 1953?
Geoffrey Fisher

ROUND FIVE
1a Atrophic striae is a medical term for what condition that primarily affects women?
Stretch marks
1b Which European female singer's albums have included 'Debut', 'Post', 'Homogenic' and 'Saved By Magic'?
Bjork
2a Which former children's laureate was Kirsty Young's first castaway on 'Desert Island Discs'?
Quentin Blake
2b In Egyptian mythology, the brother of Horus and Isis, who was the god of storms, and often represented as a hippopotamus?
Set (or Seth or Seti)
3a "No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs," is the autobiography of which punk rocker?
John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)
3b The stage musicals 'Cabaret' and 'Chicago' were both written by the same songwriting team, name either of them.
Kander & Ebb
4a What is the last event of an Olympic decathlon?
1500 metres
4b One of the most frequent symptoms presented to medics, what is cephalalgia?
Headache

ROUND SIX
1a Why is a navel orange so called?
One end has a navel like opening
1b What is the SI unit of frequency?
Hertz
2a Which US singer was born Alecia Moore in 1979, her hits include 'Get the Party Started', 'Family Portrait', 'Stupid Girls' and 'Who Knew'?
Pink
2b Which composer, whose most famous opera is 'Der Freischutz,' died of tuberculosis in London in 1826?
Carl Maria von Weber
3a At which battle of 1298 was William Wallace defeated by the English?
Falkirk
3b Who was the coach of Bayern Munich when they lost the 1999 Champions League final to Manchester United, before winning it in 2001?
Ottmar Hitzfeld
4a What is the popular name of the dance performed to the 'Galop Infernal' from 'Orpheus in the Underworld' by Offenbach?
Can Can
4b The writing form known as Linear B was a graphic representation of which specific ancient language?
Mycenaean

ROUND SEVEN
1a What treaty signed in March 1918 between Russia and Germany ended Russia's participation in World War 1 and the loss of its Baltic and Ottoman territories?
Brest-Litovsk
1b Sentenced to 8 years in 2006 for crimes committed over 25 yrs earlier, by what name was John Humble known to the police?
Wearside Jack (his tape and letters misled the Yorkshire Ripper police enquiry)
2a What spirit drink is the base of a screwdriver cocktail?
Vodka
2b In the TV sitcom 'Frasier' what is the forename of Frasier's producer played by Peri Gilpin?
Roz (Doyle)
3a Guinea-Bissau was until 1973 a colony of which country?
Portugal
3b Which European country claims it has no dogs, trains or trees?
Iceland
4a In the 1994 Cash for Questions affair, who was the Parliamentary lobbyist alleged to have recruited the two Tory MPs who took payments from Mohamed Al-Fayed?
Ian Greer
4b Who was the first person to be paid $1 million for appearing in a single movie?
Elizabeth Taylor (for Cleopatra - 1963)

ROUND EIGHT
1a What river rises in Russia and flows through Belarus before reaching the sea in the Ukraine?
Dneiper
1b In the 2006 Formula 1 season Jenson Button and which other driver won his first ever Grand Prix?
Felipe Massa
2a In French what is a moulin, as in Moulin Rouge?
Windmill
2b Leukophobia is the fear of what?
The colour white
3a In the telecoms term 3G, for what does the letter G stand?
(Third) Generation
3b The Mason Dixon line forms a boundary between 2 US states, name either.
Maryland & Pennsylvania
4a In literature, whose girlfriend is Becky Thatcher?
Tom Sawyer
4b The national anthem of which European country has the same tune as 'God Saves The Queen'?
Liechtenstein

SPARE QUESTIONS
1 The Synod of Whitby took place in which century?
7th AD (664)
2 The eldest of her family, who was first seen in 1959, has a sister named Skipper, twin siblings, Stacie and Todd and in 1992 a baby sister Kelly?
Barbie
3 Which US vice president had a family dog named Checkers?
Richard Nixon
4 The Gunpowder Plot conspirators planned to kill James I and replace with him with which Catholic as monarch?
Princess Elizabeth (James I's 9 year old daughter)
5 In the medical organization NICE, for what does the letter C stand?
Clinical
6 Under what name is bummalo fish served in a restaurant?
Bombay duck