Monday 8th September 2008
Set by Warrington Quiz League

Round 1
1a What was the given name of the wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson?
Mary
1b Which motorway runs from the Ml near Rotherham to the M62 near Goole?
M18
2a The Sally Lunn Museum, where Sally Lunn's buns are baked every day is a tourist attraction in which town or city?
Bath
2b Members of the Irish Parliament have which two letters after their names?
TD
3a Who plays the part of Jessica Fletcher in the TV series 'Murder She Wrote'?
Angela Lansbury
3b Sheerness is the main town on which island in the Thames estuary?
Sheppey
4a In the nursery rhyme 'Oranges and Lemons', which bells sing 'I owe you five farthings'?
St Martins
4b Who wrote the 'Just William' books?
Richmal Crompton

Round 2
1a 'Sunrise, Sunset' and 'Tradition' are songs from which musical?
Fiddler on the Roof
1b What was the given name of the wife of Prime Minister James Callaghan?
Audrey
2a Bundesliga football team Schalke 04 plays home games in which German town or city?
Gelsenkirchen
2b Edward John Smith was captain of which famous ship?
Titanic
3a The discount supermarket chain, Aldi, has its HQ in which country?
Germany
3b Which composer, born in 1862, resisted joining the family wool business and went off to run an orange plantation in Floridabefore his family relented and paid for him to study music?
Frederick Delius
4a 'Good Wives' and 'Jo's Boys' were sequels to whose most famous novel?
Louisa May Alcott
4b In the nursery rhyme 'Oranges and Lemons', which bells sing 'When I am rich'?
Shoreditch

Round 3
1a Which tree is highly valued for gunstocks and decorative veneers for furniture?
Walnut
1b Which island in New York harbour was the processing centre for immigrants in the first half of the twentieth century?
Ellis Island
2a Which actor played 'Old Mother Riley'?
Arthur Lucan
2b In which Cumbrian town is there a pencil museum?
Keswick
3a Which manufacturer makes a small car called the 'Note'?
Nissan
3b What is the name of the TV detective played by Tony Shaloub?
Monk
4a Which SS commander died as a result of an assassination attempt in Prague in 1942?
(Reinhard) Heydrich
4b The Crimea forms part of which country?
Ukraine

Round 4
1a Which motorway runs from the M5 near Bromsgrove to a junction with the A44 and A42 near Burton-on-Trent?
M42
1b 'One Night in Bangkok' and 'I Know Him So Well' are songs from which musical?
Chess
2a Christopher Jones was captain of which famous ship?
Mayflower
2b La Liga football team Real Sociedad plays home games in which Spanish town or city?
San Sebastian
3a An island in the Bristol Channel gives its name to which shipping area?
Lundy
3b In the Bible who is the father of John the Baptist?
Zacharias
4a Why is a small sachet of silica gel often used in packaging?
To absorb moisture
4b In which Arizona town did the Gunfight at the OK Corral take place in 1881?
Tombstone

Round 5
1a Who was the mountaineer who in 1970, together with Don Whillans, was the first person to scale the south face of Annapurna?
Dougal Haston
1b Which island is connected to Brooklyn by the Verrazano Narrows bridge?
Staten Island
2a Which actor played 'Mr Pastry' on children's TV?
Richard Hearne
2b Which religious sect was founded by Ann Lee in Manchester in 1747?
The Shakers
3a The discount supermarket chain Netto has its HQ in which country?
Denmark
3b Which composer's first job on leaving school at the age of 15 in 1872, was in a solicitor's office before he joined his father in his music shop in Worcester?
Sir Edward Elgar
4a Whose playing of the part of Enrico Bandello in the film 'Little Caesar' brought him to stardom?
Edward G. Robinson
4b What is the main ingredient of the dish 'falafel'?
Chick peas (also accept Fava beans)

Round 6
1a The wood of which common tree was traditionally used to make tennis racquets, billiard cues and hockey sticks?
Ash
1b Who wrote the poem 'A Subaltern's Love Song' about Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, "Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun"?
John Betjeman
2a Georgetown is the capital of which Caribbean country?
Guyana
2b Members of the Welsh Assembly have which two letters after their name?
AM (or AC)
3a On which famous motor racing track is the Mulsanne Straight?
Le Mans
3b What, in physics, is defined as 'the amount of electrical charge stored for a given electrical potential'?
Capacitance
4a What is the main ingredient of the drink 'Lassi'?
Yoghourt
4b Cross-Eyed Jack McCall shot Wild Bill Hickok in 1876, in which South Dakota town was the Nuttall & Mann Saloon where this took place?
Deadwood

Round 7
1a England's first road congestion charge was introduced in 2002, in which city?
Durham
1b In 1975, which was the first city in the world to introduce congestion charges?
Singapore
2a The famous bridge at Avignon spans which river?
Rhone
2b Which British dependency has a capital called Georgetown?
Ascension Islands
3a Which manufacturer makes a small car called the 'Jazz'?
Honda
3b The Barry Burn is on which famous Scottish golf course?
Carnoustie
4a What is lacking by definition in an anhydrous substance?
Water
4b Cape Trafalgar is situated in which Spanish province?
Cadiz

Round 8
1a In 1818 who wrote a poem entitled 'Written in the Cottage where Burns was born'?
John Keats
1b In 1986 which mountaineer became the first to climb all 14 peaks over 8000 metre above sea level?
Reinhold Messner
2a George Wigram, Benjamin Wills Newton and John Nelson Darby were three of the founders of which religious sect founded in south-west England in 1831?
Plymouth Brethren
2b The Cumberland Gap is a pass in which US mountain range?
Appalachians
3a What electrical property, the reciprocal of resistivity, has the SI units Siemens per metre?
Conductivity
3b In the Bible who was the father of the disciples James and John?
Zebedee
4a Which SS officer was nicknamed 'the Angel of Death'?
Josef Mengele
4b Who first achieved stardom as the gangster Duke Mantee in the film 'The Petrified Forest'?
Humphrey Bogart

Spare Questions
1 Who wrote the song 'Moon River'?
Henry Mancini
2 Which shipyard built the 'Titanic'?
Harland & Wolff
3 Where in the human body are the deltoid muscles?
Shoulder