Tuesday 30th September 2008
Set by Foreign Legion (Northern)

ROUND ONE
1a. Caroline of Ansbach was the wife of which British King?
GEORGE II
1b. What is the SI unit of inductance?
HENRY
2a. If food is cooked 'a lyonnaise' what ingredient must be used?
ONIONS
2b. Which planet has satellites Miranda and Ariel?
URANUS
3a. Give a year in the life of composer George Frederick Handel?
1685 TO 1759
3b. 'Big Spender' is from which musical?
SWEET CHARITY
4a. Which car manufacturer has the slogan 'The Lion goes from strength to strength'?
PEUGEOT
4b. Which football league side plays home at the Memorial Ground?
BRISTOL ROVERS

ROUND TWO
1a Which star of Hollywood musicals died in 1987; his straight roles included that of a con man in The Towering Inferno?
FRED ASTAIRE
1b.In which year did Bjorn Borg win his last Wimbledon Singles title?
1980
2a. Cynophobia is a morbid fear of what?
DOGS
2b. How many years are celebrated at a coral wedding anniversary?
35
3a. Which aviator vanished while flying over the Thames estuary in 1941?
AMY JOHNSON
3b. Topeka is the capital of which US state?
KANSAS
4a. What is the chemical symbol for tungsten?
W
4b. Which entertainer's considered changing his name to Noah Kaminsky?
NEIL DIAMOND

ROUND THREE
1a. Radio Viking serves which British town or city?
HULL
1b. In which sport is the term 'spike' used?
VOLLEYBALL
2a.Which Romanian lost to Stan Smith in the 1972 Wimbledon Men's Singles Final?
ILIE NASTASE
2b. What relation is actor Nicholas Cage to Francis Ford Coppola?
NEPHEW
3a. What was the former name of Belize?
BRITISH HONDURAS
3b. Which entertainer's autobiography is Take it Like a Man?
BOY GEORGE
4a. 'Jack' is the young of which freshwater fish?
PIKE
4b. What is the lowest commissioned officer rank in the British Army?
SECOND LIEUTENANT

ROUND FOUR
1a. What does the 'B' stand for in the writer J. B. Priestley?
BOYNTON
1b. Which former politician was nicknamed Doris Karloff?
ANN WIDDECOMBE
2a. What is added to whisky to make a 'rusty nail'?
DRAMBUIE
2b. More than 40 kilometres long, which waterway joins Lakes Erie and Ontario?
WELLAND SHIP CANAL
3a. Artemis was, inter alia, the Greek goddess of the hunt; who was her Roman equivalent?
DIANA
3b. What is a waistcoat known as in the USA?
VEST
4a. Who wrote the novel King Rat?
JAMES CLAVELL
4b. Who said: 'Give a man a free hand and he will run it all over you'?
MAE WEST

ROUND FIVE
1a. Caroline of Brunswick was the wife of which British King?
GEORGE IV
1b. What is the SI unit of pressure?
PASCAL
2a. Food cooked 'a la crécy' must contain which ingredient?
CARROTS
2b. Which planet has the satellites Europa and Callisto?
JUPITER
3a. Give a year in the life of composer Johann Sebastian Bach?
1685 TO 1750
3b 'Hernando's Hideaway' is from which musical?
THE PYJAMA GAME
4a. Which car manufacturer has the slogan 'Once driven, forever smitten'?
VAUXHALL
4b. Which football league team plays home at Bescot Stadium?
WALSALL

ROUND SIX
1a. For which 1953 film did Frank Sinatra win his only Oscar?
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
1b. In which year did John McEnroe win his last Wimbledon Men's Singles title?
1984
2a. Ergophobia is a morbid fear of what?
WORK
2b. A crystal wedding anniversary celebrates how many years?
15
3a. What, contribution to the glory of the British press was contributed by Stephanie Rahn on 17 November 1970?
FIRST PAGE 3 GIRL IN THE SUN
3b. Frankfort is the capital of which US state?
KENTUCKY
4a. What is the chemical symbol for plutonium?
Pu
4b. Which singer's real name is Marvin Lee Aday?
MEATLOAF

ROUND SEVEN
1a. Radio Ram serves which British town or city?
DERBY
1b. In which motor sport is the term 'laundry'used?
DRAG RACING (ie. the drogue)
2a. What is the name of the practice of employees sharing desks, workstations etc, rather than giving each employee a desk, workstations etc?
HOTDESKING
2b. What relation was actor Anthony Quinn to Cecil B DeMille?
SON-IN-LAW
3a What is the former name of Malawi?
NYASALAND
3b. Which sportsman's autobiography is The Good the Bad and the Bubbly?
GEORGE BEST
4a. What is the young of a newt called?
EFT
What is the lowest commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force?
PILOT OFFICER

ROUND EIGHT
1a. What does the 'S' stand for in the writer C. S. Lewis?
STAPLES
1b. About which US president did comedian Mort Sahl say 'Would you buy a used car from this man'?
RICHARD NIXON
2a. What is the name of the two belts of radiation that surround the Earth, one at a height of 1,600 kilometres, and other at 24,000 kilometres?
VAN ALLEN BELTS
2b. Which is the smallest of the Great Lakes?
ONTARIO
3a. The English call it 'High Street', what do Americans call it?
MAIN STREET
3b. In Greek mythology, who was the huntsman who was turned into a stag and killed by his own hounds for having seen Artemis bathing?
ACTAEON
4a Who wrote the novel Room at the Top?
JOHN BRAINE
4b. Who said 'A man is only as old as the woman he feels'?
GROUCHO MARX

SPARE QUESTIONS
1. In which British county is Camp Hill Prison located?
ISLE OF WRIGHT
2. In the Beverley Hills Cop films, what is the name of the character played by Eddie Murphy?
AXEL FOLEY
3. Which is the longest mountain range in the world?
ANDES
4. What happened to Solomon Grundy on Wednesday?
GOT MARRIED
5. Whose theme song was 'Minnie the Moocher'?
CAB CALLOWAY