Monday 14th December 2009
Set by Columba (Wirral)

Round 1
1a Temple Meads Railway Station is in which English city?
Bristol
1b What is the capital of the US state of Wyoming?
Cheyenne
2a Who wrote the 1966 book 'Taipan'?
James Clavell
2b Which sporting technique was invented by the father of ITN newsreader Reginald Bosanquet?
The Googly
3a In the rhyme 'The Owl and the Pussycat' which animal performed the wedding?
The Turkey
3b Which plant has the Latin name allium sativum?
Garlic
4a The dance known as the lambada originates from which country?
Brazil
4b What is the more common name for the shrub syringa?
Lilac

Round 2
1a In law what term translates from the Latin meaning 'elsewhere'?
Alibi
1b In which year did the £1 note cease to be legal tender?
1988
2a Name a year in Lord Liverpool's tenure as Prime Minister.
1812-1827
2b In which Liverpool street was William E Gladstone born?
Rodney Street
3a What is the screen name of the actor Bernard Schwarz?
Tony Curtis
3b In which US city was Motown Records founded?
Detroit
4a Paul Eddington played which character in 'The Good Life'?
Jerry Leadbetter
4b How was Erik Weiss better known?
(Harry) Houdini

Round 3
1a Which Shakespeare play contains the line 'Get thee to a nunnery'?
Hamlet
1b Who composed the piano piece 'Fur Elise' in 1810?
Beethoven
2a Haemotology is the study of which part of the body?
Blood
2b If you flew due east from Brisbane which country would you reach first?
Chile
3a Who wrote the play 'Major Barbara' in 1905?
G B Shaw
3b Who was world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1950?
Joe Louis
4a Who composed the orchestral work 'The Carnival of the Animals' in 1886?
(Camille) Saint-Saens
4b Who wrote the play 'The Alchemist' in 1610?
Ben Jonson

Round 4
1a For which scientific discovery did Crick and Watson receive the 1962 Nobel Prize for Medicine?
DNA structure
1b Musca domestica is the scientific name for what?
Fly (house)
2a What nationality was the opera singer Kirsten Flagstad?
Norwegian
2b What is the name for the lower chambers of the human heart?
Ventricles
3a Who first said 'knowledge is power ('scientia potential est') in 1597?
Francis Bacon
3b What is the better known name for the confectionary Rahat Lokum?
Turkish Delight
4a Who became Canada's first woman Prime Minister in 1993?
Kim Campbell
4b Which fruit has varieties Merton Pride and Williams?
Pears

Round 5
1a What is the equivalent rank of an army colonel in the RAF?
Group Captain
1b Which musical instrument provides the leader of an orchestra with the concert pitch of the note 'A'?
The Oboe
2a Which of Dickens' novels contains the characters Mr Pecksniff and Mrs Gamp?
Martin Chuzzlewit
2b Oscar Niemeyer was the chief architect of which capital city from 1956 until 1960?
Brasilia
3a What is the name for the study of hormones?
Endocrinology
3b Which English city was called Clausentum by the Romans?
Southampton
4a In which Scottish town, north of Stirling, was tennis player Jamie Murray born?
Dunblane
4b Which painter (1577-1640) was knighted by both Britain and Spain?
(Sir Peter Paul) Rubens

Round 6
1a What name is given to the distance between the two rails of a railway track?
Gauge
1b Which composer, born in 1732, wrote the oratorios 'The Creation' and 'The Seasons'?
(Franz Josef) Haydn
2a Which part of the earth's structure lies between the outer core and the crust?
The Mantle
2b What is the official language of Iran?
Farsi
3a If you ordered carre d'agneau in a French restaurant, what would you be served?
(Rack of) Lamb
3b In the USA what were the Shawnee, Chisholm and the Goodnight Loving?
Cattle trails
4a Which musical instrument does President Bill Clinton play? He played this instrument in the Arkansas State Band.
Saxophone
4b Alfred Hitchcock made two films of the same name and virtually the same story in 1934 and 1956, the second starring Doris Day and James Stewart. Name the film. The Man Who Knew
Too Much

Round 7
1a On which island did the mutinous crew from the Bounty make their home?
Pitcairn (accept Tahiti)
1b Who starred as the villain Max Cady in the 1991 remake of the film 'Cape Fear'?
Robert de Niro
2a Which athlete won a gold medal for Great Britain in the 2009 World Championships in Berlin in the triple jump?
Phillips Idowu
2b Which US President was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919?
Woodrow Wilson
3a In which county would you find the stone circle known as 'Long Meg and her daughters'?
Cumbria
3b Who was the first unseeded player to win the Men's Singles at Wimbledon?
Boris Becker
4a In which atmospheric city was the Daphne du Maurier short story 'Don't Look Now' set? It was later filmed in 1973.
Venice
4b Which bank acquired the Woolwich Building Society in 2000?
Barclays

Round 8
1a What is the meaning of the Arabic word 'Hezbollah', the Shi'ite Muslim group?
Party of God
1b What was the middle name of Diana, Princess of Wales?
Frances
2a Who was the principal guitarist with the Quintette du Hot Club de France?
Django Reinhardt
2b Where does the Mandarin duck nest?
(In a hole in a) tree
3a What specific product is associated with the town of Lynchburg Tennessee?
Jack Daniel's
3b Who is the narrator for the majority of R L Stevenson's book Treasure Island?
Jim Hawkins
4a The Kiel Canal links the North Sea with which other sea?
The Baltic
4b Which breed of dog takes its name from a character in Sir Walter Scott's novel 'Guy Mannering'?
Dandie Dlnmont

Spare Questions
1 Who described second marriage as the triumph of hope over experience?
Dr Johnson
2 Which actor provided the voice for Mr Magoo?
Jim Backus