Tuesday 15th December 2009
Set by Aigburth Cricket Club (Liverpool)

Round One
1a In which country was Grinling Gibbons born?
Holland
1b The main mouth of the Amazon lies in which country?
Brazil
2a Which Hollywood actor was born with the forenames John Uhler?
Jack Lemmon
2b In show jumping how many faults are incurred if both horse and rider fall?
Eight
3a Adam Dalgleish is a Scotland Yard detective in whose crime novels?
P D James
3b What was the middle name of Princess Diana?
Frances
4a Who wrote the novel The Turn of the Screw?
Henry James
4b What was the stage name of Margarita Carmen Cansino a star of 1940 musicals?
Rita Hayworth

Round Two
1a The Australian town of Newcastle is in which state?
New South Wales
1b What type of creature is a Harvestman?
An Arachnid or Spider
2a Two of the water signs are Cancer and Scorpio, what is the third?
Pisces
2b In the 1940 film Fantasia, who was the Sorcerer's Apprentice?
Mickey Mouse
3a The 1975 Australia v England cricket match had to be abandoned because of vandalism, at which ground was this match being played?
Headingley/Leeds
3b Who was the third President of the USA?
Thomas Jefferson
4a In which modern day country was Gustav Mahler born?
Czech Republic
4b Which South American country was named after an Italian City?
Venezuela

Round Three
1a Rachel, a Hebrew name appears in the Old Testament, it means what?
Ewe
1b Who is the modest Roman Catholic priest created by G.K.Chesterton?
Father Brown
2a The plants called auricular belong to a family with which common name?
Primrose
2b Ballarat is a town in which Australian state?
Victoria
3a Name the film in which Arnold Schwarznegger becomes pregnant?
Junior
3b Two of the earth signs are Taurus and Capricorn what is the third?
Virgo
4a Who became President of the USA after the assassination of President McKinley?
Theodore Rooseveldt
4b Who captained the first 'rebel' cricket tour of South Africa?
Graham Gooch

Round Four
1a Who wrote the opera Hansel and Gretel?
Englebert Humperdinck
1b In which year was the first London Marathon?
1981
2a What was the name given to the atomic bomb that devastated Nagasaki in 1945?
Fat Man
2b Name the dragon that guarded treasure in the Hobbit?
Smaug
3a Which religious group was founded by George Fox?
Society of Friends / the Quakers
3b The Berlin Wall was breached in 1989, for how many complete years had it stood?
28 (13/08/61 - 09/11/89)
4a Name the home of the giants visited in Gulliver's Travels?
Brobdingnag
4b The first five books of Hebrew Bible are contained in what Jewish Holy Book?
Torah

Round Five
1a To which family of birds do canaries and siskins belong?
Finch
1b By what name is the bird the yaffle more commonly known?
Green Woodpecker
2a Which German scientist invented the mercury thermometer in 1714?
Gabriel Fahrenheit
2b Which artist painted Bubbles in 1886?
John Everett Millais
3a What is the capital of the Seychelles?
Victoria (on the island of Mahe)
3b In which English county is Aldeburgh?
Suffolk
4a Which musical contains the songs, Just my Bill and Can't Help Lovin' That Man Of Mine? Showboat
4b Give either name of the Saint to whom Glasgow cathedral is dedicated?
Mungo or Kentigern

Round Six
1a What name is given to the study of earthquakes?
Seismology
1b Which branch of physics is concerned with the study of low temperatures?
Cryogenics
2a Who painted The Luncheon of the Boating Party in 1881?
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
2b Which device did William Oughtred invent in 1621?
The Slide Rule
3a In which English county is Warminster?
Wiltshire
3b What is the capital of Mauritius?
Port Louis
4a What is the name of the Edinburgh Cathedral to be found on the Royal Mile?
St.Giles
4b Which musical contain the songs, 'Til There Was You and 76 Trombones?
The Music Man

Round Seven
1a Name the area of the Adriatic Sea into which the Rive Po flows?
Gulf of Venice
1b If a food dish is called navarine, what must it have in it?
Lamb
2a What did the Ancient Greeks call the area that now contains Syria, Lebanon and Israel?
Phoenicia
2b What is the state capital of North Carolina?
Raleigh
3a In Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, who was the father of Bianca and Katrina?
Baptista
3b Give a year in the life of John Constable?
1776- 1837
4a In which year was the Peterloo Massacre?
1819
4b What does a phillumenist collect?
Matchbox Labels

Round Eight
1a What is the name of the leek and potato soup served cold?
Vichyssoise
1b Name the straits which separate Italy and Sicily?
Messina
2a What is the state capital of South Dakota?
Pierre
2b How is the statue by Chares of the Sun God Helios better known?
Colossus of Rhodes
3a Give a year in the life of Charlotte Bronte?
1816 - 1855
3b In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, to which Lady is Malvolio the steward?
Olivia
4a What does a deltiologist collect?
Postcards
4b In which year were the Gordon Riots?
1780

Spare Questions
1 In Alice In Wonderland, what type of pipe did the caterpillar smoke?
Hookah
2 Where would you apply to become a keeper of an English lighthouse?
Trinity House
3 In which city were the 2009 World Athletic Championships held?
Berlin
4 Which English monarch was the son of Edward the Black Prince?
Richard II