Round 1
1a Who wrote The Origin of Species in 1859?
CHARLES DARWIN
1b How many pints are there in a gallon?
8
2a Vorsprung durch Technik is an advertising slogan used by which car manufacturer?
AUDI
2b Which comedian is married to Pamela Stephenson?
BILLY CONNOLLY
3a Who shot Lee Harvey Oswald after his arrest for the assassination of John F Kennedy?
JACK RUBY
3b What is the stage name of the rapper born Curtis James Jackson III in 1975?
50 CENT
4a Van Diemen's Land is the former name of where?
TASMANIA
4b 'I have walked thousands of miles for Leukaemia Research and every step was worth it', which sportsman said this?
IAN BOTHAM

Round 2
1a The Secret Garden and Little Lord Fauntleroy are works by which writer?
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
1b Which lighthouse keeper's daughter found fame after rescuing survivors from the wreck of the Forfarshire in 1828?
GRACE DARLING
2a Where in London can statues of George IV, Sir Henry Havelock and Sir Charles Napier be found?
TRAFALGAR SQUARE
2b In trigonometry what is calculated by dividing the opposite by the hypotenuse?
THE SINE OF AN ANGLE
3a Which five foot tall French artist famously produced posters for the Moulin Rouge?
HENRI TOULOUSE LAUTREC
3b Who was known as 'The King of Ragtime' composing such works as Maple Leaf Rag and The Entertainer?
SCOTT JOPLIN
4a Which 1973 film used The Entertainer as its theme music?
THE STING
4b Freddie Mercury was born on which island in 1946?
ZANZIBAR

Round 3
1a What computer component is Intel most associated with producing?
PROCESSORS
1b Which river rises in the Pennines, flows through Settle and Preston before reaching the sea at Lytham St Annes?
THE RIBBLE
2a Which famous 17th century exponent of woodcarving is so famous for his craft, that almost all good work of that era is attributed to him at some point?
GRINLING GIBBONS
2b What is the full name of the youngest of the Spice Girls?
EMMA BUNTON (Baby Spice)
3a Queen Alexandra was the wife of which British King?
EDWARD VII
3b In the old road safety advertisements, what kind of animal was Tufty?
SQUIRREL
4a What is the unfortunate nickname of Portsmouth and England goalkeeper David James, thanks to his occasional errors?
CALAMITY
4b What is the Dewey Decimal System used to classify?
BOOKS (in libraries)

Round 4
1a What was the name of the otter in Henry Williamson's famous 1927 novel?
TARKA
1b In a theatre, what does the initial F in F.O.H. stand for?
FRONT (OF HOUSE)
2a Which rugby league team is known as the Rhinos?
LEEDS
2b The 1990 film The December Bride starring Donal McCann, Saskia Reeves and Ciaran Hinds, is set in which country?
IRELAND
3a Sir Joshua Reynolds was the first president of which institution, founded in 1768?
THE ROYAL ACADEMY
3b Born in 1977, who is the Queen's oldest grandchild?
PETER PHILLIPS
4a Which comedy series, running from 1989 to 1994, starred Anton Rodgers as a solicitor who falls for a much younger woman, played first by Eve Matheson and subsequently by Lesley Dunlop?
MAY TO DECEMBER
4b In which country did the failed Decembrist uprising take place in 1825?
RUSSIA

Round 5
1a The House of Braganza ruled which country from 1640 to 1910?
PORTUGAL
1b Which animals make up the mammalian order cetacea?
WHALES, (DOLPHINS AND PORPOISES)
2a In 1919, what did Nancy Astor become the first woman to do?
TAKE A SEAT IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
2b Nancy Astor once said to Winston Churchill "If I were your wife I'd put poison in your coffee". What was his famous reply?
AND IF I WERE YOUR HUSBAND I'D DRINK IT
3a Which actor, who achieved worldwide fame in a television series of the late 1970s and 80s was the son of the actress and singer Mary Martin?
LARRY HAGMAN
3b Who compiled the significant 1942 report 'Social Insurance and Allied Services'?
SIR WILLIAM BEVERIDGE
4a How is Marie Grosholz, born in Strasbourg in 1761, known today due to an establishment founded in London in 1835?
MADAM TUSSAUD
4b Which star in the constellation of Ophiuchus, is just under six light years away and the fifth closest star to Earth?
BARNARD'S STAR

Round 6
1la Who gave the sword Excalibur to King Arthur?
THE LADY OF THE LAKE
1b In the NATO alphabet, what word is used to denote the letter N?
NOVEMBER
2a The Golf, Passat and Polo are models of cars made by which manufacturer?
VOLKSWAGEN
2b Which composer has won Academy Awards for Best Original Score for Born Free, Out of Africa, and Dance with Wolves?
JOHN BARRY
3a Which fashion editor has the nickname 'Nuclear'?
ANNA WINTOUR
3b Which Russian newspaper had a title that translated into English as 'Truth'?
PRAVDA
4a What number on the BeauforT Scale equates to a gale?
8
4b What does DC stand for in Washington DC?
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Round 7
1a What connects Three Steps to Heaven by Eddie Cochran, Way Down by Elvis Presley and (Just Like) Starting Over by John Lennon?
POSTHUMOUS NUMBER ONES IN THE SINGLES CHART
1b The 18th century politician John Montague was responsible for the creation of what food dish?
THE SANDWICH
2a The Victorian producer Richard d'Oyly Carte is most associated with the staging of whose works?
GILBERT AND SULLIVAN
2b What is the name of the railway company that operates services between St Pancras, the East Midlands and South Yorkshire?
MIDLAND MAINLINE
3a Who starred as Paul Kersey in the five Death Wish films?
CHARLES BRONSON
3b In western astrology, to which element do Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces belong?
WATER
4a Alfredo Stroessner was a dictator of which South American country from 1954 to 1989?
PARAGUAY
4b John Goodman played Dan Connor, in which American TV comedy series?
ROSEANNE

Round 8
1a Which board game is based around European power politics leading up,to the First World War?
DIPLOMACY
1b Who was the Democratic candidate who lost to George Bush in the US Presidential election in 1988?
MICHAEL DUKAKIS
2a What is the popular name for the Air from Bach's Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major?
AIR ON A G-STRING
2b Who was World Heavyweight Boxing Champion from 1978 to 1985, defending his title 20 times before losing to Michael Spinks?
LARRY HOLMES
3a In what year did Doctor Who start on television?
1963
3b Which writer was the father of Christopher Robin?
A A MILNE
4a Which film had the tagline 'just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water'?
JAWS II
4b Which comedian has created the character 'The Pub Landlord'?
AL MURRAY

Spare Questions
1 In Greek mythology, how are the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne collectively called?
MUSES
2 In The Tempest, what is the name of Prospero's daughter?
MIRANDA
3 IMHO is an abbreviation used in computer messaging, what does it stand for?
IN MY HUMBLE OPINION
4 Sandwich, Little Whiskered and Arctic are all types of which bird?
TERN