Round 1
1a On which river does St Petersburg stand?
Neva
1b Which is the largest of the United Arab Emirates?
Abu Dhabi
2a Who wrote the novel 'Middlemarch' in 1869?
George Eliot
2b On a Monopoly board, what lies between Vine Street and The Strand?
Free Parking
3a What name is given to a straight line that joins any two points on the circumference of a circle?
Chord
3b On which river does Phnom Penh stand?
Mekong (accept Bassac or Tonie Sap)
4a What was the Christian name of the character played by Tim Healy in 'Auf Wiedersehen Pet'?
Dennis (Patterson)
4b What is the capital of Armenia?
Yerevan

Round 2
1a What is the capital of Uzbekistan?
Tashkent
1b Which football league club plays its home games at the Weston Homes Community Stadium?
Colchester United
2a Who succeeded Robin Day as regular presenter of Question Time, in June 1989?
Peter Sissons
2b What was the first Martin Scorsese film that Robert De Niro appeared in, released in 1973?
Mean Streets
3a In which war was the Battle of the Ebro (Batalia del Ebro) fought?
Spanish Civil War
3b Who founded Britain's first University museum in 1683?
Elias Ashmole
4a Which poet wrote in 1812 "I awoke one morning and found myself famous"?
Lord Byron
4b Who was Mohammed Reza Pahlavi?
(The last) Shah of Iran

Round 3
1a Who was the first President and founder of the Turkish Republic in 1923?
Mustapha Kemal (accept Kemal Ataturk)
1b What was discovered at Lascaux in France in 1940?
(Prehistoric) cave paintings
2a How was Lev Davidovitch Bronstein better known?
Leon Trotsky
2b Who signs himself as Ebor?
Archbishop of York
3a On which plateau in 1759 did the British defeat the French and take control of Quebec?
The Plains of Abraham
3b In which year was British Summer Time (BST) first introduced, as first proposed by William Willett?
1916
4a Which weather phenomenon translates from the Spanish words for 'little boy'?
El Nino
4b In which English city is the HQ of the Ordnance Survey?
Southampton

Round 4
1a In terms of surface area, which is the largest body of water in the British Isles?
Lough Neagh
1b Who was named European Football Player of the Century in 1999?
Johan Cruyff
2a In Formula 1 Motor Racing what does a flag with vertical red and yellow stripes tell the driver? The track is slippery (accept debris on track)
2b Where in Paris is it possible to see possibly the largest collection of French Impressionist paintings, housed in a former railway terminus?
Musee d'Orsay
3a Which 1910 comic novel by H G Wells features the Potwell Inn in Sussex?
The History of Mr Polly
3b Who first played Che in the original London cast of 'Evita', in 1978?
David Essex
4a Which UK group's fourth and final number one was 'Beat Surrender' in 1982?
The Jam
4b Which London thoroughfare gave its name to a 2003 novel by Monica Ali?
Brick Lane

Round 5
1a Who wrote the novels "Rosemary's Baby", "The Stepford Wives" and "The Boys from Brazil"?
Ira Levin
1b Who is the youngest male actor to have won the Best Actor Oscar?
Adrien Brody (for "The Pianist" 2002)
2a Who is the oldest male actor to have won the Best Actor Oscar?
Henry Fonda (for "On Golden Pond" 1981)
2b What was the name of the junior TV Times magazine that ran from 1971 to 1994?
Look-In
3a In 1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II was exiled to which country?
The Netherlands
3b Which sunken ship lies on the floor of Pearl Harbour as a memorial to those killed in the attack of 7 December 1941?
USS Arizona
4a Which gas makes up 95% of the atmosphere of the planet Mars?
Carbon Dioxide
4b All members of the Commonwealth have had constitutional links to the British Empire, except for which country?
Mozambique

Round 6
1a Which famous London theatre is located in Argyll Street, W1?
London Palladium
1b What brand name was registered by the Wolverine Shoe and Tanning Company in 1961?
Hush Puppies
2a Ashkabat is the capital of which country?
Turkmenistan
2b In which city is the Roslin Institute, the location of the cloning of 'Dolly the Sheep'?
Edinburgh
3a Which structure links the English towns of Barton and Hessle?
Humber Bridge
3b Which English football league team play their home games at Griffin Park?
Brentford
4a Since 1991, where has the annual Crufts Dog Show taken place?
NEC Birmingham
4b The Impressionist movement got its name from a painting "Impression Sunrise" exhibited in 1874; who was the artist?
Claude Monet

Round 7
1a The musical "Jersey Boys" is based around the music-of-which American pop group?
The Four Seasons
1b The young soldier Paul Baumer is the narrator and central character in which 1929 novel?
All Quiet on the
Western Front
2a In which series of children's books, first published in 1930, would you encounter the Blackett family and the Walker family?
Swallows and
Amazons
2b Who played the character Gene Hunt in the UK TV series 'Life on Mars' and 'Ashes to Ashes'?
Phillip Glenister
3a Who starred in the TV series Tarzan between 1966 and 1969?
Ron Ely
3b What does the Spanish word 'tapas' literally mean?
'Cover' or 'lid'
4a What is measured on the Scoville scale?
The heat of chillies (accept piquancy)
4b Hindu god Brahma emerged from which part of the body of Vishnu?
The navel

Round 8
1a In which modern-day country is the birthplace of Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)?
Nepal
1b What is the capital of St Lucia?
Castries
2a England's longest waterfall, Cauldron Snout, lies on which river?
River Tees
2b What is the name of the longest river in Scotland?
River Tay
3a Which European High Street chain store was founded by August and Clemence Brennickmeyer?
C & A
3b Which European capital city is located 40 miles east of Vienna?
Bratislava
4a After which chemical element is Argentina named?
Silver
4b Which former England international footballer lasted 36 days in charge of Manchester City in 1996?
Steve Coppell

Spare Questions
1 The theme music to which long running news show is called 'The Awakening'?
News At Ten
2 What is the most common non-contagious disease in the world?
Tooth decay
3 In Egyptian mythology, who is the sun god?
Ra (accept Re)