Round 1
1a What sort of plants are cryptograms?
FERNS OR MOSSES
1b Who founded the Ballet Russe?
SERGEI DIAGHILEV
2a Who presented the TV show 'The Human Body'?
ROBERT WINSTON
2b In which country did Victoria Adams marry David Beckham?
IRELAND
3a What is sciophobia a fear of?
SHADOWS
3b Who was the first woman in Britain granted a professional boxing licence?
JANE COUCH
4a On which island of the Philippines is Manila?
LUZON
4b What is tocophobia a fear of?
CHILDBIRTH

Round 2
1a Who was the author of 'The Shortest Way with Dissenters' and `A Journey of the Plague Year'?
DANIEL DEFOE
1b How is the plant Lactuca Sativa better known?
LETTUCE
2a Who lost most Ladies Singles Finals at Wimbledon in the 1980's?
CHRIS EVERT
2b Which famous poet wrote the line 'we are the hollow men'?
T. S. ELIOT
3a In which European City is the Atomium?
BRUSSELS
3b Which band had a top ten in 1996 with Cosmic Girl?
JAMIROQUAI
4a Which English town has railway stations called High Level and Low Level?
WOLVERHAMPTON
4b In which Shakespeare play do we find Touchstone, a jester?
AS YOU LIKE IT

Round 3
1a In which decade of the 20th Century were the Oscars instigated?
1920s
1b Which author created the fictional detective C Auguste Dupin?
EDGAR ALLEN POE
2a Who assassinated the Duke of Buckingham in 1628?
JOHN FELTON
2b Who defeated Martina Navratilova in her last Wimbledon Singles Final?
CONCHITA MARTINEZ
3a In which Shakespeare play do we find the drunken tinker Christopher Sly?
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
3b The world became aware of the Chernobyl disaster after detectors were triggered in which country?
SWEDEN
4a John Crome (1768-1821) founded which School of Painting?
NORWICH SCHOOL
4b Which African country takes its name from the Shona for 'house of stone'?
ZIMBABWE

Round 4
1a 'Live Forever' was the first UK top ten single for which band?
OASIS
1b King Alexander I, assassinated in Marseilles in 1934, was king of which country?
YUGOSLAVIA
2a Air fight pioneer Amy Johnson vanished over which river?
THAMES
2b Whish 1996 multi Oscar winning film was based on a novel by Michael Ondaatje?
THE ENGLISH PATIENT
3a Who wrote a novel about medieval Florence called Romola?
GEORGE ELIOTT
3b Which actress played The Sculptress on TV?
PAULINE QUIRKE
4a In which American state was the J Paul Getty Museum founded?
CALIFORNIA
4b Which English city has a Railway Station called Forster Square?
BRADFORD

Round 5
1a Which element discovered in 1782 has the symbol Te?
TELLURIUM
1b Who wrote the opera Wozzeck in 1922?
ALBAN BERG
2a Who directed the film Picnic at flanging Rock?
PETER WEIR
2b What was the first name of notorious murderer Doctor Crippen?
HAWLEY
3a Kummel is a Russian liqueur extracted from what?
CARAWAY SEEDS
3b Which monarch was threatened by the Rye House Plot?
CHARLES II
4a Alex Waugh, brother of Evelyn, wrote a first novel about life at a public school, what was it?
THE LOOM OF YOUTH
4b On which island is Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas?
NEW PROVIDENCE (ISLAND)

Round 6
1a Who would use a lapstone in his job?
SHOEMAKER
1b Which European city was called Vindobona by the Romans?
VIENNA
2a Which Canadian/American novelist won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976?
SAUL BELLOW
2b Who won the Best Director Oscar for the film 'Out of Africa'?
SYDNEY POLLACK
3a Which vitamin is also called tocopherol?
VITAMIN E
3b Who was the second cricketer to score 36 runs off an over in first class cricket?
RAVI SHASTRI
4a What is a birds furcula?
WISHBOND
4b Who opened his first restaurant 'Harvey's' in 1987?
MARCO PIERRE WHITE

Round 7
1a Which British monarch produced the most legitimate children?
EDWARD I (19!)
1b Which element discovered in 1879 has the symbol Tm?
THULIUM
2a What was Spike Milligan's Christian name?
TERENCE
2b Which 'media man's' sons all have middle name Paradine?
DAVID FROST
3a In which athletics event could you find the 'O'Brien Shift'?
SHOT PUTT
3b What poet wrote this epitaph for his own grave 'Cast a cold eye, on life, on death. Horseman pass by'?
W B YEATS
4a Who presented the first ever edition of ITV's News at Ten?
ALASTAIR BURNET
4b Which country has a wine growing area called O'Higgins?
CHILE

Round 8
1a Which modern country was called Dacia by the Romans?
ROMANIA
1b Who would use an abb in his work?
A WEAVER
2a Which composer wrote his first opera (Hugh the Drover) in 1914?
R VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
2b What is the collective noun for lapwings?
A DECEIT
3a Where is Rick Stein's famous seafood restaurant?
PADSTOW
3b Which South African writer won the Novel Prize for Literature in 1991?
NADINE GORDIMER
4a In which African country is the deep water port of Lobito?
ANGOLA
4b An urodele is another name for which reptile?
SALAMANDER

Spare Questions
1 What is the highest peak in Northern Ireland?
SLIEVE DONARD
2 Where was Interpol founded?
VIENNA
3 Drosophila have been useful in the study of genetics, what are they?
FRUIT FLIES
4 Where did Edward II die?
BERKELEY CASTLE