Round 1
1a In what year was the most recent census in the UK ?
2001
1b How many feet are there in one furlong?
660
2a Where are Trinity, Michaelmas and Hilary used as divisions of time?
Oxford (and Trinity College, Dublin)
2b Who wrote the poem Lamia?
John Keats
3a Who was the Roman god of sleep?
Somnus
3b The star Regulus is in which constellation?
Leo
4a The Pleiades are in which constellation?
Taurus
4b Who wrote the play 'The Cherry Orchard'?
Anton Chekhov

Round 2
1a Who was the wife of Henry II?
Eleanor of Aquitaine
1b What is metrology?
The study of (weights and) measures
2a Who wrote the novel Birdsong?
Sebastian Faulks
2b Where in the UK are the towns of Sandown and Shanklin?
Isle of Wight
3a In which county is Taunton?
Somerset
3b Who wrote the novel 'East of Eden'?
John Steinbeck
4a In which city is the Ferens Art Gallery?
Hull
4b In which city is the Mappin Art Gallery?
Sheffield

Round 3
1a Name either of the countries who play for the Calcutta Cup.
England or Scotland
1b In which game is a cannon a scoring shot?
Billiards
2a Which football team is nicknamed the Seagulls?
Brighton and Hove Albion
2b Which sport is played for the Corbillon Cup?
Table Tennis
3a Who composed the opera Aida?
Verdi
3b Who composed the opera Carmen?
Bizet
4a What was the surname of Malcolm X?
Little
4b How many heads did the Hydra have?
Nine

Round 4
1a What is the chemical symbol for arsenic?
As
1b Which is the heaviest metal?
Osmium
2a What does a manometer measure?
Pressure (specifically of a gas)
2b What does a hygrometer measure?
Humidity
3a Who was the first US astronaut to travel in space?
Alan Shepherd
3b What was the name of the first space shuttle to travel in space?
Columbia
4a What is the SI unit of inductance?
The Henry
4b Who formulated the laws of electromagnetism?
Faraday

Round 5
1a Who was known as Dr Angelicus?
Thomas Aquinas
1b Married in January 1940, whose first wife was Jane Wyman?
Ronald Reagan
2a What is Bill Clinton's middle name?
Jefferson
2b Which fictional character's first name was Endeavour?
Inspector Morse
3a Who composed the Emperor Concerto?
Beethoven
3b Who composed the Clock Symphony?
Haydn
4a Which river runs through Hamburg?
Elbe
4b What is the capital of Albania?
Tirana

Round 6
1a What colour are laburnum flowers?
Yellow
lb Which book was subtitled The Modern Prometheus?
Frankenstein
2a Which children's book was subtitled There and Back Again?
The Hobbit
2b What was the nickname of gangster George Nelson?
Babyface
3a Whose nickname was Scarface?
Al Capone
3b What is the currency of China?
Yuan
4a Who is acknowledged as having been the first British Prime Minister?
Robert Walpole
4b What colour are cornflowers?
Blue

Round 7
1a What is ailurophobia?
Fear of cats
1b What subject was added as a Nobel Prize in 1969?
Economics (Economic Science)
2a What is the highest mountain in Neyaealand?
Mount Ccok
2b Of what were cleeks and baffys types?
Golf Clubs
3a Which philosopher founded the Stoics?
Zeno
3b Which philosopher founded the Cynics?
Antisthenes
4a Who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914?
Gavrillo Princip
4b Who did Ramon Mercador famously kill in 1940?
Leon Trotsky

Round 8
1a In which city is the world's longest street?
Los Angeles (Figueroa St - 30 miles)
1b What is the opposite of zenith?
Nadir
2a What is the opposite of perihelion?
Aphelion
2b Which cathedral has the tallest spire in England?
Salisbury
3a What does the term avast mean?
Stop
3b What are Ombre and Quadrille?
Types of card game
4a In which year was the Battle of Trafalgar?
1805
4b In which year was the Battle of Agincourt?
1415

Spare Questions
1 At which racecourse is the St Leger run?
Doncaster
2 What is the capital of the Bahamas?
Nassau
3 Who wrote the play She Stoops to Conquer?
Oliver Goldsmith
4 In what year was the Battle of the Nile?
1799