Round 1
1a The city of Durham stands on which river?
Wear
1b Who wrote TV scripts under the nom-de-plume 'Gerald Wiley'?
Ronnie Barker
2a Opened in 1957 which was Britain's first safari park?
Longleat
2b Who said that there are only three true sports, bullfighting, mountaineering and motor racing, the rest are merely games?
Ernest Hemingway
3a Which film features the song 'Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend'?
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
3b Sandy Thom had a no 1 hit in 2005, according to the title, what did she wish she could be?
A Punk Rocker
4a The Kittiwake belongs to which family of birds?
Gulls
4b Who composed 'Night on a Bare Mountain'?
Mussorgsky

Round 2
1a In the Bible, name the son of Saul who was a friend of David?
Jonathan
1b In 1959 which British city became the first to adopt a post code system?
Norwich
2a Which is the world's most widely read magazine?
Reader's Digest
2b 'Fat Charlie' is the mascot of which restaurant chain?
Little Chef
3a Which Irish rally driver won the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally driving a Mini Cooper?
Paddy Hopkirk
3b Which word can mean a tool, a tree or a type of transport?
Plane
4a Who is the only man to have won both a motorcycling world championship and the Formula 1 World Championship?
John Surtees
4b Blue vitriol is the sulphate of which metal?
Copper

Round 3
1a Which freshwater fish, native to Britain, has the nickname 'little Jack Sharp'?
Stickleback
1b Which car company is named after the founder of Detroit?
Cadillac
2a Who was Poet Laureate from 1930 to 1967?
John Masefield
2b Graca Machel, the widow of a President of Mozambique, is the wife of which famous man?
Nelson Mandela
3a What is the meaning of the German word 'spätlese' as applied to wine?
Late harvest
3b On the London Underground map, what colour is the District Line?
Green
4a Which common flower has the Latin name 'Bellis Perennis'?
Daisy
4b The Oresund Bridge links Copenhagen to which city?
Malmo

Round 4
1a How is World War 2 known to the Russians?
(Great) Patriotic War
1b What does a fellmonger sell?
Animal skins
2a Which locks control entry to the Panama canal from the Atlantic end?
Gatun Locks
2b In Texas Hold 'Em poker what follows the 'flop' and the 'turn'?
The River
3a Who led the investigations into the Bill Clinton / Monica Lewinsky affair?
Kenneth Starr
3b In which TV series did the voice of Michael Angelis replace that of Ringo Starr?
Thomas the Tank Engine
4a Which English cathedral is the only one built South/North as opposed to East/West?
Coventry
4b Which pre Euro German coin was one hundredth of a mark?
Pfennig

Round 5
1a A dish served 'a la Crecy' always contains which vegetable?
Carrot
1b Ian Kilminster, better known as `Lemmy', is singer with which group?
Motorhead
2a Which football league club moved to a new stadium in 1994 from their old ground in Leeds Road?
Huddersfield Town
2b Banting, Best and MacLeod are renowned for the discovery of what in 1922?
Insulin
3a Which US President was the first to live in the White House?
John Adams
3b The Capilano Suspension Bridge is near which major city in North America?
Vancouver
4a What was the result of the Gleneagles Agreement of 1977?
South Africa's exclusion from international sport
4b From which country does the cheese `Manchego' come?
Spain

Round 6
1a In which sport do players take long and short corners?
Hockey
1b Buddy Rich was famous for his playing of which instrument?
Drums
2a What name has been used by three Scottish kings, eight Popes and three Russian Tsars?
Alexander
2b Professor Jocelyn Peabody was whose comic strip assistant?
Dan Dare
3a CAMRA is the Campaign for Real Ale, but in the original acronym for what did the 'R' stand? Revitalisation
3b What nickname was given to the German Junkers 87 aeroplane in World War 2?
Stuka
4a 'Britain's Got Talent' judge Amanda Holden's first TV appearance was in 1991 on which programme?
Blind Date
4b Which football league club moved from Belle Vue and played their first game at the new Keepmoat Stadium on New Year's Day 2007?
Doncaster Rovers

Round 7
1a Which 19th century Frenchman invented a loom which enabled complex patterns to be woven; his name is remembered as one of these patterns?
(Joseph Marie) Jacquard
1b What is the most famous group of dolmens in England called?
Stonehenge
2a What is the familiar name of the garden flower lathyrus odorata?
Sweet Pea
2b Which pretender to the English throne styled himself as Richard 4th?
Perkin Warbeck
3a How many are in a gross?
144
3b What is the meaning of the prefix Kil- or Cill- in Irish place names?
Church
4a Nominated by Bill Clinton, who, in 1993, became the first female Attorney General of the USA?
Janet Reno
4b Which famous aviator and adventurer went missing in the Nevada Desert during September 2007, when the plane he was piloting failed to return?
Steve Fossett

Round 8
1a The law of the sea divides it into three zones, internal Waters, territorial Waters and which other?
High Seas
1b Which creature, according to Pliny, had a glance that meant certain death?
Basilisk
2a Which engineer designed the WW2 fighter plane, the 'Hurricane'?
Sydney Camm
2b Who was depicted on the reverse of the last English pound note?
Sir Isaac Newton
3a What term is used in the financial world to describe an investor who buys a security in the hope of selling it at a higher price, believing that the market will go up?
Bull
3b What was invented by the Chinese, imported into Britain from Italy by Charles lst and known to the Arabs as 'sherbet'?
Ice cream
4a With which sport is Sir John Sholto Douglas (1844-1900) connected?
Boxing (he was 8th Marquis of Queensbury)
4b By what name was Peggy Hookham DBE better known?
Margot Fonteyn

Spare Questions
1 Which country imports the biggest volume of Champagne from France?
Great Britain
2 Who founded the Messenger group of newspapers in 1983?
Eddie Shah
3 What is worn on the feet in a game of street hockey?
Roller skates