Round 1
1a Who said "I don't want to belong to any club that will have me for a member"?
Groucho Marx
1b Which famous writer is named after a lake in Staffordshire?
Rudyard Kipling
2a What was the first name of the Duke of Wellington?
Arthur
2b The collective noun for which creatures can be a brood, clutch or peep?
Chickens
3a In 1893, which was the first country to impose driving tests and issue driving licences?
France
3b What name is given to the study of very low temperatures?
Cryogenics
4a The commercial name of which fruit cordial is derived from the Latin for blackcurrant?
Ribena
4b Which famous jazz club is in Frith Street, London?
Ronnie Scott's

Round 2
1a Who wrote the score for the ballet 'Coppelia', first performed in 1870?
Delibes
1b Who invented the ballbarrow and the `Airblade' hand-drier amongst many other things?
James Dyson
2a Of which European country is 'fado' the national music?
Portugal
2b Eleanor of Aquitaine was mother to two Kings of England, name either.
Richard or John
3a Who played the part of 'Budgie' in the 1971/72 ITV drama series?
Adam Faith
3b What is the capital of the Italian region of Lombardy?
Milan
4a Which actor plays the title role in the Harry Potter films?
Daniel Radcliffe
4b Pope Benedict 16th was Archbishop of which city?
Munich

Round 3
1a Which 1927 musical is set aboard the 'Cotton Blossom'?
Showboat
1b Which aircraft was designed initially by the British Aircraft Corporation as a replacement for the Canberra but was cancelled by the Labour Government in April 1965?
TSR 2
2a Which car company was formed in 1908 by the merger of Buick and Oldsmobile?
General Motors
2b Which 92 year old actor has written an autobiography entitled 'I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire, I Just Want to Keep My Nuts Warm'?
Ernest Borgnine
3a In which modem day country is the site of the Battle of Blenheim?
Germany
3b Which 60s TV sitcom featured the Rev Mervyn Noote and St Ogg's Cathedral?
All Gas and Gaiters
4a Which fictional character lived in the village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh?
Dr Doolittle
4b In which Cumbrian town is the annual crab fair held, famous for its gurning competition?
Egremont

Round 4
la Who in Egyptian mythology was the Sun God and Lord of Creation?
Ra
1b Complete the next line of the song "The blushing bride she looks divine, the bridegroom he is doing fine, I'd rather have his job than mine ....."?
When I'm Cleaning Windows
2a In which game are balls referred to as 'Pioneer', 'Pivot' and `Pilot'?
Croquet
2b What would be the occupation of someone who uses 'slip' and 'grog'?
Pottery
3a Which bacteria which causes food poisoning was named after the American vet (1850-1914) who was the first to identify it?
Salmonella (after Daniel Elmer Salmon)
3b What is the colour of the jersey worn by the leader of the Giro d'Italia, the Italian equivalent of the Tour de France?
Pink
4a The last words of which statesman are reputed to have been "So little done, so much to do"?
Cecil Rhodes
4b Which famous singer was once married to Renate Blauel?
Elton John

Round 5
1a From which country does the popular Christmas plant, the Poinsettia, originate?
Mexico
1b By what name was the shipping area Fitzroy known until 2002?
Finisterre
2a In which county is the Bronze Age monument `Seahenge'?
Norfolk
2b The tune 'Johnny Todd' was the theme to which TV programme?
Z Cars
3a Which is the shortest book in the Bible having only one chapter of twenty-one verses?
Obadiah
3b Piers Morgan is a former editor of which national daily newspaper?
Daily Mirror
4a Which children's character was created by Jean de Brunhoff?
Babar (the elephant)
4b What was the name of the midge-borne viral infection that affected British livestock in the late summer of 2007?
Bluetongue

Round 6
1a A bipolar illness is another name for what?
(Manic) Depression
1b Who was the German born private astronomer to George 3rd?
Sir William Herschel
2a Which car company has manufactured models called Baleno, Alto and Vitara?
Suzuki
2b A Winter Banana is a variety of which fruit?
Apple
3a Joey Bishop, who died in October 2007, was the last survivor of a group of people known by which name?
The 'Rat Pack'
3b Pongo and Perdita feature in which Disney film?
101 Dalmatians
4a Which is the world's oldest international sporting trophy?
The Americas Cup
4b Which is the longest river wholly in England not to empty directly into the sea?
Trent

Round 7
1a Of which Oscar Wilde play is Mrs Arbuthnot the title character?
A Woman of No Importance
1b The pengo, subject to massive inflation, was the pre- World War 2 currency unit of which European country?
Hungary
2a On which island was the famous photograph taken showing US Marines raising the US flag over Mt Suribachi in February 1945?
Iwo Jima
2b In which city is the Nobel Peace Centre?
Oslo
3a Which service area is on the M6 Toll road?
Norton Caines
3b Who released the new album 'Together through Life' and as a result has become the oldest male to have a no 1 hit album in Britain?
Bob Dylan
4a In 1650 James Ussher calculated the date of the origin of the Earth, according to Biblical chronology, as 4004BC. Of where was Ussher the Archbishop?
Armagh
4b Henry Spenser, Bishop of Norwich, was known during the reign of Richard II by what nickname?
The Fighting Prelate

Round 8
1a The Giotto space probe was launched in 1986 specifically to examine what?
Halley's Comet
1b Which London museum was originally called the Museum of Ornamental Art?
Victoria & Albert
2a Which is the longest river in Northern Ireland?
Bann
2b An isotope of which chemical element was used to poison Alexander Litvinenko?
Polonium (210)
3a Which country declared itself the first atheist state when all religion was banned in 1967?
Albania
3b What was the original name of the city of Volgograd before it was called Stalingrad?
Tsaritsyn
4a After whose Queen is the US state Maryland named?
Charles I (Henrietta Maria)
4b What do the lachrymal glands produce?
Tears

Spare Questions
1 What was the title of the 2006 BBC TV series about a group of postmen in Manchester?
Sorted
2 Apart from Anne Boleyn, which other wife of Henry 8th was executed?
Catherine Howard
3 Who played one of the children in the original film of 'The Railway Children' and played the mother in the remake?
Jenny Agutter