Round 1
1a Which number president of the USA was George W Bush?
43
1b Who wrote the novel Ben Hur (A Tale of the Christ) in 1880?
Lew Wallace
2a In population terms what is the largest Spanish speaking country in the world?
Mexico
2b Astigmatism is a condition affecting which part of the body?
Eye
3a Who wrote 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' in 2003?
Bill Bryson
3b Who was the youngest President of the USA, taking office in 1901?
Theodore Roosevelt
4a What is hypermetropia?
Long-sightedness
4b What South American country is named after an Italian city?
Venezuela ("Little Venice")

Round 2
1a In which year was NATO formed?
1949 (4 April)
1b In which sport do players take long and short corners?
(Field) Hockey
2a What is the SI unit of force?
Newton
2b Who was the first man seen on Channel 4 TV?
Richard Whiteley
3a What is the perfect score in ten pin bowling?
300
3b In which year was Mahatma Gandhi assassinated?
1948 (30 Jan)
4a What was the name of the cross-eyed lion in the TV series Daktari?
Clarence
4b How many natural noble gases are there?
6

Round 3
1a Who played the title role in the 1962 film 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner'?
Tom Courtenay
1b Which Alpine peak is known in Italy as Monte Cervino?
The Matterhorn
2a Which Emperor's last words were reputedly 'What an artist dies in me'?
Nero
2b Which planet is the densest in the Solar System?
Earth
3a K2, the second highest mountain in the world, is found in which country?
Pakistan (accept China)
3b Which male film star's final film in 1961 was 'The Misfits'?
Clark Gable
4a Which planet is thought to be the hottest in the Solar System?
Venus
4b Which painter's last words were reputedly 'Drink to me'?
Pablo Picasso

Round 4
1a Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd, a TV star from the1960s, died in August 2009 aged 74. Who was he better known as?
Simon Dee
1b In the USA what is celebrated on 2"d February?
Groundhog Day
2a In the Royal Navy what is the equivalent rank to a Field Marshal in the Army?
Admiral of the Fleet
2b What type of creature is a basilisk?
Lizard
3a What is the date of All Souls Day?
2nd November
3b Which actress has the real name Illiana Lydia Petrovna Mironova?
Helen Mirren
4a What type of animal is a corvid?
Bird (member of crow family)
4b In the RAF what is the highest non-commissioned officer's rank?
Warrant Officer

Round 5
la Which 1956 Science Fiction film was based on The Tempest by Shakespeare?
Forbidden Planet
1b Which Roman road linked Lincoln to Exeter?
Fosse Way
2a Which British coin ceased to be legal tender in 1970?
Half Crown
2b What type of vessel is a vaporetto?
(Venice) Water Bus
3a The Roman road Ermine Street started in London and terminated in which city?
York
3b `If music be the food of love play on' is the opening line of which Shakespeare play?
Twelfth Night
4a What is the name of the casing in which a ship's compass is kept?
Binnacle
4b What is the highest denomination of dollar bill in circulation in the USA?
100 dollars

Round 6
1a What was the Christian name of Bertie Wooster's manservant Jeeves?
Reginald
1b Who was the first Plantagenet king of England?
Henry II
2a How many chromosomes does a normal human have?
46
2b Who wrote and composed the opera Oedipus Rex in 1927?
Stravinsky
3a Who was the first monarch to live in Buckingham Palace?
Victoria
3b In literature Bunter was the manservant of whom?
Lord Peter Wimsey
4a What is the most popular hymn written by Henry Francis Lyte, in 1844?
Abide With Me
4b How many people take part in the dance of a quadrille?
8

Round 7
1a Who played the TV detective Maisie Raine?
Pauline Quirke
1b Which company makes an MPV ('people carrier') model called Meriva?
Vauxhall
2a Which team won the 2009 Rugby League Challenge Cup?
Warrington Wolves
2b King Michael abdicated which country's throne in 1947?
Romania
3a Which company makes an MPV ('people carrier') model called Carens?
Kia
3b Which novelist created the characters of Dalziel and Pascoe?
Reginald Hill
4a What was the last ruling dynasty of China, ending in 1912?
Manchu or Qing
(Ching)
4b Who captained the England cricket team to victory in the 2009 Ashes series?
Andrew Strauss

Round 8
1a How many stars make up the European Union flag?
12
1b In which decade of the 20th century were the first Academy Awards (Oscars) ceremony?
1920s
2a Which shipping area is north of Forties?
Viking
2b What is another common name for the Araucaria tree?
Monkey Puzzle (accept Chilean Pine)
3a Who won an Oscar for the music for Chariots of Fire in 1981?
Vangelis (Papthanassiiou)
3b In Scrabble how many letters have a value of 2?
2 (D and G)
4a What is another common name for the Fireweed?
Rose Bay/Willowherb
4b Which shipping area is due north of Trafalgar?
Fitzroy

Spare Questions
1 W is the symbol for which chemical element?
Tungsten
2 Who wrote Finnegan's Wake in 1939?
James Joyce
3 Of what was the Vulgate a version?
The Bible
4 In which country is Timbuktu?
Mali
5 What is Ozzy Osbourne's real first name?
John