Round 1
1a In which book do Mr Jones and The Battle of the Cowshed appear?
Animal Farm
1b In which book does Michael Henchard auction his wife and child?
The Mayor of Casterbridge
2a Which play has tramps Estragon and Vladimir as the main characters?
Waiting for Godot
2b Which Shakespeare play features Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
Hamlet
3a Who painted 'The Laughing Cavalier' in 1624?
Frans Hals
3b Who painted 'The Blue Boy' in 1770?
Thomas Gainsborough
4a Who shot Lee Harvey Oswald in November 1963?
Jack Ruby
4b Who did Sirhan Sirhan assassinate in 1968?
Robert Kennedy

Round 2
1a In which US state is Buffalo?
New York
1b In which US state is New Haven?
Connecticut
2a In which decade was the Eiffel Tower completed?
1880s (1889)
2b In which decade was Blackpool Tower completed?
1890s (1894)
3a In which country is Aconcagua located?
Argentina
3b In which country is Cotopaxi located?
Ecuador
4a What is a young hare called?
Leveret
4b What is a young kangaroo called?
Joey

Round 3
1a Who wrote 'The Trout Quintet' in 1819?
(Franz) Schubert
1b Who wrote the music for the 1957 musical 'West Side Story'?
Leonard Bernstein
2a La Giralda is the bell tower of which Spanish cathedral?
Seville
2b What is the name of the road/rail bridge opened in 2000 that links Copenhagen and Malmo?
Oresund
3a What type of creature are Krill?
Shrimp-like crustaceans (accept shrimps or crustaceans not fish)
3b What creature gives birth to a hinny?
A donkey
4a To which saint is the Cathedral in Red Square dedicated?
St Basil
4b Who designed Coventry Cathedral?
Sir Basil Spence

Round 4
1a From which club did Andrei Arshevin join Arsenal in 2009?
Zenit St Petersburg
1b Which club won the UEFA Champions League Final the year before Liverpool's win in Istanbul in 2005?
Porto
2a Who commanded the French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805?
(Pierre) Villeneuve
2b Who commanded the Prussian army at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815?
(Gebhard) Blucher
3a Which river comprised the boundary between Hades and Earth in Greek mythology?
Styx
3b Who was the ferryman over the Styx?
Charon
4a Who wrote the operetta 'Orpheus in the Underworld'?
Offenbach
4b What popular name is given to the Infernal Galop from Act 2 of 'Orpheus in the Underworld'?
The Can Can

Round 5
1a In which decade were Nobel Prizes first awarded?
1900s (1901)
1b In which country is the Nobel Peace Prize awarded?
Norway
2a Who wrote the 1986 Booker Prize winning novel 'The Old Devils?
Kingsley Amis
2b Who wrote the 1981 Booker Prize winning novel `Midnights Children?
Salman Rushdie
3a What is the capital of Pakistan?
Islamabad
3b What is the capital of Bangladesh?
Dhaka
4a Which female politician was assassinated in Pakistan in December 2007?
Benazir Bhutto
4b Which former Prime Minister of India was assassinated in May 1991?
Rajiv Gandhi

Round 6
1a Which isotope of carbon is used in radiocarbon dating?
C14
1b An isotope of which metal was used to poison the Russian Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006?
Polonium
2a After the Latin name for which modern European capital is the element Hafnium named?
Copenhagen
2b After the Latin name for which modern European capital is the element Lutetium named?
Paris
3a Who wrote the words to Auld Lang Syne in 1788?
Robbie Bums
3b Who wrote the music for Rule Britannia?
Thomas Arne
4a Who was British Prime Minister when the Battle of Waterloo was fought?
Lord Liverpool
4b For which king was Handel's Water Music composed?
George I

Round 7
1a What is the SI unit of power?
Watt
1b What is the SI unit of energy?
Joule
2a In which Welsh town is the Royal Mint situated?
Llantrisant
2b In which English city is the Royal Armouries Museum situated?
Leeds
3a Which 1942 film features the line "Play it Sam, play 'As time goes by'"?
Casablanca
3b Which 1939 film features the line 'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn'?
Gone With The Wind
4a Who designed the Bridgewater Canal, opened in 1761?
James Brindley (accept John Gilbert)
4b Who designed the Menai Suspension Bridge, completed in 1826?
Thomas Telford

Round 8
1a What is the main constituent of pewter?
Tin
1b Which metal is principally responsible for making stainless steel rust resistant?
Chromium
2a Who was defeated at the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685?
Duke of Monmouth
2b Which great battle between the Greeks and Persians took place in 490BC?
Battle of Marathon
3a In which port did The Herald of Free Enterprise capsize in 1987?
Zeebrugge
3b What was the name of the VLCC tanker that split in two off the coast of Brittany in 1978?
Amoco Cadiz
4a What nationality was the World War 2 military leader General Sikorski?
Polish
4b What nationality was Che Guevara?
Argentine

Spare Questions
1 Who founded the Samaritans in 1953?
Chad Varah
2 Which English football league team plays home matches at Edgeley Park?
Stockport County FC
3 In which county is Ascot?
Berkshire