Monday 8th February 2010
Set by Warrington Quiz League

Round 1
1a In which Canadian province is the nation's capital Ottawa?
Ontario
1b Which tree has the Latin name Salix?
Willow
2a Father McKenzie features in which Beatles' song?
Eleanor Rigby
2b Who performed the first successful human heart transplant?
Dr Christian Barnard
3a 'Catriona' is a sequel to which famous novel?
Kidnapped
3b Who starred in films as 'Crocodile Dundee'?
Paul Hogan
4a In the North East a workman's packed lunch is his 'bait', what is it in Yorkshire?
His 'Snap'
4b Which country's monarchy was abolished in 2008 with the fall of the House of Shah after 239 years?
Nepal

Round 2
1a 'Kim', the 1901 novel by Rudyard Kipling, is about an Irish orphan named Kim O'Hara. Kim is short for which name?
Kimball
1b In which year was the suffix letter first used on British car registration plates?
1963
2a Britannia Metal is composed mainly (93%) of which element?
Tin
2b Who lives in Gracie Mansion, New York?
The Mayor
3a On which river is the Kariba Dam?
Zambezi
3b Who has hosted a 'Comedy Roadshow' on BBC TV during 2009?
Michael McIntyre
4a Name either of the two countries that joined NATO during 2009?
Croatia or Albania
4b Which car company make a model called the 'Yeti'?
Skoda

Round 3
1a 'My Heart Will Go On' was the theme to which film?
Titanic
1b Which state surrounds the Australian Capital territory including the capital Canberra?
New South Wales
2a Name the writer known as 'Denmark's most famous son', his birthplace in Odense is now a museum?
Hans Christian Anderson
2b In Greek mythology, what was the name of Apollo's twin sister?
Artemis
3a Who played the part of Michael Douglas's wife in the film 'Fatal Attraction'?
Anne Archer
3b How many chains are there in one mile?
80 (Eighty)
4a What is the name of the traditional Scottish pudding, often eaten at Hogmanay, made with suet, currants and, sultanas and named from the cloth in which it is wrapped for cooking?
Clootie Dumpling
4b In the North East a workman's packed lunch is his 'bait', what is it in Scotland?
His 'Piece'

Round 4
1a Which tree has the Latin name Acer?
Maple (or Sycamore)
1b 'Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ', the 1880 novel by Lew Wallace, is about a young aristocratic Jew. What is his first name?
Judah
2a Between 1892 and 1954, which part of New York was the point of entry for millions of immigrants?
Ellis Island
2b What was the surname of the Danish father and son who both won Nobel Prizes for Physics, in 1922 and 1975?
Bohr
3a Who presents the TV programme 'Caribbean Food Made Easy'?
Levi Roots
3b On which river is the Grand Coulee Dam?
Columbia
4a French world cup winning footballer Zinedane Zidane is the son of an immigrant from which country?
Algeria
4b Who wrote the score for the ballet 'Giselle', first performed in 1841?
Adolphe Adam

Round 5
1a Which Asian country's flag consists of three horizontal stripes of blue, red and blue with a picture of an ancient temple in the
centre?
Cambodia
1b From which wine making region does Chablis come?
Burgundy
2a In which Beatles song does 'the barber shave another customer'?
Penny Lane
2b In Greek mythology, Thanatos represented Death who was his twin brother who represented Sleep?
Hypnos
3a Which well known liqueur is flavoured with apricot kernels and almonds?
Amaretto
3b Who, in a Shakespeare play, said "The evil that men do lives after them"?
Mark Antony
4a Discovered in 1824, which chemical element, Atomic Number 14, has a name derived from the Latin for 'flint'?
Silicon
4b The name of which classic film (starring Audrey Hepburn) was also the title of a 1996 hit record for the group 'Deep Blue Something'?
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Round 6
1a 'Take My Breath Away' was the theme to which film?
Top Gun
1b In 2010 which city will become Europe's first 'Green Capital'?
Stockholm
2a Which alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold, is named after a London clockmaker?
Pinchbeck
2b What name is given to a short handled farming tool with a semi-circular blade?
Sickle
3a What was the family name of Lord and Lady Marchmain in 'Brideshead Revisited'?
Flyte
3b Which well known liqueur, usually served in a distinctive manner, is flavoured with elderberry and liquorice?
Sambuca
4a French President Nicolas Sarkozy is the son of an immigrant from which country?
Hungary
4b In which town is St Magnus' Cathedral, the most northerly in Britain?
Kirkwall

Round 7
1a Red Stripe lager was originally brewed in which country?
Jamaica
1b When suffix letters were first used on British car registration plates the letter was used for a calendar year, later, to suit the car industry, the letter changed on August 1 each year, which letter was consequently used for only seven months?
E (in 1967)
2a Who is the President of the Football Association?
Prince William
2b What was the surname of the British father and son who both won Nobel Prizes for Physics, in 1906 and 1937?
Thomson
3a Who, in a Shakespeare play, gives his son the advice "Neither a lender or a borrower be"?
Polonius
3b The Fitzwilliam Museum is in which British town or city?
Cambridge
4a Which popular Scottish dessert is made with oats, cream, berries and whisky and often eaten at a Burns Supper?
Cranachan
4b Discovered in 1894, which gaseous chemical element, Atomic Number 18, has a name derived from the Greek prefix for 'negation' before the word for 'work' to create the meaning 'inactive'?
Argon

Round 8
1a Name any one of Europe's three Capitals of Culture, 2010.
Istanbul, Pecs, Essen
1b Which Asian country's flag consists of three vertical stripes of black, red and green with a picture of a mosque in the centre?
Afghanistan
2a Father Damien, a Belgian priest, was canonised in 2009 for his work in 19' century Hawaii, with which disease?
Leprosy (Hansen's Disease)
2b The Everett Factory in Washington state, USA is the world's largest building, which company own it?
Boeing
3a The William Burrell Collection is in which British town or city?
Glasgow
3b How many cables make up a nautical mile?
Ten
4a Which 1940 play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison became much more famous when it was filmed (starring Ingrid Bergman) under a different title?
Everybody Comes to Rick's (Casablanca)
4b Who wrote the major choral work 'All Night Vigil', better known as the 'Vespers' which was sung at his funeral in 1943?
Rachmaninov

Spare Questions
1 On which Aegean island is the lively resort of Faliraki?
Rhodes
2 Formerly the Public Records Office, by what name is it now known?
National Archives
3 Which metal is produced by the Mond Process?
Nickel