Monday 1st March 2010
Set by Greta and Daisy's Ballet Team (Wirral)

Round 1
la The theme music for which television quiz programme is performed by the Balanescu quartet?
University Challenge
1b Howard Kirk is the eponymous hero of which 1975 Malcolm Bradbury novel?
History Man
2a What role was played by Arthur Cook in the General Strike of 1926?
Miners' leader (accept General Secretary Miners' Federation of GB)
2b What name was given to a Roman gladiator who fought with a weighted net, a 3-pointed trident and a dagger?
Retiarius
3a Which form of public entertainment has a name derived from the Spanish for "to go round"?
Rodeo
3b Which winner of X Factor had the best selling single of 2008?
Alexandra Burke (Hallelujah)
4a Which is the only horse racing course in Northamptonshire?
Towcester
4b In medicine, what name is given to inflammation of the protective membranes enclosing the brain and spinal cord?
Meningitis

Round 2
1a Which is Italy's third most populated city after Rome and Milan?
Naples
1b The national flag of Germany is a tricolour with three horizontal bands. What colour is the top band?
Black
2a Which Greek word meaning "curdling" is used in medicine for the formation of a blood clot?
Thrombosis
2b In his famous poem, precisely how many daffodils did Wordsworth see "at a glance"?
Ten thousand
3a Which day of the week is named after the Norse god of single combat and heroic glory or courage?
Tuesday (Tiw/Tyr)
3b Which English comic actor do you associate with the line "Infamy, Infamy, They've all got it in for me"?
Kenneth Williams (from Carry On Cleo)
4a In heraldry, what is a Talbot?
A (hunting) dog
4b Which 1790 Mozart opera features the heroines Dorabella and Fiordiligi?
Cosi Fan Tutte

Round 3
1a Which British cyclist won four stages of the 2008 Tour de France?
Mark Cavendish
1b Which English king married the sister of the "Princes in the Tower"?
Henry VII (Elizabeth of York)
2a What name was given to Haydn's symphony No. 96 as a result of a chandelier falling and narrowly missing the audience at its first performance?
Miracle Symphony
2b Which modern day African country is the setting for the early chapters of Alex Haley's book "Roots"?
Gambia
3a According to the Bible, how many stones did David pick up before he faced Goliath?
Five
3b Who was manager of Aston Villa immediately before Martin O'Neill? David O'Leary
4a For his portrayal of which real life character did Jamie Foxx win the Best Actor Oscar in 2005?
Ray Charles
4b Which masked hero of books and films signed himself with three strokes of his sword?
Zorro

Round 4
1a In which year did Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother die?
2002 (30 March)
1b Who started off selling newspapers, became the First Lord of the Admiralty in the 1870s and was immortalised in Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore?
W H Smith
2a What was the title of Sir Walter Scott's first novel of 1814 which he set around the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion?
Waverley
2b Which Glen Miller recording of 1941 was the first record ever to be awarded a gold disc?
Chattanooga Choo Choo
3a What number Pennsylvania Avenue is the address of the White House?
1600
3b Of what type of rock is the Rock of Gibraltar made?
Limestone
4a "Aimee Anne" are the first names of which currently successful British female singer?
Duffy
4b What is the only US state capital to have a 3-word name?
Salt Lake City

Round 5
1a Who represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1975 with the song "Let me be the one"?
The Shadows
1b A4 paper measures 297 millimetres by 210 millimetres. But what is the basic size of paper that covers 1 square metre?
AO
2a In Norse mythology, who was the goddess of the underworld?
Hel
2b Lizard, Gloucester and Border are varieties of which bird?
Canary
3a Which George Bernard Shaw play is subtitled 'A Metabiological Pentateuch'?
Back to Methuselah
3b Which English king was the son of Lord Darnley and Mary Queen of Scots?
James I
4a For which professional rugby league club did athlete Dwain Chambers play one match in 2008?
Castleford (Tigers)
4b In literature, who has an enemy called Erich von Stalhein?
Biggles

Round 6
la What English name is given to the charge paid to a restaurant to drink wine that has not been bought on the premises?
Corkage
1b Who is the only one of Snow White's dwarves to wear glasses?
Doc
2a Which is Spain's third most populated city after Madrid and Barcelona?
Valencia
2b Which planet has the densest atmosphere consisting mostly of carbon dioxide?
Venus
3a John Chapter 11 Verse 35 is the shortest verse in the Bible. How many words make up the verse?
Two (Jesus wept)
3b Which Scottish football ground is named after an English parliamentarian who fought in the Civil War?
Hampden Park
4a Which British Prime Ministers death is commemorated on 19th April, Primrose Day?
Benjamin Disraeli
4b What was originally stored in a buttery?
Wine (accept liquor, alcohol or similar)

Round 7
1a In which organ of the body are worn-out red blood cells removed and antibodies synthesised?
Spleen
1b Dress sizes. What is the British equivalent of the controversial American dress size zero?
Size Four
2a For his portrayal of which real life character did Philip Seymour Hoffman win the 2006 Best Actor Oscar?
Truman Capote
2b Which car company's logo features a prancing black horse?
Ferrari
3a Which British birds belong to the family Turdidae?
Thrushes
3b "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife" is a line written by which poet?
Thomas Gray (Elegy in a churchyard)
4a The moons of Uranus are named after characters in the works of Shakespeare and which other English writer and poet?
Alexander Pope
4b What title was given to the eldest son of a Russian Czar?
Czarevitch

Round 8
1a In 1959 which was the first city in Britain to be postcoded?
Norwich
1b Who represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 with the song "Long Live Love"?
Olivia Newton John
2a Who wrote the fairy tale on which the 1937 film 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' was based? Brothers Grimm
2b Excluding caretaker managers, who was manager of Arsenal immediately before Arsene Wenger?
Bruce Rioch
3a What year did the Queen describe as her "annus horribilis"?
1992
3b Which part of the digestive system gets its name from the fact that it is as wide as twelve fingers?
Duodenum
4a A photograph of which actress did Judge Roy Bean always carry in his wallet?
Lily Langtry
4b Which English comedian/actor said "Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright they're grand"?
Benny Hill