Tuesday 2nd March 2010
Set by RBB (Northern)

Round 1
1a Sanatoria were mainly hospitals for patients convalescing from which disease?
TUBERCULOSIS
1b What is the boiling point of water on the Fahrenheit scale?
212°
2a What is the name of the carbohydrate found in the cell walls of fruits and used in the setting of jams and jellies?
PECTIN
2b What is the second book of the Old Testament?
EXODUS
3a What is the name of the structure under a balloon or airship that holds the crew and passengers?
GONDOLA
3b How many years are there in a US President's term of office?
FOUR
4a What is the fifth book of the New Testament?
ACTS OF THE APOLSTLES
4b Give any year in the life of Charlotte Brontë?
1816-55

Round 2
1a Which pie-making company in Baxenden in Lancashire, has bright insect-green wagons delivering to chippies across the region?
HOLLAND'S
1b In which magazine can Billie the Fish, Roger Mellie and Sid the Sexist appear?
VIZ
2a Which line of paperbacks was founded by Allen Lane in 1936?
PENGUIN
2b What is the name of the estuary at the mouths of the rivers Ouse and Trent?
HUMBER
3a Give any year the Boer Wars was fought?
1899-1902
3b What record did Jeanne Calment reach in 1995?
OLDEST HUMAN BEING (120)
4a On which island was the world's fourth atomic bomb detonated?
BIKINI
4b What is the most common name for the eggplant?
AUBERGINE

Round 3
1a Specifically, from the derivation of the name, what item did a chandler sell?
CANDLES
1b What is the name of the blue or white cheese, made from full cream milk and manufactured in the parts of Leicestershire around Melton Mowbray?
STILTON
2a On the banks of which river does the city of Quebec stand?
ST LAWRENCE
2b To which religious group did the chocolate manufacturing families Cadbury, Fry and Rowntree all belong?
QUAKERS
3a What type of animal is a saluki?
DOG
3b What is the Roman numeral for 500?
D
4a Which passenger liner was torpedoed and sunk on 7th May 1915?
LUSITANIA
4b Which author created the CIA agent Jack Ryan?
TOM CLANCY

Round 4
1a Which airship crashed, killing most of its passengers and crew, just outside of Beauvais in France on 5 October 1930?
R 101
1b Bohea is a type of what?
TEA
2a Which band leader's theme tune was 'Somebody Stole my Gal?
BILLY COTTON
2b What structure was moved from Hyde Park to Sydenham in 1854?
THE CRYSTAL PALACE
3a Which Worcester-based firm is the main manufacturer of Worcester Sauce?
LEA & PERRIN
3b British Airways was formed between 1971 and 1974 by the merger of two airlines - name either.
BEA or BOAC
4a Which Scottish soup's name derives from its main ingredients, chicken and leeks?
COCKALEEKIE
4b Which Russian jeweller of French decent is famous for his intricate Easter Eggs of gold and diamonds, which he made for the Russian Tsars?
PETER FABERGE

Round 5
1a Of which tribe was Boudicca the queen?
ICENI
1b Give any year in the life of the writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe.
1809-49
2a What American state's capital is Montgomery?
ALABAMA
2b In the Church of England, which office is below that of a bishop, but is the head of the chapter of a cathedral?
DEAN
3a Coined in the Gold Factory in Surbiton in Surrey, which patriotic 'slogan became part of a national campaign in 1968?
I'M BACKING BRITAIN
3b What was the punishment of the six Trade Unionists, the Tolpuddle Martyrs?
TRANSPORTATION
4a Roy Plomley was, in 1944, the creator and first presenter of which radio programme?
DESERT ISLAND DISCS
4b Which chat-show host made his name with the 1989 series The Last Resort?
JONATHAN ROSS

Round 6
1a The Altiplano is a high plateau in the Andes name either of the two countries in which it lies?
BOLIVIA OR PERU
1b In France, a charcuterie is a shop specialising in which meat?
PORK
2a Which major aid to road safety was introduced into Britain on 26 March 1934?
DRIVING TEST
2b Which actor played Al Jolson in The Jolson Story and it sequel?
LARRY PARKS
3a Who lived from 1895 to 1973, directing films such as the 1929 version of Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath and the Quiet Man?
JOHN FORD
3b Who in 1476 brought his painting press from Bruges to London?
WILLIAM CAXTON
4a Which town in Southwest Belgium, twinned with Bootle in 1967, was on 21 August 1914, the site of the first World War I battle between British and German forces?
MONS
4b What was the name of the family in the 1960s TV series `Upstairs Downstairs'?
BELLAMY

Round 7
1a In the TV series 'Upstairs Downstairs' what was the name of the butler played by Gordon Jackson?
HUDSON
1b In melodrama, who was the supplier of fillings for Mrs Lovatt's pies?
SWEENEY TODD
2a Which 19th century outlaw wore metal body and head armour and was only caught when police shot and wounded him in his unprotected legs?
NED KELLY
2b What did Letchworth become in 1963 and Welwyn in 1969?
GARDEN CITIES
3a What is the term in French cookery meaning to fry lightly and quickly in little or no oil?
SAUTÉ
3b Which film, winner of the 1991 Best Film Oscar, contains the line "I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner"?
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
4a Which winner of the 1953 Best Film Oscar is set in a Honolulu barracks immediately before and during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour?
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
4b In which constituency did Shirley Williams become the first elected MP for the SDP?
CROSBY

Round 8
1a Which chain of clothes shops was founded in the 1960s by Barbara Hulaniki?
BIBA
1b Which capital city is the banks of the River Tagus?
LISBON
2a In the 18th century a thief on horseback was a highwayman, what was the name of his pedestrian counterpart?
FOOTPAD
2b The athletic event the triathlon consists of running, swimming and what other event?
CYCLING
3a Who was US president immediately before Ronald Reagan?
JIMMY CARTER
3b What is the state capital of Arkansas?
LITTLE ROCK
4a Who was Argentina's President during the 1982 Falklands War?
LEOPOLDO GALTERI
4b What was the name of the character played by Alec Guinness in the TV series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy?
GEORGE SMILEY

Spare Questions
1 Which South Atlantic island suffered a volcanic eruption in 1963, forcing the inhabitants to be evacuated to Britain?
TRISTAN DA CUNHA
2 What was the title of the 1975 TV series starring Peter Strauss and Nick Nolte as the brothers Rudy and Tom Jordache?
RICH MAN, POOR MAN
3 Which 1960s TV series featured the spymaster Alexander Waverley, played by Leo G Carroll?
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
4 What was the name of the dealer with Baring's Bank who was somewhat careless with £17,000,000,000 of that bank's money in 1995?
NICK LEESON
5 What was the name of the sunken corrugated iron air-raid shelters which were built in back gardens all over Britain in World War II?
ANDERSON SHELTERS
6 According to myth, which monster eventually killed by Theseus, inhabited and guarded the labyrinth of King Minos at Knossos?
MINOTAUR
7 Which name is common to both a type of snake and she dragon of Mount Parnassus that protected the Oracle at Delphi?
PYTHON
8 Which singer had a 1970s number one hit with the song "When I Need You?
LEO SAYER