Monday 1st November 2010
Set by Warrington Quiz League

Round 1
1a Who wrote Wilt and Blott on the Landscape?
Tom Sharpe
1b Which American entertainer says of herself "It costs a lot of money to look this cheap"?
Dolly Parton
2a In which country is the most easterly point of Africa?
Somalia
2b Who played `Wolfie' Smith in the TV comedy series Citizen Smith?
Robert Lindsay
3a Which former sportsman presents the TV quiz show The Fuse?
Austin Healey
3b The name of which English county is also a surname shared by an actress and a former England cricketer?
Hampshire (Susan & John)
4a How many pairs of ribs are in the human body?
12 (twelve)
4b What was the name of the older brother of Henry 8th?
Arthur

Round 2
1a In 2010 who left the message "Dear Chief Secretary, I'm afraid there is no money. Kind regards - and good luck"?
Liam Byrne
1b ASH, Action on Smoking and Health, is the anti-smoking lobby, by what acronym is the pro-smoking lobby known?
FOREST
2a Inspector Lestrade appears in novels featuring which detective?
Sherlock Holmes
2b In cricket what score is known as 'Nelson'?
111 (one hundred and eleven)
3a In which month does the Scottish quarter day Candlemas fall?
February
3b In which Yorkshire town are the famous Five Rise Locks on the Leeds-Liverpool canal?
Bingley
4a Which king of England or the UK had the longest reign?
George 3rd
4b Whose first solo no. 1 hit was Fight for this Love, released in 2009?
Cheryl Cole

Round 3
1a What is the official language of Andorra?
Catalan
1b Which crop is processed in a `ginnery'?
Cotton
2a Who, in the seventeenth century, said "Desperate diseases require desperate remedies"?
Guy Fawkes
2b In which country is the most northerly point of Africa?
Tunisia
3a The name of which English county is part of the name of the Queen Mother's unfortunate 1957 Grand National horse?
Devon (Loch)
3b Who wrote One-upmanship and The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship?
Stephen Potter
4a Who wrote the song that was the UK's entry to the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest?
Pete Waterman
4b How many pairs of chromosomes are in the human body?
23 (twenty-three)

Round 4
1a Ramshaw Rocks and Hen Cloud are in which National Park?
Peak District
1b What position is no.1 in rugby league and no.15 in rugby union?
Full Back
2a Which anthem is sung as the sovereign is anointed during the coronation of a British monarch?
Zadok the Priest
2b The anthem Zadok the Priest mentions two other Biblical characters in the first line, name either? Nathan (the prophet) or (King) Solomon
3a Ska was an early version of what type of music?
Reggae (or Rocksteady)
3b Which former sportsman presents the TV quiz show Divided?
Andrew Castle
4a Which American composer wrote the music for the songs Stardust and Georgia on my Mind?
Hoagy Carmichael
4b Which letter of the Greek alphabet, when written as a capital, looks like our letter P?
Rho

Round 5
1a Who left this message to James Callaghan in 1964 "Good luck, old cock, sorry to leave it in such a mess"?
Reginald Maudling
1b In which state is the waterfront in the film On the Waterfront?
New Jersey
2a Inspector Japp appears in novels featuring which detective?
Hercule Poirot
2b 'Nelson' is an English cricketer's unlucky number, what number is the Australian equivalent?
87 (eighty-seven) as it's 13 short of a hundred
3a Which European country has had no army since 1868 and is home to the world's largest manufacturers of false teeth?
Liechtenstein
3b Which 16 century French navigator is credited with the discovery of the St Lawrence Seaway?
Jacques Cartier
4a Who holds the title First Commoner of the Land?
The Speaker
4b Which word means an interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association usually to the advantage of both?
Symbiosis

Round 6
1a Which king immediately succeeded his half-brother; Harthacanute?
Edward the Confessor
1b What position is no.9 in rugby league and no.2 in rugby union?
Hooker
2a Who was the commander of the British forces who stopped the German advance into Egypt in 1942?
(General) Auchinleck
2b In the Old Testament, who was the mother of Solomon?
Bathsheba
3a What does a laniferous animal have that distinguishes it from other animals?
Wool
3b Name either of the authors of 1066 and All That?
WC Sellar & RJ Yeatman
4a In 1993, Arsenal won both the FA Cup and League Cup, beating which team in both finals?
Sheffield Wednesday
4b What is the value of the American gold coin called the Double Eagle?
$20

Round 7
1a Yellowstone National Park lies mainly in Wyoming, partly in Montana and also in which other state?
Idaho
1b Which animal appears on the coat of arms and flag of Berlin?
Bear
2a Which author said "A classic is something everyone wants to have read but nobody wants to read"?
Mark Twain
2b Who was the commander of the British forces as they progressed through Palestine in 1917-18?
(General) Allenby
3a Nine of the ten tallest buildings in Germany are in which city?
Frankfurt
3b Which Central American country has had no army since 1948 and has approximately 25% of its land designated as protected National Park, the highest percentage in the world?
Costa Rica
4a Which American composer wrote the music for The Wizard of Oz, including Over the Rainbow plus That Old Black Magic?
Harold Arlen
4b Which letter of the Greek alphabet, when written as a capital, looks like a triangle?
Delta

Round 8
1a 258 statues of which animal were displayed around London in May and June 2010 to draw attention to their endangered status?
Elephant
1b Which American actress said of herself "I'm as pure as the driven slush"?
Tallulah Bankhead
2a In the Old Testament, who was the mother of Isaac?
Sarah
2b The line 'The course of true love never did run smooth' appears in which of Shakespeare's plays?
A Midsummer Night's Dream
3a Who was the first man to circumnavigate Australia in his ship The Investigator between 1796 and 1803, the largest island in Bass Strait is named after him?
Matthew Flinders
3b In which Cumbrian town is there a pencil museum?
Keswick
4a What name is given to the passage of a solvent from a less concentrated into a more concentrated solution through a semi-permeable membrane?
Osmosis
4b In 1997, which team lost in both the FA Cup and League Cup finals, to Leicester City in the League Cup and Chelsea in the FA Cup and were also relegated from the Premier League?
Middlesbrough

Spare Questions
1 Which river flows from northern Moscow to the Caspian Sea?
Volga
2 Who, in 2008, won an Oscar posthumously?
Heath Ledger
3 Which is the largest container port in the UK?
Felixstowe