Tuesday 9th November 2010
Set by Exiles (Liverpool)

Round One
1A Which chemical element, No 38, is named for a village in Scotland?
Strontium
1B Which Shakespeare play takes place in the city of Messina, Sicily?
Much Ado About Nothing
2A Which group from Teignmouth has issued albums 'Black Holes & Revelations' and 'The Resistance'
Muse
2B Which French Football Ligue 1 team's name includes the title Girondins?
Bordeaux (Girondins de Bordeaux)
3A Born in Chavaniac in France which general fought alongside General Washington in the American revolutionary war of 1776 - 1783?
Marquis de Lafayette
3B Who narrated the BBC television production of Paddington?
Sir Michael Hordern
4A Hobgoblin, Fidler's Elbow and Goliath are brewed by which brewer based at Witney in Oxfordshire?
Wychwood Brewery
4B Who is the patron saint of Norway?
St. Olaf

Round Two
1A Who wrote the songs and music for Easter Parade?
Irving Berlin
1B Name the Nigerian boxer who boxed in Liverpool from 1951, became the World Featherweight champion in Paris, in June 1957 stopping Cherif Hamia.
Hogan 'Kid' Bassey (accept Okun Asuguo Bassey)
2A Taraxacum spp is the Latin name for which genus of common wild garden plant?
Dandelion
2B Who played the female lead in the 1957 film 'An Affair To Remember'?
Deborah Kerr
3A In the abbrevation SPCK - for what does the 'K' stand?
Knowledge
3B Which UK supermarket has its headquarters in Preston?
Booths
4A In which part of the body will you find the 'Ligamentum nuchae'?
The Neck
4B From which piece of literature do the following lines come? 'Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die'
The Charge of the Light Brigade (by Lord Tennyson)

Round Three
1A High Willhays is the highest point in which British National Park?
Dartmoor
1B What colour is the artist's colour called vermillion?
Red
2A Later holding a cabinet post, who finished second to Edward Heath in the 1965 Conservative Party Leadership Election?
Reginald Maudling
2B What name is given to the handiwork made from the byproducts of harvesting marine mammals?
Scrimshaw
3A Snell's Law deals with which branch of physics?
Optics or Light (accept Refraction)
3B Catherine Morland is a leading character in which novel?
Northanger Abbey
4A Whose symphony no3 is subtitled 'Scottish'?
Felix Mendelssohn
4B What is the national flower of Australia?
Golden Wattle (acacia pycnantha)

Round Four
1A Give a year in the life of the explorer Vasco Da Gama?
1460 -1524
1B How is food cooked 'en brochette'?
On Skewers
2A Anthophobia is the irrational fear of what?
Flowers
2B Which Spanish philosopher and writer wrote 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it'?
George Santayana
3A In Greek mythology who is the God of Death?
Thanatos
3B Who was the team principal of the Renault Fl team who resigned following the 'Crashgate scandal' in 2009?
Flavio Briatore
4A The dhole is what kind of animal?
Dog
4B In which city is Da Vinci's Last Supper on display?
Milan

Round Five
1A Which chemical element, No 36, is named for the Greek for 'hidden one'?
Krypton
1B Which Shakespeare play takes place in the Kingdom of Navarre?
Love's Labour Lost
2A Which group from Abingdon has issued albums 'Hail to the thief and 'In Rainbows'?
Radiohead
2B The French Football Ligue 1 team Marseille have which other name in their title?
Olympique (accept Olympic)
3A Born at Pau in France which general later became King of Sweden?
Jean Baptiste Bernadotte (accept Prince of Pontecorvo or King Charles XIV John)
3B Who narrated the English version of Pocoyo?
Stephen Fry
4A Bitter and Twisted, Old Engine Oil and Schiehallion are brewed by which brewer based at Alva in Clackmannanshire?
Harviestoun Brewery
4B Who is the patron saint of Sweden?
St. Brigit

Round Six
1A Who wrote the lyrics and music for A Little Night Music?
Stephen Sondheim
1B Name the Nigerian boxer who first boxed in Liverpool in the 1950s, later emigrating to USA where at different times he was both World Middleweight and Light Heavyweight champion?
Dick Tiger (accept Richard Ihetu
2A Rumex spp is the Latin name for which genus of common wild garden plant?
Dock (accept Sorrel)
2B Who played the male lead in the 1958 film 'Bell, Book & Candle'?
James Stewart
3A In the abbrevation CAFOD - for what does the 'O' stand?
Overseas
3B Which UK supermarket has its headquarters in Bracknell?
Waitrose
4A In which part of the body will you find the 'Mental foramen'?
Mandible or lower Jaw
4B From which piece of literature do the following lines come? 'The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way'
Elegy written in a Country Churchyard (by Thomas Gray)

Round Seven
1A Whernside is the highest peak in which National Park?
Yorkshire Dales
1B What colour is the artist's colour called amaranth?
Purple
2A Later holding a cabinet post, who finished second to Harold Wilson in the 1963 Labour Party Leadership Election?
George Brown.
2B What name is given to leather now usually made from shark and ray skin?
Shagreen
3A Dealing with the movement of particles, to which scientific process does Graham's Law refer?
Diffusion
3B Clement (Clym) Yeobright is a leading character in which novel?
The Return of the Native
4A Whose symphony No3 is subtitled 'Rhenish'?
Robert Schumann
4B What is the botanical emblem of New Zealand?
Silver (Tree) Fern (cyathea dealbata)

Round Eight
1A Give a year in the life of the explorer Jacques Cartier?
1491 - 1557
1B How is food cooked 'en papillotte'?
In paper (accept foil)
2A Barophobia is the irrational fear of what?
Gravity (accept Weight)
2B Which 20th century novelist wrote the lines 'He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future'?
George Orwell (accept Eric Blair)
3A In Greek mythology, who is the goddess of retribution?
Nemesis
3B Who was the head coach of Harlequins RUFC who resigned following the 'Bloodgate scandal'?
Dean Richards
4A The gaur is what kind of animal?
(Wild) Cattle (accept Buffalo/Bison)
4B Who painted 'Liberty Leading the People' on display in the Louvre?
Eugene Delacroix

Spare Questions
1 Whose quote? 'No man is rich enough to buy back his past'?
Oscar' Wilde
2 Who was the Secretary of State for Health as at February 2010?
Andy Burnham
3 Who wa the Attorney General for England, Wales and Northern Ireland as at February 2010?
Baroness/Lady Scotland
4 Which Shakespeare play takes place in Vienna?
Measure for Measure
5 In Greek mythology who is the Goddess of Strife?
Eris