Tuesday 7th September 2010
Set by Ormskirk Quiz League

ROUND 1
1a Which is the only country outside the USA where alligators are found in the wild?
CHINA
1b Held during the Boer War, what nickname was given to the UK General Election of 1900?
THE KHAKI ELECTION
2a Which of Lord Byron's mistresses famously described him as 'mad, bad and dangerous to know'?
LADY CAROLINE LAMB
2b 'Sup up your beer and collect your fags' is the opening line to which 1979 Top 5 hit single?
ETON RIFLES (BY THE JAM)
3a The flower Campanula rotundifolia is commonly known as the bluebell in Scotland; how is it known in England?
HAREBELL
3b In which city was this year's Formula One European Grand Prix held?
VALENCA
4a What name is given to the bridge design, such as Tower Bridge, with a divided lifting roadway?
BASCULE
4b Which star of the 1960 film 'Never on Sunday' became the Greek Minister for Culture and Science
in 1981?
MELINA MERCOURI

ROUND 2
1a 'There's no point in asking, you'll get no reply' is the opening line to which 1977 Top 10 single?
PRETTY VACANT (BY THE SEX PISTOLS)
1b Which astronaut, on whose book the movie was based, was played by Tom Hanks in the 1995 film `Apollo 13'?
JIM LOVELL
2a What type of shop did Jack Taylor the referee of the 1974 Football World Cup Final run?
BUTCIIER'S
2b The flower Dianthus barbatus is commonly known as Stinking Billy in Scotland; by what more pleasant-sounding name is it known in England?
SWEET WILLIAM
3a Although approaching his 30th birthday, in which 1953 film did Marlon Brando play the part of the teenage leader of a motorcycle gang?
THE WILD ONE
3b Harp design and Fan design are the two main classes of which type of bridge?
CABLE STAY(ED)
4a The Spanish La Liga football club Villarreal share their nickname with which Beatles song?
YELLOW SUBMARINE
4b Which is the only country outside Africa where lions can be found in the wild?
INDIA

ROUND 3
1a Which board game was invented by part-time clown, Anthony E Pratt?
CLUEDO
1b In which Welsh castle was the future King Henry VII born?
PEMBROKE
2a At which point on the Cumbrian coast does Wainwright's Coast to Coast Walk start?
ST BEES (HEAD)
2b In which country was the board game Trivial Pursuit devised?
CANADA
3a Who will appear on the new £50 bank note along with his business partner James Watt?
MATTHEW BOULTON
3b At which place in the Peak District does the Pennine Way start?
EDALE
4a In which of her palaces did Queen Elizabeth the First die?
RICHMOND
4b Which manufacturing industry is featured on the current £20 note?
PIN (INDUSTRY)

ROUND 4
1a Where do celebrity panellists sit in the Channel 4 TV game show 'Countdown'?
DICTIONARY CORNER
1b In the 18th century what was sold in shops which advertised 'Drunk for a penny;
Dead drunk for tuppence?
GIN
2a Natasha Khan is better known by which stage name?
BAT FOR LASHES
2b To what was the 17th Century Lord Mayor of London Sir Thomas Bloodworth referring when he disparagingly declared "A woman might piss it out", before going back to bed?
THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON
3a If you sailed West from Land's End and followed the same line of latitude, which country would be your first port of call?
CANADA
3b Who, with the real name Corynne Elliot, won the 2009 Mercury Music Prize?
SPEECH DEBELLE
4a Which driver won the 2010 British Formula One Grand Prix?
MARK WEBBER
4b Which stretch of water separates Greenland from Canada?
DAVIS STRAIT

ROUND 5
1a Fort Zinderneuf is the place where the hero dies in which famous book and film?
BEAU GESTE
1b Which planet has craters called Beethoven, Bach and Brahms?
MERCURY
2a It was founded in 1379 as St Mary's College of Winchester in Oxford, but as there was already a St Mary's College at Oxford as what has it been known ever since?
NEW COLLEGE
2b Rene Belloq is the arch enemy of which movie hero in his first film?
INDIANA JONES
3a Passat - the Volkswagen car model, is German for a type of what?
WIND
3b The Childe of Hale visited which Oxford College, named after a door knocker, where an imprint of his hand could be seen in the plaster until the 1880s?
BRASENOSE
4a Name one of the 3 astronauts from Apollo 8 who became the first to see the far side of the moon.
ANDERS, BORMANN OR LOVELL
4b Which Chevrolet model was named after a fast warship used for anti-submarine operations? CORVETTE

ROUND 6
1a 'Gone with the Wind', was the first film in colour to win the Oscar for Best Picture; which musical
was the second?
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
1b In which English county is the Dickens World Theme Park?
KENT (CHATHAM)
2a Statues of Churchill and which other Prime Minister guard the entrance to the House of Commons?
LLOYD GEORGE
2b In Camberwick Green on Children's TV who was the commander of Pippin Fort?
CAPTAIN SNORT
3a Which theme park in North Yorkshire has the longest roller coaster in the UK, 'The Ultimate'?
LIGHTWATER VALLEY
3b Which was the last film to win all 5 major Oscars (Best Director, picture, screenplay, actor and actress)?
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
4a In Chigley on Children's TV who owned the steam railway and drove the steam engine 'Bessie'?
LORD BELBOROUGH
4b Which term for Swiss bankers was used by Labour politicians in the 1950s and 1960s?
GNOMES OF ZURICH

ROUND 7
1a Which comedian and panel game member wrote the 2007 book 'Silent Comedy' about Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and others?
PAUL MERTON
1b On which date in 1952 did the Queen ascend to the throne?
6TH FEBRUARY
2a By what name is the white Florentine Iris known when used in perfumery?
ORRIS (ROOT)
2b According to legend, which bird, native to Britain never uses its voice until it is dying?
MUTE SWAN
3a On which date is the Queen's actual birthday?
21ST APRIL
3b More famous in another field, who wrote the 2007 book, 'More than a Game', on the early history of cricket?
JOHN MAJOR
4a On which creature does the direction of hair growth go opposite to other mammals, so rain runs down without soaking it when it hangs upside down from trees?
SLOTH
4b Which acid found in wood sorrel and rhubarb leaves is traditionally used in dyeing and bleaching?
OXALIC

ROUND 8
1a What is the condition of the eye which makes round objects appear oval?
ASTIGMATISM
1b Which sub-region of Aquitaine in South West France is known for its brandy?
ARMAGNAC
2a Who composed the operas 'The Golden Cockerel' and 'The Snow Maiden'?
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
2b Which US comedian and actor shares his name with a traditional English ballad and an area of the Eldon Square Shopping Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne?
CHEVY CHASE
3a Which blue veined cheese is made in France froth ewe's milk with mould found in the soil of local caves?
ROQUEFORT
3b To what part of the body do the carotid arteries carry blood?
THE HEAD (ACCEPT BRAIN)
A Which US actor shared his name with a novelist who won the Whitbread First Novel award for his book `A Good Man in Africa'?
WILLIAM BOYD
4b Who composed an opera about the Shakespeare character Sir John Falstaff?
VERDI

SPARE OUESTIONS
1 Espiritu Santo is the largest island of which island republic?
VANUATU
2 Which Mexican revolutionary was born Doroteo Arango in 1878?
PANCHO VILLA
3 Who wrote the play `Hobson's Choice' in 1916?
HAROLD BRIGHOUSE
4 Hashim Amla has played test cricket for which country?
SOUTH AFRICA