Monday 20th September 2010
Set by Warington Quiz League

Round 1
1a In which US state is Biscayne Bay?
Florida
1b Which form of sentence was introduced to the UK by the 1972 Criminal Justice Act?
Community Service
2a Who won the Oscar for Best Director at the 2010 awards?
Kathryn Bigelow
2b In which city did Superman work, disguised as Clark Kent?
Metropolis
3a Who occasionally hosts BBC TV's Eggheads in the absence of Dermot Murnaghan?
Jeremy Vine
3b What name is given to the French version of the Tote betting system?
Pari-Mutuel
4a Danced in a style representing a bullfight, which dance takes its name from the Spanish for 'double step'?
Paso Doble
4b In which year did the following events all take place; Church of England ordained its first female priests, the Channel Tunnel opened and the National Lottery started?
1994

Round 2
1a In the game of bingo, what number can be called as "was she worth it"?
76
1b In which US state is the Big Sur coast?
California
2a In which city did Batman live as Bruce Wayne?
Gotham City
2b What is the name of the 'social networking' website, on which messages are restricted to 140 characters, founded by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams in 2006?
Twitter
3a The film 'Carrie' was based on a book by which author?
Stephen King
3b In February 2010, who reported on an audit of MPs' expense claims?
Sir Thomas Legg
4a Which country is Britain's oldest ally?
Portugal
4b Which novelty swing dance, derived from the Charleston, was named following Charles Lindberg's crossing of the Atlantic in 1927?
Lindy Hop

Round 3
1a Brandon Flowers is the singer with which group?
The Killers
1b Which car company make a model called 'Yeti'?
Skoda
2a Who painted 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' in 1504?
Hieronymus Bosch
2b Who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in `Precious'?
Mo'Nique
3a Chicago has baseball teams called 'Cubs' and 'White Sox', what is the name of Milwaukee's baseball team?
Brewers
3b Who hosts the BBC TV quiz show 'Pointless'?
Alexander Armstrong
4a Who was the famous Scottish rugby union commentator who died in January 2010?
Bill McLaren
4b Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades were operas by which composer?
Tchaikovsky

Round 4
1a In 2002, Chechen terrorists took more than 700 people as hostages in Moscow, what type of building were they in?
Theatre
1b In the game of bingo, what number can be called as "Doctor's orders"?
9 (nine)
2a What are High Spy, Barf, Knott Rigg and Lord's Seat?
Lake District Fells
2b Who was the winner of the 2009 X-Factor TV programme?
Joe McElderry
3a In 2010, Carlos Slim became the first non-American since 1994 to top Forbes list of billionaires, what is his nationality?
Mexican
3b Which English football league club are nicknamed 'the Brewers'?
Burton Albion
4a In which year did the following events all take place; Ken Livingstone became the Mayor of London, England lost 1-0 to Germany in the last match at the old Wembley Stadium and Judith Keppel won the first £1,000,000 on 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire'?
2000
4b Which is Britain's oldest colony, settled in 1609?
Bermuda

Round 5
1a What is the surname of the father and son who rode Grand National winners, L'Escargot in 1975 and Bobbyjo in 1999?
Carberry
1b Which car manufacturer uses the advertising slogan 'The power of dreams'?
Honda
2a Who won the gold medal in the women's Skeleton Bob at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics?
Amy Williams
2b What is the name of the music website founded by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon and launched in 2008?
Spotify
3a In the Stephen King book 'Christine', who or what is Christine?
A car (Plymouth Fury)
3b Who led the inquiry into the war in Iraq?
John Chilcott
4a Complete the quotation from Oscar Wilde (in Lady Windermere's Fan) "We are all in the gutter but..."?
Some of us are looking at the stars
4b Which disease of the central nervous system is named after the Englishman who wrote 'An Essay on the Shaking Palsy'?
Parkinson's Disease

Round 6
1a In 2004, Chechen terrorists took schoolchildren hostage resulting in a shoot-out in which hundreds died, in which city was it?
Beslan
1b In 2002, Plantlife, a conservation charity, selected flowers or plants to represent each county. Humulus Lupulus was selected for Kent, how is it commonly known?
Hop
2a The Lake District mountain Great Gable is connected by the pass Windy Gap to which other peak?
Green Gable
2b X-Factor winner Joe McElderry failed to reach no 1 in the Christmas 2009 chart, which group did as a result of a concerted internet download campaign?
Rage against the Machine
3a Which African country is bordered by Ivory Coast to the west, Burkina Faso to the north and Togo to the east?
Ghana
3b When he published his Theory of Special relativity in 1905, Albert Einstein was working as a patent clerk in which Swiss city?
Berne
4a Who was the Test Match Special scorer who died in January 2009?
Bill Frindall
4b According to Kenneth Graham (in Wind in the Willows) there is "nothing - absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as ..." what?
(simply) messing about in boats

Round 7
1a Gary Lightbody is the singer with which group?
Snow Patrol
1b In 1926, Irish aristocrat Violet Gibson attempted but failed to assassinate which political leader?
Benito Mussolini
2a Who painted 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' in 1665?
Johannes Vermeer
2b Who served as the 19th President of the USA from 1877 to 1881 despite receiving fewer votes than his opponent in the election?
Rutherford B Hayes
3a Who was Poet Laureate for the longest period (42 years from 1850 to 1892)?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
3b Which South American country is bordered by Guyana to the west and French Guiana to the east?
Suriname
4a Which river rises in the Vosges mountains on the border of Alsace and Lorraine and flows through both France and Germany into the Moselle at Konz?
Saar
4b Petrushka and The Firebird were ballets by which composer?
Stravinsky

Round 8
1a In 2002, Plantlife, a conservation charity, selected flowers or plants to represent each county. Viscum album was selected for Herefordshire, how is it commonly known?
Mistletoe
1b Name the Mexican/American boxer, who retired from the ring in 2008, who is the only man to win world titles in six different weight divisions?
Oscar de la Hoya
2a Who served as the 29th President of the USA from 1921 to 1923 with the largest popular vote in any Presidential election?
Warren Harding
2b Who, in 2010, became the first batsman to score 200 runs in a limited overs international match?
Sachin Tendulkar
3a Albert Einstein was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at which Ivy League University in 1933?
Princeton
3b Who was Poet Laureate for 37 years, from 1930 to 1967?
John Masefield
4a Which form of dementia is named after a German psychiatrist who first described it in 1906?
Alzheimer's Disease
4b Which river flows from Lake Ladoga to the Gulf of Finland? Despite being only 46 miles long it is the third largest in Europe in terms of volume discharged.
Neva

Spare Questions
1 Two Tree Island, Frog Island and Eel Pie Island are all in which river?
Thames
2 Who was the architect of the new Wembley stadium?
Norman Foster
3 What make of car does Inspector Morse drive in the TV series?
Jaguar