Tuesday 6th December 2011
Set by St Benets (Northern)

Round 1
1a Give a year in the life of author Franz Kafka.
1883-1924
1b How many Copa de America winners medals did Pele and Maradona win between them?
0 (NONE)
2a What year did the Good Friday Agreement come into effect?
1998
2b Who played the role of Morticia in the original Addams Family TV series?
CAROLYN JONES
3a What is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago?
PORT OF SPAIN
3b What year did the burning of the Reichstag take place?
1933
4a Goodwood racecourse is in which county?
(WEST) SUSSEX
4b Who had a hit in 1965 with the record "Good News Week"?
HEDGEHOPPERS ANONYMOUS

Round 2
1a A Sika is what type of animal?
DEER
1b Give a year in the life of author/poet Edgar Alan Poe?
1809-1849
2a What is the SI unit of magnetic flux?
WEBER
2b A coypu is a type of what?
(BEAVERLIKE) RODENT
3a Who composed the "Threepenny Opera"?
KURT WEILL
3b Tony Benn renounced his peerage in the 1960's what was his father's title name in the House of Lords?
VISCOUNT STANSGATE
4a Who wrote the novel "Hawksmoor"?
PETER ACKROYD
4b Charlemagne or Charles the Great was born in what century?
EIGHTH/8TH

Round 3
1a What month in 1961 did the Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba take place?
APRIL
1b A ratel is what type of animal?
BADGER
2a 'Windmills of your mind' was hit in 1969 for which artist?
NOEL HARRISON
2b What is the capital of Fiji?
SUVA
3a What car manufacturing company makes the model Octavia?
SKODA
3b What does the R stand for in the computing term URL?
(UNIFORM) RESOURCE (LOCATOR)
4a Which South American national team has won the Copa de America most times?
URUGUAY
4b What is the SI unit of electric current?
AMPERE

Round 4
1a What does the U stand for in the computing term USB?
UNIVERSAL (SERIAL BUS)
1b Who composed the opera "The Merry Widow"?
FRANZ LEHAR
2a What dynastic family name of Cleopatra?
PTOLEMY
2b How many fences do horses need to encounter at the Grand National?
30
3a A quagga, now extinct, bore qresemblance to which other mammal?
ZEBRA
3b What car manufacturing company makes the model the "Laguna"?
RENAULT
4a Who played the role of the 'Riddle? in the 1960s TV series Batman?
FRANK GORSHIN
4b Who wrote the novel "Lovely Bones"?
ALICE SEBOLD

Round 5
1a Rebekah Brookes was divorced from whom in 2009?
ROSS KEMP
1b Who wrote the play "Who's afraid of Virginia Wolf'?
EDWARD ALBEE
2a Edward Heath was MP for which constituency?
BEXLEY
2b How many times did Martina Navratilova win the Wimbledon woman's singles championship?
9
3a ES is the chemical symbol for which element?
EINSTEINIUM
3b The dunnock is more commonly known as what bird?
HEDGE SPARROW
4a Name the cricketer who played for Gloucestershire and England who scored 7,249 runs and 22 centuries in test matches?
WALLY HAMMOND
4b Lady's Slipper is a member of which plant family?
ORCHID

Round 6
1a What is the name of the strait separating Norway and Denmark?
SKAGERRAK
1b Which European country recently passed a law legalizing divorce?
MALTA
2a Who was on the throne of England in 1150?
STEPHEN
2b The cult film "Assault on Precinct 13" was directed by whom?
JOHN CARPENTER
3a The ringdove is more commonly known as what bird?
WOOD PIGEON
3b No is the chemical symbol for which element?
NOBELIUM
4a The Binet-Simon scale was the first test designed to assess what?
IQ OR INTELLIGENCE
4b Triton is a satellite of which planet?
NEPTUNE

Round 7
1a At which battle did the Vietminh defeat French forces in 1954?
DIEN BIEN PHU
1b Gordon Brown is MP for which constituency?
KIRKCALDY AND COWDENBEATH
2a What was the nationality of 2011 Wimbledon Women's Singles Championship winner?
CZECH
2b In the Bible who was the wife of Boaz?
RUTH
3a If something is described as rhizoid what does it mean?
ROOTS/ROOTLIKE
3b Which artist headlined final day of Glastonbury festival 2011?
BEYONCE
4a Miriam Karlin who died recently had a cameo role in which 1970's Stanley Kubrick film?
CLOCKWORK ORANGE
4b What part of the brain is predominantly associated with memory?
HIPPOCAMPUS

Round 8
1a Adele has had several recent album successes, in which English city was she born?
LONDON
1b What is the name of the French underground resistance who fought against Germany in WWII?
MAQUIS
2a Who wrote the 1960 novel "Country Girls"?
EDNA O'BRIEN
2b On which West Indian island was cricketer Gary Sobers born?
BARBADOS
3a In the Bible who was the wife of Ahab?
JEZEBEL
3b The port of Pusan is in which country?
SOUTH KOREA
4a Titan is a satellite of which planet?
SATURN
4b Who was on the throne of England in 1472?
EDWARD IV (FOURTH)

Spare Questions
1 Who wrote the book 'LA Confidential'?
JAMES ELROY
2 In cricket what is the term used for a ball bowled as an off break but designed to make the batsman think it's a leg break?
GOOGLY
3 Give a year in the life of composer Puccini.
1858-1924
4 In Greek mythology who drowned while swimming the Hellespont?
LEANDER