Tuesday 13th December 2011
Set by Liverpool Quiz League

Round One
1a Birchfield Harriers Athletics Club is based in which English city?
Birmingham
1b Which car manufacturer produces models called Concerto, Inspire, Legend, Torneo, etc?
Honda
2a Which US tennis player won the Australian, Wimbledon and French Women's Singles in 1999, also the Gold Medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games?
Lindsay Davenport
2b Which British alternative rock band won the Mercury Prize in 2008 with the album "The Seldom Seen Kid"?
Elbow
3a Which biscuit has names such as fly sandwiches, squashed fly biscuits, etc?
Garibaldi
3b A classical piano trio is a group of instruments - piano (obviously). Name one of the other two
Violin or Cello
4a How long is the Euro Tunnel (± 2 miles)?
31(.4) miles
4b Which US President made the first phone call to the moon?
Richard Nixon

Round Two
1a Which female succeeded John Prescott as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in June 2007?
Harriet Harman
1b Which animal is the smallest true monkey?
Pygmy Marmoset (aka Dwarf Monkey)
2a Acid rain is caused by the emission of sulphur and two other elements. Name one.
Nitrogen or Carbon
2b Who won the BDO World Professional Darts Championship in 2009. (his nickname is The Count')?
Ted Hankey
3a How many arms has a starfish?
Five
3b In which year was the £1 note introduced; Burnley beat Liverpool 1-0 in the FA Cup Final; Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated?
1914
4a Michael O'Rourke and Leonard Ryan established which satellite network?
Setanta
4b What is the oldest named English cheese?
Cheshire

Round Three
1a Which motorway crosses the original Severn Bridge?
M48
1b What do the letters A and D stand for in the computer term CAD?
Aided Design
2a In which year was the BBC granted a Royal Charter of Incorporation; Cardiff City beat Arsenal 1-0 at Wembley; Charles Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic Ocean?
1927
2b How many Parliamentary constituencies are there in the UK?
650
3a Which US composer, conductor and pianist has written the music for over 100 films, starting with "Daddy-O" in 1958, his latest is the 2012 film "Lincoln"?
John Williams
3b Which M62 spur runs from Cleckheaton to Bradford?
M606
4a Which animated US TV series character always chased Penelope Pitstop?
The Hooded Claw (aka Sylvester Sneekly)
4b Which 2009 Formula One Grand Prix was run at night time?
Singapore

Round Four
1a Gillian Gilks (nee Perrin, later Goodwin) was an exponent in which sport?
Badminton
1b Which German physicist is regarded as the founder of the quantum theory?
Max Planck
2a What is the meaning of the German word Bundesliga?
Nation-wide League
2b What was contained in the Ark of the Covenant?
Ten Commandments
3a The EGX 30 index is the name of which country's stock market?
Egypt
3b What is the name of Hong Kong's stock market Index?
Hang Seng
4a Which make of car won the Green Award for Car of the Year 2009?
Volvo
4b Which US actor/comedian originally sung "I Wish I Was Eighteen Again"?
George Burns

Round Five
1a Which BBC Radio Lancashire presenter succeeded Tim Gudgin as reader of the sports results on Grandstand and Final Score?
Mike West
1b In which Italian city are the HQ of Ducati motorcycles?
Bologna
2a The rivers Axe, Brue, Cary, Parrett, eta, are in which English county?
Somerset
2b Macula degeneration affects which part of the human body?
Eye
3a For what reason was the tocsin bell rung?
Times of danger
3b Who took over from Gordon Burns on BBC TV's North West Tonight?
Roger Johnson
4a Which American rock band took its name from a pickup truck?
Reo Speedwagon
4b Which patron saint was believed to have lived on locusts and honey?
St. John the Baptist

Round Six
1a What is the national bird of England, and Ireland?
(European) Robin
1b Which WW2 bomber was made entirely of wood?
The Mosquito
2a In the computer term 'RSS' what do the letters `SS' stand for?
Simple Syndication
2b Which US president vetoed the Volstead Act in 1919?
Woodrow Wilson
3a Al Jazeera satellite television is based in which Middle East city?
Doha
3b What is the world's smallest bird?
Bee Hummingbird
4a Which musical term means gradually getting softer?
Diminuendo or Descrescendo
4b Where, within the British Isles, in the world's oldest whiskey distillery?
Bushmills, Co. Antrim

Round Seven
1a The Dutch Super Cup, played between the Eredivisie winners and the winner of the KNVB Cup, is named after which footballer?
Johan Cruyff (Shield)
1b Plovdiv and Varna airports, et al, are in which European country?
Bulgaria
2a Which of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland is called The Navigator', "The Voyager', or The Bold'?
St. Brendan
2b Opera buffa is a formal description of what?
(Italian) Comic Opera
3a Which world famous distillery is in Lynchburg, Tennessee, USA?
Jack Daniels
3b Which German developed the concept of the kindergarten?
(Friedrich) Froebel
4a Tarbes and Pau airports serve which French town?
Lourdes
4b How many member states are there in the European Union?
Twenty Seven

Round Eight
1a Which aircraft is the largest passenger airliner currently in service?
Airbus 380
1b Allium sativum is the Latin name for which vegetable?
Garlic
2a Whose education system lays emphasis on independence, freedom within limits, and respect for a child's psychological development, etc?
(Maria) Montessori
2b What word describes the process of forcing liquid into the strata to split them and prevent them from closing?
Fracking
3a What word describes making beautiful with ornaments, or to decorate, etc?
Embellish
3b Which Austrian scientist was the founder of genetics?
(Gregor Johann) Mendel
4a What name is given to a blood-filled balloon-like bulge in a blood vessel?
Aneurism
4b Which US country music artiste had hits with 'The Carribean' and 'I Wish I Was a Little Bit Younger and Know What I Know Now'?
Mitchell Torok

Spare Questions
1 The daily newspaper The Tennessean' is published in which city?
Nashville
2 Sant Francesc Xavier is the capital of which Balearic island?
Formentera
3 David Moyes played in what position during his football career?
Centre Half