Monday 14th February 2011
Set by Warrington

Round 1
1a Which London building has the postcode SW1A IAA?
Buckingham Palace
1b Which is the oldest part of the Palace of Westminster, dating back to 1097?
Westminster Hall
2a What was the name of the amorous skunk in the 'Looney Tunes' cartoons?
Pepe le Pew
2b Bert Trautmann was the first German to be voted the Football Writer's Footballer of the Year, who is the only other German to win (in 1995)?
Jurgen Klinsmann
3a What was the forename of the Marxist theorist Trotsky?
Leon
3b What kind of creature is a loon?
Bird (a diver)
4a Name the female impressionist who appears on TV in Alistair McGowan's 'Big Impression'?
Ronni Ancona
4b What name is given to the coast between Orcombe Point near Exmouth and Old Harry Rocks near Swanage?
Jurassic Coast

Round 2
1a Which is the third book of the Bible?
Leviticus
1b 'Greenmantle' is a sequel to which famous book?
The Thirty-Nine Steps
2a Amy Winehouse, Stevie Winwood and The Zutons have all had hits with songs that have which girl's name as the title?
Valerie
2b Before St George was adopted as Patron Saint of England in the early Middle Ages, which saint was regarded as England's patron?
St Edward the Confessor
3a What kind of creature is a blenny?
Fish
3b Which well known solvent has the chemical formula C6H6?
Benzene
4a The song 'Sit Down You're Rocking The Boat' comes from which musical?
Guys and Dolls
4b Launched in 1981, what was the name of the first space shuttle?
Columbia

Round 3
1a Chuck Connors starred as Lucas McCain in which famous TV series of the 50s and 60s?
The Rifleman
1b Ben Macdhui, Scotland's second highest peak is in which range of hills?
Cairngorms
2a Which London theatre was opened in 1881 specifically to stage the production of Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas?
Savoy
2b The Ford Mondeo replaced the Sierra in the early 1990s, which model had the Sierra replaced in 1982?
Cortina
3a Manchego cheese is made in which country?
Spain
3b What was the forename of German World War 2 Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop?
Joachim
4a The railway line between Exeter and Barnstaple is named after the title character of which book?
Tarka (the Otter)
4b Which former Coronation Street actress appears as an impressionist on the Impressions Shaw with Jon Culshaw?
Debra Stephenson

Round 4
1a Which range of hills straddles the border between Northumberland and the Scottish borders?
Cheviots
1b In the Bible, which land is described in Genesis as 'stretching from Gaza to Sidon'?
Canaan
2a Which English saint was King of Northumbria, and died in battle against the armies of Penda, King of Mercia in 642?
St Oswald
2b Which TV cartoon character had friends called Muskie and Vince?
Deputy Dawg
3a Which common weak acid has the chemical formula CH3COOH?
Acetic Acid
3b The 'Promenade des Anglais' runs along the Mediterranean shoreline of which town or city?
Nice
4a Which King of England was a son of John of Gaunt?
Henry 4th
4b The song 'They Call The Wind Maria' comes from which musical?
Paint Your Wagon

Round 5
1a Barbara Stanwyck starred as Victoria Barkley in which famous TV series of the 1960s?
The Big Valley
1b Which Bizet opera was based on a story by Prosper Merimee?
Carmen
2a Barry Ryan and The Damned both had hits with songs that have which girl's name as the title?
Eloise
2b The Ford Focus replaced which model from 1998?
Escort
3a Haiti shares the island of Hispaniola with which country?
Dominican Republic
3b Which holiday resort is the largest on the Costa Blanca?
Benidorm
4a Give a year in the life of the celebrated Naples-born sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, whose works adorn St Peter's in Rome?
1598 to 1680
4b Which German battle cruiser accompanied her sister ship, the Scharnhorst in the Channel Dash of February 1942?
Gneisenau

Round 6
1a Who was the French artist (1839-1906) whose painting 'The Card Players' is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York?
Paul Cezanne
1b Which 60s group was made up of Ronnie Lane, Kenny Jones, Ian McLagan and Steve Marriott?
Small Faces
2a What is the name of the very light carriage pulled by a horse in a trotting race?
Sulky
2b Miriam Gonzalez Durantez is married to which politician?
Nick Clegg
3a The model Sophie Dahl is married to which singer?
Jamie Cullum
3b Trotting is the horse's gait when the front left and rear right legs move together, what is the name given to the gait when both legs on one side of the body move together?
Pacing
4a Which 60s group was made up of Alan Clarke, Bobby Elliott, Eric Haydock, Tony Hicks and Graham Nash?
The Hollies
4b What do Dennis Tito, Mark Shuttleworth, Gregory Olsen, Anousheh Ansari and three other people have in common?
Space tourists (paid for a flight in space)

Round 7
1a What, according to Paradise Lost, is the capital of Hell?
Pandemonium
1b Which telephone service began in July 1937?
999 emergency service
2a Which London theatre derives its name from its 1961 purchase by theatre impresario Donald Albery and dancer Margot Fonteyn?
Donmar Warehouse
2b Which type of horse-drawn carriage took its name from a 19th century MP and Lord Chancellor?
Brougham
3a A statue of which poet stands on a platform of London's St Pancras station?
John Betjeman
3b The 'Boulevard de la Croisette ' runs along the Mediterranean shoreline of which town or city?
Cannes
4a Which German ship accompanied the Bismarck on its only voyage into the Atlantic when it sank HMS Hood? It also took part in the Channel Dash of 1942.
Prinz Eugen
4b Give a year in the life of Florentine painter and architect Giotto di Bondoni, known as Giotto?
1266 to 1337

Round 8
1a Who was arrested, whilst living under the name John Palmer, as a suspected horse thief and executed in 1739?
Dick Turpin
1b Who was the French artist (1798-1863) whose painting 'Liberty Leading the People' is in the Louvre?
Eugene Delacroix
2a In which town or city is the HQ of the National Trust?
Swindon
2b Johnny Carey was the first Republic of Ireland player to be voted the Football Writer's Footballer of the Year, who is the only other to win (in 2000)?
Roy Keane
3a Cambazola cheese is made in which country?
Germany
3b A statue of which poet stands in Hull's Paragon station?
Philip Larkin
4a Which King of England was a son of Edward, the Black Prince?
Richard II
4b The board game 'Reversi' is also marketed under which name?
Othello

Spare Questions
1 Which Roman Emperor called the Council of Nicaea in 325?
Constantine
2 There are four copies of Magna Carta, two are in the British Library, one in Salisbury Cathedral, where is the other?
Lincoln Cathedral
3 Shogi is the Japanese version of which game?
Chess