Monday 14th March 2011
Set by Warrington

Round 1
1a Which British city is known as Auld Reekie?
Edinburgh
1b In Einstein's famous equation e = mc2, what does 'c' represent?
Speed of light
2a Who played the female lead in the film 'Casablanca'?
Ingrid Bergman
2b Which American singer sang many novelty songs including A Little Bitty Tear, On Top of Old Smoky and The Ugly Bug Ball?
Burl Ives
3a In boy's books and comics, who was known as the Owl of the Remove?
Billy Bunter
3b In the Just William books, what is the name of William's gang?
The Outlaws
4a Which planet gets its name from the Greek word for sky?
Uranus
4b Who won Britain's only Gold Medal at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver?
Amy Williams

Round 2
1a The first man to compete a return flight across the Channel in 1910, was one half of which famous partnership?
(Charles Rolls of) Rolls Royce
1b What is the capital of Belarus?
Minsk
2a Which hat gets its name from a novel written in 1894?
Trilby
2b From which Cornish lifeboat station was the Solomon Browne and all its crew lost in 1981?
Penlee (accept Mousehole)
3a What is the first name of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?
Victor
3b For which county cricket team did Graham Gooch play?
Essex
4a Which was the first breakfast cereal, invented by Henry Perky in the USA in 1893?
Shredded Wheat
4b What are cicely and borage?
Herbs (accept Plants)

Round 3
1a "Stolen from Africa, brought to America" is a lyric from which Bob Marley song?
Buffalo Soldier
1b Who played the part of naturalist Dian Fossey in the 1988 film Gorillas in the Mist?
Sigourney Weaver
2a Which form of word puzzle is also the name of a fictional detective?
Rebus
2b What is the job of Templegate in the Sun, Robin Goodfellow in the Daily Mail and Newsboy in the Daily Mirror?
Racing Tipsters
3a What career did Gordon Ramsey attempt before he became a chef?
Footballer
3b The Aztec city Tenochtitlan was on the site of which modern city?
Mexico City
4a Who or what are the subjects of Landseer's painting Dignity and Impudence?
(Two) Dogs
4b Two Dogs was the brand name of the first of which kind of drink to be introduced into the UK?
Alcopop (or FAB, flavoured alcoholic beverage or RTD)

Round 4
1a Who is the subject of the photograph Guerillero Heroico, taken by Alberto Korda in 1960?
Che Guevara
1b Which New York building was the first to top 1000 feet and remains the tallest brick building in the world?
Chrysler Building
2a What is the name given to a particle of light?
Photon
2b Which hat gets its name from a play written by French playwright Victorien Sardou in 1882?
Fedora
3a For which county cricket team did Mike Gatting play?
Middlesex
3b In the folklore of which European country does Black Peter accompany St Nicholas to bring sweets etc on December 6th?
Holland (accept Belgium)
4a Which famous rock guitarist has the nickname slowhand'?
Eric Clapton
4b What is the forename of the composer Monteverdi?
Claudio

Round 5
1a Who was known in France, for a short period up to his death, as Louis Capet?
Louis 16th
1b Which is the only football club to reach three or more FA Cup Finals only to lose them all? Leicester City (they've reached 4 finals)
2a What type of fruit is a Jargonelle?
Pear
2b What, specifically, is the gambling connection between Portman Park, Sprintvalley and Steepledowns?
Virtual (or computerised) Race Courses
3a What was Delia Smith's job before she became famous for cookery?
Hairdresser (also shop assistant or travel agent)
3b The city of Thebes was on the site of which modern city?
Luxor
4a Which item of confectionary was introduced in 1935 as Chocolate Crisp?
Kit Kat
4b What is the forename of the composer Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Alessandro

Round 6
1a Che Guevara was involved in revolution/social reform in Guatemala, Cuba, Congo and Bolivia but in which country was he born?
Argentina
1b Which New York building was the world's tallest from 1913 until the Chrysler Building, it was built as the corporate HQ of which company?
Woolworth
2a Name the process by which light bends when passing through materials of differing densities?
Refraction
2b If a leaf is cordate, what shape is it?
Heart shaped
3a Which five-letter word can mean to shoot at, to criticise or as a noun for a species of wading bird with a long straight bill?
Snipe
3b In the folklore of which European country does Krampus accompany St Nicholas to punish bad children on December 6th?
Austria
4a In which famous detective story of 1934 does Samuel Edward Ratchett die?
Murder on the Orient Express
4b During rapid exercise, people sometimes feel a burning and heavy sensation in their muscles (a 'stitch), which acid is responsible?
Lactic Acid

Round 7
1a Which is the last club to win the FA Cup in three consecutive years?
Blackburn Rovers (1884-1886)
1b In myth, who gave Midas the power to turn all he touched into gold?
Dionysus
2a Who directed the film Titanic?
James Cameron
2b In which UK town or city is the Titanic Brewery?
Stoke-on-Trent
3a The £20 note that featured Edward Elgar also featured a picture of which cathedral?
Worcester
3b Which four-letter word can be a noun meaning blood from a wound, a triangular piece of cloth such as a heel of a sock or as a verb meaning to pierce with horns?
Gore
4a Which language, when written, has an upside down question mark to denote the beginning of a question?
Spanish
4b What is the name of the small piece of paper created when a hole is punched in a sheet of paper?
Chad

Round 8
1a In which English cathedral is the Angel Stone which dates back to 700 and a carved misericord called the Rabbit's Revenge?
Manchester
1b Phalaenoptilus nuttallii is unique as a bird in that it undergoes a form of hibernation, to which family of birds does it belong?
Nightjar
2a What name is given to the material between the Earth's crust and its core?
Mantle
2b The Mantoux Test is a diagnostic tool for which disease?
Tuberculosis (TB)
3a Which Verdi opera is based on Victor Hugo's Le Roi S'Amuse?
Rigoletto
3b The £10 note that featured Charles Dickens included a scene from which of his books?
Pickwick Papers
4a An increased level of which acid is responsible for the medical condition gout?
Uric acid
4b What is the name for a twisting groove down the inside of the barrel of some guns?
Rifle or rifling

Spare Questions
1 The Murphy's Cup, Double Diamond International, Piccadilly Medal and Lawrence Batley International have all, in recent years, been top events in which sport?
Golf
2 Which Scottish Palace is home to the Earls of Mansfield?
Scone
3 The University of French Polynesia stands on which island?
Tahiti