Monday 21st March 2011
Set by Ormskirk

ROUND 1
1a Who was the only female in the 2010 Labour Leadership contest?
DIANE ABBOTT
1b Which river flows through Ipswich?
ORWELL
2a Who invented the bifocal lens in the 1780s?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
2b Which actress was Bette Davis referring to when she said 'She slept with every male star at MGM except Lassie'?
JOAN CRAWFORD
3a Which motor manufacturer owns `Lexus' and markets it as an executive brand?
TOYOTA
3b Which Saints legend scored the last ever competitive try at Knowsley Road, the former home of
St Helens RLFC?
KEIRON CUNNINGHAM
4a Who wrote the cycle of twelve novels known collectively as 'A Dance to the Music of Time'?
ANTHONY POWELL
4b What does 'Da Capo' mean on a musical score?
FROM THE BEGINNING

ROUND 2
1a What was the name of the last steam locomotive built for British Railways in 1960?
EVENING STAR
1b Australia won the most gold medals (74) at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Which nation came second with 38 gold medals?
INDIA
2a What is the name of the raven in Dickens' Barnaby Rudge'?
GRIP
2b Give a year in the life of the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Durer.
1471 - 1528
3a The Australian city of Adelaide is named after which English King's wife?
WILLIAM IV
3b Which country is the fifth largest in the world by land area - smaller than the USA and Canada, but larger than Australia?
BRAZIL
4a In 2009 which celebrity ran the equivalent of 43 marathons in 52 days?
EDDIE IZZARD
4b Which Channel 4 sitcom is set at Rudge Park Comprehensive school?
THE INBETWEENERS

ROUND 3
1a Which Channel 4 sit-corn is set in the offices of Reynholm Industries?
THE IT CROWD
1b Who is the lone, long-time anti-war protester in Parliament Square?
BRIAN HAW
2a Which country, a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, has its highest point only 8 feet above sea level?
REPUBLIC OF MALDIVES
2b The American state of Maryland is named after which English King's wife?
CHARLES I
3a Who sculpted 'St Michael's Victory over the Devil' in Coventry Cathedral?
JACOB EPSTEIN
3b What is the name of the dog in 'Three Men in a Boat'?
MONTMORENCY
4a Athletes from which nation won both the men's and women's marathons at the 2010 Commonwealth Games?
KENYA
4b Who designed the A4 class of steam locomotive, which included Mallard, the world steam train record holder?
SIR NIGEL GRESLEY

ROUND 4
1a What does the musical term `Graziosa' mean?
GRACEFULLY
1b Who painted the picture 'A Dance to the Music of Time', now in the Wallace Collection in London?
NICHOLAS POUSSIN
2a Which Saints legend scored the last ever competitive goal at The Dell, the former home of
Southampton FC?
MATTHEW LE TISSIER
2b Which motor manufacturer patented the 3 point seat belt?
VOLVO
3a Which actress said 'I used to be Snow White but I drifted'?
MAE WEST
3b Who invented the fountain pen in 1884?
LEWIS WATERMAN
4a Which river flows through Newport in Gwent?
USK
4b Which Liberal Democrat was MP for Montgomeryshire until he lost the seat in the 2010 General Election?
LEMBIT OPIK

ROUND 5
1a Iapetus is a moon of which planet?
SATURN
1b With which Scottish club did Sir Alex Ferguson begin his managerial career?
EAST STIRLING(SHIRE)
2a, In Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' with whom is Romeo in love before he meets Juliet?
ROSALINE
2b The cantata `Belshazzar's Feast' and the suite 'Facade' were written by which British composer?
WILLIAM WALTON
3a What was the family name of the man who became Prime Minister under the title Lord Liverpool?
JENKINSON
3b What is the main town or city on the island of Tobago?
SCARBOROUGH
4a What was the real first name of the musician known as 'Fats' Waller?
THOMAS (or WRIGHT)
4b Which US comedy, created by Chuck Lone and Bill Prady features four hopelessly geeky physicists?
THE BIG BANG THEORY

ROUND 6
1a Latterly used regularly as the theme for TV Grand National coverage, who wrote the music for the 1983 film 'Champions'?
CARL DAVIS
1b How were the group of authors of the late 1950s including Kingsley Amis, John Osborne, John Braine and Alan Sillitoe known collectively?
ANGRY YOUNG MEN
2a What is the name of the County Cricket Ground in Swansea?
ST HELENS
2b What surname goes with the forename John in the USA to represent the name of a dead body whose identity is unknown?
DOE
3a Tony Hutchinson, played by Nick Pickard, is the only surviving character of the original cast of what soap opera?
HOLLYOAKS
3b The contact process is the most common method of manufacturing which chemical? SULPHURIC ACID
4a What is the highest mountain in the North American continent?
MOUNT MCKINLEY (accept DENALI)
4b Which medieval kingdom of the 6th-8th centuries occupied what is now the Midlands south of the Ribble estuary?
MERCIA

ROUND 7
1a Who writes the original stories on which the Swedish TV series Wallander is based?
HENNING MANKELL
1b What was the real first name of the actor/comedian known as `Groucho' Marx?
JULIUS (or HENRY)
2a What is the main town or city on the island of Gozo?
VICTORIA
2b What was the family name of the man who became Prime Minister under the title Lord Melbourne?
LAMB
3a Which British composer's work `Sinfonia Antartica' was based on the music he had written for the film `Scott of the Antarctic'?
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
3b In Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet', Juliet's father makes the arrangement for his daughter to many whom?
PARIS
4a With which English club did Bill Shankly begin his managerial career?
CARLISLE UNITED
4b Of which planet is Desdemona a satellite?
URANUS

ROUND 8
1a The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria was formed by the merger of two smaller kingdoms.
Name either.
BERNICIA or DEIRA
1b In which country is Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa?
TANZANIA
2a The Haber process is the most common method of manufacturing which chemical?
AMMONIA
2b Played by Richard Thorp since 1982, who is the longest-surviving character in TV's `Emmerdale'?
ALAN TURNER
3a What surname goes with the forename John in the USA to represent a slang term for someone's signature?
HANCOCK
3b What is the name of the County Cricket Ground in Canterbury?
ST LAWRENCE
4a Which current US writer has been dubbed 'The world's best-known poison-pen biographer'?
KITTY KELLEY
4b Although some Gilbert & Sullivan tunes also appear, who wrote the majority of the score for the 1981 film 'Chariots Of Fire'?
VANGELIS

SPARE QUESTIONS
1 The real James Bond, from whom Ian Fleming took the name, wrote a book on what?
BIRDS (OF THE WEST INDIES)
2 In which decade did the monarch's head first appear on British banknotes?
1960s
3 As in werewolf and weregeld, what does the Anglo Saxon word 'were' mean?
MAN
4 The Large Hadron Collider is contained in which laboratory in Geneva?
CERN