Monday 14th November 2011
Set by Brown Horse Neston (Wirral)

Round 1
1a Shepton Dash in 1961 was the first dog to advertise which product?
Dulux Paint
1b Haematite is an ore of which metal?
Iron
2a Who judged Aphrodite more beautiful than Hera or Athena?
Paris
2b Give any one of Oscar Wilde's middle names.
Fingal, O'Flaherty, Wills
3a From which city do the groups Human League and Def Leppard originate?
Sheffield
3b Clint Reno, Vince Everett and Danny Fisher are roles played in films by whom?
Elvis Presley (Love Me Tender, Jailhouse Rock, King Creole)
4a Who is the Prime Minister of Canada?
Stephen Harper
4b Who was the first Pope of the Roman Catholic Church?
St Peter

Round 2
1a Which greyhound won 32 consecutive races in the 1980s?
Ballyregan Bob
1b The Starlight Barking was a 1967 sequel to which children's novel?
101 Dalmatians
2a What is formed by the confluence of the Ouse and Trent rivers?
Humber (estuary)
2b Valentine, Glaskins Perpetual and Hawke's Champagne are varieties of which food plant?
Rhubarb
3a What is the name of the diacritical mark in Spanish which is placed over a letter 'n' to soften its pronunciation, e.g. in the word 'señor'?
Tilde
3b What was ended by the Treaty of Vereeniging?
The (Second) Boer War
4a Who played the lawyer Miranda Hobbes in the TV series 'Sex and the City'?
Cynthia Nixon
4b The first Butlin's holiday camp opened in 1936 in which resort?
Skegness

Round 3
1a What is the capital of Mali?
Bamako
1b What is the only Scrabble tile with a value not shared by any others?
K (5 points)
2a In a UK political context, what does the acronym COBRA stand for?
Cabinet Office Briefing Room A
2b Philip Harben is considered to be the first of his kind on UK TV. What was his area of expertise?
Chef(accept cookery)
3a What was the first name of the French artist Poussin (1594-1665)?
Nicolas
3b For what product is the city of Carrara in Italy most famous?
Marble
4a What was Michelangelo's family name?
Buonarroti
4b Who sculpted the figure of Eleanor Rigby in Liverpool's Stanley Street?
Tommy Steele

Round 4
1a Which of the United States was the 14th to join the Union (i.e. the first to join after the original 13)?
Vermont
1b Which TV cartoon series contain the characters Meg, Chris, Stewie and Brian the dog?
Family Guy
2a Which team knocked England out of the final stages of the 1962 World Cup?
Brazil (3-1 in the quarter-final)
2b Who was the son of Edward III and father of Henry IV?
John of Gaunt
3a According to Winston Churchill, in a speech of 1946, the Iron Curtain ran from Stettin in the Baltic to which other port?
Trieste
3b In the books by Sue Townsend, Adrian Mole was supposedly born in which English county?
Leicestershire
4a In which constellation is Polaris, the Pole Star?
Ursa Minor
4b What is the country of origin of the Falabella horse?
Argentina

Round 5
1a Who wrote the 19th century detective novel "The Moonstone"?
Wilkie Collins
1b Pica Pica is the Latin name for which bird?
Magpie
2a How many stars are there on the Australian flag?
6
2b In Shakespeare's Macbeth which character speaks the last words of the play?
Malcolm
3a In which city did Field Marshal Freidrich Paulus surrender in January 1943?
Stalingrad
3b The willow tree belongs to which genus?
Salix
4a In Mathematics on a 2-dimensional graph, what is the name given to the point of intersection of the x and y axes?
Origin
4b In the Enid Blyton stories-what is the name of Noddy's house?
House for One

Round 6
1a If a dish includes 'Du Barry' in its name what ingredient does it contain?
Cauliflower
1b What white grapes are used to make champagne?
Chardonnay
2a Which British city's assay office uses a castle as its hallmark for precious metals?
Edinburgh
2b In Milton's 'Paradise Lost' what is the name of the Capital of Hell?
Pandaemonium
3a Which unit of length is equal to 3.26 light years?
Parsec
3b In terms of area which is the smallest US state after Rhode Island?
Delaware
4a Which German island was traded for control of Zanzibar by Great Britain in 1890?
Heligoland
4b Which long running UK TV programme started on 9 December 1960?
Coronation Street

Round 7
1a What was the exact London address of Sherlock Holmes?
221B Baker Street
1b In 1805 Mungo Park was sent to trace the course of which river?
Niger
2a Cornish Yarg cheese is wrapped in the leaves of which plant?
Nettle
2b The internal angles of an octagon add up to how many degrees?
1,080 (135 x 8)
3a What type of creature is a Lion's Mane, found in the Arctic'?
Jellyfish
3b Melissophobia is the fear of what?
Bees
4a Whose symphony No.1 composed in 1916 is known as 'The Classical Symphony'?
Sergei Prokoflev
4b In which newspaper's magazine would you find a problem page called Dr Ozzy?
Sunday Times

Round 8
1a Which writer's autobiography was published in 2010, 100 years after his death as instructed in his will?
Mark Twain
1b In Australian cricket what are 'extras' known as?
Sundries
2a In which country was Roald Dahl born?
Wales
2b What was the name of Sherlock Holmes' elder brother?
Mycroft
3a What sort of creature is a Hoopoe?
Bird
3b Which line on the London Underground has the most stations?
District (60)
4a What is Chiromancy?
Palm Reading
4b Who is the director of the 2010 film "The King's Speech"?
Tom Hooper

Spare Questions
1 Which musician lived at 9 Madryn Street Liverpool?
Ringo Starr
2 What was the middle name of Captain James Kirk?
Tiberius
3 Which short-legged dog was named after the 19th century parson who bred them?
Jack Russell
4 What symbol is used on the House of Commons stationery?
Portcullis
5 Who sculpted "The Gates of Hell" depicting a scene from Dante's Inferno from 1880 until his death in 1917?
Auguste Rodin