Monday 17th October 2011
Set by Roundheads (Wirral)

Round 1
1a Who preceded Willie Bain as MP for Glasgow North East?
Michael Martin
1b Lisa Dobriskey is a world silver medallist in which athletics event?
1500m
2a What geological period, named after an English county, was 416-360 million years ago?
Devonian
2b In which modern English county did the Trinovantes live?
Essex (accept Suffolk/Greater London)
3a Which predominantly American grape variety is genetically identical to the southern Italian grape Primitivo?
Zinfandel
3b Who cut off the tails of the Three Blind Mice?
The Farmer's Wife
4a Which monarch said 'Will no-one rid me of this turbulent priest'?
Henry II
4b In the equation E=MC2 what does the letter 'C' stand for?
Speed of light

Round 2
1a What kind of bird appears on the flag of Papua New Guinea?
Bird of Paradise
1b Krakatoa is part of which country?
Indonesia
2a The Gracie Fields Theatre opened in which town in 1978?
Rochdale
2b What kind of creature is a Bonobo?
Ape (accept Chimpanzee)
3a Which science fiction author invented the 3 Laws of Robotics?
Isaac Asimov
3b Who wrote the 1955 novel 'The Ginger Man'?
J P Donleavy
4a In which opera does the Chief of Police Scarpia appear?
Tosca
4b What was the former name of Suriname in South America?
Dutch Guiana

Round 3
1a What kind of creature is a White Leghorn?
Chicken (accept Hen/Poultry or equivalent)
1b In Greek Mythology what was the name of the prophetess daughter of Priam whose predictions were never believed?
Cassandra
2a Who was President of the USA 1953-1961?
Dwight DEisenhower
2b Which is the third oldest UK University?
St Andrews
3a Who in 1979 published a collection of short stories called 'Tales of the Unexpected'?
Roald Dahl
3b Who became chief women's wear designer at Christian Dior in October 1996?
John Galliano
4a In Holst's Planets Suite which was the bringer of old age?
Saturn
4b Which fictional schoolboy is the eponymous subject of books by Francesca Simon?
Horrid Henry

Round 4
1a Which computer company was set up in 1968 by Alan Sugar?
Amstrad
1b Inspector Fix is a character in which book?
Around the World in 80 Days
2a In which National Park is the geyser Old Faithful?
Yellowstone
2b In which 1939 play, later a film, do two old ladies poison guests in their home and bury them in the cellar?
Arsenic and Old Lace
3a Which Channel 4 horse racing pundit is famous for his deerstalker and large-sideburns?
John McCririck
3b What name was given to Mustapha Kemal after he became Dictator of Turkey in 1935?
Ataturk
4a Crusaders Rugby League Club are based in which town?
Wrexham
4b What Gaelic word which means 'bad ale' is given to an unlicensed Irish drinking house?
Shebeen

Round 5
1a Who married Samantha Gwendoline Sheffield in 1996?
David Cameron
1b Matthew Syed was a British champion in which sport?
Table Tennis
2a What geological period, named after European mountains, was from 200-145 million years ago?
Jurassic
2b Which modern English county did the Iceni inhabit?
Norfolk (accept Suffolk, Cambridgeshire)
3a Which is the main red grape of Chianti wine?
Sangiovese
3b In what did the Owl and the Pussycat keep their money and honey?
£5 note
4a In which city were most of the French kings traditionally crowned?
Rheims
4b What name was given to the research/development programme led by the United States that produced the first atomic bomb 1942/1946?
Manhattan Project

Round 6
1a What kind of bird appears on the flag of Uganda?
(Crowned) Crane
1b Santorini is part of which country?
Greece
2a Who was British Prime Minister from 1922-23, shortly before he died?
Bonar Law
2b What kind of creature is a kakapo?
Parrot
3a Which company devised a walking robot called Asimo?
Honda
3b In which Thomas Hardy novel does Michael Henchard appear?
Mayor of Casterbridge
4a In which opera does the character Lieutenant Pinkerton appear?
Madama Butterfly
4b Which island is particularly associated with the artist Paul Gauguin?
Tahiti (accept Marquesas, Atuona or Hiva Oa)

Round 7
1a What t yoe of creature is a copperhead?
Snake
1b Who-succeeded Claudius as Emperor of Rome in AD 54?
Nero
2a In connection the US Constitution what was the effect of the 18th Amendment?
Prohibition (1920)
2b Which educational establishment did Thomas Arnold describe as 'the godless institution of Gower Street'?
University College London (accept London University)
3a What is the name of the Chief Inspector featured in many RuthRendell novels e.g. Road Rage?
Reg Wexford
3b Which character who featured in the first ever edition of the radio programme 'The Archers' "died" in February 2010?
Phil Archer
4a From which Shakespeare play do the lines 'Sans teeth, sans taste, sans everything' come?
As You Like It
4b When he is staying with the Dursleys in which county does Harry Potter live?
Surrey(Little Whinging)

Round 8
1a Which computer technology corporation is nicknamed 'Big Blue'?
IBM
1b Which novel tells the story of the Joad family?
The Grapes of Wrath
2a In the forecourt of which Los Angeles theatre would you see the hand and footprints of famous film stars?
Grauman's Chinese Theatre
2b Which Alfred Hitchcock film reaches its climax on Mount Rushmore?
North by Northwest
3a Carrie Fisher is the daughter of which actress?
Debbie Reynolds
3b Which English poet was drowned in a boating accident off Leghorn, Italy in 1822?
P B Shelley
4a Nowroz Mangal is the captain of which international cricket team?
Afghanistan
4b In which mountains does the Loire river rise?
Cevennes

Spare Questions
1 In what year was the Wall Street Crash?
1929
2 Which Russian author wrote the play 'The Lower Depths'?
Maxim Gorky
3 What is the state capital of California?
Sacramento
4 The Rub' Al-Khali Desert is found mostly in which country?
Saudi Arabia