Tuesday 18th October 2011
Set by Bookworms (Liverpool)

Round One
1a Who, in Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy of books, is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'?
Lisbeth Salander
1b Who directed the 2005 version of the film "King Kong"?
Peter Jackson
2a What is the French name for the grape that the Australians call Shiraz?
Syrah
2b What name has been given to the previously unknown species of man found in Russia 2010?
Denisovans (found in the Denisova Cave)
3a Which 'literary' nickname has been given to the extinct species of man, discovered in Indonesia 2003, named Homo Floresiensis?
Hobbits
3b Name either of the two cheeses that are layered together to make Huntsman's cheese.
Double Gloucester or Stilton
4a Who directed the 2010 film "127 Hours"?
Danny Boyle
4b In Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons" what is given as Robert Langdon's profession?
Symbologist

Round Two
1a What is the name of the Iron Age stone towers found in Northern Scotland, Orkney, and Shetland?
Brochs
1b From which language do we get the word 'yoga'?
Sanskrit
2a Who wrote the epic poem "The Song of Hiawatha"?
Longfellow
2b "A Shropshire Lad" is a work of poetry by whom?
A. E. Housman
3a Durres is the chief port of which country?
Albania
3b In which US state is the largest Kansas City?
Missouri
4a Having a name associated with another sphere of Soviet history, what is the largest of the lakes found underneath the Antarctic ice?
Lake Vostok
4b Which river flows through Galway City in Ireland?
Corrib

Round Three
1a Which species of deer was introduced to Britain at Woburn in the early 20th century?
Muntjac
1b Who was Britain's first female Home Secretary?
Jacqui Smith
2a Tegel airport serves which European capital city?
Berlin
2b Whose memoirs, published in 2010, were called "A Journey"?
Tony Blair
3a Who is Australia's first female Prime Minister?
Julia Gillard
3b Which is Britain's smallest songbird?
Goldcrest
4a Whose autobiography entitled "The Woman I Was Born To Be" was published in 2010?
Susan Boyle
4b Arlanda airport serves which European capital city?
Stockholm

Round Four
1a What is the name of 'Take That's' 2010 album which marked the return to the band of Robbie Williams?
Progress
1b The chemical element Potassium's symbol K, comes from which Latin word?
Kalium
2a The chemical element Sodium's symbol Na, comes from which Latin word?
Natrium
2b Which artiste had the best-selling single of 2009, with "Poker Face"?
Lady Gaga
3a The Gulls is the nickname of which English Football League team?
Torquay United
3b The Luddite Riots appear in which of Charlotte Bronte's novels?
Shirley
4a The Gordon Riots appear in which of Charles Dickens' novels?
Barnaby Rudge
4b The Bantams is the nickname of which English Football League team?
Bradford City

Round Five
1a What was the name of the official match ball for the 2010 World Cup?
Jabulani
1b Which TV series was filmed in the Irish village of Avoca?
Ballykissangel
2a Whose band was the 'Tijuana Brass'?
Herb Alpert
2b Who described the news of the engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton as 'wicked'?
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
3a What is the name of the business run by Kate Middleton's parents?
Party Pieces
3b Who had an instrumental hit in 1962 with "Telstar"?
The Tornadoes
4a Which TV series was filmed in the Scottish village of Plockton?
Hamish Macbeth
4b The 'Speedcell' was the name of the official match ball in which tournament?
2011 Women's World Cup

Round Six
1a Which river forms a large portion of the frontier between Laos and Thailand?
Mekong
1b At 4132 miles long, which is regarded as the longest river in the world?
Nile
2a What name is given to the yellow fluid that surroundsand lubricates cartilages in joints?
Synovial Fluid
2b In which organ of the body is the pineal gland?
The Brain
3a The Curragh and Punchestown racecourses are in which Irish county?
Co. Kildare
3b In the USA, what date is Groundhog Day?
February 2nd
4a What is the name of Ed Milliband's second son, born in 2010?
Samuel
4b The CEO of which company said in 2010: 'There is no one who wants this over more than I do. I want my life back'?
BP (Tony Hayward)

Round Seven
1a Who played Queen Elizabeth, wife of King George VI, in the 2011 film "The King's Speech"?
Helen Bonham Carter
1b The pop group, The Beautiful South' were formed by twomembers of which earlier group?
The Housemartins
2a What was the title to John Buchan's sequel to "TheThirty Nine Steps"?
Greenmantle
2b Which Archbishop of Canterbury crowned Queen Elizabeth II?
Geoffrey Fisher
3a In the 1960's, whose band was the 'All Stars'?
Junior Walker (accept Lee Curtis)
3b Who played the part of US marshal Rooster Cogburn in the 2011 film "True Grit"?
Jeff Bridges
4a Which Archbishop of Canterbury married Prince Charles and Diana Spencer?
Robert Runcie
4b In which 1873 novel is the chief character pursued by a Scotland Yard detective, called Inspector Fix?
Around the World in Eighty Days

Round Eight
1a Who was the first man to win all four tennis Grand Slam tournaments (though not all in the same year?
Fred Perry
1b Snails, squid, clams, scallops, mussels, etc., all belong to which phylum?
Molluscs
2a Shrimps, barnacles, scorpions, spiders, etc., all belong to which phylum?
Arthropods
2b What nationality was the only non-Australian, US or Swedish man to win the Wimbledon Singles title in the 1970's?
Czech (Jan Kodes)
3a In which US state did the Battle of the Little Bighorn take place in 1876?
Montana
3b What is the maximum width of a football (soccer) pitch?
100 yds (90m)
4a How high is the top of a badminton net above the centre of the court?
5 feet (1.52m)
4b In which US state did the Battle of Yorktown take place in 1781?
Virginia

Spare Questions
1 Who was the first Asian UN Secretary General?
U Thant (Burma)
2 Where is the Burj Khalifa to be found?
Dubai
3 Who did Thomas More succeed as Lord Chancellor?
Thomas Wolsey
4 Name one of the years in which Red Rum won the Aintree Grand National.
1973,1974, 1977