Monday 24th October 2011
Set by Lever Club (Wirral)

Round 1
1a Who was crowned by Pope Leo III on Christmas Day 800?
Charlemagne
1b Saint Emilion, Pomerol, Medoc and Graves are all sub-regions of which wine growing area?
Bordeaux
2a In 1837 who nicknamed Robespierre "The Sea-Green Incorruptible"?
Thomas Carlyle
2b In the works of Beatrix Potter, what kind of creature is Jeremy Fisher?
A Frog
3a What is the connection between the corner shop in Coronation Street and that at 74 North Parade, Grantham, Lincs?
They were both owned at one time by a man called Alf Roberts (Mrs Thatcher's father in Grantham)
3b From 1922-1933, with which School of Art was Wassily Kandinsky particularly associated?
Bauhaus
4a Who became Secretary of the FA in 1978 and its first Chief Executive in 1989?
Graham Kelly
4b To within 2 years each way, when did the first Crusade, launched by Urban II take place?
1096

Round 2
1a What rare event held up both the 1946 and 1947 FA Cup finals?
The ball burst
1b Apart from Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire, what is the only other English county allowed to produce Stilton cheese?
Derbyshire
2a Which 1966/1973 US TV series featured the characters Jim Phelps, Cinnamon Carter and Rollin Hand?
Mission Impossible
2b Who gave JFK a dog called Pushinka in 1961?
Nikita Krushchev
3a In netball, name one of the two positions which are the only ones allowed to score goals?
Goal Shooter and Goal Attack
3b Who was the first Scotsman to appear on a Bank of England banknote?
Adam Smith
4a In which decade were the Nobel Prizes first awarded?
1900s (1901)
4b Which sauce is created with butter, egg yolks, seasoning and lemon juice?
Hollandaise

Round 3
1a In 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female member of what in the United States?
The US Supreme Court
1b Which veteran British singer was born Clive Powell in Leigh, Lancashire in 1943?
Georgie Fame
2a The House of Braganza was the last line of monarchs in which European country?
Portugal
2b Which character from a comic strip had the real name Marmaduke, Earl of Bunkerton?
Lord Snooty
3a In 1998, who, at the age of 77 became the eldest person ever to go into space?
John Glenn
3b Who benefited from Queen Anne's Bounty?
Poor clergymen
4a Who won the 1978 Booker Prize with the novel The Sea, The Sea'?
Iris Murdoch
4b Which South-East Asian country has nine state royal families, each of whose head takes it in turn to be King?
Malaysia

Round 4
1a What is produced by the Haber Process?
Ammonia
1b Which is the only Shakespeare play in which an animal's name appears in the title?
The Taming of the Shrew
2a The Italian wine-growing area which produces Soave, Bardolino, Valpolicella and Prosecco wines is centred on which Italian city?
Venice (accept The Veneto or Venezia)
2b Who was king of Libya when it obtained independence in 1951?
Idris (I)
3a Which plant (Latin name crataegus) is also called the May Tree, since this is the month in which it blooms?
Hawthorn
3b What links Dione, Mundilfari, Bestia, Skoll and Fenrir?
They are all moons of Saturn
4a When was the first stamp, the Penny Black, issued in Britain?
1840
4b What colour belt is worn by a novice in judo?
White

Round 5
1a What links 1st January 1660 and 31st May 1669?
First and last entries in Samuel Pepys's diaries
1b Belfast lies at the mouth of which river?
River Lagan
2a What is the largest active volcano in Europe?
Mount Etna
2b Which Englishman (680-755) is known as The Apostle of Germany?
Saint Boniface
3a Which cocktail, half gin, half lime juice shares it name with a small handtool?
Gimlet
3b Which Royal Navy ship, later the subject of a famous painting, played an important part in the Battle of Trafalgar?
(The Fighting) Temeraire
4a Originally a symbol of St Peter and now featured on the flag of the Vatican, which emblem is often used as a pub sign in Britain?
The Cross Keys
4b A wisp or walk is the collective noun for which group of birds? Latin name gallinago gallinago.
Snipe

Round 6
1a What moved to Nine Elms in 1974?
Covent Garden Market
1b Which board game for two players originating in China and popular in Japan uses black/white stones on a 19x19 grid.
Go
2a Who, according to legend, cut the Gordian Knot?
Alexander the Great
2b Jose and Raul were the Christian names of which Chess player - World Champion from 1921-1927?
Capablanca
3a Who was the beautiful girl loved by Eros in Greek mythology? Her name means 'spirit' or 'life' in Greek.
Psyche
3b Which British athlete won gold medals in both the 800m and the 1500m at the 2004 Olympics?
Kelly Holmes
4a Troglodytes troglodytes is the scientific name of which bird?
(European)Wren
4b According to legend, on which Mediterranean island did the Cyclops, Polyphemus, live?
Sicily

Round 7
1a Which English painter had a pug called Trump?
William Hogarth
1b On which island was footballer Christiano Ronaldo born?
Madeira
2a What was the name of the BP oil drilling rig which exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010?
Deepwater Horizon
2b In Greek mythology which king of Corinth was compelled to eternally roll a large boulder up a hill only to watch it roll down again?
Sisyphus
3a Which 1874 novel has the subtitle "A Study of Provincial Life"?
Middlemarch
3b Which astronomer (1473-15.43) formulated the theory which is accepted as having first placed the Sun at the centre of the solar system?
Copernicus
4a William Foulke, Sheffield United's goalkeeper at the start of the 20th century, is reputed to be the first player to have what chanted at him?
"Who ate all the pies?" (He reached 24 stone during his playing career!)
4b The title character of which TV detective series has not put in an appearance on the show for over 16 years?
Taggart (Mark McManus died 1994)

Round 8
1a What links Rachid, Langton, Hunt and Barlow?
Surnames of Deirdre in Coronation Street
1b Which war was ended by the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth?
The Russo-Japanese War
2a "Love Never Dies" is the sequel to which stage musical?
Phantom of the Opera
2b What name is given to the wedge-shaped writing of the Sumerian and Hittite civilisations?
Cuneiform (script)
3a Who directed the 1960 film 'Spartacus'?
Stanley Kubrick
3b What was the surname of the Italian 13th/14th century poet Dante?
Alighieri
4a Which German mathematician developed the theory of calculus at about the same time as, but independently of, Isaac Newton?
(Gottfried) Liebnitz
4b Which instrument features a whammy bar?
(Electric) Guitar

Spare Questions
1 In literature who was the weaver of Raveloe?
Silas Marner
2 Which game features a doubling cube?
Backgammon
3 'Tarantula' is which singer's only novel?
Bob Dylan