Monday 31st October 2011
Set by Roundheads (Wirral)

Round 1
1a In which city is Nevil Road County Cricket Ground?
Bristol
1b Who succeeded Tsar Alexander III in 1894?
Nicholas II
2a What was the real name of Lewis Carroll?
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
2b Guy Fawkes was born and schooled in which English city?
York
3a Which sport is supervised in Scotland by the Camanachd Association?
Shinty
3b What is the star sign for the date of the Battle of Trafalgar?
Libra (21 October)
4a What mathematical instrument was invented by William Oughtred in 1622?
Slide Rule
4b What is the name of Long John Silver's parrot in Treasure Island?
Captain Flint

Round 2
1a Paddington Bear lives with which family?
Browns
1b Which US city is nicknamed 'Beantown'?
Boston
2a Which Berkshire town is best known for its racecourse, and the adjoining airbase at Greenham Common?
Newbury
2b There are believed to be over 1,000 languages spoken on which island?
New Guinea
3a Flatmates Felix Unger and Oscar Madison are the central characters in which play, film and TV series?
The Odd Couple
3b In what year did Clement Attlee become leader of the Labour Party?
1935
4a Which large domesticated bird has the Latin name meleagris gallopavo?
Turkey
4b Naiad and Proteus are two of the thirteen moons of which planet?
Neptune

Round 3
1a Element 112, Cn, is named after which astronomer?
Copernicus
1b The Bir Tawil Triangle lies between two countries, neither of which claims it. Name either.
Egypt or Sudan
2a What organisation was founded by William Alexander Smith in 1883 in Glasgow?
Boys Brigade
2b The scientific suffix -ose indicates the presence of what type of carbohydrate?
Sugar
3a What sort of trees belong to the genus 'quercus'?
Oaks
3b Which candidate in the Labour leadership election of 2010 is MP for Leigh?
Andy Burnham
4a The archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann Is most famous for his excavations of which ancient city?
Troy (accept Mycenae)
4b 'Wing finger' is the literal meaning of which extinct reptile?
Pterodactyl

Round 4
1a In World War I, what name was given to the vast system of defences in N E France stretching from Lens to Verdun?
Hindenburg Line (accept Siegfried Line)
1b What is the title of the book (published 1954) which is considered to be a parody of Ballantyne's 'Coral Island'?
Lord of the Flies
2a What is the name of the first opera in Wagner's four opera Ring Cycle?
Das Rheingold
2b Which mammal has types called Siberian and Bengal?
Tiger
3a In Greek mythology for what offence was Prometheus chained to a rock?
For giving humans fire (or stealing it from the gods!)
3b Which members of the deer family are unique in that both male and female have antlers?
Reindeer or Caribou
4a Which British Prime Minister was born in Canada in 1858, the only one born outside the British Isles?
(Andrew) Bonar Law
4b Which baseball star is mentioned in the lyrics of Simon and Garfunkel's hit "Mrs Robinson"?
Joe di Maggio

Round 5
1a In which city is New Road County Cricket Ground?
Worcester
1b In 1969 which Irish woman became Britain's youngest ever female MP?
Bernadette Devlin
2a What was the surname of the Alice - the inspiration of Alice in Wonderland?
Liddell
2b Mswati III is the king of which African country?
Swaziland
3a Adria Airways is the airline of which former Yugoslav state?
Slovenia
3b What is the star sign of the date of the Battle of Waterloo?
Gemini (18 June)
4a What was the first Apollo mission to leave Earth orbit and orbit the moon, in 1968?
Apollo 8
4b What is Miss Marple's first name?
Jane

Round 6
1a What is the name of Harry Potter's godfather, played on film by Gary Oldman?
Sirius Black
1b Which US city is nicknamed 'The Big Orange'?
Los Angeles
2a In which wine region is the Hospice de Beaune held annually where wines are auctioned in November?
Burgundy (accept Cotes de Beaune or Cote D'Or)
2b The explorer Hanno of Carthage explored which region?
(West) Africa
3a In the forecourt of which Los Angeles theatre would you see the handand footprints of famous film stars?
Grauman's Chinese Theatre (accept Mann's Chinese Theatre)
3b In what year did Harold Macmillan introduce Premium Bonds?
1956
4a Which insect-useful commercially-has the Latin name bombyx mori?
Silkworm
4b Callisto and Io are moons of which planet?
Jupiter

Round 7
1a Element 101, Md, is named after which Russian chemist?
Mendeleev
1b What is the capital of the Republic of South Sudan?
Juba
2a What does the 'M' stand for in the international Scouting body WOSM?
(World Organisation of Scouting) Movements
2b The scientific suffix -ase indicates the presence of what type of protein?
Enzyme
3a What sort of plants belong to the genus Ilex?
Holly
3b Which candidate in the 2010 Labour leadership elections is MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington?
Diane Abbott
4a The archaeologist SirArthur Evans is most famous for his excavations concerning which civilisation?
Minoan
4b 'Fish lizard' is the literal meaning of which extinct reptile's name?
Ichthyosaur

Round 8
1a Where did Generals Ludendorff and Hindenburg crush the Russian armies in August 1914?
Tannenberg
1b Who was the predecessor of Cecil Day Lewis as Poet Laureate?
John Masefield
2a Mussorgsky's opera 'Boris Godunov' was based on a play by whom?
Alexander Pushkin
2b Which mammal has a name which means 'river horse' in Greek?
Hippopotamus
3a In mythology how long was Troy besieged?
10 years
3b What play was President Lincoln watching the night he was assassinated in 1865?
Our American Cousin
4a Who was the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated?
Spencer Perceval
4b 'Hello darkness my old friend' are the first words of which Simon and Garfunkel song?
The Sound of Silence

Spare Questions
1 In the film Psycho what is the name of the deranged murderer?
Norman Bates
2 What computer virus of the mid 1990s was named after an Italian artist?
Michelangelo
3 Who wrote the novel 'Fahrenheit 451' in 1953?
Ray Bradbury