Monday 26th September 2011
Set by Warrington

Round 1
1a Who, according to the song, left Kenny Rogers with 'four hungry children and crops in the fields?
LUCILLE
1b In the French original of 'Magic Roundabout, the character Pollux had a sweet tooth, what name did the character have in the English version?
DOUGAL
2a Whose 2010 autobiography is called 'Smile though your heart is breaking'?
PAULINE PRESCOTT
2b .Which Rugby Union team was implicated in the 'Bloodgate' scandal of April 2009?
HARLEQUINS
3a Ramon Mercader assassinated which C20th leader?
Leon TROTSKY
3b Who has written a series of books featuring the character Jack Reacher?
LEE CHILD
4a Cain't Say No' is a song in which musical?
OKLAHOMA
4b Name the smallest province in Canada.
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

Round 2
1a In 1942, which American painted 'Nighthawks'?
EDWARD HOPPER
1b Who is the paternal grandmother of Prince Charles?
PRINCESS ANDREW of GREECE (or Princess Alice of Battenberg)
2a Name either of Edinburgh's Premier League football teams.
HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN or HIBERNIAN
2b Maudie Littlehampton appeared in whose pocket cartoons in the Daily Express?
OSBERT LANCASTER
3a What name is given to a golden horse with a white mane and tail?
PALOMINO
3b Who was Poet Laureate during World War 1?
ROBERT BRIDGES
4a Who founded the Theatre Union in 1936 and the Theatre Workshop in 1945 (both in Manchester)?
JOAN LITTLEWOOD
4b In Greek mythology who fell from Pegasus as he attempted to fly to Mount Olympus, the realm of the gods?
BELLEROPHON

Round 3
1a In the books about Tin Tin - the dog Snowy is known by what name in the original French?
MILOU
1b Name the theatre in Scarborough associated with Alan Ayckborn.
STEPHEN JOSEPH Theatre
2a Victoria is the capital of which Canadian Province?
BRITISH COLUMBIA
2b Whose autobiography, published in late 2009, was called 'Stirred But Not Shaken'?
KEITH FLOYD
3a Who was the maternal grandfather of Prince Rupert?
JAMES 1
3b The line 'There's a girl in New York City who calls herself the human trampoline' comes from which song?
GRACELAND
4a Who bowled Don Bradman for a duck in his last Test Innings?
ERIC HOLLIES
4b What is a young turkey called?
A POULT

Round 4
1a Who was the mother of the Greek mythological hero Perseus?
DANAE
1b In which 1953 film does the song 'Secret Love' first appear?
CALAMITY JANE
2a Johnston McCulley created which character in 1919? The character became famous in comics, books, film and on TV.
ZORRO
2b Which artist created Whaam in 1963?
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
3a Which king appointed John Dryden as the first official Poet Laureate?
CHARLES II
3b Who shot PM Spencer Perceval?
JOHN BELLINGHAM
4a Myron Bolitar appears in a number of thrillers by whom?
HARLAN COBEN
4b Which London park shares its name with two football grounds?
St JAMES PARK

Round 5
1a Which comedian's catchphrase was 'You Lucky People?
TOMMY TRINDER
1b What was the name of the comet which crashed into Jupiter in 1994?
SHOEMAKER-LEVY (9)
2a Who invented the first effective vaccine against polio, introduced in 1955?
Dr. JONAS SALK
2b Which country left the Commonwealth in 1972 and rejoined in 1989?
PAKISTAN
3a In Communist Russia, what name was given to a worker who worked too hard with no market for what was produced?
STAKHNOVITE
3b Who was King of England when Columbus discovered America?
HENRY VII
4a What is the world's heaviest seed?
COCO DE MER (or Sea Coconut, Love Nut, double coconut, coco fesse, or Seychelles Nut)
4b Who became the first American F1 champion in 1961?
PHIL HILL

Round 6
1a Who was the first American President to live in the White House?
JOHN ADAMS
1b In chemistry, what are elements called when they have a greater atomic number than uranium?
TRANSURANIC
2a Lucie Manette is the heroine of which Dickens Novel?
A TALE of TWO CITIES
2b In USA what is a student in a second year of study called?
SOPHOMORE
3a Who was buried at Grytviken, South Georgia in 1922?
Ernest SHACKLETON
3b The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing is also known as what?
SHAKERS
4a What horse race might originally have been called the Bunbury Stakes?
The DERBY
4b Juniper Hill in Oxfordshire was given what name in a semi-autobiographical book first published in 1939?
LARK RISE

Round 7
1a Which is the only moon in the solar system with atmosphere?
TITAN
1b 'Bumper' is the alternative name for which kind of horse race?
FLAT RACE ridden under National Hunt rules
2a In Italian sport, what name is given to the fanatical groups of supporters, particularly of the Ferrari motor racing team?
TIFOSI
2b Glossitis affects which part of the human body?
TONGUE
3a Compounds of mercury and a metal are known as what?
AMALGAM
3b Which comedian said 'Ay Thang Yaw'll?
ARTHUR ASKEY
4a Who was sent as Ambassador to Outer Mongolia in 1957 by Khrushchev?
MOLOTOV
4b In 1911 who led the first successful expedition to reach the South Pole?
ROALD AMUNDSEN

Round 8
1a Thomas Hardy used what name for Oxford in his novels?
CHRISTMINSTER
1b Which fruit has the Latin name Fragaria?
STRAWBERRY
2a What do we call what the Americans call a thumb tack?
DRAWING PIN
2b Which US President wrote the Bill of Rights and led USA into 1812 war against Britain?
JAMES MADISON
3a What is the more common name for the group of rebels who called themselves 'The Fists of Righteous Harmony' at the turn of the 20th century?
BOXERS
3b What is the Chinese art of placement called?
FENG SHUI
4a In 1450, Jack Cade led a rebellion against which King?
HENRY VI
4b In which book did Edgar Linton marry Catherine Eamshaw?
WUTHERING HEIGHTS

Spare Questions
1 The 1940s US fighter plane the 'Bearcat' was built by which company?
GRUMMAN
2 The 1997 play 'Gross Indecency' by Moises Kaufman was about the three trials of which man in the late 19th century?
OSCAR WILDE
3 Which Arctic whale has a long, straight, helical tusk extending from its upper left jaw?
NARWHAL