Monday 20th February 2012
Set by Warrington

Round 1
1a Who holds the title the 'First Commoner of the Land'?
The Speaker
1b Which comedian hosted BBC TV's 'One Show' for a three month period at the end of 2010?
Jason Manford
2a How many points are awarded to a driver for winning a Formula One Grand Prix?
25
2b There is only one desert in Europe, in which country is it?
Spain
3a Where did the first battle of the Wars of the Roses take place?
St Albans
3b Which golfer, the first to complete a career Grand Slam - winning the four Majors at some time during his career, achieved a hole-in-one in the 1973 Open at Troon at the age of 71?
Gene Sarazen
4a Who is the storyteller in the 'One Thousand and One Nights'?
Scheherazade
4b Who formed the first Triumvirate with Pompey and Crassus?
Julius Caesar

Round 2
1a The £2 coin was first issued in the UK in 1986 to celebrate which event?
Commonwealth Games (in Edinburgh)
1b Viti Levu and Vanua Levu are the two major islands that make up which country?
Fiji
2a Which King of England was the son of Henry II and father of Henry III?
John
2b Which singer's name has been in the title of two number 1 hits in 2011, by Cher Lloyd and Maroon 5?
Mick Jagger
3a What was the English Electric DEUCE (an acronym), built in the 1950s? It was one of the first of its kind to be produced in Britain, 33 machines were sold between 1955 and 1964.
Digital Electronic Universal Computing Engine i.e. a Computer
3b How is the number 2 written when expressed as a binary number?
10 (one zero but accept ten)
4a Who designed the famous K2 red telephone box?
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott
4h Studio Two is the most famous recording studio in the world; it is part of which famous English studio?
Abbey Road

Round 3
1a The film 'The Third Man' was set in which city?
Vienna
1b Lichfield and which other cathedral have three spires?
Truro
2a Which country singer was backed by the Tennessee Three?
Johnny Cash
2b The Alabama Three performed the theme song for which major US TV series?
The Sopranos
3a There are three branches of the US Federal Government, Executive, Legislative and which other?
Judicial
3b All but three of the moons of Uranus are named after Shakespearean characters; the names of the other three are taken from a poem by whom?
Alexander Pope (The Rape of the Lock)
4a Which island is made up of three counties, Cornwall, Middlesex and Surrey?
Jamaica
4b Edward Stanley served three terms as Prime Minister in the 19th century, what was his title?
Earl of Derby

Round 4
1a Paul McNamee, Mark Woodforde, Jonathan Stark and Leander Paes were the four men who partnered which woman to win the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon, in 1985, 93, 95 and 2003?
Martina Navratilova
1b Which chemical element has the Atomic Number 4 and is the first of the Alkaline Earth metals?
Beryllium
2a The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are described in which book of the New Testament?
Revelations
2b Which is the only miracle mentioned in all of the four Gospels?
Feeding of the 5,000
3a The flag of which county has bands of four colours, a red vertical band at the hoist and horizontal stripes of green, white and black?
United Arab Emirates
3b Which US President, in a State of the Union address, proposed four fundamental freedoms?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
4a The term 'the fourth wall' would be used for an imaginary wall in what type of building?
Theatre (the 'wall' through which the audience watch the play)
4b Who composed the violin concerto 'The Four Seasons'?
Antonio Vivaldi

Round 5
1a Martina Navratilova won seven ladies doubles titles at Wimbledon, who partnered her in five of those victories?
Pam Shriver
1b The symbols known as the 'Five Ks' are central to which religion?
Sikhism
2a There are five basic tastes, salty, sweet, sour, bitter and which other?
Umami
2b Who wrote the novel 'Slaughterhouse Five'?
Kurt Vonnegut
3a 'Five Points' was the setting for which 2002 Martin Scorsese film starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz and Liam Neeson?
Gangs of New York
3b According to ancient Greek philosophers the universe was made up of five basic elements, earth, air, fire, water and which other?
Ether
4a In 2010 Channel Five was taken over by The Northern & Shell Publishing Group which includes the Daily Express and Daily Star, who owns the company?
Richard Desmond
4b In the children's TV series who was the pilot of fireball XL5?
Steve Zodiac

Round 6
1a No. 6 was the major character in which cult TV series?
The Prisoner
1b Who, having been convicted in Paris of racism in September 2011, was ordered to pay a total of 6 Euros to his two victims and four anti racist campaign groups?
John Galliano
2a A Six's thermometer (named after its inventor James Six) records more than the current temperature, how is it commonly known?
Maximum/Minimum thermometer
2b What is the colour of the jacket worn by the no. 6 dog in a greyhound race?
Black and white stripes
3a Which car company produced the Speed Six, famous for its race against the 'Blue Train', between 1926 and 1930?
Bentley
3b The Six-Day War took place in which year?
1967
4a SIX is the principal stock exchange in which country?
Switzerland
4b Who was the commander-in-chief of the German 6th Army when it surrendered at Stalingrad in February 1943?
Friedrich Von Paulus

Round 7
1a Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World stood at Ephesus?
Temple of Artemis (or Diana)
1b Which Dutch artist painted 'The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things' in approximately 1500?
Hieronymus Bosch
2a The A7 road runs from Edinburgh to which English town or city?
Carlisle
2b Harper Seven, born in 2011, is whose daughter?
David & Victoria Beckham
3a In the Book of Proverbs who, in building her house, "hath hewn out her seven pillars"?
Wisdom
3b Complete the name of the shopping district in the Covent Garden area of London, Seven
Dials……
4a 'Seven Tears' by The Goombay Dance Band reached no.1 in 1982, becoming only the second act from which European country to top the UK charts?
Germany
4b Which Shropshire town is named after a seventh century king of Northumbria?
Oswestry

Round 8
1a Who was 'King's Painter' to Henry 8th who died, possibly from plague, in 1543?
Hans Holbein (the Younger)
1b What is the popular name of Mahler's Symphony no. 8?
Symphony of a Thousand
2a After-Eights are now made by Nestle, which company created them in 1962?
Rowntree
2b Which car company introduced the 'Flying Eight' in 1938, from 1953 it was known simply as the Eight and was replaced in 1959 by the Triumph Herald?
Standard (or Standard Triumph)
3a Eight-ball is a popular version of which game?
Pool
3b The Eight Witnesses were a group of people who claimed to have seen the 'golden plates' the source material of the book of which religion?
Mormon (Church of the Latter Day Saints)
4a '8 Mile' was a 2002 film starring rapper Eminem, in which US city was it set?
Detroit
4b On board ship, when are eight bells rung, followed immediately by eight more?
New Year (8 for the Old Year & 8 for the New Year)

Spare Questions
1 Which TV sitcom features the Brockman family?
Outnumbered
2 What is the name of Dvorak's ninth symphony?
From the New World
3 Who composed a Symphony No. 0?
Anton Bruckner