Tuesday 17th January 2012
Set by Mersey Bowmen (Liverpool)

Round One
1A Who wrote the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
Ken Kesey
1B Give either of the forenames of the artist LS Lowry.
Laurence Stephen
2A Which team won the first Heineken Cup in 1996?
Toulouse
2B Who in athletics was known as the "Flying Housewife?
Fanny Blankers-Koen
3A Who wrote the music for the 2002 film The Hours?
Philip Glass
3B Who wrote the music for the 1993 film The Piano?
Michael Nyman
4A In which year did men first walk on the moon?
1969
4B Which year was National Service abolished in the UK?
1960

Round Two
1A Which British Prime Minister's wife was a published poet?
Harold Wilson (Mary)
1B Which politician faked his own death in Florida in 1974?
John Stonehouse
2A Who is the patron saint of Glasgow?
St Mungo (accept Kentigern)
2B Who is the patron saint of Spain?
St James
3A In which year did Elvis Presley get married?
1967
3B In which year was Charles I executed?
1649
4A In which hospital was the first heart and lung transplant performed by Sir Magdi Yacoub?
Harefield Hospital
4B What is the name of the Chilean mine in Copiapo, Chile, where 33 miners were trapped in 2010?
San Jose

Round Three
1A Who was the first host of the TV show Pets Win Prizes?
Danny Baker
1B In which TV soap is there a garage called the Arches?
Eastenders
2A Ben Lomond and Baldwin are varieties of which fruit?
Blackcurrant
2B Which vegetable has the Latin name brassica oleracea gemmifera?
Brussels Sprout
3A Where is Charles Darwin buried?
Westminster Abbey
3B Where were the Bee Gees twins Maurice and Robin Gibb born?
Isle of Man
4A Which was Richard Burton's final film?
1984
4B What is the name of the character played by Humphrey Bogart in the film The ,
Maltese Falcon?
Sam Spade

Round Four
1A In which sea is the Great Barrier Reef?
Coral Sea
1B In which ocean is the Gulf Stream?
Atlantic
2A Who was the friend of Little Jackie Paper?
Puff the Magic Dragon
2B Which fictional girls' school did Ronald Searle create?
St Trinian's
3A What is the name of The Vicar of Dibley?
Geraldine Grainger
3B What is the name of the heroine in Steig Larsson's Millennium Trilogy?
Lisbeth Salander
4A What do the cities of Turku in Finland and Tallinn in Estonia have in common in 2011?
European Capitals of Culture
4B Who sank the winning putt in the 2010 Ryder Cup?
Graeme McDowell

Round Five
1A The folk song Johnny Todd is the signature tune for which 60s TV cop series?
Z Cars
1B What was the first full-length animated film?
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
2A How many points are scored when you kick a goal in Gaelic football?
3
2B Who was the first overseas manager to win the Premier League title?
Arsene Wenger (1997/98)
3A Which castle guards the main route through Purbeck Hills?
Corfe Castle
3B The Pyg and the Miners' tracks and the Watkin Path are routes up which mountain?
Snowdon
4A How are Bob Ferris and Terry Collier known collectively?
The Likely Lads
4B Actress and writer Dulcie Gray was married to whom?
Michael Denison

Round Six
1A Who wrote The Iceman Cometh, and disowned his daughter for marrying Charlie Chaplin?
Eugene O'Neill
1B Which Verdi opera is based on La Dame aux Camellias by Alexandre Dumas fils?
La Traviata
2A Which protein is a major component of hair, skin, nails and tooth enamel?
Keratin
2B What type of creature is the Australian currawong?
Bird (crow)
3A Whose plays include Mother Courage and Her Children and The Caucasian
Chalk Circle?
Bertolt Brecht
3B What is the title of a novel by A J Cronin, a ballet by Kenneth Macmillan and has the Latin name cercis canadensis?
The Judas Tree
4A Running for 46 miles, which line of the London Underground has the longest track?
Central
4B In which town in Greater Manchester did Harold Shipman practise as a GP before murdering at least 15 of his patients?
Hyde

Round Seven
1A Which BBC police series was about a female inspector in the town of Hartley?
Juliet Bravo
1B Which BBC nightly news programme was presented by Cliff Michelmore, with Fyfe Robertson and Magnus Magnusson?
Tonight
2A Who changed his name from Gideon, and became MP for Tatton in 2001?
George Osborne
2B Who was wrongly convicted in 2001 of the murder of Jill Dando?
Barry George (accept Barry Bulsara)
3A At which battle of August 1914 were the Russian First and Second Armies defeated by the German Eighth Army?
Tannenberg
3B Which US general had an early career as a teacher, was involved in conflicts in Mexico, Cuba and Europe and had a WWII tank named after him?
John Pershing
4A The tune of the British national anthem appears within which composer's Jubilee Overture?
Carl Maria von Weber
4B Which composer (1822-1890) wrote a symphony in D and a symphonic poem called Le Chasseur Maudit (The Accursed Huntsman)?
Cesar Franck

Round Eight
1A In which European country is Lake Inari?
Finland
1B What is a haboob in the Sahara?
A sand or dust storm
2A Which dish comprises round slices of fillet steak with sauteed truffles and foie de gras is named after an Italian composer?
Tournedos Rossini
2B From which country does Red Stripe lager originally come?
Jamaica
3A The ESA was 35 years old in 2010. For what does the S stand?
Space (European Space Agency)
3B Britain, USA, Japan, Germany and France hold the five permanent executive directorships of which financial organisation?
The World Bank
4A Which Middle Eastern country was freed from Vichy French rule by Britain
and the Free French in 1941?
Syria
4B Who was stripped of his Saudi Arabian nationality in 1994, being considered a threat to the ruling House of Saud?
Osama Bin Laden

Spare Questions
1 Which RAF base is located on Cyprus?
RAF Akrotiri (also accept Dhekelia)
2 What is the English version of the Russian forename Vasily?
Basil
3 Death of a Princess, a TV drama based on a real event, caused a diplomatic incident between Britain and which country in 1980?
Saudi Arabia
4 What unusual event happened in Britain on 11th August 1999?
Total Solar Eclipse