Monday 12th March 2012
Set by Warrington

Round 1
1a What is the name of the blind beggar in RL Stevenson's Treasure Island?
PEW
1b Which British athlete won the 100 m. at the 1924 Olympics?
HAROLD ABRAHAMS
2a Which palace in Spain takes its name from the colour of its sun dried red bricks?
ALHAMBRA
2b What organisation has the motto 'For Home and Country'?
WOMEN'S INSTITUTE
3a Who was the only British King to be crowned on the field of battle?
HENRY VII
3b Aqua Fortis is the original name for which common acid?
NITRIC ACID
4a Which work by Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weil is based on a work by John Gay?
The THREEPENNY OPERA
4b Who was World Heavyweight Boxing Champion from 1978-1985, defending his title 20 times before losing to Michael Spinks?
LARRY HOLMES

Round 2
1a Grandpa Frost is the equivalent of Father Christmas in which country?
RUSSIA
1b What product is obtained from the tree Hevea Braziliensis' (amongst others)?
LATEX (Rubber)
2a Who played 'First Voice' in the original BBC radio production of 'UnderMilk Wood' (and also in the film version)?
RICHARD BURTON
2b The dialect of which Semitic language was spoken by Jesus Christ?
ARAMAIC
3a Which solo instrument features in the Largo from Dvorak's New World Symphony?
COR ANGLAIS
3b What is the name given to the longest side of a right-angled triangle?
HYPOTENUSE
4a What is the name of the mongoose in Rudyard Kipling' s 'The Jungle Book'?
RIKKI TIKKI TAVI
4b During WW2, where was the headquarters of Bomber Command?
BENTLEY PRIORY

Round 3
1a Which British Athlete won the 100 metres at the 1980 Olympics?
ALAN WELLS
1b In a children's book, if Elphaba is the wicked witch of the west, who is the good witch of the South?
GLINDA
2a Which boxing Champion was known as ' The Fighting Marine'?
GENE TUNNEY
2b Which American island was named by the Spanish because of the large number of pelicans who originally inhabited it?
ALCATRAZ
3a 'The Monkey Bread tree' is another name for which African tree?
BAOBAB
3b Jean Valjean is the central character in which classical novel?
LES MISERABLES
4a What is the motto of the Salvation Army?
BLOOD and FIRE
4b Musician Evelyn Rothwell (Lady Barbirolli) died in January 2008, what instrument did she play?
OBOE

Round 4
1a Where, on the Baltic coast, was the German missile site where V1rockets were designed and built?
PEENEMUNDE
1b The opera 'Beatrice and Benedict' by Berlioz is based on which Shakespeare play?
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
2a What collective name is given to Jews dispersed around the world?
The DIASPORA
2b What is the equivalent of Father Christmas in Germany?
KRISS KRINGLE
3a What name is given to any part of a circle that is bounded by two radii and an arc of the circumference?
SECTOR
3b Walter Tyrell is alleged to have contributed to the death of which English King?
WILLIAM II (RUFUS)
4a Which acid forms in the muscles as a result of exercise?
LACTIC ACID
4b In the title of the detective story by Dorothy L Sayers, what are the 'Nine Tailors'?
CHURCH BELLS

Round 5
1a Which team was the first to win football's first division 3 times in succession, doing so in the 1920's?
HUDDERSFIELD TOWN
1b What is the more common name for the landrail?
CORNCRAKE
2a 'Behind the Shades' is the autobiography of which controversial sports coach?
DUNCAN FLETCHER
2b In 1922, who replied 'Wonderful Things', when asked what he could see through a-hole in a wall?
HOWARD CARTER (Tomb of Tutankhamen)
3a In which children's TV programme, narrated by Derek Jacobi, would you see Iggle-Piggle and Upsy-Daisy?
IN THE NIGHT GARDEN
3b What is the capital of Bhutan?
THIMPU
4a In art, Lisa Gherardini became better known as whom?
MONA LISA
4b In Australia, What is referred to as a 'brumby'?
WILD HORSE

Round 6
1a On what Saint's day was the Battle of Agincourt fought in 1415?
St CRISPIN
1b What is name of the piece of leather on which a barber sharpens a cut throat razor?
STROP
2a What is the name of the theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee?
DOLLYWOOD
2b Who patented the first revolver in 1836?
Samuel COLT
3a Which of the Four Gospels is thought to be based on eyewitness information?
St. MARK
3b 'The Defenestration of Prague' led to the start of which conflict?
THIRTY YEARS WAR
4a What general name is given to a rotating star which emits a regular beat of radiation?
PULSAR
4b In which Shakespeare play is the heroine called Rosalind?
AS YOU LIKE IT

Round 7
1a What is another name for the bird usually called the shrike?
BUTCHER BIRD
1b Messier numbers were first applied to what?
ASTRONOMOCAL OBJECTS
2a With reference to American cattle, what is the name of a motherless or stray calf?
DOGIE
2b 'Winning is not Enough' is the autobiography of which British three-time world champion?
Sir JACKIE STEWART
3a What word for a straw or wicker basket was used as a unit of measurement, and in the north for a coal-scuttle or a beehive?
SKEP
3b Which county won cricket's county championship 6 times in the 1960's?
YORKSHIRE
4a Who is reputed to have said, 'Today, I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon'? after discoveries at Mycenae?
Heinrich SCHLIEMANN
4b Whom did St Paul describe as 'his beloved physician'?
St. LUKE

Round 8
1a What is the name of Hamlet's mother in the Shakespeare play of the same name?
GERTRUDE
1b In 1889, who painted the picture 'Starry Night'?
Vincent VAN GOGH
2a Who invented the cotton gin in 1783?
ELI WHITNEY
2b On which Saint's Day in 1572 did a massacre of Huguenots take place?
ST. BARTHOLOMEW
3a In which war did the battle of Ramillies take place?
WAR of the SPANISH SUCCESSION (1706)
3b On which island is the children's TV programme Balamory set?
MULL (Tobermory)
4a What is the capital of the Middle Eastern emirate, Qatar?
DOHA
4b Which American Indian Lakota chief is the subject of a monument, begun in 1948, in the Black Hills of South Dakota?
CRAZY HORSE

Spare Questions
1 Which famous actor made his film debut as a Yale footballer in the 1926 silent film 'Brown of Harvard'?
JOHN WAYNE
2 Which country is bordered by Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary and Ukraine?
ROMANIA
3 Which is the smallest US state capital with a population of less than 8,000 (name either the capital or the state)?
MONTPELIER, VERMONT