Monday 19th November 2012
Set by Warrington

Round 1
1a Name either of the British entertainers who had leading roles in the film 'That Riviera Touch'.
Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise
1b Which is the lightest metallic element with Atomic Number 3?
Lithium
2a A model village was built in Aintree in approximately 1886, the names of the streets included Sugar Street, Cherry Street and Red Currant Court; it was connected to whose factory?
Hartley's Jam
2b How is the Sunday before Easter known in the Western Christian Church?
Palm Sunday
3a In which game are there variations such as 'Honest John', 'Into the Woods' and 'Fives and Threes'?
Dominoes
3b Which product was advertised on TV using the phrase 'buy some for Lulu'?
Smarties
4a Which UK shipping forecast area is named after the founder of the Meteorological Office?
Fitzroy
4b In 1842, which German socialist came to work in one of his father's mills, where sewing threads were made, in Weaste, Salford?
Friedrich Engels

Round 2
1a Travelling on the M40 between Oxford and London, you would pass through which range of hills?
Chilterns
1b The first woman to win an Olympic gold medal was Charlotte Cooper in Paris in 1900, in which sport?
Tennis
2a Amiens is the largest city and capital of which region of France?
Picardy
2b Who was Britain's first female Foreign Secretary?
Margaret Beckett
3a Michelangelo's statue 'David' is in the Galleria dell'Accademia in which city?
Florence
3b Who is currently Queen of the Netherlands?
Beatrix
4a Which US state is named after Queen Elizabeth I?
Virginia
4b Which religion has Five Pillars (the Shadahad, Salah, Zakah, Sawma and Hajj)?
Islam

Round 3
1a Which gaseous element has the lowest melting and boiling points of all the elements?
Helium
1b Hans Lansdorf was the captain of which World War 2 German battleship?
Graf Spee
2a Complete the name of the album 'Noel Gallagher's '?
High Flying Birds
2b The museum at Avebury Stone Circle was established by an archaeologist who was the heir to which marmalade company (the original commercial brand of marmalade)?
Keiller
3a Which product was advertised on TV using the phrase 'Any time, any place, anywhere'?
Martini
3b Who painted the self portrait; 'Arrangement in Gray: Portrait of a Painter'?
Whistler
4a Who starred as Matt Dillon in the TV programme 'Gunsmoke'?
James Arness
4b James Arness had a brother Peter who starred in the TV series 'Mission Impossible', under what surname did he act?
Graves

Round 4
1a Who was British Prime Minister at the outbreak of the First World War?
Asquith
1b In which opera does a hunchback jester help his master, the Duke of Mantua, to seduce the daughter of a courtier?
Rigoletto
2a What is the name of the main character in John Osborne's 'Look Back In Anger'?
Jimmy Porter
2b Metz is the capital of which region of France?
Lorraine
3a Which 'major-winning' golfer has the real first names Gerry Lester?
Bubba Watson
3b Clock, Klondike and Aces Up are variations of which group of card games?
Patience (or Solitaire)
4a Which Salford landmark appeared as a backdrop for the Smiths 1986 album cover 'The Queen is Dead'?
Salford Lads Club
4b Which football team, newcomers to League 2, play home games at Highbury?
Fleetwood Town

Round 5
1a Name either of the entertainers who played the roles of two Britons accused of faking a documentary in the film 'Alien Autopsy'?
Ant & Dec (Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly)
1b The trophy awarded to the winner of the Ladies Singles at the French Open tennis championships is named after which famous player?
Suzanne Lenglen
2a A Tequila Sunrise is made with tequila, orange and which other fruit ingredient?
Grenadine (accept pomegranate juice)
2b How is the seventh Sunday after Easter known in the Western Christian Church?
Whitsuntide or Pentecost
3a Which-singer's voice was of the leading actress in the films 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes', 'The King and I', 'West Side Story' and 'My Fair Lady'?
Marni Nixon
3b Who was the son of Mani Nixon who died in 2011, his hits include 'Lonely Boy', How Can This Be Love' and 'Never Let Her Slip Away'?
Andrew Gold
4a What is the title of Kazuo Ishiguro's 1989 Booker Prize winning novel which was made into a 1993 film of the same name starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson?
The Remains of the Day
4b Which religion has Five K's (Kesh, Kangha, Kachera, Kara and Kirpan)?
Sikh(ism)

Round 6
1a Which range of hills lie at the northern end of the Pennine Way?
Cheviots
1b Which King of England was the son of Edward the Black Prince?
Richard 2nd
2a What is the name of the group formed by Liam Gallagher after the break-up of Oasis?
Beady Eye
2b What is the name of the 'rover' that landed on Mars in August 2012 to investigate whether the planet could ever have supported life and to study climate and geology?
Curiosity
3a Leonardo da Vinci's 'The Last Supper' is in a church in which city?
Milan
3b Which novelist won the 1970 Nobel Prize for Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature"?
Solzhenitsyn
4a Which UK shipping forecast area is the most southerly, lying off the coast of Spain?
Trafalgar
4b Which League 2 football team play home games at the New York Stadium?
Rotherham Utd

Round 7
1a Who was British Prime Minister at the end of the Second World War?
Clement Attlee
1b Ernst Lindemann was the captain of which World War 2 German battleship?
Bismarck
2a In August 2012, three members of which Russian feminist punk-rock collective were sentenced to two years in jail for hooliganism?
Pussy Riot
2b A Bellini cocktail is made with the sparkling wine prosecco and which fruit juice?
Peach
3a Which 'major-winning' golfer has the real first names Lodewicus Theodorus?
Louis Oosthuizen
3b Who is currently King of Norway, name is sufficient?
Harald (5th)
4a Which US state is named after Queen Henrietta Maria of France?
Maryland
4b Martello Towers derive their name from a fortress on which island?
Corsica

Round 8
1a John of Gaunt was the father of which King of England?
Henry 4th
1b Which Italian opera has a title meaning 'The strolling players (or clowns)'?
I Pagliacci
2a Who is the main character in the series of stories called 'Adventures of a Black Bag"?
Dr Finlay
2b Who was Britain's first female Home Secretary?
Jacqui Smith
3a Dmitri, Ivan and Alexei are the eponymous central characters of which 1880 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky?
The Brothers Karamazov
3b Who painted the self portraits 'Self-Portrait with Palette' and 'Self-Portrait with Cap'?
Manet
4a Admiral Lord Nelson was created Duke of Bronte, on which island is Bronte?
Sicily
4b What is the title of Graham Swift's 1996 Booker Prize winning novel which was made into a 2001 film of the same name starring Michael Caine and Helen Mirren?
Last Orders

Spare Questions
1 Which former Chancellor of the Exchequer wrote 'The Chancellor' about all his predecessors from Randolph Churchill to Hugh Dalton?
Roy Jenkins
2 The Centre for Life is a science museum in which city?
Newcastle
3 The intensity of what is measured on the Saffir-Simpson scale?
Hurricanes