Monday 1st October 2012
Set by Warrington

Round 1
1a Barack Obama was a senator for which state?
Illinois
1b Which is the longest river in Asia that flows through only one country?
Yangtze
2a Which mythological creatures are half horse and half man?
Centaurs
2b Which black tea is known as the 'Champagne of Tea'?
Darjeeling
3a Who designed the Adidas sportswear for the British Olympic and Paralympics teams at the 2012 London Games?
Stella McCartney
3b UK, USA, Russia and China are four of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, which country is the fifth?
France
4a Which is the national flower of Spain?
Carnation
4b In 1865 General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to which general?
Ulysses S. Grant

Round 2
1a Which is the third book of the Old Testament?
Leviticus
1b Which children's TV programme, which first appeared in November 1969, has won a record 122 Emmy Awards in all categories?
Sesame Street
2a The 'Kilmarnock Volume' features whose poetry?
Robert Burns
2b Which fictional character was shipwrecked when the 'Antelope' sank?
(Lemuel) Gulliver
3a In which US city did Clint Eastwood's character 'Dirty Harry' fight crime?
San Francisco
3b The rugby union teams of Neath and Swansea amalgamated and now play under what name?
Ospreys
4a How are the planets Neptune, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus collectively described?
Gas Giants
4b Which writer described a fictional 'Moon Under Water' as his favourite pub?
George Orwell

Round 3
1a In 2010, actress Ayda Field married which British entertainer?
Robbie Williams
1b Which retail company markets the clothing label 'Atlantic Bay'?
BHS
2a Which TV series was the sequel to 'Porridge'?
Going Straight
2b According to the Scaffold song 'Lily the Pink', who had 'terrible freckles'?
Jennifer Eccles
3a What name is given to the road in Jerusalem said to be the path that Jesus took carrying his cross?
Via Dolorosa
3b Which fictional character was born in Lithuania, imprisoned in Baltimore, escaped to Florence and was last known to be living in Buenos Aires?
Hannibal Lecter
4a Which was the last British coin to cease to be legal tender?
Decimal half-penny (1984)
4b Which group released the album 'Zooropa' in 1993?
U2

Round 4
1a Which houseplant is also known as Saintpaulia?
African Violet
1b Edward Stanley served three terms as Prime Minister in the 19th century, what was his title?
(14th) Earl of Derby
2a What is the pen name of American author Daniel Handler who wrote the children's book 'A Series of Unfortunate Events'?
Lemony Snicket
2b How is the London statue 'The Angel of Christian Charity' more commonly known?
Eros
3a Three Counties Radio covers Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and which other county?
Hertfordshire
3b In which county of the Republic of Ireland are Connemara National Park and the country's largest lake, Lake Corrib?
Galway
4a Lawrence Olivier won only one Oscar, for which film in 1948?
Hamlet
4b The name of which African country means 'House of Stone'?
Zimbabwe

Round 5
1a Which food company, still in existence today, was founded in 1902 in a disused malthouse in Burton-on-Trent?
Marmite
1b The MP for Pontefract & Castleford is Yvette Cooper; she is the wife of which other MP?
Ed Balls
2a What name is given to the female equivalent of the Oedipus Complex?
Electra Complex
2b Which fictional character was shipwrecked when the 'Demeter' ran aground?
Dracula
3a The Al Khalifa family has ruled which country since 1783?
Bahrain
3b Which British WW2 General is buried in the US National Military Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia?
Orde Wingate
4a What common name is given to Chopin's 'Waltz in D Minor'?
Minute Waltz
4b Which current England footballer won his first four caps under four different managers?
Ashley Cole

Round 6
1a Which prominent European politician was injured by a shot fired by Violet Gibson in 1926?
Benito Mussolini
1b From which Shakespeare play does the phrase 'the green-eyed monster' originate?
Othello
2a What in Russia is a 'matryoshka'?
Set of dolls of decreasing size placed one inside the other
2b Which Russian man won both the 100 and 200m gold medals at the 1972 Olympic Games?
Valery Borzov
3a Of which US city was Jerry Springer the mayor in 1977-78?
Cincinnati
3b What is the name of the whirlpool in the Hebrides between Scarba and Jura, the third largest in the world?
Corryvreckan
4a Oscar Diggs is the title character of which book, although his full name isn't mentioned in the classic 1939 film?
The Wizard of Oz
4b In which year was Black Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange?
1929

Round 7
1a Which Italian composer claimed that he could "set a laundry list to music"?
Rossini
1b Which Scottish malt whisky is produced by the 'sixteen men of Tain'?
Glenmorangie
2a Which creatures might be bred and reared in a 'ranarium'?
Frogs
2b At which Paris airfield did Charles Lindbergh complete the first solo transatlantic flight in 1927?
Le Bourget
3a Which chemical element gets its named from the Greek for 'bringer of light'?
Phosphorus
3b The Primate of All Ireland is the Archbishop of which City?
Armagh
4a Which current England footballer won his first three caps whilst playing for three different clubs?
Scott Parker
4b Archibald Primrose was Prime Minister 1894-95, what was his title?
Lord Rosebery

Round 8
1a The global collection of what is stored in a vault in Svalbard on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen?
Seeds
1b The bell, Great Peter is in the northwest tower of which cathedral?
York Minster
2a Which county cricket team play home games at Wantage Road?
Northants
2b Fat Charlie is the mascot of which company?
Little Chef
3a Which future president escaped from Lincoln Prison in 1919 when a key to his cell was smuggled in to him in a cake?
Eamonn de Valera
3b Which 1941 Errol Flynn film was based on the Battle of Little Bighorn'?
They Died With Their Boots On
4a Which artist created the dream sequence in the Hitchcock film 'Spellbound'?
Salvador Dali
4b Which opera features a 'Prisoner's Chorus'?
Fidelio

Spare Questions
1 In which city is the HQ of Interpol?
Lyon
2 Which Scottish football team is nicknamed the 'Pars'?
Dunfermline Athletic
3 Which tennis player founded the fashion label Aneres?
Serena Williams