Tuesday 2nd October 2012
Set by CTK Wanderers (Liverpool)

Round One
1A On which precise day of the month in November does the USA celebrate Thanksgiving?
Fourth Thursday
1B Goodge Street tube station is on which London Underground line?
Northern
2A Which bird has the Latin name Pica Pica?
Magpie
2B Under what name does Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta perform?
Lady Gaga
3A In which year did Reference Point win the Derby and Maori Venture win the Grand National?
1987
3B Who was Chancellor of Germany immediately before Angela Merkel?
Gerhard Schroeder
4A Complete this quote by Groucho Marx in the film Monkey Business :"Either this man is dead or ..."
"...my watch has stopped"
4B Who, along with Karl Ferdinand Braun, won a Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909 for their work on wireless telegraphy?
Guglielmo Marconi

Round Two
1A Which city was known in Roman times as Glevum?
Gloucester
1B Doris Speed played which part in Coronation Street?
Annie Walker
2A Which Fleetwood Mac album of 1977 sold 15 million copies and remained in the UK charts for more than eight years?
Rumours
2B Alan Rusbridger is the editor of which newspaper?
The Guardian
3A What is the name for the practice of water divining by deploying a deflecting stick?
Dowsing/Rhabdomancy
3B The liner Mauretania was launched in 1906 as a sister ship to which other liner?
Lusitania
4A At which school were Tom Brown's Schooldays spent?
Rugby
4B What feature of British life is owned by "Lord Gnome"?
Private Eye

Round Three
1A Who presents Radio 4's I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue?
Jack Dee
1B Denmark has a single land border; with which country?
Germany
2A "Arise, children of the Fatherland, the day of glory is here" are the first words of which country's national anthem?
France
2B How many naturally-occurring elements are there in the periodic table?
92
3A Who became Secretary -General of the Soviet Communist Party in 1985?
Mikhail Gorbachev
3B Which battle took place on June 18th 1815?
Waterloo
4A Which castle is the seat of the Dukes of Northumberland?
Alnwick
4B How old was Elvis Presley when he died in 1977?
42

Round Four
1A Name either of the two US states which share a land border with Florida.
Alabama or Georgia
1B Who presents Radio 4's The News Quiz?
Sandi Toksvig
2A What name is given to the number expressed as 1 followed by a hundred noughts?
Googol
2B La Brabanconne is the national anthem of which country?
Belgium
3A Which bathe took place on October 25th 1415?
Agincourt
3B What was the name of the Russian Space Station, launched in 1986?
Mir
4A How old was Jimi Hendrix when he died in 1970?
27
4B Which castle is the seat of the Dukes of Norfolk?
Arundel

Round Five
1A Which 1959 film comedy featured a European country called the Duchy of Grand Fenwick?
The Mouse That Roared
1B What is the name of the Israeli parliament?
Knesset
2A In which TV programme is there a segment devoted to Adam's Farm?
Countryfile
2B Claire Skinner plays a wife and mother in which TV comedy?
Outnumbered
3A "Don't be evil" is the motto of which intemet company?
Google
3B The Laughing Song comes from which Johann Strauss operetta?
Die Fledermaus
4A What is the name of the Spanish parliament?
Cortes
4B 36 Quai des Orfevres is the headquarters of the French equivalent of which UK body?
Scotland Yard (accept Metropolitan Police)

Round Six
1A Give either of the middle names of Venus Williams.
Ebony Starr
1B In Russia, what is a banya?
Steam Bath / Sauna
2A Closing Time was a sequel to which famous novel of 1961?
Catch 22
2B Which post in Gordon Brown's government was held by David Miliband?
Foreign Secretary
3A By what name was TV's Ben Collins better known?
Stig
3B Carmen Polo was the wife of which dictator?
Gen. Francisco Franco
4A Who scored Spain's winning goal in the final of the 2010 FIFA World Cup?
Andres Iniesta
4B What is the SI unit of pressure?
Pascal

Round Seven
1A What is the name of the day in May on which Americans honour their war dead?
Memorial Day
1B Which London Underground line would you take to get directly to Heathrow Airport?
Piccadilly
2A Which game was named by its inventor Peter Adolph after the bird, the Eurasian Hobby?
Subbuteo (from Falco Subbuteo)
2B Under what name does Luis Carlos Almeida da Cunha play Premiership football?
Nani
3A In which year did Nick Faldo win both the Open and the US Masters Championships?
1990
3B Who was President of France immediately before Nicolas Sarkozy?
Jacques Chirac
4A Complete this Groucho Marx quote: "Go, and never darken..."
"...my towels again"
4B In 1962, Maurice Wilkins and two others won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery of what?
Structure of DNA

Round Eight
1A Which area of England was called Vectis by the Romans?
Isle of Wight
1B Peter Adamson played which character in Coronation Street?
Len Fairclough
2A Which was Status Quo's only not hit single, which came in 1974?
Down Down
2B James Harding is the editor of which daily newspaper?
The Times
3A Alan Watkins theorised that there are unseen straight lines connecting prehistoric sites in Britain. What are they called?
Ley Lines
3B In which year was the Lusitania sunk?
1915
4A Forty Years On is the school song of which school?
Harrow
4B Who writes verse obituaries in Private Eye?
E J Thribb (17½)

Spare Question
Formentera and Cabrera belong to which island group?
Balearics