Monday 22nd October 2012
Set by Warrington

Round 1
1a What is the date of St David's Day?
1st March
1b Which comedian used the catchphrase it's the way I tell 'em'?
Frank Carson
2a Which European capital was known to the Romans as Lutetia?
Paris
2b Which Welsh town was granted city status in 2012?
St Asaph
3a The Straits of Hormuz connect the Persian Gulf and which other Gulf?
Gulf of Oman
3b Which singer had a 2011 hit with 'Rolling in the Deep'?
Adele
4a What is the name of Colonel Muammar Ghaddafi's home town where he was killed in 2011?
Sirte
4b In Edwin Landseer's 1839 painting, who or what are 'Dignity and Impudence'?
Dogs

Round 2
1a Which motorway links Southampton and Portsmouth?
M27
1b The Ivy League University 'Brown' is in which US state?
Rhode Island
2a On obtaining city status, St Asaph became the second city in the UK; which is the smallest?
Smallest?
St David's
2b On the London Underground map what is the colour of the Jubilee Line?
Silver
3a Who wrote about his life in the army during World War 1 under the pseudonym 'Aircrafiman Ross'?
T E Lawrence (of Arabia)
3b The Salish Sea separates which island from mainland North America?
Vancouver Island
4a Who wrote 'Play in a Day', a guide to playing the guitar first published in 1957?
Bert Weedon
4b What is the name of the now decommissioned nuclear power plant in Caithness?
Dounreay

Round 3
1a 'Titter ye not' was a catchphrase of which comedian?
Frankie Howerd
1b Who composed the opera Lohengrin?
Wagner
2a Which woman lost in seven Wimbledon singles finals during the second half of the 20th century?
Chris Evert
2b Which European capital was known to the Romans as Vindobona?
Vienna
3a A Tagine, a slow-cooked stew named after the pot in which it is cooked, originates from which country?
Morocco
3b Scaramanga was the villain of which Bond film?
The Man With The Golden Gun
4a Who was O.C. in Andrew Marvell's 'A Poem Upon The Death of OC'?
Oliver Cromwell
4b Name the year; the Profumo Affair, first female astronaut and first limited overs cricket final at Lords.
1963

Round 4
1a The Hashemite ruler Faisal 2nd was the last king of which country?
Iraq
1b What is the date of St Andrew's Day?
30th November
2a On the London Underground map what is the colour of the Hammersmith & City Line?
Pink
2b Which president of South Africa ordered the release from prison of Nelson Mandela in 1990?
F.W. de Klerk
3a Which female singer had a 2008 hit with 'Warwick Avenue'?
Duffy
3b Who was voted Footballer of the Year (both footballer writers and PFA awards) at the end of the 2011-12 season?
Robin van Persie
4a Which famous castle in Caithness belonged to the Queen Mother?
Castle of Mey
4b 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn' was the debut album of Pink Floyd; the title came from a chapter heading in which book?
Wind in the Willows

Round 5
1a Which motorway links the M4 to central Bristol?
M32
1b The Ivy League University 'Dartmouth College' is in which US state?
New Hampshire
2a In which Shakespeare play does the quotation "neither a borrower nor a lender be" appear?
Hamlet
2b Which TV series was set in Aidensfield?
Heartbeat
3a By what name was the artist Jacopo Comin (or Jacopo Robusti) better known?
Tintoretto
3b Alec Trevelyan was the villain of which Bond film?
Golden Eye
4a Melatonin is produced in which gland in the human body?
Pineal
4b Name the year; first nuclear power station opened at Calder Hall, Nasser elected President of Egypt, Devon Loch falls at the end of the Grand National?
1956

Round 6
1a Executed in 1958, Imre Nagy was Prime Minister of which country?
Hungary
1b In book and film, which vessel was commanded by Charlie Allnut?
The African Queen
2a Which tennis player won 11 Grand Slam titles during the second half of the 20th century, but only ever won one match at the Australian Open?
Bjorn Borg
2b Who gave his name to the scientific law that states that the pressure of a gas is inversely proportional to its volume at constant temperature?
Robert Boyle
3a Who wrote about his life in the RAE during World War 2 under the pseudonym 'Flying Officer X'?
H.E. Bates
3b Emma of Normandy was wife to two early Kings of England, name either,
Ethelred (the unready) or Canute
4a What is the name of the home town of Saddam Hussein, close to where he was captured in 2003?
Tikrit
4b A Black Russian cocktail is a mix of vodka with what?
Coffee liqueur (Tia Maria or Kahlua)

Round 7
1a Which house was filmed as Pemberley in the BBC TV adaptation of 'Pride and Prejudice'?
Lyme Hall (accept Lyme Park)
1b Who composed the opera Tancredi?
Rossini
2a Which TV medical drama series was set in Elsinby?
The Royal
2b Who was the last president of Czechoslovakia before its dissolution in 1993?
Vaclav Havel
3a Tabbouleh, a vegetarian salad based on couscous or bulgur wheat, originates in which country?
Lebanon (also Syria)
3b Who is the only footballer to have scored in four FA Cup finals?
Didier Drogba
4a What is added to a Black Russian to make it into a White Russian?
Cream
4b 'Whatever People say I am, that's what I'm not' was the debut album of the Arctic Monkeys; the title came from which book (and film)?
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Round 8
1a In book and film, which vessel was commanded by Philip Francis Queeg?
The USS Caine
1b The TV programme 'Downton Abbey' is filmed at which stately home?
Highclere Castle
2a Which scientific law describes the relationship between the volume and temperature of a gas at constant pressure?
Charles's Law
2b In a Shakespeare play, who was found "fast asleep behind the arras and snorting like a horse"?
Falstaff
3a Which King of England had two wives, both named Isabella?
John
3b By what name was the artist Michaelangelo Merisi better known?
Caravaggio
4a Which major company employ a 'Chief Doodler'?
Google
4b The 'Loop of Henle' is found in which organ of the human body?
Kidney

Spare Questions
1 What was politician Mo Mowlem's real first name?
Marjorie
2 In what capacity did author Ernest Hemingway serve during the First World War?
Ambulance Driver
3 Whose symphony No 3 in E Flat contains a funeral march?
Beethoven