Round Two
1A What was the name of the wife of Edward II?
Isabella (of France)
1B Of what is graphology the study?
Handwriting
2A Who wrote the 2006 novel The Road?
Cormac McCarthy
2B Who wrote the novel The Grapes of Wrath?
John Steinbeck
3A In which European city is Las Ramblas?
Barcelona
38 Where in the UK is Port Erin?
Isle of Man
4A In which sport do players compete for the Calcutta Cup?
Rugbv Union
4B Which football team is nicknamed the Potters?
Stoke City

Round Three
1A In which town is the Octagon Theatre?
Bolton
1B In which city are the Lanes?
Brighton
2A In which sport does the winner 'peg out'?
Croquet
2B Which sport is played in the Corbillon Cup?
Table tennis
3A What was the surname of Malcolm X?
Little
3B Slain by Hercules, which monster lived in the swamps near the city of Lerna?
Hydra
4A Who composed the opera La Boheme?
Puccini
4B Who wrote Les Miserables?
Victor Hugo

Round Four
1A What name is given to a word that has the opposite meaning to another word?
Antonym
1B What name is given to words that sound the same but have different meanings?
Homophones
2A Which wonder of the ancient world was at Olympia?
Statue of Zeus
2B Which geological period was named after the word for chalk?
Cretaceous
3A Who was the first female American astronaut?
Sally Ride
3B What was the name of the first space shuttle?
Columbia
4A For what is Mho a unit of measurement?
Electrical
Conductance (not Conductivity)
4B Who formulated the gas law of combining volumes?
Gay Lussac

Round Five
1A What was the nickname of the gangster George Nelson?
Babyface
1B Who wrote the 1947 novel The Plague?
Albert Camus
2A How many years of marriage are celebrated on your Sapphire anniversary?
45
2B How many kilogrammes are there in a quintal?
100
3A Who played Data in Star Trek?
Brent Spiner
3B Who played The Prisoner on TV in the 1960s?
Patrick McGoohan
4A In what year was the Wall Street crash?
1929
4B In what year was decimal coinage introduced in the UK?
1971

Round Six
1A The Crab Nebula is in which constellation?
Taurus
1B The star Regulus is in which constellation?
Leo
2A Who is the patron saint of shoemakers?
St Crispin
2B Who was the Roman god of sleep?
Somnus
3A In what year was the Battle of the Nile?
1798
3B At which racecourse is the St Leger run?
Doncaster
4A Appointed in 2011, who is the President of the Irish Republic?
Michael Higgins
4B Appointed in 2012, who is the President of the Fifth French Republic?
Francois Hollande

Round Seven
1A What is ailurophobia?
Fear of cats
1B- What-subject-was added as a Nobel Prize in 1960?
Economics
2A What are cleeks and baffys?
Types of golf club
2B What is the highest mountain in New Zealand?
Mount Cook
3A Which philosopher founded the Stoics?
Zeno
3B Which philosopher founded the Cynics?
Antisthenes
4A Who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914?
Gavrilo Princip
48 Who did Ramon Mercador kill in 1940?
Leon Trotsky

Round Eight
IA David Nicholson is the Chief Executive of which organisation?
NHS
1B Who won the best actress Oscar at the 2013 ceremony?
Jennifer Lawrence
2A In which year was the Battle of Trafalgar?
1805
2B In which year was the Battle of Agincourt?
1415
3A What is the opposite of zenith?
Nadir
3B Which English cathedral has the tallest spire?
Salisbury
4A Who directed the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics?
Danny Boyle
4B For which event did Greg Rutherford win gold for GB in 2012?
Long jump

Spare Questions
1 Who wrote the play She Stoops to Conquer?
Oliver Goldsmith
2 What is the capital of the Bahamas?
Nassau
3 Who, in 1799, wrote the poem Lamia?
John Keats
4 Who painted The Anatomy Lesson in. 1632?