Monday 21st January 2013
Set by Ormskirk

ROUND 1
1a In which state was US President William McKinley assassinated?
NEW YORK
1b What was the former name of Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe?
SALISBURY
2a What is the name of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice?
ANTONIO
2b How many old pennies made 1 guinea?
252
3a Name the 2009 film about the Rugby Union World Cup starring Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela?
INVICTUS
3b Who had number 1 hits in 1959 with 'Dream Lover' and 'Mack the Knife'?
BOBBY DARIN
4a The Alfred Dunhill Links Championship is a pro-am golf tournament played at St Andrews, Kingsbarns and which other course which features the Barry Burn?
CARNOUSTIE
4b What is the more common name of the Chilean Pine?
MONKEY PUZZLE TREE

ROUND 2
1a Ismene was an incestual daughter of Oedipus & Jocasta. Who was her better known sister?
ANTIGONE
1b If an object's shape is described as cordate, what shape is it?
HEART (SHAPED)
2a Income tax was first levied in the UK to pay for which conflicts?
NAPOLEONIC WARS
2b Which national flag has the 2nd highest number of stars (27 stars) behind the highest (50 stars) of
the USA?
BRAZIL
3a Which football club's original name was Small Heath Alliance?
BIRMINGHAM CITY
3b The Mexican beaded lizard is one of only two species of poisonous lizard. What is the other?
GILA MONSTER
4a What was the name of the dog which won `Britain's Got Talent' in 2012?
PUDSEY
4b Which currently running London musical holds the West End record for the longest continuous run?
LES MISERABLES (OPENED IN 1985)

ROUND 3
1a Which actor left 'New Tricks' in the first episode of Series 9 broadcast in August 2012?
JAMES BOLAM
1b Which TV actor's daughter won the 2011 Kathleen Ferrier Award?
KEVIN WHATELY
2a How many players are on court in a handball team?
7
2b Which physicist's principle asserts that no two electrons can occupy the same energy state simultaneously?
WOLFGANG PAULI (PAULI'S EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE)
3a In the Diamond Jubilee Thames Pageant what was the name of the boat carrying the Queen?
THE SPIRIT OF CHARTWELL
3b Amber Valley and Erewash are Borough Councils in which county?
DERBYSHIRE
4a In the Patrick O'Brian novels about Jack Aubrey, who is his doctor companion?
STEPHEN MATURIN
4b What name was given to soldiers who travelled on horse but fought on foot?
DRAGOONS

ROUND 4
1a Which horse won the 2012 Epsom Derby?
CAMELOT
1b What term is used to describe the furthest point of the moon from the Earth?
APOGEE
2a Who played the part of Thomas Crown in the 90's remake of the film 'The Thomas Crown Affair'?
PIERCE BROSNAN
2b In which half of which century was Johannes Brahms born?
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY (1833)
3a What is the Christian name of Sherlock Holmes' brother?
MYCROFT
3b 'Pour que l'eau sake n'ait jamais le gout des larmes' (So that salt water never taste of tears) is the motto of the French equivalent of which organisation?
RNLI
4a On which United States ship did the Japanese sign surrender terms in Tokyo Bay?
USS MISSOURI
4b Ballasalla and Colby are railway stations on which British island?
ISLE OF MAN

ROUND 5
1a What was the name of Helen of Troy's mother?
LEDA
1b If an object's shape is described as reniform, what shape is it?
KIDNEY (SHAPED)
2a The Battle of Tewkesbury was a battle in which series of Wars?
WARS OF THE ROSES
2b Hrvatska on postage stamps indicates that they are from which country?
CROATIA
3a Which villain killed James Bond's wife on their wedding day?
ERNST STAVRO BLOFELD
3b Matthew Webb swam the English Channel and then drowned swimming where?
NIAGARA FALLS
4a During the Falklands War which ship was the British flagship?
HMS HERMES
4b On which British island are Brighstone Forest and Parkhurst Forest?
ISLE OF WIGHT

ROUND 6
1a In the 2012 Grand National, who became the first woman jockey to finish in the first three, riding the joint favourite Seabass?
KATIE WALSH
1b What word is used to descibe the position of a planet when it is closest to the sun?
PERIHELION
2a Who played the parts of the twins in the 1998 remake of the film 'The Parent Trap'?
LINDSAY LOHAN
2b In which decade of his life was Jackson Pollock when he died?
40s
3a What is the name of the ship that left Southampton on Easter Day this year for the Titanic Memorial Cruise?
MS BALMORAL
3b In which town are the headquarters of Derbyshire County Council?
MATLOCK
4a Whose historical novels about the Royal Navy include the Richard Bolitho novels set during the Napoleonic era, written under the pseudonym Alexander Kent?
DOUGLAS REEMAN
4b Name either of the regiments which compose the Household Cavalry.
LIFE GUARDS or BLUES AND ROYALS

ROUND 7
1a Which actress joined the cast of `Downton Abbey' in Series 3 playing the mother of the Countess of Grantham?
SHIRLEY MACLAINE
1b Which classic 1945 British film was turned into an opera by Andre Previn which premiered in 2009?
BRIEF ENCOUNTER
2a How many points does it take to win a game of table tennis?
11
2b Which physicist's principle asserts that the momentum & position of a particle cannot both be precisely determined at the same time?
WERNER HEISENBERG (UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE)
3a Which football clubs original name was Thames Ironworks FC?
WEST HAM UNITED
3b The platypus and four species of which mammal are the only surviving monotremes?
ECHIDNA (or SPINY ANTEATER)
4a Which talent show was won in 2012 by Leanne Mitchell?
THE VOICE
4b Who wrote the original novel 'The Phantom of the Opera' in 1910?
GASTON LEROUX

ROUND 8
1a In which state was US President John F Kennedy assassinated?
TEXAS
1b The African capital cities of Kinshasa and Brazzaville lie on opposite banks of which river?
CONGO
2a In which country is 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' set?
GREECE
2b How many fluid ounces are there in an American gallon?
128 (16 x 8)
3a Matt Smith played Bert Bushnell in a recent TV film about which sport in the 1948 Olympics? ROWING
3b Who had number 1 hits in 1959 with `Side Saddle' and `Roulette'?
RUSS CONWAY
4a Who captained the US team in the 2012 Ryder Cup?
DAVIS LOVE (III)
4b What is the more common name of the wild hyacinth?
BLUEBELL

SPARE QUESTIONS
1 In which year did Graham Hill die in a plane crash and Arthur Ashe become Wimbledon Champion? 1975
2 The medical term 'brachial' refers to which part of the body?
ARM
3 During a 1973 boxing match, who broke Muhammad Ali's jaw?
KEN NORTON
4 What was the name of the double-decker bus designed by Douglas Scott and introduced into London Transport in the 1950s?
ROUTEMASTER