Tuesday 1st October 2013
Set by Earles (Liverpool)

Round One
1A Who became Lord Protector of England in 1653?
OLIVER CROMWELL
1B 2013 marks the 200th anniversary of which Jane Austen novel?
PRIDE & PREJUDICE
2A Stanley in the Falkland Isles is twinned with which North Yorkshire town?
WHITBY
28 What type of vehicle is a pantechnicon?
A LARGE VAN
3A Barings Bank was brought down by which 'rogue trader'?
NICK LEESON
3B Coney is an alternative name for which animal?
RABBIT
4A What is the anatomical name of the big toe?
HALLUX
4B In which year did the wearing of seat belts become compulsory in the UK?
1983

Round Two
1A What was the name of the member of the crew of Apollo 11 who did NOT walk on the Moon in 1969?
MICHAEL COLLINS
1B Which English county is Bletchley Park, the WW II code-breaking centre?
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
2A Swansea City now play their home games at The Liberty Stadium. What was the name of their previous home venue?
VETCH FIELD
2B Hull City now play their home games at the KC Stadium. What was the name of their previous home venue?
BOOTHFERRY PARK
3A Asuncion is the capital of which country?
PARAGUAY
3B From which language do the words tulip, kiosk and caviar come?
TURKISH
4A Who in 1890, composed the music for the opera 'Ivanhoe'?
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN
4B In the first Cricket World Cup in 1975 an East Africa team represented four countries. Name two of them.
KENYA, UGANDA, TANZANIA AND ZAMBIA

Round Three
1A In Hindu mythology, who is the goddess of destruction and death?
KALI
1B Alfredo di Stefano, of Real Madrid fame was born in which country?
ARGENTINA
2A In the Old Testament, TWO books are named after women. Ruth is one - name the other.
ESTHER
2B What is the name of the police officer in the show `West Side Story'?
OFFICER KRUPKE
3A In 1978 who had their first UK Top Ten Hit with the song 'What A Waste'?
IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS
3B Every episode of which TV detective series was introduced with a message on an answering machine?
ROCKFORD FILES
4A Whose 19th century dictionary standardised US English?
NOAH WEBSTER
4B Mycology is the study of what?
FUNGI

Round Four
1A Which number amendment to the U.S constitution abolished slavery?
THIRTEENTH
1B Who was Tsar of Russia when the serfs were emancipated?
ALEXANDER II
2A On a map of scale 1:50,000, what distance is represented by 10 centimetres?
5 KILOMETRES (500,000 CM)
2B Which capital city lies at latitude: 60 degrees north, longitude: 25degrees east?
HELSINKI
3A In which Dickens novel does Newman Noggs appear?
NICHOLAS NICKELBY
3B On which island is the city of Djakarta
JAVA
4A On which island is President Ulysses S.Grant burled?
MANHATTAN
4B Who directed the 2009 film Avatar?
JAMES CAMERON

Round Five
1A Who had number one hits in 1959 with "Side Saddle" and "Roulette"?
RUSS CONWAY
1B Who had a number one hit in 1955 with 'Give me your word' and in 1956 with 'Sixteen Tons'?
TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD
2A In which year did the Space Shuttle Challenger crash?
1986
2B In which year of WWI did allied forces land at Gallipoli?
1915
3A Which World Heavyweight boxing champion-was known as 'The Cinderella Man'?
JAMES BRADDOCK
3B Who was Prime Minister at time of the Battle of Waterloo?
LORD LIVERPOOL
4A Name one of the colours on the flag of Ukraine.
BLUE AND YELLOW
4B Name one of the colours on the flag of Bangladesh.
RED AND GREEN

Round Six
1A In which Shakespeare play do the characters Valentine and Proteus appear?
TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
1B In which Shakespeare play do the characters Duke Frederick and Charles the Wrestler appear?
AS YOU LIKE IT
2A Which Labour politician wrote a 1989 autobiography titled The Time of my Life'?
DENIS HEALEY
2B Which contemporary US politician wrote an autobiography titled 'Living History'?
HILLARY CLINTON.
3A Give a year in the life of Niccolo Machiavelli.
1469-1527
3B Give a year in the life of King Louis XIV, the Sun King.
1638-1715
4A In which US city was the 1968 film 'Bullitt' set?
SAN FRANCISCO
4B In which US state was the 1987 film 'The Big Easy' set?
LOUISIANA

Round Seven
1A What is the name of the Wiltshire house of the Marquis of Bath?
LONGLEAT
1B What is the standard lap distance in an Olympic velodrome
250 METRES
2A Who was British Prime Minister at the time of the accession of Elizabeth II?
WINSTON CHURCHILL
2B According to Greek mythology how often does a Phoenix rise from the ashes of its predecessor?
500 YEARS
3A Which former Lancashire town (now in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury) holds an annual Black Pudding throwing contest?
RAMSBOTTOM
3B In which 18th century war were the battles of Dettingen and Fontenoy?
WAR OF AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION
4A A 'Winter Nelis' is a variety of which fruit?
PEAR
4B In which seaside town in the UK was a statue of a naked woman called Verity by Damien Hirst unveiled in 2012?
ILFRACOMBE

Round Eight
1A Which fish is traditionally used in the Cornwall dish 'Stargazy Pie'?
PILCHARDS
1B Who is the only Rugby Union player to have won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year?
JONNY WILKINSON (2003)
2A The Voice (UK) judge Will. I. Am was a vocalist in which group?
BLACK EYED PEAS
2B Which celebrity chefs autobiography in 2006 was called 'Humble Pie'?
GORDON RAMSEY
3A What is the main metallic element in pewter?
TIN
3B Alex Turner is the leader of which British group, winner of the 2006 Mercury Prize?
ARCTIC MONKEYS
4A Botswana was formerly known by what name?
(BRITISH) BECHUANALAND
4B Viva Forever' is a West End musical (2012) based on the music of 'which pop group?
SPICE GIRLS

Spare Questions
1 Which author using the pen name Robert Markham wrote a James Bond book called 'Colonel Sun' after the death of Ian Fleming?
KINGSLEY AMIS
2 Where is Frederic Chopin Airport?
WARSAW
3 Ananas is the French for which fruit?
PINEAPPLE
4 What is the square root of 1/4?
HALF (1/2)
5 An 'Empress' is the female of which animal?
CHIMPANZEE