Tuesday 10th September 2013
Set by Groundhogs (Northern)

Round 1
1a As at April 2003, name either of the floodlit Formula 1 Grand Prix races?
SINGAPORE or ABU DHABI
1b What 1960's LA band took their name from the title of one of Aldous Huxley's books?
THE DOORS (The Doors of Perception)
2a Which Author wrote 'Burmese Days' in 1934 and 'Coming Up For Air' in 1939'?
GEORGE ORWELL
2b What title was bestowed upon Harold Wilson's Secretary, Marcia Williams, in 1974?
BARONESS FALKENDER
3a Which 2003 film features the appropriately named characters Bubbles, Gurgle, Bloat and Gill?
FINDING NEMO
3b On which island is Brunei situated?
BORNEO
4a Broccoli, sprouts and cauliflower are all members of which family of plants?
BRASSICA
4b What northern city was the site for a victory for Oliver Cromwell in 1648 and a defeat for the Jacobites in 1715?
PRESTON

Round 2
1a Who wrote the opera Lucia Di Lammermoor in 1834?
GAETANO DONIZETTI
1b Which tennis record did Australian Samuel Groth break in May 2012?
FASTEST SERVE
2a Who walked out of an interview with Robin Day in 1982 about defence cuts after the Falklands War?
JOHN NOTT
2b Which writer, bom in 1865, observed that 'the female is more deadly than the male'?
RUDYARD KIPLING
3a Which town is the administrative centre of Powys?
LLANDRINDOD WELLS
3b As at April 2013, who presents the Saturday afternoon Radio 2 show 'Pick of the Pops'?
TONY BLACKBURN
4a What was the first military engagement of the American Civil War?
FORT SUMTER
4b What was the name of the ground-breaking 'thought experiment' proposed by an Austrian Scientist in 1935?
SCHRODINGER'S CAT

Round 3
1a What general term is used to describe any experiment not carried out in a living body?
IN VITRO
1b Sir William Walton's 'Crown Imperial Coronation March' was written for whose coronation?
GEORGE VI
2a Which batsman with over 13,000 test match runs was nominated as one of Wisden's five cricketers of the year for the first time in 2013?
JACQUES KALLIS
2b Who wrote 'Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis'?
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
3a Who wrote under the pen name Currer Bell?
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
3b Wenlock and Mandeville were described as a 'drunken one-night stand between a Teletubby and a Dalek'. Who were they?
LONDON OLYMPIC MASCOTS
4a Which presenter of the BBC Radio 4's daily news magazine 'PM' became a stand-in presenter for the Andrew Marr show following Marr's stroke?
EDDIE MAIR
4b Name either of the Spanish enclaves in Morocco?
CEUTA OR MELILLA

Round 4
1a Which millionaire introduced a free school milk programme in Chicago to combat rickets?
AL CAPONE
1b Ursus arctos horribilis is the scientific name of which animal?
GRIZZLY BEAR
2a Who recorded the album 'Grace' in 1994 and drowned in the Mississippi River in 1997?
JEFF BUCKLEY
2b Who skippered an all woman crew in a yacht called 'Maiden' in the 1990 Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race?
TRACEY EDWARDS
3a Who became U.S. Secretary of State early in 2013, replacing Hilary Clinton?
JOHN KERRY
3b Who wrote the children's book The Gruffalo?
JULIA DONALDSON
4a Which famous landmark is found on Mount Lee?
THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN
4b In the legendary Monty Python sketch about philosophers playing football, which World Cup winning captain was the only real footballer on the pitch?
FRANZ BECKENBAUER

Round 5
1a Which 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film has no music score?
THE BIRDS
1b What 153 mile footpath goes from Farnham to Dover?
THE NORTH DOWNS WAY
2a The Executive calculator and the Black Watch were products from which inventor?
CLIVE SINCLAIR
2b Which English King fought at the battle of Bannockburn?
EDWARD II
3a Which was the only French metropolitan department never visited by the Tour de France, prior to the 100th tour in 2013?
CORSICA
3b Born James Newell Osterberg Jr. in 1947, which pop star fronted a TV campaign for car insurance in 2009?
IGGY POP
4a First published in 1929, for which character is Belgian George Remi best known?
TINTIN
4b Who took office as the French President on 15 May 2012?
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

Round 6
1a Which canal passes through the Great Glen, linking Fort William and Inverness?
THE CALEDONIAN CANAL
1b In The Goodies TV series a martial art form known as 'Eckythump' was practised using which foodstuff as a weapon?
BLACK PUDDING
2a Which African Empire, founded in 1701 lasted until well into the 20th Century? Its monarchy continues as a constitutionally protected, sub-nation state and traditional state within Ghana to
this day?
ASHANTI
2b Grey Dagger, Forester and Dingy Footman are species of what?
MOTHS
3a Which group performed the first ever song in the first episode of Top of the Pops in 1964?
THE ROLLING STONES
3b Which Welsh professional Rugby player, who was capped 100 times for his country, became the first openly gay rugby playerin 2009?
GARETH THOMAS
4a Under whose leadership did the RMT become one of Britain's fastest growing Trade Unions between 2002 and 2008?
BOB CROW
4b Who is known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the middle ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Comer of Westminster Abbey?
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Round 7
1a Which word describes a painting or sculpture of the Virgin Mary cradling the dead Christ?
PIETA
1b Which country banned the use of the word Hashtag in February 2013?
FRANCE
2a Which range of mountains in France and Switzerland gives its name to the middle period of the Mesozoic era?
JURA (Jurassic period)
2b In 2012, in which country were six scientists convicted of manslaughter for failing to predict an earthquake?
ITALY
3a Which painter had a maid called Gabrielle who was the subject for many of his famous nut studies?
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR
3b The supermodel Jodie Kidd represented England at which sport?
POLO
4a Highland, Lowland, Islay, Campbeltown and where are recognised as the Scotch Whisky regions?
SPEYSIDE
4b Which former member of the Clash formed the Justice Tonight Band to promote awareness of the Hillsborough Justice campaign?
MICK JONES

Round 8
1a A targeted group of assassinations in France on St Bartholomew's Day in 1572 led to which word entering the English language?
MASSACRE
1b What name is given to the Jewish candlestick with special religious meaning?
MENORAH
2a The concept of 'cloud-cuckoo land' originated with which Ancient Greek playwright?
ARISTOPHANES
2b John James Audubon is famous for his paintings of what?
BIRDS
3a The President of France and the Bishop of Urgell are the joint rulers of which country?
ANDORRA
3b Which Italian painter killed an opponent in a duel in 1606?
CARAVAGGIO
4a The composer Peter Warlock was the father of which art critic?
BRIAN SEWELL
4b Which brewery was the 2012 Champion Beer of Britain with `No. 9 Barley Wine'? They won the same award in 1998 with 'Bluebird Bitter'.
CONISTON

Spare Questions
1 Who was the man who devised shorthand writing in 1937?
SIR ISAAC PITMAN
2 Fibulated Marshmallow is an example of a 2-word search query that returns exactly 1 hit on Google. What is this type of query?
GOOGLEWHACK
3 Which group of medieval people traditionally wore the emblem of a cockleshell in their hats?
PILGRIMS (especially those who had visited Compostela)
4 Which mixed drink, popular at parties, takes its name from the Hindi or Sanskrit word for 'five'?
PUNCH