Tuesday 2nd December 2014
Set by Exiles (Liverpool)

Round One
1A Which element, No. 71, has its name derived from the city of Paris?
Lutetium
1B Which titular Shakespearean character during the course of the play becomes a misanthrope and lives in a cave?
Timon of Athens
2A Which British pop star active since the 1970's has released albums called Up, So and Us?
Peter Gabriel
2B in which city do the football team Atalanta of the Italian league play their home games?
Bergamo
3A In what year did the Battle of Barnet take place in Britain?
1471 (accept 1470
1472)
3B Who presents the TV quiz show Pressure Pad?
John Barrowman
4A Which spirit is used as the base for a Sea Breeze cocktail?
Vodka
4B In the Bible, which prophet is usually accepted as the author of the book of Lamentations?
Jeremiah

Round Two
1A Members of the Wormwood family are some of the leading characters in which 2011 musical that won an Olivier award?
Matilda
1B In Arthurian legend, what is the name of Arthur's foster father?
Sir Ector
2A Which Labour MP has been Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee since 2007?
Keith Vaz
2B Which scientist first described the laws of planetary motion between 1609 - 1612?
Johannes Kepler
3A Which celestial body is the only dwarf planet and largest asteroid found in the inner solar system?
Ceres
3B Who narrated the BBC television production of Paddington?
Sir Michael Horden
4A On a human body, what are rhytides?
Wrinkles
4B Who wrote the epic poem The Faerie Queen c.1590 - 1596?
Edmund Spenser

Round Three
1A Upon which river does Lincoln stand?
The Witham
1B What colour is the 'artists colour' called vermillion?
Red
2A Which is the last British monarch to have been born outside the British Isles?
George II
2B Which European country's flag is three equal horizontal bands of blue at the top, black in the middle and white at the bottom?
Estonia
3A Which vegetable Allium Porrum have varieties called Royal Favourite and Walton Mammoth?
Leek
3B Who wrote the best selling books Pillars of the Earth and World Without End?
Ken Follett
4A Which musical instrument is associated with Lang Lang?
Piano
4B Which is the only film of the fantasy genre ever to win the best picture Oscar - full name required?
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Round Four
1A Give a year in the life of the explorer Abel Tasman.
1603 - 1659
1B In a French restaurant what are 'huitres'?
Oysters
2A Anthophobia is the irrational fear of what?
Flowers
28 Which is the southernmost capital city in Europe?
Valetta
3A Which philosopher is famous for his paradoxes, most notably Achilles and the tortoise?
Zeno (of Alea)
38 In which year was the Bhopal disaster at the Union Carbide India Ltd. pesticide plant, the privatisation of British Telecom and the Queen opened the Thames Flood barrier?
1984
4A What type of bird is a maribou?
Stork
4B The painting 'A Bar at the Folies-Bergere' c1882 displayed at the Cortauld Gallery, London is by which artist?
Edouard Manet

Round Five
1A Which chemical element, No. 54, derives its name from the Greek for stranger?
Xenon
1B Which Shakespeare play takes place in the first years of the newly established Roman Republic?
Coriolanus
2A Which British artist active since the 1970's has released albums entitled Never for Ever and Aerial?
Kate Bush
2B In which city do German football team Schalke 04 play their home games?
Gelsenkirchen
3A In what year did the Battle of Evesham take place in Britain?
1265 (accept 1264 66)
3B Who presents the TV show Reflex?
Shane Richie
4A Which spirit is used as the base for a Mai Tai cocktail?
Rum
4B In the Christian Old Testament of the Bible, which book immediately follows the Pentateuch?
Joshua

Round Six
1A Leo Bloom and Max Bialystock are two of the leading characters in which 2001 musical that won an Olivier award?
The Producers
1B In Arthurian legend, what is the name of Lancelot's castle?
Joyous Gard (accept Dolorous Gard)
2A Which Labour MP has been Chair of the Public Accounts Select Committee since 2010?
Margaret Hodge
2B Which British scientist formulated a set of equations that describe electricity, magnetism and optics as manifestations of the same phenomenon, namely the electromagnetic field, in 1873?
James Clark Maxwell
3A What name is given to the region of the solar system that lies immediately beyond Neptune but inside the scattered disc region?
Kuiper Belt
3B Who narrated the English version of the Spanish animated children's series Pocoyo?
Stephen Fry
4A On a human body, what are known medically as ephelides?
Freckles
4B Who wrote the narrative poem The Rape of the Lock between 1712 1717?
Alexander Pope

Round Seven
1A Upon which river does Durham stand?
Wear
1B What colour is the 'artist's colour' called cerulean?
Blue
2A Which English monarch was the last to be born in France?
Edward IV
2B Which country's flag is a horizontal bicolour of red over green in a 2:1 ratio with a red ornamental pattern on a white vertical stripe at the hoist?
Belarus
3A Which vegetable Daucus spp has varieties called Autumn King and Pamex?
Carrot
3B Who wrote the best selling novels Labyrinth and Sepulchre?
Kate Mosse
4A Which musical instrument is associated with Alison Balsam?
Trumpet
4B What was the last film in the western genre to win a best picture Oscar?
Unforgiven

Round Eight
1A Give a year in the life of the explorer Matthew Flinders.
1774 - 1801
1B In an Italian restaurant what are lamponi?
Raspberries
2A Algophobia is an irrational fear of what?
Pain
2B Which is the easternmost capital city in the European Union?
Nicosia
3A Which philosopher is famous for his wager that states though the existence of God cannot be determined through reason, a person should 'wager' as though God exists, because so living has everything to gain, and nothing to lose?
Blaise Pascal
3B In what year was the Camelford water pollution incident, the first Red Nose Day charity event and Edwina Currie's resignation after the salmonella in eggs controversy?
1988
4A What type of primate is a sifaka?
Lemur
4B The painting A Dance to the Music of Time 1634 - 1635 displayed in the Wallace Collection, London is by which artist?
Nicholas Poussin

Spare Questions
1 Which British monarch is the only one to have been born at Buckingham Palace?
Edward VII
2 Who built the first cotton spinning factory in Derbyshire in 1771?
Richard Arkwright
3 What is the more common name for the phenomena known as ignis fatuus?
Will o' the wisp
4 Although a term coined many centuries after his death, which philosopher is famous for his 'razor'?
William of Ockham