Tuesday 9th December 2014
Set by Ormskirk

Round 1
1a Which King was born at Greenwich Palace in 1491?
HENRY VIII
1b Which is the largest lake wholly in Canada?
GREAT BEAR LAKE
2a Alphabetically which club in the Football League this season comes first?
ACCRINGTON STANLEY
2b Which chemical element is named after the Greek word for hidden?
KRYPTON
3a Which English town is connected with Count Dracula?
WHITBY
3b Hans Lippershey applied for a patent in the Netherlands in 1608 for an early form of which scientific instrument?
TELESCOPE
4a Who was called the King of Ragtime?
SCOTT JOPLIN
4b Which was the first James Bond novel to be filmed?
DR NO

Round 2
1a Who was the first British golfer to win the US Masters?
SANDY LYLE (1988)
1b What is the name of Heston Blumenthal's restaurant in Bray?
THE FAT DUCK
2a In World War 2 what was the American equivalent of the Chindits?
MERRILL' S MARAUDERS
2b Which county on the West coast of Ireland lies between County Limerick and County Galway?
COUNTY CLARE
3a The musical Jersey Boys features the music of which group?
(FRANKIE VALLI AND) THE FOUR SEASONS
3b Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar for playing which man in a 2012 film?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
4a Which Shakespeare play is set in the Forest of Arden?
AS YOU LIKE IT
4b Which planet was originally called Georgium Sidus by its discoverer before it was renamed by German astronomer Johann Bode to ensure that its name conformed with other planetary names?
URANUS

Round 3
1a In which book would you find the characters Scout and her father Atticus Finch?
TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD
1b Who is the current Secretary of State for Justice?
CHRIS GRAYLING
2a Who is the American lead male singer in the Canadian band Arcade Fire?
WIN BUTLER
2b Which pair of writers initiated the Steptoe and Son sitcom?
RAY GALTON and ALAN SIMPSON
3a Give a year in the course of the Seven Years' War.
1756-1763
3b Which city is the capital of the German State of Saxony?
DRESDEN
4a For which county are Patsy Hendren and Mike Gatting the leading all-time run scorers?
MIDDLESEX
4b Chetham's School in Manchester is famous in what field?
MUSIC TEACHING

Round 4
1a Who composed the 1938 ballet Billy the Kid?
AARON COPLAND
1b What was the name of the character played by John Wayne in the film True Grit?
ROOSTER COGBURN
2a Which author has written novel series that include The Warlord Chronicles and the Grail Crest trilogy?
BERNARD CORNWELL
2b Which miracle is the only one to appear in all four Gospels?
FEEDING OF THE 5000 (or LOAVES AND FISHES)
3a Which was the lightest of the three weight categories for women boxers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games?
FLYWEIGHT
3b Cambridge Favourite is a variety of which fruit?
STRAWBERRY
4a What was the name of the Kenyan shopping mall attacked by Somali terrorists in September 2013?
THE WESTGATE MALL
4b Ringwood Brewery is based in which English county?
HAMPSHIRE

Round 5
1a Which Briton was brought in as replacement tactician and helped the USA to victory in the 2013 America's Cup?
SIR BEN AINSLIE
1b Which American-Italian Fifties style restaurant chain first opened in this country in 1995 in Leicester and now has more than 180 outlets?
FRANKIE & BENNY' S
2a In World War 2 which was the only part of the USA invaded by the Japanese?
ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
2b Which county on the East coast of Ireland lies between County Dublin and County Louth?
COUNTY MEATH
3a In which country were the British victorious at the Battle of Plassey in 1757?
INDIA
3b Which city is the capital of the German state of Schleswig Holstein?
KIEL
4a Which county won the County Cricket Championship for seven consecutive seasons in the 1950s?
SURREY
4b In which city can the Graham Sutherland tapestry Christ in Glory be found?
COVENTRY

Round 6
1a Name any of the three ballets composed by Leo Delibes.
LA SOURCE, COPPELIA or SYLVIA
1b In the TV sitcom The Good Life, what was the surname of Tom and Barbara's neighbours Margo and Jerry?
LEADBETTER
2a Which author created the Alex Rider books and the Power of Five series?
ANTHONY HOROWITZ
2b In the Bible which of the tribes of Israel received no land and were appointed to be priests?
LEVITES
3a What fictional Scottish village featured in a Lerner and Loewe musical?
BRIGADOON
3b Jamie Foxx won an Oscar for playing which man in a 2004 film?
RAY CHARLES
4a What is the name of the play performed by the rude mechanicals in A Midsummer Night's Dream?
PYRAMUS AND THISBE
4b Which planet, because of changes in visibility at different times, was in fact thought to be 2 separate bodies, known as Phosphorous an Hesperus by the Greeks and Lucifer and Vesper by the Romans?
VENUS

Round 7
1a In which Dickens novel would you find the character Noah Claypole?
OLIVER TWIST
1b Who is the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, appointed in 2013?
LORD THOMAS (OF CWMGIEDD)
2a Who is the lead singer of the Sheffield band the Arctic Monkeys?
ALEX TURNER
2b Julia Smith and Tony Holland created which TV soap?
EASENDERS
3a Which Asian country won six of the seven table tennis gold medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games?
SINGAPORE
3b Careless is a variety of which fruit?
GOOSEBERRY
4a What was the name of the stricken cruise ship on which the salvage operation began in September 2013 on the Italian coast?
COSTA CONCORDIA
4b Okells Brewery is based in which part of the British Isles?
ISLE OF MAN

Round 8
1a Which King was born in Buckingham Palace in 1765?
WILLIAM IV
1b Which of the Great Lakes has the smallest surface area?
ONTARIO
2a Of the 46 clubs to have played in the FA Premier League since 1992 which comes last alphabetically?
WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS
2b Which chemical element is named after the Roman word for Paris?
LUTETIUM
3a On which English town did Thomas Hardy base the town of Casterbridge?
DORCHESTER
3b Which type of barometer that does not involve liquid was invented by Lucien Vidi in 1844?
ANEROID (BAROMETER)
4a Give either of the forenames of Duke Ellington.
EDWARD KENNEDY
4b In which film did George Lazenby star as James Bond?
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE

Spare Questions
1 Who became Prime Minister after the assassination of Spencer Perceval?
LORD LIVERPOOL
2 What is the married surname of Catherine in Wuthering Heights?
LINTON
3 Flemish Giant is the largest breed of which animal?
RABBIT