Tuesday 18th February 2014
Set by Ormskirk

ROUND 1
1a The airport Cristoforo Colombo is in which city?
GENOA
1b James Stewart was the real name of an English actor who was on stage from 1935. He was an officer in the British Army in WWII. His first starring film role was in The Man in Grey in 1943. What was his professional name?
STEWART GRANGER
2a What is the full name of the boy band NKOTB?
NEW KIDS ON TILE BLOCK
2b Who created Babar the Elephant?
JEAN DE BRUNHOFF
3a Who replaced Mickey Arthur as coach of the Australian cricket team in June?
DARREN LEHMANN
3b In which castle was Charles I imprisoned from 1647 to 1648?
CARISBROOKE
4a What is second man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin's real Christian name?
EDWIN (accept EUGENE)
4b To whom is Sophie Dahl married?
JAMIE CULLUM

ROUND 2
1a Which team were beaten by Bayern Munich in this year's UEFA Champions League final?
BORUSSIA DORTMUND
1b The so-called Six Acts of 1819 were an attempt by the British Parliament to curb radical activity
following which event earlier that year?
THE PETERLOO MASSACRE
2a From which country does the cheese manchego originate?
SPAIN
2b Who was the result of Zeus visiting Danae as a shower of gold?
PERSEUS
3a In which country is the tourist attraction Lake Bled?
SLOVENIA
3b At this year's Oscars, Jennifer Lawrence won Best Actress for her role in which film?
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
4a Whose twelfth studio album Magna Carta Holy Grail released in July has topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic7.
JAY-Z
4b What is the only Shakespeare play with an animal in the title?
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

ROUND 3
1a Whose opera Un ballo in maschera premiered in 1859?
GIUSEPPE VERDI
1b Which painter's works include the murals on the Sandham Memorial Chapel at Burghclere and The Resurrection, Cookham?
STANLEY SPENCER
2a The US state of Michigan borders all of the Great Lakes except which one?
ONTARIO
2b Which 1995 film had the tag line - 'The courage to face fear'?
BRAVEHEART
3a Give a year in the life of Scottish engineer and inventor James Watt.
1736 - 1819
3b What is the shape of something described as reniform?
KIDNEY SHAPED
4a How does the sport of Nordic Walking differ from regular walking?
IT USES POLES
4b Who was the Governor of the Falklands at the time of the War who died in 2012?
SIR REX HUNT

ROUND 4
1a Linguistically what is the term applied to a sentence which contains all the letters of the alphabet?
PANGRAM
1b In which month of the year is Australia Day?
JANUARY (26TH)
2a Which Briton, in the London Olympics, won the first ever women's boxing gold medal?
NICOLA ADAMS
2b Which future party leader was first elected to Parliament as MP for Plymouth Devonport in 1945?
MICHAEL FOOT
3a Name the contemporary Scottish composer whose works include The Confession of Isobel Gowdie and Vent, Veni Emmanuel written for the percussionist Evelyn Glennie?
JAMES MACMILLAN
3b Which writer born in Daresbury in 1832 died in Guildford in 1898?
LEWIS CARROLL
4a What city or town is known in its own country's language as Lefkosia?
NICOSIA
4b What was the English title of the TV crime drama, shown on BBC4 in 2012, set partly in Denmark and partly in Sweden?
THE BRIDGE

ROUND 5
1a Linguistically what is the term applied to words with the same pronunciation, spellings and meanings?
HOMOPHONE
1b In which month is Thanksgiving Day in Canada?
OCTOBER (2ND MONDAY)
2a In which sport did Neil Adams win Olympic silver medals in 1980 and 1984?
JUDO
2b Who was MP for Orkney and Shetland from 1950 to 1983 leading his party for over 10 of those years?
JO GRIMOND
3a Give a year in the life of Scottish chemist and physicist James Dewar.
1842 - 1923
3b What shape is something described as cordate?
HEART SHAPED
4a The 2005 BIRC was Britain's biggest mass-participation indoor sports event. What piece of equipment did the participants use?
ROWING MACHINES
4b Who was the first Governor of the Bank of England (1694-1697)?
SIR JOHN HOUBLON

ROUND 6
1a Whose opera La gazza ladra premiered in 1817?
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
1b Which sculptor's works include St Michael's Victory over the Devil at Coventry Cathedral and Jacob and the Angel?
JACOB EPSTEIN
2a What is the highest mountain in the contiguous states of the USA?
MT WHITNEY
2b Which 1957 film had the tag line - 'Life is in their hands - death is on their minds'?
12 ANGRY MEN
3a Name the contemporary English composer who after writing avant garde works such as The Whale and Celtic Requiem, turned to more mystical, Byzantine works such as The Protecting Veil.
JOHN TAVENER
3b Which writer born in Dublin in 1854 died in Paris in 1900?
OSCAR WILDE
4a What city or town is known in one of its country's languages as Kaapstad?
CAPE TOWN
4b Which Danish TV drama, shown on BBC4 in 2012, took its title from the popular name for its country's parliament?
BORGEN

ROUND 7
1a In which country is Pula, home to one of the best preserved Roman amphitheatres outside Italy?
CROATIA
1b At this year's Oscars, who won Best Supporting Actress?
ANNE HATHAWAY (LES MISERABLES)
2a Which plural word completes the title of the Daft Punk album released in May this year - Random Access
MEMORIES
2b How is the Greek playwright Aeschylus traditionally said to have died?
AN EAGLE DROPPED A TORTOISE ON HIS HEAD
3a Who scored the winning goal in this year's FA Cup final?
BEN WATSON
3b Following what action in 1773 did the British Parliament pass The Intolerable Acts?
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY
4a From which country does the cheese emmental originate?
SWITZERLAND
4b Zeus' visit as a swan to whom resulted in the birth of twins Castor and Pollux?
LEDA

ROUND 8
1a A rider from Team Sky has won the Criterium du Dauphine in each of the last three years. Bradley Wiggins won in 2011 and 2012. Who won this year?
CHRIS FROOME
1b In which castle was Mary Queen of Scots executed in 1587?
FOTHERINGHAY
2a Who was Eugene Cernan's companion on the last moonwalk from Apollo 17?
HARRISON SCHMITT
2b Who is married to Calista Flockhart?
HARRISON FORD
3a The airport Guglielmo Marconi is the airport of which city?
BOLOGNA
3b Her real name was Virginia Katherine McMath, but this famous actress and dancing star of many films, which included Gold Diggers of 1933, was better known by what name?
GINGER ROGERS
4a The name of which boy band is a play on the last letter of the first name of the original members?
'N SYNC (JustiN, ChriS, JoeY, JasoN, and JC)
4b What is the name of the druid in the English version of the Asterix books?
GETAFIX

SPARE QUESTIONS
1 In which country was Princess Elizabeth when George VI died?
KENYA
2 Where were the first Summer Olympics held in the USA?
ST LOUIS
3 Who in legend was the mighty hunter? It is also the name of an aircraft developed from the Comet.
NIMROD
4 In New York a museum is known as MOMA. What does the MA stand for?
MODERN ART