Monday 20th January 2014
Set by Warrington

Round 1
1a What is the Japanese name for Japan?
Nippon (or Nihon)
1b Who played the father of Indiana Jones in 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'?
Sean Connery
2a Which tree is also known as the Mountain Ash?
Rowan (Sorbus Aucuparia)
2b Which fairground sweet is known in France as 'barbe a papa' (father's beard)?
Candy Floss
3a Rickets is a disease associated with a deficiency of which vitamin?
Vitamin D
3b Name either of the South American countries that have no land border with Brazil?
Chile, Ecuador
4a Where is the Rosetta Stone on display?
British Museum
4b How many different Nobel Prizes are awarded each year?
Six

Round 2
1a Sine, cosine and tangent are the three most familiar functions in which branch of mathematics?
Trigonometry
1b Which company created 'Blue Jasperware'?
Wedgwood
2a In Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' a flamingo and a hedgehog were used to play which game?
Croquet
2b Who fronted the BBC TV series 'Troubleshooter', advising ailing businesses on ways to improve their performance?
Sir John Harvey-Jones
3a Which unit of the Roman army was one tenth of a legion?
Cohort
3b The 1812 Overture was written to celebrate the defeat of Napoleon in which city?
Moscow
4a Which musical instrument does Lisa play in the TV cartoon 'The Simpsons'?
Saxophone
4b Which product was advertised with the slogan 'central heating for kids'?
Ready Brek

Round 3
1a What food might also be called Norway Lobster or Dublin Bay Prawn?
Scampi (or Langoustine)
1b What name is given to a person who tests metals for quality?
Assayer
2a What is the more common name for the exotic plant Strelitzia?
Bird of Paradise
2b What colour is the gemstone citrine?
Yellow
3a Who wrote the science fiction novel 'Stranger In A Strange Land'?
Robert Heinlein
3b In farming terms, what is a Red Ruby?
Breed of cattle
4a What word is used to describe a marked ski run or an area where fencing takes place?
Piste
4b Which part of the British Isles is divided into six areas called sheadings?
Isle of Man

Round 4
1a The film 'The Music Lovers' was about which composer?
Tchaikovsky
1b Which US city is known as `Beantown'?
Boston, Massachusetts
2a Which Australian city was originally called Port Jackson?
Sydney
2b Blue Gum and Ironbark are species of which genus of Australian tree?
Eucalyptus
3a In which city was the first US Presidential inauguration held, prior to Washington DC becoming the capital?
New York
3b Who wrote the plays 'Cavalcade', 'Bitter Sweet' and 'Hay Fever'?
Noel Coward
4a How many basic positions are there in classical ballet?
Five
4b Who would wear a chasuble?
Priest

Round 5
1a Six is the first 'Perfect Number', i.e. a number that is the sum of all of its factors (excluding itself), which is the second?
28
1b To which period in American history does the term antebellum refer?
Pre Civil War
2a Whose first novel was titled 'Desperate Remedies'?
Thomas Hardy
2b Piri-piri sauce originates in which county?
Portugal
3a Name the pop song from this opening line; "The moment I wake up, before I put on my make-up".
I Say a Little Prayer
3b Name the pop song from this opening line; "As the snow flies on a cold and grey Chicago morn, and a poor little baby child is born"?
In The Ghetto
4a Which modern sport is similar to the 18th century game `battledore'?
Badminton
4b What were originally 8" then 5¼" and then 3½", there was also a 2" version available at some time?
(Computer) Floppy disks

Round 6
1a Which north-west venue is considered to be the spiritual home of Northern Soul music from 1973 until its closure in 1981?
Wigan Casino
1b Snakes are the symbol of which saint?
St Patrick
2a Which Roman road ran from Lincoln to Exeter?
Fosse Way
2b Which Formula One racetrack is in the Ardennes?
Spa (Francorchamps)
3a Which hat is named after a 1790 poem by Robert Burns?
Tam O'Shanter
3b Which book by Dale Carnegie, published in 1936, gives hints as to how to deal with social and business situations?
How to Make Friends and Influence People
4a Which chocolate and toffee assortment shares its name with the title of a play by JM Barrie?
Quality Street
4b Who replaced 'Sid & Dick' as the main writer for Morecambe and Wise?
Eddie Braben

Round 7
1a Levens Hall in Cumbria is famous for what sort of garden, claimed to be the world's oldest?
Topiary garden
1b What name is given to the condition where a captive begins to sympathise with their captors?
Stockholm Syndrome
2a What name is given to the curve seen at the surface of a liquid, particularly in a narrow tube?
Meniscus
2b In 1847, which Bristol company was the first British company to make a chocolate bar?
Fry's
3a What was the surname of father Pierre Auguste, a painter, and his film director son, Jean?
Renoir
3b Who composed the music for the 2011 ballet 'Ocean's Kingdom'?
Paul McCartney
4a In a children's story, who followed little white stones and so reached their home?
Hansel & Gretel
4b Which Soviet politician was known by a pseudonym meaning `The Hammer'?
Molotov

Round 8
1a Of which uniformed group are St Genevieve and St Sebastian the patron saints?
Police
1b Which family were grand dukes of Tuscany from 1569 to 1737?
(Di) Medici
2a In which present day country is the Biblical land of Sheba?
Yemen
2b The 'Angel of Christian Charity' in London is more commonly known by what name?
(Statue of) Eros
3a Frenchman Robert Hubert was executed in England during the latter part of the 17th century after he falsely confessed to have committed which crime?
Starting the Great Fire of London
3b Which hat is named after an 1894 novel by George du Maurier?
Trilby
4a An annual New Year's Day concert is held in the 'Golden Hall' of the Musikverein, in which city?
Vienna
4b Clifford's Tower is all that remains of the castle in which British town or city?
York

Spare Questions
1 Nureyev, Makarova and Baryshnikov all defected from which ballet company?
Kirov
2 The jewellery company 'Pandora' is based in which country?
Denmark
3 'Closing Time' published in 1994 was a sequel to which 1961 novel?
Catch 22