Tuesday 28th January 2014
Set by Warrington

Round One - Olympic Games 2012
1A Name any of the 3 cyclists who won gold in the Men's team sprint.
Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny and Phil Hindes
1B On 'Super Saturday' Jessica Ennis and Mo Farah won athletics gold for Team GB, who was the third gold medalist on the day?
Greg Rutherford
2A In 2012, which female Paralympian won 4 gold medals in cycling to add to the 7 golds from previous games she won for swimming? She was awarded a DBE in December 2012.
Sarah Storey
2B Which rider won gold in both the Equestrian individual and team events? She shares her surname with the male Oscar winner for the film The Artist
Charlotte Dujardin
3A Give the surname of the brothers who won gold and bronze in the triathlon for Team GB?
Brownlee
3B Name any of the 3 cyclists who won gold in the women's team pursuit?
Danielle King, Joanna RowseII and Laura Trott
4A Who won the first ever boxing gold for women? She shares her surname with two US Presidents.
Nicola Adams
4B Which male Paralympian won gold in the T44 100 metres, beating Oscar Pistorius into 4th place? He was awarded an MBE in December 2012.
Johnnie Peacock

Round Two
1A The Beatrix Potter Gallery, run by the National Trust, is in which Lake District village?
Hawkshead
1B Which public school counts rugby players JPR Williams and Gareth Edwards amongst its alumni as well as singer Lily Allen? Millfield
2A Which Ernest Hemingway novel, published in 1940, takes its name from a line in John Donne's Meditation XVII?
For Whom The Bell Tolls
2B Which artist did Valerie Solanas shoot and wound in New York in 1968?
Andy Warhol
3A Which Italian pasta's name means butterflies in English?
FarfaIle
3B In 480 BC, Leonidas led his 300 Spartans against the Persian army, led by Xerxes, in which land battle?
Thermopylae
4A Which goddess is the Greek equivalent of Venus?
Aphrodite
4B Which Wagner opera tells the story of the eponymous swan knight and features The Bridal Chorus?
Lohengrin

Round Three
1A The title of the Agatha Christie story The Mirror Cracked comes from which poem by Tennyson?
The Lady of Shallot
1B From the Greek, what word means rule by the wealthy?
Plutocracy
2A If you wrote down the chemical symbols for Copper and Barium, which island name would you have spelled out?
Cuba
2B Which is the earliest year from which a car could be described as 'vintage'?
1919
3A Which edifice in London was immortalised in poetry by Wordsworth in 1802 and in a painting by Canaletto in 1746?
Westminster Bridge
3B In a standard British scrabble set, there are two letters with the value 2. Name either.
D and G
4A Which former Soviet republic is the largest land-locked county in the world?
Kazakhstan
4B Sharing its name with another name for the city of Troy, what is the largest bone in the pelvis called?
Ilium

Round Four
1A Which planet, which has moons named after characters from Shakespeare and Pope, was discovered by Herschel in 1781?
Uranus
1B In which city would you find the Charles River, Fenway Park and the ship USS Constitution?
Boston
2A The Danube flows through 4 capital European capital cities: Budapest, Vienna, Belgrade and which other?
Bratislava
2B Which model of motorcycle ridden by Steve McQueen in The Great Escape is also the surname of the actor who plays Robert, Earl of Grantham in Downton Abbey?
(Hugh) Bonneville
3A The Java Sea is bound by Java to the south and which island to the north?
Borneo
3B Found near Woodbridge, Suffolk what is the name of the Anglo Saxon burial site, excavated in 1939, which contained a ship and other priceless artefacts?
Sutton Hoo
4A Which Velasquez painting of about 1650 was attacked and damaged in the National Gallery in 1914 by the suffragette Mary 'Slasher' Richardson?
The Rokesby Venus (accept The Toilet of Venus, Venus at her Mirror, Venus and Cupid)
4B Spitfire beer is brewed in Faversham, by which company?
Shepherd Neame

Round Five - Entertainment
1A Who had a hit in 1955 with Rock Around the Clock?
Bill Haley and the Comets
1B Which BBC series of 2012/13, set in the 1950's is centered around Nonnatus House in the East End of London?
Call the Midwife
2A Which film director's credits include Memento, Insomnia, Inception and The Dark Knight Rises?
Christopher Nolan
2B In 2012, Octavia Spenser won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as a domestic servant in which film?
The Help
3A Which series of 2011/12, set in the 1950's is centred around a weekly BBC TV current affairs programme?
The Hour
3B Who had a hit in 1981 with Planet Earth?
Duran Duran
4A In 2011, Christian Bale won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as an assistant to his half-brother in which boxing related film?
The Fighter
4B Which film director's credits include Sense and Sensibility, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain and Life of Pi?
Ang Lee

Round Six
1A What is the name of the steam yacht, owned by the National Trust, which offers cruises on Coniston Water?
Gondola
1B Which public school counts CB Fry, Jeremy Clarkson and Roald Dahl amongst its alumni?
Repton
2A Which F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, published in 1934 takes its name from a line in John Keats' Ode to a Nightingale?
Tender is the Night
2B Which politician did Violet Gibson shoot and wound in Rome in 1926?
Mussolini
3A Which Italian pasta's name means little spindles in English?
Fusilli
3B On 2nd September 31 BC, Octavian's forces overcame those of Mark Anthony and Cleopatra in which decisive sea battle?
Actium
4A Which god is the Greek equivalent of Mars?
Ares
4B Which Verdi opera tells the story of the courtesan Violetta and her lover Alfredo?
La Traviata

Round Seven
1A The title of the Agatha Christie story By the Pricking of my Thumbs is a quote taken from which Shakespeare play?
Macbeth
1B In which country does the House of Bourbon provide the current monarch?
Spain
2A If you wrote down the chemical symbols for Titanium and Sodium, which girl's name would you have spelled out?
Tina
2B Any building built before which year is automatically 'listed' as historically or architecturally important?
1700
3A Which annual sporting event was depicted in the song and film Yankee Doodle Dandy and in William Frith's painting of 1858, now on display at Tate Britain
The (Epsom) Derby
3B In a standard British scrabble set, there are two letters which score 8 points. Name either.
J and X
4A Since South Sudan ceded from Sudan in 2011, what has been the largest country, by area in Africa?
Algeria
4B The Cuban-born coach of Mo Farah, a former winner of the New York and Boston marathons, shares which surname with a former Prime Minister of Portugal 1936-68?
Salazar

Round Eight
1A Which planet, whose largest moon is Triton, was discovered in 1846?
Neptune
1B In which city would you find the Neva River, Nevsky Prospect and the ship The Aurora?
St Petersburg
2A The Nile flows through three African capital cities: Cairo, Khartoum and which other?
Juba
2B Which singer and actress who lived from 1963 - 2012, shares her surname with major city in Texas?
Whitney Houston
3A What gulf separates Yemen and Somalia?
Gulf of Aden
3B Found near Avebury, Wiltshire, what, at 40 metres is Europe's highest pre-historic mound?
Silbury Hill
4A ln 1972, Laslo Toth damaged which sculpture of 1499, by Michelangelo in St Peter's, Rome?
The Pieta
4B Abbot Ale is brewed in Bury St Edmunds by which company?
Greene King

Spare Questions
1 Which county won the 2013 Cricket County Championship?
Durham
2 In which decade of the 19th century did the Houses of Parliament burn down?
1830s (1834)
3 What US dollar note has Andrew Jackson on the front and the White House on the rear?
$20
4 Which ancient Roman festival, which ran until the 4th century AD involved sacrifices, partying and owners serving their slaves and was partly subsumed into Christmas?
Saturnalia