Monday 20th October 2014
Set by Warrington

Round 1
1a Who is the Archbishop of York?
Dr John Sentamu
1b Complete the name of the cigarette company W.D. & H.O… ?
Wills
2a Tribeca, the name of a neighbourhood of Lower Manhattan, is a portmanteau word made up how?
Triangle Below Canal (Street)
2b The Stratosphere Tower is the highest building in which US city?
Las Vegas
3a Who came to power as Prime Minister of Italy in 1922?
Mussolini
3b Which film features the Mos Eisley Cantina?
Star Wars
4a How was Alf Tupper known in the boy's comic 'Victor'?
The Tough of the Track
4b The name of which form of transport is derived from Greek words meaning spiral and wing?
Helicopter

Round 2
1a Which country is ruled by the Dragon King?
Bhutan
1b Connie Fisher won a TV competition to find the lead for Andrew Lloyd Webber's production of which musical?
The Sound of Music
2a If a president is elected in a presidential election, what name is given to an election to choose a governor?
Gubernatorial
2b What is the name of France's film awards, equivalent to the BAFTAs?
Cesars
3a Whose autobiography 'Margrave of the Marshes' was finished by his wife, Sheila Ravenscroft?
John Peel
3b The collective nouns bank, bevy, team, herd, sounding, whiting and lamentation can all refer to which bird?
Swan
4a What was 'Hot, Cool, Yours' in early 2014?
Sochi Winter Olympics
4b 'Eureka', the National Children's Museum is in which town?
Halifax

Round 3
1a Bass player 'Flea' is part of which pop group?
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
1b What is the flavour of the liqueur 'Xuxu'?
Straw erry
2a In the film 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' what was curious about him?
He aged backwards
2b Which England cricket captain wrote a book entitled 'Gambling: A Story of Triumph and Disaster'?
Michael Atherton
3a Charlotte Amelie is the capital of which island territory?
US Virgin Islands
3b Which Prime Minister died in 10 Downing Street in 1908?
Henry Campbell Bannerman
4a What is the name of the fuel depot near Hemel Hempstead that caught fire in December 2005?
Buncefield
4b Ginger McCain won the Grand National three limes as a trainer with Red Rum, which horse gave him his fourth victory in 2004?
Amberleigh House

Round 4
1a A 'Martin-Baker' is a type of which emergency life-saving device?
Ejector seat
1b Who was the only German to become heavyweight boxing world champion, he beat Jack Sharkey in 1930 to win the vacant title when Gene Tunney retired?
Max Schmelling
2a The Derwent Valley Light Railway was nicknamed the 'Blackberry Line' because it carried the crop to London from which county?
Yorkshire
2b What is the name of the farm central to the radio programme 'The Archers'?
Brookfield
3a Four people have won acting Oscars and had a no.1 hit in the USA, Frank Sinatra is one, name any one of the other three?
Cher, Shirley Jones or Barbra Streisand
3b Which Apollo 14 astronaut played golf on the moon?
Alan Shepard
4a Which football manager, now at Monaco, was known as 'the Tinkerer' or 'Tinkerman' during his time in England?
Claudio Ranieri
4b Which 'Amazing' sportsman appeared in the 'Wizard'?
Wilson

Round 5
1a Who was the CBS News anchor-man known as 'the man Americans most trust'?
Walter Cronkite
1b Which children's character is a fry cook at the Krusty Krab restaurant?
SpongeBob Squarepants
2a The fashion for wearing silicone gel wristbands started in 2004 with a yellow 'anti-cancer' band, whose charity launched it?
Lance Armstrong (Livestrong)
2b What is the occupation of TV personality Aldo Zilli?
Chef
3a In 2005 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf defeated ex-footballer George Weah to become the first female president of which African country?
Liberia
3b What kind of animal is a 'green unicorn'?
Snake
4a In which country do the majority (over 1 million) of Dromedary camels live in the wild, having been introduced there in the 1840s?
Australia
4b The songs 'Summertime' and 'I've Got Plenty of Nothing' feature in which musical?
Porgy & Bess

Round 6
1a In a Welsh place name what does the word 'bryn' mean?
Hill
1b Which event takes place nearly every year at Worthy Farm, Pilton in Somerset?
Glastonbury Festival
2a Who was the mother of Richard I?
Eleanor of Aquitaine
2b Established in 1948, the Bodil Award is one of the oldest film awards in Europe, in which country is it awarded?
Denmark
3a Castries is the capital of which island nation?
St Lucia
3b Which cocktail is a mixture of brandy and crème de cacao, often with cream?
Brandy Alexander
4a Which book is subtitled 'A Pure Woman'?
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
4b The Bactrian camel is found in the wild in remote areas of two Asian deserts, name either,
Gobi or Taklamakan

Round 7
1a Amy Whitehouse had two albums, 'Back to Black' and her first which had which male name as its title?
Frank
1b Who sailed in the yacht 'Suhaili'?
Robin Knox-Johnson
2a The railway nicknamed the 'Watercress Line' got the name because it carried the crop to London from which county?
Hampshire (Mid-Hants Railway)
2b What can be mouse-eared, long-eared or whiskered?
Bats
3a Who is the only person to win an Oscar playing an Oscar winning actress?
Cate Blanchett (as Katherine Hepburn in The Aviator)
3b Archibald Primrose was Prime Minister 1894-95, what was his title?
Lord Rosebery
4a How was the American gangster and bank-robber Lester J Gillis, associated with John Dillinger, better known?
Baby Face Nelson
4b The holiday company 'Hoseasons' started with holidays in which area of the UK?
Norfolk Broads

Round 8
1a Carmen Polo was the wife of which 20th century dictator?
Franco
1b Mozambique was the first country with no historical ties to Britain to be accepted into the Commonwealth, which was the second?
Rwanda
2a Which country elects a monarch every five years?
Malaysia
2b To within three years, in which year was the Metropolitan Police Act passed, forming the first official police force?
1829 (1826-32)
3a Which independent Commonwealth state is the smallest republic in the world?
Nauru
3b Who is the only person to refuse a Nobel Peace prize (in 1973)?
Le Duc Tho
4a Bertrand Russell and Sir Joseph Rotblat founded which Nobel Prize winning pacifist organisation?
The Pugwash Conference
4b Which name is shared by the former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrat Party and MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark and the Channel 5 TV cricket analyst and former Middlesex and Durham player?
Simon Hughes

Spare Questions
1 Which group were one hit wonders with the 1983 hit 'It's Raining Men'?
The Weather Girls
2 Richard Parker is a major character in the book and film 'Life of Pi', what is he?
A Tiger
3 Which is 'Queen of the Sciences'?
Mathematics