Tuesday 9th September 2014
Set by Ormskirk

Round 1
1a With which English band did Graham Nash make his name, before going on to greater success with Crosby, Stills and Nash?
THE HOLLIES
1b Which sport played by men is almost identical to the game of Camogie, played by women?
HURLIN G
2a Who was the acknowledged mastermind behind the 'Great Train
Robbery' in 1963, who went on the run for 5 years before being arrested?
BRUCE REYNOLDS
2b What name, derived from the Greek word for chalk, is given to hydrated calcium sulphate?
GYPSUM
3a How many players are there in each team in a game of Gaelic Football?
FIFTEEN
3b Which chart-topping American band was fronted by Harry Wayne Casey?
KC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND
4a What term for an area of characteristic limestone scenery is named after a region of Slovenia?
KARST
4b At which Buckinghamshire farm did the 'Great Train Robbers' hide out immediately before and after the robbery?
LEATHERSLADE FARM

Round 2
1a Which BAFTA award-winning scriptwriter created the TV series The Street, Accused, The Lakes and Cracker?
JIMMY MCGOVERN
1b Made law by the Senate in 1919, the National Prohibition Act is informally named after which Congressman who is considered to be its author?
ANDREW VOLSTEAD
2a Bridgeport is the largest city in which New England state?
CONNECTICUT
2b Which BAFTA-nominated television writer has created the series Scott & Bailey. At Home with the Braithwaites for ITV and Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley for the BBC?
SALLY WAINWRIGHT
3a What is known as 'lättöl' in Scandinavia and `pivo' in most of the Balkan countries?
BEER
3b After Texas, which is the largest in area of the contiguous states of the USA?
CALIFORNIA
4a Which Democrat did George Bush defeat in order to become President in 1988?
MICHAEL DUKAKIS
4b If a dish is cooked a la soubise, the sauce primarily contains which vegetable?
ONION

Round 3
1a The New York borough of Queens is named after which British Queen consort?
CATHERINE OF BRAGANZA (WIFE OF CHARLES II)
1b In which building is the Duke of Wellington buried?
ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
2a Which is the first of the four stations on a standard Monopoly Board after passing Go?
KING'S CROSS
2b In which New York Borough is Central Park situated?
MANHATTAN
3a Who, is buried in Westminster Abbey, not because he was a poet but because lie was clerk of works to the Palace of Westminster?
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
3b Which of the four houses in Hogwarts has a badger as mascot?
HUFFLEPUFF
4a What was the first name of the wife of Plantaganet Palliser in the 1974 series The Pallisers recently repeated on BBC Two?
GLENCORA
4b Born in 1897, who was the only future Dad's Army cast member to serve in the Home Guard.?
JOHN LAURIE

Round 4
1a The Blue Danube airport serves which Austrian City?
LINZ
1b In 1959, for which film did David Niven win his only Academy Award?
SEPARATE TABLES
2a The film The Dead Zone, starring Christopher Walken is based on whose novel?
STEPHEN KING
2b The Swiss Transport Museum is in which Swiss city?
LUCERNE
3a Baseline, doubleton and squop are all terms in which game?
TIDDLYWINKS
3b Which diamond, given by the Sikh ruler of the Punjab to Sir John Lawrence became the prize exhibit at the Great Exhibition?
KOH-I-NOOR
4a Which island home of the St Aubyn family in the South West is accessed by a causeway at high tide?
ST MICHAEL'S MOUNT
4b A cochonnet is used in which game?
PETANQUE or BOULES

Round 5
1a Which Irish gardener has written a book called Outer Spaces?
DIARMUID GAVIN
1b Which gardener came out of retirement to present BBC TVs Gardener's following a major stroke?
MONTY DON
2a The constellation Carina is supposed to represent the keel of which mythical ship?
ARGO
2b The constellation Pavo represents which bird?
PEACOCK
3a Which artist, with a famous brother, studied in Paris with Whistler and had a long affair with Rodin?
GWEN JOHN
3b Which member of the Royal family also has the title Earl of Inverness?
PRINCE ANDREW
4a Which member of the Royal family joined the Roman Catholic Church in 1994?
DUCHESS OF KENT (LADY KATHARINE WORSLEY)
4b Which artist painted Lizzie Siddal floating in a bath as Ophelia?
JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS

Round 6
1a What to the Inuit people are mukluks?
BOOTS
1b Who sculpted the equestrian statue situated opposite the Ritz Hotel in London - she died in 1993?
ELIZABETH FRINK
2a Who sculpted the Space Age Angel on the tomb of Oscar Wilde in 1912?
JACOB EPSTEIN
2b What to the Inuit people is a Nanook?
POLAR BEAR
3a Archibald Ormsby-Gore was the teddy bear of which author?
JOHN BETJEMAN
3b What is the capital city of the South African province of Gauteng?
JOHANNESBURG
4a On which island is the city of Nagasaki in Japan?
KYUSHU
4b What was the name of the teddy bear mascot of speed record holder Donald Campbell?
MR WHOPPIT

Round 7
1a In Morse code what letter is represented by one dash?
T
1b Which patron saint was said to have carried his own head after death?
ST DENYS
2a What is the name of the device used to raise boats from the River Weaver in Cheshire to the canal system?
THE ANDERTON (BOAT) LIFT
2b How many dots are used to make up each letter in the Braille system?
6
3a Who was the father of the Virgin Mary?
JOACHIM
3b In 1984 which Bruce Springsteen song was the first to win a Grammy for him? (He has won 20 in all)
DANCING IN THE DARK
4a In 1972 who became the first Academy Award winner for Best Original Song to have also performed the winning track, for Shaft?
ISAAC HAYES
4b Peak Forest, Macclesfield and Bridgewater are some of the canals that make up what network?
THE CHESHIRE RING

Round 8
1a Which major figure (1893-1976) is tattooed on Mike Tyson's right shoulder?
MAO TSE TUNG
1b Which historical figure (356 BC- 323 BC) does Mark Philippoussis have tattooed on his right shoulder?
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
2a What is the traditional birth stone for April?
DIAMOND
2b What is the traditional birthstone for May?
EMERALD
3a Which children's novel published in 1908 was written by a former secretary to the Bank of England? THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
3b Who has managed Burnley, Bolton Wanderers and Wigan Athletic football clubs since 2007?
OWEN COYLE
4a Who has managed Leicester City, Blackpool and Crystal Palace football clubs since 2007?
IAN HOLLOWAY
4b Which children's novel published in 1865 was written by a Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford?
ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Spare Questions
1 Which Wagnerian hero was the son of Parsifal?
LOHENGRIN
2 The image of which physicist appears on the New Zealand 100 dollar bill?
ERNEST RUTHERFORD
3 What was the name of the gang's van in the Scooby-Doo TV series?
MYSTERY MACHINE