Monday 29th September 2014
Set by Thingwall (Wirral)

Round 1
1a Stolen on Bastille Day 1999, who was the artist of the painting titled 'L'enfant a la bulle de savon' which was recovered in March 2014?
Rembrandt
1b How many sides are there on the new £1 coin to be introduced in 2017?
12 sides
2a Who was the oldest person to be appointed Prime Minister of the UK?
Gladstone (resigned aged 84)
2b Who was Chancellor for the 1925 budget which revived the 'gold standard'?
Winston Churchill
3a Who won the Euro 2012 soccer tournament, beating Italy 4-0 in Kiev?
Spain
3b What is the American equivalent of a UK charity shop?
Thrift Store
4a Name the paranoid android in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams.
Marvin
4b In Monopoly, which street completes the green set of Bond Street and Regent Street?
Oxford Street

Round 2
1a Who created the Charlie Brown and Snoopy comic strip characters in 1948?
Charles M Schultz
1 b What is the full name of the international organisation known as UNESCO?
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation
2a A Crystal wedding anniversary is celebrated after how many years?
15 years
2b What would be your birth sign if you were born on le October?
Libra
3a Name the first commoner, i.e. non-Royal, to appear on a UK postage stamp.
William Shakespeare (1964)
3b What is the nautical measurement of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour?
Knot
4a What is studied in semiotics?
Signs/Symbols (accept language)
4b In the cartoon series Calvin and Hobbes, Hobbes is a stuffed toy creature of what type?
Tiger

Round 3
1a Which cricketing nation was first granted Test status in 2000?
Bangladesh
1b 'Boris Godunov' was the only completed opera of which composer?
(Modest) Mussorgsky
2a Which bird is also known as the Stormcock?
Mistle Thrush (Turdus Visciverus)
2b A top tourist attraction, a 150 mile long barrier reef, is off the coast of which Central American country?
Belize
3a What does the USA celebrate on the first Monday in September?
Labor Day
3b 'Outcry' was the last completed novel by which writer, published in 1911?
Henry James
4a What was the name of the Jack Russell terrier that starred in the film 'The Artist'?
Uggie
4b Sir Ronald Ross was the first British winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1902 for his research in combating which disease?
Malaria

Round 4
1a Who was the Roman goddess of agriculture, grain and crops?
Ceres
1b The rules of which sport were first revised and codified in the 'Star and Garter' Inn, Pall Mall in 1774?
Cricket
2a Name the last period of the Palaeozoic era.
Permian
2b Name the most northerly motorway in Britain.
M90
3a Name the dramatist, 1664-1726, who designed Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard.
Sir John Vanbrugh
3b Which highly alcoholic spirit is flavoured with wormwood leaves?
Absinthe (accept Mallon)
4a Traditionally what is the dominant colour of a Hindu bride's wedding dress?
Red
4b Which film star was born Harlean Carpenter in 1911 in Kansas City, Missouri?
Jean Harlow

Round 5
1a Which city has a waterfront area/tourist attraction called 'The Sund'?
Shanghai
1b Which American jazz singer was known as 'Lady Day'?
Billie Holliday (Eleanora Fagan)
2a The Silver Fern is the national emblem of which country?
New Zealand
2b In the field of technology, what is meant by the acronym CAD?
Computer Aided Design
3a Who created the fictional St Trinian's Boarding School, in 1941?
Ronald Searle
3b What was Prime Minister William Gladstone's middle name?
Ewart
4a Which fish belong to the genus 'Esox'?
Pike
4b In the 1936 novel, in which county is 'Jamaica Inn'?
Cornwall

Round 6
1a What type of animal is an impala?
(African) Antelope
1b The Daily Slate,The Daily Slab and the Daily Granite are newspapers featured in which TV cartoon series?
The Flintstones
2a What is the traditional material used to make the Chinese cooking utensil the wok?
Iron (accept Steel)
2b Who was Israel's Prime Minister at the time of the Yom Kippur War of 1973?
Golda Meir
3a In which of Shakespeare's plays will you find the "Seven Ages of Man" monologue?
As You Like It
3b Which American composer (18541932) was known as the March King?
John Phillip Sousa
4a Which religion has a holiday festival called Wesak or Vesak?
Buddhism (Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death)
4b What is gymnophobia?
Fear of Nakedness or Nudity

Round 7
1a Who presents the TV travel series `An Idiot Abroad'?
Karl Pilkington
1b Who was the main female presenter of BBC N's 'Country File' from 2004-2014?
Julia Bradbury
2a Which Burton on Trent brewery- produces Pedigree Ales?
Marston
2b Which Suffolk brewery produces Abbot Ale?
Greene King
3a Which BBC TV sitcom of 2003 was set in the Grapes public house in Manchester?
Early Doors
3b Who presents the Channel 4 property programme 'Grand Designs'?
Kevin McCloud
4a Who is the founder and Chairman of Wetherspoon plc, the British pub chain?
Tim Martin
4b Who is the CEO of Ryanair, the. Irish low-cost airline?
Michael O'Leary

Round 8
1a What is the name of the French overseas territory situated to the south o fNewfoundland?
St Pierre and (et) Miquelon
1b Jamestown is the capital of which British overseas territory?
St Helena
2a Which author created the detective Harry Bosch?
Michael Connelly
2b Which author created the detective Harry Hole (pronounced Holy)?
Jo Nesbo
3a Which canal links Bristol, Bath and Reading?
Kennet and Avon
3b Which railway runs from Bridgnorth to Kidderminster?
Severn Valley Railway
4a Which war was ended by the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth?
Russo-Japanese War
4b Which series of 1713 peace treaties ceded Gibraltar and Minorca to Britain?
Treaty of Utrecht (accept Peace of Utrecht)

Spare Questions
1 Which company produced the Hastings and Herald aircraft?
Handley-Page
2 In Greek mythology - who was the muse of history and lyre playing?
Clio