Monday 14th December 2015
Set by Warrington

Round 1
1a After whom is the US state of Virginia named?
Queen Elizabeth 1st
1b The Elgin Marbles were originally part of which building?
Parthenon (Athens)
2a In the acronym ASBO, for what does the B stand?
Behaviour
2b Which Italian city features in the original film version of The Italian Job?
Turin
3a How many vertebrae are there in the human neck?
Seven
3b In darts, a three dart finish requiring a treble, single and double of the same number is given what name?
Shanghai
4a The Royal Air Force was formed in 1918 by the amalgamation of the Royal Naval Air Service and which other organisation?
4b In which year did Britain have its first Labour Government?
1924

Round 2
1a In which country is the wine growing region, Hawkes Bay?
New Zealand
1b Robber, Fiddler and Edible are all types of which creature?
Crab
2a Give a year in the life of Joan of Arc.
1412-1431
2b Give the title of either the second or third books in the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy?
Fifty Shades Darker or Fifty Shades Freed
3a Which car company is/was named after the man who invented the carburettor?
Daimler
3b What does the Italian company Fincantieri make?
Ships (mostly cruise liners)
4a Meetings of Tory backbenchers are known by what name?
1922 Committee
4b Which bird has only two toes on each foot?
Ostrich

Round 3
1a Who was the first Olympic boxing gold medallist (middleweight in 1952) to go on to become heavyweight champion of the world?
Floyd Patterson
1b Which restaurant chain has supported the Venice in Peril campaign since 1975?
Pizza Express
2a Which film and comic ‘superhero’ has a ‘day-job’ as photographer with the Daily Bugle?
Spiderman (Peter Parker)
2b The Pillars of Hercules feature on either side of the coat of arms of which country?
Spain
3a Which UK town is home to a pencil museum?
Keswick
3b Which director’s last film was Family Plot in 1975?
Alfred Hitchcock
4a What can be skinny, tapered, slim, straight, boot oat, cigarette bottom, narrow-bottom, low waist, anti-fit, flared or distressed?
Jeans (accept trousers)
4b California and New Zealand are areas of which English city?
Derby

Round 4
1a Papageno and Pamina are characters in which opera?
The Magic Flute
1b Cape Hatteras in North Carolina is the nearest land to which UK overseas territory?
Bermuda
2a During 2014, 74 year old Alexander Chancellor became the editor of which magazine?
The Oldie
2b From what is couscous made?
Semolina or Durum wheat
3a Which horse race, along with the Grand National, is part of the ‘Spring Double’?
Lincoln(shire) Handicap
3b The Rye House Plot was a plan to assassinate which English monarch?
Charles 2nd
4a Pannage pork is considered a delicacy, on what are the pigs fed?
Acorns
4b Which Scottish group had UK top 20 hits with Real Gone Kid and Dignity?
Deacon Blue

Round 5
1a Which Swedish warship sank on her maiden voyage on 10th August 1628?
Vasa
1b In which film did characters played by Robert Vaughan, Richard Chamberlain and Robert Wagner all die? Towering Infern o
2a What is the name of James Bowen’s cat in the titles of his best-selling books The World According to….. and A Street Cat Named…….?
Bob
2b On 1st January 2015, which country became the 19th to adopt the Euro as its currency?
Lithuania
3a Which actor won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in 2007?
Johnny Depp
3b Which TV personality and singer now has the surname Fernandez-Versini?
Cheryl Cole
4a Name either of the islands separated by the Foveaux Straits?
South Island NZ and Stewart Island
4b Where in the body would you find Glisson’s capsule and Kupffer cells?
Liver

Round 6
1a Holly Bleasdale is the holder of the British record in which athletics event?
Pole Vault
1b Which city, the third largest in Denmark, is the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen?
Odense
2a Which British high street store is owned by the US chain Walgreens (not Walmart)?
Boots
2b Which King’s claim to France precipitated the 100 Years War?
Edward 3rd
3a Which is the smallest native British gull?
Kittiwake
3b England’s largest nature reserve is at Holkham, in which county?
Norfolk
4a In which film and musical does Cottonblossom appear?
Showboat
4b Deacon Blue took their name from the title of a song by which group?
Steely Dan

Round 7
1a Severely damaged by fire in May 2014, who deigned the Glasgow School of Art?
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
1b What in ancient Rome was the Cloaca Maxima?
The main sewer
2a Who was President of Russia from 2008-2012 while Vladimir Putin served as Prime Minister?
Dmitri Medvedev
2b Founded in 1909 which was the first British aircraft manufacturing company?
Handley Page
3a Who, along with her husband, founded the first birth-control clinic in the UK?
Marie Stopes
3b Which is the only Hitchcock film to win a Best Picture Oscar (in 1940)?
Rebecca
4a Vanessa Vankorn represented Thailand in a skiing event at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, under what professional name is she better known?
Vanessa-Mae (violinist)
4b 2015 is the 200th anniversary of which battle (actually fought from late December 1814 to eariy Januaiy 1815), the last time that British and US forces fought on opposite sides?
Battle of New Orleans

Round 8
1a In Greek mythology, what was the name of the nymphs who tended the garden from where Heracles stole golden apples?
Hesperides
1b Which London hospital, the oldest in the country, is the only place in London with a statue of Henry 8th and in fiction was the first meeting place of Holmes and Watson?
St Bart’s (Bartholomew’s)
2a ‘No 5, 1948’ was sold for $140 million in 2006, who painted it?
Jackson Pollock
2b A number and letter on a small plate fixed to the smokebox door of a railway locomotive gave what information?
Its home ‘shed’ or depot (accept anything similar)
3a What is the Hindi name for India?
Bharat
3b Rupert of Henzau is the sequel to which famous novel?
The Prisoner of Zenda
4a The author Andrea Camilleri created which Sicilian detective?
(Salvo) Montalbano
4b Who painted "'Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers’ in 1888?
Paul Gauguin

Spare Questions
1 Which is the only group to have had at least one UK hit single in every year of the 1970s?
Hot Chocolate
2 Which language is the only form of Arabic written in the Roman alphabet?
Maltese
3 Bob Hoskins played crime boss Harold Shand in which film?
The Long Good Friday