Round 1
1a Who did a lady bom Bessie Wallis Warfield marry in 1928?
ERNEST SIMPSON
1b The second highest mountain in Africa has the same name as which country?
KENYA
2a Which Lancashire football club plays home games at the Globe Arena, moving from Christie Park in 2010?
MORECAMBE
2b Three clues lead to a one word answer: 1. Daughter of a hotel dynasty, 2 Troy, 3 Plaster.
PARIS
3a Which sign of the zodiac is known as Jungfrau in German?
VIRGO
3b Who wrote the poem Dulce et Decorum est?
WILFRED OWEN
4a Which rock band did Dave Gilmour join in 1967?
PINK FLOYD
4b Who co-wrote the sitcom Gavin and Stacey and starred in the original cast of the stage play One Man, Two Guvnors?
JAMES CORDEN

Round 2
1a The Common Noctule is the largest type in Britain of what creature?
BAT
1b Curtain, a book published in 1975, featured the death of which detective?
POIROT
2a The song Stranger in Paradise featured in which 1955 film musical?
KISMET
2b What Oscar nominated film was adapted from Noel Coward?s play Still Life?
BRIEF ENCOUNTER
3a In the Arab Spring which country's uprising was called the Jasmine Revolution?
TUNISIA
3b What was the former name, until 1976, of Ho Chi Minh City?
SAIGON
4a Who is the only Spanish winner of the Ladies' Singles at Wimbledon?
CONCHITA MARTINEZ
4b Which French author declined to accept his Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964?
JEAN PAUL SARTRE

Round 3
1a Mussorgsky's composition Pictures at an Exhibition was originally written for piano. Who produced the most popular orchestral version in 1922?
MAURICE RAVEL
1b What is the surname of the TV sibling characters Chris, Meg and Stewie (and pet Brian)?
GRIFFIN (in FAMILY GUY)
2a Which letter in the Morse code is represented by a single dot?
E
2b How is the Rembrandt painting 'The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch preparing to march out' more commonly known?
THE NIGHT WATCH
3a Five jazz musicians have been featured on the cover of Time magazine. The first was Louis Armstrong. The last was Wynton Marsalis. Name any of the other three.
DUKE ELLINGTON, DAVE BRUBECK or THELONIOUS MONK
3b Who plays Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films?
MAGGIE SMITH
4a The chemical symbol for which element is derived from hydrargyrum meaning watery silver?
MERCURY
4b What is the full name of the policeman in the Scottish village of Lochdubh created by M C Beaton?
HAMISH MACBETH

Round 4
1a My Colourful Life: From Red To Amber is the autobiography of which local sports personality who died in 2011?
GINGER McCAIN
1b How many chapters or sutras are there in the Koran?
114
2a Which Scottish king was killed in the Battle of Flooded Field?
JAMES IV
2b Ballymena is in which Northern Irish county?
ANTRIM
3a Tom Brady has been the starting quarterback for which NFL team since 2000?
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS
3b In old measures how many chains made a furlong?
10
4a Who was President of the USA between 1923 and 1929?
CALVIN COOLIDGE
4b Of the fortyeight contiguous states in the USA, which contains the most northerly point?
MINNESOTA

Round 5
1a Which two words complete the title of the 1992 book by Richard Burridge The Greyn Hores: The True Story of ....?
DESERT ORCHID
1b What is the name of the large black cuboid in Mecca sought out by pilgrims?
KA'ABA
2a Which Duke commanded the Government forces at the 1745 Battle of Culloden?
DUKE OF CUMBERLAND
2b The river Lee enters the sea at which Irish port?
CORK
3a Michael Jordan played for which NBA team from 1984 to 1998, except for a season of retirement in 1993-94?
CHICAGO BULLS
3b In old measures how many stones made a hundredweight?
8
4a Who was President of the USA between 1869 and 1877?
ULYSSES GRANT
4b Which state of the USA has a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico between Florida and Mississippi?
ALABAMA

Round 6
1a Falco subbuteo is the scientific name for which small falcon?
HOBBY
1b Salem?s Lot published in 1975 was which writer?s second novel?
STEPHEN KING
2a Give either of the first names of Acker Bilk whose instrumental, with the Paramount Jazz Band, Stranger on the Shore was the best selling single of 1962?
BERNARD or STANLEY
2b In which film did Noel Coward play Captain E V Kinross and Celia Johnson his wife Alix?
IN WHICH WE SERVE
3a Which American singer-songwriter who was born on February 17th 1940 died in a Cardiff hotel in 2006?
GENE PITNEY
3b Who plays Bella Swan in the Twilight films?
KRISTEN STEWART
4a KOH is the formula for which chemical compound?
POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE (accept CAUSTIC POTASH)
4b What is the full name of Alexander McCall Smith?s 'No 1 Lady Detective'?
PRECIOUS RAMOTSWE

Round 7
1a Alexandr Borodin died before he could finish his opera Prince Igor. Who collaborated with Alexandr Glazunov to complete the work?
NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
1b What is the name of four of the five cats owned by the family in The Simpsons?
SNOWBALL
2a Which letter in the Morse code is represented by a single dash?
T
2b What is the title of the Holbein painting of Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve?
THE AMBASSADORS
3a Who in June 2012 became the fifth, and first democratically elected. President of Egypt - he was removed from office just over a year later?
MOHAMED MORSI
3b Vientiane is the capital of which Asian country?
LAOS
4a Who was the last South African to win the Open Golf Championship?
ERNIE ELS (2012)
4b Sklodowska was the maiden name of which Nobel Prize winner?
MARIE CURIE

Round 8
1a How was Emilie Charlotte Le Breton, bom in Jersey in 1853, better known?
LILLIE LANGTRY
1b Which African lake, the longest freshwater lake in the world, has the same name as a former country?
TANGANYIKA
2a Which Yorkshire football club plays home games at New York Stadium, having played at Millmoor until 2008?
ROTHERHAM UNITED
2b Three clues lead to a one word answer: 1 T.Pau song, 2 Syndrome, 3 Porcelain.
CHINA
3a Which sign of the zodiac is known as Balance in French?
LIBRA
3b Who was the author of the poem Home Thoughts From Abroad?
ROBERT BROWNING
4a Who joined The Who as drummer in 1964 before they recorded their first single?
KEITH MOON
4b Who replaced Angus Deayton in 2009 as presenter of the BBC panel show Would I Lie to You?
ROB BRYDON

Spare Questions
1 In mediaeval York, if streets were called Gates, what were gates called?
BARS
2 In which country is Mdina Glass made?
MALTA
3 Which public holiday is celebrated on the first Monday in September in the USA?
LABOR DAY