Tuesday 20th January 2015
Set by Blue Lamps (Northern)

Round 1
1a Who was the last British King to rule over Ireland?
GEORGE VI (until Ireland left the Commonwealth)
1b Alan, Wayne, Merill and Jay were 4 of the brothers in a popular singing group, name either of the other two brothers in the group?
DONNY OR JIMMY (OSMOND)
2a The poem ?Funeral Blue? begins with the words "Stop all the clocks..". Who wrote it?
W H AUDEN
2b Which metallic element has the atomic number 26?
IRON
3a The Italian liqueur amaretto is flavoured with which ingredient?
ALMONDS
3b What is the county town of the Scottish county of Angus?
FORFAR
4a Who was the only British woman to win an athletics gold medal at Beijing in 2008?
CHRISTINE OHURUOGU (in the 400m)
4b Name either of the "Two Gentlemen of Verona".
VALENTINE OR PROTEUS

Round 2
1a In the 2014 Oscars, who won the Oscar for Best Actor in a leading role??
MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY (for Dallas Buyers Club)
1b On which Scottish Island is the town of Lochmaddy?
NORTH UIST
2a How many faces has a dodecahedron?
12
2b Which British football player was the most expensive transfer of 2013 going for second highest transfer fee in history?
GARETH BALE (83 million from Spurs to Real Madrid)
3a Which band released the album ?Death Magnetic? in 2008?
METALLICA
3b Who wrote the poem which starts 'What passing bell for those who die as cattle'?
WILFRED OWEN (Anthem for Doomed Youth)
4a Eleanor of Provence was the wife of which long-reigning English king?
HENRY III
4b Which national organisation has its HQ at Sandy, Bedfordshire?
THE RSPB

Round 3
1a Ted Hughes became Poet Laureate in 1984 after which other poet refused the honour?
PHILIP LARKIN
1b Which car manufacturer originally made the model known as the Matiz?
DAEWOO
2a To within 10 years, when was income tax introduced in the UK as 'a temporary measure'?
1777 (accept 1789-1809)
2b Which team were undefeated during the 1974 World Cup finals but were still eliminated from the tournament on goal difference?
SCOTLAND
3a The tree known in Britain and Europe as a ?sycamore? is actually a member of which family of trees?
ACER (accept maple)
3b Who won the Turner Prize in 2013 for the installation called Wantee?
LAURE PROUVOST
4a For which Formula One team do Roman Grosjean and Pastor Maldonado drive?
LOTUS
4b Izzy wizzy, let?s get busy was a catchphrase of which children?s TV favourite?
SOOTY

Round 4
1a By what name is singer Vera Margaret Welch better known?
VERA LYNN
1b During which Grand Prix was Ayrton Senna killed in 1994?
SAN MARINO
2a Which British motorway holds the Guinness World record for the most lanes side by side (17)?
M61 (at Linnyshaw West of Manchester)
2b The fictional character Don Diego de la Vega is better known by what nickname?
ZORRO
3a In April 2014, the Catholic Church canonized two former Popes, name either?
POPE JOHN XXIII/POPE JOHN PAUL II
3b The various varieties of chilli pepper belong to which genus of plants?
CAPSICUM
4a The 1 penny black was the first British stamp, which was the second?
THE TWOPENNY BLUE
4b In which English country is the rock formation known as Durdle Door?
DORSET

Round 5
1a Harold Harefoot (Harold l) was King of England from 1035 to 1040, who was his father?
KING CANUTE
1b Rod Stewart was the lead singer of which band from 1969 to 1975?
THE FACES (not the SMALL FACES)
2a Which imaginary creature was described by Lewis Carroll as with jaws that bite and claws that catch?
THE JABBERWOCKY
2b In which decade of the 19th century did Mendelev produce his Periodic Table?
1860s (1869)
3a Which vegetable is the normal base for the dish moussaka?
AUBERGINE
3b What is the English name for the river known in Wales as Afon Dyfrdwy?
THE DEE
4a In March 2014 who won Britain?s first ever Winter Paralympics gold medal?
KELLY GALLAGHER
4b In Shakespeare?s ?King Lear? which was the king?s eldest daughter?
GONERIL

Round 6
1 a In 2013 who won the Best Director Oscar?
ANG LEE (for Life of Pi)
1b Which is the largest town on the Isle of Wight?
RYDE
2a Which scholar is known as the Father of Geometry?
EUCLID
2b In 2008 for which player did Manchester City pay 32,500,000 pounds?
ROBINHO
3a In the early 1980s Marc Almond was half of which pop duo?
SOFT CELL
3b Who, c1819, wrote the poem Ode to the West Wind?
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLY
4a Who was the father of King Richard II?
EDWARD THE BLACK PRINCE
4b Which large bird of prey has the Latin name Pandion Haliaetus?
THE OSPREY

Round 7
1a Give one of the years in which Cecil Day-Lewis was Poet Laureate?
1968-1972
1b Which TV series of the 1960s regularly features a white Volvo P1800?
THE SAINT
2a MP Sidney Silverman put forward a Private Members bill in 1965. To what did this ultimately lead?
THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY
2b Who captained the England cricket team in 19 home test matches between 1977 and 1981 and was never on the losing side in any of them?
MIKE BREARLEY
3a Which type of tree form the Genus Betula?
BIRCH TREES
3b Which City was UK City of Culture in 2013?
DERRY-LONDONDERRY (Accept either although technically the full name is correct)
4a Who were the first sponsors of the Premier League, starting in 1993?
CARLING
4b In early children?s television who appeared regularly with Muffin the Mule?
ANNETTE MILLS

Round 8
1a For what does the letter E stand in the wartime term ENSA?
ENTERAINMENTS (NATIONAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION) (accept Entertainment)
1b What is the surname of the only father and son to both become Formula One World Champion?
HILL (Graham and Damon)
2a Which was the first service station to be opened on a British motorway?
WATFORD GAP (on the M1)
2b In literature what was the real name of the Artful Dodger?
JACK DAWKINS
3a Who became Anglican Bishop of Liverpool in 2014, replacing Bishop James Jones?
RT REV PAUL BAYES
3b Which green vegetable belongs to the Brassica Oleracea Italica group of plants?
BROCCOLI
4a The name Shqiperia appears on the postage stamps of which country?
ALBANIA
4b In the Harry Potter books what was Professor Dumbledore?s first name?
ALBUS

Spare Questions
1 Which is the only prime number between 90 and 100?
97
2 The River Avon has an old Celtic name, what does it mean?
RIVER
3 The Waltz of the Flowers and The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy are from which 19th century ballet?
THE NUTCRACKER (accept Nutcracker Suite)
4 In the Bible what was the first of the Plagues of Egypt?
WATER TURNING INTO BLOOD (Exodus 7:19)
5 Who was the real-life sailor on whom Robinson Crusoe is allegedly based?
ALEXANDER SELKIRK