Tuesday 27th January 2015
Set by Leyfield Crown (Liverpool)

Round One
1A in climbing, what name is given to a large metal snap link which can be clipped to a rope?
Karabiner
1B Which US state was the first to give women the vote?
Wyoming
2A A pollywog is another name for what?
Tadpoles
2B How many acres are there in one square mile?
640
3A How many symphonies did the composer Sir Edward Elgar complete?
2 (the 3rd was left unfinished)
3B In which South American capital city is the 'Square of Three'?
Brasilia
4A In which Sherlock Holmes story do the 'Baker Street Irregulars' first appear?
A Study in Scarlet
4B What is the male voice range immediately above bass?
Bass baritone

Round Two
1A In the West Indies, which fruit is known as a penguin?
Pineapple
1B The cachelot is an alternative name for which mammal?
Sperm Whale
2A Which US comedienne is known for husbands, face lifts and jewellery?
Joan Rivers
2B Which is the largest of Greece's Ionian Islands?
Kefalonia
3A Where were the 1968 Winter Olympic Games held?
Grenoble
3B In which Shakespeare play does the clown, Feste appear?
Twelfth Night
4A Which Commission was set up to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy?
Warren Commission
4B VVhich Pulitzer prize winning author and journalist was present at both the Normandy landings and the liberation of Paris?
Norman Mailer

Round Three
1A Who played the adult Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows?
Ralph Fiennes
1B What is a wadi?
Dry channel/valley ravine/river bed that is dry except in the rainy season
2A Which word for a thug, coined in San Francisco in the 19th century, comes from the German word for ragamuffin?
Hoodlum
2B Which Impressionist artist painted The Card Players circa 1892-4?
Paul Cezanne
3A What was the signature tune of BBC's record request series Family Favourites?
With a Song in my Heart
3B The game Mah Jong takes its name from the Chinese for which small bird?
Sparrow (shuffling of the tiles is known as the twittering of the sparrows)
4A Which painter said "I am a simple man, and I use simple materials"?
L S Lowry
4B What is added to brandy to make a Sidecar cocktail?
Cointreau

Round Four
1A Which country won the William Webb Ellis Rugby Union Cup in 1995?
South Africa (they beat New Zealand 15:12)
1B What nationality was the artist Paul Klee?
2A Helen Sharman became the first Briton in space in 1991, but who was the second Brit in space, after first becoming a naturalized American citizen?
Michael Foale
2B The dotterel belongs to which family of birds?
Plover
3A Who had hit albums in the 1980s with Face Value and No Jacket Required?
Phil Collins
3B From which country does the food dish tamale originate?
Mexico
4A In which English county is Dunmow of Flitch fame?
Essex
4B Who wrote the Mother Goose Suite?
Maurice Ravel

Round Five
1A Name the metal pin used in mountaineering as a support or belaying pin?
Piton
1B In 1803, which European country was the first to outlaw slavery?
Denmark
2A What is the common name for a cavy?
Guinea Pig
2B How many square yards are there in one acre?
4840
3A How many symphonies did Johannes Brahms complete?
4
3B Which island is named after the world's largest bear?
Kodiak
4A Who writes the Elvis Cole crime novels?
Robert Crais
4B What was the first name of the jazz trombonist Kid Ory?
Edward

Round Six
1A What colour is a polar bear's skin?
Black
1B What is the more common name for the South African mammal the ratel?
Honey badger
2A Which UK actress gave an acclaimed performance as a ballet teacher in the film Billy Elliott?
Julie Walters
2B By what collective name are the North Sea islands of Hauptinsel and Dune better known?
Heligoland
3A Where were the 1976 Winter Olympics held?
Innsbruck
3B Mercutio and Tybalt appear in which Shakespeare play?
Romeo and Juliet
4A Which US state is nicknamed the 'Sooner' state? Oklahoma
4B Who were the first father and son to win the Nobel Prize for Physics?
(William and Laurence) Bragg

Round Seven
1A Who provided the voice of Mr Fox in the animated film The Fantastic Mr Fox?
George Clooney
1B In which decade were the first oil fields discovered in Saudi Arabia?
1930's (1938)
2A The phrase from pillar to post originated with which medieval game?
Real Tennis
2B Which Sousa march forms the basis of the football song Here we go, here vw go, here we go?
Star and Stripes Forever
3A During both World Wars what did the letter Y stand for in the acronym FANY?
Yeomanry (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry)
3B From which language do we get the word palaver?
Portuguese (palavra)
4A Which poet wrote the lines "Oh to be in England, Now that April's there"?
Robert Browning (Home Thoughts from Abroad)
4B Which spirit gives the 'kick' in a Singapore Sling?
Gin

Round Eight
1A Which golf club can be referred to as a 'Texas wedge'?
Putter (when it is used off the green)
1B By what name is the painter Domenikes Theotakopoulos known?
El Greco
2A Stella Rimington was the first female Director General of MI5, but who was the 2nd woman to head MI5 from 2002 until 2007?
Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller
2B Which bird was the symbol of the goddess Athena?
Owl
3A Who had a hit albums in 1970s with Teaser and the Firecat and Tea for the Tillerman?
Cat Stevens
3B The name of which dessert means 'cooked cream' in Italian?
Pannecotta
4A In which English county is Tolpuddle - famous for the martyrs?
Dorset
4B In Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf which instrument represents the wolf?
(3) French Horns

Spare Questions
1 In Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure, which city did he call Christminster?
Oxford
2 What is the Italian name for the city of Florence?
Firenze
3 What are Islamic saints or hermits called?
Marabouts
4 A 1954 expedition funded by the Daily Mail set out to find what?
Yeti