Monday 2nd November 2015
Set by Ormskirk

Round 1
1a Zayn Malik left which boy band in March 2015?
ONE DIRECTION
1b Which North Sea port lies at the mouth of the Riyer Esk?
WHITBY
2a Which planet in the solar system has a mass which is 318 times that of the earth?
JUPITER
2b To which university did Elias Ashmole donate his ‘cabinet of curiosities’ in 1677?
OXFORD
3a What is the name of Monaco’s ruling family?
GRIMALDI
3b What is the name of Captain Ahab’s ship in Moby Dick?
PEQUOD
4a Who voices Donkey in the Shrek series of films?
EDDIE MURPHY
4b Which Scottish football team plays home games at Easter Road?
HIBERNIAN

Round 2
1a Which car manufacturer produces the Yeti?
SKODA
1b Who wrote the Poldark series of historical novels?
WINSTON GRAHAM
2a Who played the role of Cilla in the biopic shown on TV in 2014?
SHERIDAN SMITH
2b Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played 20 seasons in which sport?
BASKETBALL
3a What chemical element is named after the Latin name for Paris?
LUTETIUM
3b How was Frenchman Armand Jean du Plessis (1585-1642) known more familiarly?
CARDINAL RICHELIEU
4a Whose philosophical ideal of ubermensch or superman was adopted and distorted by the Nazis?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
4b Which is the largest island in the Greater Antilles?
CUBA

Round 3
1a Hippocampus hippocampus is the scientific name for the short-snouted what, a species of small marine fish?
SEA HORSE
1b Who was the first Archbishop of Canterbury?
(SAINT) AUGUSTINE
2a Who is the lead singer with Procol Harum?
GARY BROOKER
2b The flag of which African country, adopted on the fall of the government in 2011, is that used when the country was a kingdom from 1951 to 1969?
LIBYA
3a Fantasie released in 2009 was the fourth studio album by which Scottish violinist?
NICOLA BENEDETTI
3b What is the name of a line on a map joining points of equal sunshine?
ISOHEL
4a If a substance has a half life of 10 years how much will remain of a mass of 1000kg after 30 years? 125 KG
4b Which present day capital city was previously called Pressburg?
RATISLAVA

Round 4
1a Which film ends with the line “Well, nobody’s perfect”?
SOME LIKE IT HOT
1b Which city has been selected to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games? ;
BEIJING
2a Which Earldom was common to to Simon de Montfort and Robert Dudley, the favourite of Elizabeth I?
LEICESTER
2b In which decade was the novel The Great Gasby set?
1920s
3a Mustard TV is a local station based in which English city?
NORWICH ;
3bThe Eclipse -Stakes is run at which racecourse'?
SANDOWN PARK
4a In August 2014 Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal. For work is which discipline is the Fields Medal awarded?
MATHEMATICS
4b The Culture is a galactic civilisation featured in the novels of which Scottish writer?
IAIN M BANKS

Round 5
1a What chemical element is named after the Latin word for a rainbow?
IRIDIUM
1b Cardinal Richelieu was Chief Minister of the French King from 1624 to 1642. Which king (name and regnal number)?
LOUIS XIII
2a What nationality was the philosopher and religious thinker Soren Kierkegaard?
DANISH
2b Which island republic off the coast of West Africa gained independence from Portugal in 1975?
CABO VERDE (accept CAPE VERDE)
3a Which film ends with the line “All right Mr De Mille, I’m ready for my close-up”?
SUNSET BOULEVARD
3b In 1998 which was the first Asian city to host the Commonwealth Games?
KUALA LUMPUR
4a Which Welsh earldom does Prince Philip hold?
MERIONETH
4b The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls was set during which war?
SPANISH CIVIL WAR

Round 6
1a Romantic Cello Concertos is a 2009 CD by which English cellist?
JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER
1b An isobront is a line on a map joining points where what type of weather occurs simultaneously?
THUNDERSTORM
2a Which isotope of hydrogen with a half-life of 12.32 years has a nucleus that contains one proton and two neutrons?
TRITIUM
2b What was the previous name of the city of Maputo?
LOURENCO MARQUES
3a Infiniti is the luxury brand of which car maker?
NISSAN
3b Who wrote the Palliser series of novels?
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
4a Who played Flash Harry in the St Trinians films of the 1950s and 1960s?
GEORGE COLE
4b Dan Marino played 17 seasons for the Miami Dolphins in which position?
QUARTERBACK

Round 7
1a Minster FM is a local radio station based in which English city?
YORK
1b Which jockey has ridden the winner of the Eclipse Stakes the most times, seven between 1951 and 1977?
LESTER PIGGOTT
2a Psychology Professor Daniel Kahneman, author of the 2011 book Thinking, Fast and Slow jointly won which Nobel Prize in 2002?
ECONOMICS
2b The character R Daneel Olivaw features in several of Isaac Asimov’s novels. What does R stand for? ROBOT
3a Which word completes the name of these marine creatures umbrella, box and lion’s mane?
JELLYFISH
3b Which Archbishop of Canterbury officiated at Queen Elizabeth II's coronation?
GEOFFREY FISHER
4a Who is the lead singer with Wet Wet Wet?
MARTI PELLOW
4b What was added to the horizontal bands of blue, white and red on the flag of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia In 1946?
A RED STAR WITH ( AnYELLOW BORDER)

Round 8
1a In 2011 Prince Albert II of Monaco married Charlene Wittstock who represented South Africa at which sport?
SWIMMING
1b What is the name of the ship that sails to the island in Treasure Island?
HISPANIOLA
2a Who plays Dr Evil the nemesis of Austin Powers in the Austin Powers series of films?
MIKE MYERS
2b Which Scottish football team plays home games at Pittodrie?
ABERDEEN
3a The band McFly formed a supergroup in 2013 with members of which other band?
BUSTED
3b Which river flows through Carlisle and empties into the Solway Firth?
EDEN
4a Which planet in the solar system has an equatorial diameter closest to that of the earth?
VENUS
4b Near which city is the only museum devoted to American life and arts from the 17th to 19th century in Britain?
BATH

Spare Questions
1 Which London Street shares its name with a 1978 Gerry Rafferty hit?
BAKER STREET
2 What is the surname of the twin brothers who founded The Guinness Book of Records?
MCWHIRTER
3 Of what is hagiology the study?
SAINT