Round 1
1a "Known to the Danish as Godthab, what is the capital of Greenland?
Nuuk
1b Which film and TV actor is the son of actress Wanda Ventham?
Benedict Cumberbatch
2a More famous for a series of crime stories, who wrote the 1891 adventure story ‘The White Company’?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2b In the Old Testament Book of Kings, which Biblical character is taken up to Heaven in a fiery chariot?
Elijah
3a In an electrical circuit what is measured by a Wheatstone Bridge?
Resistance
3b Who played Captain Phillips in the 2013 film of that name?
Tom Hanks
4a In 1981, which was the first Space Shuttle to be launched into orbit?
Columbia
4b A flittermouse is an archaic name for which animal?
Bat

Round 2
1a Whose quartet had instrumental hit records in the early 1960’s entitled Unsquare Dance and Take Five?
Dave Brubeck
1b In Islam, what is the meaning of the word Haram as in Boko Haram?
Sinful/not Halal/not lawful/illegal/forbidden (accept equivalent)
2a Which town on the A49 is almost midway between Ludlow and Hereford?
Leominster
2b Graham Moffatt played Albert alongside which comedian in a series of films in the 1930s?
Will Hay (accept Moore Marriott)
3a For which Rugby Union club does Owen Farrell play?
Saracens
3b Which religious figure had a horse named Kanthaka?
(Guatama)Buddha
4a Which Scottish patriot was executed on 23rd August 1305 in London?
William Wallace
4b Protium and tritium are isotopes of which element?
Hydrogen

Round 3
1a Who did Francois Hollande succeed as French President in 2012?
Nicolas Sarkozy
1b SS Thistlegorm is the name of the sunken WWII munitions ship which is an attraction to divers in which area of water?
The Red Sea (accept Straits of Gubal)
2a In Hans Anderson’s tale, the princess could feel the presence of a pea under how many mattresses?
Twenty
2b Charles Guiteau assassinated which US President in 1881?
James A Garfield
3a What is the name of the eponymous hunch-backed court jester in Verdi’s opera of 1851?
Rigoletto
3b What is the name of the Swedish arms manufacturing company formed in 1646 and located in Karlskoga?
Bofors
4a The late James Avery played Uncle Phil in which 1990s US TV series?
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
4b Julius was the Christian name of which Bond villain in the eponymous 1958 novel later filmed?
Dr No

Round 4
1a Mark Bolland is the current Dutch born CEO of which retail chain?
Marks & Spencer
1b Which French skunk was the star of a series of the Warner Bros Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons?
Pepe Le Pew
2a Which European country has had four kings named Valdemar in the Middle Ages?
Denmark
2b In which US city is the Alamo, the site of the 1836 battle and siege located?
San Antonio
3a What form of carbon was first isolated by Dr Andire Geim and Kostya Novoselov of Manchester University - ts development earned them a Nobel Prize in 2010?
Graphene
3b Name either of the two Rolling Stones top ten UK hits of the 1980s.
Emotional Rescue OR Start Me Up
4a What was US tennis player Billie Jean King’s maiden name?
Moffitt
4b Which cloud formation is abbreviated to Sc?
Stratocumulus

Round 5
1a In Malay it means muddy estuary; what is the capital of Malaysia?
Kuala Lumpur
1b Which film and TV actress is the daughter of Dame Diana Rigg?
Rachel Stirling
2a Which French author wrote the 1850 adventure story The Black Tulip ?
Alexandre Dumas (Pere)
2b In the Bible who was “comforted” by Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar?
Job
3a In surveying, what is measured by a goniometer?
Angles
3b In the 2013 film, who played The Railway Man’ of the title?
Colin Firth (or Jeremy Irvine as the young Eric Lomax)
4a What was the last Space Shuttle to orbit the Earth, doing so on the 21st July 2011?
Atlantis
4b What type of animal is a frogmouth?
Bird

Round 6
1a Who was the leader and pianist of the group ‘Brasil 66’?
Sergio Mendes
1b What word is given to someone who has learned the Koran by heart?
A Hafiz (male) or Hafiza (female)
2a Which town is on the A6 almost midway between Buxton and Matlock?
Bakewell
2b Nicholas Parsons was the straight man to which TV comedian of the 50s and 60s, who had his own ITV television show?
Arthur Haynes
3a For which Rugby Union club does Leigh Halfpenny play?
Toulon
3b According to Shakespeare which king rode a horse called ‘White Surrey’?
Richard III
4a Which English explorer/adventurer/writer was executed on 29th October Sir Walter Raleigh
1618 in London?
4b How many atoms make up one molecule of ozone?
Three

Round 7
1a Which French singer/songwriter and former model is married to Nicolas Sarkozy and was romantically linked to Mick Jagger in the early 1990s?
Carla Bruni
1b The WWII sunken munitions ship SS Richard Montgomery is still a hazard to shipping in the estuary of which river?
Thames
2a In the Washington Irving short story, for how many years did Rip van Winkle sleep in the Catskill Mountains?
Twenty
2b Leon Frank Czolgosz assassinated which US president in 1901?
William McKinley
3a In Wagner’s Ring Cycle, by what collective name are Woglinde, Wellgunde and Flosshilde known?
Rhinemaidens (accept Rheintochter)
3b Which company -whose factory was in North London-made the standard 303 British Army issue rifle?
Lee Enfield
4a On television who played Dr Elizabeth Corday in the medical drama ER, and River Song in Dr Who?
Alex Kingston
4b What was the Christian name of the Bond villain Goldfinger?
Auric

Round 8
1a Which country will stage the 2018 Winter Olympic Games?
South Korea
1b Appearing for the first time in 1946, who, l say who, was the rooster featured in a series of Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies cartoons?
Foghorn Leghorn
2a Henri IV was the first French king of which House in 1589?
Bourbon
2b In which US state is the Little Big Horn river, the site of the 1876 battle?
Montana
3a Buckminster-Fullerene, made up of spheres of 60 atoms is an allotrope of which element?
Carbon
3b Which Rolling Stones 1964 No.1 hit was a cover of a 1956 blues recording made by Howlin’ Wolf?
Little Red Rooster
4a What was Australian tennis player Margaret Court’s maiden name?
Smith
4b Which cloud formation is abbreviated to Cs?
Cirrostratus

Spare Questions
1 Bulls Eye, Inverted Jenny and Basel Dove are types of what?
Postage Stamps
2 What was Angie Dickinson’s character’s name in the TV series Police Woman?
Pepper (Suzanne) Anderson
3 There are 4 novels (as opposed to short stories) featuring Sherlock Holmes; A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles and which other?
The Valley of Fear