Monday 19th October 2015
Set by Roundheads (Wirral)

Round 1
1a According to the nursery rhyme, what happened to Solomon Grundy on Wednesday?
He married
1b To within 2 years either way, in what year were MOT tests first introduced for cars?
1960 (accept 1958-1962)
2a Which NW parliamentary constituency did Winston Churchill first represent?
Oldham (elected in 1900)
2b If you add the number of ‘Mules for Sister Sarah’ in the 1970 Clint Eastwood film to the ‘District’ in the 2009 Neill Blomkamp film and then add-the number of JK Jerome’s ‘Men in a. Boat" in his 1899-book- what
number do you get?
14 (2+9+3)
3a Who was Alexander the Great’s father?
Philip (II of Macedon)
3b Which cartoonist produces The Far Side’ series of cartoons?
Gary Larson
4a Which legal term is derived for the Latin for ‘under penalty’?
Subpoena
4b With which sport do you associate Sylvain Guintoli?
Motorcycling (accept Superbike)

Round 2
1a English passport offices are located in 4 locations: London, Liverpool and 2 others - name one.
Peterborough / Durham
1b According to the rhyme, what is Wednesday’s child?
Full of woe
2a If you add the number of ‘Easy Pieces’ in the 1970 Jack Nicholson film to the ‘Angry Men’ in the 1970 film and then add the number of Eddie Cochran ‘Steps to Heaven’ in his 1960 song, what number do
you get?
20 (5+12+3)
2b Which NW parliamentary constituency did Harold Wilson first represent (elected in 1945)?
Ormskirk
3a Which cartoonist produces the ‘If’ series in the Guardian?
Steve Bell
3b Who played Alexander the Great in the 2004 film ‘Alexander1?
Colin Farrell (accept Conner Paolo as Young Alexander)
4a What sport do you associate with Francesco Molinari?
Golf
4b Which legal term is Latin for ‘elsewhere’?
Alibi

Round 3
1a Which US Army General said, in a speech in May 1944. “Americans love a winner who will not tolerate a loser”?
George Patton
1b Which late comedienne wrote the 2014 best-selling book ‘Diary of a Mad Diva’?
Joan Rivers
2a Henry VIII described which teenage wife as his ‘Rose without a thorn’?
Catherine Howard
2b Which assistant to Robert Koch in the 1880s invented a transparent dish for the culture of micro-organisms?
J R Petri
3a Which event of 1962 is the subject of the 2000 film Thirteen Days’, starring Kevin Costner?
The Cuban Missile Crisis
3b Who wrote the 1893 opera ‘Hansel and Gretel’?
Engelbert Humperdinck
4a What does a deltiologist collect?
Postcards
4b In which city was Picasso born?
Malaga

Round 4
1a Ornithologist John Latham named 2 birds after places in Kent; name one of the birds.
Sandwich Tern or Dartford Warbler
1b Hughtown is the largest settlement of which island group?
Isles of Scilly (on St Mary’s Island)
2a In the 1856 novel by Flaubert what was Madame Bovary’s Christian name?
Emma
2b Leopold Bloom is the leading character in which 20th century novel?
Ulysses (published 1922)
3a Which US crime drama TV series ran from 2008-2013 and starred Bryan Cranston in the leading role?
Breaking Bad
3b jhe BBC2 production of Wolf Hal! was based on the novels by Hilary Mantel - one was Wolf Hall, name the other.
Bring Up the Bodies
4a Joe Strummer was the lead singer of which punk band from 1976-1986?
The Clash
4b Which footbail league club’s nickname is the Shrimpers?
Southend United

Round 5
1a Nelson Rockefeller served as Vice President under which President?
Gerald Ford
1b Which British writer married Harold Pinter in 1980?
(Lady) Antonia Fraser
2a Who was the wife of the English king Edward IV and mother of Edward V?
Elizabeth Woodviiie
2b Which vitamin is also known as Niacin or Nicotinic Acid?
B3
3a Which 1813 battle was also known as the Battle of the Nations?
Leipzig
3b Who wrote the 1911 opera ‘Der Rosenkavalier’?
Richard Strauss
4a What does an arctophile collect?
Teddy Bears
4b John Crome and John Sell Cotman were leading members of which school of painting, founded in 1803?
Norwich

Round 6
1a Which 1982 film is based on the 1968 sci-fi novel by Philip K Dick “Do androids dream of electric sheep’?
Blade Runner
1b What is the title of the 1866 operetta that Sullivan composed without Gilbert to a libretto by F C Burnand?
Cox and Box
2a In which city was opera singer Maria Callas born in 1923?
New York
2b Which French writer refused the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature?
Jean Paul Sartre
3a Who succeeded Alex Salmond as leader of the Scottish National Party and First Minister of Scotland in 2014?
Nicola Sturgeon
3b Who was the only bachelor President of the USA?
James Buchanan
4a Between 1934 and 1946 The People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs’ was known by which abbreviation?
NKVD
4b In what decade was Stalin born?
1870s (18.12.78)

Round 7
1a Which civil engineer (1819-1891) was responsible for the creation of a sewer network for central London after Parliament passed an Enabling Act in 1858?
Sir Joseph Bazalgette
1b Locomotion No.1 was the first team locomotive to carry passengers on a public rail link - what year was this? (to within 1 year either way)
1825 (17 September) (accept 1824-1826)
2a Which musician’s touring schedule has been popularly named The Never Ending Tour’-it started in June 1988?
Bob Dylan
2b What was Ike and Tina Turner’s last UK Top 20 single, reaching No.4 in 1973?
Nutbush City Limits
3a Titanic and Olympic were two of the White Star Line’s trio of Olympic-Class ocean liners. What was the third, launched in 1914 and constructed by Harland and Wolf in Belfast?
The Britannic
3b The wreck of the flagship of the John Franklin, who made an attempt to find the Northwest Passage in 1849, was found in Canada in September 2014. What was its name?
HMS Erebus
4a Which French racehorse, which won the Derby and Prix de I’Arc de Triomphe in 1965, was the highest rated horse by Timeform until Frankel’s performances in 2012?
Sea Bird (II)
4b In which city is the baseball team ‘White Sox’l ocated? They play their home games at the US Cellular Field, formerly Comiskey Park.
Chicago
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Round 8
1a Which incident lasted 30 seconds on the 26th October 1881 in the United States inspired a 1957 film directed by John Sturges?
The Gunfight at the OK Corral
1b What was the final destination of the first westward delivery by the Missouri- based Pony Express, which started in St Joseph in 1860?
Sacramento
2a Which country produces Russian River and Santa Ynez wines?
USA
2b Which country produces Constantia and Paarl wines?
South Africa
3a In the book ‘the Sign of Four” Sherlock Holmes describes the cocaine with which he is injecting himself as a certain ‘percent solution’. It is also the title of a book by Nicholas Heyer published in 1974 and a film adaptation in 1976. What is the number of this percent solution?
Seven
3b The so-called ‘Acid Bath Murdere;d was executed in 1949 in Wandsworth Prison. What was nis name
John Haigh
4a The American fantasy crams series 'Game of Thrones' is based on the novels of which author?
George R R Martin
4b Which 2004 play, iater a 2006 film, is based in the fictional Cutlers Grammar School in Sheffield?
The History Boys

Spare Questions
1 On a standard Qwerty computer keyboard which number key also has the asterisk/star symbol?
8
2 What kind of pastry is used to make chocolate eclairs?
Choux
3 Who currently presents ‘Desert Island Discs’ on BBC Radio 4?
Kirsty Young