Tuesday 27th October 2015
Set by Top Shed (Liverpool)

Round One
1A What is the State capital of Kentucky?
1B The Battle of Malvern Hill took place during which conflict?
American Civil War
2A How many symphonies did Johannes Brahms write?
4
2B give a year in the life of Ivan the Terrible.
1530 -1584
3A Bronze is an alloy of copper and which other metal?
Tin
3B "Nothing is certain but death and taxes" and "Remember that time is money" are quotes attributed to whom?
Benjamin Franklin
4A In what year did the Herald of Free Enterprise capsize and Klaus Barbie was found guilty of war crimes?
1987
4B Rock musician William George Perks is better known as who?
Bill Wyman

Round Two
1A With which instrument do you associate the jazz musician Kid Ory?
Trombone
1B Which French Romantic artist painted "Liberty Leading The People" in 1830?
Eugene Delacroix
2A "Rinka" the Great Dane was owned by which male model?
Norman Scott
2B Whose theme song was "Thanks for the memory"?
Bob Hope
3A "The Daughter of Time" a novel by Josephine Tey, features an investigation into which real life historical mystery?
Princes In the Tower
3B The name of which illness is derived from the Greek for grey-coloured?
Polio
4A The Zimmerman telegram of 1917 was intended for which country?
Mexico
4B Which king was Prince Rupert of the Rhine's grandfather?
James I (VI of Scotland)

Round Three
1A Give a year in the life of Peter The Great.
1672 -1725
1B Pewter is an alloy of tin and which other metal?
Lead
2A English TV and film actor John Elton Halliday, 1912 —1983, is better known as whom?
John Le Mesurier
2B In what year did Indian troops storm the Golden Temple at Amritsar and Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov die?
1984
3A The Battle of Brandywine took place during which war?
American War of Independence
3B What is the capital of the US state Michigan?
Lansing
4A "It matters not how a man dies but how he lives" and "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" are quotes attributed to whom?
Samuel Johnson
4B How many symphonies did Jean Sibelius compose?
7

Round Four
1A By what name is Edward of Woodstock, the eldest son of Edward Ill, better known?
The Black Prince
1B in popular literature who is the most well known herbalist in Shrewsbury?
Brother Cadfael
2A The name of which illness is derived from the Greek for scaly?
Leprosy
2B Which is the largest moon in the Solar System?
Ganymede
3A Which French Romantic artist painted the "Raft of the Medusa" in 1819?
Theodore Gericauit
3B With which instrument do you associate jazz musician Freddie Hubbard?
Trumpet
4A In which Russian city is the Summer Palace?
St. Petersburg
4B What name is given to the stretch of water between the west coast of Scotland and the Outer Hebrides?
The Minch

Round Five
1A Name the American President elected in the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and who also died in the same year as the Queen.
William McKinley
1B To the nearest 5000, what is the crowd capacity of the new Wembley Stadium?
90,000
2A In which town is Moorhouse's brewery?
Burnley
2B In which battle of 1265 was Simon de Montfort killed?
Evesham
3A In railway safety parlance was does the "D" stand for in the acronym S.P.A.D?
Danger (signal passed at)
3B Who was the drummer of the pop group Slade?
Don Powell
4A In Kipling's poem " For all we have and are", who is at the gate?
The Hun
4B Which actor played the third Dr Who on television?
Jon Pertwee

Round Six
1A If a dish is described as "A La Forestiere", what must it contain?
Mushrooms
1B What did Edward Budding invent in 1832?
Lawn Mower
2A Which actress played 'Valeria" in the film Carry On Screaming?
Fenella Fielding
2B In which English town was Wilfred Owen born?
Oswestry
3A What was the name of Ghana before it gained independence?
Gold Coast
3B Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc were prominent members of which German Expressionist Art movement based in Berlin?
The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter)
4A Who had a UK hit in the 1960s with the song" Juliet"?
The Four Pennies
4B Name the Confederate warship built at Birkenhead and sunk off Cherbourg.
CSS Alabama

Round Seven
1A in which battle of 1403 was Harry Hotspur killed?
Shrewsbury
1B Who had a 1960s UK hit with "You were on my mind"?
Crispin St Peters
2A What was the title of the Sex Pistol's first UK single?
Anarchy in the UK
2B What was the pre-independence name of Malawi?
Nyasaland
3A Which actor played Barnes Wallis in the film The Dambusters?
Michael Redgrave
3B If a dish is described as "A La Lyonaisse" what must it contain?
Onions
4A To the nearest 1000, what is the crowd capacity on Centre Court at Wimbiedon?
15,000
4B Which actress played Annie Oakley in the film "Carry on Cowboy"?
Angela Douglas

Round Eight
1A Alfred Butts created which board game in 1938?
Scrabble
1B In the poem by Tennyson, the line "I am here at the gate alone" is addressed to whom?
Maud
2A Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, was known by what name when it was part of Yugoslavia?
Titograd
2B In which English town or city is the Titanic brewery?
Stoke-on-Trent
3A With a character in which novel does Starbuck's coffee chain share its name?
Moby Dick
3B Situated on Mars, what is the name of the iargest volcano in the Solar System?
Olympus Mons
4A In which English city would you find Chamberlain Square and the Rotunda?
Birmingham
4B In the acronym UNICEF, what does the "E" stand for?
Emergency (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund)

Spares Questions
1 By what name was pop and rock singer Larry Lurex better known?
Freddie Mercury
2 What date is Waterloo Day?
18th June
3 The 1954 Manilla Pact led to the formation of which organisation?
SEATO
4 What is the name of the Gulf separating the coast of northern Vietnam from China and into which the Red River flows?
Tonkin