Round 1
1a Which US city was ravaged by a Great Fire in 1871 that left thousands homeless?
CHICAGO
1b Many British hill tops have a trig point placed by the Ordnance Survey. What is the word 'trig' short for?
TRIANGULATION
2a What is the family name of an England 1966 football world cup winner and his nephew, an England 2003 rugby union world cup winner?
COHEN (GEORGE AND BEN)
2b Who wrote the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead?
TOM STOPPARD
3a Which constituency returned Douglas Carswell as the first UKIP MP in October 2014?
CLACTON
3b Which chemical element comes next in order of atomic number: hydrogen, helium, lithium, ............?
BERYLLIUM
4a What nationality was composer Alexander Borodin?
RUSSIAN
4b Characters in the TV crime drama Breaking Bad sometimes refer to their home city as ABQ. What does ABQ denote?
ALBUQUERQUE (NEW MEXICO.)

Round 2
1a Who was the gypsy guitarist who became a jazz virtuoso in the 1930s with the Quintette du Hot Club de France?
DJANGO REINHARDT
1b What character did Harrison Ford play in the Star Wars films?
HAN SOLO
2a Which wedge-shaped writing system was used by various middle-eastern peoples from the fourth millennium BC until the invention of alphabetic systems?
CUNEIFORM
2b Which Missionaries of Charity founder was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979?
MOTHER TERESA
3a Which rugby league team played its home games at The Boulevard up to 2002? HULL (FC)
3b Which is the first book in the fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire?
A GAME OF THRONES
4a Which British Prime Minister said, on first taking office, 'My mission is to pacify Ireland'?
WILLIAM GLADSTONE
4b Which 'lost' gardens near St Austell (Cornwall) were restored after 70 years, shown in a TV series in the 1990s?
HELIGAN

Round 3
1a The New York Rangers play which sport? I
CE HOCKEY
1b According to Shakespeare, which wood moved to defeat Macbeth?
BIRNAM (WOOD)
2a Who was the personal architect of Hitler and Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during the Second World War?
ALBERT SPEER
2b Staten Island, Queens, Manhattan and Brooklyn are four of the New York boroughs. What is the fifth?
BRONX
3a Paul Arthurs and Tony McCarroll were members of which Manchester group?
OASIS
3b Who directed the film The Piano released in 1993?
JANE CAMPION
4a In the early 1960s, US meteorologist Edward Lorenz worked on computer models of weather systems. What term did he use to describe the variations found?
BUTTERFLY EFFECT
4b Which famous London landmark was sculpted by Edward H Baily?
STATUE OF LORD NELSON ON HIS COLUMN IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE

Round 4
1a Which is the fifth book of the Old Testament?
DEUTERONOMY
1b How many vertices (ie corners) are there on an octahedron?
SIX
2a In a line from the song ?Anything Goes? by Cole Porter, what sort of words are now used by authors 'who once knew better words'?
FOUR-LETTER WORDS
2b Who presents the TV quiz The Link?
MARK WILLIAMS
3a Which Italian noblewoman was queen of France between 1547 and 1559, and ruled as regent in the years afterwards (full name needed)?
CATHERINE DE' MEDICI
3b What was the name until 1975 of the country now called Benin?
DAHOMEY
4a Who did Australia beat in the final of the 2015 ICC World Cup?
NEW ZEALAND
4b Thomas Gradgrind and Josiah Bounderby appear in which book by Charles Dickens?
HARD TIMES

Round 5
1a Who was known as 'The Great One' in North American ice hockey?
WAYNE GRETZKY
1b According to Shakespeare, to who does the line 'Banish plump Jack and banish all the world' refer?
SIR JOHN FALSTAFF
2a Who was the Austrian Chancellor assassinated in 1934 by Nazis?
ENGELBERT DOLLFUSS
2b Where was New York's immigrant inspection station until 1954?
ELLIS ISLAND
3a Catherine of Braganza was the wife of which English king?
CHARLES II
3b Basutoland changed its name in 1966 to what current name?
LESOTHO
4a England only won two matches in the 2015 ICC World Cup. Name either of the teams that they beat.
AGHANISTAN OR SCOTLAND
4b Catherine Earnshaw and Edgar Linton appear in which book by one of the Brontë sisters?
WUTHERING HEIGHTS

Round 6
1a Who was the Canadian jazz pianist (1925-2007), winner of eight Grammy Awards who released over 200 recordings?
OSCAR PETERSON
1b What was the name of the computer in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey?
HAL (9000)
2a Supposedly spoken by Jesus and his disciples, which Semitic language formed large parts of the Book of Daniel, the Talmud and the Dead Sea Scrolls?
ARAMAIC
2b Name either of the Israeli politicians who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Yasser Arafat in 1994?
YITZHAK RABIN OR SHIMON PERES
3a Which rugby league team played its home games at Fartown up to 1992?
HUDDERSFIELD
3b The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first in which trilogy of novels?
MILLENNIUM
4a In the American Civil War General Sherman led the so-called 'March to the Sea' through which US state?
GEORGIA
4b At which site did Vita Sackville-West create her 'White Garden'?
SISSINGHURST (CASTLE, KENT)

Round 7
1a Which is the sixth book of the New Testament?
(EPISTLE TO THE) ROMANS
1b How many faces are there on an icosahedron?
TWENTY
2a Mary Jane is a popular figure in song lyrics, often being taken to the movies or a dance. For what is 'Mary Jane' a coded name?
MARIJUANA
2b Who presents the TV quiz Perfection?
NICK KNOWLES
3a Which Manchester band had Johnny Marr and Andy Rourke as members?
THE SMITHS
3b Who directed the film Olympia premiered at Adolf Hitler?s 49th birthday celebrations?
LENI RIEFENSTAHL
4a In 1835, a French mathematician suggested an explanation for the prevailing air movements observed north and south of the equator. What was his name?
GUSTAVE CORIOLIS
4b Which famous artist and engraver produced the sculpture Prospero and Ariel in 1932 which is above the entrance of Broadcasting House in London?
ERIC GILL

Round 8
1a In 1864, the Dale Dyke Dam burst while being filled, leading to the death of 240 people in which British city?
SHEFFIELD
1b In OS maps, what metric scale replaced the old one inch to a mile scale in the 1970s?
1 TO 50,000
2a What is the family name of a former England footballer until recently managing Sheffield United and his father, a European-cup-winning manager?
CLOUGH (NIGEL AND BRIAN)
2b Who wrote the play A Chorus of Disapproval?
ALAN AYCKBOURN
3a What unique distinction in the Westminster parliament has been held since 2005 by current member of the Cabinet David Mundell MP?
THE ONLY CONSERVATIVE MP REPRESENTING A SCOTTISH CONSTITUENCY
3b Two chemical elements start with O. One is oxygen. What is the other?
OSMIUM
4a What nationality was composer Frédéric Chopin?
POLISH
4b Rock musician Bruce Springsteen and the TV crime family The Sopranos hail from which US state?
NEW JERSEY

Spare Questions
1 What is the capital city of Saudi Arabia?
RIYADH
2 Which team won the FA Cup in 2015?
ARSENAL
3 The original version of the play Waiting for Godot was written in which language?
FRENCH