Round 1
1a What stretches 267 miles from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders (or vice versa)?
THE PENNINE WAY
1b Who was on the English throne in 1300?
EDWARD THE FIRST
2a Who painted Dancer Lacing Her Shoe in 1878?
EDGAR DEGAS
2b Heroes sung by Måns Zelmerlöw won the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest representing which country?
SWEDEN
3a Which novel by Salman Rushdie led to the Ayatollah Khomeini declaring a fatwa against him in1989?
THE SATANIC VERSES
3b Which designer created the jacket without lapels made famous by The Beatles?
PIERRE CARDIN
4a Where did former first-class cricketer John Thayer die on April 15th, 1912?
ON THE TITANIC
4b Which 1959 film features Jack Lemmon in drag and Tony Curtis? impression of Cary Grant?
SOME LIKE IT HOT

Round 2
1a Which symbolic figure first appeared in the song Yankee Doodle Dandy and was first popularly depicted on a series of 1916 recruitment posters mimicking the pose of Lord Kitchener?
UNCLE SAM
1b FFS performed at Glastonbury this year. They are a collaboration between Sparks and which band?
FRANZ FERDINAND
2a Which city, called the Florence of the Elbe, stands 200 km from Berlin and 150 km from Prague?
DRESDEN
2b Who is Secretary of State for Defence?
MICHAEL FALLON
3a In the season 2014-15 Queens Park Rangers and Burnley were relegated from the Premier League. Which was the other team to be relegated?
HULL CITY
3b Who played Bond villain Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun?
CHRISTOPHER LEE
4a Who is the central character of Hilary Mantel?s Booker Prize winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies?
THOMAS CROMWELL
4b Which car company made the 'frog-eye' Sprite in 1958?
AUSTIN-HEALEY

Round 3
1a Which eponymous Shakespearean character has his Mediterranean honeymoon spoiled by a jealous co-worker;s gossip?
OTHELLO
1b The German word Krankenhaus signifies what type of building?
HOSPITAL
2a Which jockey won the Derby at Epsom in 2015 for the second time?
FRANKIE DETTORI
2b What is the first name of the Coronation Street character who has had surnames Potter, McIntyre and Rodwell among others?
GAIL
3a How many threepenny bits were in a pound?
80
3b Which instrument appears in a Mexican Mariachi band, alongside guitars and violins?
TRUMPET(S)
4a Which African country is bordered by six countries including to the North by Libya, to the East by Sudan, to the South by The Central African Republic and to the West by Niger?
CHAD
4b Who was the losing presidential candidate to Dwight D Eisenhower in 1956?
ADLAI STEVENSON

Round 4
1a In which city were Jessica Ennis and Naseem Hamed born?
SHEFFIELD
1b In which fictional city in Rhode Island does the Griffin family live in the Family Guy TV cartoon series?
QUAHOG
2a Which theatrical movement was initiated by Antonin Artaud in the 1930s 'to disturb audiences and strip away the veneer of civilisation'?
THE THEATRE OF CRUELTY
2b In the acronym NEET, applied to some young people, what does the T stand for?
(NOT IN EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION OR) TRAINING
3a What is the name of the bridge connecting Denmark and Sweden?
ØRESUND BRIDGE
3b In the so-called Dogger Bank incident of 1904, at least one trawler was sunk and two men killed when a British fishing fleet was fired on by ships from which country's navy?
RUSSIA
4a What is the date of St Swithin's Day?
JULY 15TH
4b The Dance of the Seven Veils is part of which opera by Richard Strauss?
SALOME

Round 5
1a Who scored most goals, 26, in the Premier League in 2014-2015?
SERGIO AGÜERO
1b Who played Bond villain Max Zorin in A View to a Kill?
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN
2a Thomas Cromwell was executed for treason after being blamed for Henry VIII?s failed marriage to whom?
ANNE OF CLEVES
2b Which car company made the Interceptor, ceasing production in 1976?
JENSEN
3a What was the name of the Sheffield sports stadium built for the 1991 World Student Games ? it was demolished in 2014?
DON VALLEY (STADIUM)
3b The US hit TV comedy series The Big Bang Theory is set in which Californian city?
PASADENA
4a What form of theatre has preserved the style of drama being performed in 14th century Japan?
NOH THEATRE
4b The name of which US elite military force is an acronym based on the amphibious role in which it operates?
(NAVY) SEALS (SEA-AIR-LAND FORCES)

Round 6
1a What was the old silver coin worth 4 pennies?
GROAT
1b Which jazz trumpet player, born in South Carolina in 1917, is credited with inventing 'be-bop' alongside Charley Parker?
DIZZY GILLESPIE
2a What is the largest city in Africa (by population)?
LAGOS
2b Who was the losing presidential candidate to Lyndon B Johnson in 1964?
BARRY GOLDWATER
3a Which eponymous Shakespearean character sulks at a funeral, disrupts another and gives the wrong wine to his mother in the final scene?
HAMLET
3b The German word Dom signifies what type of building?
CATHEDRAL
4a Which golfer won his second major title when he won the 2015 Open Championship?
ZACH JOHNSON
4b Sue Nicholls who plays Gail?s mother in Coronation Street, played Joan Greengross the secretary of which character in a 1970s sitcom?
REGINALD PERRIN

Round 7
1a What is the name of the bridge connecting Brooklyn with Staten Island, New York?
VERAZZANO NARROWS BRIDGE
1b Which statesman was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, largely for brokering a deal to end the Russo-Japanese War in 1905?
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
2a What is the date of St Sylvester's Day?
DECEMBER 31ST
2b Hanna Glawari is the title character in which operetta by Franz Lehár?
THE MERRY WIDOW
3a What name is given to the female figure who symbolises France, seen for example on coins and stamps and on the frontage of law courts?
MARIANNE
3b Which son of a famous drummer played drums for The Who at Glastonbury this year ? he has toured with them since 1996?
ZAK STARKEY
4a Which city, capital of Andalusia, is the only river port in Spain?
SEVILLE
4b Who is Secretary of State for Education?
NICKY MORGAN

Round 8
1a Completed in 1921, which novel became available in the English-speaking world only after its second American obscenity trial in 1934?
ULYSSES (BY JAMES JOYCE)
1b Which Italian designer was famous for his leather garments and leather trimmed knitwear in the 1980s?
GIANNI VERSACE
2a Which double Scottish international sportsman died in a Japanese internment camp in Weifang, China, in 1945?
ERIC LIDDELL
2b What is the name of Sidney Poitier?s character in the 1967 film In the Heat of the Night? (The name features in the title of a 1970 follow-up.)
VIRGIL TIBBS
3a The 53.5 km Milford Track is a long-distance walk in which country?
NEW ZEALAND
3b Who was on the English throne in 1500?
HENRY THE SEVENTH
4a Who painted Old Woman Cooking Eggs and portraits of theIInfanta in the 17th century?
DIEGO VELASQUEZ
4b Benny, Agnetha, Anni-Frid and ________ who made up ABBA?
BJÖRN

Spare Questions
1 Which Alan Bennett play features Cutlers Grammar School, Sheffield?
THE HISTORY BOYS
2 Which film ends with the line 'Kevin, what did you do to my room"?
HOME ALONE
3 '4 pi r²' is the formula for the surface area of which solid?
SPHERE