Round 2
1a Who is Secretary of State for International Development – she was previously Secretary of State for Transport?
JUSTINE GREENING
1b Oswald Cobblepot is a devious crime-boss who is seldom seen without one of his trick-umbrellas. How is this Batman villain better known?
PENGUIN
2a Who led the British forces at the Battle of Assaye in 1803 in the 2nd Anglo-Maratha War in India?
MAJOR GENERAL ARTHUR WELLESLEY (accept DUKE OF WELLINGTON)
2b Which river rises in south Poland and empties into the Baltic Sea at Gdansk?
VISTULA
3a John Proctor and Abigail Williams are characters in which play by Arthur Miller?
THE CRUCIBLE
3b Which Swiss sculptor appears with his creation L’Homme Qui Marche I on the 100 Swiss Franc note?
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI
4a The Resurrection is a symphony by which composer?
GUSTAV MAHLER
4b Who was the first female presenter of Blue Peter?
LEILA WILLIAMS

Round 3
1a Who in 2014 scored the highest innings by an England number 11 batsman in Test cricket when he scored 81 versus India?
JAMES ANDERSON
1b Gavin Maxwell’s book Ring of Bright Water is about which creatures?
OTTERS
2a What is the name of the BBCs free online support resource for children, where the topics are broken down into small sections?
BITESIZE
2b In which country is the wine-making region of Barossa Valley?
AUSTRALIA
3a Which US President succeeded Grover Cleveland in 1889 and was succeeded by Cleveland in 1893?
BENJAMIN HARRISON
3b Which of the eight Ivy League universities is in New York City?
COLUMBIA
4a Which American poet wrote Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening?
ROBERT FROST
4b Côte d’Azur Airport serves which French city?
NICE

Round 4
1a Which opera by Rossini has the alternative title The Useless Precaution?
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
1b Meryl Streep has won 2 Oscars for Best Actress but for which 1979 film did she win Best Supporting Actress?
KRAMER vs KRAMER
2a Who is the only man to have trained three consecutive Epsom Derby winners?
AIDAN O'BRIEN (2012-2014)
2b The stars Rigel and Bellatrix are in which constellation?
ORION
3a Whom did Angela Merkel succeed as Chancellor of Germany in 2005?
GERHARD SCHRÖDER
3b Bert Weedon wrote a book entitled Play In a Day which gave advice on how to play which musical instrument?
GUITAR
4a Which bird is the symbol of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds?
AVOCET
4b In 2002 Johnny Vegas sold his wedding pictures to which comic magazine for £1?
VIZ

Round 5
1a Chris Leslie holds which position in the Labour Shadow Cabinet?
CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER
1b What was the name of the daughter of Fred and Wilma Flintstone?
PEBBLES
2a Who led the British East India Company forces against the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies at the Battle of Plassey in 1757?
COLONEL ROBERT CLIVE
2b Aneto is the highest mountain in which European mountain range?
PYRENEES
3a Dick Dudgeon and Reverend Anthony Anderson are characters in which play by George Bernard Shaw?
THE DEVIL’S DISCIPLE
3b Which Romanian sculptor made more than 20 versions of his Bird in Space sculpture out of marble or bronze?
CONSTANTIN BRÂNCU?I
4a Whose 6th and final symphony is called The Pathetique?
PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
4b Susan Stranks was the female presenter of which ITV children’s programme designed to rival BBC’s Blue Peter?
MAGPIE

Round 6
1a Which of Mozart’s operas has the alternative title The Rake Punished?
DON GIOVANNI
1b Jack Nicholson has won two Best Actor Oscars, but for which 1983 film did he win Best Supporting Actor?
TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
2a Trained by Vincent O’Brien, Nijinsky was the last horse, in 1970, to win the Triple Crown in the UK. Who was his jockey?
LESTER PIGGOTT
2b The stars Aldebaran and Electra are in which constellation?
TAURUS
3a Whom did Nicolas Sarkozy succeed as President of France in 2007?
JACQUES CHIRAC
3b Larry Adler was a virtuoso on which musical instrument?
HARMONICA (accept MOUTH ORGAN
4a Which bird is the logo for a brand of Bulmer’s cider?
(EUROPEAN GREEN) WOODPECKER
4b Headmaster’s Message from the Cameron Free School (formerly Coalition Academy) appears in which magazine?
PRIVATE EYE

Round 7
1a Which Bulgarian beat Andy Murray in the 2014 Wimbledon quarter-final?
GRIGOR DIMITROV
1b What is the name of the Bengal tiger in The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling?
SHERE KHAN
2a Which comedian and actor was announced in June as the new presenter of The News Quiz on BBC Radio 4?
MILES JUPP
2b Nuits-Saint-Georges comes from which wine-making region in France?
BURGUNDY
3a Which US President died in office in July 1850 to be succeeded by his Vice President Millard Fillmore?
ZACHARY TAYLOR
3b The Ivy League university Brown is in which US State capital?
PROVIDENCE
4a Which poem by Walter de la Mare begins “‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller”?
THE LISTENERS
4b The name of which Spanish city is in the full title of Costa del Sol Airport?
MÁLAGA

Round 8
1a Which British Prime Minister died in office in 1865?
VISCOUNT PALMERSTON (aka HENRY JOHN TEMPLE)
1b Which river flows through Dewsbury and Wakefield?
CALDER
2a Detective Jane Rizzoli and Doctor Maura Isles work for the Police Department in which city in US author Tess Gerritsen’s crime novels?
BOSTON
2b Who painted The Night Café in 1888?
VINCENT VAN GOGH
3a Damon Albarn was lead singer and guitarist with which UK chart-topping group in the 1990s?
BLUR
3b Which actor played the part of Oskar Schindler in the film Schindler’s List?
LIAM NEESON
4a Who, with 84 goals in 85 games is Hungary’s highest international goal scorer?
FERENC PUSKÁS
4b Who in 1869 arranged the 63 known elements at that time into the first modern periodic table and correctly predicted several other elements?
DMITRI MENDELEEV

Spare Questions
1 Which British born actor who lived from 1913 to 1993 had the real name James Lablache Stewart?
STEWART GRANGER
2 With whose wife did King David of Israel have an adulterous affair that resulted in pregnancy?
URIAH THE HITTITE
3 Which animal has the varieties Arctic, Bat-Eared and Fennec?
FOX