Round 1
1a Which US TV series is set in the 1960s, initially at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in New York City, and later at the newly created firm Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce?
Mad Men
1b Which horse won the 2014 Epsom Derby?
Australia
2a A spiked wheel is the principal emblem of which saint, martyred in Alexandria?
St Catherine
2b In Greek mythology who was the father of Castor and Pollux?
Zeus
3a 'Tennis Whites and Teacakes" and 'Trains and Buttered Toast" are collections of work by which writer, who died in 1984 aged 77?
Sir John Betjeman
3b In which century did the Battle of Roncesvalles take place which inspired the epic poem "The Song of Roland'?
8th Century AD
4a Which French blue cheese, ripened in the caves of Mount Combalou is made from ewe's milk?
Roquefort
4b Which fashion designer popularised the mini skirt and ran a Chelsea boutique called "Bazaar"?
Mary Quant

Round 2
1a What word can follow Garden, Willow and Grasshopper, to give the names of three bird-species that can be seen in the UK?
Warbler
1b "Frank" was the title of whose 2003 debut album?
Amy Winehouse
2a For what did the F stand in the name of US President J.F. Kennedy?
Fitzgerald
2b The site of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, is situated in which modern day country?
Turkey
3a Which singer married Bianca Perez-Mora Macias in St Tropez in 1971?
Mick Jagger
3b Who voiced Count Duckula in an animated 1980's and 1990's television series of the same name?
David Jason
4a At what figure do the Centigrade and Fahrenheit temperature scales coincide?
Minus 40 '
4b What term is given to a plant that lasts more than two years?
Perennial

Round 3
1a Which horse won the 2013 Grand National?
Auroras Encore
1b The antimalarial drug "Quinine" is derived from the bark of which tree?
Cinchona
2a In Greek mythology who was the mother of the Gods?
Hera
2b In which Shakespeare play does Banquo's ghost appear?
Macbeth
3a In which century did El Cid fight against the Moors in Spain?
Eleventh
3b Of which Italian region is Genoa the capital?
Liguria
4a Who designed the then Princess Elizabeth's wedding dress in 1947?
Norman Hartnell
4b In what year where the Summer Olympic Games hosted in Munich?
1972

Round 4
1a Bright's disease affects which organ of the human body?
Kidney
1b Sparrows belong to which family of birds?
Passeridae
2a How are Mistress Ford and Mistress Page known in. the title of a Shakespeare play?
The Merry Wives of Windsor
2b What did the USA purchase from Russia for $7,200,000 in 1857?
Alaska
3a Perugia is the capital of which Italian region?
Umbria
3b Who married TV and radio personality David Mitchell in 2012?
Victoria Coren
4a In which country is Sochi, the host of the 2014 Winter Olympics?
Russia
4b Which British physicist won the Nobel prize in 2013, sharing the prize with Francois Englert?
Peter Higgs

Round 5
1a In heraldry, which colour is denoted by the term azure?
Blue
1b Whose debut album "Rockferry" was the bestselling UK album of 2008?
Duffy
2a Which actor is the husband of Sinead Cusack?
Jeremy Irons
2b The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, would have been situated in which modern day country?
Iraq
3a Which Imperial measurement is the equivalent of 6.35kg?
Stone
3b Stan Smith is the main character of which American animated television series?
American Dad
4a In which musical do the songs "As Long as He Needs Me" and "Food Glorious Food" feature?
Oliver
4b What is the alternative name of the Chilean Pine?
Monkey Puzzle Tree (accept araucaria)

Round 6
1a Which 1972 film starring Dick Emery took its title from the catchphrase of one of his characters?
Ooh You Are Awful
1b Trenton is the state capital of which US State?
New Jersey
2a In which country did Mohammed Ali fight for the World Heavyweight boxing championship with George Foreman in what was known as "The Rumble in the Jungle"?
Zaire (accept Democratic Republic of the Congo)
2b Which situation comedy character was invariably 11 minutes late to work for a variety of train related incidents?
Reginald Perrin
3a Which band teamed up with Run DMC on the hit single "Walk This Way"?
Aerosmith
3b Which former Pope was canonised alongside Pope John XXIII in April 2014?
John Paul II
4a The Russell family is the family name of which British dukes?
Bedford
4b The fictional setting Grover's Corner, New Hampshire, for the 1938 Broadway play "Our Town" was created by which Pulitzer Prize winning playwright?
Thornton Wilder

Round 7
1a Which British comedian and actor played Dr Gregory House in the US TV series "House"?
Hugh Laurie
1b In a classic Ealing comedy, which area of London declares independence after the discovery of documents showing it is part of the Duchy of Burgundy?
Pimlico
2a In the book of Genesis, Chapter 8, verse 11, when the dove returned to Noah's ark, what was it carrying in its beak?
An olive leaf
2b What is the lightest weight of boxing class used by the WBC?
Straw weight
3a Who wrote the 1842 poem "The Pied Piper of Hamelin?
Robert Browning
3b Dave Vanian, Brian James, Captain Sensible and Rat Scabies were the original members of which punk band?
The Damned
4a Which 'cake' is a small, circular black sweet made of liquorice?
Pontefract Cake
4b What courtesy title is held by the heir to the Marquis of Bath?
Viscount Weymouth

Round 8
1a Of which American state is Tallahassee the state capital?
Florida
1b In heraldry which colour is known as gules?
Red
2a Who played the time travelling Gary Sparrow in the sitcom "Goodnight Sweetheart"?
Nicholas Lyndhurst
2b To which actress is Daniel Craig married?
Rachael Weisz
3a In which century was Innocent XIII the Pope, the last Pope of this name?
18th Century
3b What unit of measurement, the equivalent to four inches, is used in the measurement of horses?
Hand
4a Which Michael Frayn play is based around a 1941 meeting between Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr?
Copenhagen
4b Which musical was an adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's "Goodbye to Berlin"?
Cabaret

Spare Questions
1 Which actor was born Archibald Leech in Bristol in 1904?
Cary Grant
2 The River Manzanares runs through which city?
Madrid
3 Which country split into two in the velvet divorce of 1993?
Czechoslovakia
4 Which was the debut novel of Frederick Forsyth later made into a film?
The Day of the Jackal
5 Which history professor founded UKIP in September 1993?
Alan Sked