Round 1
1a In which city did Britain win tennis's Davis Cup in 2015?
Ghent
1b On which asteroid is Rheasilva Mons, the solar system's largest mountain?
Vesta
2a From which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical does the song "Music of the Night" come?
Phantom of the Opera
2b The Forest of Arden is the setting for which Shakespeare play?
As You Like It
3a Carinthia, Tyrol and Stvria, are three provinces of which European country?
Austria
3b Who played the butcher Jack Jones in the 2016 film "Dad’s Army"?
Tom Courtney
4a In the form of a tent who created the artwork "Everyone I have slept with 1963 -1995"?
Tracy Emin
4b What nationality is Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female head of state?
Liberian

Round 2
1a The moons of Uranus are named after characters from Shakespeare and which, other writer?
Alexander Pope
1b What was the title of Giselher Klebe's operatic sequel to "The Marriage of Figaro", which premiered in 1963?
Figaro Seeks a Divorce
2a In and around which city is Shakespeare's "A Midsummer's Night Dream" set?
Athens
2b Which King of England, ruled 975 - 978 was the son of Edgar the Peaceful?
Edward the Martyr
3a Which actress has appeared in the most "Carry On" films making a total of 24 appearances?
Joan Sims
3b The F12 Berlinetta and 458 Spider are among current makes of car by which manufacturer?
Ferrari
4a Letsie III is as of 2013, the current king of which country?
Lesotho
4b Whose principle or law states that an object submerged in a fluid displaces a weight of that fluid equal to the apparent weight loss of that object?
Archimedes

Round 3
1a In which Rossini opera does the aria "Pensa alia Patria" appear?
L'ltaliania in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers)
1b Which novelist created the character Jack Reacher, who first appeared in the novel "Killing Floor" in 1997?
Lee Child (Jim Grant)
2a Which King of England, ruled 1013 -1014 was the son of Harold Bluetooth?
Sven Forkbeard (accept Sweyn Forkbeard)
2b What are wrapped in streaky bacon to make "Devils on Horseback"?
Prunes
3a The Anglia, Corsair and Popular are former car models by which car manufacturer?
Ford
3b In "The Simpsons" who is Marge and Homer's next door neighbour?
Ned Flanders
4a Which Italian astronomer and physicist was forced by the Inquisition to recant his support for the Copernican model of the solar system?
Galileo (Galilei)
4b Which breed of draft horse was first mentioned in William Camden's 1586 work "Britannia”, as a working horse of the eastern counties?
Suffolk Punch

Round 4
1a What was the name of the fictional Chinese master criminal created by Sax Rohmer?
Fu Manchu
1b The Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 concluded which war?
Spanish Succession
2a In cookery, what are small strips of fish or chicken coated in seasoned flour, egg and breadcrumbs and deep-fried called?
Goujons
2b Which 1987 film starring Daniel Day Lewis and Juliette Binoche is based on a novel by the Czech author Milan Kundera?
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
3a In "The Flintstones" what is the name of Fred and Wilma's daughter?
Pebbles
3b What prefix is used in the Sl system of measurements to denote a number to the power of 10 of 18?
Exa
4a Which breed of chicken is named after a Surrey market town?
Dorking
4b Which novelist and playwright also wrote articles of theatre and music criticism for the Pall Mall Gazette under the pen-name "Corno di Bassetto"?
George Bernard Shaw

Round 5
1a What is the official state nickname for the US State of Iowa?
Hawkeye State
1b What treaty created the Vatican state in 1929?
The Lateran Treaty
2a Ruth Jones played which character in the TV series "Gavin and Stacey"?
Nessa (accept Vanessa)
2b Which 1986 Rob Reiner film was based on the Stephen King story "The Body"?
Stand By Me
3a Which disease affecting trees is caused by the fungus "ceratocystis ulmi"?
Dutch Elm Disease
3b What prefix is used in the SI system of measurements to denote a number to the power of 10 of minus 18?
Atto
4a In the Second World War, which French location was central to Operation Dynamo?
Dunkirk
4b Which English writer produced, as well as novels and poems, collections of short stories including "Actions and Reactions" (1909), Debits and Credits" (1926) and "Limits and Renewals" (1932)?
Rudyard Kipling

Round 6
1a Who won the Best director Oscar award in 2007 for the film "Brokeback Mountain"?
Ang Lee
1b What is the official nickname of the US state of Michigan?
Wolverine
2a Which room in the game of Cluedo, comes first alphabetically?
Ballroom
2b In the television sitcom "Miranda", which comedic actress plays the lead character's sidekick, named Stevie?
Sarah Hadland
3a Paul Carrick and Paul Young were lead singers with which band, founded and partly named after the bass guitarist of Genesis?
Mike and the Mechanics
3b What is the English name for the tree whose botanical name is prunus spinosa, and whose fruit is the sloe?
Blackthorn
4a What is the county-town of the Northern Irish county of Fermanagh ?
Enniskillen
4b In the Second World War Operation Sea Lion was the aborted plan to invade which country?
UK (Great Britain)

Round 7
1a In the UK, in 1955, a woman named Barbara Mandell became the first female what?
TV newsreader
1b Who won the Best director Oscar award in 2007 for the film "No Country for Old Men"?
Ethan and Joel Coen
2a Which British Nationalist party was founded on 6th January 1951 and has Dick Cole as its current leader?
Mebyon Kernow (accept Cornish Nationalist)
2b Northumberland Avenue and Whitehall are two of the pink properties on a Monopoly board, what is the third?
Pall Mall
3a What object, when used in heraldry, is known as a "garb"?
Wheatsheaf
3b New Order singer/guitarist Bernard Sumner formed the band "Electronic" with which guitarist?
Johnny Marr
Juniper
4b What is the county town of County Londonderry, Northern Ireland?
Coleraine

Round 8
1a Which tennis player admitted to inadvertently failing a drugs test in 2016 by taking the recently banned drug meldonium?
Maria Sharapova
1b Bruce Parker and Angela Rippon were the first two presenters of which long-running BBCTV programme, originally broadcast in 1979 and now a feature of Sunday evening television?
The Antiques Road Show
2a The song "Luck, be a lady" comes from which musical, first staged in 1950, which has characters called Harry the Horse and Nathan Detroit?
Guys and Dolls
2b Which political party was formed in February 2005 following Robert Kilroy-Silk's split from UKIP. The party dissolved in 2015 merging with the English Democrats?
Veritas
3a Dao and Peninsula de Setubal are wine growing regions in which country?
Portugal
3b Used on a shield in heraldry, the "molet" and "estoile" are forms of what object?
Star
4a What is the home city of the street artist Banksy?
Bristol
4b The original or standard version of Malibu, consists of rum flavoured with what?
Coconut

Spare Questions
1 The Ford Cortina was replaced by which car model?
Sierra
2 Which is the only one of the 282 Munros in Scotland to be located on the Isle of Mull?
Ben More
3 In World War II, what was the allies code name for the Salerno landings?
Operation Avalanche
4 Which composer, born at Bergamo in 1797, wrote the music for the operas "Maria Stuarda", "Emilia di Liverpool" and "Anna Bolena"?
Gaetano Donizetti
5 What does a whirling psychrometer measure?
Atmospheric Humidity