Tuesday 23rd February 2016
Set by Dismounted (Northern)

Round 1
1a What was the code name of the World War II operation in which British children were evacuated from the cities to the countryside?
PIED PIPER
1b Which area of Haringey, North London shares its name with the cluster of stars also known as The Pleiades?
(THE) SEVEN SISTERS
2a Which British actor played the title role in the 2012 film The Amazing Spider-Man?
ANDREW GARFIELD
2b In which country would you find the ruined city of Machu Pichu?
PERU
3a Who created Verity, the statue of an outsized naked, pregnant woman, which caused controversy when it was unveiled at Ilfracombe in 2012?
DAMIEN HIRST
3b Sebastian Vettel won the Formula One championship four years running from 2010-2013 driving for which team?
RED BULL
4a What is the young of a grouse called?
POULT
4b Which composer wrote the tune to which Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star is sung?
MOZART

Round 2
1a Which Oceanside neighbourhood in New York shares its name with the UK resort at which nude bathing in the sea was first permitted?
BRIGHTON BEACH (accept simply “Brighton”)
1b Which poet wrote the lines: “Theirs is not to question why, Theirs is but to do and die”?
Alfred Lord TENNYSON (from The Charge of The Light Brigade)
2a Which capital city houses the headquarters of the African Union?
ADDIS ABABA
2b What is the alter-ego of the Marvel Comics super-hero Iron Man?
TONY STARK
3a Which car company makes a model called the Verso?
TOYOTA
3b What was the name of the pop-up exhibition organised by street artist Banksy in a disused lido at Weston-Super-Mare? It was open to the public for a short time in Autumn 2015.
DISMALAND
4a Benjamin Britten's last opera. Death in Venice, is based on a 1912 short story by which author?
THOMAS MANN
4b What is the young of a squirrel called ?
KITTEN

Round 3
1a Of what is vexillology the study?
FLAGS and/or PENNANTS
1b In which city did the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, known informally as The Earth Summit, take place in June 1992?
RIO DE JANEIRO
2a Marc Bolland has announced that he is to stand down as Chief Executive of which Major High Street Store?
MARKS AND SPENCER
2b What is the surname of the three brothers who were called up for England’s Rugby League World Cup Squad in 2013?
BURGESS (Sam, George & Tom)
3a What is the stage name of the English actor and comedian born in 1970 whose real name is Michael Pennington?
JOHNNY VEGAS
3b The oak furniture maker Robert Thompson included a carving of which animal on almost every piece he made from the 1920s until his death in 1955?
A MOUSE
4a Between 1903 and 1905 who composed the orchestral composition La Mer?
DEBUSSY
4b Rudolf Abel was exchanged by the Americans for the return of whom?
GARY POWERS

Round 4
1a In the 2003 film Love Actually, which actor plays the part of the pop star Billy Mack who is first seen recording the song Christmas is All Around?
BILL NIGHY
1b What is the name of the former Bolton Wanderers footballer who survived the cardiac arrest he suffered during an FA Cup tie (against Spurs) in March 2012?
FABRICE MUAMBA
2a Within one year either way, in what year were Concorde planes retired from service?
2003 (also accept 2002 & 2004)
2b Which novel first published in 1871 has the first line “Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress”?
MIDDLEMARCH
3a What name is given to the bone and cartilage in the nose that separates the nasal cavity into the two nostrils?
(The nasal) SEPTUM
3b What specifically was advertised with the slogan “Cool as a mountain stream”?
CONSULATE CIGARETTES
4a In 2008 who became the first British female jockey to ride one hundred winners in a calendar year?
HAYLEY TURNER
4b In house selling, when the abbreviation OIEO is used, for what does the “E” stand?
EXCESS (offers in excess of)

Round 5
1a Which 1981 honor comedy film directed by Jon Landis had a soundtrack which included the songs Moondance, Bad Moon
Rising and Blue Moon?
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON
1b What was the name of the former Russian spy who died in London in November 2006 of polonium poisoning?
Alexander LITVINENKO
2a Within one year either way, in what year did the Channel Tunnel first open for business to fee-paying passengers?
1994 (also accept 1993 or 1995)
2b Which 1953 novel begins with the line “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”?
THE GO-BETWEEN
3a What is the name of the leaf-shaped cartilage located behind the tongue whose main function is to seal off the windpipe during eating, so that food is not accidentally inhaled?
The EPIGLOTTIS
3b What was specifically advertised with the slogan “Keep your schoolgirl complexion”?
PALMOLIVE SOAP
4a Which jockey was runner up to A P McCoy on fifteen of the twenty occasions when the latter won the National Hunt Jockeys’ championship?
RICHARD JOHNSON
4b In dating adverts, when the abbreviation LTR is used, for what does the letter “R” stand?
RELATIONSHIP (long term relationship)

Round 6
1a Augustus Gloop, Violet Beauregarde, Veruca Salt and Mike Teavee are characters in which 1964 children’s novel?
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
1b In which decade was the 999 Emergency Calling system introduced in the United Kingdom?
1930’s (1937)
2a In which decade did Swiss engineer George de Mestral obtain a patent for Velcro?
1950s
2b In which 1963 children’s book does Barney meet a strange boy who wears a rabbit skin and speaks in grunts?
STIG OF THE DUMP
3a Who became the acting leader of the Labour Party following the sudden death of John Smith in 1994?
MARGARET BECKETT
3b Which mountain range stretches from Morocco, through Algeria and into Tunisia?
THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS
4a Roger Allam plays Detective Inspector Thursday in which TV series?
ENDEAVOUR
4b Who played Henry VIII in the TV Series Wolf Hall?
DAMIEN LEWIS

Round 7
1a What is the name for the dot on the lower case letters I and J?
A TITTLE
1b In which Country is the town of Schengen where the 1985 treaty was signed?
LUXEMBOURG
2a Since July 2011, who has been the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund?
CHRISTINE LAGARDE
2b What is the surname of the first two brothers to play alongside each other for England in a Rugby World Cup match?
UNDERWOOD (Rory & Tony)
3a What is the stage name of the entertainer born in Bradford in 1982 whose real name is Stephen Frayne?
DYNAMO
3b In art, what term is given to the technique where paint is mixed and bound with egg yolk?
TEMPERA
4a Which is the most populated city on the continent of Africa?
LAGOS
4b Amerigo Vespucci international airport serves which European city?
FLORENCE

Round 8
1a In which American state is Roswell, where it is claimed a U.F.O. crashed in 1947?
NEW MEXICO
1b Which US city began as a trading post on the Chisholm Trail in the 1860’s and is now the largest city in Kansas?
WICHITA
2a What is the name of the Maltese physician and psychologist who coined the term “Lateral Thinking” in the 1960s?
EDWARD DE BONO
2b What is the name of the prizes which are awarded annually at Harvard University whose stated aim is “to honor achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think”?
THE IG NOBEL PRIZES
3a What 1978 film about a handicapped Vietnam War veteran won best actor Oscars for co-stars Jon Voigt and Jane Fonda?
COMING HOME
3b Who won a best supporting actor Oscar for his performance as Little Bill Daggett in the 1992 film “Unforgiven”?
GENE HACKMAN
4a Which British privateer, buccaneer, and Admiral of the Fleet was knighted by Charles II and became deputy governor of Jamaica?
SIR HENRY MORGAN
4b Which gangster was shot and killed outside the Biograph Cinema in Chicago in 1934?
JOHN DILLINGER

Spare Questions
1 What name is given to the traditional type of folk song sung by Venetian gondoliers?
BARCAROLLE
2 In 2009 to what did the United Kingdom’s largest insurance company, Norwich Union, change its name?
AVIVA
3 Actress Dakota Johnson is the daughter of actor Don Johnson and which actress?
MELANIE GRIFFITH