Tuesday 8th March 2016
Set by Northern

Round 1
1a Which American General later President won the Battle of Horseshoe Bend?
ANDREW JACKSON
1b Who pained the Grand Canal Venice and Moonlight at Millbank?
J.M.W.TURNER
2a Which actress played a woman whose timeline gets split into parallel paths in the 1998 film Sliding Doors?
GWYNETH PALTROW
2b Popinjay is a former name for what type of creature?
PARROT
3a What is the capital of Somalia?
MOGADISHU
3b What is the title of the annual community gardening competition held since 1964 and run by the RHS since 2002?
BRITIAN IN BLOOM
4a Who is the leader of the Liberal Democrats?
TIM FARRON
4b The BBC documentary “Out Of Their League” details 5 former Manchester United players first seasons as owners of which non-league club?
SALFORD CITY FC

Round 2
1a Which was the first year the World Cup was televised in colour?
1970 (Brazil v Italy)
1b Who is the only member of Winston Churchill’s Government (a Parliamentary Secretary of Agriculture) who is still alive (95 years)?
LORD CARRINGTON
2a Lady Helen Taylor is the daughter of which Royal Duke?
DUKE OF KENT
2b Which 1989 Andrew Lloyd Weber musical is based on a 1955 novella by David Garnett?
ASPECTS OF LOVE
3a In what year did man last walk on the Moon?
1972
3b Which English Monarch was born in 1367?
HENRY 4th
4a What is the more popular name for the plant impatiens?
BUSY LIZZIE
4b In which English county is Bletchley Park?
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

Round 3
1a What was the name of the group fronted by Lionel Riche before he went solo in 1981?
THE COMMODORES
1b What is the name of P & O’s new cruise ship launched in 2015 which is the largest in their fleet?
BRITANNIA
2a In 2015 which London museum rejected the Thatcher family’s offer to display memorabilia belonging to the former Prime Minister?
THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT
2b Which mythical Titan shares his name with the first cervical vertebrae in humans?
ATLAS
3a Mace is made from the dried outer covering of which seed, which itself is used as a spice?
NUTMEG
3b Which actor played the part of Ross Poldark in the BBC’s mid 1970’s television series?
ROBIN ELLIS
4a Give a year in the life of Franz Joseph Haydn.
1732 - 1809
4b What is the name of the Edinburgh Detective created by Ian Rankin?
JOHN REBUS

Round 4
1a From which counry did Cameroon gain independence in 1960?
FRANCE
1b In which body of water are the Mascarene Islands?
INDIAN OCEAN
2a Daphne Du Maurier’s 1941 novel Frenchman’s Creek is set during the reign of which English Monarch?
CHARLES 2nd
2b In which US City is William B. Hartsfield Airport?
ATLANTA
3a Who was the Greek Queen of the Gods?
HERA
3b What was the name of David Bowie’s final album released two days before his death?
BLACKSTAR
4a At the 2016 Oscars which film won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature?
INSIDE OUT
4b The first V.C.’s of the First World War were awarded for actions at which 1914 battle?
MONS

Round 5
1a Which future President of the USA took part in the Battle of San Juan Hill (also known as the Battle of San Juan Heights)
THEORDORE ROOSEVELT
1b Who painted Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, and a Bigger Splash?
DAVID HOCKNEY
2a Which actress played the title role in the 1976 film Carrie?
SISSY SPACEK
2b Where does an arboreal creature live?
IN TREES
3a What is the capital of Liechtenstein?
VADUZ
3b What is the symbol of the British Standards Institution?
KITEMARK
4a Who is the Shadow Secretary for Defence?
EMILY THORNBERRY
4b In which city will the 2017 World Athletics Championships take place?
LONDON

Round 6
1a Which major UK sporting event was broadcast live on television for the first time in 1960?
THE GRAND NATIONAL
1b Which South African politician is the only person to sign both peace treaties for the 1st and 2nd World Wars?
JAN SMUTS
2a Who is the first female in the line of succession to the British Throne?
PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF CAMBRIDGE
2b Which English actor/singer played the role of P.T. Barnum in the musical Barnum when it opened on Broadway in 1980?
JIM DALE
3a In which year did Louis Bleriot become the fist man to cross the English Channel in an heavier than air craft?
1909
3b Which English king was born in 1683?
GEORGE 2nd
4a What is the pollen producing organ of a flower?
STAMEN
4b In which English county was RAF Greenham Common, famous for its peace camp which was closed down in 1993?
BERKSHIRE

Round 7
1a With which British band did singer/keyboardist Damon Albarn first come to prominence in the late 1980’s?
BLUR
1b The three largest cruise ships in the world are own by which cruise line?
ROYAL CARIBBEAN (INTERNATIONA)
2a Shirley Temple served as US Ambassador to which African country from 1974 – 1976?
GHANA
2b What type of creature is the Simurgh from Persian mythology?
BIRD
3a A brick laid lengthways in wall construction is called a stretcher, what is a brick laid crossways called?
A HEADER
3b Which actor played Pierre in the 1970’s TV series of War and Peace?
ANTHONY HOPKINS
4a Give a year in the life of George Frederick Handel?
1685 - 1759
4b What was the name of the detective created by Ruth Rendell who lived in Kingsmarkham?
WEXFORD

Round 8
1a From which country did Angola gain independence in 1975?
PORTUGAL
1b After Brazil which is the largest coffee producing country in the world ?
VIETNAM
2a Which 1847 book tells the story of the four orphaned Beverley children who are saved by gamekeeper Jacob Armitage?
CHILDREN OF THE NEW FOREST
2b In which European city is Marco Polo Airport?
VENICE
3a Who is the Roman God of the underworld?
PLUTO
3b Jonny and Colin Greenwood are members of which alternative rock band?
RADIOHEAD
4a At the 2016 Oscars a film about which singer won the Oscar for best documentary?
AMY WHITEHOUSE
4b At which Battle of 1812 did the British and allied forces under Wellington defeat a French Army led by Marmont?
SALAMANCA

Spare Questions
1 The Missouri Breaks National Monument is in which US State?
MONTANA
2 In Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf what animal does the clarinet represent?
THE CAT
3 From which country does Fynbo cheese come?
DENMARK