Round 1
1a The Slough branch of paper merchants Wernham Hogg, was the setting for which television comedy?
The Office
1b Which variation of darts involves hitting the numbers of the board in ascending order?
Round the Clock (accept Round the Board)
2a What word can follow Hen, Marsh and Montague's, to give the names of three species of bird which may be seen in the UK?
Harrier
2b Adam Pontipee and his siblings, and the Reverend Elcott, are characters in which 1954 film, which features the song "Bless your beautiful hide"?
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
3a Who was the commander in chief of the United States Pacific Fleet, throughout the time it was engaged in the Second World War?
Chester W Nimitz
3b Which major Italian river flows through the cities of Florence and Pisa?
Arno
4a Which actress is the wife of Jeremy Irons?
Sinead Cusack
4b Which company devised the game app ''Farmville"?
Zynga

Round 2
1a Which card game uses a wooden peg board for scoring?
Cribbage
1b In the Bible who was the mother of King Solomon?
Bathsheba
2a "Make believe" and "Lovin' dat man" are songs from which Jerome Kern musical, filmed in 1951, which has characters called Gaylord Ravenal and Captain Andy Hawks?
Showboat
2b "The Man Who Had All the Luck" and "Incident at Vichy" are works by which playwright, who died in 2005?
Arthur Miller
3a The French city of Toulouse stands on the banks of which major river?
The Garonne
3b With which character, not his nickname, played by Clint Eastwood, would you associate the phrase "Go ahead make my day"?
Harry Callahan
4a By what name was the Action Man doll sold as in the USA?
GI Joe
4b The Giants baseball team and the 49er’s American football team are based in which city?
San Francisco

Round 3
1a According to the book of Genesis in the Holy Bible, Joseph was the son of Jacob by which of his wives?
Rachel
1b Richie Sambora has been the long time lead guitarist with which band?
Bon Jovi
2a "Flare Path", "The Deep Blue Sea” and "Bequest to the Nation" are among the works of which British playwright, who died in 1977?
Sir Terence Rattigan
2b In which American state is NASA's Kennedy Space Center?
Florida
3a Who played detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in the film The French Connection and its sequel?
Gene Hackman
3b The authors P.G. Wodehouse and C.S. Forester, and the politican Nigel Farage, are all "old boys" of which London public school?
Dulwich College
4a In which city is the only Canadian team to play Major League Baseball based?
Toronto
4b Give a year in the life of the Swedish botanist Carl von Linne also called Linnaeus, the founder of modern taxonomical botany.
1707 -1778

Round 4
1a Bon Scott was the original lead singer with which Australian rock band?
AC/DC
1b Name the two rival families in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet".
Montague and Capulet
2a Cornell University based in the town of Ithaca is in which US State?
New York
2b The wine properly known as "Egri Bikaver" comes from which country?
Hungary (it is Bulls Blood)
3a At which Surrey public school were the politician Nick Clegg, the poet Robert Graves and composer Ralph Vaughan Williams educated?
Charterhouse
3b What is the name of Demi Moore's daughter who was the 2015 champion of the US show "Dancing with the Stars’?
Rumer Willis
4a Give a year in the life of mathematician John Napier, the Edinburgh-born inventor of logarithms?
1550 -1617
4b Nelson Rockefeller served as Vice-President of the USA under which President?
Gerald Ford

Round 5
1a Who was the second wife of James II of England and VII of Scotland?
Mary of Modena
1b Name one of the two title characters in Shakespeare's play "Two Gentlemen of Verona".
Valentine and Proteus
2a Which car-manufacturer produces the Citigo and the Rapid models?
Skoda
2b From which country do Rain and Skyy vodka's come?
USA
3a Where in the human body can the aqueous humour be found?
Eye
3b What did Austria win for the first time in 48 years in May 2014?
The Eurovision Song Contest
4a Who is the teenage spy created by writer Anthony Horowitz?
Alex Rider
4b John Foster Dulles was Secretary of State under which US President?
Dwight D Eisenhower

Round 6
1a Which vegetable is known to the Americans as a zucchini?
Courgette
1b Which Scottish king was killed when a cannon exploded at the siege of Roxburgh Castle?
James II
2a In TV's "The Wombles", what was the name of the female character who did the cooking?
Madame Cholet
2b Which car-making company produces the Altea and Exeo models?
SEAT
3a What English name is given to the tree Larix Decidua, the only British conifer that wholly sheds its "leaves"or needles in the autumn?
The Larch
3b The gall bladder is attached to the underside of which organ of the human body?
Liver
4a Who was the Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, in Stalin's government from 1939 to 1949?
Vyacheslav Molotov
4b How is Alec Leamas known in the title of a 1963 John Le Carre novel?
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Round 7
1a What name is given, by railway enthusiasts in the UK and elsewhere, to steam locomotives with a 2-8-0 wheel arrangement?
Consolidation
1b Which lettuce is known as romaine in France and America?
Cos
2a Which mineral is the main ore of tin?
Cassiterite
2b In a children's television series which animated vampire was voiced by David Jason?
Count Duckula
3a Phyllis, Celia and Private Willis are characters in which Gilbert and Sullivan operetta?
lolanthe
3b Bearing red berries that can be made into a jelly that is good with lamb or game, what is the English name of the tree sorbus aucuparia?
Rowan (accept Mountain Ash)
4a Which English town was granted city status in 2012 to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth the Second?
Chelmsford
4b Who was the first elected President of Poland after the fall of communism?
Lech Walesa

Round 8
1a The TV sitcom "Blackadder II" was set in the reign of which monarch?
Elizabeth the First
1b Railway enthusiasts, both in the UK and USA, give what name to steam locomotives with a 2-6-2 wheel arrangement?
Prairie
2a What word can follow Tufted, Ruddy and Mandarin, to give the names of three species of bird which may be seen in the UK?
Duck
2b Calamine is principally an oxide of which metal?
Zinc
3a With over 6,000 tanks taking part, which is the world's largest tank battle to have taken place? It was fought in 1943.
Kursk
3b In which Gilbert and Sullivan operetta do Frederic, Mabel and Ruth feature as main characters?
The Pirates Of Penzance
4a Which English actress was formerly married to John Michel Jarre?
Charlotte Rampling
4b As part of the celebration of Queen Elizabeth the Second's Golden Jubilee in 2002, two towns in Northern Ireland were granted city status. Name either of them.
Lisburn or Newry

Spare Questions
1 Which organisation represents 24 leading UK universities which it claims are committed to the very best research as well as an outstanding teaching and learning experience?
The Russell Group
2 Stornoway is the largest town on which Scottish island?
Lewis
3 Whom did John Tyler succeed as US President upon his death in 1841?
William Henry Harrison
4 Music for the operas "L'incoronazione di Poppea", "L'Orfeo" and "II ritorno d'Ulisse in patria" was written by which composer, born at Cremona in 1567?
Claudio Monteverdi
5 In computing for what does the "H" stand for in the term "http"?
Hyper (Hyper text Transfer Protocol)