Round 1
1a Of which country is Tagalog one of the official languages?
The Philippines
1b Dulce Et Decorum Est was written by which British poet in 1917?
Wilfred Owen
2a Dave Gahan is the lead singer of which English band formed in 1980?
Depeche Mode
2b In which US state is Arlington National Cemetery?
Virginia
3a Winchester is the administrative centre of which English county?
Hampshire
3b Who is the current manager of Crystal Palace FC?
Alan Pardew
4a On a dartboard what number lies between 18 and 13?
Four
4b Which Australian golfer won the British Open in 1986 and 1993?
Greg Norman

Round 2
1a Sn is the symbol for which chemical element?
Tin
1b Which horse won the 2016 Grand National?
Rule the World
2a Which 1900 uprising was defeated by the Eight-Nation Alliance?
The Boxer Rebellion
2b Which book’s eponymous character taught at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls?
Miss Jean Brodie
3a The Major Oak is a feature of which English wooded area?
Sherwood Forest
3b Who was the only woman ruler of the Hapsburg dynasty?
Empress Marie Therese
4a What English national paper launched in February 2016 and folded in May 2016?
The New Day
4b What short-lived weekend newspaper was launched in 1989 and ceased publication a year later? The Sunday Correspondent

Round 3
1a The wryneck belongs to which family of birds?
Woodpecker (accept Jynx/Picidae)
1b In meteorology, the extent of cloud cover is measured by which units?
Oktas
2a According to Samuel Johnson who was “a very fine cat indeed”?
Hodge
2b At Cambridge University the Lucasian chair is a professorship in which subject?
Mathematics
3a During which Jewish festival are followers encouraged to feast, adopt fancy dress and become intoxicated?
Purim
3b In Judaism what is a "get’’?
(Writ of) Divorce
4a Which team won the FA Cup in season 1926-1927?
Cardiff City
4b Which Scottish club played in two FA Cup finals, losing both times to Blackburn Rovers?
Queens Park (1884 ,1885)

Round 4
1a To which country is the Komodo Dragon indigenous?
Indonesia
1b What was shrift, as in the phrase “short shrift”?
Penance (accept Absolution or Confession)
2a Who crowned Napoleon Emperor of France in 1804?
Himself
2b Which ruler crowned himself King of Kings in October 1967?
The Shah of Persia (accept Mohammad Reza Pahlavi)
3a Which live-action Disney film of 1963 features three pets, a Labrador, a Bull Terrier and a Siamese cat?
The Incredible Journey
3b Of what African country is Conakry the capital?
Guinea
4a What is the capital of Equatorial Guinea?
Malabo
4b A division of the British Army - for what do the initials QARANC stand?
Queen Alexandra’s Royal Nursing Corps

Round 5
1a Sb is the symbol for which chemical element?
Antimony
1b Which horse won the 2016 Epsom Derby?
Harzand
2a In which UK institution would you find the content and not content lobbies?
House of Lords
2b In which English city is Paragon Interchange Station?
Hull
3a Of which poet is there a statue in Paragon station Hull?
Philip Larkin
3b Which disputed state has the acronym TRNC?
Turkish Republic of North Cyprus
4a Which US whistleblower was appointed rector of Glasgow University in 2014?
Edward Snowden
4b Spycatcher was which MI5 officer’s 1987 autobiography?
Peter Wright

Round 6
1a What name is given to the branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of blood and blood-forming tissues?
Haematology
1b What body of water lies between mainland Australia and Tasmania?
Bass Strait
2a What fruit is used to make the brandy slivovitz?
Plums
2b The obsolete English unit of length known as the ell was roughly equivalent to how many inches?
Forty-five (a yard and a quarter)
3a What was the name of Henry I’s son who drowned in the White Ship disaster in the English Channel in 1120?
William (Adelin or Aethling)
3b What was the name of the comic persona with an enormous round head created by musician and comedian Chris Seivey?
Frank Sidebottom
4a Gabriela and Monica Irimia make up which pop duo?
Cheeky Girls
4b What rank did Elvis Presley have on his honourable discharge from the US army in 1960?
Sergeant

Round 7
1a Which comedian and Radio DJ was born Maurice James Christopher Cole in Liverpool in 1944?
Kenny Everett
1b Name one of the four US states whose borders meet at the Four Corners Monument.
Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico or Utah
2a Who was the original bass player/keyboardist with the group Led Zeppelin?
John Paul Jones (real name John Baldwin)
2b What is held in place by a Kirby grip?
Hair
3a A solution of sodium hypochlorite in water is the most common ingredient of which household item?
Bleach
3b Derived from an Arabic word, what is the common name for hydrated magnesium silicate?
Talc
4a The Mendel-Mantoux test screens for what disease?
Tuberculosis (TB)
4b The holder of which political office has the subsidiary title ‘Master of the Mint’?
Chancellor of the Exchequer

Round 8
1a In the poem in ‘Through the looking glass’, what sea creatures are eaten by the walrus and the carpenter?
Oysters
1b Which 1938 Alfred Hitchcock film concerns the disappearance of Miss Froy?
The Lady Vanishes
2a Which former Deputy Prime Minister/Secretary of State for the Environment received the Freedom of the City of Liverpool in 2012?
Michael Heseltine
2b Which UK comic that first appeared in 1938, featured the characters Dennis the Menace and Minnie the Minx?
Beano
3a Deriving its name from a Spanish word for ‘a stick’, what method of capital punishment was last used in Spain in 1974?
Garrotting
3b Which German goalkeeper was FWA Footballer of the Year in 1956?
Bert Trautmann
4a What building on Piccadilly is home to the Royal Academy?
Burlington House
4b In 2012, the trophy awarded to the winner of the PDC World Darts Championship was renamed in honour of which commentator?
Sid Waddell

Spare Questions
1 In the Looney Tunes series of cartoons who is the adversary and nemesis of Wile E Coyote?
Road Runner
2 What is the capital of the German state of Lower Saxony?
Hanover
3 Which actor/politician was born in Styria, Austria on 30.07.1947?
Arnold Schwarzenegger