Round 1
1a What is the state capital of Tennessee?
Nashville
1b What is the state capital of Maine?
Augusta
2a Which actress starred in the 1956 film ‘Bus Stop’ and the 1961 film ‘The Misfits’?
Marilyn Monroe
2b Which actress starred in the 1960’s films Two Women’ and ‘The Millionairess’?
Sophia Loren
3a What is the longest river entirely in France?
Loire
3b What is the longest river entirely in Italy?
Po
4a Give a common name for Potassium Nitrate.
Saltpetre of Nitre or Nitrate of Potash
4b Which gas is also known as Laughing Gas?
Nitrous Oxide

Round 2
1a What was the name of the minstrel in Robin Hood’s Gang?
Alan A Dale
1b In the 1950s ITV series who played the title role in ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’?
Richard Greene
2a Which park lies between Buckingham Palace and Piccadilly?
Green Park
2b Which Art Institution is located at Burlington House, off Piccadilly in London?
The Royal Academy
3a In which British city are there railway stations called Foregate Street and Shrub Hill?
Worcester
3b In which British city are there railway stations called Forster Square and Interchange?
Bradford
4a What type of creature is an onager?
(A wild) ass
4b 1 What type of creature is a merino?
(A breed of) sheep

Round 3
1a Which company manufactured the WW2 Aircraft the Spitfire?
Supermarine
1b Southampton stands at the confluence of two rivers; name either.
Test or Itchen
2a In Australia what is a brumby?
(A feral) horse
2b As sponsors-which supermarket’s name appears on the England test cricket shirt?
Waitrose
3a Name the Victorian police detective as featured on TV created by Peter Lovesey.
Sergeant Cribb
3b In which English city is Everards Brewery, the makers of Tiger and Beacon bitters?
Leicester
4a Which Aviva Premiership Rugby Union team relocated their home ground to Coventry in 2014?
Wasps
4b I Who wrote the 1984 novel 'The Wasp Factory’?
Iain Banks

Round 4
1a Who is the current Director General of the BBC?
(Baron) Tony Hall (of Birkenhead)
1b Which Birkenhead-built battleship was sunk by Japanese aircraft in 1941 in the South China Sea? HMS Prince of Wales
2a Best known as a TV presenter and author, who is also joint chief curator of Historic Royal Palaces charity?
Lucy Worsley
2b On which motorway are Tibshelf and Trowell service areas?
M1
3a Which Dorset brewery produces Fursty Ferret and Tanglefoot ales?
Hall and Woodhouse (accept Badger)
3b Who wrote the detective novels featuring Roderick Alleyn?
Ngaio Marsh
4a Which British city stands on the River Lagan?
Belfast
4b Which company produced the WW2 aircraft the Sunderland and Stirling?
Short Brothers

Round 5
1a Who was the first BBC TV newsreader, in July 1954?
Richard Baker
1b The 3 balls on a pawnbroke’s sign are derived from the crest of which Italian family?
Medici
2a What type of car - red with a white stripe - featured prominently in the 1970s TV series ‘Starsky and Hutch’?
A Ford (Gran) Torino
2b Who was the first and so far only woman to win a best director Oscar?
Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
3a Who was the second British golfer to be knighted?
Nick Faldo
3b Which 1987 film featured the line “He pulls a knife you pull a gun he sends one of yours to the hospital you send one of his to the morgue - that’s the Chicagoway”?
The Untouchables
4a What is footballer Emile Heskey’s unusual middle name?
Ivanhoe (also William)
4b The land of 10,000 lakes is one of the nicknames of which US state?
Minnesota

Round 6
1a In ancient Rome on what day of the month did the Calends occur?
First day
1b Which unit of the British Naval Service has the motto ‘By strength and guile’?
SBS (Special Boat Service)
2a What was the name of the notorious prison, owned by the Bishop of Winchester, in the Southwark area of London which operated from 1144 to 1780?
The Clink
2b Which of the senses does the word haptic refer?
Touch
3a Boosey and Hawkes of London are world renowned publishers of what type of material?
Music Scores
3b Which singer was bom Eleanora Fagan Gough in Philadelphia in 1915?
Billie Holliday
4a In which state is Sitka, the USA’s largest city by area?
Alaska
4b Aurelia Cotta was the mother of which famous general, statesman and author?
(Gaius) Julius Caesar

Round 7
1a To within 2 years either side when did the Queen officially open the Thames flood barrier?
1984 (accept 1982-1986)
1b A boast shot is a term used in which sport?
Squash
2a Which British racecourse is owned by the The Duke of Richmond ?
Goodwood
2b What type of creature was Amalthea, who protected and nurtured the abandoned young god Zeus?
Goat
3a Which well-known entrepreneur was born in South Africa in 1899 - became a bugle boy in the Canadian Army in WW1, before opening a static fairground in Skegness?
Billy Butlin
3b According to Geoffrey of Monmouth which castle, now owned by the Duchy of Cornwall was the birthplace of King Arthur?
Tintagel
4a Who is this English author (1908-1964)? His father was the MP for Henley. He worked for British Naval Intelligence during WW2 and was employed as a journalist for the Sunday Times until 1959.
Ian Fleming
4b What is the motto of the FBI?
Fidelity, Bravery, Intelligence

Round 8
1a Which rock group did Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan form in 1972?
Stealers Wheel
1b Which word, derived from two Greek words for ‘all’ and ‘armour’, means an impressive array or display?
Panoply
2a Which singer had a 1964 US No.1 hit single with the song ‘Hello Dolly’?
Louis Armstrong
2b What colour is the cross on the Danish flag?
White
3a Of what is coulrophobia the fear?
Clowns
3b ‘Dear Fatty’ is the 2008 autobiography of which comedy actress/comedienne?
Dawn French
4a Which football league team play their home games at the Wham Stadium?
Accrington Stanley
4b In which sea is Australia’s Great Barrier Reef located?
Coral Sea

Spare Questions
1 Which playwright wrote the 1955 play ‘A View from the Bridge’?
Arthur Miller
2 What is the capital city of Uzbekistan?
Tashkent
3 Name the dog in Three Men in a Boat.
Montmorency