Monday 5th September 2016
Set by Ormskirk

Round 1
1a Who was the first foreign cricketer to play for Yorkshire?
SACHIN TENDULKAR
1b Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt have been integral members of which band since 1967?
STATUS QUO
2a Who created Coronation Street - he died in March?
TONY WARREN
2b In the book of Kings, what is the name of the priest who anoints Solomon?
ZADOK
3a Who is the Queen’s oldest grandchild?
PETER PHILLIPS
3b Who wrote “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”?
SIR ISAAC NEWTON
4a Who was Vice President to George W Bush?
RICHARD (DICK) CHANEY
4b What is the county town of Kerry in the Republic of Ireland?
TRALEE

Round 2
1a What is the main component (85% to 99%) of the alloy pewter?
TIN
1b Who wrote the 2012 novel Gone Girl?
GILLIAN FLYNN
2a The historic region of Mesopotamia forms the greater part of which modern-day country?
IRAQ
2b The Volga is the longest river in Europe. Into which sea does it flow?
CASPIAN SEA
3a Who was the only English monarch to be crowned King of France as well?
HENRY VI
3b In the USA, what can be identified by the computer system AFIS?
FINGERPRINTS
4a In the fashion industry, Christian Louboutin is famous for designing what?
SHOES
4b In the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Slartibartfast won an award for designing which country with “lovely crinkly edges”?
NORWAY

Round 3
1a In the 2015 series of Doctor Who, the Doctor abandoned his sonic screwdriver in favour of sonic what?
SUNGLASSES
1b Which is the second largest shark?
BASKING SHARK
2a In 2015, which team became the first ever to win 3 games in the Group stages of the Rugby Union World Cup and fail to qualify for the quarter finals?
JAPAN
2b Who wrote the operatic Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves?
VERDI
3a Which actor played Johnny Castle in Dirty Dancing and Sam Wheat in Ghost?
PATRICK SWAYZE
3b Which scientist (1635-1703) developed a spring scale and the law of elasticity that bears his name?
ROBERT HOOKE
4a Which club in the Football League Championship play at New York Stadium?
ROTHERHAM UNITED
4b Ace of Base, The Cardigans and Roxette are all bands from which country?
SWEDEN

Round 4
1a What event is the subject of the 1970 film Torn! Tora! Tora!?
ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR
2b Cotopaxi is a volcano in which country?
ECUADOR
2a To which family of birds does the kookaburra belong?
KINGFISHER
2b Who wrote a poem called Home Thoughts from Abroad?
ROBERT BROWNING
3a The nickname of which British athlete was The Jarrow Arrow?
STEVE CRAM
3b Which T V presenter for Granada in Manchester was a founder of Factory Records?
TONY WILSON
4a Which actor was known as ‘The Man in Black’ due to his role as narrator of the BBC radio horror series Appointment with Fear?
VALENTINE DYALL
4b Bulgur and Emmer are types of which cereal crop?
WHEAT

Round 5
1a In which country did the Battle of Tora Bora take place in 2001?
AFGHANISTAN
1b Snaefellsjokull is a volcano in which country?
ICELAND
2a To which family of birds does the lapwing belong?
PLOVER
2b Which word completes the title of a Robert Browning poem How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to ……..?
AIX
3a What was the nickname of German swimmer Michael Gross due to his especially long arms that gave him a total span of 2.13 metres?
THE ALBATROSS
3b What is the name of the punk poet born in 1949 who is known as the Bard of Salford?
JOHN COOPER CLARKE
4a Who plays Father Brown in the BBC 1 daytime drama series?
MARK WILLIAMS
4b Royal Gala and Pink Lady are varieties of which fruit?
APPLE

Round 6
1a What is the chemical symbol for antimony, much makes up a small part of pewter?
Sb
1b Who wrote the 2003 novel The Kite Runner?
KHALED HOSSEINI
2a In ancient times which sea was referred to as the Pontus Euxinus, or ‘Hospitable Sea’?
THE BLACK SEA
2b The Mackenzie is the longest river in Canada. Into which ocean does it flow?
ARCTIC
3a What was the name of the character played by Bruce Willis in the Die Hard series of films?
JOHN MCCLANE
3b In science, what quantity is defined as “mass per unit volume”?
DENSITY
4a Which club in the Football League Championship played at Elm Park from 1896 until 1998?
READING
4b ABBA had seven Number One singles in the U K in the 1970s. Which Wolverhampton/Walsall band were the second most successful with six?
SLADE

Round 7
1a In the 2015 Mission: Impossible film, which 2 words complete the title?
ROGUE NATION
1b Which is the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family?
ORCA (KILLER WHALE)
2a On 10/10/2015 which won club won the Super League Grand Final at Old Trafford, while England rugby union team were playing Uruguay at Manchester City?
LEEDS RHINOS
2b Who wrote the operatic Polovtsian Dances?
BORODIN
3a Elizabeth Woodville was married to which English King?
EDWARD IV
3b In France, what type of organisation is the BNP?
A BANK
4a Which fashion designer was born in Algeria in 1936?
YVES SAINT LAURENT
4b According to the Hitchhiker’s Guide, what is the most massively useful thing an inter-stellar hitchhiker can have?
A TOWEL

Round 8
1a Who is the only New Zealander to have won the Formula One Championship?
DENNY HULME
1b Alex Turner is the lead singer with which Sheffield band?
THE ARCTIC MONKEYS
2a In which TV crime drama broadcast between 1996 and 2007 did Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan play the lead characters?
DALZIEL AND PASCOE
2b In the Bible, to which tribe did Goliath belong?
PHILISTINES
3a Give either of the two other first names of Princess Charlotte of Cambridge.
ELIZABETH or DIANA
3b Who wrote ‘Four legs good, two legs bad’?
GEORGE ORWELL
4a Who was Vice President to John F Kennedy?
LYNDON B JOHNSON
4b In which Irish county can you find the Burren and the Cliffs of Moher?
CLARE

Spare Questions
1 Never Say Never Again is a Bond film based on which Ian Fleming novel, previously adapted as a film under that name?
THUNDERBALL
2 Who was the 2015 Time Person of the Year?
ANGELA MERKEL
3 What type of creature is a Goliath grouper?
FISH