Tuesday 6th September 2016
Set by Ormskirk

Round 1
1a Spencer Compton in 1743 was the first British Prime Minister to die in office. He was usually known as the First Earl of _______ (where)?
WILMINGTON
1b Astana is the capital of which Asian country?
KAZAKHSTAN
2a Which novel by Michael Ondaatje shared the Booker Prize in 1992 and was made into a film starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliet Binoche in 1996?
THE ENGLISH PATIENT
2b Who painted Ballet Rehearsal in 1873?
EDGAR DEGAS
3a Which all female group’s members included Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding and Kimberley Walsh?
GIRLS ALOUD
3b For which film of 1989 did Daniel Day-Lewis win the first of his 3 Oscars for Best Actor?
MY LEFT FOOT
4a Who scored the only goal in the 2011 FA Cup Final for Manchester City v Stoke City?
YAYA TOURÉ
4b Which gas has the chemical formula NH3?
AMMONIA

Round 2
1a Three men were Chancellor of the Exchequer during Margaret Thatcher’s time as Prime Minister; Geoffrey Howe, Nigel Lawson and who else?
JOHN MAJOR
1b Who in 1930 became the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia?
AMY JOHNSON
2a Kreka and Ildico were the wives of which 5th century ruler?
ATTILA THE HUN
2b What is the name of the twin towers, over 450 metres and 88 storeys high, in Kuala Lumpur?
THE PETRONAS TOWERS
3a Which 1954 play by Terence Rattigan was made into a film in 1958 starring David Niven, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr and Rita Hayworth?
SEPARATE TABLES
3b Princess Aurora and Prince Désiré appear in which ballet?
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
4a Which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is based on a 1950 Billy Wilder film starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson?
SUNSET BOULEVARD
4b Which US TV series which ran from 1982 to 1993 starred Ted Danson and Shelley Long, and later Kirstie Alley?
CHEERS

Round 3
1a Which Premier League Football Club plays home matches at the Liberty Stadium?
SWANSEA CITY
1b Which professional dancer partnered Natasha Kaplinsky to win the first series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2004?
BRENDAN COLE
2a Jamie Oliver’s first job was as a pastry chef at which Italian chef’s Neal Street restaurant in Covent Garden?
ANTONIO CARLUCCIO
2b Eleanor of Provence was the mother of which King of England?
EDWARD I
3a Which rugby union player has scored most points in a career in Six Nations matches with 557?
RONAN O’GARA
3b Which father and son won the Somerset Maugham Award, given by the Society of Authors for the best writer(s) of a book published in the past year who is under the age of 35, in 1955 and 1974 respectively?
(KINGSLEY AND MARTIN) AMIS
4a “Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” is a line from which sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley?
OZYMANDIAS
4b Which Belfast born singer, whose first wife was Millicent Martin, died in April 2015 aged 80? He was the only person to have represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest in consecutive years, namely 1962 and 1963.
RONNIE CARROLL

Round 4
1a The Duke of Mantua and Gilda, the daughter of the title character, are characters in which opera by Giuseppe Verdi?
RIGOLETTO
1b Gladys Knight sang the title song for which James Bond film?
LICENCE TO KILL
2a Which novel by Alice Walker won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 and was made into a film in 1985, its stars including Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg?
THE COLOR PURPLE
2b The orange giant Hamal is the largest and most visible star in which constellation?
ARIES
3a Kwame Nkrumah was the first Prime Minister of which African country that gained independence in 1957?
GHANA
3b What Makes You Beautiful and Little Things were UK number 1 hits for which boy band in 2011 and 2012 respectively?
ONE DIRECTION
4a Which Moroccan athlete has held the Men’s 1 mile world record since 1999 and the 1500 metres world record since 1998?
HICHAM EL GUERROUJ
4b Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland, is the Member of the Scottish Parliament for a constituency in which city?
GLASGOW

Round 5
1a Who was the British Prime Minister who died in office in 1827 only 4 months into his term of office?
GEORGE CANNING
1b Sarajevo is the capital of which European country?
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
2a Which novel by Kazuo Ishiguro won the Booker Prize in 1989 and was made into a film in 1993 starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson?
THE REMAINS OF THE DAY
2b The Astronomer, painted in 1668, and The Geographer, painted in 1669, were both by which Dutch artist?
JOHANNES VERMEER
3a Michael Peter Balzary, bass guitarist in the Red Hot Chili Peppers, is better known by which stage name?
FLEA
3b Glenda Jackson won an Oscar for Best Actress in which 1973 film, which co-starred George Segal?
A TOUCH OF CLASS
4a Who scored the only goal in the 2000 FA Cup final for Chelsea against Aston Villa?
ROBERTO DI MATTEO
4b Also called prussic acid which gas has the chemical formula HCN?
HYDROGEN CYANIDE

Round 6
1a Three men were Chancellor of the Exchequer during Harold Wilson’s time as Prime Minister; James Callaghan, Roy Jenkins and who else?
DENIS HEALEY
1b What is the name of the airfield where Charles Lindbergh landed after his transatlantic flight in 1927?
LE BOURGET
2a Lucrezia Borgia was the daughter of which Pope?
ALEXANDER (VI)
2b The 423 metres high Trump International Hotel and Tower is in which American city?
CHICAGO
3a Which Terence Rattigan play was made into a film in 1948 starring Robert Donat as the famous barrister Sir Robert Morton?
THE WINSLOW BOY
3b Who composed the music for the ballet Petrushka?
IGOR STRAVINSKY
4a Which Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is based on a 1961 film, produced by Richard Attenborough, starring Alan Bates and Hayley Mills?
WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND
4b Who played the part of Hawkeye Pierce in the US TV series M*A*S*H, based on the books by Richard Hooker?
ALAN ALDA

Round 7
1a The Bet365 Gold Cup, originally called the Whitbread Gold Cup, takes place on which racecourse?
SANDOWN PARK
1b Who was the gymnast who won Strictly Come Dancing, partnered by Flavia Cacace, in 2012?
LOUIS SMITH
2a Who presented Saturday Kitchen on BBC from 2006 to 2016?
JAMES MARTIN
2b Which King of England was the son of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster?
HENRY IV
3a Which rugby union player has scored most tries in a career in Six Nations matches with 26?
BRIAN O’DRISCOLL
3b Which man was the second winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1948 and the first winner of the Booker Prize in 1969?
P H NEWBY
4a Which poem by John Masefield begins “I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky”?
SEA FEVER
4b Which duo scored 0 points for the UK in the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest?
JEMINI

Round 8
1a The poet Rodolfo and the seamstress Mimi are characters in which opera by Giacomo Puccini?
LA BOHÈME
1b The song Up Where We Belong was featured in which 1982 film?
AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN
2a Which 1989 film starring Kevin Costner was based on the novel Shoeless Joe by W P Kinsella?
FIELD OF DREAMS
2b Which star constellation consists of 5 bright stars in a W shape?
CASSIOPEIA
3a Habib Bourgiba became the first president of which African country in 1957?
TUNISIA
3b Which group had UK number 1 singles with Beat Again and Everybody In Love in 2009?
JLS
4a Who holds the Men’s 400 metres world record set in 1999?
MICHAEL JOHNSON
4b Who is the SNP Parliamentary Group Leader in the House of Commons and MP for Moray?
ANGUS ROBERTSON

Spare Questions
1 Detective Harry Bosch is a creation of which crime novelist?
MICHAEL CONNELLY
2 Which was the last film in which Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers appeared together?
THE BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY
3 Which river flows through Rochdale?
ROCH