Round 1
1a What word can follow Corn, Reed and Snow to give the names of three species of bird that can been seen in the UK?
Bunting
1b In which book of the Old Testament does David slay Goliath?
Samuel
2a Turf Moor is the home of which football team?
Burnley
2b Whose first full episode playing the Doctor in Doctor Who was on Christmas Day 2005?
David Tennant
3a Which type of pasta is a ridged tube, cut diagonally at both ends?
Penne
3b The only female Chinese emperor, Wu Zhou, who ruled from 690 to 705 AD, was a member of which Chinese dynasty?
Tang
4a Who is the lead vocalist with the Arctic Monkeys?
Alex Turner
4b If Odin was the leader of the Norse pantheon of gods, then Tane is the leader of which pantheon of gods?
Maori

Round 2
1a In which book of the Old Testament are the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed?
Genesis
1b Which chemical element has the atomic number 8?
Oxygen
2a Who holds the record of appearing in the most episodes of Doctor Who, as a companion, playing Scottish Piper Jamie McCrimmon?
Frazier Hines
2b Which alcoholic beverage is mixed with lemonade to make a snowball cocktail?
Advocaat
3a Give a year in which the Ming dynasty ruled China?
1368-1644
3b Who wrote the 1993 novel "Birdsong" set during the First World War?
Sebastian Faulks
4a If Zeus was the leader of the Greek pantheon of gods, then Hunab Ku is the leader of which pantheon of gods?
Mayan
4b Which writings were found in the remains of the ancient settlement of Qumran in 1947? .
The Dead Sea Scrolls

Round 3
1a Which chemical element has the atomic number 6?
Carbon
1b Who produced and co-wrote "Allo Allo" and "Are you being Served" with Jeremy Lloyd?
David Croft
2a What flavour is the German liqueur kirsch?
Cherry
2b Which Roman general, who was born in 157 BC, and served seven times as Consul, fought a disastrous civil war against a rival general, Sulla?
Marius
3a Which 1999 Joanne Harris novel is set in the French village of Lasquent-sous-Tannes?
Chocolat
3b In Greek myth, what was the name of the Greek hero, born to Danae after being impregnated by Zeus, after he transformed himself into a shower of gold?
Perseus
4a Which religion was founded by Joseph Smith?
Mormon(ism) (accept Church of Jesus Christ of latter Day Saints)
4b What is the coloured area of an eye around a pupil called?
Iris

Round 4
1a Which 1990's sitcom starring Graham Crowden and Stephanie Cole is set in a retirement home?
Waiting for God
1b Who won the Best Actress, Academy Award for her role in "Still Alice" at the 2015 ceremony?
Julianne Moore
2a In 63 BC, during the consulship of Cicero, which Roman nobleman and would-be politician led an unsuccessful conspiracy to overthrow the senate?
Catilina (accept Catiline)
2b Who wrote the children's book "The Phoenix and the Carpet"?
E.Nesbit
3a In Greek myth who stole the Golden Apples from a group of nymphs known as the Hesperides?
Hercules
3b Which British Prime Minister resigned shortly after the Suez Crisis?
Sir Anthony Eden
4a How many bones are there in the human arm, not including the wrist or hands?
Three
4b Which Swedish tennis player was known as "The Iceberg", due to his demeanour on court?
Bjorn Borg

Round 5
1a Which 4807 metre high peak is the highest mountain in the Alps?
Mont Blanc
1b At the 1965 Academy Awards, which Englishwoman won the Best Actress Oscar for her part in the film "Darling”?
Julie Christie
2a Who wrote the 1934 musical "Anything Goes", which includes the songs "You're the Top" and "I Get a Kick Out of You"?
Cole Porter
2b Who is the author of the "Twilight" series of vampire novels?
Stephanie Meyer
3a Which planet in the solar system has the moons lo, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto amongst others?
Jupiter
3b The Labour MP for Carmarthen from 1957, and her brother, Conservative Home Secretary 1954-57, were children of which British Prime Minister?
David Lloyd George
4a Which British composer, who was knighted in 1993, won an Oscar for his film score "Bridge on the River Kwai"?
Sir Malcolm Arnold
4b In which year was tennis's Davis Cup inaugurated?
1900

Round 6
1a What one-word pseudonym did Charles Dickens use in the 1830's?
Boz
1b Which 3718 metre high peak is the highest in the country of Spain?
Mount Tiede
2a Which vegetable, with varieties called "Snow Crown", "Graffiti" and "Bishop", has the botanical name Brassica oleracea?
The Cauliflower
2b Which musician, singer and actor wrote the unsuccessful Broadway musical "The Last Ship"?
Sting (Gordon Sumner)
3a In 1975, which horse became the last to win the Aintree Grand National having previously won the Cheltenham Gold Cup?
L'Escargot
3b Mimas, Tethys, Dione and Rhea are four of the sixty-two known moons that orbit which of our solar system's planets?
Saturn
4a Which other National Trail joins the Pennine Way near Greenhead?
Hadrian's Wall
4b The Cole Porter song "Who wants to be a Millionaire" was written for which 1956 film?
High Society

Round 7
1a What name was given to the three female backing vocalists of Bob Marley and the Wailers?
The Royal Family
1b Isak Dinesen was the pen-named used, for writing books such as "Out of Africa" by which author?
Karen Blixen
2a Two Anglican cathedrals are located in Kent, one is in Canterbury. Where is the other?
Rochester
2b The seed from the plant pisum sativum forms which vegetable?
Pea
3a Who painted several nocturnes of Victorian London, starting with "Chelsea" in 1871?
James Abbot McNeil Whistler
3b Which horse in 1970 was the last to date to win the Triple Crown of 2,000 Guineas, Derby and St Leger?
Nijinsky
4a In which year were British women over 30 years old granted the right to vote?
1918
4b In which UK National Park would you find "Crinkle Crags"?
Lake District

Round 8
1a What word follows "Bank", "Reed" and "Water" to give the name of three species of British mammal?
Vole
1b The Rod Stewart hit "Sailing" was a cover of whose 1972 song?
Sutherland Brothers
2a Which Football League club's home ground is called "The Valley"?
Charlton Athletic
2b The fourth most senior person in the Church of England is the holder of which office?
Bishop of Durham
3a In Italian cooking, what name is given to a folded-over pizza?
Calzone
3b Which artist was given his own studio in Petworth House, West Sussex, by the Earl of Egremont, and produced a number of paintings of the Petworth estate?
J.M.W Turner
4a Who is the lead vocalist with the Kaiser Chiefs?
Ricky Wilson
4b In which year was there a referendum on Britain staying in the EEC and the Vietnam War came to an end?
1975

Spare Questions
1 Who played the title character in the 1998 film "Shakespeare in Love"?
Joseph Fiennes
2 Who wrote "South" the story of his ill-fated Antartic expedition?
Ernest Shackleton
3 The Ernest Hemingway novel "A Farewell to Arms" is set during which war?
First World War
4 What would you do with an ocarina?
Play it (it's a musical instrument)
5 Who wrote "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" published in 1859?
Charles Darwin