Tuesday 5th December 2017
Set by Groundhogs (Liverpool)

Round 1
1a Which Lancashire team won their second of two FA Cups in 1938 when George Mutch scored the winning goal against Huddersfield Town in extra time?
Preston North End
1b Which 1966 album cover shows goats being fed by the performers at San Diego zoo?
Pet Sounds (by the Beach Boys)
2a Total Recall and Blade Runner were based on stories by which writer?
Philip K Dick
2b Name either of the people who became joint leaders of the Green Party in September 2016?
Jonathan Bartley and Caroline Lucas
3a Who has been portrayed on screen by, among others, Anna Neagle, Miriam Margolyes, Pauline Collins and Emily Blunt?
Queen Victoria (Victoria the Great, Blackadder, Doctor Who, The Young Victoria)
3b Urra Moor, at 454m, is the highest point of which British National Park?
North York Moors
4a In 2008 which animal was the first to be added to the Endangered Species list specifically because of climate change?
Polar Bear
4b Which English queen was so obese she was buried in a square coffin?
Queen Anne

Round 2
1a Which band’s 2007 album ‘In Rainbows’, was released as a download on a pay-what-you-want basis?
Radiohead
1b At the Australian Open in 2016, who became the first British female tennis player to reach a Grand Slam singles semi-final in 32 years?
Johanna Konta
2a Dilma Roussef was impeached in August 2016, of which country was she the President?
Brazil
2b Which English author wrote ‘The Doors of Perception’ in 1954? It is a philosophical essay which details his experiences when taking psychedelic drugs.
Aldous Huxley
3a What is the name of the second highest mountain in Scotland?
Ben Macdui
3b With a population of 1.75 million, what is the most populous European City that is NOT a capital?
Hamburg
4a Eleanor of Aquitaine’s second husband was Henry II. Who was her first?
Louis VII (of France)
4b Which bird can swim as fast as a seal?
Penguin

Round 3
1a The Zika virus is named after a forest in which African country?
Uganda
1b The attempt to assassinate Hitler in 1944 was known as Operation what?
Valkyrie
2a Which knighted 40 year old British Sportsman drove in the 2016 Le Mans 24 Hour Race?
Sir Chris Hoy
2b In 1922 Serge Koussevitzky commissioned whom to create what
Maurice Ravel
has become the most well-known orchestration of Mussorgsky's
piano suite, Pictures at an Exhibition?
3a “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” and “Women in Love” together with which colourful D.H. Lawrence novel were banned because of their sexual content?
The Rainbow
3b Who in 1977 was the first British President of the European Commission?
Roy Jenkins
4a Which 1952 film directed by Fred Zimmerman was based on the short story “The Tin Star” by John W. Cunningham?
High Noon
4b What is the world’s highest free standing mountain i.e. it is not part of a mountain range?
Kilimanjaro

Round 4
1a In which Kent seaside town were tunnels built in 1939 by engineer R.D. Brimmell to shelter the population from the Blitz? They had the capacity to shelter 60,000 people.
Ramsgate
1b Spread by water contaminated with animal urine, what name is given to the severest form of the disease Leptospirosis?
Weil’s Disease
2a Which 1996 stage musical is based on the opera La Bohème?
Rent
2b In the Rio Olympics which Englishman achieved the first gold medal in his sport since 1904?
Justin Rose (in golf)
3a Which electoral area was the first to declare in the 2016 UK European Union membership referendum, with 96% voting to remain?
Gibraltar
3b What is the secret identity of the fictional character Don Diego de la Vega?
Zorro
4a Which African country is the most populous landlocked country in the world?
Ethiopia (over 86 million)
4b Who hosted Radio 4’s News Quiz for 28 series over 9 years until June 2015?
Sandi Toksvig

Round 5
1a Which island group’s main islands are Sao Miguel, Pico, Terceira, Sao Jorge, Faial and Flores?
The Azores
1b Celebrating its 90th “birthday” in 2016, which Radio 3 weekly religious series is the world’s longest-running outside broadcast?
Choral Evensong
2a A double carbonate with calcium, which mineral is an important source of magnesium and is the origin of the name of a European mountain range?
Dolomite
2b In February 1965 Betty Shabazz became whose widow?
Malcom X
3a Which British man ran the fastest mile in the 1980’s?
Steve Cram
3b Which singer songwriter was born in Westmount, Montreal in 1934 and died in November 2016?
Leonard Cohen
4a ‘The Licorice Fields at Pontefract’ is a work by which poet?
Sir John Betjeman
4b Who was the eighth US president, the first to be born a US citizen and was in office at the time of the accession of Queen Victoria?
Martin Van Buren

Round 6
1a Which animated character’s reading material has included The Dogfather, Where Beagles Dare and Pup Fiction?
Gromit (Of Wallace and Gromit)
1b Which island, that is 30 miles long, lies between Islay and mainland Scotland?
Jura
2a In which British city would you visit the art gallery and museum called the Burrell Collection?
Glasgow
2b Soda-lime-silica is the most common form of what?
Glass
3a Who had 15 albums in the top 100 of the UK charts in January 2016?
David Bowie
3b In which sport does the ‘libero’ wear a different coloured jersey from their teammates?
Volleyball
4a Who was the 26th US president, a former state Governor of New York and was in office throughout the reign of King Edward VII?
Theodore Roosevelt
4b Who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2016?
Bob Dylan

Round 7
1a What are counted “Yan, tan, tether, mether...”?
Sheep (in Swaledale)
1b In which capital city is the only cricket test match ground in South America?
Georgetown (Guyana)
2a What name for a house of worship is derived from the Greek words for ‘meeting’ and ‘bring together’?
Synagogue
2b What name is given to the conical hills of Auvergne in France and also the small green lentils produced in the area?
Puy
3a The execution of which figure in 1554 is the subject of a large painting by Delaroche in the National Gallery?
Lady Jane Grey
3b Who produced a series of 5 paintings called ‘The Card Players’ between 1890 and 1895?
Paul Cézanne
4a The chinotto, a small bitter citrus fruit, is a major component of which Italian aperitif, introduced in 1860 and commonly drunk with soda?
Campari
4b What type of public house, now found across the UK, first appeared on the High Street in Herne, Kent in 2005?
Micropub

Round 8
1a Which brand of confectionary is named after a play by JM Barrie?
Quality Street
1b In mathematics, which 2 digit number is one more than a square number and one less than a cube number?
26
2a What are Atlas, Elephant, Demy, Crown, Post and Colombier?
Paper Sizes
2b Who was the ghost-writer of autobiographies by John Prescott, Wayne Rooney, Paul Gascoigne and Dwight Yorke?
Hunter Davies
3a The recess in the upper surface of a brick shares its name with which creature?
Frog
3b Who painted ‘Light of the World’ in 1853 and a replica of the painting 40 years later?
William Holman Hunt
4a Which Iraqi born architect was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, doing so in 2004?
Zaha Hadid
4b In which kind of shop might you be measured with a Brannock device?
Shoe Shop

Spare Questions
1 Who scored the fastest Premier League hat-trick in May 2015 in just 2 minutes 56 seconds?
Sadio Mane (for Southampton v Aston Villa)
2 The representatives of which sport and country wear the baggy green?
Australian cricket
3 Bamboozled, Quizzlestick, Goldrush and Numberwang are all what?
Quizzes in TV shows, accept Fictional quizzes(Friends, Adam and Joe, Only Fools and Horses, Mitchell and Webb)
4 Which political figure tweeted “Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest - and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure, it’s not your fault”?
Donald Trump
5 Which political figure said in a speech after the UK’s European Union membership referendum that the referendum had been won "without a bullet being fired"? This was just days after MP Jo Cox was shot.
Nigel Farage
6 Where in England was there a major rail crash in March 2001?
Selby
7 Aibohphobia is a fear of what?
Palindromes
8 What is singer Tom Jones’ real surname?
Woodward