Round 1
1a Who wrote the 1901 novel ''Kim"?
Rudyard Kipling
1b What colour is used colloquially to describe a person who is normal to the point of being bland?
Beige
2a Zagreb is the capital of which country?
Croatia
2b Which David Lean film is based upon a play of the same name by Harold Brighouse, starring Charles Laughton?
Hobson's Choice
3a Who starred in the TV sitcoms "Please Sir" and "My Wife Next Door"?
John Alderton
3b Who was the coach of the English cricket team that regained the Ashes in 2005?
Duncan Fletcher
4a Sharing its name with the founder of the Carthusian order of monks, which brand claimed to be the "patron saint of pipe smokers?
St Bruno
4b In Greek mythology who was the mother of Andromeda?
Cassiopeia

Round 2
1a The ancient area of Mesopotamia derives its name from the Greek, meaning what?
Between Rivers
1b Which confection, known as rahat lokum in its native language, was given a chocolate covered version by J S Fry and Sons in 1914?
Turkish Delight
2a In the computer abbreviation "HTML" for what does the letter "M" stand?
Mark Up
2b The darts player Eric Bristow is known by which nickname?
The Crafty Cockney
3a In the Old Testament which prophet preceded Elisha?
Elijah
3b Which mammal can come in two-toed and three-toed varieties?
Sloth
4a Which concept regarding the legality of detention has a name derived from the Latin for "you may have the body"?
Habeas Corpus
4b Burkino Faso gained independence from which country in 1960?
France

Round 3
1a From which country do buckwheat pancakes known as blinis come?
Russia
1b What sport is represented by the governing body 'IIHF'?
Ice Hockey
2a What was the nickname of the darts player Phil Taylor?
The Power
2b Which acid is also known as Vitamin C?
Ascorbic
3a Cuvier's, Grant's, Neumann's, Soemmerring's and Thomsen's are among the species of which member of the antelope family?
Gazelle
3b What is the name of the psychic in the Noel Coward play "Blithe Spirit"?
Madame Arcati
4a Angola gained independence from which country in 1975?
Portugal
4b The Seto Inland Sea lies within the archipelago of which island nation?
Japan

Round 4
1a Which biscuit, made by McVities, shares its name with a term for rubbing shoulders or drinking with somebody?
Hobnob
1b The mausoleum of Hallicarnassus, one of the seven wonders of theancient world, is situated near which modern city in Turkey?
Bodrum
2a Which David Lean film is based upon a play of the same name by Noel Coward whose title comes from a line in the poem "To a Skylark" by Percy Bysshe Shelley?
Blithe Spirit
2b In computing, audio and video equipment for what does the "D" in HDMI stand?
(High) Definition (Multimedia Interface)
3a Who captained England during the infamous "Bodyline” tour to Australia?
Douglas Jardine
3b Who in the Old Testament said "Speak Lord, for thy servant hears"?
Samuel
4a In Greek mythology who was the wife of Perseus?
Andromeda
4b What does the Latin term "in flagrante delicto" mean?
Caught in the Act

Round 5
1a Which Lib Dem politician became Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2010, but lasted only 17 days? He resigned following revelations about expenses claimed on a second home.
David Laws
1b What name is given to the tubes which connect the ovaries and uterus in mammals?
Fallopian Tubes
2a Which saint, when Grand Prince of Kiev, introduced Christianity to Russia?
St Vladimir
2b Which T.S. Eliot poem opens "April is the cruellest month"?
The Waste Land
3a What was the sequel to the film "The Pink Panther", released in 1964, which out-grossed its predecessor at the US box office?
A Shot in the Dark
3b Which long distance footpath running from Sedbttry to Prestatyn is 285 km (177 miles) in Wales and England?
Offa’s Dyke Path
4a Which scientist discovered alpha and beta particles?
Ernest Rutherford
4b Which actor played Colonel Ed Straker in the Gerry Anderson TV series "UFO", originally broadcast between 1970-72?
Ed Bishop

Round 6
1a Which English International footballer holds the record for the most consecutive appearances as a substitute, doing so 14 times?
Owen Hargreaves
1b Which sport is represented by the governing body 'FIS'?
Skiing
2a What word follows "crack", "goat" and "white" to give the name of three species of tree that can be found growing wild in the UK?
Willow
2b Aqua Regia is a mixture of Nitric and which other acid?
Hydrochloric Acid
3a Who was the sixth and last wife of Henry the Eighth?
Catherine Parr
3b Michael Frayn's play "Copenhagen" is based around a 1941 meeting in that city between Werner Heisenberg and which other physicist?
Niels Bohr
4a Which company, founded in 2009, provides an app-based taxi service that uses crowd-sourced drivers?
Uber
4b The Koro Sea lies within the archipelago of which island nation?
Fiji

Round 7
1a Who wrote the 1958 novel "Our Man in Havana"?
Graham Greene
1b Which Lib Dem politician served as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2012 to 2015?
Ed Davey
2a Tallinn is the capital of which country?
Estonia
2b Which communist newspaper was founded in 1912 and ceased publication in 1996?
Pravda
3a Who starred in the TV sitcoms "The Likely Lads" and "Dear Mother...Love Albert"?
Rodney Bewes
3b In July 2015, what was the name of the spacecraft that was the first to take close-up images of Pluto?
New Horizons
4a Which Reformation martyr, executed on Tower Hill in 1535, is regarded as the patron saint of statesmen and politicians?
Saint Thomas More
4b Who discovered the sub atomic particle, the neutron in 1932?
James Chadwick

Round 8
1a The Islets of Langerhans are found in which organ of the body?
Pancreas
1b Which English International footballer holds the record for the most consecutive appearances with 70?
Billy Wright
2a "Theirs is not to reason why. Theirs is but to do and die" is from which work by Alfred Lord Tennyson?
Charge of the Light Brigade
2b The sharinga tree, or in Latin hevea brasiliensis is more commonly known by what name, indicative of its major product?
The Rubber Tree
3a Which long distance footpath runs from Winchester to Eastbourne is 160 km (99 miles) long in England?
South Downs Way
3b What nickname was given to Richard Cromwell, due to his brevity of rule as Lord Protector of England?
Tumbledown Dick
4a Which actor played Commander John Koenig in the Gerry Anderson TV series "Space 1999", originally broadcast between 1975-77?
Martin Landau
4b Which former tennis player created a leisure firm that opened its first club in Heston in 1982?
David Lloyd

Spare Questions
1 The Newton is the SI unit of what?
Force
2 Which song provided Bryan Adams with a major UK hit single in 1991, coming from the film "Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves"?
(Everything I Do) I Do it For You
3 How would an American describe what we would call a "Pedestrian Crossing"?
Crosswalk
4 Which London thoroughfare connects Trafalgar Square and Buckingham Palace?
The Mall
5 RENFE is the name of the railway in which European country?
Spain