Round 1
1a In mathematics, which function is denoted by an exclamation mark?
Factorial
1b With 125 caps who is England's most capped male footballer?
Peter Shilton
2a In which city was the fashion chain "Topshop" founded as "Peter Robinson" in 1964?
Sheffield
2b Which grape variety is the principal one used in the production of Chablis?
Chardonnay
3a Burundi and which other country gained independence from Belgium in 1962?
Rwanda
3b Who wrote the novel "Eyeless in Gaza” which took its title from a phrase in the John Milton work "Samson Agonistes"?
Aldous Huxley
4a Which MP represents the constituency of Islington North?
Jeremy Corbyn
4b Who succeeded Moses as the leader of the Israelites?
Joshua

Round 2
1a There are three snakes native to Britain - smooth snake and grass snake are two, what is the third?
Adder
1b Mark Rutte is the current Prime Minister of which European country?
Netherlands
2a Which drug, the main oral anticoagulant used in the UK, was originally developed as rat poison?
Warfarin
2b How many points does the third-place car score in a Formula One Grand Prix?
15
3a The Ford Sierra was replaced by which car model?
Mondeo
3b Which Italian dessert is made from egg yolks, sugar and marsala?
Zabaglione
4a Which British Prime Minister was the MP for Northampton and is the only British Prime Minister to have been assassinated?
Spencer Percival
4b "Come On" was the first single released by which group in June 1963?
Rolling Stones

Round 3
1a Who broke Ruud Van Nistelroy's record for goals in consecutive Premier League matches?
Jamie Vardy
1b John McEnroe was the host of which TV quiz show, both in the UK and the USA?
The Chair
2a What alcoholic drink is distilled from the agave plant?
Tequila
2b Mount Como is the highest mountain in which mountain system?
Apennines
3a Clement Yeobrite and Eusticia Vye are characters in the novel "The Return of the Native" by which author?
Thomas Hardy
3b Dwight D Eisenhower defeated which Democratic candidate in the US Presidential elections of 1952 and 1956?
Adlai Stevenson
4a in the Old Testament, which patriarch was the first person to be referred to as a Hebrew?
Abraham
4b The darts player John Part is known by which nickname?
Darth Maple

Round 4
1a What is the name of the far-left party that won the 2015 Greek election on an anti-austerity ticket?
Syriza
1b Who developed calculus at the same time as Isaac Newton?
Gottlieb Leibniz
2a Sebastian Loeb is an eight-time world champion in which motor sport?
Rallying
2b What was the name of fashion designer Mary Quant's first boutique opened on the King's Road in Chelsea in 1955?
Bazaar
3a Which pasta sauce is made from eggs, bacon and cheese?
Carbonara
3b Which country gained independence from France and the United Kingdom in 1960?
Cameroon
4a Which group had a Number One hit in the UK in 1962 with "Telstar"?
The Tornados
4b MP for Brighton Pavilion, who is the Green Party's only Member of Parliament?
Caroline Lucas

Round 5
1a Lutzen and the first battle of Nordlingen were battles in which war?
Thirty Years War
1b In which county of England are the henges of "Stonehenge" and "Avebury"?
Wiltshire
2a The oldest scriptures of which religion are written in the Pali language?
Buddhism
2b Which type of seaweed is also known as popweed, due to the noise made by its air-filled sacs when they burst?
Bladderwrack
3a With what organisation did Col Ed Straker work for in the Gerry Anderson TV series "UFO”, originally broadcast between 1970-72?
SHADO
3b Which scientist discovered the electron in 1897?
J J Thomson
4a The Yellowstone National Park's huge expanse falls partly in three US states - Montana and Wyoming are two, what is the third?
Idaho
4b Which David Lean film, based upon a novel by Pierre Boulle, won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director?
The Bridge on the River Kwai

Round 6
1a Who portrays the character Mary Magdalene, in the film version of the musical "Jesus Christ Superstar"?
Yvonne Elliman
1b Robert Kilroy-Silk was the host of which TV quiz show, rated the worst of all-time?
Shafted
2a Which British modernist writer and literary society intellectual, who died in 1941, had a posthumously-published collection of autobiographical essays entitled "Moments Of Being"?
Virginia Woolf
2b Puy de Sancy is the highest point in which mountainous plateau?
Massif Central
3a To which place was Saul of Tarsus travelling to persecute Christians when he was struck blind by God?
Damascus
3b Lyndon B Johnson defeated which Republican candidate in the US Presidential election of 1964?
Barry Goldwater
4a Olivia Colman played the character DS Ellie Miller in which ITV series?
Broadchurch
4b The darts player Adrian Lewis is known by which nickname?
Jackpot

Round 7
1a Because of its short lifespan, which insect, also called a shadfly, is known as a "one-day fly" in a number of languages?
Mayfly
1b In which war did the Battle of Castillon take place?
Hundred Years War
2a What name is given to an anaesthetising injection into the spine frequently used during childbirth as an effective form of pain relief?
Epidural
2b Soto, Rinzai and Obaku are the three main schools of which specific form of an Asian religion?
Zen Buddhism
3a Henry Ford said that customers could have their Model T Fords painted in any colour as long as it was which one?
Black
3b Who was the pilot of "Supercar" in the Gerry Anderson TV series of the same name, originally broadcast between 1961-2?
Mike Mercury
4a Which British Prime Minister, the MP for Tamworth, had two terms of office in which he reintroduced income tax and repealed the Corn Laws?
Sir Robert Peel
4b With an area of half-a-million acres, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park straddles between two states of the USA - Tennessee and which other?
North Carolina

Round 8
1a Two English cathedrals are World Heritage sites. Name either of them.
Canterbury or Durham
1b Who portrays the character Che, in the film version of the musical "Evita"?
Antonio Banderas
2a From what plant is the drug digitalis obtained?
Foxglove
2b Which popular English novelist and short story writer, who died on Easter Sunday, 1966, wrote an unfinished autobiographical volume Evelyn Waugh entitled "A Little Learning"?
Evelyn Waugh
3a The subatomic particles the neutron was discovered by whom in 1932?
James Chadwick
3b In the Bible, who performed "The Dance of the Seven Veils"?
Salome
4a Which was David Lean's last film as a director? It was based on an E M Forster novel of the same name and won two Academy Awards.
A Passage to India
4b Sarah Lancashire played the character Sgt Catherine Cawood in which BBC TV series?
Happy Valley

Spare Questions
1 In computing, audio and video equipment for what does the "H" in HDMI stand for?
High (Definition Multimedia Interface)
2 What is the capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo?
Kinshasa
3 Which people lost the Battle of Marathon to the Athenians?
The Persians
4 Which Italian satirist won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997?
Dario Fo
5 Edward Powys Mathers, the English poet and translator who died in 1939, set crosswords for "The Observer" newspaper under what pseudonym?
Torquemada