Round 1
1a The artist Paul Klee (pronounced "Klay") was born in 1879 - in which country?
Switzerland
1b Which Spanish dance in 3/4 time, was invented in the late eighteenth century to be performed either solo or duo with a castanet accompaniment?
Bolero
2a Who played the apprentice witch Miss Price in the Disney film "Bed Knobs and Broomsticks"?
Angela Lansbury
2b Which US city is or has been known as "Baghdad by the Bay", "Everybody's Favourite City", and "Fog City" amongst other names?
San Francisco
3a In gardening, what is the formal word for the prongs of a fork or rake?
Tines
3b Who is the protagonist of the 1951 JD Salinger novel, "The Catcher in the Rye"?
Holden Caulfield
4a Which US President, whilst in office or shortly afterwards had the nicknames "The American Cincinnatus", "The American Fabius" and "The Father of His Country"?
George Washington
4b Which television character has married Cindy Williams, Melanie Healy, Laura Dunn and Jane Collins?
Ian Beale

Round 2
1a Barcarolle is a traditional type of folk song sung by which occupation?
Venetian Gondoliers
1b Who won the Best director Oscar award in 2013 for the film "Gravity"?
Alfonso Cuaron
2a Which US city is or has been known as "America's Finest City", "City in Motion", and "Silicon Beach" amongst other names?
San Diego
2b Who was the last King of Portugal?
Manuel II
3a Who is the carpenter in the village of Hayslope who provides the title of the first novel written by George Elliot?
Adam Bede
3b Which is the smallest European dove?
Turtle Dove
4a Which character in Eastenders was played by Patsy Palmer?
Bianca Butcher (nee Jackson)
4b Harold Wilson, Eric Morecambe, Fred Trueman and Sir Ian Botham were among the winners of which award?
Pipe-Smoker of the Year

Round 3
1a Who won the Best director Oscar award in 2000 for the film "Traffic"?
Steven Soderbergh
1b The Gambia is almost completely surrounded by which country?
Senegal
2a The first husband of Henry Vlll’s, younger sister Mary, was which French king?
Louis XII
2b In a giant version of which fruit do a centipede, glow-worm, ladybird and grasshopper, amongst others, live in a book by Roald Dahl?
Peach (James and the Giant Peach)
3a The brambling, crossbill and linnet are species of which bird?
Finch
3b Which object in the solar system was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930?
Pluto
4a In 2013 Alison Saunders replaced whom as the Director of Public Prosecutions?
Keir Starmer
4b Who played Johnny Cash alongside Reece Witherspoon as his wife June Carter in the 2005 biopic "Walk The Line"?
Joaquin Phoenix

Round 4
1a At 4,167 metres above sea level Mount Toubkal is the highest peak in which North African mountain range?
Atlas Mountains
1b Which King of England, ruled 924 - 939 was the son of Edward the Elder?
Athelstan
2a In which William Golding novel does an aeroplane carrying schoolboys crash on a desert island?
Lord of the Flies
2b Which bird appears in the title of a Ralph Vaughan Williams composition of 1914, revised in 1920?
Lark (The Lark Ascending)
3a Phobos and Deimos are the moons of which planet?
Mars
3b Which sans-serif typeface was designed by a ten-man team led by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders in 1982 for Monotype Typography?
Arial
4a Which actor’s last film before his untimely death from mesothelioma was the 1980 film "The Hunter"?
Steve McQueen
4b Mato Cheese is traditionally made in which country?
Spain

Round 5
1a Which British crime-novelist, who died in 1957, wrote the cycle of religious plays "The Man Born to be King", essay titled "Are Women Human?" and was a churchwarden at St Anne's, Soho?
Dorothy L(eigh) Sayers
1b Which King of England, ruled 978 -1013 and from 1014 -1016 was the son of Edgar the Peaceful?
Ethelred the Unready
2a In which joint of the human body might a doctor discover the deformity known medically as "Coxa Vara"?
Femoral or Hip Joint
2b Which Benjamin Britten opera is set upon HMS Indomitable?
Billy Budd
3a Which cosmetic, also known as rouge, is usually used to redden the cheeks?
Blusher
3b Which serif typeface was designed by Frederic W Gaudy in 1901 for American Type Founders?
Copperplate Gothic
4a The "Villa of Papyri", first uncovered during the 18th century, believed to be the villa of Julius Caesar's father-in-law, Lucius Calpurnius Piso, was discovered in which town that was ‘buried’ in 79 BC?
Herculaneum
4b Herve Cheese is traditionally made in which country?
Belgium

Round 6
1a What was "Queen's" first UK top ten hit which was released in 1973?
Seven Seas of Rhye
1b The Earl of Ickerham, Dahlia Travers and Sir Roderick Glossop are regular characters in the novels of which prolific 20th century author?
P G Wodehouse
2a What name is given to a three dimensional model that represents a scene?
Diorama
2b Into which chamber of the human heart do the vena cava veins carry blood?
Right Atrium
3a The spirit slivovitz is made using which fruit?
Plums
3b Which brand of nale body product shares its name with a medium size wild cat?
Lynx
4a What does the Greek prefix "xylo" mean, as seen in the English word "xylophone"?
Wood (accept Wooden)
4b How is the Flavian Amphitheatre better known?
The Colosseum

Round 7
1a Which feast, established in 1925 by Pius XI, is celebrated in the Roman Catholic Church on the Sunday before Advent begins?
Feast of Christ the King
1b According to Boney M, who was Russia's greatest love machine?
Rasputin
2a In March 2015, fifteen-year old David Pearce won a competition to design what?
The reverse of the new £1 coin
2b What was the title of the ceramic poppy artwork at St Georges Hall, Liverpool in 2015?
Weeping Window
3a Which island was called by the Portuguese "Beautiful"?
Formosa (accept Taiwan)
3b The Gaelic phrase uisge beatha, gives its name to what drink?
Whiskey
4a "These Words" in 2004 was the only UK number one single for which singer and songwriter?
Natasha Bedingfield
4b It has now come to refer to the common people or the masses, but the 17th century Greek term "Hoi Polloi, means what?
The Many

Round 8
1a Which art school and movement was founded in Weimar in 1919 by the architect Walter Gropius?
Bauhaus
1b In the Christian Church, what feast is observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday?
Corpus Christi (accept Corpus et Sanguis Christi)
2a Which fictional character was played on film by Rex Harrison in 1967 and Eddie Murphy in 1998 and 2001?
Dr (John) Doolittle
2b In August 2015 Gabrielle Finaldi took up the reins as director of which institution?
The National Gallery
3a Which word can mean a bundle of sticks bound together as fuel and a fried ball of seasoned meat or offal?
Faggot
3b In Indian currency before independence how many annas were there to a rupee?
16
4a Which US President, whilst in office or shortly afterwards had the nicknames "The Ancient One", "The Great Emancipator" and "The Rail Splitter"?
Abraham Lincoln
4b Who holds the record for the oldest female singer to have a record enter the UK singles chart? Her song reached the Top 10 in 2007, recorded and released when she was 70 years old.
Shirley Bassey (born 8 January 1937) with 'Get The Party Started'.

Spare Questions
1 What expression for a supposedly free choice which is effectively no real choice is derived from a Cambridgeshire horse carrier's business at the turn of the seventeenth century?
Hobson's Choice
2 Named after the river that runs through it, which parliamentary constituency covers the city of Derry - Londonderry?
Foyle
3 Give a year that Boutros Boutros Ghali was Secretary General of the United Nations?
1992 to 1996
4 Where in England is the Robin Hill country park, scene of the four-day music festival called ‘Bestival’, held annually?
Isle of Wight
5 Named after an Italian astronomer, which NASA probe launched in 1989 was sent to Jupiter and its moons?
Galileo