Round 1
1a In which TV series was The Great Northern Hotel a central location?
Twin Peaks
1b At which ground do Blackburn Rovers football team play their home games?
Ewood Park
2a The Christian feast known as "Lady Day" falls in which month?
March (25th)
2b Which actor and singer was born James Michael Aloysius Bradford in 1954, in Benton, Newcastle upon Tyne?
Jimmy Nail
3a Which writer's works included the plays "Mrs Warren's Profession" and "John Bull's Other Island"?
George Bernard Shaw
3b What town is the capital of the Faroe Islands?
Torshavn
4a What was the title of the third Mad Max film?
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
4b "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue" is a quote from which 70’s comedy movie?
Airplane

Round 2
1a Ipswich Town football club plays its home games at which ground?
Portman Road
1b In the Book of Daniel, which king saw the writing on the wall at a feast?
Belshazzar
2a The singer-songwriter "Cat Stevens", changed his name to what upon his conversion to Islam?
Yusuf Islam
2b Which controversial novel, first published in 1962 and categorized as dystopian science fiction begins each of its four sections with the line "What's it going to be then, eh?"
A Clockwork Orange (by Anthony Burgess)
3a Which German city is the state capital of Saxony?
Dresden
3b Which whisky distillery near Pitlochry, is the smallest traditional distillery in Scotland?
Edradour
4a What was the name of the Labrador retriever owned by Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston in a 2008 film?
Marley
4b Finn, Laser and 470 are competition classes in which Olympic sport?
Sailing

Round 3
1a What biblical devil is also known as the "Lord of the Flies"?
Beelzebub
1b In Greek mythology who was a Trojan Prince, abducted by Zeus and made into the cupbearer of the Gods?
Ganymede
2a Described as a post-modern, metafictional novel, and first published in 1969, the first sentence of which renowned modern classic contains the celebrated line "All this happened, more or less."
"Slaughterhouse Five" (by Kurt Vonnegut)
2b Sukarno and Suharto, were the first two presidents of which Asian country?
Indonesia
3a Made at the oldest grain distillery in Scotland, which brand's "Club" whisky was developed in partnership with David Beckham?
Haig
3b In the computer acroynym GIF for what does the letter "F" stand?
Format (Graphics Interchange Format)
4a Competing in the 2000 Olympics the Equatorial Guinean swimmer Eric Moussambani was given what nickname?
Eric the Eel
4b The adjective "costal" refers to which part of the human body?
Ribs

Round 4
1a In Greek mythology Argus was a giant who possessed 100 of which part of the body?
Eyes
1 b As used by Shakespeare in ”A Midsummer Night's Dream", who was the King of the Fairies?
Oberon
2a Singapore was founded by whom in 1819?
Sir Stamford Raffles
2b Luneberg Cheese is traditionally made in which country?
Austria
3a In computing for what does the letter A stand for in RAM?
Access (Random Access Memory)
3b Which Hanna-Barbera character had the catchphrase "Exit... Stage Left !" before running away from danger?
Snagglepuss the lion
4a What is the anatomical name for the shoulder blade?
Scapula
4b Which spice is the dried flower-buds of a tree whose botanical name is syzygium aromaticum, a native species in Indonesia?
Cloves

Round 5
1a Which leader of the Labour Party became the first Labour member of a Cabinet (in the wartime coalition, 1915 -1918), later serving as Ramsey McDonald's Foreign Secretary in 1924?
Arthur Henderson
1b "If music be the food of love play on" is a line from which Shakespeare play?
Twelfth Night
2a Which car manufacturer currently produces the Marcia and Veloster models?
Hyundai
2b Lappi Cheese is traditionally made in which country?
Finland
3a The orange star, Aldebaran, is in which constellation?
Taurus
3b In the cartoon series Captain Pugwash, what was the name of Cut-throat Jake's ship?
Flying Dustman
4a Who composed the opera "Orpheus in the Underworld"?
Jacques Offenbach
4b Name either of the two spices obtained from the tree whose botanical name is myristica fragrans?
Nutmeg or Mace

Round 6
1a Which country was formerly known as the Dutch or Netherlands East Indies?
Indonesia
1b Frederick Marquis, Minister of Food in Churchill’s War Cabinet, was made a peer under which title, reflecting his origins as a Liverpool businessman?
Lord Woolton
2a Which character does Lucy Liu play in the US TV series "Elementary? Please give the full name.
Dr Joan Watson
2b The Ray and the Venga are current models made by which car manufacturer?
Kia
3a The bird whose Latin name is crex crex, and which countrymen sometimes called the landrail, is more properly known as what?
The Corncrake
3b Which constellation contains the stars "Rigel" and "Betelgeuse"?
Orion
4a What name is given to the insurrection against Charles of Anjou on Sicily which broke out in 1282?
Sicilian Vespers
4b Which Bizet opera is set in Ceylon?
The Pearl Fishers

Round 7
1a Who plays the title role in the film "Shirley Valentine"?
Pauline Collins
1b In which country does the River Ganges empty into the Indian Ocean?
Bangladesh
2a With a name derived from the Greek for odour, which chemical element is number 76 in the periodic table?
Osmium
2b Who played detective-inspector Fred Thursday, who is the young Morse's boss in the TV series "Endeavour?
Roger Allam
3a Which UK band hold the record for the most hit singles in the UK charts, having sold more than 100 million records, and made more than 100 appearances on Top of the Pops?
Status Quo
3b Flocks of which bird, with the Latin name sternus vulgaris, were once a common sight in towns and cities, though now somewhat less so?
Starling
4a The cathedral city of Lincoln stands on which river?
Witham
4b What is the alternative name for the 1805 Battle of Austerlitz?
Battle of the Three Emperors

Round 8
1a Sunnydale, California is the fictional location of which US TV series?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
1b Which British actress won the Best Actress Oscar for her role asMargaret Schiegel in "Howards End"?
Emma Thompson
2a Which saint's feast falls on 6 December - appropriately, perhaps, just a short time before Christmas?
St Nicholas of Myra
2b Which gas, whose atomic number is 18, is the third most common gas in the Earth’s atmosphere?
Argon
3a Who wrote the play "Blithe Spirit", in which the psychic, Madame Arcati appears?
Noel Coward
3b Who was the original lead singer with the rock band AC/DC?
Bon Scott
4a Which 2012 Ridley Scott film was a prequel to ''Alien”?
Prometheus
4b On which river does the city of Ely, in Cambridgeshire, stand?
The Great Ouse

Spare Questions
1 In 2015, who resigned as Chairman of Volkswagen after an emissions scandal?
Martin Winterkorn
2 In which decade was Aston University established in Birmingham?
1960's
3 Which very senior British Army officer distinguished himself greatly inn overseeing the retreat to Dunkirk, becoming in 1941 Chief of the Imperial General Staff until the end of the War?
Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke
4 "The Banks of Green Willow" is a much-loved piece of music, evocative of the English countryside, by which composer who was killed in the First World War?
George Butterworth
5 Which 17th century scientist developed the spring scale and the law of elasticity that bears his name?
Robert Hooke