Round 1
1a Which author also wrote using the pen-name Mary Westmacott?
AGATHA CHRISTIE
1b Your Song in 1971 was the first top 10 hit for which British singer?
ELTON JOHN
2a What is the name of the fictional Cornish village in the TV comedy-drama Doc Martin?
PORTWENN
2b Which chemical element is named from the Greek for stink or stench?
BROMINE
3a Which acid is also known as phenol?
CARBOLIC
3b King Henry VII was born in which Welsh town in 1457?
PEMBROKE
4a Which is the largest city in the US state of Michigan?
DETROIT
4b What is the nationality of the tennis player Simona Halep?
ROMANIAN

Round 2
1a In Russia and other Slavic countries, Sasha is often used as a diminutive of what male forename?
ALEXANDER
1b Who was the social reformer and co-founder of the National Trust born in Wisbech in 1838?
OCTAVIA HILL
2a In which English town is the Fairfield Halls concert venue?
CROYDON
2b Which swimmer won Great Britain’s first Gold medal at the 2016 Olympics?
ADAM PEATY
3a Who was awarded the Best Actress Oscar in 2015 for the film Still Alice?
JULIANNE MOORE
3b Of what is myology the study, relating to the body?
MUSCLES
4a Although better known for his crime novels, which Scandanavian writer is also a successful children’s author, with works such as 2007s Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder?
JO NESBO
4b La Marcha Real is the name of which country’s national anthem?
SPAIN

Round 3
1a The river Parrett flows into the sea in which English county?
SOMERSET
1b Who is the only England rugby union player with more than 100 caps?
JASON LEONARD
2a Which fruit is known in Spanish as ‘manzana’?
APPLE
2b In 2009 the functions of the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (or Law Lords) were transferred to which new body?
THE SUPREME COURT
3a What is the term describing diametrically opposite points on the earth’s surface?
ANTIPODES
3b The Spanish Liga 1 football team Osasuna is based in which city?
PAMPLONA
4a Adele Bloch-Bauer (1881–1925) was a wealthy member of Viennese society and a patron of which artist?
GUSTAV KLIMT
4b William Taft is the only former President of the US also to have held which other major position?
CHIEF JUSTICE

Round 4
1a Who succeeded Des O’Connor and preceded Nick Hewer as the presenter of Channel 4’s Countdown?
JEFF STELLING
1b Who has been Archbishop of Westminster since 2009?
VINCENT NICHOLS
2a Who wrote the novels Shirley [1849] and Villette [1853]?
CHARLOTTE BRONTË
2b Regularly heard at military funerals, what bugle call is played each evening at Belgium’s Menin Gate to commemorate those who died at the Battle of Ypres?
THE LAST POST
3a Give one year when the Scottish diarist James Boswell was alive.
1740-1795
3b Who composed the Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra?
JOAQUÍN RODRIGO
4a Which 1951 film set in ancient Rome starred Robert Taylor as Marcus Vinicius and Peter Ustinov as Emperor Nero?
QUO VADIS
4b Following a family disagreement, which brewery was founded by Paul Theakston (formerly of Theakstons) in Masham, North Yorkshire, in 1992?
BLACK SHEEP

Round 5
1a Best known as a comic actor, who is said to be Britain’s best-selling children’s author, with works such as 2009s Mr Stink?
DAVID WALLIAMS
1b Jana Gana Mana is the name of which Asian country’s national anthem?
INDIA
2a Alejandro Iñárritu won the Best Director Oscar in 2015 for which film?
BIRDMAN
2b Of what is oneirology the study?
DREAMS
3a Who wrote the novels Pincher Martin [1956] and The Spire [1964]?
WILLIAM GOLDING
3b What bugle call is used as a wake-up call for the military, and also traditionally breaks the period of silence on Remembrance Day?
REVEILLE
4a Who was runner-up to the street dance troupe Diversity in the 2009 series of Britain’s Got Talent?
SUSAN BOYLE
4b Who was Bishop of Durham from 2011 to 2013?
JUSTIN WELBY

Round 6
1a In which English city is the Colston Hall concert venue?
BRISTOL
1b Which Liverpool-born female athlete holds the British record for outdoor and indoor high jump and indoor long jump?
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON
2a In Spain and other Hispanic countries, Pepe is often used as a pet form of what male forename?
JOSÉ
2b Who was the author of The Stones of Venice written while he was married to Effie Gray. She left him and later married John Everett Millais.
JOHN RUSKIN
3a Which fruit is known in French as ‘framboise’?
RASPBERRY
3b Which Government department was merged into the Department of the Environment as a result of its handling of the Foot and Mouth outbreak of 2001?
THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD
4a The Swale separates which piece of land from the English mainland?
ISLE OF SHEPPEY
4b What is the family name of the rugby league playing brothers Luke, Sam, Tom and George?
BURGESS

Round 7
1a Which sculpture depicts 13th century Italian noblewoman Francesca da Rimini and her lover Paolo Malatesta?
THE KISS (by RODIN)
1b James Buchanan was the last US President to have also held which other major government post, which he held under the Presidency of James Polk?
SECRETARY OF STATE
2a Besides igneous and metamorphic, what is the third main type of rock?
SEDIMENTARY
2b Which Spanish Liga 1 football team is nicknamed El Submarino Amarillo, or the Yellow Submarine?
VILLARREAL
3a Which 1951 musical starred Joe E Brown as Captain Andy Hawks and Howard Keel as gambler Gaylord Ravenal?
SHOW BOAT
3b Adolf Dassler founded Adidas in 1949 following a family feud with brother Rudolf; together they founded another sportswear brand in 1924. To what did Rudolf change the name after the feud?
PUMA
4a Give one year when the writer Daniel Defoe was alive.
1660 (or 1659)-1731
4b Who was the composer of Fanfare for the Common Man?
AARON COPLAND

Round 8
1a Which animated children’s TV series is set in the fictional Welsh town of Pontypandy?
FIREMAN SAM
1b Which chemical element is named after a Danish city?
HAFNIUM
2a Ellis Peters was the best known pen-name of which author?
EDITH PARGETER
2b Pictures of Matchstick Men in 1968 was which group’s first top 10 hit?
STATUS QUO
3a Kansas City is the largest city of which US state?
MISSOURI
3b What is the nationality of the golfer Ángel Cabrera?
ARGENTINIAN
4a Which word completes the name of the drug LSD - _________ acid diethylamide?
LYSERGIC
4b Which King was born in1367 at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire?
HENRY IV

Spare Questions
1 In the 1974 film The Taking of Pelham 123, the hijackers are all disguised as which famous American film comedian?
GROUCHO MARX
2 Who became deputy leader of the Labour Party in September 2015?
TOM WATSON
3 Which online dating and social networking service takes its title from two popular girls’ names?
ASHLEY MADISON