Round One
1A ln which US State is the Ivy League Cornell University situated?
New York (Ithaca)
1B In which Opera is one of the female characters called Dorabella?
Cosi Fan Tutti (Mozart)
2A Who was voted best young player in the 2014 World Cup football finals in Brazil?
Paul Pogba
2B In 2016 who replaced Ian Duncan Smith as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions?
Stephen Crabb
3A In the TV series The Simpsons who had a pet cat called 'Mr Snookums'?
Morris "Moe" Szyslak (Accept Moe)
3B The Mercury Prize for best UK Album has been won twice by only one artist - in 2001 and again in 2011. Who is the artist?
PJ Harvey
4A Which square in Cairo was the centre of Egypt's Arab Spring demonstrations in 2012?
Tahrir
4B Which country defeated the USA in the final of the 2011 Women's Football World Cup?
Japan

Round Two
1A Operation Grand Slam was foiled in which book and film?
Goldfinger
1b What is the capital of Angola?
Luanda
2A Which city is protected by the Mose project series of flood barriers?
Venice
2B The Overlook Hotel features in which book and film?
The Shining
3A From which country did Kosovo declare its independence in 2008?
Serbia
3B Which political leader was called The Great Helmsman?
Mao Zedung (aka Mao Tse-tung)
4A The Ebony Concerto by Stravinsky was written for which jazz musician?
Woody Herman (Clarinet)
4B Who wrote the book Spamalot on which the musical is based?
Eric Idle

Round Three
1A Podgorica, formerly Titograd, is the capital of which Balkan state?
Montenegro
1B The TV Series Dynasty, South Park and Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman are all set in which US State?
Colorado
2A The Rapper Shawn Corey Carter is otherwise known as whom?
Jay Z
2B Which two bodies of water meet at Cape Agulhas?
Indian and Atlantic Oceans
3A In which UK seaside resort did the artist Banksy open his Dismaland Bemusement Park for 36 days in 2015?
Weston-Super-Mare
3B The Cedi is the currency of which African country?
Ghana
4A Which city in 2022 will be the first in Africa to host the Commonwealth Games?
Durban
4B Which car manufacturer produces the model called 'IGNIS'?
Suzuki

Round Four
1A Which international broadcasting organisation is based in Doha, Qatar?
Al Jazeera
1B What is the title of the 2015 Booker Prize winning novel by Jamaican born novelist Marlon James?
A Brief History of Seven Killings
2A What distinguishes 'ratite' birds?
They are flightless
2B In the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil England scored only two goals. Wayne Rooney scored one - who scored the other?
Daniel Sturridge
3A Which Polish port was known in German as Danzig?
Gdansk
3B Redwing, Bonanza and Peregrine are varieties of which fruit?
Peach
4A Where, supposedly, is JK Rowling’s fictional Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry?
Somewhere in Scotland (accept Scotland)
4B Tagalog is the most widely spoken language in which Asian country?
The Philippines

Round Five
1A Which jockey rode the Derby Winners Authorized in 2007 and Golden Horn in 2015?
Frankie Dettori
1B The Lion's Mound is a monument at which famous Battlefield?
Waterloo
2A The song Luck Be a Lady is in which musical?
Guys and Dolls
2B Only three writers have won the Booker prize twice, J M Coetzee and Hilary Mantel are two, who is the third?
Peter Carey
3A Who painted The Potato Eaters?
Van Gogh
3B Which unit of the Roman Army had 480 men?
A Cohort
4A In which UK county is the market town of Bury St Edmonds?
Suffolk
4B What kind of foodstuff is mortadella?
Italian Sausage (accept meat/meat product)

Round Six
1A What name is given to an Australian beer glass containing less than a pint?
Schooner
1B Which comedian wrote The Flanimals children's book series?
Ricky Gervais
2A The opening sentence of which book is : "It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking 13"?
1984
2B Which club has won both German and Austrian Football League titles?
Rapid Vienna
3A In which city were the US TV series Ally McBeal, Banacek and St.Elsewhere set?
Boston
3B The song Send in the Clowns is from which musical?
A Little Night Music
4A In which resort town did Butlin's open is first holiday camp in 1936?
Skegness
4B Which company bought YouTube in 2006?
Google

Round Seven
1A Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons are the members of which electronic music duo?
The Chemical Brothers
1B In which 1987 film does Arnold Schwarzenegger play a character called Dutch?
Predator
2A In 2012 who resigned as an MP for Corby to spend "more time with her family in New York"?
Louise Mensch
2B Which former World champion snooker player is known as ‘The Wizard of Wishaw'?
John Higgins
3A Which film won the Oscar for Best Picture at the 88th Oscar ceremony in 2016?
The Revenant
3B Which tree was traditionally planted in graveyards and is associated with eternity?
The Yew
4A In Edward Lear's nonsense poem what part of the body of the Pobble was missing?
Its Toes
4B In feet, how high is a Basketball hoop?
10

Round Eight
1A In the 2015 General Election which comedian ran against Nigel Farage for the Parliamentary seat of South Thanet?
Al Murray
1B What colour flag is used in Formula 1 Motor Racing to slow cars following an accident or hazard?
Yellow
2A What was the title of James Joyce's last book published in 1939?
Finnegan's Wake
2B Urquhart Castle overlooks which UK body of water?
Loch Ness
3A Which European River runs through both Dresden and Hamburg?
Elbe
3B Which singer was known as The Chairman of the Board'?
Frank Sinatra
4A A replica of which famous ship is at Bankside, Southwark?
Golden Hinde
4B The Cherwell, Churn and Windrush are tributaries of which English river?
Thames

Spare Questions
1 Churchill Downs course holds which annual horse race?
Kentucky Derby
2 The SNCF is the national railway company of which country?
France
3 What is the edible fruit of the genus rubus?
Raspberry
4 Colin Myler was the last editor of which publication?
News of the World