Tuesday 10th October 2017
Set by Rainhill Victoria (Liverpool)

Round 1
1A In the Bambi episode of the BBC comedy series The Young Ones, what university do the eponymous housemates represent on University Challenge?
Scumbag College
1B The High Level Bridge over the River Tyne, the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits and The Royal Border Bridge were all designed by what engineer?
Robert Stephenson
2A Which US President had twin daughters, the only twins to a President to have lived in the White House?
George W Bush (Jenna and Barbara)
2B Which word originally used in the military is the science of the organisation and distribution of supplies?
Logistics
3A Rock Of Gibraltar won the 2,000 Guineas in 2002 and was named European Racehorse of the Year. It was owned jointly by Sue Magnier and which prominent football personality?
Sir Alex Ferguson
3B Thomasin Yeobright and Diggory Venn are characters in which Thomas Hardy novel, set on Egdon Heath?
The Return of the Native
4A Which 1746 encounter was the last pitched battle to take place on British soil?
Culloden
4B On a map, what name is given to a line joining points of equal elevation?
Contour

Round 2
1A Which religion has two temples in the United Kingdom, one in Chorley Lancashire, the other in Lingfield, Surrey?
Mormon
1B Who was the founder of the garden city movement in Britain?
Ebenezer Howard
2A The 2016 movie La La Land is a reference to what city, in which it is located?
Los Angeles
2B The name of which gaseous element is derived from the Greek for acid maker?
Oxygen
3A King Edward the Second was murdered in 1327 in Berkeley Castle, and is buried in which English Cathedral?
Gloucester
3B Lord Howe Island is a part of which country?
Australia
4A Who has been a commentator on BBC Radio’s Test Match Special for the most years? His run was ended by his death in 2013?
Christopher Martin- Jenkins (CMJ)
4B Which artist born in Antwerp in 1599, was appointed court painter to Charles I of England in 1631 and became known as the Cavalier Painter?
Anthony Van Dyke

Round 3
1A Santiago Bernabeu born inc1895,who played, managed and was Club President gives his name to which Club’s Stadium, which has a capacity of 81,000?
Real Madrid
1B What surname is common to a playwright who wrote Forty Years On and a novelist who wrote Anna of the Five Towns?
Bennett (Alan and Arnold)
2A What name is given to the 1282 uprising in Palermo against the rule of the Angevin French kings?
The Sicilian Vespers
2B Kosice which was a European Capital of Culture in 2013, is a city in which country?
Slovakia
3A Which Batley born singer, who died on 29th September 2003 at the age of 54, had chart hits as a solo singer including Addicted To Love and as vocalist with The Power Station?
Robert Palmer
3B A sapsucker is a North American bird of what family?
Woodpecker or Picidae
4A The Advertising Standards Authority reported it had the most complaints in 2016 about a TV commercial for which company? It featured a man strutting in stiletto heels and tight denim shorts.
Money Supermarket
4B Which popular name for an Indian restaurant in UK means mountain of light in Persian?
Koh-I-Noor

Round 4
1A Which Roman emperor, who ruled from AD 98 to 117, extended the empire into Romania and Transylvania, creating the province of Dacia?
Trajan
1B Manchester is the largest city in which US state?
New Hampshire
2A Which indoor sport is the only major international team and Olympic sport to originate in USA?
Basketball
2B With which musical instrument were soloists Pablo Casals, Paul Tortellier and Yo Yo Ma leading exponents?
Cello
3A Which is the most popular brand of sour mash bourbon whiskey in the world and is distilled in Lynchburg, Tennessee?
Jack Daniels
3B Which former Russian President has since May 2012 occupied the post of Prime Minister to his friend President Vladimir Putin?
Dmitry Medvedev
4A Shetland born Aly Bain is renowned in Scottish traditional music for his expertise on which instrument?
Fiddle or Violin
4B Which long standing mathematical puzzle was solved by Andrew Wiles on 19th September 1994?
Fermat’s Last Theorem

Round 5
1A The Money Supermarket advertisement most complained about in 2016 has a voice over by which former judge on X Factor and who appears at the finale?
Sharon Osborne
1B The Grade I Listed Maidenhead Railway Bridge across the Thames and the Royal Albert Bridge spanning the Tamar river were both designed by what notable 19th century engineer?
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
2A Two English singers share what name, both forename and surname? One, Manchester born who died in 2000 at the age of 53, had chart hits as a singer with Sad Café and Mike and the Mechanics. The other sang the opening lines on the first Band Aid single.
Paul Young
2B Wilmington is the largest city in which US state?
Delaware
3A What name is given to the edict issued in 1713 by Hapsburg emperor Charles VI to ensure that Hapsburg possessions could be inherited by his elder daughter, Maria Theresa?
The Pragmatic Sanction
3B Grace Melbury, Giles Winterbourne and Marty South are characters in which Thomas Hardy novel?
The Woodlanders
4A With a capacity of 80,018, Stadio Guisppe Meazza, named for a two time Italian World Cup winner, is more widely known by what
name, the district of Milan in which it is situated?
San Siro Stadium
4B Alexis Tsipras leader of the Syriza party was appointed Prime Minister of which country in September 2015?
Greece

Round 6
1A Phil Cunningham and Sharon Shannon are both renowned in traditional Celtic music for their expertise on which instrument?
Accordion
1B Umea which was a European Capital of Culture in 2014, is a city in which country?
Sweden
2A Which cognac house was founded in 1765 by an Irishman and merged with champagne house Moet & Chandon in 1971?
Hennessey
2B The name of which gaseous element is derived from the Greek for water giver?
Hydrogen
3A Which team sport was introduced into the Olympic Games at Antwerp in 1920, where Canada took gold, but from the first Winter Olympic Games in 1924 has been a permanent part of the Winter Games?
Ice Hockey
3B Which popular name for an Indian restaurant in UK means red fort in Hindi?
Lal Quila
4A Which Roman emperor, who ruled AD 138-161, extended the empire into southern Scotland, ordering the construction of a turf wall between the Forth and Clyde Valleys?
Antoninus Pius
4B Which Baroque era artist was born in Seville in1599? During his second trip to Rome in 1650 he painted his celebrated portrait of Pope Innocent X.
Diego Velazquez

Round 7
1A Who commanded the British army to victory against the Jacobite army at Culloden?
William Augustus or Duke of Cumberland
1B What surname is common to the American playwright who wrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and the Welsh playwright and actor who wrote Night must Fall?
Williams (Emlyn and Tennessee)
2A In 2016, War of Attrition won the Cheltenham Gold Cup and Ruler of the World the Aintree Grand National. Both were owned by which prominent and controversial businessman?
Michael O’Leary
2B Which was England’s first garden city?
Letchworth
3A What was the surname of the identical twin brothers and English film makers who made a popular series of satirical comedies in the 1950s and 1960s?
Boulting (Roy and John)
3B Goatsucker is an alternative name for what bird?
Nightjar or poorwill or nighthawk
4A In the Bambi episode of the BBC comedy series The Young Ones, Scumbag College plays against what team on University Challenge?
Footlights College, Oxbridge
4B The Aeolian Islands are a part of which country?
Italy

Round 8
1A Who was poised to overtake Christopher Martin-Jenkins’ record as longest serving commentator on BBC Radio’s Test Match Special had he not retired in 2017?
Henry Blofeld
1B Which word describes a sentence containing every letter of the alphabet?
Pangram
2A King John who died in 1216 in Newark Castle is buried in a tomb in which English cathedral?
Worcester
2B With which musical instrument were soloists Sergei Rachmaninov, Lang Lang and Franz Liszt leading exponents?
Piano
3A Spud, Renton, Begbie and Sick Boy are all characters in what Danny Boyle films?
Trainspotting
3B On a meteorological chart or map, what name is given to a line joining points of equal atmospheric pressure?
Isobar
4A According to Mormon lore, which angel presented the golden plates of the Book of Mormon to Joseph Smith in the 1820’s?
Moroni
4B In 2003 Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman proved which French mathematician’s conjecture regarding the topology of three and four dimensional objects?
Henri Poincarré

Spare Questions
1 In which modern day country was Ferdinand Magellan killed in a battle with native forces, part way through his round the world voyage?
The Philippines
2 What is the Portuguese name for the act of penance that was required of persons that had been condemned by the Spanish Inquisition?
Auto da Fé
3 At which US sport stadium did The Beatles hold their last live concert in 1966?
Candlestick Park (San Francisco)
4 What was Spike Milligan’s real first name?
erence
5 Which literary/film hero had two horses named Phantom and Tornado?
Zorro