Monday 25th September 2017
Set by Warrington

Round 1
1a Garfield, the lasagne loving cat, was the creation of which cartoonist?
Jim Davis
1b Which group had a UK top-ten hit single in 1967 with "Waterloo Sunset"?
The Kinks
2a Which word is used to describe the ability of an element’s atoms to combine with those of other elements?
Valency
2b Which game is played on a mat consisting of rows of large green, yellow, blue and red circles?
Twister
3a In the texting acronym AFAIK, for what does the K stand?
Know (As Far As I Know)
3b What is the family name of the Dukes of Devonshire?
Cavendish
4a The 1839 Treaty of London guaranteed the neutrality of which modern day country?
Belgium
4b What was the English term for a Carthusian monastery?
Charterhouse

Round 2
1a What is the capital of Sicily?
Palermo
1b What was the real name of the convicted murderer known as the "Black Panther'"?
Donald Nielson (accept Nappey)
2a In which play does the line "Cry, God for Harry, England and Saint George" appear?
Henry V
2b Who was the drummer in the pop group "Police"?
Stewart Copeland
3a Based on the transition of the ground state of a Caesium 133 atom, what is the SI unit of time?
A Second
3b What is the name of the National Hockey League team based in Los Angeles?
Kings
4a Who designed the Queen's House in Greenwich?
Inigo Jones
4b Where on a human body might a sabot be worn?
On the feet (it’s a type of clog)

Round 3
1a Which group had a Number One hit in the UK in 1960 with "Apache"?
The Shadows
1b Nicolas Maduro is at February 2017 the President of which country?
Venezuela
2a Which card-game series, in which each card contains a list of numerical data and the aim of the game is to win all of your opponents' cards by beating a specific value on their cards, was first published in 1968?
Top Trumps
2b In which London postcode is the "Eastenders" location of Walford?
E20
3a What is the family name of the Dukes of Bedford?
Russell
3b Norman Manley and Sangster International airports can be found in which Caribbean country?
Jamaica
4a Which word can mean the depth of a spade's blade, a strip of land or sand reaching out into the sea, and an item of cooking equipment?
Spit
4b “An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise” and “Farewell to Stromness” are among the works of which Salford-born composer, who died in 2016?
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

Round 4
1a Who was the "Acid Bath Murderer"?
George Haigh
1b The comic strip detective, Dick Tracy, was created by which cartoonist, who drew the strip from 1931 to 1977?
Chester Gould
2a Who joined Annie Lennox to form the Eurhythmics?
Dave Stewart
2b Hydrargyrum is an obsolete name for which chemical element?
Mercury
3a What is the name of the baseball team based in Arizona?
Diamondbacks
3b What does the "H" stand for in the internet abbreviation "IMHO"?
(In my) Humble (opinion)
4a What sort of jacket is often paired with hose in descriptions of male clothing in Elizabethan times?
Doublet
4b The 1560 Treaty of Leith led to the ‘Auld Alliance’ between Scotland and which country?
France

Round 5
1a Which Venetian artist painted "The Three Ages of Man"?
Titian
1b What was the surname of the character played by Gareth Hunt in the television series "The New Avengers"?
Gambit
2a Which American President, a slave owner, died in 1850 after 16 months in office?
Zachary Taylor
2b Until the collapse of its spire in 1548, which English cathedral had for 237 years been the tallest building in the world?
Lincoln
3a In Greek mythology Zeus and Alcmene were the parents of which hero?
Heracles (note Hercules is Roman not Greek)
3b The Norwegian author Jo Nesbo has written a series of novels about which Oslo policeman?
Harry Hole
4a Who played Marcella in the police TV series of that name?
Anna Friel
4b A deficiency of which either of which two elements can cause rickets?
Phosphorus or Calcium

Round 6
1a The husband of US Figure skater Tonya Harding was jailed in 1994 after organising an attack on which other skater in an attempt to force her out of the US Olympic team?
Nancy Kerrigan
1b Daniel Ortega is at February 2017 the President of which country?
Nicaragua
2a Sir John Everett Millais painted his grandson in which of his famous works?
Bubbles
2b In which fictional village was the Crossroads motel?
King's Oak
3a What word can mean a framework supporting a roof or to tie up the wings and legs of a chicken before cooking?
Truss
3b Hugo Chavez and Toussaint Louverture International airports can be found in which Caribbean country?
Haiti
4a Which breed of dog shares it's name with the French word for butterfly?
Papillion
4b The piece “On Wings of Song” and overtures called “Ruy Blas” and “The Fair Melusine” are among the works of which composer, born in Hamburg on 3 February, 1809?
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn

Round 7
1a What is the capital of the of Crete?
Heraklion
1b Who painted the "Raft of the Medusa" in 1818-19?
Theodore Gericault
2a "The Rest is Silence" is the last words spoken by the title character of which play?
Hamlet
2b Which first Whig President of the USA died in 1841, 31 days after giving his inaugural address?
William Henry Harrison
3a The ohm is the SI unit of what?
Resistance
3b In Greek mythology King Laertes and Anticlia were the parents of which hero?
Odysseus
4a Who designed the Midland Grand Hotel and station buildings at St Pancras?
Sir George Gilbert Scott
4b Who played DS Ronnie Brooks in the TV Detective series "Law and Order UK"?
Bradley Walsh

Round 8
1a Honor Blackman played which character in the Avengers TV series?
Cathy Gale
1b Which East German won the ladies’ Individual figure skating gold medal at both the 1984 and 1988 Winter Olympics?
Katarina Witt
2a The shrine of St Cuthbert can be found at which English cathedral?
Durham
2b Which painting was stolen from the National Gallery in Oslo in 1994 and held to ransom for $1 million?
The Scream
3a Which detective was the creation of the New Zealand author Ngaio Marsh?
Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn
3b What is the small hammer used by an auctioneer called?
Gavel
4a A deficiency of which element can cause goitre?
Iodine
4b Which breed of dog is named after the vicar that helped to found the Kennel club?
Jack Russell

Spare Questions
1 The Order of the Elephant, is the highest order of chivalry in which European country?
Denmark
2 St Paul is the capital of which US state?
Minnesota
3 What type of clothing worn by Jewish males is known as a kippah in Hebrew or a yarmulke in Yiddish?
Skullcap
4 Which play by Terence Rattigan centres on the theft of a five-shilling postal order?
The Winslow Boy
5 The Lok Sabha is the equivalent of the House of Commons in which country?
India