Monday 3rd December 2018
Set by Warrington- Answers correct as at June 2018

Round 1
1a “Bual” and “Sercial” are names given to types of which fortified wine?
Madeira
1b Which battle of 1746 effectively ended the Jacobite rebellion led by Bonnie Prince Charlie?
Culloden
2a Who is the narrator of the book "Catcher in the Rye"?
Holden Caulfield
2b Which group had their first top ten hit in the UK in 1974 with "Seven Seas of Rhye"?
Queen
3a Which presenter fronts the Sunday morning show on Classic FM, from 9.00 am until noon?
Aled Jones
3b In men’s gymnastics, the Pommel Horse, Floor, Still Rings, Parallel Bars & Horizontal Bars are five of the disciplines, what is the sixth?
Vault
4a "Savile Row" in London is associated with which type of retail activity?
Tailoring (accept clothing or suits)
4b Which thick French soup consisting of pureed leeks, onions, potatoes, cream and chicken stock, is traditionally served cold?
Vichyssoise

Round 2
1a Which bank was rebranded as HSBC in 1999?
Midland
1b On which railway did the locomotive "Rocket" come into service in 1830?
Liverpool and Manchester Railway
2a
Which stately home is near the towns of Warminster and Frome?
Longleat
2b Which British explorer and army officer named Lake Victoria after finding it while searching for the source of the Nile?
John Hanning Speke
3a Who wrote the plays "The Caretaker in 1959 and "The Birthday Party" in 1959?
Harold Pinter
3b Which blue-green colour shares its name with a small, dabbling species of duck?
Teal
4a Who was the founder of the Society of Friends also known as the Quakers?
George Fox
4b Leicester City plays home football matches at which stadium?
King Power Stadium

Round 3
1a Which battle ended the Wars of the Roses in 1485?
Bosworth Field
1b Which writer won the Booker Prize in 1980 with "Rites of Passage" and three years later was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first person to be awarded both prizes?
William Golding
2a In 1978 who had their first top ten hit in the UK with the song "What A Waste"?
Ian Dury and the Blockheads
2b Since January 2006 Eva Morales has been the President of which country?
Bolivia
3a What traditionally is the last event of the men’s decathlon?
1500 metres
3b Name one of the two European Capitals of Culture for 2018?
Leeuwarden (Netherlands) Valletta (malta)
4a Parsley sauce is a variant of which of the mother sauces of French cuisine?
Béchamel
4b Which country lies directly to the west of Togo?
Ghana

Round 4
1a Which company built the "Swordfish" torpedo-bomber biplane?
Fairey Aviation
1b What grape is known in Australia as Shiraz?
Syrah
2a Which explorer was the first westerner known to have explored the central Niger river?
Mungo Park
2b Who is the male hero of the novel "Lorna Doone"?
John Ridd
3a Which species of auk has the scientific name " Fratercula artica" and is described by the RSPB as a "clown among seabirds"?
Puffin
3b Who was the Radio 1 Breakfast DJ immediately before Chris Moyles?
Sara Cox
4a Where specifically does Exeter City FC play their home games?
St James Park
4b Dupleye, Gregg and Pitman are various methods of which declining office skill?
Shorthand

Round 5
1a How many hundredweight are there in a ton?
Twenty
1b From 1945-79 Barbara Castle was the MP for which town?
Blackburn
2a The 1987 film Prick Up Your Ears starred whom as the playwright Joe Orton?
Gary Oldman
2b Which newspaper merged with the Daily Sketch in 1971?
Daily Mail
3a Deposed in 1830, who was the last member of the Bourbon dynasty to reign as King of France?
Charles X
3b According to the 2010 US census, which is the largest city, by population in the state of Alaska
Anchorage
4a What is the alternative name for Oregano?
Wild Marjoram
4b Franz Schubert died in which city in 1828, leaving his 8th symphony in B Minor unfinished?
Vienna

Round 6
1a Who wrote the opera "The Golden Cockerel"?
Rimsky-Korsakov
1b Who wrote the novel Schindlers Ark, winner of the 1982 Booker Prize?
Thomas Keneally
2a Which biologist was Oxford University's Simonyi Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 to 2008?
Richard Dawkins
2b Which South American republic held a referendum in 1993 to vote for a return of monarchy or to stay with a presidential system of government?
Brazil
3a Marilyn Monroe played Sugar Kane in which film?
Some Like it Hot
3b Which former Lancashire town (now in the Metropolitan Borough of Bury) holds the annual World Black Pudding throwing contest?
Ramsbottom
4a Strine is the name given to which form of English?
Australian
4b If you travelled north along the coast of Somalia, which would be the next country that you came to?
Djibouti

Round 7
1a Three Scottish banks are able to issue banknotes. Clydesdale Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland are two, which is the third?
The Bank Of Scotland
1b In terms of English Brewery cask units, how many firkins are there in a beer hogshead?
Six
2a Which stately home is nicknamed "The Palace of the Peak"?
Chatsworth House
2b Which actress portrayed Virginia Woolf in the 2002 film The Hours?
Nicole Kidman
3a Which Norwegian dramatist wrote the plays "A Doll's House" and "Ghosts"?
Henrik Ibsen
3b Also the last surviving pre-Second World War monarch, who was the last king of Romania forced to abdicate in 1947?
Michael I of Romania
4a Who founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints?
Joseph Smith
4b How is the herb with healing qualities "Hypericum perforatum" better known?
St John's Wort

Round 8
1a George Osborne was the member of Parliament for which constituency?
Tatton
1b Who wrote the music for the opera “Manon Lescaut”?
Giacomo Puccini
2a The newspaper the Daily Herald changed its name to what in 1964?
The Sun
2b Which environmental scientist postulated the Gaia hypothesis concerning how the Earth and its organic creatures interact?
James Lovelock
3a According to the 2010 US census, which is the largest city, by population in the state of Texas?
Houston
3b In which Ealing comedy did Alec Guinness play the London bank clerk Henry Holland?
The Lavender Hill Mob
4a In which city did J S Bach die, having been the Cantor in the Thomaskirche for nearly 30 years?
Leipzig
4b The word “trek”, meaning a long journey, entered English from which language?
Afrikaans (or South African Dutch)

Spare Questions
1 In 2012 two female singers appeared on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Name either?
Adele or Rhianna
2 In which southern English county does Hever Castle, the former home of the Boleyn family (as in “Anne Boleyn”), stand?
Kent
3 A faucet is an American word for what item?
A tap
4 Released in 1986, what was Debbie Harry's only solo top 10 single in the UK?
French Kissing in the USA
5 On which horse did Sir Gordon Richards have his only Derby winner?
Pinza (1953)