Tuesday 13th February 2018
Set by Ormskirk

Round 1
1a The Germans called it the Seigfriedstellung or Seigfried Position, what did the Allies call it?
THE HINDENBURG LINE
1b Clacket Lane service area is on which English motorway?
M25
2a Which cocktail contains rum, mint, sugar and lime?
MOJITO
2b Which dramatist wrote The Alchemist in 1610?
BEN JONSON
3a Which British actress has won BAFTA TV Awards for Accused, Broadchurch and Twenty Twelve?
OLIVIA COLMAN
3b If an object’s shape is described as cordate, what shape is it?
HEART SHAPED
4a Which Englishman won the 2016 US Masters Golf Tournament?
DANNY WILLETT
4b Money for Nothing is a song from which 1985 Dire Straits album?
BROTHERS IN ARMS

Round 2
1a Which was the first country in the world to have all of its banknotes made of polymer?
AUSTRALIA
1b Who wrote the poem To William Wordsworth in 1807 as a response to Wordsworth’s autobiographical poem The Prelude?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
2a Name either of the countries which fought the Winter War in 1939-40.
USSR or FINLAND
2b Walmer Castle is situated in which English county?
KENT
3a Which name can be a moon of Uranus named after a character from Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew or a former wife of one of The Rolling Stones?
BIANCA
3b Which well known author lived in the village of Slad in Gloucestershire for many years up until his death in 1997?
LAURIE LEE
4a The Ridolfi plot was a catholic plot against which English monarch?
ELIZABETH I
4b The ancient Egyptian temples of Abu Simbel were relocated, beginning in 1964, due to the construction of what?
THE ASWAN DAM

Round 3
1a Which country launched the ‘Heart of Eurasia’ ad campaign in 2007 to counter the ‘cultural learnings’ from a 2006 film?
KAZAKHSTAN
1b Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing is the largest species of which insect?
BUTTERFLY
2a Who, in the Rio Games, became the oldest British Olympic gold medal winner since 1908?
NICK SKELTON
2b Which word completes this line from a 1970 number 2 hit; ‘Well I’m not the world’s most masculine man, but I know what I am and I’m glad I’m a man, and so is...’?
LOLA
3a In which country was Manchester United footballer Eric Bailly born?
IVORY COAST
3b Who founded the Norwich School of Painting in 1803 with Robert Ladbroke?
JOHN CROME
4a Who wrote and directed the 2015 film The Hateful Eight?
QUENTIN TARANTINO
4b What is the name of the British army’s main battle tank?
CHALLENGER (2)

Round 4
1a Brompton is a market leader in the manufacture of which item of personal transport?
FOLDING BICYCLE
1b What role did Lorenzo Da Ponte play in the operatic career of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
HE WAS HIS LIBRETTIST (FOR 3 OPERAS)
2a Ian Gillies, who died in 2002, was for many years the question- setter and adjudicator on Radio 4’s Brain of Britain; by which single word name was he known on the programme?
MYCROFT
2b Who is the Peruvian photographer responsible for the Vogue British covers of 2011 featuring Keira Knightley, Kate Winslet and Kate Moss?
MARIO TESTINO
3a Who was the Leader of the Scottish Labour Party from August 2015 until August 2017?
KEZIA DUGDALE
3b Which port on the Bay of Bengal is the second-largest city in Bangladesh?
CHITTAGONG
4a Which metal is represented by the symbol Hf?
HAFNIUM
4b John Witherow has been the editor of which national daily newspaper since 2013?
THE TIMES

Round 5
1a Which name can be a moon of Uranus named after a character from Shakespeare’s As You Like It or an English chemist (1920- 1958) whose work was largely recognised after her death?
ROSALIND
1b An art museum in Cookham, Berkshire, is dedicated to which artist who was born there in 1891 and lived there for much of his life?
STANLEY SPENCER
2a What name was given to the plot to kill ministers and overthrow Lord Liverpool’s government in 1820?
CATO STREET CONSPIRACY
2b What is the name of the dam on the Yangtze river in Hubei province in China whose construction caused the displacement of over one million people?
THREE GORGES DAM
3a In which series of films did Sacha Baron Cohen voice a ring- tailed lemur called King Julien XIII?
MADAGASCAR
3b In the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species EX represents the category Extinct. What category does EN represent?
ENDANGERED
4a In the 2016 Rio Olympics who became the first GB Olympic champion in Gymnastics?
MAX WHITLOCK
4b These lyrics come from which 1972 number 2 hit; ‘Talking ‘bout Monroe and walking on Snow White, New York’s a go-go, and everything tastes right’?
(THE) JEAN GENIE

Round 6
1a Who did Arlene Foster succeed as the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland in December 2015?
PETER ROBINSON
1b Robinson Crusoe Island lies off the coast of which South American country?
CHILE
2a Which metal is represented by the symbol La?
LANTHANUM
2b Katharine Viner has been the editor-in-chief of which national daily newspaper since 2015?
THE GUARDIAN
3a Which post has been held by Andrew Bailey (2004-2011), Chris Salmon (2011-2014) and Victoria Cleland (2014 to date)?
CHIEF CASHIER OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND
3b What was the first name, by which she was known, of the poet and sister of William Wordsworth?
DOROTHY
4a Which of Napoleon’s generals earned the title ‘Bravest of the Brave’ after the retreat from Moscow?
MICHEL NEY
4b Dunstanburgh Castle is situated in which English county?
NORTHUMBERLAND

Round 7
1a In which country was Manchester City footballer Nicolás Otamendi born?
ARGENTINA
1b Who founded the Ballets Russes?
SERGEI DIAGHILEV
2a Which actor plays Mark Renton in the film Trainspotting?
EWAN MCGREGOR
2b What is the name of the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier under construction for the Royal Navy that was formally named by the Duchess of Rothesay at Rosyth dockyard in September 2017?
PRINCE OF WALES
3a Established in Birmingham in 1866, Brooks is a leading manufacturer of which bicycle component?
SADDLES
3b The title of which Mozart opera translates as ‘So do they all’, or, more loosely, ‘Women are like that’?
COSÌ FAN TUTTE
4a Tom Sutcliffe is the chairman of which BBC radio quiz?
ROUND BRITAIN QUIZ
4b On the 31st December 1923 issue which aviation pioneer and aircraft manufacturer was the first Dutch person to appear on the cover of Time magazine?
ANTHONY FOKKER

Round 8
1a Olivia Colman won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 2016 miniseries The Night Manager – who won a Golden Globe for Best Actor for the title character?
TOM HIDDLESTON
1b If an object is described as reniform, what shape is it?
KIDNEY SHAPED
2a Which Englishman won the 2016 UK Snooker Championship?
MARK SELBY
2b Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves is a 1985 single by the Eurythmics and which American soul/R&B singer?
ARETHA FRANKLIN
3a SMS Blücher, the last armoured cruiser built by the German Empire, was sunk at which Battle in the North Sea in January 1915 – the only warship lost in the battle?
BATTLE OF DOGGER BANK
3b Cherwell Valley service area is on which English motorway?
M40
4a Which cocktail contains white rum, coconut cream and pineapple?
PINA COLADA
4b What is the single word title of the comedy play by Ben Jonson, written in 1605-06 – the word means ‘sly fox’ in Italian?
VOLPONE

Spare Questions
1 Name either of the two fillings in a ‘fluffernutter sandwich’, popular in North America.
MARSHMALLOW and PEANUT BUTTER
2 Finish the quote from a Calvin Klein advert, ‘Between love and madness lies....?’
OBSESSION
3 Kipling’s poem Recessional was published in The Times in 1897 to commemorate which event?
QUEEN VICTORIA’S DIAMOND JUBILEE
4 Herman, Lily and Eddie are all members of which fictional TV family?
MUNSTERS