Monday 26th February 2018
Set by Warrington

Round 1
1a In which sport have Englishmen, Alan Scotthorne, Robert Nudd and Tom Pickering all been world champions?
Angling (Freshwater)
1b Give a year in which Cosmo Gordon Lang was Archbishop of Canterbury?
1928 to 1942
2a Which composer, who died in 1935, wrote the operas “Wozzeck” and “Lulu”?
Alban Berg
2b "The Birthday Party" and "The Caretaker" are amongst the works of which playwright?
Harold Pinter
3a Milton Obote twice served as president of which country?
Uganda
3b The variety of pasta called Vermicelli has a name meaning what?
Little Worms
4a In which American city was coffee chain Starbucks founded in 1971?
Seattle
4b Which Brazilian football team were involved in a fatal plane crash over Colombia in 2016?
Chapecoense

Round 2
1a What was the sequel to the film "Austin Powers. International Man of Mystery", released in 1999?
Austin Powers. The Spy Who Shagged Me
1b Who painted "The Persistence of Memory"?
Salvador Dali
2a What name is given to a genetically identical cell reproduced asexually from a single cell?
Clone
2b Amaterasu is the principal deity of which religion?
Shinto
3a Which African river provided "The Piranhas" featuring "Boring" Bob Grover with a top 20 UK hit in 1982?
Zambezi
3b What is the correct name for the brush used in curling?
Besom
4a Stuttgart is the state capital of which German Lander?
Baden-Wurttemberg
4b The wine Brunello comes from Montaclino in which Italian region?
Tuscany

Round 3
1a Give a year in which Robert Runcie was the Archbishop of Canterbury?
1980-91
1b According to Greek mythology who was the sister of Castor and Pollux?
Helen of Troy
2a The play "Blithe Spirit" that takes its title from the works of the English poet Percy Shelley, but is by which playwright?
Noel Coward
2b What was the middle name of the US President Jimmy Carter?
Earl
3a What in Indian cuisine is “aloo”?
Potato
3b Which car marketed by Ford and named after his dead son was a financial flop?
Edsel
4a Which non-league football team made it to the FA cup quarter finals in 2017. The first non-league team since Tottenham Hotspur over 100 years ago?
Lincoln Town
4bThe Wulff process is for the manufacture of which chemical compound?
Ethylene (accept Acetylene)

Round 4
1a Which Spanish artist painted "The Sleep of Reason"?
Francesco Goya
1b In which sport have Englishwomen Ellen Falkner, Carol Ashby and Norma Shaw all been world champions?
Indoor Bowls
2a In which "religion" is it believed that 75 trillion years ago an intergalactic dictator named Xenu brought his people to earth in a spaceship?
Scientology
2b Which Scandinavian composer, born in 1865, wrote “Pan and Syrinx”, “An Imaginary Trip to the Faroes” and several symphonies, his Second being called “The Four Temperaments”?
Carl Nielsen
3a By what English name is the last stone in a curling game called?
The Hammer
3b Dr Kwame Nkrumah and Flight-Lt Jerry Rawlings are former presidents of which African country, whose current president is John Dramani Mahama?
Ghana
4a The wines of which French region include Muscadet, Touraine, Sancerre and Pouilly-Fume?
Loire Valley
4b In which city was the first Boots store opened in 1849?
Nottingham

Round 5
1a On which specific river does the city of Juba stand?
White Nile
1b Which English duke, a notable Master of Foxhounds, established the Badminton Horse Trials at his country seat in Gloucestershire?
Duke of Beaufort
2a Ricky Martin, Tom Pellereau and Stuart Baggs are all winners of which BBC TV reality show?
The Apprentice
2b What is the name of the fictional Scottish island which is the setting for the cult 1973 film "The Wicker Man" starring Christopher Lee?
Summerisle
3a How is the common shrub Syringa more usually known?
Lilac
3b In mathematics, the capital of which Greek letter is used to denote a sum?
Sigma
4a What word can mean both the shell or pod of peas and beans, and the act of removing them?
Hull
4b What was the sequel to Louisa May Alcott’s, "Little Women"?
Good Wives

Round 6
1a Which American poet penned the following verse in 1931? "One would be in less danger/ From the wiles of the stranger/ If one's kin and kith/ Were more fun to be with"?
Ogden Nash
1b Who was the Greek enchantress who lured Odysseus to her island and changed his crew into swine?
Circe
2a In which London park was the Bomber Command Memorial unveiled in 2012?
Green Park
2b What was US President's Richard Nixon's middle name?
Millhouse
3a In Dr Who what was the name of the character who created the Daleks?
Davros
3b
Manufactured from 1965 to 1980, which car had the highest production volume in the history of Rolls Royce?
Silver Shadow
4a What animals are termed caprine?
Goats
4b The La Blanc process was for the manufacture of which chemical compound?
Sodium Carbonate (accept Soda Ash)

Round 7
1a What was the sequel to the film "Meet the Parents", released in 2004?
Meet the Fockers
1b On which river does the city of Brazzaville stand?
Congo
2a What is the biological term for the white part of an egg?
Albumen
2b Which song from the musical "Oliver" was used as the name of a 2008 BBC TV reality programme?
I'd do Anything
3a Which group had UK top 10 hits with "Go Wild in the Country" and "I Want Candy" in 1982?
Bow Wow Wow
3b How is the common shrub Ligustrum more usually known?
Privet
4a Dresden is the state capital of which German Lander?
Saxony
4b What is the name of the mark used by a proof reader to show where to insert something?
Caret

Round 8
1a What title did the eldest son (1864-92) of Edward VII hold?
Duke of Clarence (and Avondale)
1b "There's a breathless hush in the close tonight ..." is a quotation from a poem by whom?
Henry Newbolt
2a The Jaws series of films is set in and around which island and township?
Amity
2b Which is the oldest of London's Royal Parks?
Greenwich
3a Which punctuation mark is used in mathematics to denote a "factorial"?
Exclamation Mark
3b Roger Delgardo played which character in Dr Who on TV?
The Master
4a What was the name of the 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire which is a prequel to the classic "The Wizard of Oz"?
Wicked
4b The fennec is a species of which creature?
Fox

Spare Questions
1 Sarah Hunter is the 2017 captain of the England women's team in which sport?
Rugby Union
2 What type of creature is a Fer-de-Lance?
Snake
3 Which semi-autobiographical novel by Ernest Hemmingway, first published in 1929, recounts his time as an ambulance driver during World War One?
A Farewell to Arms
4 Who succeeded Claudius as Emperor of Rome?
Nero
5 Wild Turkey and Maker's mark are makes of which type of alcoholic drink?
Bourbon