Monday 29th January 2018
Set by Ormskirk

Round 1
1a What name was given to the women who used to sit knitting by the guillotine during the French Revolution? TRICOTEUSE
1b Which element, atomic number 42, has the chemical symbol Mo? MOLYBDENUM
2a In which African country is the city of Ibadan? NIGERIA
2b Which golfer won the US Masters six times between 1963 and 1986, the most by any player? JACK NICKLAUS
3a Who played Paul McCartney’s granddad in the film A Hard Day’s Night? WILFRID BRAMBELL
3b What is the smaller and slimmer relative of the dragonfly called? DAMSELFLY
4a Which fictional character is crowned ‘Pope of Fools’, in an 1831 novel, originally written in French? QUASIMODO
4b In which city is ‘La Fenice’ opera house? VENICE

Round 2
1a Which architect presented TVs Restoration Man and The Empty Homes Show? GEORGE CLARKE
1b What is the first name of the philosopher born in 1928 whose surname is Chomsky? NOAM (accept AVRAM)
2a Whose 2010 autobiography was entitled A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future? MICHAEL J FOX
2b What was the stage name of musician J P Richardson Junior (1930-1959)? THE BIG BOPPER
3a Pen y Fan is the highest peak in which mountain range? BRECON BEACONS
3b In what specific gymnastic discipline might a male athlete perform an Iron Cross? RINGS
4a Who currently holds the position of First Lord of the Treasury? THERESA MAY
4b In Japanese cooking, what kind of food is Nori? SEAWEED

Round 3
1a The Tarka Line runs from Exeter through Crediton to which town on the North Devon coast which lies on the river Taw? BARNSTAPLE
1b Which sport uses the terms ‘Points in the Paint’ and ‘Double dribble’? BASKETBALL
2a Which English king suppressed John Oldcastle and the Lollards? HENRY V
2b In the drink ‘gin and it’, what is the ‘it’? (ITALIAN) VERMOUTH
3a The Russian port of Kaliningrad was known by what name when it was part of Prussia? KÖNIGSBERG
3b What does an Ishihara test detect? COLOUR BLINDNESS
4a Which layer of the Earth’s atmosphere lies between the troposphere and the mesosphere? STRATOSPHERE
4b Sports teams representing which Catholic University in South Bend Indiana are known as the Fighting Irish? NOTRE DAME

Round 4
1a Leopold Bloom is a central character in which novel? ULYSSES
1b Of which The Zutons song did Amy Winehouse do a cover version in 2007? VALERIE
2a Which actress played the part of Dawn, Beryl’s original flatmate, in the early episodes of The Liver Birds? PAULINE COLLINS
2b The chough is a member of which bird family? CROW
3a In the works of Shakespeare whose servants included Nathaniel, Joseph, Nicholas, Philip, Curtis and Peter? PETRUCHIO (THE TAMING OF THE SHREW)
3b Who performed a guitar solo of God Save the Queen from the roof of Buckingham Palace during the Golden Jubilee in 2002? BRIAN MAY
4a Casino Royale in 2006 was the first time in a James Bond film that which character did not appear? MISS MONEYPENNY
4b Which monarch founded the Duchy of Cornwall in 1337? EDWARD III

Round 5
1a Which is the highest peak in the Mountains of Mourne? SLIEVE DONARD
1b What sport replaced Military Patrol in the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Olympics? BIATHLON
2a Who did Norman Lamont succeed as Chancellor of the Exchequer? JOHN MAJOR
2b What is the name of the Italian bacon made of dry pork belly meat that is salt cured and spiced with black pepper? PANCETTA
3a Which wine expert appeared regularly on TVs Saturday Kitchen Live and presented The Secret Supper Club? OLLY SMITH
3b What is the first name of the physicist born in 1887 whose surname was Schrödinger? ERWIN (accept RUDOLF, JOSEF or ALEXANDER)
4a Whose 2013 autobiography was called Before the Year Dot? JUNE BROWN
4b Which country singer, who died in 2002, voluntarily gave up his seat to the Big Bopper, who was suffering from flu, on the flight that killed all passengers including Buddy Holly in 1959? WAYLON JENNINGS

Round 6
1a In a work of Shakespeare Benvolio was whose cousin and his best friend? ROMEO
1b Which band played from the roof of Buckingham Palace in the Diamond Jubilee Concert in 2012 changing a line of one of their songs to ‘Our house, in the middle of one’s street’? MADNESS
2a Which James Bond regular, who played the part of M, died just before he was due to film his scenes in For You Eyes Only? BERNARD LEE
2b The three-letter abbreviations for the five classes of appointment to the Order of the British Empire are MBE, OBE, CBE, KBE (or DBE) and which other? GBE
3a The South West Coast Path runs from near Poole in Dorset to which Somerset town? MINEHEAD
3b Which sport uses the terms ‘Chain Gang’ and ‘Nickel Defense’? AMERICAN FOOTBALL
4a Joan, 4th Countess of Kent also known as ‘The Fair Maid of Kent’, was the mother of which English king? RICHARD II
4b A Gibson cocktail is made with gin and vermouth and usually garnished with what? (PICKLED) ONION

Round 7
1a Which European capital city was known as Pressburg prior to 1919? BRATISLAVA
1b What is detected in a Gravindex test? PREGNANCY
2a Which gas makes up just under 1% of the Earth’s atmosphere? ARGON
2b What is the nickname of the New Zealand men’s basketball team? TALL BLACKS
3a Charles Ryder is a central character in which novel? BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
3b Of which Neil Diamond song did UB40 do a cover version in 1983? RED RED WINE
4a In which 1980s TV series, set in the 1920s and 1930s, did Nerys Hughes play the character Megan Roberts? THE DISTRICT NURSE
4b The yellowhammer is a member of which family of birds? BUNTING

Round 8
1a Who played Sam in the film Casablanca? DOOLEY WILSON
1b The female of which species of spider has a red hourglass shape on the underside of its abdomen? BLACK WIDOW
2a Who wrote the 1881 novel The Prince and the Pauper? MARK TWAIN
2b Part of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, what is the name of the opera house located on Broadway at Lincoln Square in the Upper West Side of Manhattan? METROPOLITAN
(accept THE MET)
3a What name was given to the carts that were used to bring victims to the guillotine during the French Revolution? TUMBRELS
3b Which element, atomic number 45, has the chemical symbol Rh? RHODIUM
4a In which African country is the city of Bulawayo? ZIMBABWE
4b Which Australian golfer has lost in a play-off for all four major Championships between 1984 and 1993? GREG NORMAN

Spare Questions
1 In which city did poet Dylan Thomas die in 1953? NEW YORK
2 Who was elected Mayor of London in 2016? SADIQ KHAN
3 In which French city would you find the Promenade des Anglais and the Quai des États-Unis? NICE
4 The title of a TV comedy series starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus denotes her political position. Name the series or the position. VEEP / VICE PRESIDENT