Monday 5th March 2018
Set by Warrington

Round 1
1a Who founded the Death Row record label?
Dr Dre
1b Who is the Greek goddess of witchcraft and black magic?
Hecate
2a In which town do Raith Rovers football club play their home games?
Kirkcaldy
2b Who co-created the comedy series "The Office" and "Extras" with Ricky Gervais?
Stephen Merchant
3a In the laws of inheritance, what term is given to an heir whose right to inherit may be set aside by the birth of somebody with a better legal right?
Heir Presumptive
3b The Ghan railway runs from Adelaide to which other city?
Darwin
4a What derisive nickname is given to an expensive 4x4 car which is driven as a status symbol in an urban environment?
Chelsea Tractor
4b Tom Stoppard wrote "The Real Inspector Hound" which parodies which play by Agatha Christie?
The Mousetrap

Round 2
1a At which castle was Mary, Queen of Scots, executed?
Fotheringhay
1b What is the literal English translation of the French term "Nouvelle Vague"?
New Wave
2a Who composed the opera "Faust", which is based on a poem by Goethe? Put year in
Gounod
2b Yellow eyed, chinstrap and Magellanic are all species of which bird
Penguin
3a Which Finnish motor-racing driver won his only Formula One World Championship in 1982?
Keke Rosberg
3b In computing for what does the letter "F" stand for in the acronym "FTP"?
File (Transfer Protocol)
4a In the USA, the Memorial Day holiday falls on the last Monday in which month?
May
4b Two Central American countries do not have coastlines on both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Name either?
Belize (Caribbean) and El Salvador (Pacific)

Round 3
1a In Greek mythology who was the goddess of agriculture, fertility, sacred law and the harvest?
Demeter
1b Who invented the Cotton Gin in 1793?
Eli Whitney
2a Who wrote the sit-coms "Butterflies" and "The Liver Birds"?
Carla Lane
2b Rado and Longines are manufacturers of what everyday item?
Watches
3a Which city was the first, in Asia to have an underground railway system, it being opened in 1927?
Tokyo
3b In World War 2 the code name "Moonlight Sonata" was given to which German operation?
The Raid on Coventry
4a Which play was written by Ronald Harwood based upon his experiences working for Sir Donald Wolfit?
The Dresser
4b Which pale-blue wild flower has the Latin name Myosotis scorpiodes?
Forget-me-Not

Round 4
1a What is the literal English translation of the French term "Mange tout"?
Eat All
1b Graham McPherson is the real name of the lead singer of which group?
Madbess 2a
Which is the largest of the corvids to be found in Britain?
Raven
2b In the Scottish Premier League, in which town do Ross County play their home games?
Dingwall
3a In computing, for what does the abbreviation DOS stand?
Disk Operating System
3b If spear is used to refer to the male side of the family, what word is used to refer to the female?
Distaff
4a Which country is separated from Cuba by the Windward Passage?
Haiti
4b In the euphemism, to bribe somebody is to do what to somebody's palm?
Grease It

Round 5
1a Who is Angelina Jolie's father?
Jon Voight
1b Who was the founder of the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust and founding chair of the World-Wide Life Fund for Nature, designing its panda logo?
Sir Peter Scott
2a Which politician wrote the autobiographical ‘The Course of my Life’ in 1998?
Edward Heath
2b Cornelio Saavedra who as President of the Primera Junta in 1810 is regarded as the first president of which modern day South American country?
Argentina
3a Holding the post from 2013 to date, who is the 11th holder of the post of the UK's Chief Rabbi?
Ephraim Mirvis
3b Steve Strange was the singer with which group whose big hit was ‘Fade to Grey’ in 1980?
Visage
4a Which British avant-garde movement was formed in 1914 by Wyndham Lewis and is closely related to Futurism?
Vorticism
4b Mary Peters, won gold at what event at the 1972 Olympics?
Pentathlon

Round 6
1a The character of Superintendent Ted Hastings in Line of Duty is played by which actor?
Adrian Dunbar
1b Which scientist invented the dynamo?
Michael Faraday
2a Sam Mendes directed which 1999 Academy Award winning movie?
American Beauty
2b Which household product, with a long running TV advert featuring Labrador puppies, was launched from its maker’s factory in St Andrews Road, Walthamstow in 1945?
Andrex toilet paper
3a Yann Martel wrote which novel, the 2002 winner of the Man Booker Prize?
Life of Pi
3b In World War 2, what was Operation Exodus?
Repatriation of Prisoners of War
4a Named after France, this element can be melted in the hand. It has the longest liquid range of all the elements, and is used in semi- conductors. What is it?
Gallium
4b What is the more common name for the flower Leontopodium Alpinium?
Edelweiss

Round 7
1a King Edward the Second was murdered in 1327 in which English Castle?
Berkeley Castle
1b Kenneth Branagh and Greg Wise are the first and second husbands of which actress?
Emma Thompson
2a Who composed the operas "Djamlieh" and "Carmen"?
Georges Bizet
2b Which politician wrote the autobiographical ‘Hard Choices’?
Hillary Clinton
3a Whose British record of three Formula 1 world championships did Lewis Hamilton equal in 2015?
Jackie Stewart
3b Who is the Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool?
Malcolm McMahon
4a In which month is ANZAC day celebrated in New Zealand?
April
4b Which group of English Post-impressionist painters was named after an area of London where the artist Walter Sickert had his studio?
Camden Town Group

Round 8
1a Biba was the name of which designer’s fashion shop in the 1960's?
Barbra Hulanicki
1b For which novel did John Steinbeck win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1940?
The Grapes of Wrath
2a Which country was the first to give women the vote?
New Zealand (1893)
2b Which 1991 Jonathan Demme film won Oscars for best picture, actor, actress, director and screenplay?
The Silence of the Lambs
3a Who founded the Roc-A-Fella record label?
Jay-Z
3b Which actor played the former father-in-law, Charlie Hungerford, of the title character, in the TV series Bergerac?
Terence Alexander
4a In which specific rowing event did Steve Redgrave win his first Olympic Gold Medal?
Coxed Fours
4b Which element, atomic number 79, is the most malleable of all metals?
Gold

Spare Questions
1 Black Opium, Manifesto and L'Homme Elegance are among the fragrances of which fashion house?
Yves St Lauren
2 The shoreline of which gulf is divided between four countries: Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia?
Aqaba
3 Which sportsman wrote an autobiography in 2009 called "Beware of the Dog"?
Brian Moore
4 Which mythical animal was said to kill with a look?
Basilisk
5 In darts, how many does a player score when throwing a 'breakfast' or 'bed & breakfast'?
26 (20 + 5 + 1 = 26; scored when trying to get three darts in the 20)