Tuesday 6th March 2018
Set by Mersey Bowmen (Liverpool)

Round One
1A What, in the indigenous peoples of the mid and south west states of USA, is the female counterpart of a 'sannup'?
SQUAW
1B Who played 006 in the film GoldenEye?
SEAN BEAN
2A The symptoms of which sudden attack to the body can be diagnosed with the help of the FAST Test?
STROKE
2B What is the purpose of the crimped edge of a Cornish pasty?
TO HOLD THE PASTY (and then discard as the miner's hands may have poisonous substances on them)
3A Who was the original host of Stars in Your Eyes?
LESLIE CROWTHER
3B Who wrote the novel Exodus?
LEON URIS
4A Who directed the film version of Exodus in 1960?
OTTO PREMINGER
4B Which song contains the following lines - Someday I'll wish upon a star and wake up where the clouds are far behind me?
OVER THE RAINBOW

Round Two
1A Who composed the opera Boris Godunov ?
MODEST MUSSORGSKY
1B What did soldiers, historically, rest on a linstock?
A MUSKET (accept rifle)
2A Which northern town is named after a miner's leader?
PETERLEE
2B Who is the patron saint of grocers?
ST MICHAEL
3A Mont Pelee is a volcano on which island?
MARTINIQUE
3B Who in films and on TV rode a horse called Scout?
TONTO
4A What is the meaning of the word Pravda?
TRUTH
4B Pygmalion was a king in which one time country?
CYPRUS

Round Three
1A Who is Marvin Lee Aday better known as?
MEATLOAF
1B Which US sitcom's characters include Sheridon, Leonard and Penny?
THE BIG BANG THEORY
2A Which series of Anthony Trollope books includes Lady Glencora, Plantagenet and Phineas Finn?
THE PALLISERS
2B Which Dr Who was born in Scotland Road Liverpool in 1934?
TOM BAKER
3A Who succeeded Winston Churchill as Prime Minister in 1955?
ANTHONY EDEN
3B In soccer, the Rome Derby is played between Roma and which other team?
LAZIO
4A Carole Lombard was killed in a plane crash in 1942. Who was her famous husband at the time?
CLARK GABLE
4B What was the name of the supply route used by the Viet Cong to get into South Vietnam?
HO CHI MINH TRAIL

Round Four
1A In what year was British Summer Time introduced?
1916
1B What was the name of Hannibal's father?
HAMILCAR (HAMILCAR BARCA)
2A What was the British equivalent of the French Pari Mutuel?
THE TOTE
2B Who is the oldest of the Marx Brothers?
CHICO (Leonard)
3A Which British city gives its name to a car model, a style of shoe and a kind of marmalade?
OXFORD
3B Who was the first man to fly over the North Pole?
RICHARD E BYRD
4A In which of Shakespeare's plays would you find a reference to tennis?
HENRY V
4B In which country does the Berg wind blow?
SOUTH AFRICA

Round Five
1A What is the fastest creature on two legs?
AN OSTRICH
1B In the longest tennis match in history who lost the match with a final set score of 68/70?
NICHOLAS MAHUT
2A Which city in Russia site of the 2014 Winter Olympics will also be a host city in the 2018 Football World Cup?
SOCHI
2B What is the name for the ventral part of a tortoise or turtle's carapace, it is also the name for the front of a man's dress shirt?
PLASTRON
3A Dapsang is another name for which well known mountain in the Karakorums?
K2 or MOUNT GODWIN-AUSTIN
3B The oldest Military Charity, what does the second S stand for in the acronym SSAFA?
SAILORS (Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association)
4A In which cafe did the characters in Friends meet in every episode?
CENTRAL PERK
4B Who is the only singer to have achieved UK no 1 singles in the 1950s, 1960's, 1970's, 1980's and 1990's?
SIR CLIFF RICHARD

Round Six
1A In the shipping forecast which sea area lies between Irish Sea and Rockall?
SHANNON
1B In the Land of the Lotus Eaters it was always what time of day?
AFTERNOON
2A Which one time race course is now the site of an airport?
GATWICK
2B Who killed Grendel?
BEOWOLF
3A Which animal has the highest known blood pressure?
GIRAFFE
3B Which is the largest English county with no coastline?
SHROPSHIRE
4A Which actress was the first to appear on a postage stamp?
GRACE KELLY
4B The film Sex & Drugs and Rock & Roll is based on the life of which rock singer who died in 2000?
IAN DURY

Round Seven
1A Who was imprisoned in the Chateau d'lf?
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (EDMOND DANTES)
1B What specifically, do Bobby Moore, Darren Fletcher and Aaron Ramsay all have in common?
THEY ARE ALL THE YOUNGEST TO CAPTAIN A SPORTS TEAM FOR THEIR COUNTRY
2A Grapes are used for wine, plums for slivovitz - what is used for tequila?
AGAVE (not CACTUS)
2B Who was the Italian physicist whose discovery of the twitching of frogs legs in an electric field contributed towards the foundation of bio-electromagnetics?
LUIGI GALVANI
3A An ancho is what sort of food?
IT IS A DRIED MEXICAN PEPPER
3B Who was the chief minister of Louis XIII who established the Acadamie Francaise?
CARDINAL RICHELIEU
4A Which is the second most spoken language in Germany?
TURKISH
4B To whom was Frank Muir referring when he coined the phrase 'The thinking man's crumpet'?
JOAN BAKEWELL

Round Eight
1A Which general was mistakenly shot by his own side at the Battle of Chancellorsville in the American Civil War?
THOMAS (STONEWALL) JACKSON
1B Symphony No 45 ends with just two violinist left after all the other musicians have left, written in 1772 who is the composer?
JOSEPH HAYDN
2A What is the name of the Dutch pilot who invented a device so that gunfire missed the propeller
ANTONY FOKKER
2B What is the recognised name of the spotted beetle known collectively as a 'loveliness' ?
LADYBIRD
3A Who wrote the Twilight series of vampire romance books?
STEPHANIE MEYER
3B What is the Australian slang term for a sausage?
SNAG
4A Married to Laurence Olivier for 20 years she was born in Darjeeling what is her name?
VIVIENNE LEIGH
4B What name is given to the number one followed by 100 zeros?
GOOGOL

Spares Questions
1 A marron glace is a sugared what?
CHESTNUT
2 In which raft did explorer Thor Heyerdahl sail from Peru to Polynesia in 1947?
KON-TIKI
3 Which fictional school was invented by cartoonist Ronald Searle?
ST. TRINIAN'S
4 What name is given to the Lord Chancellor's seat in the House of Lords?
WOOLSACK
5 In what game might a bidding box be used?
BRIDGE