Monday 1st October 2018
Set by Ormskirk - Answers correct as at July 2017

Round 1
1a Pickett’s Charge took place on the third and final day of which 1863 battle?
GETTYSBURG
1b What type of creature is a mugger?
CROCODILE
2a Which capital city of a state of Australia and the river on which it stands were named after a nineteenth century Governor of New South Wales?
BRISBANE
2b Which orchestral suite, which had the working title Seven Pieces for Large Orchestra, was first performed in September 1918 conducted by Adrian Boult, a friend of the composer?
THE PLANETS (BY HOLST)
3a In which Dickens novel does Sydney Carton appear?
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
3b Which TV detective series (1985-2010) used the same title although its original lead actor died in 1994?
TAGGART
4a What is the nationality of Donald Tusk, President of the European Council?
POLISH
4b Misha was the name of the mascot used for the Summer Olympics held in which city?
MOSCOW

Round 2
1a TriBeCa, SoHo and DUMBO are neighborhoods in which US city?
NEW YORK
1b What is the nationality of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest winner Conchita Wurst?
AUSTRIAN
2a Which island country was invaded by Britain in May 1940 in Operation Fork?
ICELAND
2b What is the highest rank in the British Army?
FIELD MARSHAL
3a Which city is the capital of South Sudan?
JUBA
3b From which song do the words Sometimes its hard to be a woman come?
STAND BY YOUR MAN
4a Which island, now part of France, was part of the Republic of Genoa from 1347 to 1768?
CORSICA
4b An 1851 painting by Emanuel Leutze shows George Washington crossing which river during the Revolutionary War?
DELAWARE

Round 3
1a The name of which footballer who played for Everton and England in the 1980s completes the title of a recent autobiography Cheer Up _____ _____ - an altered version of a line from a Monkees hit?
PETER REID
1b Which actor played the title role in the eight-part 1981drama series Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years?
ROBERT HARDY
2a Which car manufacturer is located in Malvern, Worcestershire?
MORGAN
2b Which team won the 2017 FIFA under 20 World Cup?
ENGLAND
3a Pierre L’Enfant designed the plan for which American city?
WASHINGTON DC
3b Which sportswear firm has the same name as the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet?
KAPPA
4a Which performance poet recalled about his childhood ‘I used to think trees were dirty, because when I was a kid in Salford you’d climb them and come off filthy, it was like you’d been up a chimney’?
JOHN COOPER CLARKE
4b Which actor’s three credited film roles were as Cal Trask, Jim Stark and Jett Rink?
JAMES DEAN

Round 4
1a Which semiconductor manufacturer was founded by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore in 1968?
INTEL
1b Which animal is featured on the badge of the Dutch national football team?
LION
2a Who wrote the plays The Dumb Waiter and The Homecoming?
HAROLD PINTER
2b Who directed the 1925 film Battleship Potemkin?
SERGEI EISENSTEIN
3a The Seychelles gained independence from which nation in 1976?
UNITED KINGDOM
3b
Which chemical element is named after a Greek mythological figure who was made to stand in a lake in the afterworld, surrounded by water, but unable to drink?
TANTALUM
4a Barbara Castle Way is a street in which Lancashire town?
BLACKBURN
4b In which British city is the concert venue Usher Hall?
EDINBURGH

Round 5
1a What form of transport was invented by Dean Kamen in 2001?
SEGWAY
1b What creature appears on the flag of Bhutan?
DRAGON
2a Who wrote the plays Relatively Speaking and Absurd Person Singular?
ALAN AYCKBOURN
2b Who directed the 1938 German documentary film Olympia?
LENI RIEFENSTAHL
3a Who was the chief architect of most public buildings in Brasilia?
OSCAR NIEMEYER
3b Fred Perry won one gold, one silver and four bronze medals in the World Championships in which sport in 1928 and 1929?
TABLE TENNIS
4a The Mersey Sound is an anthology of poems published in 1967 by Roger McGough, Brian Patten and which other poet?
ADRIAN HENRI
4b James Dean Bradfield is the lead vocalist with which rock band?
MANIC STREET PREACHERS

Round 6
1a Which actor’s 2016 memoirs were titled Once a Saint?
IAN OGILVY
1b Who played James Herriot in all 90 episodes of the TV series All Creatures Great and Small?
CHRISTOPHER TIMOTHY
2a Which company produced high-end sports car called Chimaera, Griffith and Tuscan?
TVR
2b Which is the only team to have won the ICC World Twenty 20 twice, in 2012 and 2016?
WEST INDIES
3a From 1884 to 1915 South West Africa was a colony of which country?
GERMANY
3b Which element is named after the inventor of the cyclotron who was awarded the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention?
LAWRENCIUM
4a Which Lancashire town has three railway stations: Barracks, Central and Manchester Road?
BURNLEY
4b In which city was the Haçienda Night Club in the 1980s and 1990s?
MANCHESTER

Round 7
1a Which word completes the names of these neighborhoods in San Francisco: Nob ______, Telegraph _____ and Russian _______?
HILL
1b In 1970 who was the first winner of the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland?
DANA
2a Which nation invaded the Aleutian islands in 1942?
JAPAN
2b Which is the highest rank in the Royal Navy with a title that does not contain the word ‘admiral’?
COMMODORE
3a Which city is the capital of Timor-Leste?
DILI
3b Who duetted with Dolly Parton on the 1983 single Islands in the Stream?
KENNY ROGERS
4a On which Caribbean island was Marie-Josèphe-Rose Tascher de la Pagerie, who later became Empress Joséphine born in 1763?
MARTINIQUE
4b What is the title of the 1855 painting by Ford Madox Brown that shows two emigrants leaving for a new life in Australia?
THE LAST OF ENGLAND

Round 8
1a The 1863 Gettysburg Address opened with the phrase ‘Four score and seven years ago’. To which event does this refer?
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
1b Three crocodilians are native to India. Two are the mugger and the saltwater crocodile. Which is the other?
GHARIAL (or GAVIAL or FISH-EATING )
2a The cities of Milwaukee in Wisconsin and Gary in Indiana stand on which of the Great Lakes?
MICHIGAN
2b Which of the movements of The Planets is performed first?
MARS
3a In which Dickens novel does Abel Magwitch appear?
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
3b Which detective has been played on TV by John Hannah and Ken Stott?
REBUS
4a President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker was born in which country?
LUXEMBOURG
4b Where has the Russian F1 Grand Prix been held since 2014?
SOCHI

Spare Questions
1 The Wizard of Lies, a 2017 TV drama was based on which jailed financier?
BERNIE MADOFF
2 Which North African country was the setting for the planet Tatooine in the Star Wars movies?
TUNISIA
3 In which year was the Twix bar introduced, the Torrey Canyon ran aground and Foinavon won the Grand National?
1967
4 During WW2 in which country was the Mannerheim Line situated?
FINLAND