Tuesday 9th October 2018
Set by Groundhogs (Liverpool) - Answers correct as at January 2018

Round One
1A Which football club won 6 promotions from 2005 to 2014 taking them from the North West Counties League to Football League One?
Fleetwood
1B In 1986 the American Parents Music Resource Center committee put an ‘explicit lyrics’ warning on which musician’s Jazz from Hell album despite it being an instrumental?
Frank Zappa
2A Which author wrote The Hand of Ethelberta, The Well-Beloved and Under the Greenwood Tree?
Thomas Hardy
2B Who, at 39, became the youngest president in France's history in May 2017 and the youngest leader since Napoleon?
Emmanuel Macron
3A Which is the oldest quiz still broadcast on British radio? It started in 1947.
Round Britain Quiz
3B Passau in Bavaria is situated at the confluence of the Inn and the Ilz with which major river?
The Danube
4A After the sharpness of its leaves, what common name is often given to Sansevieria Trifasciata, native to tropical West Africa?
Mother-in-Law’s Tongue
4B What 1714 act was read literally, now metaphorically?
The Riot Act

Round Two
1A In May 1977 Rod Stewart topped the UK singles charts with The First Cut Is The Deepest, but it is believed that it was outsold that week by which other song banned by both the BBC and IBA?
God Save The Queen (by the Sex Pistols)
1B In Italian football what is the name of the trophy awarded to the club who win Serie A?
Scudetto
2A In which country was the long ruling president deposed in November 2017 by a man nicknamed ‘The Crocodile’?
Zimbabwe
2B Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, published in 2009, is the account of whose rise to power in the court of Henry VIII?
Thomas Cromwell
3A The city of Lyon in France is situated at the confluence of the River Saone and which other river?
The Rhone
3B Who, as at November 2017, presents the Radio 2 show Pick of the Pops?
Paul Gambaccini
4A Who was UN secretary-general from 1972 to 1981 and then became president of his country? He was criticised for his record during World War 2.
Kurt Waldheim
4B Which hormone can be administered to induce childbirth?
Oxytocin

Round Three
1A What was Lady Chatterley’s first name in D.H. Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover?
Constance
1B Which presidential press secretary introduced the concept of 'alternative facts' after Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2017?
Kellyanne Conway
2A Name one of the three cricket County Championship teams that have never won the title.
Somerset, Northamptonshire or Gloucestershire
2B Which artist had an ecstatic revelation at Perpignan railway station in 1963?
Salvador Dali
3A What are subject to the Kimberley Process?
Diamonds
3B 'The Soviet troops are assisting the people to retain their independence from imperialism' were words in the London Daily Worker about which country in 1956?
Hungary
4A In which children's TV show did ‘Cookie’ infamously become ‘Socks’ in 2007?
Blue Peter
4B Tyneham in Dorset, Imber in Wiltshire, Tide Mills in East Sussex and St Kilda in the Outer Hebrides are examples of what?
Abandoned settlements (accept similar, eg derelict villages)

Round Four
1A Barack Obama and which other US President were born west of the Rockies?
Richard Nixon
1B In his satirical essay of 1729, Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal is that the poverty of the Irish be alleviated by the consumption of what?
Babies (accept children)
2A Whose track One Dance , became the first to have a billion plays on the music streaming service 'Spotify'?
Drake
2B Which golfer, from Southport, won the Race to Dubai (the European Tour’s order of merit) in 2017?
Tommy Fleetwood
3A Which British politician said, in a speech in May 1945, “This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organising genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time”?
Aneurin Bevan
3B Malachite, often used as a gemstone, is a minor ore of which metal?
Copper
4A What is the name of the area in Caithness and Sutherland that is the largest blanket bog in Europe?
The Flow (Country)
4B Which comedian, born in 1983, has presented Have I Got News For You, Hair (the search for Britain’s Best amateur hair stylist) and How’d You Get So Rich ? She also won series 3 of Taskmaster in 2016.
Katherine Ryan

Round Five
1A Born Michel Shaloub in 1932, which actor led a successful professional bridge team?
Omar Sharif
1B Which country’s capital city is Bujumbura?
Burundi
2A Courtaulds in Preston was, until the 1980’s, home to the largest factory in Europe producing which fibre made from cellulose and originally called 'artificial silk'?
Rayon
2B Which word for a large sepulchre is derived from the name of a king of Caria whose monument stood at Halicarnassus?
Mausoleum
3A What was the composer Mussorgsky’s first name?
Modest
3B What is the surname of the father and son who won Formula One titles in 1982 and 2016 respectively?
Rosberg
4A Who 'foresees his death' in a poem by Yeats?
An Irish Airman (accept Airman)
4B According to Karl Marx, what was 'the riddle of history solved'?
Communism

Round Six
1A Ajman is the smallest member of which confederation?
United Arab Emirates (accept UAE)
1B Which actor’s film roles include Elizabeth Taylor, Lady Jane Grey, Enid Blyton and the future Queen Mother?
Helena Bonham Carter
2A Which word derives from the Spanish for ‘snow-capped’ and is applied to mountain ranges in Spain and the USA?
Nevada
2B What does the letter ‘D’ stand for in the Vaping acronym E.N.D.S?
Delivery (Electronic Nicotine Delivery System)
3A The classic one-day cycling race in April, which starts in Paris, finishes in which other city? It is famous for its rough terrain and cobblestones.
Roubaix
3B What was the composer Rimsky-Korsakov’s first name?
Nikolai
4A Jonathon Bartley is co-leader of which political party?
Green Party (with Caroline Lucas)
4B What links Arachne, Penelope, the Lady of Shalott, Silas Marner and Nick Bottom?
They are all weavers

Round Seven
1A According to German myth, which rock on the eastern bank of the River Rhine near St Goarshausen was home to, and shared its name with, one of the Rhine maidens?
Lorelei
1B In legend, what did the Fisher King guard?
The Holy Grail
2A Based in West Yorkshire which brewery has produced the CAMRA Supreme Champion Beer on five occasions since 1982?
Timothy Taylor
2B William Cobbett coined what disparaging nickname for London in the 1820s?
The Great Wen (A ‘wen’ is a sebaceous cyst)
3A Which comedian's novels include Time For Bed and Whatever Love Means ?
David Baddiel
3B Weston's, whose award winning Ciders include Stowford Press, Mortimer’s Orchard and Old Rosie are based in which county?
Herefordshire
4A What anti-hunting group was founded in 1924? Its current president is Bill Oddie
League Against Cruel Sports
4B Near which American city is the music festival South By Southwest?
Austin (in Texas)

Round Eight
1A What links the Hollywood Hills and the Santa Monica Mountains via David Lynch?
Mulholland Drive
1B Founded in 1845, The Straits Times is an English language newspaper published in which Asian country?
Singapore
2A The president of which Asian Country lives in the Blue House?
South Korea
2B Ashtanga, Anusara, Bikram and Iyengar are names given to various styles of what?
Yoga
3A English, Dutch, blind and Vickrey are all types of what?
Auction
3B Whose book A Book For Her published in 2015 was based on her 2013 Edinburgh Festival award winning comedy show A Bic For Her ?
Bridget Christie
4A Which band, whose lead singer is Tim Burgess, has had 10 top 10 albums, including 3 number ones, between 1990 and 2017?
Charlatans
4B Name one of the three reference days of a Roman Month.
Kalends, Nones or Ides

Spare Questions
1 What board game was the first to have a computer world champion?
Draughts (accept Checkers)
2 Which British economist married the ballerina Lydia Lopkova in 1925?
John Maynard Keynes
3Which British musical group have the motto 'A happy face, a thumping bass, for a lovin’ race'? In 1990 they had a number one hit with Back to Life .
Soul II Soul
4 Which skier from Chorley became the first British man to win a World Cup podium place in the slalom when he finished second at Kitzbuhel in 2017?
Dave Ryding