Tuesday 30th October 2018
Set by Old Bangers (Liverpool) - Answers correct as at September 2017

Round One
1A Which conservation organisation is the UK's largest non-commercial membership organisation?
National Trust
1B What is the birthstone for May?
Emerald
2A In 2011, which African country became independent after a long running civil war?
South Sudan
2B In 2018 Native River won the 90th running of which horserace?
Cheltenham Gold Cup
3A With a population of 540,000 people by 1901, which English city was dubbed 'Cottonopolis'?
Manchester
3B What name was given to the first day in each month of the Roman calendar?
Calends
4A Which pop star played a private in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in Christopher Nolan's film, Dunkirk?
Harry Styles
4B Which king established the Order of Merit?
Edward VII

Round Two
1A Which brewery produces Sneck Lifter and Crag Rat bitter?
Jennings
1B What is the most populous state capital in the USA?
Phoenix (Arizona)
2A Which actor, who died in 2017, was the only one to appear in all 295 episodes of Last of the Summer Wine?
Peter Sallis
2B Who was President of the Confederate States from 1861-1865?
Jefferson Davis
3A With the Latin name Falco Columbarius, which is the UK's smallest bird of prey?
Merlin
3B Name either of the main blood vessels that carry deoxygenated blood back to the right atrium of the heart,
Vena Cava (Inferior or Superior)
4A From 1689 to1692 Thomas Shadwell was the second person to hold which post?
Poet Laureate
4B On March 29th 2017, the UK invoked article 50 of which European Union Treaty?
Lisbon

Round Three
1A Give a year in the life of the English architect, Joseph Paxton,
1803-1865
1B In electronic engineering and computing, NOT, OR and EXCLUSIVE OR are examples of which type of circuit?
Logic Gates
2A According to Islamic teaching which messenger revealed the Koran to the prophet Mohammed?
Jibril (accept Gabriel)
2B Who wrote the original tale on which the Tchaikovsky ballet The Nutcracker was based?
E T A Hoffmann
3A What is the 3 letter abbreviation of the United Nations' agency founded in 1958 and responsible for the security and safety of shipping and the prevention of pollution by shipping?
IMO
3B Which British engineer held patents for the Radio Direction equipment used in the Battle of Britain, but is best known for transport innovation and his invention of 1959?
4A Which is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?
Sicily
4B The 1974 Eurovision Song Contest won by ABBA was held in which English town or city?
Brighton

Round Four
1A The flag of which European Country is a horizontal tricolour of white at the top, green in the middle and red at the bottom?
Bulgaria
1B Delivered to the US Navy in 2017, the world's largest aircraft carrier is named after which 20th century President?
Gerald Ford
2A The towns of Redditch, Bromsgrove and Evesham are in which county?
Worcestershire
2B A Murder is the collective noun for which creatures?
Crows
3A Who was the oldest man to ascend the throne of England?
William IV
3B Founded in 1821, in which city is McGill University?
Montral
4A Which award winning British author wrote the fiction best sellers NW in 2012 and Swing Time in 2017?
Zadie Smith
4B Which composer 1841-1904 wrote 9 symphonies of which the 9th, written while in the USA, is by far the most well known?
Dvorak

Round Five
1A Which British charity holds an annual World's Biggest Coffee Morning event?
Macmillan (cancer support)
1B What is the birthstone for September?
Sapphire
2A Which Asian country became the first new sovereign state of the 21st century?
East Timor
2B Name any of the Russian cities in which England played their 2018 World Cup Group matches.
Nizhny-Novgorod, Kaliningrad, Volgograd
3A In 1785 where in Scotland did David Dale and Robert Owen establish a new model village?
New Lanark
3B Which English Quarter Day falls on 29th September?
Michaelmas
4A Which US city is the title of a 2017 Kathryn Bigelow film based on a race riot in the 1960s?
Detroit
4B Which is the oldest and highest ranking order of chivalry in the UK?
Order of the Garter

Round Six
1A Which brewery produces Resolution and Pedigree bitter?
Marston
1B Which is the least populous state capital in the USA?
Montpellier (Vermont)
2A Which actor played Father Michael Kerrigan in Jimmy McGovern's TV drama, Broken.
Sean Bean
2B Which city was capital of the Confederate States for most of the American Civil War?
Richmond
3A With the Latin name Haliaeetus Albicilla, which is the UK's largest bird of prey?
Sea eagle (accept white tailed eagle)
3B The Olfactory and Optic are two of a group of which 12 paired nerves in the human body?
Cranial Nerves
4A At 42 years, who has served as Poet Laureate for the longest period?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
4B French Minister for Foreign Affairs 2004-5, who became the leader of the EU Commission negotiating team for Brexit?
Michel Barnier
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Round Seven
1A Give a year in the life of the English architect, John Nash.
1752-1835
1B In engineering, the Poise and the Stokes are units used in the measurement of which property of a fluid?
Viscosity
2A According to Christian teaching, who denied knowing Christ three times on the day of his arrest and Crucifixion?
Peter (accept Simon or Simon Peter)
2B Who wrote the original story on which the Tchaikovsky opera The Queen of Spades was based?
Alexander Pushkin
3A What is the 3 letter abbreviation of the first United Nations' agency to be founded and responsible for advancing opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work?
ILO
3B Which English theoretical physicist effectively reconciled the theory of Relativity with Quantum theory? In 1933 he shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with Erwin Schrödinger.
Paul Dirac
4A In the Roman era, copper was primarily mined on which Mediterranean island?
Cyprus
4B Following their win, the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest will be held in which country?
Israel

Round Eight
1A Founded in 1958 in which city is Monash University?
Melbourne
1B The flag of which European Country is 2 wide horizontal carmine bands separated by a central narrow white band?
Latvia
2A Launched in 2017, which aircraft carrier is the largest warship built for the Royal Navy?
HMS Queen Elizabeth
2B The towns of Saffron Walden, Grays and Billericay are in which county?
Essex
3A A Watch is the collective noun for which creatures?
Nightingales
3B Who was the youngest person to become King of England?
Henry VI
4A Which popular US author wrote the fiction best sellers The Racketeer in 2012 and The Rooster Bar in 2017?
John Grisham
4B Which composer 1840-1893 published 7 symphonies only one of which, Manfred, had a name rather than a number?
Tchaikovsky

Spare Questions
1 What is measured on the Scoville scale?
Hotness of Chillies
2 Delta Force is the American equivalent of which British regiment?
SAS
3 Which Strait separates Australia and Papua New Guinea?
Torres
4 Which ex-footballer is a co-presenter on the TV programme, Homes Under the Hammer?
Dion Dublin