Monday 10th September 2018
Set by Warrington (Answers correct as at January 2018)

Round 1
1a What was the operation name given to the German invasion of Crete carried out in May 1941?
Mercury (accept Merkur)
1b For 30 years, poet Philip Larkin was the librarian of which university?
Hull
2a The Greek nymph Syrinx, when pursued by which god, was saved by being changed into water reeds?
Pan
2b Oncology is the study of which disease?
Cancer
3a What is the home ground of the Harlequins rugby union team?
Twickenham Stoop
3b Which French artist lived with Vincent van Gogh in the south of France for several months in the 1880s?
Paul Gauguin
4a Armagnac is a form of which spirit?
Brandy
4b Which nationalist leader was known as "The Uncrowned King of Ireland"?
Charles Parnell

Round 2
1a Which car manufacturer made a mini SUV called the "Note"?
Nissan
1b Which is the largest city, by population, in the Canadian Province of British Columbia?
Vancouver
2a Which Welsh-born person received a 36-year prison sentence in the US in 2013 for leaking government documents, but was subsequently pardoned?
Chelsea (or Bradley) Manning
2b The fictional school of Lowood featured in which 1847 novel by Charlotte Bronte?
Jane Eyre
3a Two big cats (of different genus) cannot roar because of their type of larynx. Name either?
Cheetah or Snow Leopard (Ounce)
3b Named after the Greek for ‘unstable’, what is the rarest naturally occurring element in the world?
Astatine
4a Who played the Penguin in the 1960's TV series of "Batman"?
Burgess Meredith
4b What is the printing technique where the image is incised into a surface and the sunken area holds the ink? It is the opposite of relief printing.
Intaglio

Round 3
1a Of Which town did John Betjeman say "isn't fit for humans now" in a poem about it?
Slough
1b In 2003 Ben Elton wrote which compilation musical based on the music of Rod Stewart?
Tonight’s The Night
2a
What would you be suffering from if you had an epistaxis?
A Nosebleed
2b At the 2014 Football World Cup finals, which country won the first match?
Brazil (beating Croatia)
3a Which artist was the wife of fellow Mexican artist Diego Rivera?
Frida Kahlo
3b What is the name of the skunk in the 1942 Disney animated film "Bambi"?
Flower
4a In 1923 who was portrayed as "The Wickedest man in the World" in the John Bull magazine, an assertion to be repeated in the national press?
Aleister Crowley
4b Who wrote the autobiography "Moab is my Washpot"?
Stephen Fry

Round 4
1a What is the capital of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador?
St John’s
1b What was the name of the allied operation to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich in World War 2?
Operation Anthropoid
2a Which George Eliot novel is subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life"?
Middlemarch
2b In Greek mythology who gave Apollo his lyre?
Hermes
3a Which chemical element takes its name from the Latin word for lime?
Calcium
3b What is the home ground of Saracens rugby union Premiership team?
Allianz Park
4a The figures of "The Virgin Mary and the dead Jesus Christ" are normally found in which type of sculpture?
Pieta
4b Which wormwood based drink was created by Doctor Pierre Ordinaire in 1792?
Absinthe

Round 5
1a What was the forename of Nora Batty’s husband, played by the late Joe Gladwyn in early episodes of Last of the Summer Wine?
Wally or Walter
1b The husband of which US Figure skater, was jailed in 1994 after organising an attack on Nancy Kerrigan in an attempt to force her out of the US Olympic team?
Tonya Harding
2a Which European country has the oldest national flag?
Denmark
2b Who portrayed Johnny Cash in the 2005 film "Walk the Line"?
Joaquin Phoenix
3a Which British composer, who lived from 1886 to 1957, wrote the suites "From Meadow to Mayfair", "Springtime" and "London Again"?
Eric Coates
3b What is the English meaning of the Latin expression "compos mentis"
Of Sound Mind
4a What name is given to the study of the physics of friction?
Tribophysics (accept Tribolgy)
4b Who was the deputy leader of the Labour party between 1980 and 1983?
Dennis Healey

Round 6
1a Who was enthroned as Archbishop of Liverpool in April 2014?
Malcolm McMahon
1b Which musical, with a book by Dale Wassermann and lyrics by Joe Darion and music by Mitch Leigh is based upon the novel Don Quixote?
Man of La Mancha
2a The Libor rate rigging scandal emerged during 2012, but for what does the "O" stand for in Libor?
Offered
2b Which country won football’s Copa America in both 2015 and 2016, the only times they have ever won it?
Chile
3a In which English county would you find Maiden Castle?
Dorset
3b What was the name of the alley cat in the film "The Aristocats"?
Thomas O'Malley
4a In 1972, which English group got to no.2 in the charts with ‘Children of the Revolution’?
T.Rex
4b Look Back in Hunger is whose 2010 autobiography?
Jo Brand

Round 7
1a Which motor manufacturer produces the 7-seat “Sharan” MPV?
Volkswagen
1b Lesley Joseph is best known for the role of which character in the sitcom "Birds of a Feather"?
Dorien (Green)
2a Which outlaw was shot and killed by Robert Ford, a member of his gang, for a $10,000 reward?
Jesse James
2b The flag of which European country is similar to the Dutch flag apart from a slight change of colour tone
Luxembourg
3a What is the more common name for the Amur tiger?
Siberian Tiger
3b The 1964 work, “The Execution of Stepan Rasin”, and the 1955 suite "The Gadfly" are works by which Russian Composer?
Dmitri Shostakovich
4a Larry Storch was the second actor to play Batman's enemy “The Joker” on TV, who was the first?
Cesar Romero
4b The Nobel Prize winning physicist, Leon Lederman called it "The God Particle", but by what name is it officially known?
Higgs-Boson Particle

Round 8
1a Who has won more Olympic gold medals than any other person with 23 medals in total?
Michael Phelps
1b Who was the leader of the "Congregation for the Defence of the Faith" until 2003?
Cardinal Josef Ratzinger (accept Pope Benedict XVI)
2a Who portrayed rock singer "Ian Dury" in the film "Sex and Drugs and Rock N Roll"?
Andy Serkis
2b In the banking payment acronym BACS, for what does the “S” stand?
Services (Bankers’ Automated Clearing Services)
3a If you are accused of a crime, you may have an ‘alibi’. What does the Latin word ‘alibi’ mean?
Elsewhere
3b In which English county would you find Leeds Castle?
Kent
4a Name the Member of Parliament for East Dunbartonshire who is the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats?
Jo Swinson
4b Which group had a number two UK hit with the single "Rasputin" in 1978?
Boney M

Spare Questions
1 Who is the president of the European Central Bank?
Mario Draghi
2 In which county is Repton school?
Derbyshire
3 Who was the first person to win the Booker prize for fiction twice?
J.M.Coetzee (1983 & 1999)
4 The Green Plover is an alternative name for which British bird?
Lapwing or Peewit
5 Who won a Bafta for "Leading Actress" in 2016 for her performance in "Doctor Foster"?
Suranne Jones