Tuesday 3rd December 2019
Set Ref – 61B14AFP - Correct as at August 2019

Round 1
1A Which Football League club play home matches at Kingsmeadow in Kingston-upon-Thames AFC WIMBLEDON
1B Which British king married Anne Hyde and later married Mary of Modena? JAMES II
2A Which French landscape artist painted an 1890’s series called The Card Players? PAUL CEZANNE
2B Which Kent brewer, established in 1698, is the oldest surviving brewery in Great Britain? SHEPHERD NEAME
3A What name is given to a fifteenth wedding anniversary? CRYSTAL
3B Steve Rogers is the real name of which comic book superhero? CAPTAIN AMERICA
4A The cheese Limburger is made in which country? BELGIUM
4B Which chemical element has the symbol Sc and the atomic number 21? SCANDIUM

Round 2
1A Which African leader in 2018 was made a World Health Organisation goodwill ambassador? The appointment was revoked within days. ROBERT MUGABE
1B Actress Rachael Stirling, probably best known for BBC dramas such as Tipping the Velvet and The Bletchley Circle, has a more famous mother. Who is her mother? DIANA RIGG
2A Wilma McCann, Emily Jackson and Irene Richardson were the first three victims of which serial killer? PETER SUTCLIFFE/THE YORKSHIRE RIPPER
2B Which word originating from Greek has the literal meaning of “star sailor”? ASTRONAUT
3A Which person won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016 and an Oscar for Best Song in 2000? BOB DYLAN
3B Which member of Cambridge’s losing 1980 Boat Race crew later appeared on television playing Bertie Wooster and Gregory House, amongst other characters? HUGH LAURIE
4A On 5th July 1948 at Park Hospital, Trafford, Greater Manchester, 13-year-old Sylvia Beckingham was treated for acute nephritis, a potentially fatal kidney condition. She recovered, and survived into adult life. What was notable about her treatment? SHE WAS THE FIRST PERSON TREATED ON THE NHS
4B In 2016 research was undertaken in Australia to discover the colour that people found least attractive. Pantone 448c, a shade of greeny brown, won the title. It was then used for the manufacture of what packaging? CIGARETTE PACKETS

Round 3
1A Grocer Jacob Edward (Jack) Cohen and tea merchant and supplier T E Stockwell joined forces in 1924 to form which company? TESCO
1B In which song does the following line appear: “And I was thinking to myself: this could be heaven or this could be hell”? HOTEL CALIFORNIA – THE EAGLES
2A Who is the Conservative MP for the constituency of North-East Somerset? JACOB REES-MOGG
2B In which decade were first and second class postage stamps introduced in the UK? 1960’s (1968)
3A Which poet and author, who died in June 2017, posthumously won the Costa Book of the Year prize for her final poetry collection called “Inside the Wave”? HELEN DUNMORE
3B Where in the UK is the annual Up Helly Aa festival held every January? SHETLAND (ISLANDS)
4A Which man, born in Huyton, Merseyside in 1908, was educated at Liverpool College, served in the RAF during the Second World War and became an Oscar winning actor in 1965? REX HARRISON
4B The Ishihara Test is used for testing for what in humans? COLOUR BLINDNESS

Round 4
1A 1892 saw the start of a process whereby 20 million people entered the USA via which island before it closed in 1954? ELLIS ISLAND
1B In which British city are there districts named Earlsdon, Spon End and Cheysmore? COVENTRY
2A In which country was Florence Nightingale born? ITALY
2B Which British cathedral is the only medieval cathedral in the country with three spires? LICHFIELD
3A Which Liverpool comedian had the catch-phrase “The day war broke out”? ROB WILTON
3B What name is given to a word derived from a person (e.g. Boycott, Leotard, Guillotine)? EPONYM
4A Why the Whales Came, Farm Boy and Private Peaceful are among the novels of which author who was honoured in the Ney Years Honours list in 2018? MICHAEL MORPURGO
4B By what surname was the future Prime Minister known until he became the third Viscount Palmerston in 1802? (Henry John) TEMPLE

Round 5
1A Which Football League club play home matches at Moor Lane, currently known as the Peninsula Stadium for sponsorship purposes? SALFORD CITY FC
1B Which British king secretly married Maria Fitzherbert and later married Caroline of Brunswick? GEORGE IV
2A Which Venetian artist painted Bacchus and Ariadne in the 1520’s? TITIAN
2B The Celtic God of the Sea shares his name with a character in the Magic Roundabout. What is his name? DYLAN
3A What is the traditional gift associated with a 20th wedding anniversary? CHINA
3B Billy Batson is the real name of which comic book superhero? CAPTAIN MARVEL
4A The cheese Jarlsberg is made in which country? NORWAY
4B Which chemical element has the symbol Cs and the atomic number 55? CAESIUM

Round 6
1A Which actress became the first female Doctor Who? JODIE WHITTAKER
1B Actress Rachael Stirling married which musician in 2016? GUY GARVEY (LEAD SINGER WITH ELBOW)
2A Ruth Fuerst, Muriel Eady and Kathleen Maloney were the first three victims of which serial killer? JOHN REGINALD HALLIDAY CHRISTIE
2B What is the Russian word which literally means “fellow traveller”? SPUTNIK
3A Who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 and the Oscar for Best Screenplay in 1938? GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
3B Which British actor competed for England in the diving competition at the 1990 Commonwealth Games? JASON STATHAM
4A The longest speech ever given at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly was made in September 1960, and lasted 4 hours 29 minutes. Who delivered it? FIDEL CASTRO
4B The actress Salma Hayek did it on camera during a 2009 trip to Sierra Leone. In 2016 a report recommended that a ban on doing it in the House of Commons chamber should be lifted. What is it? BREASTFEEDING

Round 7
1A Which confectionery company was founded by Hans Riegel in Bonn? HARIBO
1B In which Beatles song do the following lines appear? “You know it’s up to you, I think it’s only fair. Pride can hurt you too; apologise to her”. SHE LOVES YOU
2A Who is the Conservative MP for the constituency of Hastings and Rye? AMBER RUDD
2B As at January 2018, what is the top rate of Income Tax in the UK? 45%
3A Which poet was the only previous person to win the Costa Book of the Year prize posthumously? The winning book was called Birthday Letters and won in 1998? TED HUGHES
3B In which Cornish town is the annual event known as the Furry Dance or Floral Dance held on 8th May or thereabouts each year? HELSTON
4A What is the name of the man, born in 1769, who became known as the King of Edge Hill as a result of his creation of a network of tunnels beneath the city of Liverpool? JOSEPH WILLIAMSON
4B The Schick test was designed to detect what infectious human disease? DIPHTHERIA

Round 8
1A Boeing Field Airport, named after William Edward Boeing, serves which American city, which was established as a major centre for aircraft manufacture after World War II? SEATTLE
1B In which British city are there districts named Gosforth, Heaton and Jesmond? NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE
2A In which country was the tennis player and commentator John McEnroe born? GERMANY
2B In which English cathedral are both King John and former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin buried? WORCESTER
3A The BBC radio show It’s That Man Again starred which Liverpool comedian? TOMMY HANDLEY
3B Which modern punctuation mark is also known as the “octothorpe”? HASH/HASHTAG
4A Who is the author of the Rutshire Chronicles, a series of romantic novels? JILLY COOPER
4B By what name was the future Prime Minister of Great Britain known before he became the 2nd Earl of Liverpool in 1812? Robert Banks JENKINSON

Spare Questions
1 What type of drama takes its name from the Greek for “Goat song”? TRAGEDY
2 Which US singer has the real name Elizabeth Woolridge Grant? LANA DEL REY
3 Titan is a moon orbiting which planet? SATURN
4 Which colour of kryptonite would permanently remove super powers from Superman? GOLD