Tuesday 19th February 2019
Set by Duncan's Doughnuts (Liverpool). Answers correct as at November 2017

Round One
1A Reginald Leonard Smith is the real name of which pop star of the 50s and 60s?
Marty Wilde
1B A ‘fellmonger’ deals in what product?
Animal skins and hides
2A Shelagh Delaney wrote which play, her first, aged 18 in 1958?
A Taste of Honey
2B Belmopan is the capital of which country?
Belize
3A Urchin is a dialect word for which small mammal?
Hedgehog
3B Who won the only Epsom Derby of his long career on riding Pinza in 1953?
Gordon Richards
4A Since 1965, the headquarters of OPEC are in which country?
Austria (Vienna)
4B In 1985, who became the first player to be sent off in the F.A Cup Final?
Kevin Moran

Round Two
1A In what year did Prime Minister Ian Smith declare unilateral independence in Rhodesia?
1965
1B Meryl Streep won the Oscar for best actress in 1982 for which film?
Sophi';s Choice
2A The elements Caesium and Rubidium were discovered by scientists who have given their names to a Law and a piece of lab equipment. Name either.
Robert Bunsen or Gustav Kirchhoff
2B What was the name of character played by Maxine Peake in the Victoria Wood series Dinner Ladies?
Twinkle
3A What is the common use for Ethylene Glycol?
Antifreexe
3B In which Jane Austen novel is Fanny Price the heroine?
Mansfield Park
4A Which musical instrument has parts called neck, pillar and pedestal?
Harp
4B Name the musical adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion ?
My Fair Lady

Round Three
1A What is the capital of South Dakota?
Pierre
1B Which United Kingdom General Election was the first in which the voting age was reduced from 21 to 18?
1970
2A Which North Sea oil rig was destroyed by fire in 1988?
Piper Alpha
2B Smithfield Market in London is associated with which food?
Meat
3A By what name was the 11th Century knight Rodrigo Diaz better known?
El Cid
3B Which island in the Netherlands Antilles gives it name to a liqueur?
Curacao
4A In which prefecture of Japan were two nuclear power plants shut down following a major earthquake in 2011?
Fukushima
4B What name is given to the Latin version of the Bible translated by Jerome in the 4th Century?
Vulgate

Round Four
1A Ilex is the Latin name for which tree?
Holly
1B In regards to weather, what does the Campbell–Stokes Recorder measure?
Hours of Sunshine
2A Timothy Campbell (MBE), was the first winner, in 2005, of the British version of which reality TV series?
The Apprentice
2B The Giant’s Causeway is in which Irish county?
Antrim
3A
Who did Dave Prentis replace as the General Secretary of UNISON in 2001?
Rodney Bickerstaffe
3B Which English football league team play their home games in Cleethorpes?
Grimsby Town
4A In which country is the Lena River
Russia
4B What does the Latin term, Modus Vivendi mean?
Way of living (accept Way of Life)

Round Five
1A Gaynor Hopkins is the real name of which 80s pop star?
Bonny Tyler
1B What does a ‘mercer’ deal in?
Textiles and fabrics
2A Which playwright wrote Absurd Person Singular and Relatively Speaking ?
Alan Ayckbourn
2B Dodoma is the capital of which country?
Tanzania
3ADumbledore is a dialect word for which flying insect?
Bumblebee
3B Name the jockey who rode Never Say Die to victory in the 1954 Derby?
Lester Piggott
4A Founded in 1954, CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, has its headquarters in which country?
Switzerland
4B In 1992, which player scored the first Premier League goal while playing for Sheffield United?
Brian Deane

Round Six
1A In what year did Lech Walesa found the organisation Solidarity?
1980
1B In 1988, Jodie Foster won the Oscar for Best Actress for which film?
The Accused
2A The elements Boron and Fluorine were discovered by scientists who have given their names to Laws in both physics and chemistry. Name either
Andre-Marie Ampere or Joseph Gay-Lussac
2B In a 2017 series, Stefanie Martini played a younger version of which TV police officer?
Jane Tennison (Prime Suspect 1973)
3A What is the softest mineral?
Talc
3B During which riots is Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens set?
Gordon Riots
4A The hair of which animal is used to make violin bows?
Horse
4B Lydia Languish and Captain Absolute appear in which play first performed in 1775?
The Rivals

Round Seven
1A What is the capital of the US state of Vermont?
Montpelier
1B In what year was the first breath test for motorists in the UK carried out?
1967
2A Who was the last woman to be judicially hanged in Britain in 1955?
Ruth Ellis
2B With which food is Billingsgate market associated?
Fish
3A Who was Percy Toplis better known as?
The Monocled Mutineer
3B Which Caribbean island was invaded by the USA in 1983?
Grenada
4A Where in India was the pesticide manufacturing plant which exploded in 1984?
Bhopal
4B Who is the only witch mentioned in the Bible?
The Witch of Endor

Round Eight
1A Fraxinus is the Latin name for which tree?
Ash
1B An ‘okta’ is a measure used in weather. What does it measure?
Cloud cover
2A Kate Lawler was the first woman to win The British version of which reality TV competition in 2002?
Big Brother
2B Chesil Beach can be found in which English county?
Dorset
3A Who is the current General Secretary of the TUC?
Frances O’Grady
3B Which English football league team play their home games in Burslem, Stoke on Trent?
Port Vale
4A In which country is Cape Finisterre?
Spain
4B What does the Latin phrase Tempus Fugit mean?
Time flies

Spare Questions
1 What is the capital of Armenia?
Yerevan
2 A ‘phon’ is a unit of what?
Loudness
3 How many feet are there in a fathom?
Six
4 Who had a hit with the theme song from the TV comedy Friends ?
The Rembrandts
5 In which battle of 480 B.C. Did the famous 300 Spartans take part?
Thermopylae