Tuesday 29th January 2019
Set by Ormskirk. Answers correct as at October 2018

Round 1
1a What shape is fusili pasta?
SPIRAL or CORKSCREW
1b Which Italian city is known as ‘La Serenissima’?
VENICE
2a What was the name of a series of yachts owned and sailed by former Prime Minister Edward Heath?
MORNING CLOUD
2b In Red Dwarf, for what does the initial J stand in the name of Arnold J Rimmer?
JUDAS
3a Who was the father of Queen Victoria?
(EDWARD) DUKE OF KENT (and STRATHEARN)
3b Shagreen is a type of leather originally made from horse skin, but today made from the skin of which animal?
SHARK (or RAY)
4a Born in 1945, Angela Trimble is the birth name of which American singer?
DEBBIE HARRY
4b The autobiography of which footballer, who died in 2016, is appropriately entitled My Turn?
JOHANN CRUYFF

Round 2
1a In Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, what is the name of Shylock’s daughter?
JESSICA
1b The sign of the zodiac called Bélier in French is called what in English?
ARIES (THE RAM)
2a Moses supposes his toeses are roses is a song from which famous 1952 film?
SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN
2b From what disease did Henry V die in 1422?
DYSENTERY
3a The Thames Ironworks became which professional football team?
WEST HAM UNITED
3b Who played the ‘uptown girl’ in the music video for Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl?
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY
4a A skulk is the collective name for which group of animals?
FOXES
4b What is the English translation of dictum meum pactum the motto of the London Stock Exchange?
MY WORD IS MY BOND

Round 3
1a On which production aspect of a film or TV programme does a foley artist work?
SOUND EFFECTS
1b Which Treaty of 3rd March 1918 saw Russia leave the First World War?
TREATY OF BREST- LITOVSK
2a Where would you find the Byward, White and Beauchamp Towers?
THE TOWER OF LONDON
2b Which awards commemorate people who improve the gene pool by removing themselves from it?
DARWIN AWARDS
3a Which BBC radio magazine programme was first broadcast in October 1946?
WOMAN’S HOUR
3b In 2017, the first day-night test match played in England was against which opponents?
WEST INDIES
4a The UKs Trident nuclear deterrent replaced which earlier submarine based nuclear missiles?
POLARIS
4b Which strong alcoholic drink is nicknamed ‘The Green Fairy’?
ABSINTHE

Round 4
1a Which town in Cornwall is used by the Ordnance Survey as the basis for the mean sea level?
NEWLYN
1b Which titled character in a novel first published in 1928 lived at Wragby Hall?
LADY CHATTERLEY
2a Which recently retired BBC athletics commentator was responsible for founding The Great North Run?
BRENDAN FOSTER
2b Give either word that can be preceded by an Oxford comma.
AND or OR
3a What name is given to a sculptor’s small preliminary model or sketch?
MAQUETTE
3b What was the original purpose of the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
CAMPANILE or BELL TOWER
4a The Royal Artillery rank of Bombardier is the equivalent of which infantry rank?
CORPORAL
4b In which English county is Blue Vinney cheese produced?
DORSET

Round 5
1a SABENA was once the national airline of which country?
BELGIUM
1b What kind of person is the subject of a hagiography?
A SAINT
2a In a round of golf, a maximum of how many clubs is allowed in a player’s bag?
14
2b Which European statesman (1773-1859) was known as ‘The Coachman of Europe’?
KLEMENS VON METTERNICH
3a In which US state is Camp David, the usual country retreat of the President?
MARYLAND
3b Which car company bought the Rover Group in 1994?
BMW
4a What was the name of the Jamaican nurse who set up a ‘British Hotel’ for wounded soldiers in the Crimean War?
MARY SEACOLE
4b What word can be the name of a centaur in the Harry Potter books, and the Italian name for Florence?
FIRENZE

Round 6
1a Sport. In the late 1990s, the location originally called Aorangi Terrace became popularly known as what?
HENMAN HILL
1b For which band does Mat Osman (brother of Pointless presenter Richard Osman) play?
SUEDE
2a The 137 metre sea stack the Old Man of Hoy is situated in which group of islands?
THE ORKNEYS
2b Which word completes the first sentence of a famous book ‘In a hole in the ground there lived a __________’?
HOBBIT
3a What date is International Star Wars Day?
MAY THE FOURTH
3b What is the name of the new toll bridge connecting Widnes and Runcorn?
MERSEY GATEWAY
4a Who won, and took his time in accepting, the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature?
BOB DYLAN
4b Who was the first English monarch to be buried in Westminster Abbey?
EDWARD THE CONFESSOR

Round 7
1a What name can be the shortest book in the Old Testament and the forename of Pete Postlethwaite’s character in the Sharpe TV series?
OBADIAH
1b What was the name given to the network of secret routes and safe houses used in the 19th century USA to assist slaves in reaching freedom?
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
2a In the stories by PG Wodehouse, what was the name of the London gentlemen’s club frequented by Bertie Wooster and his friends?
THE DRONES CLUB
2b Which Russian word used in English literally means ‘self boil’?
SAMOVAR
3a What is the singular of opera?
OPUS
3b Which Irish band took its name from a gang in Woody Guthrie’s book Bound for Glory?
THE BOOMTOWN RATS
4a Between the 1930s and the 1960s, if you dialled Whitehall 1212, where would you be calling?
SCOTLAND YARD
4b In which state is the US gold depository Fort Knox?
KENTUCKY

Round 8
1a The theme tune of the 1949 film The Third Man was played on which instrument?
ZITHER
1b Carabao, the sponsor of the Football League Cup from 2017, is what sort of product?
ENERGY DRINK
2a At close to £500 per pound, Kopi Luwak is the most expensive type of what?
COFFEE
2b To which animal does the adjective cervine relate?
DEER
3a Which newly renovated Liverpool museum takes its name from the area of the Atlantic Ocean subject to U-boat blockade during the Battle of the Atlantic?
WESTERN APPROACHES
3b In heraldry what is the name for a star with straight-sided rays?
MULLET
4a In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, who had a ‘brain the size of a planet’?
MARVIN (THE PARANOID ANDROID)
4b For what does the M stand in the beer MPA produced by Okell’s Brewery?
MANX (PALE ALE)

Spare Questions
1 Into which body of water does the River Danube empty?
BLACK SEA
2 What sport is the main interest of the Leander Club?
ROWING
3 Lady Caroline Lamb, famous for her affair with the poet Byron, died in 1828. What title did her husband later hold?
VISCOUNT MELBOURNE
4 The state mammal of South Australia is the southern hairy-nosed species of which mammal?
WOMBAT