Tuesday 19th March 2019
Set by Ormskirk. Answers correct as at October 2018

Round 1
1a Who is the current WBA, IBF and WBO World Heavyweight boxing champion? ANTHONY JOSHUA
1b Complete the name of the 1970s band - The __________ Alex Harvey Band. SENSATIONAL
2a Who became the first woman Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in 2017? CRESSIDA DICK
2b What is the capital of Tanzania? DODOMA
3a What nationality was explorer Henry, the Navigator? PORTUGUESE
3b In the metric system what is the mass of one litre of pure water? ONE KILOGRAM
4a Give a year in the life of poet John Dryden. 1631-1700
4b On television which character lives next door to Winnie McGoogan? MRS BROWN

Round 2
1a Which Scottish King won the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314? ROBERT THE BRUCE
1b What name is given to that part of the earth’s atmosphere between the troposphere and the mesosphere? STRATOSPHERE
2a Which author, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her novel Beloved, was the first person born in the USA for 31 years to win the Nobel Prize for Literature when she did so in 1993? TONI MORRISON
2b Postman Pat now commutes from Greendale to which nearby town? PENCASTER
3a English football team Bristol City has the name of a bird as their nickname. Name the bird. ROBIN
3b Which group’s revival of the Bangles UK number 1 “Eternal Flame” topped the UK singles charts in 2001? ATOMIC KITTEN
4a Which car company makes the Fox model? VOLKSWAGEN
4b What European country’s flag is a vertical tricolour of blue, yellow and red in that order left to right? ROMANIA

Round 3
1a The ossicles are three bones in the middle ear. Two are the malleus and the stapes. What is the anatomical (Latin) name of the other? INCUS
1b UK car registrations beginning with H originate in two counties. Name either.
HAMPSHIRE or DORSET
2a Which cricketer who played 114 test matches for England between 1954 and 1975 had the appropriate initials M C C? COLIN COWDREY
2b Clifford Joseph Price MBE is a rave and jungle musician, and occasional actor. What is his single-word stage name? GOLDIE
3a Towel Day is celebrated each year on May 25th as a tribute to which author? DOUGLAS ADAMS
3b ‘The Windmills of Your Mind’ was the theme song for which 1968 film, remade in 1999? THE THOMAS CROWN
AFFAIR
4a Whose experimental lock at Turnhurst determined the design of narrow canal locks in the Midlands in the mid-18th century? JAMES BRINDLEY
4b What two word Latin term means work undertaken voluntarily and/or for no payment? PRO BONO

Round 4
1a Who wrote the plays The Glass Menagerie and The Night of the Iguana? TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
1b Who played the title role in the TV mini-series Cilla in 2014? SHERIDAN SMITH
2a Spiro T Agnew was Vice President of the USA to which President? RICHARD NIXON
2b Who is the current MP representing Islington North? JEREMY CORBIN
3a Statues of Franklin D Roosevelt and Dwight D Eisenhower are in which London Square? GROSVENOR SQUARE
3b What is the name of the London home of the Duke of Northumberland, which can be seen across the River Thames from Kew Gardens? SYON HOUSE
4a How long, in feet, is a table tennis table? NINE
4b Which opera by Gaetano Donizetti is based on a novel by Sir Walter Scott? LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR

Round 5
1a Who wrote the plays Barefoot In The Park and The Sunshine Boys? NEIL SIMON
1b Which actor played Flash Harry in the 1950s/1960s versions of the St Trinian’s films? GEORGE COLE
2a Who was the second Vice President of the USA? THOMAS JEFFERSON
2b Who is the current MP representing Uxbridge and South Ruislip? BORIS JOHNSON
3a Statues of Shakespeare and Charlie Chaplin are in which London Square? LEICESTER SQUARE
3b What is the name of the Lincolnshire home of Isaac Newton, now in the care of the National Trust, where an apple fell from a tree and inspired his theory of gravity? WOOLSTHORPE (MANOR)
4a The three disciplines in modern fencing are sabre, épée and which other? FOIL
4b Giuseppe Verdi’s last opera was centred round which Shakespeare character? FALSTAFF

Round 6
1a What is the better known term for the medical condition lateral epicondylitis? TENNIS ELBOW
1b The HD postcode is centred around which town? HUDDERSFIELD
2a Which cricket commentator said this during a test match in 1961 - ‘There’s Neil Harvey standing at leg slip with his legs wide apart, waiting for a tickle’? BRIAN JOHNSTON
2b What is the stage name of Rory Charles Graham whose first single ‘Human’ was released in 2016? RAG’N’BONE MAN
3a In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Slartibartfast designed which country ‘with lovely crinkly edges’? NORWAY
3b Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Eddie Izzard, Anthony Quinn and Tim Curry have all played which adventurer on film or TV? LONG JOHN SILVER
4a Which engineer’s last major undertaking was the Three Bridges, London in the late 1850s which allows the Grand Junction Canal, Great Western and Brentford Railway, and Windmill Lane to cross each other? ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL
4b What word of Catalan origin is an island in the Caribbean, a mountain and monastery in Spain and the first name of a famous operatic soprano? MONTSERRAT

Round 7
1a At the time of the Battle of Flodden in 1513 Henry VIII was in France. Which of his wives addressed the troops as Regent in England? CATHERINE OF ARAGON
1b In biological classification, what taxonomic rank comes between family and species? GENUS
2a After Marie Curie in 1911 and her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie in 1935 which UK scientist in 1964 was the next woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry? DOROTHY HODGKIN
2b In which TV series does Walter White, an impoverished teacher, played by Bryan Cranston, start manufacturing illegal drugs? BREAKING BAD
3a American football team Atlanta have a bird to complete their name. Which bird? FALCON
3b Which Bee Gees hit was Take That’s last UK number1 before their break up in 1996? HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE
4a Which car company makes the Yeti model? ŠKODA
4b What European country’s flag is a horizontal tricolour of yellow, green and red in that order top to bottom? LITHUANIA

Round 8
1a Joe Louis lost three professional boxing bouts including his last, against Rocky Marciano. Name either of the others to beat him. MAX SCHMELLING or EZZARD CHARLES
1b Complete the name of the 1970s/1980s band - The Teardrop ________. EXPLODES
2a In January 2017 Tristram Hunt resigned as MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central to become director of which museum? VICTORIA AND ALBERT
2b What is the capital of Nigeria? ABUJA
3a Which explorer left Portugal for India in 1497? VASCO DA GAMA
3b In the metric system what unit of area is equal to 2.47 acres? HECTARE
4a Give a year in the life of artist Caravaggio. 1571-1610
4b Liza Minnelli played which character in the 1972 film Cabaret? SALLY BOWLES

Spare Questions
1 In fashion and clothing what is a billycock? HAT
2 Who is the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Athena? MINERVA
3 The Pribilof Islands are in which body of water? BERING SEA
4 On a computer keyboard what is the octothorpe key better known as? HASH KEY