Monsday 28th October 2019
Set Ref – 61C09AXL Correct as at February 2019

Round 1
1a In astronomical theory for what does WIMP stand?
Weak interacting massive particle
1b The F1 circuit Interlagos has hosted which country’s Grand Prix since 1990?
Brazil
2a On a Plimsoll line, what is meant by the abbreviation WNA?
Winter North Atlantic
2b Which Berber dish is named after the type of earthenware pot in which it is cooked?
Tagine
3a Glevum was the Roman name for which city?
Gloucester
3b In New Zealand slang if you were eating 'shark and tatties' what would you be eating?
Fish and chips
4a In Roman mythology who was the father of Romulus and Remus?
Mars
4b By which means is typhoid transmitted to other people?
Human body louse (rickettsia prowazekii)

Round 2
1a Whose Symphony No.35 is known as The Haffner?
Mozart
1b Natrix Helvetica, identified in August 2017 as a separate species, brings to four the number of what types of creature found in the UK?
Snake (it is the Barred Grass-Snake)
2a Give a year in the life of Antoine Lavoisier the Father of Modern Chemistry.
1743-1794
2b Which actress played the character Polly in "Fawlty Towers"?
Connie Booth
3a What soft drink was marketed as having "the totally tropical taste"?
Lilt
3b Norman Foster and Michel Viriogeux designed which viaduct that crosses the valley of the River Tarn in France?
Miliau Viaduct
4a The Shining Path terrorist group, was founded in which country?
Peru
4b What is the alliterative name of the detective created by Jo Nesbo who has appeared in 11 novels so far?
Harry Hole

Round 3
1a In which country is the motor racing circuit of Spa-Francochamps?
Belgium
1b The department store chain "House of Fraser" was bought by which company in 2018?
Sports Direct
2a What two-word dish on a Chinese restaurant menu denotes a kind of Chinese omelette?
Foo Yung
2b Which London visitor attraction was founded by Sir Stamford Raffles in 1826?
London Zoo
3a In Australian slang where would you sleep if you stayed at 'The Star Hotel'?
Outdoors
3b Who represented the United Kingdom in the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest, with "Believe in Me?
Bonnie Tyler
4a By which means is typhus transmitted to other people?
Contaminated food or water (salmonella typhi)
4b Three cricket County Championship teams have never won the title, Somerset and Northamptonshire are two, what is the third?
Gloucestershire

Round 4
1a Landrace and Hampshire are types of which farm animal?
Pig
1b In astronomy, which word describes the alignment of three or more celestial bodies in a straight line?
Syzygy
2a Who played Richard Bucket, husband of Hyacinth in the Nineties BBC TV sitcom Keeping Up Appearances?
Clive Swift
2b What is the meaning of AF in 'AF spanners'?
Across Flats
3a What is the English name for the Ponte del Sospiri?
Bridge of Sighs
3b Which modern day town in Britain was known to the Romans as Aqua Sulis?
Bath
4a Which fictional policeman was created by John Creasey, under the pen-name "J J Marric", and was played on TV by John Gregson and on film by Jack Hawkins?
Commander George Gideon
4b Who was the Roman god of wine?
Bacchus

Round 5
1a "Watership Down" is the best-known novel of which writer?
Richard Adams
1b Maputo is the capital city of which country?
Mozambique
2a Leontopodium alpinum Is the botanical name for which European mountain flower, a national symbol of several countries including Bulgaria and Romania?
The Edelweiss
2b "Give it Up", in 1983 was the only UK Number One single of which band, whose other hits included "That's the Way (I like It)"?
KC and the Sunshine Band
3a Sir Ian McKellen appeared in Coronation Street as which author?
Mel Hutchwright
3b On a standard monopoly board which property comes immediately before "Jail"?
Pentonville Road
4a The Futurist Theatre was a theatre in which British town until beingdemolished in 2014?
Scarborough
4b "It Happened One Night" was the only Best Actor Oscar winning film for which actor?
Clark Gable

Round 6
1a Starring Gary Oldman, the 1994 film Immortal Beloved is a biopic of which composer?
Beethoven
1b What name precedes Shanks in the name of an iconic British brand of bathroom fixtures?
Armitage
2a Which novel ends 'He turned out the light and went into Jem’s room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning'?
To Kill A Mocking Bird
2b Founded in 1123 by the minstrel Rahere, which famous hospital islocated in West Smithfield, London?
St Bartholomew's
3a Hillary Benn, Richard Burgon and Rachel Reeves are among the Labour MP's with constituencies in which city?
Leeds
3b Who represented the United Kingdom in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest?
Electro Velvet
4a Which organisation has the motto 'For Home and Country'?
Women's Institute
4b Which team won cricket's County Championship in 2016?
Middlesex

Round 7
1a Which composer's seventh symphony is known as 'The Leningrad'?
Dmitri Shostakovich
1b Which children's author created the Mr Men and Little Miss characters?
Roger Hargreaves
2a In which century was the 'Bunsen burner' invented?
19th (1855)
2b "Ashdown Forest", "Lodden Blue" and "Hidcote" are varieties of which low-growing evergreen shrub whose flowers can be used in pot-pourri and, occasionally in cookery?
Lavender
3a Which French mineral water, named after the doctor who first marketed it, comes from a spring in Vergeze, France?
Perrier
3b Which Coronation Street character was played by Arthur Leslie between 1960 and 1970?
John ‘Jack’ Walker
4a Which South American country was part of the region known as British Banda Oriental until its independence?
Uruguay
4b The Brangwyn Hall, inaugurated in 1934, is a theatre in which city?
Swansea

Round 8
1a Freetown is the capital of which country?
Sierra Leone
1b The 1999 film "Tea with Mussolini" is based on whose autobiography?
Franco Zeffirelli
2a "Zambezi", was a UK top 20 hit in 1982 for which band?
Piranhas
2b Of which book are these the first lines: ’Except for the Marabar Caves - and they are twenty miles off -the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary?
A Passage to India
3a In what game did it become OK to play OK in America in 2018?
Scrabble
3b The Green party's only seat in the House of Commons is for which constituency? 1 1
Brighton Pavilion
4a Who gave the longest-ever acceptance speech for a best actress Oscar, when receiving her award, in 1942, for her role in the film "Mrs Miniver"?
Greer Garson
4b Blood and Fire is the motto of which organisation?
The Salvation Army

Spare Questions
1 Who married Brooke Shields in 1997?
Andre Agassi
2 What is the second longest river in Scotland, after the Tay?
Spey
3 Which author, who died in 2009, wrote "Letters from a Nobody", a companion to the classic "Diary of a Nobody"?
Keith Waterhouse
4 In the song 'Pearl's a singer’, who does Pearl long to be?
Betty Grable
5 The tennis player Maria Sharapova served a 15-month ban for the use of which drug?
Meldonium