Tuesday 18th February 2020
Set Ref – 61B01AKL - Correct as at January 2019

Round 1
1a In biology, what name is given to the regulation of the internal environment to maintain a constant state?
Homeostasis
1b Who, in 2018, became the third man to win the FIFA World Cup as both a player and a manager?
Didier Deschamps
2a Which Hindu festival is also known as the festival of colours?
Holi
2b In which UK gallery can you see Vincent van Gogh's Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear?
Courtauld Gallery (accept Somerset House)
3a Which arm of the Mediterranean Sea lies between the Italian Riviera and Corsica?
Ligurian Sea
3b The History of Everything by Barenaked Ladies is the theme music of which long-running sitcom?
The Big Bang Theory
4a Who has won the Booker prize twice, in 1988 and 2001 for the novels Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang?
Peter Carey
4b Which English monarch was married to Matilda of Flanders?
William I

Round 2
1a Which Victorian novelist wrote The Life of Charlotte Bronte in 1857?
Elizabeth Gaskell
1b What is the county town of Northumberland?
Morpeth
2a Which Irish band had hit albums in the 1990s with Forgiven, Not Forgotten and Talk on Corners?
The Corrs
2b In Morse code, each single digit number is expressed in a combination of how many dots and/or dashes?
Five
3a In December 2018, who was elected Angela Merkel's successor as leader of Germany's Christian Democrats?
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
3b What type of pastry is used in the French dessert croquembouche?
Choux
4aWhich aid to musicians was invented in 1711 by the trumpeter and lutenist John Shore?
Tuning fork
4b In rowing, which race, first held in 1926, is usually held in March, its course the reverse of the University Boat Race course (ie Mortlake to Putney)?
Head of the River (Race)

Round 3
1a Hector Guimard's art nouveau style designs of what can still be seen on the streets of Paris today?
Metro station entrances
1b Which car company's logo is a combination of three ellipses, two horizontal and one vertical?
Toyota
2a Which German born illustrator has provided the artwork for a number of Julia Donaldson's books, including the Gruffaio and Room on the Broom?
Axel Scheffler
2b Which African country's flag is a vertical tricolour of blue, yellow and red, similar to that of Romania?
Chad
3a Who is the Artistic Director of the New Adventures dance company?
Sir Matthew Bourne
3b The first UK bank holidays were introduced in the Bank Holidays Act of which year of the nineteenth century (allow five years either way)?
1871 (accept 1866-1876)
4a Which film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, stars Gregory Peck as John Ballantyne and Ingrid Bergman as Dr Constance Peterson?
Spellbound
4b Named after the Greek goddess of strife, which dwarf planet in the solar system is farthest from the sun?
Spellbound

Round 4
1a The Popmaster quiz on BBC Radio 2 is a feature of whose regular show?
Ken Bruce
1b Which composer wrote three symphonies, the last being his Organ Symphony, which premiered in 1886?
Camille Saint-Saens
2a When Cluedo was updated in 2016, Mrs White was replaced by which character?
Dr Orchid
2b Give a year in the life of English philosopher Jeremy Bentham.
1748-1832
3a With atomic number 14, which is the second most abundant element in the Earth's crust, after oxygen?
Silicon
3b Sir Edwin Lutyens' two forenames were the first and last names of which sculptor and painter, a friend of Lutyens' father?
Sir Edwin Landseer
4a The geographical term moraine refers to rocks which have been deposited by what?
Glacier
4b Who created the "Bizarre" range of pottery, launched in 1927?
Clarice Cliff

Round 5
1a In biology, what term describes the passage of water through a plant from the roots to its evaporation through the leaves?
Transpiration
1b In 2015, Michelle Payne became the first female Jockey to win which famous horse race, doing so on Prince of Penzance?
Melbourne Cup
2a Which Jewish holiday is also known as the festival of lots?
Purim
2b In which European art gallery can you see Edouard Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe?
The Musee d'Orsay, Paris
3a Which sea lies between the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea?
Sea of Marmara
3b Which US sitcom, which ran for eight seasons from 1998, was brought back in 2017 with the four leads reprising their roles?
Will & Grace
4a Which author, who won the Booker prize in 1989, was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature?
Kazuo Ishiguro
4b Which English monarch was married to Catherine of Valois?
Henry V

Round 6
1a Which English novelist, who died in 2016, wrote biographies of Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Barrett Browning?
Margaret Forster
1b What is the county town of Buckinghamshire?
Aylesbury
2a Which British band had hit albums in the 1990s with Blue is the Colour and Quench?
The Beautiful South
2b In British Sign Language fingerspelling, which letter is expressed by pointing to the tip of the little finger?
U
3a On January 1st 2019, Jair Bolsonaro was inaugurated as president of which country?
Brazil
3b What name is traditionally given to a pork pie which has a boiled egg baked in the middle?
Gala pie
4a Which English clockmaker developed the marine chronometer in the eighteenth century?
John Harrison
4b Which golfer, in 2018, became the most successful player in the Ryder Cup when his career points total reached twenty five and a half?
Sergio Garcia

Round 7
1a Which art deco building, designed by William Van Alan, was the talleststructure in the world for eleven months in the 1930s?
Chrysler Building
1b Which chain has as its logo a cockerel called Barci?
Nando’s
2a Which South African born illustrator and author of the Ottoline books was the Children's Laureate from 2015-2017?
Chris Riddell
2b Which African country's flag is a vertical tricolour of green, yellow and red, the reverse of the flag of Guinea?
Mali
3a Who founded the Royal Ballet in 1931 as the Sadler's Wells Ballet?
Dame Ninette de Valois (accept Edris Stannus)
3b Of the bank holidays observed yearly in England, which was the last to be introduced (in 1978)?
May Day
4a Which Ealing comedy film was remade by the Coen brothers in 2004, starring Tom Hanks as Professor G.H. Dorr?
TheLadykillers
4b What is the name of the rover which NASA landed on Mars in November 2011?
Curiosity

Round 8
1a Who presents Round Britain Quiz on BBC Radio 4?
Tom Sutcliffe
1b Which composer and pianist is most famous for his Gymnopedies, the first of which was published in 1886?
Erik Satie
2a In the original Genus edition of Trivial Pursuit, what subject was represented by the colour yellow?
History
2b Give a year in the life of Thomas Hobbes.
1588-1679
3a Which metal, atomic number 47, is the best conductor of electricity?
Silver
3b Rudyard Kipling was named after a lake in which English county?
Staffordshire
4a What name is given to the process of an iceberg breaking off from an ice shelf or glacier?
Calving
4b Which Venetian island is famous for glassware which has been made there since the 13th century?
Murano

Spare Questions
1 In The Archers on BBC Radio 4, in which fictional county is the village of Ambridge?
Borsetshire
2 What is the family name of the Dukes of Devonshire?
Cavendish
3 Which company produced the aircraft the Gauntlet and the Gladiator?
Gloster