Monday 6th January 2020
Set Ref –61B16ABC - Correct as at August 2019

Round 1
1a The Battle of Austerlitz (1805) took place in which present day country?
CZECH REPUBLIC (or CZECHIA)
1b What is the SI derived unit of frequency?
HERTZ
2a The name of which county in the Republic of Ireland starts with the letter T?
TIPPERARY
2b Traditionally in the UK what name is given to a 35th wedding anniversary?
CORAL
3a For which Bond film did Adele sing the title song?
SKYFALL
3b Golfer Gerry Lester Watson is known by what first name?
BUBBA
4a The father played Doc Holliday in the 1957 film Gunfight at the O K Corral, the son played Jack Colton in the 1985 film The Jewel of the Nile. What is their surname?
DOUGLAS
4b Give a year in the life of poet Walt Whitman.
1819 to 1892

Round 2
1a LXR and SSH are IATA codes for airports in which African country?
EGYPT
1b Which billionaire owns ‘SpaceX’ which manufactures advanced rockets and spacecraft?
ELON MUSK
2a Who was John McCain’s Republican running mate when he ran for US President in 2008?
SARAH PALIN
2b Designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, in which city did a new branch of the V & A Museum open in 2018?
DUNDEE
3a Woodrow Wilson, Jeff Bezos and Michelle Obama graduated from which University in New Jersey?
PRINCETON
3b In 3D space there are five platonic solids - tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and which other?
ICOSAHEDRON
4a Viti Levu and Vanua Levu are the two largest islands of which archipelagic country?
FIJI
4b The name of which penguin is derived from the narrow black band under its head, which makes it appear that it is wearing a black helmet?
CHINSTRAP

Round 3
1a Who was the creator of Postman Pat who died in September 2018?
JOHN CUNLIFFE
1b In the novel by Virginia Woolf what was Mrs Dalloway’s first name?
CLARISSA
2a Kind of Blue is a 1959 album by which jazz musician?
MILES DAVIS
2b Which of the five British classic horse races is run over the longest distance?
ST LEGER
3a Who wrote the 2018 BBC drama series Bodyguard?
JED MERCURIO
3b The novel The Trial by Franz Kafka was written in which language?
GERMAN
4a Complete the name of the rock band Catfish and the _________.
BOTTLEMEN
4b At the 1976 Olympics who became the first gymnast to score a perfect 10.0 - and then achieved six more in the same Games?
NADIA COMANECI

Round 4
1a Artists William Holman Hunt & John Everett Millais were members of which artistic movement?
PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD or PRE-RAPHAELITES
1b
Who was the manager of Liverpool FC from April 1991 to January 1994?
GRAEME SOUNESS
2a The WW2 operation codenamed ‘Market Garden’ was depicted in which 1977 film?
A BRIDGE TOO FAR
2b The Sherston Trilogy is a series of books by which poet and novelist who was awarded the Military Cross in the First World War?
SIEGFRIED SASSOON
3a On which English river is the Cauldron Snout waterfall?
TEES
3b What birds, also known as jaegers, can be Arctic, Long-tailed or Pomerine?
SKUAS
4a In German politics for what does the A stand in the political party the AfD - it is the same in English and German?
ALTERNATIVE
4b Who did Malcolm McMahon succeed as Archbishop of Liverpool in 2014?
PATRICK KELLY

Round 5
1a The second-oldest institute of higher education in the USA after Harvard was founded in 1693 by letters patent from which British monarchs?
WILLIAM AND MARY
1b Each of the faces of a regular octahedron is what shape?
(EQUILATERAL) TRIANGLE
2a Part of the Svalbard archipelago and approximately 14 546 sq miles in area, what is the name of Norway's largest island?
SPITZBERGEN
2b Which penguin is named after a territory in Antarctica, which itself is named after the wife of explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville?
ADÉLIE
3a CAN and PEK are IATA codes for airports in which Asian country?
CHINA
3b Which American headed Forbes list of the world’s richest men from 2014 to 2017 - in 2018 he was superseded by Jeff Bezos of Amazon?
BILL GATES
4a Who was the last US President to serve a single term?
GEORGE H W BUSH (accept BUSH SENIOR)
4b The tendency of which building on Deansgate to make howling noises in high winds close to 250/260 Hz (approx. Middle C) have earned it the nickname ‘Manchester’s tuning fork’?
BEETHAM TOWER (accept HILTON TOWER)

Round 6
1a Major tributaries of which river are the Vyrnwy, Teme, Avon and Stour?
SEVERN
1b The Puffin belongs to which family of birds?
AUK (or ALCID)
2a Which Eurosceptic Italian political party was founded by comedian and actor Beppe Grillo in 2009?
FIVE STAR MOVEMENT
2b Who was Bishop of Liverpool between 1975 and 1997?
DAVID SHEPPARD
3a Peter Firmin’s family of Norse-like characters in The Saga of Noggin the Nog were said to be based on what specific objects he had seen at the British Museum?
(LEWIS) CHESSMEN
3b In the novel by Charles Dickens what was the first name of Nicholas Nickleby’s mother and younger sister?
CATHERINE (accept KATE)
4a Jazz musician Charlie Mingus is most associated with which instrument?
DOUBLE BASS
4b Which was the last race horse to win the English Triple Crown?
NIJINSKY

Round 7
1a Who played Becky Sharp in the ITV 2018 production of Vanity Fair?
OLIVIA COOKE
1b The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett was written in which language?
FRENCH
2a Complete the name of the rock band Two _______ Cinema Club.
DOOR
2b Who won the Ladies’ Singles at Wimbledon in 2019?
SIMONA HALEP
3a Camille Pissarro, Pierre Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley were members of which artistic movement?
IMPRESSIONISM
3b Who was the manager of Everton FC from November 1994 to March 1997?
JOE ROYLE
4a Which WW2 hero did Kenneth More portray in the 1956 film Reach for the Sky?
DOUGLAS BADER
4b Who wrote The Regeneration Trilogy on the subject of the First World War, the third novel winning the Booker Prize in 1995?
PAT BARKER

Round 8
1a Who, with Jack White, sang the theme tune for the Bond film Quantum of Solace?
ALICIA KEYS
1b Which three-time World Snooker Champion is known as the Jester from Leicester?
MARK SELBY
2a For which film did Catherine Zeta-Jones win an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress?
CHICAGO
2b Walt Whitman’s poems When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and O Captain! My Captain! were written on whose death in 1865?
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
3a The Battle of Borodino (1812) took place in which country?
RUSSIA
3b Wb is the symbol for which SI derived unit?
WEBER
4a Which county in the Republic of Ireland borders only one other, Leitrim, but three counties from Northern Ireland?
DONEGAL
4b What is the birthstone for October?
OPAL

Spare Questions
1 In slang how much is a Pavarotti?
£10 (A TENOR!)
2 Which early spacecraft’s name translates as 'East'?
VOSTOK
3 Name the other half of Soft Cell with Marc Almond.
DAVE BALL