Round 1
1a Who was Prime Minister at the end of the First World War ?
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE
1b Which London Underground line serves Heathrow Airport?
PICCADILLY
2a What four letter word can be a flightless bird from South America, a moon of Saturn, or a Titaness in Greek mythology?
RHEA
2b The Queen’s first great-grandchild, a girl given the names Savannah Anne Kathleen, was born in December 2010. Who is her father?
PETER PHILLIPS
3a From which club did Manchester United sign Paul Pogba in 2016?
JUVENTUS
3b Whose painting, Les Parapluies (The Umbrellas) was completed in 1886?
AUGUSTE RENOIR
4a The story of Joseph, featuring the coat of many colours, appears in which book of the Bible?
GENESIS
4b Actress Rachael Stirling is married to which musician?
GUY GARVEY

Round 2
1a Which South African golfer has won the Open Championship twice this century, in 2002 and 2012?
ERNIE ELS
1b Give a year in the life of composer Richard Wagner.
1813-1883
2a Who wrote the plays Relatively Speaking and Absurd Person Singular?
ALAN AYCKBOURN
2b Who played Jean Valjean in the BBC 2018/2019 serialisation of Les Misérables?
DOMINIC WEST
3a The wines Muscadet and Sancerre are from which French wine region?
LOIRE
3b Which car manufacturer makes the X series of SUVs?
BMW
4a Which MP lost her seat of East Dunbartonshire at the 2019 General Election?
JO SWINSON
4b What is the name of the country seat in Wiltshire of the Marquis of Bath?
LONGLEAT

Round 3
1a Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth are the principal characters in which Jane Austen novel?
PERSUASION
1b Who won the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in the 1990 film Misery?
KATHY BATES
2a Marnus Labuschagne plays international cricket for which country?
AUSTRALIA
2b Which singer wrote the song ‘The First Cut Is The Deepest’, first recorded in 1967?
CAT STEVENS
3a Which Manchester department store opened as Watts’ in 1832, was purchased by Harrods in 1919 and changed its name to House of Fraser in 2005 despite having been taken over by the group back in 1959?
KENDALS (OR KENDAL MILNE)
3b What is the only national capital city on the River Rhine?
VADUZ
4a What is the German word for Thursday?
DONNERSTAG
4b Which is the tallest and heaviest species of penguin?
EMPEROR PENGUIN

Round 4
1a What is the two-word Latin phrase meaning literally 'winner of the games'?
VICTOR (or VICTRIX) LUDORUM
1b Which girls name precedes -enium and -erfordium in the name of two chemical elements?
RUTH
2a Simon de Montfort was defeated by the future King Edward I at which battle on 4 August 1265?
EVESHAM
2b Two German länder (or states) border the Czech Republic. Name either.
BAVARIA or SAXONY
3a Cressida Cowell replaced Lauren Child in what position in 2019?
CHILDREN’S LAUREATE
3b In the 1970 film Kelly’s Heroes, who played Kelly?
CLINT EASTWOOD
4a What is the distance, in metres, from archer to target in Olympic Archery?
SEVENTY
4b In 1978 who was the first female artist to have a UK number One hit with a song she wrote herself?
KATE BUSH

Round 5
1a The wines Chablis and Beaune are from which French wine region?
BURGUNDY
1b Which car manufacturer makes the Q series of SUVs?
AUDI
2a Nigel Dodds was the leader of which Party in the House of Commons from May 2010 until he lost his seat at the 2019 General Election?
DEMOCRATIC UNIONIST PARTY (accept DUP)
2b Which non-royal, non-episcopal country house in Oxfordshire holds the title of palace?
BLENHEIM PALACE
3a Which figure of speech is defined as "the substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit"?
EUPHEMISM
3b Name either of the chemical elements that take their name from a father and daughter in Greek mythology.
TANTALUM or NIOBIUM
4a The House of York completely defeated the House of Lancaster at which battle on 4 May 1471 where the Lancastrian heir to the throne Edward, Prince of Wales, was among the casualties?
TEWKESBURY
4b Four Spanish autonomous communities have a French border. Two are Catalonia and the Basque Country. Name one of the other two.
NAVARRE or ARAGON

Round 6
1a Which Liverpool department store first opened in 1853, became part of the John Lewis group in the 1940s, was renamed as John Lewis in 2002 and moved to the Liverpool One development in 2008?
GEORGE HENRY LEE
1b Four national capital cities lie on the river Danube. Two are Vienna and Budapest. Name either of the other two.
BELGRADE or BRATISLAVA
2a What is the Spanish word for Monday?
LUNES
2b Which is the only species of penguin found north of the equator?
GALAPAGOS PENGUIN
3a Gabriel Oak and Bathsheba Everdene feature in which Thomas Hardy novel?
FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD
3b For which film of 1989 did Daniel Day-Lewis win the first of his three Oscars for Best Actor?
MY LEFT FOOT
4a Angelo Matthews plays international cricket for which country?
SRI LANKA
4b Which singer wrote the song ‘Red Red Wine’, first recorded in 1967?
NEIL DIAMOND

Round 7
1a Who did Simon Armitage replace as Poet Laureate in 2019?
CAROL ANN DUFFY
1b In the 1963 film The Great Escape, who played Colin Blythe, nicknamed “The Forger”?
DONALD PLEASENCE
2a How long, in metres, are all races in Olympic Rowing?
TWO THOUSAND
2b Who, in 1962, were the first British group to have a number One hit single in the USA?
THE TORNADOS
3a Which 1960s pop band share their name with a series of holes on the US Masters golf course at Augusta?
AMEN CORNER
3b Give a year in the life of composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
1685-1750
4a Most of the plays of Alan Ayckbourn received their premiere at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in which town?
SCARBOROUGH
4b Who wrote the screenplay for the 2018/2019 TV drama Les Misérables - he also wrote BBC productions of Bleak House, War and Peace and Pride and Prejudice?
ANDREW DAVIES

Round 8
1a Which family, the majority owners of Juventus FC, also own Ferrari and Fiat?
AGNELLI
1b Whose painting The Rokeby Venus was completed in 1651?
DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ
2a In which book of the Bible are Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego thrown into a fiery furnace?
DANIEL
2b Actor Daniel Craig is married to which actress?
RACHEL WEISZ
3a Who succeeded David Lloyd George as Prime Minister in 1922?
ANDREW BONAR LAW
3b Which London Underground line runs from High Barnet or Edgware to Morden?
NORTHERN
4a What four letter word can be a Loch, a Botanic Garden on the Wirral, or an ‘Untouchable’ from the 1930s?
NESS
4b Give the first name of either of the children of Prince Edward and his wife Sophie.
LOUISE or JAMES

Spare Questions
1 The Crown-of-thorns is what type of sea creature?
STARFISH
2 Capital Gains Tax was introduced in the UK in which decade of the 20th century?
SIXTIES (1965)
3 Which film actress patented frequency hopping, used now for secure signals in many military, GPS and telecommunications applications?
HEDY LAMARR