ROUND 1

1.

How many letters are there in the Greek alphabet?

2.

Cob and pen are the male and female forms of which bird?

3.

Give a year in the life of the artist Rubens.

4.

What is the third book of the Old Testament?

5.

In which year was the Mont Blanc tunnel opened?

6.

Who in 2001 paid £14m to become the first space tourist?

7.

Who was the nymph who was changed into a laurel bush to save her from Apollo?

8.

What sort of creature is a Krait?

ROUND 2

1.

What is the symbol for the chemical element mercury?

2.

What is the traditional name for the15th wedding anniversary?

3.

In which town was Charles Darwin born?

4.

How many bottles of champagne are there in a methuselah?

5.

Which English king was killed by an arrow in the New Forest?

6.

Which nursery rhyme was originally a satire on the political instability during the reign of Charles II?

7.

By volume of sales which is the most popular brand of vodka in the world?

8.

Which American gangster was shot outside the Biograph Cinema in Chicago in 1934?

ROUND 3

1.

Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in the 1950s film Born Yesterday?

2.

Which of the Mitford sisters married Sir Oswald Mosley?

3.

In which London park would you find a statue of Achilles?

4.

What was the name of the first Norwegian rock group to become widely popular in the 1980s?

5.

Who succeeded Ellery Hanley as coach of St Helens rugby league team in 2000?

6.

Name the next American State in this sequence - Alaska, Washington, Idaho. Montana.

7.

Of which financial organization is Clare Furse the head?

8.

In which country would you find the Angostura Suspension Bridge?

ROUND 4

1.

In American football in which city do the ‘49ers’ play?

2.

How are comedians Paul & Barry Elliot better known?

3.

If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?

4.

What is a kris in Indonesia?

5.

What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?

6.

Who were the first couple to be shown in bed together on American prime time television?

7.

Who is the Oxford Poetry Professor who has recently been criticised for his statements on the Middle East Crisis?

8.

In which German city were 16 people killed by a disaffected ex-student recently?

ROUND 5

1.

How many letters are there in the Hebrew alphabet?

2.

Jack and Jill are the male and female forms of which animal?

3.

Give a year in the life of Sir Christopher Wren.

4.

What is the sixth book of the New Testament?

5.

In which year was the Chernobyl disaster?

6.

Name the internet millionaire who recently became the second space tourist.

7.

By what creature was the Greek god Adonis wounded?

8.

What sort of creature is a Criollo?

ROUND 6

1.

Pb is the symbol for which chemical element?

2.

What is the traditional name for the 20th wedding anniversary?

3.

In which Louisiana town was Britney Spears born?

4.

Which unit of distance in navigation is equal to one tenth of a sea mile?

5.

Which English king was murdered in Pomfret Castle?

6.

Which nursery rhyme is based on the events at Mount Kenmel on the border of France and Belgium?

7.

By volume of sales which is the most popular brand of Scotch whisky in the world?

8.

Which American gangster was the subject of a song by Woody Guthrie?

ROUND 7

1.

Who won the Oscar for Best Actress in the 1950s film The Three Faces of Eve?

2.

Which of the Mitford sisters wrote the semi-autobiography Pursuit of Love in 1945?

3.

In which London park is there a Buddhist Temple?

4.

What was the name of the spoof Norwegian rock group portrayed by the comedians Armstrong and Miller?

5.

Where did this year's Rugby League Cup Final take place?

6.

What links these American towns - Juarez, Laredo, Corpus Christi, Brownsville?

7.

Which British company is headed by Marjorie Scadino?

8.

In which country would you find the Oland Island Bridge?

ROUND 8

1.

For what type of fiction is the Orange Prize awarded?

2.

What is an opsimath?

3.

What are the only American National Monuments which are mobile?

4.

Which villain did Frank Gorshin play - in the 1960s TV series Batman?

5.

Where were the1952 Winter Olympics held?

6.

What was the first novel ever written on a typewriter?

7.

Which entertainer was known as The Last of the Red Hot Mamas?

8.

Which prominent political leader celebrated his 65^th birthday on 28 April this year?

SPARES

1.

Who scored Liverpool's winning goal in the 1978 European Champions Clubs' Cup Final?

2.

Who was the mother of singer Kirsty McColl?

3.

In which country was Vivian Leigh born?

4.

In which year did Richard Nixon resign?

5.

What was the pseudonym of author John Griffith Chaney?

6.

Who played Jenny in the TV series Cold Feet?

ROUND 1

1.

24

2.

Swan

3.

1577-1640

4.

Leviticus

5.

1965

6.

Dennis Tito

7.

Daphne

8.

Snake

ROUND 2

1.

Hg

2.

Crystal

3.

Shrewsbury

4.

Eight

5.

William II (in 1100)

6.

Rock A Bye Baby

7.

Stolichnaya

8.

John Dillinger

ROUND 3

1.

Judy Holliday

2.

Diana

3.

Hyde Park

4.

Ah Ha

5.

Ian Millward

6.

North Dakota (they all have borders with Canada running from West to East)

7.

The London Stock Exchange

8.

Venezuela

ROUND 4

1.

San Francisco

2.

The Chuckle Brothers

3.

One thousand (or One Hundred and one)

4.

A knife

5.

They were all invented by women

6.

Fred & Wilma Flintstone

7.

Tom Paulin

8.

Erfurt

ROUND 5

1.

23

2.

Ferret

3.

1632-1723

4.

Romans

5.

1986

6.

Mark Shuttleworth

7.

A boar

8.

A pony

ROUND 6

1.

Lead

2.

China

3.

Kentwood

4.

A Cable

5.

Richard II

6.

The Grand Old Duke of York

7.

Johnny Walker

8.

Pretty Boy Floyd

ROUND 7

1.

Joanne Woodward

2.

Nancy

3.

Battersea Park

4.

Stryker

5.

Murrayfield

6.

They are all border towns on the Mexican border

7.

Pearsons

8.

Sweden

ROUND 8

1.

Romantic Fiction

2.

A person who learns late in life (e.g. Colin MacKenzie)

3.

San Francisco cable cars

4.

The Riddler

5.

Oslo

6.

Tom Sawyer

7.

Sophie Tucker

8.

Saddam Hussein

SPARES

1.

Kenny Dalglish

2.

Peggy Seeger

3.

India

4.

1974

5.

Jack London

6.

Fay Ripley