ROUND 1

1.

Which female athlete has won the London Marathon most times?

2.

Which railway train operator runs the services from Birmingham to London Marylebone?

3.

Which creatures "by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled Kingdom"?

4.

What are Goyim?

5.

At which ground do Partick Thistle play?

6.

What is troglodytes troglodytes?

7.

Which English King was married to Eleanor of Provence?

8.

Which game was invented by Charles Darrow?

ROUND 2

1.

In which year were the first Nobel Prizes awarded?

2.

Who wrote "Quo Vadis"?

3.

What were Chopin's two forenames?

4.

Which Czech student set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square?

5.

If an Indian recipe includes "ghobi" what ingredient would you use?

6.

In Arthurian legend who accepted the challenge of the Green Knight?

7.

On which London Underground line is Marble Arch?

8.

Which team won their only FA Cup in 1946?

ROUND 3

1.

Whose horse was named Marengo?

2.

When is All Souls Day?

3.

Who painted "The Transfiguration"?

4.

Where were the 1992 Winter Olympics held?

5.

What is the motor-car international identification for Iceland?

6.

What was the name of the ship from which Gulliver was shipwrecked?

7.

How far is the popping crease from the stumps in cricket?

8.

What is the common name of Fagus Sylvatica?

ROUND 4

1.

Who was Secretary-General of the U.N. between 1962 and 1972?

2.

Which metal is extracted from Stibnite?

3.

Which novelist lived in exile in the Channel Islands?

4.

Who did Arthur Ashe beat to win his Wimbledon Singles Final?

5.

Who was the last reigning Stuart monarch?

6.

From which Paris railway station would you depart to travel to Bordeaux?

7.

What was the name of the last manned mission to the moon?

8.

What is the currency of Nigeria?

ROUND 5

1.

Who painted "the Garden of Earthly Delights"?

2.

Who, in Shakespeare was described as being, "too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness"?

3.

Who had a teddy-bear called Archibald Ormesby-Gore?

4.

What does a rheostat control?

5.

Name this weekend’s F.A. cup semi-finalists?

6.

In which village did Miss Marple live?

7.

What was Swampy’s real name?

8.

Who painted the "Birth of Venus"?

ROUND 6

1.

Which element gets its name from the moon?

2.

Which is the most populous city in South America?

3.

In what year did Shergar win the Derby?

4.

Which state is known as the "Tar-heels" state?

5.

Who was the last British monarch to lead an army into battle?

6.

Name the battle.

7.

How is Beethoven's 3rd Symphony popularly known?

8.

In which opera would you find the Anvil Chorus?

ROUND 7

1.

Collectively who are Clotho, Lachesis and Atropus?

2.

In what year was the Battle of Flodden?

3.

What is the name of the Red Engine in the Thomas the Tank Engine stories?

4.

Who painted "Dejeuner sur l'herbe”?

5.

Which modern European capital city was known as Hafnia at the time of the Roman Empire?

6.

Which British P.M. was born in Canada?

7.

In which Commonwealth Country are the Aberdare Mountains?

8.

Who was the Wife of John Rolfe?

ROUND 8

1.

Which weapon was invented by Robert Whitehead'?

2.

What is the capital of Mauritius?

3.

A cran is used to measure what?

4.

The painter Jacobo Robusti was better known by which name?

5.

Who is MP for Leicester East?

6.

On which river does Leicester stand?

7.

Give a year in the life of Lucretia Borgia?

8.

In the American Civil war who was the president of the Confederacy?

SPARES

1.

Who is the heroine of the play Cymbeline?

2.

Name a year in the life of Franz Schubert?

3.

Which element is named after the Greek for violet?

4.

How is Galanthus Nivalis better known?

5.

How is ham and cheese on toast known to the French?

ROUND 1

1.

Ingrid Kristiansen

2.

Chiltern Trains

3.

(Honey) bees

4.

Non-Jews

5.

Firhill

6.

The Wren

7.

Henry II

8.

Monopoly

ROUND 2

1.

1901

2.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

3.

Frederic Francois

4.

Jan Palach

5.

Cauliflower

6.

Sir Gawain

7.

Central

8.

Derby

ROUND 3

1.

Napoleon

2.

November 2nd

3.

Raphael

4.

Albertville

5.

IS

6.

The Antelope

7.

4 feet

8.

The Beech

ROUND 4

1.

U Thant

2.

Antimony

3.

Victor Hugo

4.

Jimmy Connors

5.

Queen Anne

6.

Gare d'Austerlitz

7.

Apollo 17

8.

Naira

ROUND 5

1.

Hieronymus Bosch

2.

Macbeth

3.

John Betjeman

4.

Voltage (electric current)

5.

Arsenal, Chelsea, Fulham, Middlesbrough

6.

St. Mary Mead

7.

Daniel Hooper

8.

Botticelli

ROUND 6

1.

Selenium

2.

Sao Paulo

3.

1981

4.

North Carolina

5.

George II

6.

Dettingen (1743)

7.

Eroica

8.

II Trovatore

ROUND 7

1.

The Fates

2.

1513

3.

James

4.

Manet

5.

Copenhagen

6.

Andrew Bonar Law

7.

Kenya

8.

Pocahontas

ROUND 8

1.

Torpedo

2.

Port Louis

3.

(Fresh) Herrings

4.

Tintoretto

5.

Keith Vaz

6.

Soar

7.

1480-1519

8.

Jefferson (Jeb) Davis

SPARES

1.

Imogen

2.

1797-1828

3.

Iodine

4.

Snowdrop

5.

Croque Monsieur