ROUND 1

1.

Name one of the 2 British scientists who won this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine.

2.

Yersinia pestis is the bacterium that causes which disease

3.

Who is the Secretary of State for Transport?

4.

Who are the 2001 Rugby League Grand Champions?

5.

Which golfer is the 2001 world Matchplay champion?

6.

What is the name of Stephen Byer's spin doctor that suggested burying bad news on September 11th?

7.

Which virus is responsible for causing the spectacularly fatal haemorrhagic fever?

8.

Which Briton won this years Nobel Prize for literature?

ROUND 2

1.

Who played the roles of Verbal Klint & Kaiser Sauzer in the film "The Usual Suspects"?

2.

Which Brewery produces the award winning, "Black Cat", beer?

3.

Who wrote the play, "A day in the death of Joe Egg"?

4.

Who painted the surrealist masterpiece "The Robing of the Bride" in 1941?

5.

Who painted the pre-impressionist masterpiece, "The Fighting Temeraire" in 1839?

6.

Who wrote the play, "The Homecoming"?

7.

Which Brewery makes the beer "Spitfire"?

8.

Who played the role of Jools in the film Pulp Fiction?

ROUND 3

1.

In which town was the recent outbreak of anthrax first recorded in the USA?

2.

Who is the USA Defence Secretary?

3.

Whom has the British Government just appointed Hospital Design Tsar?

4.

Which word is described as "power in the hands of the best"?

5.

Which actors play "Bob and Rose"?

6.

Who created Private Investigator Cordelia Gray?

7.

Who is Southampton FC'S manager?

8.

What is the name of Southampton FC'S new ground?

ROUND 4

1.

Who recently set a new record for most home runs in a Major League Baseball season?

2.

What is the warm-up area for Pitchers in a Baseball Park called?

3.

What are the three major monotheistic World Religions?

4.

What are the three most sacred Cities of Islam?

5.

What room literally means, "exercise naked"?

6.

What is the literal meaning of "pot pourri"?

7.

Who was known as the French, Little Sparrow?

8.

Who was the Swedish Nightingale?

ROUND 5

1.

Which British novelist wrote the Inspector Rebus series of novels?

2.

Which American author wrote "All the trouble in the world", "Holidays in Hell" and "Parliament of Whores"?

3.

Titan is a moon orbiting which planet?

4.

SOCA music from the Caribbean is an amalgam of which two styles of music?

5.

Which musician who played with the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers, is accredited with inventing "Country Rock" music?

6.

Edward I, II and III, all belonged to which Royal House?

7.

What is the name of the coat without shoulder seams which has sleeves up to the collar?

8.

Charon, is a moon orbiting which planet?

ROUND 6

1.

What is the Dunnock more commonly known as?

2.

Which bird is the emblem of the RSPB?

3.

Who was born at 21 Bruton Street, London in the year of the General Strike?

4.

Where did Queen Victoria marry?

5.

What is the common name for Bursitis?

6.

Cholecystectomy is the surgical removal of which part of the body?

7.

Which common salad ingredient is a member of the same family as deadly nightshade?

8.

What is the more common name for Allspice, a member of the Myrtle family?

ROUND 7

1.

Which British MP was quoted as saying "I married beneath me, all women do"?

2.

Whose last words were quoted as "Either that wallpaper goes or I do"?

3.

John Harrison established the measurement of which geographical parameter in 1713?

4.

What does the letter "F" denote on the Plimsoll Line?

5.

How many stars are there on the flag of New Zealand?

6.

Which USA State flag includes the Union Jack?

7.

In UK greyhound racing what colour jacket is the dog in trap three wearing?

8.

Who finished second in this year’s Formula 1 World Championship?

ROUND 8

1.

What do Henry VIII, Gracie Fields, Winston Churchill and Harry Lauder all have in common?

2.

What do Cliff Richard, Spike Milligan, Vivienne Leigh and Colin Cowdrey all have in common?

3.

Seven countries border Afghanistan. Name four of them.

4.

Five countries bordering Brazil lie on or above the Equator. Name four of them.

5.

Whose autobiography is entitled "Memoirs of an unfit mother"?

6.

Whose recently published book is entitled "Hope and History"?

7.

What connects the actors Jason Connery, Richard Todd, Kevin Costner, and Errol Flynn?

8.

What connects Marco Polo, Charles de Gaulle, David Ben Gurion and Leonardo da Vinci?

SPARES

1.

Who is the USA Secretary of State?

2.

What were the two important trees in the Garden of Eden?

3.

Which British woman cyclist recently acquired her third Junior World Title?

4.

Which is the only place in the UK that ends in an exclamation mark?

5.

Which comedian's catchphrase was, "Can you hear me mother"?

6.

What is the fuel in a Gas cigarette lighter?

7.

Who is currently the leading goal scorer in the Nationwide Division 1?

8.

What is the name of the Qatari TV Station used by Osama bin Laden to disseminate Taliban propaganda?

ROUND 1

1.

Sir Paul Nurse or Dr Tim Hunt

2.

Bubonic Plague

3.

Stephen Byers

4.

Bradford Bulls

5.

Ian Woosnam

6.

Jo Moore

7.

Ebola virus

8.

V S Naipaul

ROUND 2

1.

Kevin Spacey

2.

Moorhouses

3.

Peter Nichols

4.

Max Ernst

5.

JWM Turner

6.

Harold Pinter

7.

Shepherd Neame

8.

Samuel L Jackson

ROUND 3

1.

Boca Raton, Florida

2.

Donald Rumsfeld

3.

Charles Prince of Wales

4.

Aristocracy

5.

Alan Davies and Leslie Sharp

6.

P D James

7.

Stuart Gray

8.

St Mary's Stadium

ROUND 4

1.

Barry Bonds

2.

The Bullpen

3.

Christianity, Islam and Judaism

4.

Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem

5.

Gymnasium

6.

Rotten pot

7.

Edith Piaf

8.

Jenny Lind

ROUND 5

1.

Ian Rankin

2.

P J O'Rourke

3.

Saturn

4.

SOul and CAlypso

5.

Gram Parsons

6.

Plantagenets

7.

Raglan

8.

Pluto

ROUND 6

1.

Hedge Sparrow

2.

Avocet

3.

Queen Elizabeth II

4.

St James' Palace

5.

Housemaid's Knee

6.

Gall Bladder

7.

Tomato

8.

Pimento

ROUND 7

1.

Nancy Astor

2.

Oscar Wilde

3.

Longitude

4.

Fresh water (depth line)

5.

Four

6.

Hawaii

7.

White

8.

David Coulthard

ROUND 8

1.

They were all Redheads

2.

All were born in India

3.

Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Azad Kashmir and China

4.

Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam and French Guyana

5.

Anne Robinson

6.

Gerry Adams

7.

All have played Robin Hood

8.

All have had airports named after them

SPARES

1.

Colin Powell

2.

Tree of Knowledge and Tree of Life

3.

Nicole Cooke

4.

Westward Ho!

5.

Sandy Powell

6.

Butane

7.

The Goat (accept Shaun Goater)

8.

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