ROUND 1

1.

Besides being an argument or disagreement, what militarily, was a quarrel?

2.

What is the total number of O.S 150,000 Landranger maps?

3.

Who was the consort of Queen Anne?

4.

Who is the Booker prize-winning sister of Margaret Drabble?

5.

Who was a man "more sinned against than sinning”?

6.

What does the "B" stand for in Cecil B. de Mille?

7.

Whose first novel, published in 1911, was "The White Peacock"?

8.

Which SI unit of electrical charge is represented by the symbol "C"?

ROUND 2

1.

Who played the title role in the 1989 film, Shirley Valentine?

2.

What name is given to the tiles used in a mosaic?

3.

In Algebraic chess notation, which piece begins the game on square E1?

4.

"Swimmer" Eric Moussambani represented which country at the Sydney Olympics?

5.

Which Shakespeare comedy features Helena & Bertram?

6.

Which vitamin is also known as retinol?

7.

Who had a top-10 hit single in 1977 with "Something better change"?

8.

Which war was precipitated by the EMS telegram?

ROUND 3

1.

Where in the body is the Labyrinth?

2.

What is the common name for Ascorbic Acid?

3.

Complete this quotation from Voltaire: "If god did not exist…."

4.

Americans call it a faucet. What do the British call it?

5.

Who designed the dome of St. Peter's, Rome?

6.

What was the name of the secret establishment responsible for the breaking of German codes in WWII?

7.

What type of plane did Biggles fly in WWI?

8.

What is the unit of currency in Poland?

ROUND 4

1.

What colour is a New York taxi?

2.

Which animals live in a formicarv?

3.

What is the other name for the Jewish day of atonement?

4.

Who was Noggin the Nog's chief enemy in the books and TV series?

5.

Which useful household item is made from naphthalene?

6.

Who was the British mathematician, who has a road named after him in Manchester, who cracked the Enigma code in WWII?

7.

If an American footballer talked about his "zippers" what would he mean?

8.

What is the pirate flag, with skull and crossbones, called?

ROUND 5

1.

What was the name o£ the ship in "Moby Dick"?

2.

Which two letters are work ten points in the board game Scrabble?

3.

What is the name of Asterix the Gaul's best friend?

4.

What do climbers call a peak higher than 3,000ft?

5.

The Gurkha solider is famous for his large knife. What is it called?

6.

What was Charles Dodgson's pseudonym?

7.

How are the first five books of the bible known collectively?

8.

What aircraft did Biggles fly in WWII?

ROUND 6

1.

What numbers do these Roman numerals represent: MCMLXXVII?

2.

In which American state was the battle of Bull Run fought?

3.

Who was the first King of All Ireland?

4.

Of which country was Paderewski president?

5.

Who was known as ‘Old Rowlev’?

6.

How many miles to the Moon (to the nearest thousand)?

7.

What year was the treaty of Utrecht?

8.

Who said "the serpent beguiled me, and I did eat"?

ROUND 7

1.

What is St. Crispin patron saint of?

2.

Which British General was responsible for the defeat of the Japanese in Burma?

3.

Whose autobiography is "The Time of My Life"?

4.

Which nation manufactured the Lagonda?

5.

What is the maximum width of a cricket bat?

6.

In what year was the first boat race between Oxford and Cambridge (to the nearest decade)?

7.

Who is the Governor of the Cinque Ports?

8.

In which book does the murder of Abel occur?

ROUND 8

1.

In which city is Leonardo's painting “The Last Supper"?

2.

Roy Hattersley has written often about his dog. What is his name?

3.

What is the affectionate name given to the Fairy Swordfish torpedo bomber?

4.

How many square yards to the acre?

5.

How many pecks to a bushel?

6.

How many times was Lord John Russell Prime Minister?

7.

Which motorcycle manufacturer made "the Square Four"?

8.

What is the collective noun for Leopards?

SPARES

1.

What is measured on the Beaufort scale?

2.

Where would you find "the ocean of storms”?

3.

Which bird is the international symbol of happiness?

4.

What is the collective noun for Bears?

5.

Which motor manufacturer made “SS100"?

6.

What did the SS stand for originally in early Jaguars?

ROUND 1

1.

A crossbow bolt

2.

204

3.

Prince George of Denmark

4.

A.S. Byatt

5.

King Lear

6.

Blount

7.

D. H. Lawrence

8.

Coulomb

ROUND 2

1.

Pauline Collins

2.

Tesserae

3.

White King

4.

Equatorial Guinea

5.

All's Well That Ends Well

6.

Vitamin A

7.

The Stranglers

8.

Franco-Prussian

ROUND 3

1.

The ear

2.

Vitamin C

3.

“….it would be necessary to invent him"

4.

A tap

5.

Michelangelo

6.

Bletchley Park

7.

Sopwith Camel

8.

Zloty

ROUND 4

1.

Yellow

2.

Ants

3.

Yom Kippur

4.

Nogbad the Bad

5.

Mothballs

6.

Alan Turing

7.

His scars

8.

The Jolly Roger

ROUND 5

1.

The Pequod

2.

Q and Z

3.

Obelix

4.

A Munro

5.

The kukri

6.

Lewis Carroll

7.

The Pentateuch

8.

The Spitfire

ROUND 6

1.

1977

2.

Virginia

3.

Brian Boru

4.

Poland, 1919

5.

Charles II of England

6.

238000

7.

1713

8.

Eve

ROUND 7

1.

Shoemakers

2.

Slim

3.

Denis Healey

4.

Britain

5.

4 ¼ inches

6.

1829

7.

Queen Mother

8.

Genesis

ROUND 8

1.

Milan

2.

Buster

3.

The Stringbag

4.

4840

5.

4

6.

twice

7.

Ariel

8.

A Leap

SPARES

1.

Wind Speed

2.

Moon

3.

The Bluebird

4.

A Sleuth

5.

Jaguar

6.

Swallow Sidecars (the original name of the firm)