ROUND 1

1.

Which language does the word `pyjama' come from?

2.

What does the name 'Alhambra' signify in Arabic?

3.

Which Superleague Rugby League team did the Sale Sharks Rugby Union full-back Jason Robinson play for before changing codes?

4.

In which film did Marlene Dietrich sing `See what the boys in the back room will have.'?

5.

How is 21 expressed as a binary number?

6.

Who was the First Prime Minister of the Union Of South Africa?

7.

Which sport was written about in `The Changing Room?'

8.

What was the name of Alexander the Great's famous horse?

ROUND 2

1.

Where is the deltoid muscle?

2.

Who was the governor of Roman Britain in AD 80?

3.

Whose teachings did the Lollards follow?

4.

What is the longest river of the Iberian Peninsular?

5.

Which school produced Byron, Sheridan, Trollope and Galsworthy?

6.

Who said 'genius is one-per-cent inspiration and ninety-nine-per-cent perspiration?'

7.

On which course is the US Masters golf tournament held?'

8.

What is the lowest hand in standard poker?

ROUND 3

1.

Where is Graham Sutherland's `Christ in his Majesty?'

2.

What is H202?

3.

What is `gesso'?

4.

Which race is recognised as the supreme championship of English steeplechasing?

5.

Where will the third and final Test, in the current Guinness Rugby League Test series between Great Britain and Australia, be played this coming Saturday, 24th November 2001?

6.

Which instrument was formerly known as a sackbut?

7.

Name the first three tracks on the Beatles' `Sgt Pepper' album

8.

What was Lord Haw Haw's real name?

ROUND 4

1.

Which line is coloured black on maps of the London Underground?

2.

Which actress, who also starred in Casualty on television, won an Oscar in 1989 for her performance in the film 'My Left Foot"?

3.

Name the 3 football leagues from which teams can be promoted into the Nationwide Conference (the current sponsors names are required)

4.

Which 3 words have the following consecutive definitions in the 'Concise Oxford Dictionary':

- roomy and comfortable

- a raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought or sold

- a naval rank above captain and below rear admiral?

5.

Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler were two members of a successful group of the 70s and 80s. Who was the other member?

6.

Who has been named as the Captain of Lancashire County Cricket Club for next season (2002)?

7.

Which 3 of Henry Vlll's wives had children who became Kings or Queens of England?

8.

Which road in London runs between Euston Road and Oxford Street, and passes Goodge Street tube station?

ROUND 5

1.

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

2.

Which film, currently on general release, stars Nicole Kidman as a mother bringing up two children in a haunted house in 1945?

3.

Which two pubs in the centre of Manchester have twice been moved due to redevelopment of the surrounding area?

4.

The actor and actress playing the lead roles in the film The Misfits, released in 1961, both died shortly after its completion. Who were they?

5.

Who wrote the song 'White Christmas"?

6.

In which war did the battles of Chickamauga and Bull Run take place?

7.

Which famous person was born in 1858, became Registrar of births and deaths for Manchester in 1898, was regularly imprisoned in the early 1900s, and died in 1928?

8.

Who played Private Fraser in the TV series 'Dad's Army'?

ROUND 6

1.

On which river does the Hoover Dam stand?

2.

What was the name of the Swedish diplomat who issued Swedish passports to about 20,000 Hungarian Jews, enabling them to escape Nazi persecution?

3.

What name is given to the process of coating iron or steel with a protective layer of zinc?

4.

What is a fer-de-lance?

5.

Which measure of length, used by several early civilizations including the Babylonians, Egyptians, and Hebrews, was based on the length of the forearm from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow?

6.

Billy Butlin opened his first holiday camp, Fred Perry won his 3rd singles title at Wimbledon, and the Crystal Palace burned down - what was the year?

7.

In which book was the entry about the planet Earth updated from 'harmless' to 'mostly harmless'?

8.

Which BBC Radio football reporter usually refers to Manchester City's ground, Maine Road, as 'the Theatre of Base Comedy'?

ROUND 7

1.

Who won an Oscar for directing the film 'Casablanca'?

2.

Which country did the Hohenzollern dynasty rule from 1525 to 1871?

3.

Which European country is known as Hrvatska by its citizens?

4.

Who was the first man to hold the position `Astronomer Royal'?

5.

Which organization’s motto is 'Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation'?

6.

Which mountain range runs along the Russia-Georgia border?

7.

What did the Romans call Britain?

8.

`Mare Nostrum' was the Roman name for which body of water?

ROUND 8

1.

What tree in the Garden of Eden provided the first forbidden apple for Adam and Eve?

2.

Which Charles Dickens novel is set in the fictional city of Coketown?

3.

Between 1378 and 1417 there were rival popes in Europe. One was seated in Rome, where was the other seated?

4.

Which Hollywood heart-throb was known as 'the King of Hollywood'?

5.

Which poet’s works included `Julian and Maddallo'?

6.

What is the official language of Bangladesh?

7.

What stretch of water separates Skye from the Outer Hebrides?

8.

In which river did the novelist Virginia Woolf drown?

SPARES

1.

Who succeeded Ted Hughes as Poet Laureate?

2.

Hunter S. Thompson wrote about "Fear and Loathing" in which city?

3.

What was the name of Long John Silver's Parrot in Treasure Island?

4.

In the computing term BASIC, what does the B stand for?

5.

Who was the mother of King John?

6.

What musical does the song `Day by Day' come from?

7.

Who played the title role in the US sitcom "Rhoda"?

8.

Who plays Laura Croft in the film "Tomb Raider'?

ROUND 1

1.

Hindi, from the word 'pajama' meaning 'drawers'

2.

'The Red'- derived from Arabic and probably referring to the colour of the sun-dried bricks of the outer wall of the palace.

3.

Wigan Warriors

4.

'Destry rides again'

5.

10101

6.

Louis Botha - from 1910 until his death in 1919

7.

Rugby League - in the play by David Storey

8.

Bucephalus

ROUND 2

1.

It is a triangular muscle covering the shoulder prominence

2.

Agricola

3.

Those of John Wycliffe

4.

The Tagus

5.

Harrow

6.

Thomas Alva Edison

7.

The Augusta National, in Georgia

8.

Two, three, four, five, seven - not in the same suit

ROUND 3

1.

Coventry Cathedral

2.

Hydrogen Peroxide

3.

A plaster preparation used in sculpture, painting and gilding

4.

The Cheltenham Gold Cup

5.

The JJB stadium - home of Wigan Warriors RLFC and Wigan Athletic FC

6.

The trombone

7.

Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, With a little help from my friends, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

8.

William Joyce

ROUND 4

1.

Northern line

2.

Brenda Fricker

3.

Ryman league, Unibond league, Dr Martens league

4.

commodious, commodity, commodore

5.

Paul Weller (the group was The Jam)

6.

Warren Hegg

7.

Catherine of Aragon (Mary), Anne Boleyn (Elizabeth 1), Jane Seymour (Edward VI)

8.

Tottenham Court Road

ROUND 5

1.

Anne Robinson

2.

The Others

3.

The Old Wellington' and 'Sinclairs Oyster Bar'

4.

Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable

5.

Irving Berlin

6.

American Civil War

7.

Emmeline Pankhurst

8.

John Laurie

ROUND 6

1.

Colorado River

2.

Raoul Wallenberg

3.

Galvanizing

4.

a snake

5.

the cubit

6.

1936

7.

The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

8.

Stuart Hall

ROUND 7

1.

Michael Curtiz

2.

Prussia

3.

Croatia

4.

John Flamsteed

5.

The BBC

6.

Caucasus

7.

Albion

8.

Mediterranean Sea

ROUND 8

1.

The Tree of Knowledge

2.

Hard Times

3.

Avignon

4.

Clark Gable

5.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

6.

Bengali

7.

Little Minch

8.

River Ouse

SPARES

1.

Andrew Motion

2.

Las Vagas

3.

Captain Flint

4.

Beginners

5.

Eleanor of Aquitaine

6.

Godspell

7.

Valerie Harper

8.

Angelina Jolie