ROUND 1

1.

Which work of literature starts with the lines: “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”

2.

Which 1997 film starred Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave and Jennifer Ehle?

3.

What is Scotland’s second highest mountain?

4.

Which artist painted ‘The Family of Charles IV’ and ‘Blind Guitarist’?

5.

What is the common name for the bird ‘Passer Domesticus’?

6.

Which inventor of the spinning-frame set up a large water-powered factory at Cromford in Derbyshire

7.

If you travelled from Brixton to Walthamstow Central on the London Underground which line would you use?

8.

Stephen Byers is Minister for the DTLR.  What does DTLR stand for?

ROUND 2

1.

Which American President used the slogan: “It’s morning again in America” for his presidential campaign?

2.

With what orchestral instrument would you associate Yo-Yo Ma?

3.

How would the number 31 be represented in base 7 arithmetic?

4.

Who played Soames Forsyte in the 1967 TV version of ‘The Forsyte Saga’?

5.

Which 2 letters are worth 10 points in Scrabble?

6.

In 1902 which food company started production in a disused malthouse in Burton-on-Trent.?

7.

What was the name of the first series produced and directed by Gerry Anderson who went on later to make ‘Stingray’ and ‘Thunderbirds’?

8.

What were Branle, Allemande, Cascarde and Galliard?

ROUND 3

1.

Oasis’ song ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ was used as the closing track to a celebrated 1996 BBC drama series.  What was the series?

2.

Which 3 consecutive words in Chambers Dictionary mean: Whooping-cough, a country, a wig?

3.

Where will the mountain bike events for the Manchester Commonwealth games be held?

4.

Who wrote the current number one best-selling fiction paperback ‘How to be Good’?

5.

Which country has a capital city and a former capital city whose names in English are anagrams of one another?

6.

Who is this year’s Lancashire County Cricket Club’s overseas player?

7.

Name any one of the 6 Manchester pubs in the CAMRA National Inventory (i.e. a pub ‘with an interior of outstanding heritage interest’)?

8.

Which Briton has won most Academy Awards (i.e. Oscars)?

ROUND 4 – ‘Invasions’

In each case name the country highlighted in pink and the name of the bordering country that has been ‘invaded’ by the highlighted country’s flag.

ROUND 5

1.

Which work of literature starts with the lines: “It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.”?

2.

Which Neil Jordan film of 1992 starred Stephen Rea and Miranda Richardson?

3.

In Scotland what are the ‘Grahams’?

4.

Which artist painted ‘The Old Woman Cooking Eggs’ and ‘The Rokeby Venus’?

5.

What is the common name for the bird ‘Sturnus Vulgaris’?

6.

Who established the model industrial town of Port Sunlight?

7.

If you travelled from Epping to West Ruislip on the London Underground which line would you use?

8.

Which Minister heads up the DTI?

ROUND 6

1.

What was the famous slogan used by Clinton’s campaign team in the 1992 Presidential campaign to remind them of the key issue of the election?

2.

With what instrument would you associate the classical performer Murray Perahia?

3.

What is the value of the binary number 110110?

4.

In the current ITV adaptation of Galsworthy’s ‘Forsyte Saga’ who plays Irene Forsyte?

5.

On a Darts board what number is directly opposite number 1?

6.

Which company, whose name means ‘I roll’, started life in 1915 as a subsidiary of a ball bearing factory?

7.

The names of the Thunderbirds crew were: Scott, Virgil, Alan, Gordon and John.  Why were these names chosen by Gerry Anderson?

8.

Which Latin American dance step originated as a Brazilian street festival dance?

ROUND 7

1.

What was the final track on Oasis’ album ‘(What’s the Story) Morning Glory’?

2.

Which 3 consecutive words in Chambers Dictionary mean: a kind of nut, to pilfer, a line of soldiers?

3.

Which striking new local building has been designed by architect Daniel Libeskind?

4.

Which famous writer has a new novel out called ‘Youth’?

5.

The name of the capital city of which country means 'Smokey Bay' in the native tongue?

6.

Which farmer and ex County Captain is playing for Lancashire County Cricket Club this season?

7.

Name any one of the 4 Stockport pubs in the CAMRA National Inventory (i.e. a pub ‘with an interior of outstanding heritage interest’)?

8.

What is linguistically unusual about the 1965 film ‘Incubus’ starring William Shatner?

ROUND 8 – ‘The Final Round’

1.

On which Beatles album were the lines: “And in the end the love you make is equal to the love you take”?

2.

In 1994 ‘Endless Love’ was a hit for Luther van Dross and which female singer?

3.

Which club won its only FA Cup Final in 1947?

4.

Manchester United has won the FA Cup most times (15).  Which club comes next?

5.

What is the western terminus of the West Highland Railway line in Scotland?

6.

What station is at the western end of the Ffestiniog railway in Wales?

7.

Which work ends with the lines: “They hand in hand with wandering steps and slow, through Eden took their solitary way.”?

8.

Which work ends with the lines: “The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.  They have a world to win.  Working men of all countries unite!”?

SPARES

1.

Maria Fitzherbert was mistress to which future British monarch?

2.

Of which British monarch was Alice Keppel the mistress?

3.

What letters signify the 4 blood groups?

4.

Name 2 of the 4 constituents of DNA?

5.

By what name was Maurice Cole better known?

6.

By what name is James Wilson Vincent better known?

7.

Which international cricket captain had the middle names ‘Barker Howard’?

8.

Which international cricket captain had the middle names ‘George Dylan’?

ROUND 1

1.

The ‘Go-Between’ by L P Hartley

2.

‘Wilde’

3.

Ben Macdui

4.

Goya

5.

House Sparrow

6.

Sir Richard Arkwright

7.

Victoria

8.

Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

ROUND 2

1.

Ronald Reagan (1984)

2.

Cello

3.

43

4.

Eric Porter

5.

Q and Z

6.

Marmite

7.

The Adventures of Twizzle (1956)?

8.

Dance steps (16^th century)

ROUND 3

1.

‘Our Friends In The North’

2.

Pertussis, Peru, Peruke

3.

Rivington Park (accept Rivington or Rivington Pike)

4.

Nick Hornby

5.

Japan (Tokyo & Kyoto)

6.

Stuart Law (the Australian batsman formerly of Essex)

7.

Briton’s Protection, Circus Tavern, Crown & Kettle, Hare & Hounds, Mr Thomas’s, Peveril of the Peak

8.

Nick Parks for his various animated films

ROUND 4 – ‘Invasions’

1.

Uzbekistan (highlighted)           &          Turkmenistan (‘invaded’)

2.

Bhutan (highlighted)                 &          India (‘invaded’)

3.

Gabon (highlighted)                  &          Equatorial Guinea (‘invaded’)

4.

Laos (highlighted)                     &          Burma or Myanmar (‘invaded’)

5.

Lithuania (highlighted)             &           Belarus (‘invaded’)

6.

Burkina Faso (highlighted)       &           Ivory Coast (‘invaded’)

7.

Moldova (highlighted)              &           Romania (‘invaded’)

8.

Azerbaijan (highlighted)           &           Iran (’invaded’)

ROUND 5

1.

‘1984’ by George Orwell

2.

‘The Crying Game’

3.

Hills between 2000ft and 2500ft high

4.

Velasquez

5.

Starling

6.

William Hesketh Lever (1^st Viscount Leverhulme)

7.

Central

8.

Patricia Hewitt

ROUND 6

1.

“It’s the economy, stupid”

2.

Piano

3.

54

4.

Gina McKee

5.

Number 19

6.

Volvo

7.

Each was part of the full name of one of the first US Astronauts

8.

Samba

ROUND 7

1.

Champagne Supernova

2.

Filbert, Filch and File

3.

Imperial War Museum North

4.

J M Coetzee

5.

Iceland (Reykjavik)

6.

David Byas (formerly captain of Yorkshire)

7.

Alexandra, Arden Arms, Queen’s Head, Swan with Two Necks

8.

The dialogue is in Esperanto

ROUND 8 – ‘The Final Round’

1.

Abbey Road

2.

Mariah Carey

3.

Charlton Athletic

4.

Tottenham Hotspur (8)

5.

Mallaig

6.

Porthmadog

7.

‘Paradise Lost’ by John Milton

8.

‘The Communist Manifesto’ by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

SPARES

1.

George IV

2.

Edward VII

3.

O, A, B, AB

4.

Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine, Thymine

5.

Kenny Everett

6.

Jimmy Savile

7.

Peter B H May of England

8.

Bob G D Willis