Questions

ROUND 1

1.

Whom did Winston Churchill refer to as “a modest little man with much to be modest about”?

2.

In which film did Jane Fonda's hooker win the 1971 Best Actress Oscar?

3.

Which car manufacturer produced the Imp and Husky models?

4.

Whom did Bjorn Borg defeat in the 1976 Wimbledon final when he won his first

Wimbledon title?

5.

What is the subject of speciality publishing company Haynes?

6.

At this year's (2002) Brit Awards who won the award as best British female artist?

7.

Give a year in the life of the composer Chopin.

8.

Which colonial power governed The Phillipines from 1898-1941?

ROUND 2

1.

According to the bible where was Jesus crucified?

2.

Who was the father of Henry VII?

3.

Which first class county cricket team plays at the St Lawrence Ground?

4.

What name was given to a group of English writers including Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf?        

5.

In which city is Nicholas Roeg’s 1973 film Don't Look Now set?

6.

What is the atomic number of the element calcium?

7.

In which organ of the human body would you find, amongst others, medulla cortex, pyramid, loop of heule and glomerulus?

8.

What is the northernmost point of the British mainland ?

ROUND 3

1.

In which country was football's 2002 African Nations Cup finals held?

2.

Which popular US TV programme, first shown in the UK in 1998, was created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone?

3.

Which is the lowest rank of the Peerage?

4.

Who wrote the music for the ballet L'Apres Midi Faune, first performed in 1912?

5.

What is the longest river in Canada?

6.

How was Albino Luciani, who died in 1978, better known?

7.

Who wrote the 1988 Booker prize winning novel Oscar and Lucinda?

8.

Which chemical pH indicator, widely used as a stain in the preparation of slides is red below pH 3.1 and yellow above pH 4.4?         

ROUND 4

1.

Pere David is a species of which animal?

2.

Who was the Roman goddess of agriculture?

3.

What is the new name of the body assuming the business of Railtrack, which recently went into administration?

4.

Which song, a number one hit in 1979, opens with the line it's cold outside and the paint’s peeling off my wall?

5.

How many of the original 12 football league teams are currently playing in the Premier League?

6.

Who was the eponymous Man of Destiny in George Bernard Shaw's play?

7.

In which country is the Nullabor Plain?

8.

Which Manchester building was erected in the mid 1850s to commemorate the achievements of the Anti Corn Law League?    

ROUND 5

1.

To whom or what was Edward Heath referring when he spoke of “the unacceptable face of capitalism”?

2.

Which film won four Oscars at the 2001 ceremony including best art direction, best original score and best cinematography?

3.

Which car manufacturer produced the Hawk and Super Snipe models?

4.

Whom did John McEnroe defeat in the 1984 Wimbledon final when he won his third and last Wimbledon title ?

5.

What is the subject of speciality publishing company Bartholomews?

6.

At this year's (2002) Brit Awards who won the award for best British group?

7.

Give a year in the life of the composer Schubert?

8.

Which colonial power governed The Maldives from 1887 until independence in 1965?

ROUND 6

1.

According to the bible, what was the name of the village where Jesus performed his first miracle, turning water into wine?

2.

Who was the father of James I of England (James V1 of Scotland)?

3.

Which first class county cricket team plays at Sofia Gardens?

4.

Which American author, 1923-1969, wrote Big Sur and Desolation Angel?

5.

Name the actor who appears in all three Godfather films?         

6.

What is the atomic number of the element chlorine?

7.

To within half a pint, how many pints of blood are there in the average adult?

8.

What is the northernmost point of the island of Ireland?

ROUND 7

1.

Which country won football's African Nations Cup in 2002?

2.

Which popular US TV programme, first shown in the UK in 1998, is set in the fictional village of Sunnydale?

3.

In which year were railways nationalised in the UK?

4.

Demonstrate, or alternatively describe, the ballet position of Arabesque?          

5.

What is the second longest river in Africa?

6.

What is the signet ring called, that is traditionally used by Popes to seal documents?

7.

Which author, who died in 1817, left the uncompleted novel Sanditton?

8.

Chemically what common name may be referred to as any of a group of natural esters or glycerol and other lipid mixtures that is solid at room temperature?

ROUND 8

1.

What type of animal is a grampus?

2.

Who was the Roman goddess of the dawn?

3.

Which UK grocery retailer has recently bought the Alldays chain of convenience stores?

4.

Which song, a number three hit in 1982, opens with the line “All around me are familiar faces, worn out places, worn out faces”?

5.

Preston North End won the first two English Football League titles, but who were the second team to get their name on the trophy?

6.

Who was the angry young man in John Osborne's Look Back In Anger?

7.

In which country is the site of the ancient city of Babylon?

8.

Which 19th century architect's Manchester buildings included the Athenaeum on Princess St and the City Art Gallery on Mosley St?

SPARES

1.

Which English County is known as The Land of the Bishop Princes?

2.

What is the more common name for the medical condition pre-patellar bursitis?

3.

At what weight division was Terry Downes World Champion?

4.

Which monarch was on the English throne when the Great Fire of London started?

5.

What was the name of Britain’s wartime code breaking station?

6.

In boys’ comics how was Alf Tupper better known?

7.

Which bay lies between Canada and Greenland?          

8.

Who had a number one hit in the 1980's with China in your Hand?

9.

Who wrote the play The Quare Fellow?

Answers

ROUND 1

1.

Clement Attlee

2.

Klute

3.

Hillman

4.

Ilie Nastase

5.

Car Manuals

6.

Dido

7.

1810-1849

8.

USA

ROUND 2

1.

Calvary (or Golgotha in Hebrew)

2.

Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond

3.

Kent

4.

Bloomsbury Group

5.

Venice

6.

20

7.

Kidney

8.

Dunnet Head

ROUND 3

1.

Mali

2.

South Park

3.

Baron

4.

Debussy

5.

Mackenzie

6.

Pope John Paul I

7.

Peter Carey

8.

Methyl Orange

ROUND 4

1.

Deer

2.

Ceres

3.

Network Rail

4.

Are Friends Electric (Tubeway Army)

5.

5 (Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Everton, West Bromwich Albion)

6.

Napoleon

7.

Australia

8.

Free Trade Hall

ROUND 5

1.

Tiny Rowland or Lonrho

2.

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

3.

Humber

4.

Chris Lewis

5.

Maps/Atlases

6.

Travis

7.

1797-1828

8.

Great Britain

ROUND 6

1.

Cana

2.

Henry, Lord Darnley

3.

Glamorgan

4.

Jack Kerouac

5.

Al Pacino

6.

17

7.

10

8.

Malin Head

ROUND 7

1.

Cameroon

2.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

3.

1948

4.

One leg stretched straight out to the back and one arm stretched out to the front

5.

Zaire (Congo)

6.

Fisherman's Ring

7.

Jane Austen

8.

Fat

ROUND 8

1.

Dolphin

2.

Aurora

3.

Cooperative Wholesale Society (accept CWS or Co-op)

4.

Mad World (Tears for Fears)

5.

Everton

6.

Jimmy Porter

7.

Iraq

8.

Sir Charles Barry

SPARES

1.

Durham

2.

Housemaid’s knee

3.

Middleweight

4.

Charles II

5.

Bletchley Park

6.

Tough of the Track

7.

Baffin

8.

T'Pau

9.

Brendan Behan