Questions

ROUND 1

1.

What was the largest land battle of WWII?

2.

What was Spike Milligan’s real first name?

3.

What is the name of the Spanish Parliament?

4.

On what ship was the Japanese declaration of surrender signed?

5.

Give a year in the life of Samuel Pepys?

6.

Who was the Greek goddess of Fate?

7.

What was the date of Pearl Harbour?

8.

What is the main ingredient of taramasalata?

ROUND 2

1.

What is the code name of the secret U.S. airforce base closely linked with UFOs?

2.

Who starred as the psychiatrist in the 1992 film Final Analysis?

3.

In his will who did Hitler name as his successor?

4.

Name the yachtswoman who recently won her 2nd major single-handed race?

5.

What was the name of Don Quixote's horse?

6.

From what country does Diego Forlan originate?

7.

An exhibition of which famous German artist has recently opened at the British Musuem?

8.

What, in Australia, is the Gan?

ROUND 3

1.

Which U.S. newspaper tycoon was the model for the central character of Orson Welle's film Citizen Kane?

2.

Which singer was originally known as Gerry Dorsey?

3.

Who succeeded Anthony Eden as Prime Minister in 1957?

4.

Who was the first wife of Henry VIII?

5.

How many pints of beer are there in a hogshead?

6.

What is the larva of the cranefly known as?

7.

Aboard what ship did Darwin's theory of evolution evolve?

8.

In which film did David Bowie play an alien?

ROUND 4

1.

Which protein forms hair, nails and horn?

2.

Who was Prime Minister of Australia from 1949 to 1966?

3.

Which famous conductor founded the Promenade Concerts?

4.

In which city did Keats die?

5.

What was Gertrude Jekyll famous for?

6.

Which Welsh buccaneer later became Governor of Jamaica?

7.

Who in the Bible said What is truth?

8.

What is the nickname for Northampton Town FC?

ROUND 5

1.

Which Argentinian scored 2 goals in the 1978 World Cup Final?

2.

Which British chemist formulated the law of partial pressures in gasses?

3.

What name is given to the tree of the genus Fraximus?

4.

Which actor played Mr. Swindley in Coronation St?

5.

What is the capital of Gabon?

6.

Of what country is Latakkia the main seaport?

7.

Which feature of the Spencer coat-of-arms has been incorporated into Prince William’s coat-of-arms?

8.

Which novel by Peter Carey won the Booker Prize?

ROUND 6

1.

From which Shakespeare play does Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World get its name?

2.

Which French author wrote the story on which Bizet based his opera Carmen?

3.

What nationality was the philosopher Benedict Spinoza?

4.

In which country was the painter Marc Chagall born?

5.

Of what is cholecystoctomy the surgical removal?

6.

What is Ian Duncan-Smith’s constituency?

7.

What is the name of the only racehorse to have won both the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Champion Hurdle?

8.

What was Swampy's real name (i.e. the protester against Manchester airport)?

ROUND 7

1.

Which English King is buried in Worcester Cathedral?

2.

What is the true name of the Crocodile River?

3.

Which country was the first to legalise abortion?

4.

On which river does Pisa stand?

5.

What is the state capital of Connecticut?

6.

Who painted The Transfiguration?

7.

Who won the first soccer World Cup?

8.

What do we call the substance that the Greeks called Elektron?

ROUND 8

1.

Which Scottish football team plays their games at Rugby Park?

2.

Who was the first bowler to take over 300 wickets in both tests and one-day internationals?

3.

Whose catchphrase was You Lucky People?

4.

What was the gladiator armed with both net and trident called?

5.

By what name was James Alfred White better known?

6.

Who said A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic?

7.

In Norse mythology what was Molnir?

8.

Give a year in the life of Antonio Vivaldi?

SPARES

1.

What is the more common name for aquilegia?

2.

How many books are there in the New Testament?

3.

In the RAF what is Fat Albert?

4.

Which country's wine shows the KWV mark?

5.

In terms of numbers of ships, what was the largest sea battle of WWII?

Answers

ROUND 1

1.

Kursk

2.

Terence (accept Terry)

3.

The Cortes

4.

USS Missouri

5.

1633-1703

6.

Nemesis

7.

7th December 1941

8.

Cods roe

ROUND 2

1.

Area 51

2.

Richard Gere

3.

Admiral Doenitz

4.

Ellen MacArthur

5.

Rosinante

6.

Uruguay

7.

Albrecht Dürer

8.

The train to Alice Springs

ROUND 3

1.

William Randolph Hearst

2.

Englebert Humperdink

3.

Harold Macmillan

4.

Catherine of Aragon

5.

432

6.

The Leatherjacket

7.

The Beagle

8.

The Man who fell to Earth

ROUND 4

1.

Keratin

2.

Robert Menzies

3.

Sir Henry Wood

4.

Rome

5.

Garden design

6.

Sir Henry Morgan

7.

Pilate

8.

The Cobblers

ROUND 5

1.

Maria Kempes

2.

John Dalton

3.

Ash

4.

Arthur Lowe

5.

Libraville

6.

Syria

7.

The red scallop shell

8.

Oscar and Lucinda

ROUND 6

1.

The Tempest

2.

Prosper Merimee

3.

Dutch

4.

Russia

5.

Gall bladder

6.

Chingford and Wood Green

7.

Dawn Run

8.

Daniel Hooper

ROUND 7

1.

King John

2.

Limpopo

3.

Iceland

4.

Arno

5.

Hartford

6.

Raphael

7.

Uruguay

8.

Amber

ROUND 8

1.

Kilmarnock

2.

Wasim Akram

3.

Tommy Trinder

4.

Retiarius

5.

James Herriot

6.

Stalin

7.

Thor's hammer

8.

1678-1741

SPARES

1.

Columbine

2.

27

3.

The Hercules transport plane

4.

South Africa

5.

Layte Gulf