Questions

ROUND 1

1.

Which volcano, one of the Lipari Islands, is known as The Lighthouse of Europe?

2.

Santorini, the island residue of a huge volcanic explosion is a manifestation of what geographical phenomenon?

3.

Which wading bird has proportionately longer legs than any other wader?

4.

Which wading bird is eponymously named after the way it seeks its food?

5.

Which Carry On film features Charles Hawtrey as Big Heap and Bernard Breslau as Little Heap?

6.

Which Carry On film features Kenneth Connor as Hengist Pod and Sheila Hancock as his wife Senna?

7.

Which river enters the ocean near Adelaide?

8.

Which river enters the sea in the Gulf of the Lion?

ROUND 2

1.

Who wrote the novel From Here to Eternity?

2.

Who wrote The Long and the Short and the Tall?

3.

The Look Sabha is a constituent part of which country’s parliament?

4.

Better known as Hansard, what is its official title?

5.

Where in London is Rotten Row?

6.

What is the official name of the London landmark known as Eros?

7.

Which 19^th Century poet was a Jesuit priest?

8.

Which 19^th Century poet wrote Pippa Passes?

ROUND 3

1.

Which Zurich Premiership rugby team is sponsored by Mitsubishi Shogun?

2.

Which Premier League football team is sponsored by Rover Cars?

3.

The question gives a clue as to the name of a US state capital. Please give the name of the capital and the state (one point for each - both correct for a for a bonus point).

Clue: The 6 Million Dollar Man, name the State and its capital?

4.

Similarly…

Clue: First ever singer to appear on Top of the Pops, name the State and its capital?

5.

What does the Latin phrase sine die mean?

6.

What does the Latin phrase caveat emptor mean?

7.

What is the new Harry Potter movie called?

8.

What film stars Ralph Fiennes as a tattooed killer?

ROUND 4

1.

Who created the detective Inspector Rebus?

2.

Who created the detectives Dalziel and Pascoe?

3.

Name Patricia Cornwell’s pathologist heroine?

4.

Who plays the female pathologist in TV’s Silent Witness?

5.

Who plays Superintendent Dalziel in the TV series?

6.

Who played Inspector Rebus in the TV series?

7.

Who wrote the books upon which TV’s Inspector Frost is based?

8.

What was Inspector Morse’s first name?

ROUND 5

1.

Daughter of the Cretan king Minos, she helped Theseus escape from the labyrinth, and later went with him to Naxos, where he deserted her and she became the wife of Bacchus. What was her name?

2.

This goddess, called Ashtoreth by the Canaanites and Phoenicians, by the Babylonians Ishtar, and by the Greeks Astarte, was the goddess of what?

3.

A Celtic word meaning the island of apples, and in Celtic mythology applied to the Island of Blessed Souls, an earthly paradise set in the western Seas. The word is?

4.

This word is derived from an old Irish word meaning a woman of the elves or fairies. It describes the domestic spirit of certain Irish or Highland Scottish families, supposed to take an interest in its welfare, and to wail at the death of one of the family. The word is?

5.

Who or what were cast from the Tarpeian Rock in Ancient Rome?

6.

A fabulous reptile, also called a cockatrice, and alleged to be hatched by a serpent from a cock’s egg. According to ancient authors its breath, even its look, was fatal.  The animal is?

7.

A gold coin, of greatly varying value, struck at Constantinople, by the Byzantine Emperors, current in England until the time of Edward III.  The coin is a ….?

8.

This Indian tree’s name derives from the Pali (Indian dialect) word Bodhi, meaning perfect knowledge. It is under one of these trees that Gautama attained enlightenment and became Buddha. The name of the tree is?

ROUND 6

1.

In American universities, what is a second year student called?

2.

Which British university first allowed women to take its degrees?

3.

Who was the founder of Judaism?

4.

What did the Ark of the Covenant contain?

5.

What is a Lampyris noctiluca?

6.

What is the common name of the vegetable Brassica oleracea?

7.

Of whom did Margot Asquith say …he could not see a belt without hitting under it…?

8.

Who was the last queen of England to be tried for adultery?

ROUND 7

1.

After whom is the international airport at Venice named?

2.

After whom is the international airport at Genoa named?

3.

Which planet has a satellite called Titania?

4.

Which planet is known as the Horned Planet?

5.

Of what is Taphophobia the fear?

6.

Of what is Triskaidekaphobia the fear?

7.

Phil Oakey was a member of which 80’s pop group which sang Love action?

8.

Tom Bailey was a member of which 80’s pop group which sang Love on your side?

ROUND 8 (Picture Round)

SPARES

1.

Name the minstrel who located the prison where Richard the Lionheart was being held for ransom?

2.

Who took the “naughty bits” out of Shakespeare?

3.

What is the state capital of Kentucky?

4.

In which county is Saltash?

5.

Of which deity was the Colossus of Rhodes a statue?

6.

Name Edmund Tudor and Margaret Beaufort’s successful son?

7.

By what name is Michael Barratt better known?

8.

Of what was Bradshaw’s a guide?

Answers

ROUND 1

1.

Stromboli

2.

Caldera

3.

Stilt

4.

Turnstone

5.

Carry On Cowboy

6.

Carry on Cleo

7.

River Darling

8.

River Rhone

ROUND 2

1.

James Jones

2.

Willis Hall

3.

India

4.

The Journal of the House of Commons

5.

Hyde Park

6.

The Shaftesbury Memorial

7.

Gerald Manley Hopkins

8.

Robert Browning

ROUND 3

1.

Bristol

2.

Aston Villa

3.

Texas and (Steve)Austin

4.

Illinois and (Dusty) Springfield

5.

Adjourning to a date to be fixed (literally without a day)

6.

Let the buyer beware

7.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

8.

Red Dragon

ROUND 4

1.

Ian Rankin

2.

Reginald Hill

3.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta

4.

Amanda Burton

5.

Warren Clarke

6.

John Hannah

7.

R.F. Wingfield

8.

Endeavour

ROUND 5

1.

Ariadne

2.

Fertility and reproduction

3.

Avalon

4.

Banshee

5.

Criminals

6.

The Basilisk

7.

Bezant

8.

The Bo-tree

ROUND 6

1.

Sophomore

2.

London University - in 1878

3.

Abraham

4.

The tablets of stone on which were written the Ten Commandments

5.

A glow-worm

6.

A Cabbage

7.

Lloyd George

8.

Caroline of Brunswick - in 1820

ROUND 7

1.

Marco Polo

2.

Christopher Columbus

3.

Uranus

4.

Venus

5.

Burial alive

6.

Number thirteen

7.

The Human League

8.

The Thompson Twins

ROUND 8

1.

Nunavut

2.

Corsica

3.

Ivory Coast (Cote D’Ivoire)

4.

Andorra

5.

World Health Organisation

6.

Commonwealth of Nations

7.

Celtic (pan-Celtic flag)

8.

French (francophone)

SPARES

1.

Blondel

2.

Dr. Thomas Bowdler

3.

Frankfort

4.

Cornwall

5.

Helios

6.

Henry VII

7.

Shakin’ Stevens

8.

Railway timetables