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Since it is another postponed President's Cup match tomorrow in Oxford versus Oxford, and our penultimate game before Bed & Herts and the final reckoning we find out that we are holding the rest of the teams Atlas-like on our shoulders at the bottom of the last results table, I may as well take this opportunity to unleash yet another friendly that I wrote for the season. You might actually get a couple of these questions right, unlike the other ones I do daily. But it is hard. I know this because it scored early 30s and late 20s between UC Alumni and the Masterminders. It has been modified, most noticeably in the case of the really long architect questions, but then I really do want to remember those (and er, Gavin was right when he said it was Steve not Paul Ballmer). This friendly writing is mainly for my benefit, admittedly. Now how do I make them the least bit interesting?
(PS If I haven't contacted you about President's Cup for tomorrow, it's only because it's in Oxford and I didn't want to bother you with taking cross-country train trips away from the metropolitan sprawl, and because we have a home match next week.)
President's Cup friendly, from October, maybe, I do remember it being warmer back then, oh when will spring come and the lambs spring from sheeply reproductive organs?
ROUND 1
1A What offal or animal organs are also known as sweetbreads?
PANCREAS
1B What organ in an animal's body has also been called the milt?
SPLEEN
2a Which French author, who is reputed to have died of drinking too much coffee, is commemorated by a Rodin sculpture in the Boulevard Raspail in Paris?
HONORE DE BALZAC
2b Auguste Rodin's sculpture The Thinker was originally modelled on which poet?
DANTE ALIGHIERI
3A For which French king did Benvenuto Cellini make his famous silver and gold salt cellar?
FRANCIS I
3B Of which family of musical instruments is the mandora a member?
LUTE
4A Which of the Apollo space missions was struck by bolt of upper atmosphere lighning?
12
4B Which of the Apollo space missions was commanded by a 47-year-old grandfather who admitted to crying on the Moon?
14 (Alan B Shepard)
ROUND 2
1A Which mythological figure was killed by a shirt smeared with the blood of Nessus?
HERACLES or HERCULES
1B The poet John Keats studied medicine at which London hospital?
GUY'S
2a Which country produces Franconia wine?
GERMANY
2b Which former royal residence was presented to the nation by King Edward VII?
OSBORNE HOUSE, ISLE OF WIGHT
3a Which Gloucestershire doctor, born in 1749, made his name through his investigations into the prevention of an infectious disease?
EDWARD JENNER
3b Which terrible movie sequel of 1977 had the subtitle The Heretic?
THE EXORCIST II
4a At which London hospital did the novelist Somerset Maugham study medicine?
ST THOMAS'S
4b Glauce was about to wed whom when she put on poisoned clothes given to her by Medea and died?
JASON
ROUND 3
1a Which Tudor mansion was given to the nation for official use in 1917 by Lord and Lady Lee?
CHEQUERS
1b Which country makes Dao wine?
PORTUGAL
2a Author of a memoir called My Childhood on Funen, which Danish composer's works include The Four Temperaments and Espansiva symphonies?
CARL NIELSEN
2b Which Swiss composer's work include the essential piece of flute repertoire known as Danse de la Chevre, the music for Abel Gance's film Napoleon and the oratorio Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher?
ARTHUR HONEGGER
3a The flageolet is a member of which family of musical instruments?
RECORDER
3b For which Milanese noble did Leonardo da Vinci paint The Last Supper?
LUDOVICO SFORZA
4a Which public school was endowed in 1611 by Thomas Sutton on a site just west of Aldersgate in London?
CHARTERHOUSE
4b Which London public school was founded in 1509 by John Colet to provide for the education of 153 children of 'all nations and countries indifferently' in good manners and literature?
ST PAUL'S
ROUND 4
1a According to the ancients, why were the apples of Sodom unpleasant to eat?
FULL OF ASHES
1b Which is the first book of the Bible to have a woman's name for a title?
RUTH
2a Which prolific 19th century architect designed the triumphal arch at Hyde Park Corner and was known for much of his work on buildings in the seaside town of Fleetwood, as well as the Temperate House at Kew Gardens, and The Athenaeum gentlemen's club at Waterloo Place?
DECIMUS BURTON
2b Born in Gothenburg where his father was a merchant, which 18th century Scottish architect designed Somerset House in London, and both Charlemonth House and The Casino at Marino in Dublin, as well as the Pagoda and the Orangery at Kew Gardens?
WILLIAM CHAMBERS
3a Which AC Milan player scored the first goal in this year's Champions' League final?
PAOLO MALDINI
3b Which Liverpool player scored the equalising goal that took the score to 3-3 at this year's Champions' League final?
XABI ALONSO
4a What is the first book of the Bible to be named after a man?
JOSHUA
4b Which goddess was awarded 'the apple of discord'?
APHRODITE or VENUS
ROUND 5
1a Which Nobel prize winner's brother Harald played football for Denmark and was part of the team that won silver at the 1908 Olympics?
NIELS BOHR
1b Which sport uses the terms 'hazard side', 'Dedans' and 'forces'?
REAL TENNIS
2a Which monarch made Leamington Spa royal?
VICTORIA
2b Who made Tunbridge Wells royal?
EDWARD VII
3a Which capital city was founded in 1538 by law graduate and writer Gonzalo Jimenez da Quesada and has been called The Athens of South America?
BOGOTA
3b On which new digital channel can the programmes The Daily Show, The Last Word and the new series of Curb Your Enthusiasm be seen?
MORE4
4a Which sport uses the terms 'rake', 'clamp' and 'man down defense'?
(MEN'S) LACROSSE
4b Which Nobel prize winner played football for the University of Algiers but never played for Algeria because tuberculosis cut short his career?
ALBERT CAMUS
Round 6
1a Which American singer has given her name to the fragrance Curious?
BRITNEY SPEARS
1b Which Stephen Sondheim sequel features the songs The Ballad of Booth, How I Saved Roosevelt and Gun Song?
ASSASSINS
2a Troy Kennedy Martin created which police drama that started broadcasting in 1962?
Z-CARS
2b Troy's brother Ian created which cop drama that started broadcasting in 1975?
THE SWEENEY
3a Which terrible movie sequel of 1987 had the subtitle The Quest for Peace?
SUPERMAN IV
3b Which Mercury Music Prize-nominated band has had top ten hits in 2005 with the songs Oh My God and I Predict a Riot?
THE KAISER CHIEFS
4a Which Stephen Sondheim musical features the songs Finishing the Hat, Color and Light and We Do Not Belong Together?
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
4b Which American singer has endorsed the fragrance Still?
JENNIFER LOPEZ
Round 7
1a Which Mercury Music Prize-nominated band has had top ten hits in 2005 with the songs So Here We Are and Two More Years?
BLOC PARTY
1b The Gloucestershire doctor Edward Wilson famously died where?
THE SOUTH POLE
2a Which actor and writer's autobiographical musings and non-fiction pieces are contained in Writing Home and his latest book, Untold Stories?
ALAN BENNETT
2b Which philosopher and scientist was killed at the sack of Syracuse during the Second Punic War in 212 BC?
ARCHIMEDES
3a The Dead Pool was the last in which series of cop films?
DIRTY HARRY
3b In which 1983 film did Dirty Harry say the words: "Go ahead, make my day"?
SUDDEN IMPACT
4a On which long established digital or satellite channel can the programmes TRL, Room Raiders and Globally Dismissed be found?
MTV
4b Home to the Alameda de las Delicias, which South American capital was built on fertile valley land by Pedro de Valdivia from 1541?
SANTIAGO
Round 8
1a Which left-arm spinner was the last Australian wicket to fall when England won the 1981 Ashes Headingley test?
RAY BRIGHT
1b When Ian Botham helped England to victory with 118 at the Old Trafford Ashes test in 1981, which Australian batsman valiantly scored 123 not out in the fourth innings?
ALLAN BORDER
2a Which prison formed the gatehouse of the Westgate of the city of London?
NEWGATE
2b Which prison stood in Southwark by the London residence of the Bishop of Winchester?
THE CLINK
3a Where in Washington state are Microsoft's headquarters?
REDMOND
3b Bill Gates is the chairman, but who is Microsoft's CEO?
STEVE BALLMER
4a Which French chemist was guillotined on May 8th, 1794?
ANTOINE LAVOISIER
4b Which English playwright, who died in 1994, wrote the autobiographical volumes A Better Class of Person and Almost a Gentleman?
JOHN OSBORNE
Spares
1. The new Steve Coogan film A Cock and Bull Story is an adaptation of which classic novel?
THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN
2. The Place Prize is awarded in which field of the arts?
DANCE
3. The Great Bear Lake is the largest lake that happens to be entirely in which country?
CANADA
4. Which board game has 81 squares and pieces called jewels, lancers and silver grenades?
SHOGI
5. What did George Stephenson call the first effective steam locomotive in 1814?
BLUCHER
(PS If I haven't contacted you about President's Cup for tomorrow, it's only because it's in Oxford and I didn't want to bother you with taking cross-country train trips away from the metropolitan sprawl, and because we have a home match next week.)
President's Cup friendly, from October, maybe, I do remember it being warmer back then, oh when will spring come and the lambs spring from sheeply reproductive organs?
ROUND 1
1A What offal or animal organs are also known as sweetbreads?
PANCREAS
1B What organ in an animal's body has also been called the milt?
SPLEEN
2a Which French author, who is reputed to have died of drinking too much coffee, is commemorated by a Rodin sculpture in the Boulevard Raspail in Paris?
HONORE DE BALZAC
2b Auguste Rodin's sculpture The Thinker was originally modelled on which poet?
DANTE ALIGHIERI
3A For which French king did Benvenuto Cellini make his famous silver and gold salt cellar?
FRANCIS I
3B Of which family of musical instruments is the mandora a member?
LUTE
4A Which of the Apollo space missions was struck by bolt of upper atmosphere lighning?
12
4B Which of the Apollo space missions was commanded by a 47-year-old grandfather who admitted to crying on the Moon?
14 (Alan B Shepard)
ROUND 2
1A Which mythological figure was killed by a shirt smeared with the blood of Nessus?
HERACLES or HERCULES
1B The poet John Keats studied medicine at which London hospital?
GUY'S
2a Which country produces Franconia wine?
GERMANY
2b Which former royal residence was presented to the nation by King Edward VII?
OSBORNE HOUSE, ISLE OF WIGHT
3a Which Gloucestershire doctor, born in 1749, made his name through his investigations into the prevention of an infectious disease?
EDWARD JENNER
3b Which terrible movie sequel of 1977 had the subtitle The Heretic?
THE EXORCIST II
4a At which London hospital did the novelist Somerset Maugham study medicine?
ST THOMAS'S
4b Glauce was about to wed whom when she put on poisoned clothes given to her by Medea and died?
JASON
ROUND 3
1a Which Tudor mansion was given to the nation for official use in 1917 by Lord and Lady Lee?
CHEQUERS
1b Which country makes Dao wine?
PORTUGAL
2a Author of a memoir called My Childhood on Funen, which Danish composer's works include The Four Temperaments and Espansiva symphonies?
CARL NIELSEN
2b Which Swiss composer's work include the essential piece of flute repertoire known as Danse de la Chevre, the music for Abel Gance's film Napoleon and the oratorio Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher?
ARTHUR HONEGGER
3a The flageolet is a member of which family of musical instruments?
RECORDER
3b For which Milanese noble did Leonardo da Vinci paint The Last Supper?
LUDOVICO SFORZA
4a Which public school was endowed in 1611 by Thomas Sutton on a site just west of Aldersgate in London?
CHARTERHOUSE
4b Which London public school was founded in 1509 by John Colet to provide for the education of 153 children of 'all nations and countries indifferently' in good manners and literature?
ST PAUL'S
ROUND 4
1a According to the ancients, why were the apples of Sodom unpleasant to eat?
FULL OF ASHES
1b Which is the first book of the Bible to have a woman's name for a title?
RUTH
2a Which prolific 19th century architect designed the triumphal arch at Hyde Park Corner and was known for much of his work on buildings in the seaside town of Fleetwood, as well as the Temperate House at Kew Gardens, and The Athenaeum gentlemen's club at Waterloo Place?
DECIMUS BURTON
2b Born in Gothenburg where his father was a merchant, which 18th century Scottish architect designed Somerset House in London, and both Charlemonth House and The Casino at Marino in Dublin, as well as the Pagoda and the Orangery at Kew Gardens?
WILLIAM CHAMBERS
3a Which AC Milan player scored the first goal in this year's Champions' League final?
PAOLO MALDINI
3b Which Liverpool player scored the equalising goal that took the score to 3-3 at this year's Champions' League final?
XABI ALONSO
4a What is the first book of the Bible to be named after a man?
JOSHUA
4b Which goddess was awarded 'the apple of discord'?
APHRODITE or VENUS
ROUND 5
1a Which Nobel prize winner's brother Harald played football for Denmark and was part of the team that won silver at the 1908 Olympics?
NIELS BOHR
1b Which sport uses the terms 'hazard side', 'Dedans' and 'forces'?
REAL TENNIS
2a Which monarch made Leamington Spa royal?
VICTORIA
2b Who made Tunbridge Wells royal?
EDWARD VII
3a Which capital city was founded in 1538 by law graduate and writer Gonzalo Jimenez da Quesada and has been called The Athens of South America?
BOGOTA
3b On which new digital channel can the programmes The Daily Show, The Last Word and the new series of Curb Your Enthusiasm be seen?
MORE4
4a Which sport uses the terms 'rake', 'clamp' and 'man down defense'?
(MEN'S) LACROSSE
4b Which Nobel prize winner played football for the University of Algiers but never played for Algeria because tuberculosis cut short his career?
ALBERT CAMUS
Round 6
1a Which American singer has given her name to the fragrance Curious?
BRITNEY SPEARS
1b Which Stephen Sondheim sequel features the songs The Ballad of Booth, How I Saved Roosevelt and Gun Song?
ASSASSINS
2a Troy Kennedy Martin created which police drama that started broadcasting in 1962?
Z-CARS
2b Troy's brother Ian created which cop drama that started broadcasting in 1975?
THE SWEENEY
3a Which terrible movie sequel of 1987 had the subtitle The Quest for Peace?
SUPERMAN IV
3b Which Mercury Music Prize-nominated band has had top ten hits in 2005 with the songs Oh My God and I Predict a Riot?
THE KAISER CHIEFS
4a Which Stephen Sondheim musical features the songs Finishing the Hat, Color and Light and We Do Not Belong Together?
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
4b Which American singer has endorsed the fragrance Still?
JENNIFER LOPEZ
Round 7
1a Which Mercury Music Prize-nominated band has had top ten hits in 2005 with the songs So Here We Are and Two More Years?
BLOC PARTY
1b The Gloucestershire doctor Edward Wilson famously died where?
THE SOUTH POLE
2a Which actor and writer's autobiographical musings and non-fiction pieces are contained in Writing Home and his latest book, Untold Stories?
ALAN BENNETT
2b Which philosopher and scientist was killed at the sack of Syracuse during the Second Punic War in 212 BC?
ARCHIMEDES
3a The Dead Pool was the last in which series of cop films?
DIRTY HARRY
3b In which 1983 film did Dirty Harry say the words: "Go ahead, make my day"?
SUDDEN IMPACT
4a On which long established digital or satellite channel can the programmes TRL, Room Raiders and Globally Dismissed be found?
MTV
4b Home to the Alameda de las Delicias, which South American capital was built on fertile valley land by Pedro de Valdivia from 1541?
SANTIAGO
Round 8
1a Which left-arm spinner was the last Australian wicket to fall when England won the 1981 Ashes Headingley test?
RAY BRIGHT
1b When Ian Botham helped England to victory with 118 at the Old Trafford Ashes test in 1981, which Australian batsman valiantly scored 123 not out in the fourth innings?
ALLAN BORDER
2a Which prison formed the gatehouse of the Westgate of the city of London?
NEWGATE
2b Which prison stood in Southwark by the London residence of the Bishop of Winchester?
THE CLINK
3a Where in Washington state are Microsoft's headquarters?
REDMOND
3b Bill Gates is the chairman, but who is Microsoft's CEO?
STEVE BALLMER
4a Which French chemist was guillotined on May 8th, 1794?
ANTOINE LAVOISIER
4b Which English playwright, who died in 1994, wrote the autobiographical volumes A Better Class of Person and Almost a Gentleman?
JOHN OSBORNE
Spares
1. The new Steve Coogan film A Cock and Bull Story is an adaptation of which classic novel?
THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN
2. The Place Prize is awarded in which field of the arts?
DANCE
3. The Great Bear Lake is the largest lake that happens to be entirely in which country?
CANADA
4. Which board game has 81 squares and pieces called jewels, lancers and silver grenades?
SHOGI
5. What did George Stephenson call the first effective steam locomotive in 1814?
BLUCHER
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