Last Year's Gift to Merseyside
You See Me Compromise
(Psssst? Is the coast clear? I have to ask, has the Mayor of a Northumberland town been asking around for me? It's because I wrote the question 'What is the county town of Northumberland?' and stated the answer to be 'Morpeth'. The Mayor disagreed strongly and got in touch to say it was their town. Now I'm a bit scared, even though I verified it twice before I sent it in, and then after I got the query email five more times. Then I rang my close friend Ben, who happens to be from Morpeth, who seems to agree it's Morpeth, after all what's that County Hall doing there in the middle of the town. Only you press him for admissible court evidence and hard, concrete fact that will protect me and he starts to umm and awww. Despite being from Morpeth. And says he might have to call his mum. So who knows what might transpire? Probably nothing at all actually, but fleeting moments of panic never do you any good, no matter how fleeting they may be. In fact, I've just taken out all mention of the Northumberland town's actual name having written them in about 20 minutes ago because of the fear steadily growing inside me)
I have three drafts in the Blogger draw that are wild, unruly and not ready for this cruel and chilly world just yet, including the annual PEN Quiz "Ooh look at me getting the repeated thumbs up from the Shadow Education Secretary and having a right old larf with The Guardian's 'Friday Review' editor about the 'unique passion' and mild derangement of my ex-flatmate Alex" Report.
Instead, there be a set of year-old questions.
Did I hear you say "Most excellent, party on dude"? No I didn't think so. But it will have to do.
I'm guessing that it's safe to post my 2007 President's Trophy submission since I wrote it 13 months ago. I softened my vengeful core, forgot all about the notorious Three Bs and dropped my radical view that my set should be payback in the form of anti-trad-quiz subjects. I would go for what I envisaged was the centrist ground, even if my attempt at envisioning was severely impaired by my GK prejudices. After all, even I realised soon enough that I was going so over the top with my subject matter that I was swiftly resurfacing then repeating the rotation, as if I was caught in an invisible, superspeedy tumbledryer.
I'm glancing at it now ... I'll type out the stuff I believe to be beyond the scope of a usual quiz league player: economist Jeffrey Sachs, The Wire, H&M, Zara, Francis Fukuyama, Oz, Ice Cube, 50 Cent, crystal meth, ketamine, Facebook, Bebo, Orkut, Daily Motion, Akira Kurosawa, models Noemie Lenoir & Stella Tennent, artists Richard Hamilton & Robert Indiana, Daredevil, the film Iron Man (18 months before it came out, furcrisaches), novelists Michael Chabon & Tobias Wolff, Virginia Slims cigarettes, Chick Corea.
And, um, totting it up, that is quite a high percentage of the questions.
I have to say: what the heck was I doing? Setting a quiz for the Newsnight Review Quiz League?
Roger was right, it was way too hard. But did I cut my cloth to fit the appropriate fashion and therefore redo it for the sake of the game? Nah, I said, LET 'EM 'AVE IT! I'm the daddy, now. I mean, that's what my id was doing - channelling powerful Borstal-infused Ray Winstone vibes. I didn't change a word and now hold a strong belief it was dumped, which is fair enough.
But a year later I was no longer blinded by the missi0nary zeal for the things I liked. You realise that people like quizzes because they like answering questions, and they don't do it so they can be tortured and left silenced by either pointlessly obscure questions or those that have been set specifically as didactic lessons or a means of terrible REVENGE!
You realise too that the drip-drip, softly-softly method works better. Slip in new seams of pop culture (e.g. the comics Watchmen and Sandman) with amongst the reliably chestnutty and traditional cornerstones (history, geography and so on). Just don't get a stonking JCB and shovel tons of the stuff down quizzers' throats and shout: " This is for your own good! You don't know what you've been missing, you poor sheltered wizened folk. You gotta know your South Korean film directors and luxury jeans manufacturers!"
We Britishers don't like sudden breaks, instead preferring the slow bend, the increasingly noticeable creak and then the eventual crack because everyone gets used to it by the end.
Long-winded intro over. This is what I sent in last year. The contrast with my previous effort is somewhat stark, you'll agree. Even mildly hilariously so. Ha ... haha ...hahahah ... hahahahaha (And he says to himself: "Hey man, you used to be cool")
President's Cup MQL Submission
Set by Sussex 11/10/07
Round 1
1a The Bengali traveller and entrepreneur Sake Dean Mahomet is thought to have invented what bathroom or personal care product during the 18th century?
SHAMPOO
1b The libretto of which 1953 Benjamin Britten opera was based on Lytton Strachey's book Elizabeth and Essex?
GLORIANA
2a Often mixed with Colby cheese when sold, which cheese takes its name from the Californian location where Franciscan monks first made it in the 1800s and the businessman who first mass-marketed it?
MONTEREY JACK
2b Which country hosted the 1938 football World Cup?
FRANCE
3a Which country hosted the 1954 World Cup?
SWITZERLAND
3b Which London-born hairdresser is known for an eponymous Proctor & Gamble brand of shampoos and conditioners, as well as inventing the geometric, wash-and-wear perm and "Nancy Kwan" hairstyles?
VIDAL SASSOON
4a "Affectionately inscribed to the children of John and Jean Maud", which 1945 Britten work has the subtitle "Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell"?
THE YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA
4b Made in Latium until 1884 when a city council law forced many producers to move to Sardinia, which hard, salty Italian cheese suitable for grating, partly derives the first word in its name from the Italian word for "sheep"?
PECORINO ROMANO
Round 2
1a Which German physicist, after whom an SI unit is named, discovered radio in 1888?
HEINRICH HERTZ
1b Completed in 1931, which building is the most famous work of architectural firm Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon?
EMPIRE STATE BUILDING
2a Which group had a no.1 with 'You're Driving Me Crazy' in 1961?
THE TEMPERANCE SEVEN
2b Which American sprinter recently relinquished the five medals she won at the 2000 Summer Olympics after admitting to use of anabolic steroids?
MARION JONES
3a Completed in 1977, which building is the most famous collaboration of architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers?
CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU or THE POMPIDOU CENTRE
3B Which group had a 1960 no.1 with 'Shakin' All Over'?
JOHNNY KIDD & THE PIRATES
4a In June 2003, athlete Marion Jones gave birth to a son by which American sprinter who broke the 100m world record in 2002 and was banned from the sport after he admitted using performance enhancing drugs?
TIM MONTGOMERY
4B Which English physicist, after whom an SI derived unit of energy is named, stated the law of conservation of energy, in the form of heat as well as mechanical energy, in 1847?
JAMES PRESCOTT JOULE
Round 3
1a The official residence of the Austrian president, which Viennese palace is the location of the Schatzkammer or treasury that holds the imperial jewels of the Hapsburg dynasty?
HOFBURG IMPERIAL PALACE
1b In Greek mythology, which daughters of the evening star guarded the Golden Apples together with the dragon Ladon?
HESPERIDES
2a Which 405BC naval clash was the final battle of the Peloponnesian War and saw the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeat the Athenians under Conon?
AEGOSPOTAMI
2b Also known as the "Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo El Real", which building complex about 28 miles north-west of Madrid was designed by King Philip II and architect Juan Batista de Toledo as a "perpetual home for the Catholic Crown of Spain"?
EL ESCORIAL
3a 'Gimme Shelter', 'Midnight Rambler' and 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' are tracks on which 1969 Rolling Stones album?
LET IT BLEED
3b 'Brown Sugar', 'Wild Horses' and 'Moonlight Mile' are tracks on which 1971 Rolling Stones album?
STICKY FINGERS
4a Which character from Greek myth made a deal with her father that she would marry anyone who could beat her in a foot race and was eventually defeated by Melanion or Hippomenes who used three golden applies given to him by Aphrodite to distract her?
ATALANTA
4b Which September 52BC battle was the last major engagement of the Gallic Wars and resulted in a decisive victory of Julius Caesar over Vercingetorix and his confederation of tribes, and the final conquest of Gaul?
ALESIA
Round 4
1a Which South Africa winger was one of the five nominees for IRB 2007 World Player of the Year award?
BRYAN HABANA
1b Which Austerfield-born comedy writer is best known for creating Last of the Summer Wine, and also wrote Keeping Up Appearances and Open All Hours?
ROY CLARKE
2a Recipients of which literary award are given a bronze figurine designed by Griznel Niven known as the "Bessie"?
ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION
2b Though Yamoussoukro was designated the national capital in 1983, most government offices of the Cote d'Ivoire are still located in which city?
ABIDJAN
3a Who wrote the TV comedies Are You Being Served?, Come Back Mrs Noah and 'Allo 'Allo! with partner Jeremy Lloyd?
DAVID CROFT
3b Which flanker was only All Black nominated for the IRB 2007 World Player of the Year award?
RICHIE MCCAW
4a Which city remains the constitutional capital of its country, although the federal administrative centre was moved 30 km south to Putrajaya in the late 1990s?
KUALA LUMPUR
4b Who won the first Orange Prize for Fiction in 1996 for her novel A Spell of Winter?
HELEN DUNMORE
Round 5
1a Which late German-Austrian actor links the films The Longest Day, The Enemy Below, The Spy Who Loved Me and the TV series Smiley's People?
CURD JURGENS
1b The horse Mister Baileys won which of the British Classic Races in 1994 in a record time of 1 minute and 35.08 seconds?
2000 GUINEAS
2a Born in 1933, which American novelist's latest work is entitled Exit Ghost?
PHILIP ROTH
2b Which 76-year-old German actor links the films Veronika Voss, Music Box, Shine and the new David Cronenberg movie Eastern Promises?
ARMIN MUELLER-STAHL
3a Allabaculia, the first winner of the St Leger Stakes, was owned by which Whig Prime Minister who was styled The Honourable Charles Watson-Wentworth before 1733?
(2nd) MARQUESS OF ROCKINGHAM (also accept VISCOUNT HIGHAM or EARL OF MALTON)
3b Jonathan Evans is the current Director General of which intelligence agency?
MI5 or SECURITY SERVICE
4a Robert S. Mueller III is the current Director of which domestic intelligence agency?
FBI
4b Born in 1936, which American novelist's latest book is called Falling Man?
DON DELILLO
Round 6
1a Aside from humans, which Old World monkeys comprise the most widespread primate genus, ranging from northern Africa to Japan and have types like the Rhesus, the Crab-Eating and the Barbary?
MACAQUE
1b Housing more than 30,000 long-tailed macaques, Nafovanny is the largest captive-breeding non-human primate facility in the world. In which Asian country is it located?
VIETNAM
2a Celebrating an eponymous doctrine, what is the first Sunday after Pentecost in the Western Christian liturgical calendar called?
TRINITY SUNDAY
2b In the TV comedy series, what was the first name of Seinfeld?
JERRY
3a As seen in the film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, which chain of convenience stores was founded by entrepreneur Fred Hervey in El Paso, Texas, in 1951?
CIRCLE K
3b Celebrated by many English-speaking countries on the Sunday after Trinity Sunday, on which Christian feast day held in honour of the Holy Eucharist is it customary to hold processions with the Host followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament after Mass?
CORPUS CHRISTI (This question may be erroneous)
4a In the TV medical drama, what is the first name of House?
GREGORY
4b Founded during the 1930s by a member of the Schwarz family, which German discount supermarket chain takes its name form a retired teacher and uses the slogan "Where quality is cheaper"?
LIDL
Round 7
1a In which county are the rural market towns of Tavistock, Tiverton and Bideford?
DEVON
1b Which jazz composer and pianist's film work began in 1929 with the short film Black and Tan Fantasy, and went on to score such soundtracks as Anatomy of a Murder in 1959 and Paris Blues in 1961?
DUKE ELLINGTON or EDWARD KENNEDY ELLINGTON
2a What location specifically links the artists Louise Bourgeois, Anish Kapoor, Olafur Eliasson, Rachel Whiteread and Carsten Holler?
TATE MODERN or TURBINE HALL (all have exhibited specially commissioned
work in the Turbine Hall)
2b Also known as the "rare earth metals", which group of chemical elements includes cerium, promethium, holmium and thulium?
LANTHANIDE series
3a Which series of soft, low-density metals comprises Group 1 of the periodic table and includes such elements as lithium, sodium, potassium and caesium?
ALKALI METALS
3b The latest installation to be seen in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern is an artwork entitled Shibboleth by Colombian artist Doris Salcedo. What is it?
A (548 FT LONG) CRACK in the floor
4a Herbie Hancock won an Oscar for Best Music for scoring the 1986 Bertrand Tavernier film Round Midnight, but which jazz pianist and composer wrote the original song of the title in 1944?
THELONIUS SPHERE MONK
4b Billingshurst, Hurstpierpoint, Cuckfield and Pulborough are large villages in which county?
WEST SUSSEX
Round 8
1a The medical doctor Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor recently became the first astronaut to come from which country?
MALAYSIA
1b Introduced in July 1940, which British "Aeroplane Company" gave its name to the Type 156 Beaufighter aircraft?
BRISTOL
2a By what name do we best know the current Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich?
PRINCE PHILIP or DUKE OF EDINBURGH
2b In 1985, Rodolfo Neri Vela became the first astronaut to be born in which country?
MEXICO
3a Which British aircraft company introduced the Whirlwind fighter in June 1940?
WESTLAND
3b In which century was the medical text book Gray's Anatomy first published?
19TH (1858)
4a In which century was the genealogical guide to the British aristocracy, Debrett's, first published?
18TH (1769)
4b Apart from Edinburgh, Prince Philip is also Chancellor of which university?
CAMBRIDGE
Spares
Which Persian-born British novelist has won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature, thus becoming the oldest ever person to be given the award?
DORIS LESSING
Which British brewery first sponsored the Guinness Premiership when it was founded in 1987?
COURAGE
Apia is the capital of which Pacific nation?
SAMOA
Which former pop star presents the BBC2 quiz show Identity?
DONNY OSMOND
What term was coined in 1957 by composer Gunther Schuller to describe a musical genre which is a synthesis of classical music and jazz?
THIRD STREAM
By what name is the current Brazil and AC Milan footballer Nelson de Jesus Silva better known?
DIDA
(Psssst? Is the coast clear? I have to ask, has the Mayor of a Northumberland town been asking around for me? It's because I wrote the question 'What is the county town of Northumberland?' and stated the answer to be 'Morpeth'. The Mayor disagreed strongly and got in touch to say it was their town. Now I'm a bit scared, even though I verified it twice before I sent it in, and then after I got the query email five more times. Then I rang my close friend Ben, who happens to be from Morpeth, who seems to agree it's Morpeth, after all what's that County Hall doing there in the middle of the town. Only you press him for admissible court evidence and hard, concrete fact that will protect me and he starts to umm and awww. Despite being from Morpeth. And says he might have to call his mum. So who knows what might transpire? Probably nothing at all actually, but fleeting moments of panic never do you any good, no matter how fleeting they may be. In fact, I've just taken out all mention of the Northumberland town's actual name having written them in about 20 minutes ago because of the fear steadily growing inside me)
I have three drafts in the Blogger draw that are wild, unruly and not ready for this cruel and chilly world just yet, including the annual PEN Quiz "Ooh look at me getting the repeated thumbs up from the Shadow Education Secretary and having a right old larf with The Guardian's 'Friday Review' editor about the 'unique passion' and mild derangement of my ex-flatmate Alex" Report.
Instead, there be a set of year-old questions.
Did I hear you say "Most excellent, party on dude"? No I didn't think so. But it will have to do.
I'm guessing that it's safe to post my 2007 President's Trophy submission since I wrote it 13 months ago. I softened my vengeful core, forgot all about the notorious Three Bs and dropped my radical view that my set should be payback in the form of anti-trad-quiz subjects. I would go for what I envisaged was the centrist ground, even if my attempt at envisioning was severely impaired by my GK prejudices. After all, even I realised soon enough that I was going so over the top with my subject matter that I was swiftly resurfacing then repeating the rotation, as if I was caught in an invisible, superspeedy tumbledryer.
I'm glancing at it now ... I'll type out the stuff I believe to be beyond the scope of a usual quiz league player: economist Jeffrey Sachs, The Wire, H&M, Zara, Francis Fukuyama, Oz, Ice Cube, 50 Cent, crystal meth, ketamine, Facebook, Bebo, Orkut, Daily Motion, Akira Kurosawa, models Noemie Lenoir & Stella Tennent, artists Richard Hamilton & Robert Indiana, Daredevil, the film Iron Man (18 months before it came out, furcrisaches), novelists Michael Chabon & Tobias Wolff, Virginia Slims cigarettes, Chick Corea.
And, um, totting it up, that is quite a high percentage of the questions.
I have to say: what the heck was I doing? Setting a quiz for the Newsnight Review Quiz League?
Roger was right, it was way too hard. But did I cut my cloth to fit the appropriate fashion and therefore redo it for the sake of the game? Nah, I said, LET 'EM 'AVE IT! I'm the daddy, now. I mean, that's what my id was doing - channelling powerful Borstal-infused Ray Winstone vibes. I didn't change a word and now hold a strong belief it was dumped, which is fair enough.
But a year later I was no longer blinded by the missi0nary zeal for the things I liked. You realise that people like quizzes because they like answering questions, and they don't do it so they can be tortured and left silenced by either pointlessly obscure questions or those that have been set specifically as didactic lessons or a means of terrible REVENGE!
You realise too that the drip-drip, softly-softly method works better. Slip in new seams of pop culture (e.g. the comics Watchmen and Sandman) with amongst the reliably chestnutty and traditional cornerstones (history, geography and so on). Just don't get a stonking JCB and shovel tons of the stuff down quizzers' throats and shout: " This is for your own good! You don't know what you've been missing, you poor sheltered wizened folk. You gotta know your South Korean film directors and luxury jeans manufacturers!"
We Britishers don't like sudden breaks, instead preferring the slow bend, the increasingly noticeable creak and then the eventual crack because everyone gets used to it by the end.
Long-winded intro over. This is what I sent in last year. The contrast with my previous effort is somewhat stark, you'll agree. Even mildly hilariously so. Ha ... haha ...hahahah ... hahahahaha (And he says to himself: "Hey man, you used to be cool")
President's Cup MQL Submission
Set by Sussex 11/10/07
Round 1
1a The Bengali traveller and entrepreneur Sake Dean Mahomet is thought to have invented what bathroom or personal care product during the 18th century?
SHAMPOO
1b The libretto of which 1953 Benjamin Britten opera was based on Lytton Strachey's book Elizabeth and Essex?
GLORIANA
2a Often mixed with Colby cheese when sold, which cheese takes its name from the Californian location where Franciscan monks first made it in the 1800s and the businessman who first mass-marketed it?
MONTEREY JACK
2b Which country hosted the 1938 football World Cup?
FRANCE
3a Which country hosted the 1954 World Cup?
SWITZERLAND
3b Which London-born hairdresser is known for an eponymous Proctor & Gamble brand of shampoos and conditioners, as well as inventing the geometric, wash-and-wear perm and "Nancy Kwan" hairstyles?
VIDAL SASSOON
4a "Affectionately inscribed to the children of John and Jean Maud", which 1945 Britten work has the subtitle "Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell"?
THE YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA
4b Made in Latium until 1884 when a city council law forced many producers to move to Sardinia, which hard, salty Italian cheese suitable for grating, partly derives the first word in its name from the Italian word for "sheep"?
PECORINO ROMANO
Round 2
1a Which German physicist, after whom an SI unit is named, discovered radio in 1888?
HEINRICH HERTZ
1b Completed in 1931, which building is the most famous work of architectural firm Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon?
EMPIRE STATE BUILDING
2a Which group had a no.1 with 'You're Driving Me Crazy' in 1961?
THE TEMPERANCE SEVEN
2b Which American sprinter recently relinquished the five medals she won at the 2000 Summer Olympics after admitting to use of anabolic steroids?
MARION JONES
3a Completed in 1977, which building is the most famous collaboration of architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers?
CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU or THE POMPIDOU CENTRE
3B Which group had a 1960 no.1 with 'Shakin' All Over'?
JOHNNY KIDD & THE PIRATES
4a In June 2003, athlete Marion Jones gave birth to a son by which American sprinter who broke the 100m world record in 2002 and was banned from the sport after he admitted using performance enhancing drugs?
TIM MONTGOMERY
4B Which English physicist, after whom an SI derived unit of energy is named, stated the law of conservation of energy, in the form of heat as well as mechanical energy, in 1847?
JAMES PRESCOTT JOULE
Round 3
1a The official residence of the Austrian president, which Viennese palace is the location of the Schatzkammer or treasury that holds the imperial jewels of the Hapsburg dynasty?
HOFBURG IMPERIAL PALACE
1b In Greek mythology, which daughters of the evening star guarded the Golden Apples together with the dragon Ladon?
HESPERIDES
2a Which 405BC naval clash was the final battle of the Peloponnesian War and saw the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeat the Athenians under Conon?
AEGOSPOTAMI
2b Also known as the "Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo El Real", which building complex about 28 miles north-west of Madrid was designed by King Philip II and architect Juan Batista de Toledo as a "perpetual home for the Catholic Crown of Spain"?
EL ESCORIAL
3a 'Gimme Shelter', 'Midnight Rambler' and 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' are tracks on which 1969 Rolling Stones album?
LET IT BLEED
3b 'Brown Sugar', 'Wild Horses' and 'Moonlight Mile' are tracks on which 1971 Rolling Stones album?
STICKY FINGERS
4a Which character from Greek myth made a deal with her father that she would marry anyone who could beat her in a foot race and was eventually defeated by Melanion or Hippomenes who used three golden applies given to him by Aphrodite to distract her?
ATALANTA
4b Which September 52BC battle was the last major engagement of the Gallic Wars and resulted in a decisive victory of Julius Caesar over Vercingetorix and his confederation of tribes, and the final conquest of Gaul?
ALESIA
Round 4
1a Which South Africa winger was one of the five nominees for IRB 2007 World Player of the Year award?
BRYAN HABANA
1b Which Austerfield-born comedy writer is best known for creating Last of the Summer Wine, and also wrote Keeping Up Appearances and Open All Hours?
ROY CLARKE
2a Recipients of which literary award are given a bronze figurine designed by Griznel Niven known as the "Bessie"?
ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION
2b Though Yamoussoukro was designated the national capital in 1983, most government offices of the Cote d'Ivoire are still located in which city?
ABIDJAN
3a Who wrote the TV comedies Are You Being Served?, Come Back Mrs Noah and 'Allo 'Allo! with partner Jeremy Lloyd?
DAVID CROFT
3b Which flanker was only All Black nominated for the IRB 2007 World Player of the Year award?
RICHIE MCCAW
4a Which city remains the constitutional capital of its country, although the federal administrative centre was moved 30 km south to Putrajaya in the late 1990s?
KUALA LUMPUR
4b Who won the first Orange Prize for Fiction in 1996 for her novel A Spell of Winter?
HELEN DUNMORE
Round 5
1a Which late German-Austrian actor links the films The Longest Day, The Enemy Below, The Spy Who Loved Me and the TV series Smiley's People?
CURD JURGENS
1b The horse Mister Baileys won which of the British Classic Races in 1994 in a record time of 1 minute and 35.08 seconds?
2000 GUINEAS
2a Born in 1933, which American novelist's latest work is entitled Exit Ghost?
PHILIP ROTH
2b Which 76-year-old German actor links the films Veronika Voss, Music Box, Shine and the new David Cronenberg movie Eastern Promises?
ARMIN MUELLER-STAHL
3a Allabaculia, the first winner of the St Leger Stakes, was owned by which Whig Prime Minister who was styled The Honourable Charles Watson-Wentworth before 1733?
(2nd) MARQUESS OF ROCKINGHAM (also accept VISCOUNT HIGHAM or EARL OF MALTON)
3b Jonathan Evans is the current Director General of which intelligence agency?
MI5 or SECURITY SERVICE
4a Robert S. Mueller III is the current Director of which domestic intelligence agency?
FBI
4b Born in 1936, which American novelist's latest book is called Falling Man?
DON DELILLO
Round 6
1a Aside from humans, which Old World monkeys comprise the most widespread primate genus, ranging from northern Africa to Japan and have types like the Rhesus, the Crab-Eating and the Barbary?
MACAQUE
1b Housing more than 30,000 long-tailed macaques, Nafovanny is the largest captive-breeding non-human primate facility in the world. In which Asian country is it located?
VIETNAM
2a Celebrating an eponymous doctrine, what is the first Sunday after Pentecost in the Western Christian liturgical calendar called?
TRINITY SUNDAY
2b In the TV comedy series, what was the first name of Seinfeld?
JERRY
3a As seen in the film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, which chain of convenience stores was founded by entrepreneur Fred Hervey in El Paso, Texas, in 1951?
CIRCLE K
3b Celebrated by many English-speaking countries on the Sunday after Trinity Sunday, on which Christian feast day held in honour of the Holy Eucharist is it customary to hold processions with the Host followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament after Mass?
CORPUS CHRISTI (This question may be erroneous)
4a In the TV medical drama, what is the first name of House?
GREGORY
4b Founded during the 1930s by a member of the Schwarz family, which German discount supermarket chain takes its name form a retired teacher and uses the slogan "Where quality is cheaper"?
LIDL
Round 7
1a In which county are the rural market towns of Tavistock, Tiverton and Bideford?
DEVON
1b Which jazz composer and pianist's film work began in 1929 with the short film Black and Tan Fantasy, and went on to score such soundtracks as Anatomy of a Murder in 1959 and Paris Blues in 1961?
DUKE ELLINGTON or EDWARD KENNEDY ELLINGTON
2a What location specifically links the artists Louise Bourgeois, Anish Kapoor, Olafur Eliasson, Rachel Whiteread and Carsten Holler?
TATE MODERN or TURBINE HALL (all have exhibited specially commissioned
work in the Turbine Hall)
2b Also known as the "rare earth metals", which group of chemical elements includes cerium, promethium, holmium and thulium?
LANTHANIDE series
3a Which series of soft, low-density metals comprises Group 1 of the periodic table and includes such elements as lithium, sodium, potassium and caesium?
ALKALI METALS
3b The latest installation to be seen in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern is an artwork entitled Shibboleth by Colombian artist Doris Salcedo. What is it?
A (548 FT LONG) CRACK in the floor
4a Herbie Hancock won an Oscar for Best Music for scoring the 1986 Bertrand Tavernier film Round Midnight, but which jazz pianist and composer wrote the original song of the title in 1944?
THELONIUS SPHERE MONK
4b Billingshurst, Hurstpierpoint, Cuckfield and Pulborough are large villages in which county?
WEST SUSSEX
Round 8
1a The medical doctor Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor recently became the first astronaut to come from which country?
MALAYSIA
1b Introduced in July 1940, which British "Aeroplane Company" gave its name to the Type 156 Beaufighter aircraft?
BRISTOL
2a By what name do we best know the current Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich?
PRINCE PHILIP or DUKE OF EDINBURGH
2b In 1985, Rodolfo Neri Vela became the first astronaut to be born in which country?
MEXICO
3a Which British aircraft company introduced the Whirlwind fighter in June 1940?
WESTLAND
3b In which century was the medical text book Gray's Anatomy first published?
19TH (1858)
4a In which century was the genealogical guide to the British aristocracy, Debrett's, first published?
18TH (1769)
4b Apart from Edinburgh, Prince Philip is also Chancellor of which university?
CAMBRIDGE
Spares
Which Persian-born British novelist has won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature, thus becoming the oldest ever person to be given the award?
DORIS LESSING
Which British brewery first sponsored the Guinness Premiership when it was founded in 1987?
COURAGE
Apia is the capital of which Pacific nation?
SAMOA
Which former pop star presents the BBC2 quiz show Identity?
DONNY OSMOND
What term was coined in 1957 by composer Gunther Schuller to describe a musical genre which is a synthesis of classical music and jazz?
THIRD STREAM
By what name is the current Brazil and AC Milan footballer Nelson de Jesus Silva better known?
DIDA
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