President's Cup: Round 8

I know you're only here for the friendly questions, but first...

So having been so thoroughly ATOMIZED and ANNIHILATED in our previous Prez Cup match against the Masterminders (that 26 point losing margin still smarts like a pop to the nose) victory was vital if any thoughts of cup title retention were to be entertained with anything resembling this collective hunch we call 'reality'.

So we won (here endeth another of my occasional stabs at bad sports journalese). Hurrah. Let's dance. While trying to avoid thinking about that one brilliant moment when my mind conjured up the answer 'Biker Mice from Mars' within the time limit, only for ... well, let's just say that particular bonus point was not meant to be. Sigh. 

So two matches left. It's gonna be a bumpy, thrill-spilling run-in. Seatbelts are in need of fastening. 

So. Back to England whose temperatures are positively tropical when compared to those of Norway in February (at various, numerous points, I felt like my toes had died, my face had died and fallen off and my skin turned into a carapace of icy needles turned inward; then there was the bit where I was on a mountain and I lost the power to make hard consonant sounds. Now I know what 'cold' really is). 

Holidays are a funny thing. Strokie-chin time. Why? A week off from normal question-writing duties gave me ample opportunity to indulge in writing questions for a SUPER-sized friendly - makes sense, non? (It's like I've internalised some sort of quota; hobby-related habits die hard; blah). 

So it's 12 rounds. That's right: TWELVE. Cambridge adopted a rolling subs approach: making changes every four rounds. For this not very Brave and kinda New World, I chose to write 10 rounds of the patented 'Paul's Pick a Number 'format, and 2 rounds of regular paired old-fashioned questions.

So how did it end up? Did the 'PaPaN' method dispense incredible injustice and induce major huffage and tears of rage, as I fear it might every time I pop out one of these friendlies? 

No. It came down to the very last question - number 96 - about Ruby Flipper. Mark held his nerve came through with their predecessors Pan's People* and won the match for the Sussex 65-64. 

Yo! One more thing. Unanswered questions have had their answers removed and placed in a sort of VIP area, so you can test yourself. Am I not considerate?

So. 'Til next time.

*(hmm, should I have used 'Flick Colby' in the question? Such dilemmas doth tax me. Even though I had absolutely no idea who Flick Colby was until I wrote the Q)

President's Cup Friendly 24/2/2013

ROUND 1

1 Kevin Costner's role as the dead character Alex was completely cut out of which 1983 film? Its ensemble cast included Glenn Close, William Hurt, Kevin Kline and Jeff Goldblum. 

THE BIG CHILL

2 Saddam Hussein launched the 1988 Halabja poison gas attack against which people?

KURDS

3 The British publisher Hilary Bradt gave her name to a series of what type of books - the first of which she co-wrote with her husband George in 1974?

TRAVEL GUIDE

4 Which Red Dwarf character is played by Danny John-Jules?

CAT

5 Created by Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin, which musical features the songs When I Grow Up, Revolting Children and The Chokey Chant?

MATILDA

6 Who played Miss Flower Belle Lee opposite WC Fields's conman Cuthbert J. Twillie in the 1940 film My Little Chickadee?

MAE WEST

7 Flying a MiG-15, Zhao Baotong became the first ever Chinese pilot to achieve flying ace status, when he gained 9 victories during which major war?

KOREAN WAR

8 Who was the mother of the second Roman Emperor Tiberius?

LIVIA / LIVIA DRUSILLA / JULIA AUGUSTA

ROUND 2

1 Adapted into a 2007 TV film starring Tom Hardy in the title role, which biography by Alexander Masters has the subtitle A Life Backwards?

STUART (as in Stuart Shorter)

2 Launched in 1860, which Royal Navy vessel was the first armour-plated, iron-hulled warship and was built as a response to the first ironclad warship, the French Gloire?

HMS WARRIOR

3 US Vice-President Joe Biden was a Senator for which state on the Atlantic coast?

X

4 Cali, Soledad and Medellin are major cities in which country?

COLOMBIA

5 Formally launched on January 15, 2001, which non-commercial website was co-founded by Larry Sanger?

WIKIPEDIA

6 In fashion, Chukka, Kinky, Go-Go and Platform are types of what? 

BOOT

7 Of the four Shakespeare plays adapted for the 2012 BBC TV series The Hollow Crown, what is the only one not named after a King Henry?

RICHARD II

8 In 1601, which Earl became the last person to be beheaded in the Tower of London when he was executed on Tower Green?

2ND EARL OF ESSEX / ROBERT DEVEREUX

ROUND 3

1 Which name links a Japanese fashion designer with the surname Takada, and the Japanese architect with the surname Tange, who designed the Yoyogi National Gymnasium for the Tokyo Olympics? 

KENZO

2 Which '80s sitcom starred Richard Briers as Martin Bryce?

EVER DECREASING CIRCLES

3 The Hour of Bewilderbeast was the 2000 debut album by which Bolton-raised singer-songwriter?

BADLY DRAWN BOY / DAMON GOUGH

4 Belonging to the actinide series, which element - atomic number 101 - is named after a Russian chemist?

MENDELEVIUM

5 Often described as the world's smallest mammal, the Kitti's hog-nosed bat is also known by the name of which flying insect?

BUMBLEBEE [BAT]

6 Southern bluefin, Bigeye and Blackfin are species of which saltwater fish?

TUNA

7 The White Ferns are New Zealand's women's national team in which sport?

X

8 The first Olympic Games to be staged in a Spanish-speaking country were hosted by which city?

MEXICO CITY (1968)

ROUND 4

1 Which American businessman bought his first hotel, the Mobley Hotel, in 1919 in Cisco, Texas?

CONRAD HILTON / 'CONNIE' HILTON / C.N. HILTON

2 Specialising in sex toys and lingerie, which company was named after the female secretary of its founder Kim Caborn Waterfield?

ANN SUMMERS - as in Annice Summers, who was born Annice Goodwin in 1941

3 Launched in 1992, which monthly magazine features the columns Still With Us and I Once Met, as well as the World's Worst Dumps slot?

THE OLDIE

4 The father of hip-hop DJ Tim Westwood, Bill Westwood was - until 1996 - the Anglican Bishop of which cathedral city?

PETERBOROUGH

5 What was the third of Sacha Baron Cohen's characters to become the title subject of a feature film?

Brüno Gehard

6 Renamed after a late ANC president in 1994, what is Africa's busiest airport? Its former names include Johannesburg International Airport and Jan Smuts International Airport.

O.R. TAMBO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

7 Which Romanian composer, who died in Paris in 1955, composed two Romanian Rhapsodies, the symphonic poem Vox maris and the opera Oedipe? 

GEORGE ENESCU

8 Since 1885, Gigg Lane has been the home of which Greater Manchester football club?

BURY F.C.

ROUND 5

1 Which identical twin brothers own The Spectator magazine via their company Press Holdings?

BARCLAY BROTHERS (David & Frederick) 

2 Which bitter orange has been described as the benchmark citrus fruit for marmalade production in Britain?

[SPANISH] SEVILLE ORANGE

3 Which Stanley Kubrick film and its secret meanings are the subject of the 2012 documentary Room 237?

THE SHINING

4 Condé Montrose Nast began the magazine publishing empire that became Condé Nast with the 1909 purchase of which fashion magazine? The British edition was introduced in 1916.

VOGUE

5 Shopska, Green, Greek, Fruit and Seven-layer are types of which dish?

SALAD

6 Part of the Apollo 17 mission, which geologist-astronaut is the only scientist to have set foot on the Moon?

HARRISON SCHMITT

7 Which British motorcycle racer had his last ever win at the 1981 500cc Swedish Grand Prix, four years after his second and final 500cc championship?

BARRY SHEENE

8 Which sculptor was born the son of Niccolo di Betto Bardi, a Florentine wool carder, in around 1386?

DONATELLO / DONATO DI NICCOLO DI BETTO BARDI

ROUND 6

1 For the first time ever, the credit ratings agency Moody's has downgraded the UK's AAA rating to what? 

AA1

2 The Basel Dove, the Brazilian Bull's Eye and the Benjamin Franklin Z Grill are famous examples of which collectible items?

POSTAGE STAMPS

3 The Girl is Mine was the first single released off which Michael Jackson album?

THRILLER

4 Recognised by 84 UN member states, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is claimed by which North African country?

MOROCCO

5 Which 1972 debut novel features the characters Hazel, Fiver and Bigwig?

WATERSHIP DOWN

6 Set in Roussillon, France, which Shakespeare play features Lavatch the Clown?

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL

7 Featured in the film Full Metal Jacket and a current William Hill Bingo TV ad, Surfin' Bird was a '60s hit for which American surf rock/garage rock band?

THE TRASHMEN

8 Which two-word Cantonese term for bite-sized dishes means 'touch the heart'?

DIM SUM

ROUND 7 

1 The Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills is the main setting for which Julia Roberts film?

PRETTY WOMAN

2 Which 1996 book by Marcus Berkmann was given the subtitle Madness of Cricket?

RAIN MEN

3 Produced during the mid-1980s, the Alfa Romeo Arna subcompact car was a joint venture between the said Italian manufacturer and which Japanese automaker?

NISSAN

4 In January 2013, the movie venue at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard was renamed the TCL Chinese Theatre after the Chinese electronics company TCL Corporation. What was its famous previous name(s)?

GRAUMAN'S CHINESE THEATRE / MANN'S CHINESE THEATRE

5 Scrabble is owned by Hasbro in North America, but in the rest of the world the game is owned by which other American toy company?

MATTEL

6 Played by Jeffrey Tambor, Hank Kingsley was the sidekick of which fictional talk show host?

LARRY SANDERS

7 Ron Artest legally changed his name to Metta World Peace in September 2011. He is a star of which American sport?

BASKETBALL

8 Wife of Poland's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Radoslaw Sikorski, which US journalist wrote the 2012 book Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956? Her previous works include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag: A History (2003).

X

ROUND 8

1 Inaugurated in 2010, the Guangzhou Opera House was designed by which Iraqi-British architect? 

ZAHA HADID

2 Which name for a type of shoemaker is derived from the leather produced in the Spanish city of Cordoba?

CORDWAINER / CORDOVAN

3 The Lou Marsh Trophy is awarded annually to which country's top sportsperson? Past winners include Phil Esposito, Nancy Greene and Patrick Chan.

CANADA

4 The jazz musician Steve Gregory played the saxophone line on which '80s no.1 single by George Michael?

CARELESS WHISPER

5 In English, which two Commonwealth countries are the only two nations whose official name begins with 'THE'? One is in the Atlantic Ocean; the other in Africa.

THE BAHAMAS & THE GAMBIA

6 Which colour describes the malevolent form of the fungus 'noble rot', capable of destroying crops of wine grapes?

X

7 Danny Wilde and Lord Brett Sinclair, aka the 15th Earl of Marnock, were the title characters in which 1971 TV series?

THE PERSUADERS!

8 Which 1939 film gave a Cairn Terrier named Terry his the most famous movie role?

THE WIZARD OF OZ

ROUND 9

1 Castory is a dye derived from the pelts of which mammal?

BEAVER

2 Designed by the Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland, which prize medal features the inscription: "Pro pace et fraternitate gentium"?

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE MEDAL - inscription means: 'For the peace and brotherhood of man'

3 Introduced by South Africa in 1967, a Kruggerand coin consists of around 92% gold and 8% which transition metal?

X

4 Which Kiwi is head coach for the 2013 British and Irish Lions rugby union team's tour of Australia?

WARREN GATLAND

5 Which clothing company was founded in 1853 when its eponymous founder came from Buttenheim, Bavaria, to San Francisco?

LEVI STRAUSS & CO

6 In April 2012, Joyce Banda assumed office as the first female president of which African country?

MALAWI

7 Featuring the hit singles, What's My Age Again? and All the Small Things, the 1999 album Enema of the State was the breakthrough record for which US pop punk band?

BLINK-182

8 Used to describe a fully bosomed or pleasingly plump woman, the adjective 'zaftig' comes from a word meaning juicy or succulent in which language?

YIDDISH

ROUND 10

1a All of which Asian country's banknotes from the $2 to the $10,000 bill feature its first president, Yusof bin Ishak, who was in office between 1965 and 1970?

SINGAPORE

1b Complete the title of the 2012 Man Booker-longlisted, word-of-mouth hit novel by Rachel Joyce: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold…?

X

2a In chess, Announced, Back-rank, Boden's, Epaulette, and Scholar's are all types of which position? 

CHECKMATE / MATE

2b The Budapest, the Halloween, the Englund and the Blackburne Shilling are examples of which chess opening?

GAMBIT

3a Like.com for $100m, Motorola Mobility for $12.5bn, the restaurant reviewer Zagat for $151m, online advertiser DoubleClick for $3.1bn - all acquisitions made by which corporation?

X

3b Who was British Prime Minister in 1800, the year before he resigned from office?

WILLIAM PITT THE YOUNGER

4a Best known for playing the Bond villain Le Chiffre, who won the 2012 Best Actor prize at Cannes for playing a teacher wrongly accused of child molestation in the Danish film The Hunt?

MADS MIKKELSEN

4b Featured on the Australian $20 note that has been in circulation since 1994, the Presbyterian minister John Flynn founded which service in 1928?

ROYAL FLYING DOCTOR SERVICE OF AUSTRALIA / THE FLYING DOCTORS / A.I.M. AERIAL MEDICAL SERVICE

ROUND 11

1a Also known as the Rodebury Terrier, which dog is named after a Northumberland mining town and is known for its resemblance to lambs, as in another alternate name, Rothbury's Lamb?

BEDLINGTON TERRIER

1b Kim Bodnia played the Copenhagen cop Martin Rohde in which Swedish-Danish TV drama, first broadcast by BBC4 in 2012?

THE BRIDGE / BRON / BROEN

2a How old is the title character Allan Karlsson, who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, in a bestselling novel by the Swedish writer Jonas Jonasson that was first published in the UK in 2012?

X

2b Which dog breed - the largest of the spaniels - is named after a Nottinghamshire country park?

CLUMBER SPANIEL

3a The southernmost state in the Arab League, which country in the Indian Ocean is a confederation of three islands that claims the French overseas department of Mayotte as the fourth?

X

3b Which company owns Audible.com, the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), LoveFilm, Box Office Mojo and AbeBooks?

AMAZON

4a Who was US President during the year 1900?

WILLIAM MCKINLEY

4b Japan claims the two southernmost islands - Iturup and Kunashir - as part of its territory of which island group in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast region?

KURIL ISLANDS / KURILE ISLANDS

ROUND 12

1 The Scottish biochemist John James Rickard McLeod shared the 1923 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the co-discovery of which hormone, though his more famous Canadian co-winner dismissed his contribution as negligible? 

INSULIN - the Canadian being Frederick Banting

2 Created by the Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely and the French artist Niki de Saint Phalle in 1983, the Stravinsky Fountain is located next to which Paris arts complex?

CENTRE POMPIDOU

3 Put together by Flick Colby, Ruby Flipper was the quickly replaced replacement for which dance troupe?

PAN'S PEOPLE

4 Which Welsh-American explorer, born in Denbigh in 1841, was given the Congolese byname Bula Matari, meaning 'Breaker of Rocks'?

HENRY MORTON STANLEY / JOHN ROWLANDS

5 Directed by Terry Gilliam, which 1977 film starred Michael Palin as a young cooper named Dennis Cooper, and featured a pub called The Queen's Haemorrhoids?

JABBERWOCKY

6 Which county town shares its name with the pub that features heavily in the rom-zom-com Shaun of the Dead?

[THE] WINCHESTER

7 Hammer DeRoburt (being the first), Bernard Dowiyogo, René Harris and Ludwig Scotty have all served as President of which phosphate-reliant Pacific republic of just over 9,000 people?

NAURU - current incumbent (or minor Star Wars character): Sprent Dabwido

8 In around 1609, which Flemish artist painted a celebrated marriage portrait of himself and his teenage bride … Isabella Brant in the Honeysuckle Bower?

PETER PAUL RUBENS

Spares ... will be written up as a separate post because they are legion

Unanswered Question Answers

R2 3. Delaware

R3 7. Cricket

R7 8. Anne Applebaum

R8 6. Grey [rot]

R9 3. Copper

R10 1b Fry

R10 3a Google

R11 2a A Hundred-Years-Old - book title: The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of his Window and Disappeared

R11 3a Comoros / Union of the Comoros

BoLQual2013 - BOOYAH!!!

THE PERILS OF SETTING BRAIN OF LONDON QUALIFIERS...

  ... Plus Every Question Contributed for the 2013 edition (both used and unused) 

So the 2013 BolQuals came and went while I was in snowy, 15-degrees-under-daytime Norway. Reading it, Alas, I thought too much geography, WAY too much sport, OMG look at all that TV, and maybe a bit too much popular music. And I was the one compiling it! For shame.

Let me explain: this year I took a different approach. Because all of the 2012 top eight finishers contributed questions (62 in total) this year, I decided to go with the flow and let it set 'itself'.

In previous years, this has been near impossible (owing to just three or four people sending their questions in), and I am truly grateful for everyone doing their bit this time round (though the final result reflected everyone's subject biases, as was to be expected, er, in hindsight).

The melange-tastic 'collage of voices' approach - the University Challenge way - was therefore this year's way to go.

Then I popped in clues and the odd adjective/word ('religious', 'Italian') here and there, edited stuff down, etc. You know. In order to make it 'easier'/guessable. Not that that actually helps. Questions that ask for logical stabs in the dark are less useful than you might think. I realise that.

But, in future, if I had the honour of doing it again, I'd ask two things/two sides of the same coin kind of thing of my BoL Top 8ers: please write a few more 'boring', straightforward, short questions. They are, I've decided, the most useful kind for this type of endeavour.

Don't submit all your beautiful babies in one go; i.e. the dazzlingly clever and intricately constructed quiz question deserving of a gleaming pedestal. Mix it up with the more mundane. Because it is the Qualifier.

 I'd also take care to ensure that it was less 'amorphous' and more regimented, keeping a sturdier eye on subject distribs, while going halfway back to my old approach. In effect, assert more of my own - PONCE ALERT! - vision in constructing it. It pains me to think that the sportier types will have been given a bit more of a helping hand this season (apologies to those whose hackles it raises unto heavenly heights, but that is how the contributions skewed. Live by the approach, die by the approach).

Well, that's my mea culpa excuse-a-rama.

So, here are the 'Originals' in their unadulterated, uncut, sometimes (sic) form.

Lone exceptions: bolding up the answers. Compare and contrast. You see it could have been even more murderous. And even more Geography/Sporty/TVy.

Names have been removed to protect the innocent(?). Have fun working out who did what. HAVE FUN.

Contributor 1
1Q: Which major Asian conglomerate - the largest in its country -  was founded in 1938 as a grocery dealer and noodle manufacturer?
A: Samsung
2Q: After what Roman emperor are urinals in Italy named, following his imposition of a tax on urine taken from public latrines?
A: Vespasian
3Q: Who was inspired to write the song 'Forty shades of green' while flying over Ireland in 1959?
A: Johnny Cash
4Q: Enacted in 1994, France's Toubon law enforces the use of what?
A: French
5Q: What geological features come in varieties called arcuate, bird's foot and cuspate?
A: river deltas
6Q: Created by the British as a buffer zone between the British Raj and the Russian Empire, the Wakhan corridor links Afghanistan to what country?
A: China
7Q: What racecourse has hosted the Irish Derby since 1866?
A: The Curragh
8Q: Ranked No.5 on the 2012 Forbes list of billionaires, Amancio Ortega made his fortune from which clothing chain?
A: Zara
9Q: What item is displayed (uniquely for a national flag) on the flag of the Dominican Republic?
A: Bible
10Q: What 1386 treaty - still in force - created the alliance between Portugal and England?
A: Treaty of Windsor

Contributor 2
1. Aspinall's, Crockford's and Les Ambassadeurs are among the leading London examples of what type of establishment?
CASINO
2. Which French city stands on the Presqu'île, a peninsula formed by the confluence of the Rhône and Saône rivers?
LYON
3. What name is missing from this list of office-holders, moving backwards from the present: Ashton, Mandelson, Patten, ______, Millan, Brittan, Cockfield?
KINNOCK
4. A man was jailed in December 2012 for defacing a painting by which artist at the Tate Modern in October? (It was pretty easy to identify the suspect, as he defaced the painting by writing his name o1n it.)
Mark ROTHKO
5. Give a year in the life of Dolly The Sheep.
1996-2003
6. In the US it is known as Cilantro. What do we call it in the UK?
CORIANDER
17. Much in the news earlier in February, where in the US is known as the Charm City?
BALTIMORE
18. Though the show lost much of its entertainment value when Mark Labbett's potential appearance fell through, who won the recent ITV celebrity diving show Splash?
EDDIE 'THE EAGLE' EDWARDS

Contributor 3
1. Whose ransom was a large room filed once with gold and twice with silver?
Atahualpa
2. Whose second novel, published in 1823, was entitled Valperga? It had been edited for publication by the author's father.
Mary Shelley
3. Which centaur was able to kill Heracles posthumously when his blood was smeared by Heracles' wife onto a shirt that Heracles was to wore in the belief it would keep him faithful?
Nessus
4. After Frankie Goes To Hollywood saw their first three singles reach No 1, which fourth single and title track of their debut album only reached No 2, held off the top by Phil Collins and Philip Bailey's Easy Lover?
Welcome to the Pleasure dome
5. When Star Wars was rereleased in 1981, which four words (and a number) were added to the opening crawl?
Episode IV: A New Hope
6. Which mammal has four species, named South American, Mountain, Baird's and Malayan?
tapir
7. Sometimes called the May Day Stadium, which stadium that seats 150,000 has the largest capacity in the world, and is is located in Pyongyang, North Korea.
Rungnado
8. In the 1500s, Italian artists Rosso Fiorentino and Francesco Primaticcio established the First School of where? The answer is a French place name.
Fontainebleau
9. The TIOBE index of Programming Language Popularity for January 2013 has C first and Java second. Name any two of the three descendants of C in positions 3, 4 and 5.
Objective-C, C++, C# 
10. A regional specialty served in Barcelona resturants, what is Pa amb tomàquet? Two specific words are required in the answer.
Tomato bread (that is the usual English translation from Catalan, it is toasted bread rubbed with fresh garlic and ripe tomato, then drizzled with olive oil)

Contributor 4
1 Which writer, who died in 1977, appeared in some of his own novels under the pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom, an anagram of his forename and surname?
2 Used as a germ warfare test site in the Cold War, Vozrozhdeniya Island expanded from the 1960s onwards, becoming a peninsula in 2001 and losing any distinct existence in 2010. In which body of water is it located?
3 Belgian cyclist Wim Vansevenant is infamous for being the only man to claim three "wins" of what dubious title, given to the last cyclist in the Tour de France?
4 Which British comedian's film roles include computer expert Professor Peach in 1969's The Italian Job and the Toymaker in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
5 Ironically, whose sister Randi complained in late 2012 when a family photo she had posted on Facebook was then circulated online because of lax privacy settings?
6 Coined by Paul Dirac in honour of another physicist, which group of particles includes all quarks and leptons, plus composite particles made up of an odd number of those, such as baryons?
7 Which brothers played against each other at the 2010 football World Cup when Germany played Ghana, a first in the tournament's history?
8 Which world city is at the centre of the Mappa Mundi kept at Hereford Cathedral?
9 Whose surname does the T stand for in the acronym CAPTCHA, the distorted writing used to ensure that humans, but not computers, are able to register for websites etc.?
10 Of which former US Secretary of State did Harold Wilson waspishly observe he "was a distinguished figure who had lost a State Department and not found a role"?

Contributor 4 Answers 1. Vladimir NABOKOV 2. ARAL SEA 3. LANTERNE ROUGE or RED LANTERN 4. Benny HILL 5. Mark ZUCKERBERG 6. FERMIONs 7. BOATENG (Jerome and Kevin-Prince) 8. JERUSALEM 9. Alan TURING ("Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart") 10. Dean ACHESON (Wilson echoed Acheson's famous remarks on Britain losing its empire)

Contributor 5
1 Which team finished 3rd in the inaugural Premier League season (1992 - 93), though with a minus goal difference, and the following season beat Bayern Munich in the Olympic Stadium in a 2nd round UEFA cup match?
Norwich City
2 Which actor, who played a memorable supporting character in Fawlty Towers, appeared in the classic war film In Which We Serve (1942) as well as the less critically acclaimed films, Confessions of a Driving Instructor and The Playbirds?
Ballard Berkeley
3 "This is Gareth Edwards. A dramatic start. What a score!" Name the commentator on the famous Barbarians v New Zealand game of 1973.
Cliff Morgan
4 With the atomic number 85, what is the rarest naturally occurring element?
Astatine
5 In a recent Radio Two poll, what was voted the nation's favourite Number 2 single of all time?
Vienna
6 What is the only word that has been "bleeped" out of a Mastermind broadcast?
Bollocks (in a round on the Sex Pistols)
7 An explosion at the Nypro Chemical works on 1 June 1974, which killed 28 people, took place near which Lincolnshire town?
Flixborough
8 With a length of 60 metres (197 feet) which station on the London Underground has the longest escalator?
Angel
9 A grey crowned crane appears on the flag of which African country?
Uganda

Contributor 6
1 Before his appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby had spent a year as Bishop of which Church of England diocese?
DURHAM
2 Operation Chastise was the codename for which British action of May 1943?
The DAMBUSTERS Raid (breaching of the Mohne and Eder dams)
3 Which British actor, who died in February 2013, is best known for a long running TV role, but also appeared in many Carry On films, including Carry On Henry (as the King of France), Carry On Up The Khyber (as Private Ginger Hale) and Carry On Don’t :Lose Your Head (as Citizen Robespierre)?
Peter GILMORE
4 Stephen Harper is the current Prime Minister of which Commonwealth country?
CANADA
5 What is the surname of the brothers who coached the opposing teams at Superbowl XLVII in February 2013?
Jim and John HARBAUGH
6 Who was the British architect whose works include Manchester Town Hall, the Natural History Museum and the Prudential Building in Holborn?
Alfred WATERHOUSE
7 Which grape is used in white Burgundy wines such as Chablis?
CHARDONNAY
8 Which veteran British character actor, voice over artist and musical comedian is currently appearing on CBeebies in Old Jack’s Boat?
Bernard CRIBBINS

Contributor 7
1 Married briefly to Catherine of Aragon before dying in 1502, what was the name of Henry VII's elder son?
Prince Arthur
2 Which other major Russian river, connected to the Volga by a 100km canal near Volgograd, empties into the Sea of Azov?
River Don
3 What name, derived from a present day sea feature, is given to the large tract of dry land connecting Britain to the continent that existed in what is now the southern North Sea until about 6000 BCE?
Doggerland
4 Which British athlete won the Paralympic men's T44 100m final in 2012, beating Oscar Pistorius amongst others in the final?
Jonnie Peacock
5 Krav Maga is a self-defence system originating in the 1940s and subsequently developed within which country's armed forces?
Israel
6 Who took "Crazy" to number one for 9 weeks in 2006?
Gnarls Barkley