Round 1 - A
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1. In which city would you find Eden Park cricket ground?
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Auckland, New Zealand
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2. Banco is the sequel to which book, made
into an Oscar nominated film starring Steve McQueen in 1973 ?
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Papillon
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3. In 2002, which Secretary of Defence explained about "known
knowns", "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns" in
a speech referring to terrorism?
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Donald Rumsfeld
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4. What is the name of BBC Radio 3’s flagship arts and ideas
programme that is usually broadcast every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday?
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Night Waves
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Round 2- A
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1. David Copperfield and Ali Bongo have been recent winners of the
David Devant Award, named after the first President of which society?
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The Magic Circle
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2. Which town in
England which was designated a New Town in 1968, was the first to field a candidate for the
new Social Democratic Party in 1981, but lost to Labour?
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Warrington
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3. The collapse of the Republic of Biafra in 1970, effectively
ended the civil war in which African Country?
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Nigeria
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4. Who was elected Prime Minister in the year that 18 year olds
were allowed to vote for the first time in Britain?
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Edward Heath
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Round 3 - A
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1.
Which musical film made in colour during the 1960s
had the working title "Eight Arms to Hold You"?
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Help!
(A Hard Day's Night was in black and white)
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2.
Which brewery has beers called Iceberg, Steerage and Captain
Smith's?
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Titanic
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3.
The footballing term Route one is derived from which
defunct TV quiz?
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Quiz Ball
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4.
Which international engineering company, the fourth
largest manufacturer of escalators and elevators in the world, shares its
name with the surname of a current SAFC defender?
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Kone
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Round 4 – A
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1.
Welsh rugby player
Clive Sullivan has a road named after him in which Northern city?
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(Kingston upon) HULL
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2. In 1970 which club defeated Celtic in the European Cup final and
became the first club from their nation to win the trophy?
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Feyenoord
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3.
Which thriller writer
published a cook book aimed at men in the 1960s which contained the
suggestion, popular with students, that a portion of liver could
sustain you for a whole fortnight?
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Len DEIGHTON
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4.
The following is a definition of
which Scientific term “A Substance that aids a chemical change in other
substances, without itself changing.”?
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Catalyst
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Round 5 - A
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1. A coffee shop near the headquarters of a
haulage company outside Carlisle shares its name with which South
Shields-born jazz saxophonist?
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Kathy (or Cafe) STOBART
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2.
The most northerly point on New
Zealand’s South Island, what name is given to the headland in New Zealand
which was named by James Cook in 1770 and named due to it being the last land
seen as his crew began their homeward voyage?
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Cape FAREWELL
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3. Which American blacksmith used steel from a
Scottish saw to invent the first steel plough in 1842 and went on to found
the world's largest manufacturer of agricultural machinery?
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John DEERE
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4. Which current Hollywood film director founded
Percy Main Productions with his brother?
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Ridley SCOTT (now called Scott Free Productions)
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Round 6 - A
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1. Which island in the Indian Ocean has the highest population of
any French island and sends five deputies to the National Assembly in Paris?
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Reunion
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2. Which present day capital city was the capital of Hungary from
1536 to 1784 because of the Ottoman occupation?
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Bratislava
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3. Now the site of an airport, which former English racecourse
staged the Grand National from 1916 to 1918 after Aintree was taken into use
by the War Office ?
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GATWICK Racecourse
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4. To which actress was Groucho Marx referring when he reportedly
said “I knew her before she was a virgin”?
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Doris DAY
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