1. in Slang Terms, How Much Money Is a Pony? 25

1. In slang terms, how much money is a pony? £25

2. In which Spanish city do football club Real Sociedad play? SAN SEBASTIAN

3. Where in Lanarkshire is the secure State Hospital? CARSTAIRS

4. What type of bridge is the Forth Bridge? CANTILEVER (‘The Forth Bridge’ is the railway one)

5. What was Adam Smith’s famous book on economics called? ‘…..the WEALTH OF

NATIONS’

6. What is a blue moon? SECOND FULL MOON IN A CALENDAR MONTH

7. How many candles are there on a normal Jewish menorah – the symbol of Israel? 7

8. In Scotland, which group of workers does the EIS union represent? TEACHERS

9. The name of which UK moorland bird, with a white tail patch, is a variation of Old

English for ‘white arse’? WHEATEAR

10. American media executive Ted Turner started which TV network? CNN

11 Which two bridges do the Oxford and Cambridge boat race crews race under? (2-parts)

BARNES BRIDGE and HAMMERSMITH BRIDGE(1 MARK EACH)

12 Which TV series starred Jimmy Nail as a Geordie policeman back up in the

North East from London? ‘SPENDER’

13 Along which Portuguese river valley is most port wine made? THE DOURO

14 Which long-running programme is set in fictional Borsetshire? ‘THE ARCHERS’

15 Which gallery and museum, with over 8000 artefacts and works of art, lies on

the south side of Glasgow in Pollock Country Park? THE BURRELL COLLECTION

16 Which Australian city is called ‘The City of Churches’? ADELAIDE

17 What Anglo-Scots battle took place in 1513? FLODDEN FIELD

18 Whose statues stand at either side of the gatehouse of Edinburgh Castle (2-parts)

WILLIAM WALLACE and ROBERT the BRUCE

19 What is the main ingredient in Gentleman’s Relish? ANCHOVIES

20 Which musical film features the song ‘Springtime for Hitler’ ? ‘THE PRODUCERS’

21. A car’s tyre pressure can be in pounds per square inch (p.s.i.) or in bars. What is

a bar? 1 bar = NORMAL ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE – (approx. 14 psi)

22. 200 years ago, what was described by the winner as ‘The nearest-run thing

you ever saw in your life’? THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO

23. Which 2013 animated film is set in the Kingdom of Arendelle? ‘FROZEN’

24. In January 1989, whose next-last diary entry was ‘Tomorrow I stop being President’?

RONALD REAGAN

25. Who rule in an oligarchy? A FEW PEOPLE

26. Which Asian island has the largest population of any island on earth – over 140m?

JAVA

27. Which heart of Basque culture was bombed by the Condor Legion in 1937?

GUERNICA

28. As a child, Oliver Postgate met Bertrand Russell and allegedly based which

children’s animated TV creature on him? PROFESSOR YAFFLE – thewoodpecker

in ‘Bagpuss’

29. What was the Christian name of the body snatchers Burke and Hare? Both WILLIAM

30 IodIne deficiency causes a swollen thyroid gland to produce what medical condition,

sometimes called Derbyshire Neck? GOITRE

31 What was the profession of the Swiss-French man known as Le Corbusier?

ARCHITECT / DESIGNER

32 In which river estuary did a naval engagement lead to the eventual sinking of the

German warship ‘Graf Spee’ in 1939? THE PLATE (Plata)

33 What is the 3rd-largest of the British Isles - after Britain and the island of Ireland?

LEWIS with HARRIS (‘Lewis’ ok)

34 In the UK, what is Crockford’s a directory of? THE CLERGY

35 Who was the author of ‘Roots; the Saga of an American Family’ the fictional history

of African slave Kunta Kinte and his descendants? ALEX HAYLEY

36 For Buddhists, what is the final goal, where the soul is no longer re-incarnated …. the

equivalent of heaven. NIRVANA

37 What is the only malt whisky to come from the Isle of Skye? TALISKER

38 In the acronym BUPA what do the letters U and P stand for? (2-part answer)

UNITED PROVIDENT (1 MARK EACH)

39 Which predatory fish has the Latin name Esox? A PIKE

40 In which Northern English city is the National Media Museum? BRADFORD