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Round One – General Knowledge

1. What four letter word can go before scale, piece, less, keeper and table to make five new words?

2. Used in the kitchen, what ingredient takes its name from the old French for sour wine?

3. Name either of the main athletes in the 1981 film ‘Chariots of Fire’.

4. What animal did Ivan Pavlov use in his experiments to demonstrate classical conditioned reflex?

5. In which U. S. state is the city of Baltimore?

6. Spell the word ‘DYSLEXIA’.

7. On BBC’s ‘Eastenders’ who killed Archie Mitchell?

8. What was Buzz Aldrin’s real first name?

9. ‘Sweet Sue and the Syncopaters’ was the all-female band that featured in which 1959 film?

10. 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics: luge gold medal winner Felix Loch was from which country?

Round Three – History: Scottish Kings

1. His nicknames were ‘the Lion’ and ‘the Rough’; his lion banner became Scotland’s standard, died peacefully in Stirling in his early seventies.

2. Nicknamed ‘the Fierce’ , had a troubled relationship with his brother, who succeeded him, as well as the Church, fought beside Henry I of England against the Welsh, died in Stirling.

3. Became King at the age of seven after the murder of his father, ordered the building of Ravenscraig Castle in Fife, banned golf and died when one of his siege canons blew up at Roxburgh.

4. Became king at the age of eight, fought at the Battle of Largs, and died after falling off his horse near Kinghorn in Fife.

5. Son of Duncan I, nicknamed ‘Canmore’, ‘Long Neck’ or ‘Big Head’, his second wife was the only royal Scottish saint – St. Margaret, he was killed at the Battle of Alnwick.

6. Son of William I, supported the English barons in their war against King John, reached Dover undefeated though without having to fight, attended the signing of the Magna Carta, died on the island of Kerrera.

7. Of Norman ancestry on his father’s side and Scot’s on his mother’s side, at one time fled to Rathlin Island off Ulster coast just after his coronation, defeated the English at a famous battle and died of an ‘unclean ailment’ .

8. Enthroned at Scone aged fifteen, married Margaret, daughter of Henry VII, died at the Battle of Flodden.

9. Nicknamed the ‘Red King’ he was the first Scottish King to take Norman knights into his service. Immortalised in a Shakespeare play.

10. Became King at the age of one, his mother was executed in 1587, his son was the last British monarch to be born in Scotland (Dunfermline), he was the target of the Gunpowder Plot.

Round Five – General Knowledge

1. Know for writing books about a young adventurer and his dog Snowy, how was Belgian George Remi better known?

2. Over which waterfalls does the largest volume of water flow per minute?

3. In the city of Rome, what tourist attraction links the Piazza di Spagna and the Piazza Trinita dei Monti?

4. ‘Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears’ is spoken by which Shakespeare character? 5. Which member of the cast of ‘Cheers’ voiced Hamm the piggy bank in the 1995 film ‘Toy Story’?

6. Footballer Christiano Ronaldo was born on which Portuguese island?

7. Humphrey Bogart was an expert at which board games?

8. The El Ferdan Railway Bridge, the longest swing bridge in the world, crosses which canal?

9. Which two English middle distance runners shared a rivalry in the late nineteen seventies and early eighties?

10. Edward Hopper began which famous painting immediately after Japan attacked Pearl Harbour?