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| 1 | The white witch moth, at up to 30 centimetres, the large flying fox at 1.5 metres or more, the wandering albatross at 3.63 metres, and the Hughes H-4 Hercules Spruce Goose... . | | Wingspan |
| The first set of bonuses are on travel guides, Ulster. |
| 1 | "All you've got to do is decide to go "and the hardest part is over - so go." This is the self-stated philosophy of which travel guide publisher, founded in the 1970s by Maureen and Tony Wheeler? | | Lonely Planet |
| 1 | Secondly, the choice of name for which series of boutique hotel guides was described by one of its founders as, quote, "A sort of two fingers up at the other guidebooks, "which were all a bit 'No sex, please, we're British'"? | The Blue Guide | No, it's certainly not, it's Mr Mrs Smith! |
| 1 | And finally, founded in Germany in 1827, the name of which publisher is synonymous with early 20th century European travel? | | Baedeker |
| 2 | An Ancient Greek word meaning "a steersman" is the source of what five-letter prefix, now commonly used in words relating to computers and virtual reality, and specifically forming terms relating to the internet? | | Cyber |
| These bonuses are on fate, fortune and destiny. In each case, identify the tragedy by Shakespeare in which the following lines occur. |
| 2 | Firstly - "An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, "to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!" | | King Lear |
| 2 | Secondly - "Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well "when our deep plots do pall: and that should teach us "there's a divinity that shapes our ends. | Julius Caesar | No, it's Hamlet |
| 2 | And finally - "Men at some time are masters of their fates. "The fault is not in our stars but in ourselves, "that we are underlings." | Troilus and Cressida | No, that's Cassius to Brutus in Julius Caesar |
| 3 | 10 points for this... "If I had been rich, "I probably would not have devoted myself to mathematics." These are the words of which French scientist, the author of Analytic Mechanics? A contemporary of Laplace and Lavoisier, he gives his name to an equilibrium point in astronomy. | | Lagrange |
| So your first set of bonuses, Edinburgh, are on Britain and Australia. |
| 3 | Firstly for five, in 1908 the Summer Olympics were held in London for the first time. In which year did Melbourne become the first Australian city to host the Summer Olympics? | 1960 | No, it was 1956 |
| 3 | On February 14th, 1966, Australia replaced pounds, shillings and pence with dollars and cents. | | Five |
| 3 | How many full decades passed between the appointment of Margaret Thatcher and Julia Gillard as the first women to become Prime Minister of their respective countries? | | Three |
| 4 | In the 1870s, the Governor-General of India, Lord Lytton, described which country as "an earthen pipkin between two metal pots"? British forces made two interventions there... . | | Afghanistan |
| Your bonuses this time are on biochemistry. |
| 4 | Firstly, which molecule is the basic building block for fatty acid synthesis? | Glycerol | No, it's acetyl coenzyme A. Oh, OK, fair enough |
| 4 | And secondly, the first reaction of the fatty acid biosynthetic pathway involves the carboxylation of acetyl-CoA to form malonyl-CoA. Which B vitamin acts as a coenzyme in this reaction? | B12 | No, it's B7, Biotin |
| 4 | The elongation of the fatty acid chain to 16 or 18 carbons occurs with the help of the protein cofactor ACP. For what do the letters ACP stand? | Acetyl-colon-estuary protein | No, no, it's acyl carrier protein |
| 5 | For your picture starter, you'll see a map marked with a simplified route of an outbound notable expedition. For 10 points, I want you to name either of the people principally noted for making this journey in the 1830s. | | Charles Darwin |
| So following on from the Beagle's expedition to the Galapagos, your picture bonuses are three more maps showing the routes of significant expeditions. Again, I want you to name the person or persons noted for making the journey. |
| 5 | Firstly, for five, I want the group of people who set out on this journey in 1846. | Klondikers | No, those are the Donner Party, or the Donner-Reed Party |
| 5 | Secondly, who led this expedition, which ended in mutiny in 1611? | | So, Hudson |
| 5 | And finally, I want the person famous for this journey, which began in 1577. | | Sir Francis Drake |
| 6 | Paolo Veronese, Tintoretto, and the British artist Winifred Knights are among those who've painted which Biblical feast? It is the occasion of the first miracle attributed to Jesus in St John's Gospel. | | Wedding Day at Cana |
| Ulster, these bonuses are on works composed while their author was in prison. In each case, name the work and the author. |
| 6 | Firstly, a Latin work translated into English by both Alfred the Great and Elizabeth I, and written when its author was imprisoned by Theodoric the Great. | | It's The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius |
| 6 | Secondly, an English prose narrative printed by Caxton in 1485 and believed to have been written by an incarcerated Warwickshire knight before 1470. | Geoffrey Chaucer | No, it's Malory's Morte d'Arthur |
| 6 | And finally, an English prose work published posthumously in 1905. It takes its title from the first two words of a psalm in the Vulgate. | | De Profundis. By Oscar Wilde |
| 7 | The wide tract of forest and saltwater swamp known as the Sundarbans forms the lower part of the delta of which river? | | The Ganges Brahmaputra |
| Right, these bonuses are on Mexico. |
| 7 | Coahuila, the third largest Mexican state, is about twice the size of Scotland and similar in size to which Asian country, one of the most densely populated in the world? | | Er, Bangladesh |
| 7 | What is the second largest Mexican state? | | OK, er, Sonora |
| 7 | And finally, situated between Sonora and Coahuila, what is the largest state of Mexico? | | Chihuahua |
| 8 | In mathematics, what six-letter term is defined as the attribute of being either odd or even? In economics, the same term is denoted by one of the letters in the abbreviation of the theory of exchange rates known as PPP. | | Parity |
| You get a set of bonuses, Edinburgh, on football and poetry. |
| 8 | In 2010, who wrote the poem Achilles, after David Beckham sustained an injury to his Achilles tendon that kept him out of that year's World Cup? | | Is it Carol Ann Duffy |
| 8 | Which Scottish poet tells the story of a declining football club in his 1993 collection Nil Nil? His other works include God's Gift To Women and The Book Of Shadows. | Fielding | No, it's Don Paterson |
| 8 | Finally, who said, "I liked the idea that poetry was unpopular, "that it was like being the goalkeeper..."? In 2015, he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford. | I don't think there's any point, we'll just pass | That was Simon Armitage |
| 9 | For your music starter you're going to hear a version of a theme song of a television show. 10 points if you can tell me its composer. JAUNTY FLUTE TUNE PLAYS | | Howard Goodall |
| So, Ulster, you get a set of music bonuses. Three more of Howard Goodall's themes for television. This time for the points I'll need the title of the programme each was written for. |
| 9 | Firstly for five... # The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want... # | | It's the Vicar of Dibley |
| 9 | CHORAL SINGING | | Mr Bean |
| 9 | DRUM INTRO # It's cold outside... # | | Red Dwarf is right |
| 10 | After a long-legged and long-necked bird, what name is given to the dwarf shrub Vaccinium Oxycoccus? Originally known in England as marshwort or fenberry. It is cultivated commercially for its dark red acidic fruit. | | Cranberry |
| Right, these bonuses are on animals whose common name closely resembles their scientific name, for example the Western gorilla known as Gorilla gorilla. In each case identify the animal from the description. A single word answer is sufficient in each case. |
| 10 | Firstly, the largest land mammal of North America, hunted almost to extinction in the 19th century? | | Bison |
| 10 | Secondly, a common green lizard of Central and South America, mostly herbivorous, they may grow to over two metres in length? | Chameleon | No, it's iguana |
| 10 | And finally, a medium-sized cat with distinctive tufted ears, native to the forests of Europe and Asia? | | Lynx |
| 11 | Born in 1772, the utopian thinker Charles Fourier made many unusual predictions, among them that, once the rain of universal harmony began, the seas would lose their salinity... ..and turn into pink lemonade. | | Lemonade |
| Right, your bonuses this time, Edinburgh, are on physics. In each case I will read a fragment of the full definition of an SI base unit, simply name the unit, please. |
| 11 | Firstly, between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom. | | Second |
| 11 | Next, a force equal to 2 x 10 to the -7 Newton per meter of length. | | Ampere |
| 11 | And finally, 1/683 watt per steradian. | | Candela |
| 12 | In biology, what term describes a solution that has the same osmotic pressure as another particular solution... | | Isotonic |
| They are on the US Nobel laureate Jody Williams. |
| 12 | Jody Williams received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999 for her work in the ICBL, the international campaign to ban what? | | Land mines |
| 12 | From 1986 to 1992, Williams was deputy director of a medical aid organisation in which Central American country? | | El Salvador |
| 12 | In 1999, 120 states signed a convention banning the use, production, sale and stockpiling of antipersonnel mines. After which Commonwealth capital is it named? | | Ottawa |
| 13 | Literally meaning to show a fig, what word for a type of informer in ancient Athens entered English in the 16th century with the meaning of a false accuser? It has since come to mean a servile flatterer... | | Sycophant |
| You retake the lead and your bonuses this time are on a Yorkshire landowning family. |
| 13 | Born in 1826, Sir Tatton Sykes is described as an inveterate restorer of what? | Erm... Castles | No, they were churches, mainly in the East Riding |
| 13 | Sykes's son Mark was a diplomat who give his name, in part, to a secret accord of 1916 concerning the dismemberment of which Empire? | | Ottoman |
| 13 | Sir Mark Sykes's son Christopher produced the authorised biography of which major novelist, born in London in 1903? | Somerset Maugham | No, it's Evelyn Waugh |
| 14 | For your picture starter you'll see a photograph of an actor, 10 points if you can give me his name, please. | | Yul Brynner |
| Yul Brynner was one of a select few to have won both a Tony Award and an Academy Award for playing the same role on stage and then on screen. For your bonuses, three more actors who achieved the same distinction, five points for each you can name. |
| 14 | Firstly... | Joel Edwards | It was Joel Grey, I'm afraid |
| 14 | Secondly, the actor on the right in this picture. | No, no... Richard Harris | No, that's Paul Schofield |
| 14 | And finally, the actor on the right here. | | Rex Harrison. He played Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady |
| 15 | Known in English by a two-word name, which historical German province was divided between the Soviet Union and Poland in 1945? It's capital was... | | East Prussia |
| You take the lead and your bonuses are on the films of Martin Scorsese. |
| 15 | Which 1974 comedy drama concerns a widow who heads to California with her young son in search of a better life but ends up waitressing in Arizona? Ellen Burstyn won the Best Actress Academy Award for her title performance. | Erm...Quiz Show | No, it's Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More |
| 15 | Secondly, in Scorsese's controversial film adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's book, The Last Temptation Of Christ, which British singer songwriter and actor played Pontius Pilate? | Pass | It was David Bowie |
| 15 | Finally, Scorsese's first film to be shot in 3D, what is the title of the 2011 story of a boy who lives in the Gare Montparnasse in Paris in the 1930s? | | Hugo |
| 16 | Minor characters in which Victorian novel include the auctioneer Borthrop Trumbull, Mrs Cadwallader, wife of the Rector of Tipton and Freshitt, the Tory lawyer Frank Hawley and the lady's maid Tantrip? | | Middlemarch |
| They are on words that contain the Latin word "ergo" meaning therefore. For example, undergod, overgoes and ergophobia. In each case give the word from the definition. |
| 16 | First an arbour or covered walk formed of horizontal trellis work supported on columns. | | Pergola |
| 16 | Secondly, one who squanders money on possessions, a wastrel or spendthrift. | Sorry, we don't have it | That's a scattergood |
| 16 | And finally, a disease of cereal grasses, it's particularly associated with rye. | | Ergotism |
| 17 | The reign of which British monarch saw the publication of Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels, the death of Sir Isaac Newton and the bursting of the South Sea Bubble? | James II. George II | No, it was George I |
| 18 | What Greek derived term describes a fast heart rate above 100 beats a minute? | | Tachycardia |
| They are on the seven summits as defined by the Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner. That is the highest mountain on each continent. In each case, name the peak from it's geographical coordinates. |
| 18 | First, 3.06 degrees south, 37.36 degrees east. | | Kilimanjaro |
| 18 | Secondly, 32.65 degrees south, 70.02 degrees west. | | Aconcagua |
| 18 | Finally, 27.99 degrees north and 89.93 degrees east. | | Everest |
| 19 | "Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas, only "I don't know exactly what they are." In Through The Looking Glass, Alice says this of which poem? | | |