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| 1 | What natural phenomenon links a 1915 novel by DH Lawrence, a 1998 work by Richard Dawkins whose title...? | | Rainbow |
| Three questions on a number for the first set of bonuses, Bristol. |
| 1 | What nickname did its publicist Emil Gutmann give to Mahler's Symphony No 8 in E flat major, first performed in full in Munich in 1910? | Titan | No, it was the Symphony Of A Thousand |
| 1 | Garibaldi's Expedition Of The Thousand landed at the port of Marsala in May 1860, and later led to the overthrow of which kingdom of southern Italy? | Naples | No, it's the Kingdom Of The Two Sicilies |
| 1 | And named after the British Major General, Wolf Island is the largest of the group known as the Thousand Islands, located within which river? | Yukon | No, it's the Saint Lawrence River in Canada |
| 2 | "Thank God I should have lived to witness a day "in which England is willing to give 20 million sterling "for the abolition of slavery." These were the words of which parliamentarian, shortly before his death in 1833? | | William Wilberforce |
| You get a set of bonuses, Trinity College, on dogs in children's literature. |
| 2 | Firstly, which eponymous dog features in the 1956 novel by the US author Fred Gibson? | Lassie | No, it's Old Yeller |
| 2 | Secondly, 1963 saw the first of a series of children's books by Norman Bridwell, the hero of which soon became a mascot for the Scholastic Books publishing company. | | Clifford |
| 2 | In the first of the Harry Potter books, what is the name of the giant, three-headed dog guarding the Philosopher's Stone in Hogwarts school...? | | Fluffy |
| 3 | What non-orientable surface was the form of a conveyor belt patented by the US industrialist BF Goodrich...? | | Mobius strip |
| You get a set of bonuses on physics. |
| 3 | Firstly, Gong, the Global Oscillation Network Group, is a programme studying the internal structural dynamics of what body? | | The sun |
| 3 | Chime, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, is designed to study the traces of primordial cosmic waves in hydrogen gas by detecting what form of electromagnetic radiation? | Microwave | It's radio waves |
| 3 | And finally, Haarp, the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Programme, has been used to transmit radio waves to study the behaviour of what specific region of the Earth's atmosphere? | The stratosphere | No, it's the ionosphere, the specific term I wanted |
| 4 | JD Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye refers to which of Dickens's characters in its opening sentence? | | David Copperfield |
| You get a set of bonuses on the cricketer Hanif Mohammad, who died in August 2016. |
| 4 | In 1958, Hanif made 337 for Pakistan against the West Indies in what was the longest Test innings. | 700 | No, it's 970 so I can't accept that |
| 4 | Hanif had three brothers who played Test cricket for Pakistan. Name any one of the three. | Mohsin | No, they were Wazir, Mushtaq and Sadiq |
| 4 | And finally, in 1959, Hanif scored 499 for Karachi against Bahawalpur. This was the highest first-class individual score until 1994, when it was broken by which west Indian? | | Brian Lara |
| 5 | For your picture starter, you're going to see an artist's impression of the entrance to a public lavatory. For ten points, I want you to identify the language in which the signs are written. | | Welsh. The signs, of course, said "Men" and "Women" |
| For your picture bonuses, you'll see toilet signs in three more languages. Again, in each case, I simply want you to identify the language. |
| 5 | Firstly, for five, this Mediterranean language. | | Turkish |
| 5 | Secondly, this European language. | Hungarian | No, it's Albanian |
| 5 | And finally, a European language. | Macedonian | No, it's Romanian |
| 6 | What collective name has been given to these figures? The first carried a bow and was given a crown, the second was given a sword... | | Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
| You get a set of bonuses on potatoes in art, Bristol. |
| 6 | Largely abstract, although derived from a female figure, Potato is a work of 1928 by which Spanish artist? Born in Barcelona in 1893, he's commonly associated with the surrealist movement. | Dali | No, it wasn't, it was Miro |
| 6 | The Potato Harvest is an oil painting of 1885 by which French artist? One of the founders of the Barbizon school, his other notable works include The Angelus. | Marcel Duchamp | No, it's Millet |
| 6 | And finally, The Potato Eaters is an oil painting of 1885 by which artist who was born in Zundert in The Netherlands? | Vermeer | No, in 1885, no, it's Van Gogh |
| 7 | Name any two of the four chemical elements discovered by William Hyde Wollaston and Smithson Tennant in the early years of the 19th century. All four are in the platinum group. | | Iridium and palladium. The other two are osmium and rhodium |
| You get a set of bonuses on films about writer's block, Bristol. |
| 7 | The 1987 film Throw Momma From The Train starred Billy Crystal as a creative writing teacher suffering from writer's block and marked the directorial debut of which actor? | Tom Hanks | No, it was Danny DeVito |
| 7 | Secondly for five points, the 1991 Palme d'Or winner, Barton Fink, in which the eponymous playwright suffers from an acute block, was born out of the Coen brothers' struggle with the making of which film of 1990? It stars Gabriel Byrne and John Turturro. | The Big Lebowski | It was Miller's Crossing |
| 7 | And finally, the 2004 film Secret Window stars Johnny Depp as a blocked writer and is an adaptation of the novella Secret Window, Secret Garden by which US author? | Truman Capote | No, it's Stephen King |
| 8 | The works of the US author Walter Tevis include the novels The Hustler and The Color Of Money, as well as which science fiction novel of 1963? It formed the basis of a film of 1976, directed by Nicholas Roeg and starring David Bowie. | | The Man Who Fell To Earth |
| Your bonuses this time are on Lloyd George's coalition government, Trinity. |
| 8 | Who was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in December 1916? Born in Canada, he was briefly Prime Minister in 1922 and '23. | | Bonar Law |
| 8 | Secondly, the half-brother of a future Prime Minister, who was Secretary of State for India from 1915-17? He was a joint winner of the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in bringing about the Locarno Pact. | | Austen Chamberlain |
| 8 | Which former Prime Minister became Foreign Secretary in December 1916? The following year, he issued a declaration in favour of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine. | | Balfour |
| 9 | For your music starter, you'll hear a piece of classical music. Ten points if you can name the composer. FRENCH HORN PLAYS | | Mozart's Horn Concerto is correct |
| You're going to hear three more pieces of music in which horns feature prominently. In each case, simply name the composer. |
| 9 | First, the composer of this piece... HORN PLAYS | | It is Haydn, his Horn Concerto in D. |
| 9 | And secondly... BRASS INSTRUMENTS PLAY Mahler. | | It is Gustav Mahler, Symphony No 1 |
| 9 | HARPSICHORD AND STRINGS ACCOMPANY HORNS | | It is Bach, yes, the Brandenburg Concerto No 1 |
| 10 | Which decade saw the completion of Saint Anselm's Monologion, the Seljuk defeat at...? The Seljuk defeat at the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of Manzikert, Emperor Henry IV's penance at Canossa and the Revolt of the Earls against William the Conqueror. | The 11th | No, it's the 1070s |
| 11 | What two-word collective name is given to Mintaka, Alnilam and Alnitak? They form part of a constellation named after a figure sometimes identified as a son of Poseidon. | | Orion's Belt |
| You get three questions on the Victorian writer and illustrator Kate Greenaway. |
| 11 | A noted illustration by Greenaway depicts angelic children following which distinctive figure? The title character of a narrative poem by Robert Browning. | | Pied Piper |
| 11 | One biographer notes that her images of young girls ministered to his obsession for Rose La Touche, who was nearly 30 years his junior. | | John Ruskin |
| 11 | In a 1952 story, which enduring children's character is dragooned into wearing what he calls a green cataway costume for a village event? It's torn to rags by a Scottie and a mastiff. | | Just William |
| 12 | Mentioned in the Avesta and the biblical Book of Tobit, the city of Rey, known in Latin as Rhagae, was a predecessor of which populous world capital? It's located about 100km south of the Caspian Sea. | | Tehran |
| Right, your bonuses are on biology this time, Bristol. |
| 12 | From the Greek for wave-writer, what instrument consists of a revolving drum on which a pen moves, recording changes in various physiological measurements? | A spirograph | No, it's a kymograph |
| 12 | Secondly, what does a sphygmomanometer measure? | Blood alcohol level | No, it's blood pressure |
| 12 | And finally, a myograph measures the force produced by contraction in what body tissue? | The eye | No, it's muscle |
| 13 | In the abbreviation HDL cholesterol, for what do the letters HDL...? | | High density lipoprotein |
| You get a set of bonuses on King Zog of Albania. |
| 13 | Firstly for five points, after serving as president for several years, Ahmed Bey Zogu proclaimed himself King of Albania during which decade? | 1930s | No, it was the 1920s, 1928, to be precise |
| 13 | Zog's regime drew heavily on the myth of which Albanian national hero, born in 1405? He's known in Turkish as Iskender Bey. | King Alexander | No, it's Skanderbeg |
| 13 | Zog went into exile in 1939 when Albania became a protectorate of which country? | | Italy |
| 14 | Of which artistic movement did Kenneth Clark say "they did not set out to be popular. "On the contrary, they became resigned to public ridicule, "but in the end they achieved a modest measure of success"? | Pop art | Impressionists |
| Your bonuses are on cosmology this time. |
| 14 | In 1931, which astronomer at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium published a paper on the primeval atom, usually cited as the first assertion of the Big Bang theory? | | That was Georges Lemaitre |
| 14 | Lemaitre later spoke of the vanished brilliance of the origin of the world. Patrick Moore likened this vanished brilliance to what form of radiation, known by the abbreviation CMB? | | Cosmic microwave background |
| 14 | CMB radiation was discovered accidentally by the US scientists Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson during which decade? | 1940s | No, it's the 1960s |
| 15 | For ten points, I want you to identify the two figures depicted. | | George III and Napoleon Bonaparte |
| That 1803 cartoon, depicting George III as the King of Brobdingnag from Swift's Gulliver's Travels, was by James Gillray, who has been called the father of the political cartoon, as you know. For your bonuses, you're going to see three more of his cartoons. |
| 15 | Firstly, who's the political figure depicted prominently here? | | Pitt the Younger |
| 15 | And secondly, who's the political writer and theorist depicted on the right? | John Locke | No, it's Thomas Paine |
| 15 | Finally, what event is depicted here? | | The Battle of the Nile |
| 16 | "Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance." Which play by Shakespeare includes those words of the roguish Autolycus? | | The Winter's Tale |
| Your bonuses are on European history, Bristol. In each case, give the century in which the named monarchs held power. |
| 16 | Firstly, King Frederick II of Denmark and Norway, Charles I of Spain and William the Silent of The Netherlands. | The 15th | No, it was the 16th century, the 1500s |
| 16 | Secondly, King Philip VI of France, Peter I of Portugal and Dmitriy Donskoi of Russia. | 17th | No, that was the 14th century |
| 16 | And finally, King Gustaf V of Sweden, Haakon VII of Norway and Boris III of Bulgaria. | | Correct |
| 17 | In physics, what seven-letter term describes one of two or more atomic nuclei that contain the same number of neutrons... | | Isotone is correct |
| These bonuses are on paradoxes, Bristol. |
| 17 | "The slower will never be overtaken by the quicker" is one formulation of a paradox named after which Greek philosopher of the fifth century BC? | | Zeno |
| 17 | The Greek seer Epimenides is associated with the liar's paradox. | | Crete |
| 17 | "I know that I know nothing." These words state a paradox usually named after which Greek philosopher who died in 399 BC? | | Socrates |
| 18 | The name of which country appears within words meaning "underwater breathing apparatus" and to "keep eggs warm"? | | Cuba |
| You get three bonuses on science, Bristol. |
| 18 | What is the predominant geometric shape of cross-sections of the columns of basalt such as those that form the Giant's Causeway? | | A hexagon |
| 18 | What is the sum of the internal angles of a regular hexagon? | | 720 |
| 18 | The polar cloud of which planet has been observed to form a hexagonal vortex? | Venus | No, it's Saturn |
| 19 | Which alkali feldspar mineral appears on the Mohs scale of hardness...? | | Orthoclase feldspar |
| Your bonuses this time are on words or names that end in the letter I. In each case, give the word from the definition. All three answers have the same number of letters. |
| 19 | First, the surname of the track athlete known as The Flying Finn. | Pass | That was Nurmi |
| 19 | Secondly, Chinese ideographs that are used in Japanese writing in addition to the kana syllabary. | Kanji | Correct |
| 19 | Finally, a hoofed mammal with striped legs that's a close relative of the giraffe. | | Okapi |
| 20 | Answer in English or German. Which loose association of 39 states was formed at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to replace the Holy Roman Empire? | Confederation of the Rhine | It's the Deutscher Bund, or German Confederation |
| 21 | Gondar, Mekele and Dire Dawa are among the cities of which African country? It's the world's most populous landlocked sovereign state. | Nigeria | Ethiopia |
| A set of bonuses on monasteries for you. |
| 21 | Referring to sections of monastic rules that were read aloud, what two-word term denotes a formal meeting room in a monastery? | Pass | It's a chapter house |
| 21 | What six-letter term denotes the communal dining room of a monastery? | | Frater |
| 21 | What is a reredorter? The ruined priory of Castle Acre in Norfolk, for example, has one of the best-preserved examples in England. | Pass | They were lavatories |
| 22 | Answer promptly with a single word. What is the second noun in the first line of Milton's Paradise Lost? | | |