ROUND 1 - Pairs

1.

Of the members of the England team of 1966 that won the World Cup final, two were one-club men; that is, they spent their entire professional careers at only one football club.  Who were they, and what were their respective clubs?

2.

Of the members of that same England team of World Cup winners, four would go on to play in the North American Soccer League, then the top-level professional league in the USA and Canada.  Name three of them.

3.

Which British monarch had children named Edward, Isabella, Joan, Lionel, John, Edmund, Mary, Margaret and Thomas, of whom none would ever ascend to the throne?

4.

Which British monarch had children named Frederick, Anne, Amelia, Caroline, William, Mary and Louisa, of whom none would ever ascend to the throne?

5.

In linguistics, the indicative, the subjunctive, the imperative, the optative and the jussive are examples of what verbal grammatical category that marks a speaker's attitude towards the statement?

6.

In linguistics, the nominative, the accusative, the genitive, the dative, and the instrumental are examples of what nominal grammatical category that marks the grammatical role that a noun plays in a sentence or phrase?

7.

In the Book of Genesis, what is the name of the handmaiden of Sarah, the mother of Ishmael?

8.

“Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where those lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God…”

These words are said by which eponymous biblical figure to her mother-in-law following the death of her husband?

Sp1

What do the initials AA stand for in the name of the children’s writer A A Milne?

Sp2

What do the initials HP stand for in the name of the weird fiction writer, H P Lovecraft?

1.

Who was the villain of the second Flashman novel, Royal Flash, in which Flashman has to pose as a minor Danish royal in an attempt to solve the Schleswig-Holstein question?

2.

Which Royal Navy cruiser, named for a queen consort, is the only ship that was present at The Battle of Jutland and has survived to the present day?

3.

Early works by which dramatist and librettist include Dulcurama, or The Little Duck and the Great Quack, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

4.

In 1917, the German army withdrew to which set of defensive fortifications, named after one of the victors of Tannenberg?

5.

Of what kind of geological entity does Jupiter’s moon, Io, have over 400 examples - more than any other object in the Solar System?

6.

In 2012, which England cricketer became the youngest player ever to reach 7000 Test runs?

7.

Chemist Kathleen Lonsdale and biologist Marjory Stephenson, both elected in 1945, were the first female fellows of which body, currently housed in Carlton House Terrace, London?

8.

Who represented the United States of America at Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation?  He was a Nobel prize winner who had held the offices of Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State, both under the presidency of Harry Truman?

Sp1

Which Scottish sci-fi writer was the 'Acting Honorary Non-Executive Figurehead President Elect pro-tem (trainee)' of the London Science Fiction Book Club, a title of his own devising, until his death in 2013?

Sp2

Who was married on Wednesday, but became tragically ill the following day, and was dead by the end of the week?

ROUND 3 - 'Enforcing the follow on'

Each questions will in some way follow on from the previous question. It’s an attempt at elegance!

1.

Winston Churchill, like his father, only used the name Churchill, rather than his full, double-barrelled name, in public life; though as a writer he styled himself Winston S Churchill.  For what did the 'S' stand?

2.

A statement made by sixteen year old Brenda Ann Spencer in response to journalists' questions about her involvement in a high school shooting, inspired which 1979 number one hit?

3.

Which annual US holiday takes place on the 1st Monday of September?

4.

Name any five of the twelve labours of Hercules.

5.

In the Hercule Poirot works of Agatha Christie, which figure, first introduced in 1920 novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles appeared in nine novels and narrated several more?  In the David Suchet television adaptations of Christie novels this character was mostly restricted to gasping “I SAY!” at every possible opportunity.

6.

Following the Hastings Cut-off through the Wasatch Mountains and the Great Salt Lake Desert proved the downfall of which group of pioneers, who resorted to cannibalism after becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevadas?

7.

Rivalling cannibalism as the last resort option for the starving, the doner kebab is known as 'shawarma' in Arabic and 'gyros' in Greek.  What does the Turkish word 'döner' literally mean?

8.

This seabird of the tern family performs by far the longest migration of any animal, with annual round trips of up to 80,000km.  It sees more sunlight than any other creature on Earth.  What is it?

Sp.

Which sovereign state has an Arctic 'coastline' that is nearest to the North Pole of any country on earth?  (NOTE: such a coastline would, of course, be beneath an ice sheet!)

ROUND 4 - 'How do you like your eggs?'

1.

Boiled

First released in 1978 and re-issued in 1982, Being Boiled was an early single for which British pop band?  It is notable as an early example of British electronic pop, which the band would pioneer with great commercial success throughout the 1980s.

2.

Sunny Side Up

Much of the action of which 2010 Oscar-winning animated film takes place in Sunnyside Daycare?

3.

Fried

Who wrote the 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café, which dealt with the relationships of women in a small Alabama town, and was made into a 1991 film staring Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy?

4.

Benedict

Benedict Cumberbatch has recently appeared in a series of Radio 4 plays based on the works of John Mortimer playing a young version of which well-known character?

5.

Poached

The dastardly poacher Victor Quartermaine, voiced by Ralph Fiennes, is the main antagonist in which Academy Award winning animated movie, in which he is attempting to hunt down one of the title characters?

6.

Devilled

Ken Russell’s The Devils, based partially on the non-fiction book by Aldous Huxley, is a dramatized account of the hysteria surrounding the 17th century witchcraft trials that took place in which French town?

7.

Scrambled

From the following slightly odd phrase unscramble the names of TWO regular Radio 4 shows (bearing in mind that any punctuation has been ignored): 'Homeowner has hurt cars'.

8.

Pickled

“The whole place is pickled; the people are pickles for sure” is a line from which UK Top 10 single, which shares its name with a European city?

ROUND 5 - Given theme - 'Elections'

1.

The Danish television series Borgen focuses on huge, post-election, political fall out.  Who plays the female lead Brigitte, who becomes Prime Minister?  She recently garnered praise from critics for her role in the film The Duke of Burgundy.

2.

The Tom Perotta novel Election was turned into a hit 1999 film, winning an Academy award for best-adapted screenplay.  Who plays female lead, schoolgirl Tracy Flick?  She was also the producer of acclaimed 2014 film Gone Girl and a best actress nominee at this year’s Oscars.

3.

Who became Pope following the Papal conclave in 1939?  He has been a figure of controversy ever since his key role in the Reichskondkordat of 1933 with Nazi Germany.

4.

Who was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in 2004?  Their work on regulating energy balance in relation to obesity, and on neuro-degeneration in relation to strokes was cited in the nomination.

5.

In 2012, which UK constituency had the lowest turnout for any by-election since 1945?

6.

Which of the 32 Scottish council areas saw the highest 'Yes' vote in the 2014 independence referendum?

7.

David Dimbleby will present his last election night coverage for the BBC this May.  At the beginning of his career, which quiz show did he co-present, following its move to television from radio?

8.

Jeremy Paxman will be presenting election coverage for Channel 4 for the first time this May.  In 2012 on Newsnight, he described what as "like bad kebab vomiting", for which he was heavily criticised?

ROUND 6 - Given theme - 'Pigs'

1.

What is the name of the pig in the novel Charlotte’s Web, written by E B White, whose bacon the titular spider quite literally saves by spinning messages in her web?

2.

Gouger, Snouter, Rooter and Tusker are four large boars who pull a sleigh driven by which character (a twisted equivalent of Santa Claus) from a series of books by an author, who died last week.

3.

What was the title of the 1998 sequel to the enormously successful 1995 movie Babe?  It was somewhat less successful at the box office.

4.

The prize-winning pig, The Empress of Blandings, created by P G Wodehouse, is the property of which aristocratic character?

5.

The giant boar Hildivini is the steed of which deity from Norse mythology?

6.

This cartoon character made her first appearance in the 1937 Looney Tunes cartoon Porky’s Romance, in which she was introduced as the love interest of the titular pig.  What is her name?

7.

On the cover of which album by Pink Floyd can a pig be seen floating above Battersea Power Station?

8.

Which highly-acclaimed 2001 animated film, directed by Hayao Miyazaki, tells the story of a ten year old girl called Chihiro whose family accidentally enters the ghost realm where her parents are turned into pigs?

ROUND 7 - Pairs

1.

The late, great Terry Pratchett collaborated with which sci-fi author on a trilogy release between 2012 and 2014, and consisting of The Long Earth, The Long War and The Long Mars?

2.

In 1990, Sir Terry wrote Good Omens in collaboration with which author of American Gods and the graphic novel Sandman?

3.

One century ago today the battleships HMS Ocean and HMS Irresistible, and the French battleship Bouvet were sunk by mines while attempting to force which straits?

4.

The first major offensive of the First World War took place a hundred years ago last week.  It was fought over and named after which French village?

5.

In Greek mythology, who was the queen consort of the Underworld?

6.

Who did Orpheus vainly attempt to rescue from the clutches of Hades and Persephone?

7.

What class of organic chemical, probably familiar to Withington Quiz Leaguers, consists of a carbon chain with a hydroxyl OH group attached?

8.

Vinegar, or ethanoic acid, is an example of which class of organic chemicals, consisting of a carbon chain with both a hydroxyl group and oxygen attached to the same carbon?

ROUND 8 - 'Pick Your Own Country'

Please pick a numbered country from the map and receive your question with all the grace and goodwill of an international jetsetter like yourself.

1.

Slovenia

What is the name of the Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic, whose works include The Sublime Object of Ideology, Living in the End Times and The Year of Dreaming Dangerously?

2.

Poland

Sometimes called 'The Polish Manchester' due to its status as an industrial centre, what city 84 miles south-west of Warsaw was almost made the nation’s capital by its new communist regime after the Second World War, when Warsaw had been almost completely destroyed?

3.

Portugal

If Anglophones are English language speakers, and a Francophone is a French language speaker, what similar term describes Portuguese language speakers?

4.

Finland

What is the name of the islands that lie at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia that constitute the smallest of Finland’s regions?  They are autonomous and the population is monolingually Swedish-speaking.

5.

Czech Republic

Which Czech composer wrote the symphonic cycle Má vlast, meaning 'My Homeland', but is best known for his opera The Bartered Bride?

6.

Slovakia

By what German name was the Slovak capital, Bratislava, known for much of its history, until the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1919, and the formation of Czechoslovakia?

7.

Hungary

Which Hungarian sports club, best known for its football team, has a name that translates as 'defence', which it adopted in the 1950s?

8.

Belgium

Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte’s work The Treachery of Images contains an image of an unremarkable item, below which is written a sentence.  Can you name the item, and the sentence?  (Give the sentence in either the original French or in its English translation)

9.

Greece

By what name is the period of Greek history from around 1600 BC to about 1100 BC known?  It is also the name of the form of the Greek language spoken at the time.  The name is derived from the name of a major centre of Greek civilization, and now an archaeological site, some 56 miles southwest of Athens.

10.

Ireland

“I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.”

These words are from a 1790 work by which Irish statesman and political philosopher?

ROUND 1 - Pairs

1.

Of the members of the England team of 1966 that won the World Cup final, two were one-club men; that is, they spent their entire professional careers at only one football club.  Who were they, and what were their respective clubs?

George Cohen - Fulham FC
Jack Charlton - Leeds United FC

2.

Of the members of that same England team of World Cup winners, four would go on to play in the North American Soccer League, then the top-level professional league in the USA and Canada.  Name three of them.

(three from)

Gordon Banks (Fort Lauderdale Strikers)

Bobby Moore (San Antonio Thunder & Seattle Sounders)

Alan Ball (Vancouver Whitecaps)

Geoff Hurst (Seattle Sounders)

3.

Which British monarch had children named Edward, Isabella, Joan, Lionel, John, Edmund, Mary, Margaret and Thomas, of whom none would ever ascend to the throne?

Edward III

(He was succeeded by his grandson, Richard II – the son of his eldest son, Edward the Black Prince, who predeceased his father.  In those names of his children listed in the question you will find, alongside Edward the Black Prince, Lionel of Antwerp (Duke of Clarence), John of Gaunt (Duke of Lancaster), Edmund of Langley (Duke of York), and Thomas of Woodstock (Duke of Gloucester))

4.

Which British monarch had children named Frederick, Anne, Amelia, Caroline, William, Mary and Louisa, of whom none would ever ascend to the throne?

George II

(George II would also be succeeded by his grandson, George III, whose father Prince Frederick of Wales predeceased his own father)

5.

In linguistics, the indicative, the subjunctive, the imperative, the optative and the jussive are examples of what verbal grammatical category that marks a speaker's attitude towards the statement?

(Grammatical) Mood

6.

In linguistics, the nominative, the accusative, the genitive, the dative, and the instrumental are examples of what nominal grammatical category that marks the grammatical role that a noun plays in a sentence or phrase?

(Grammatical) Case

7.

In the Book of Genesis, what is the name of the handmaiden of Sarah, the mother of Ishmael?

Hagar

8.

“Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where those lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God…”

These words are said by which eponymous biblical figure to her mother-in-law following the death of her husband?

Ruth

Sp1

What do the initials AA stand for in the name of the children’s writer A A Milne?

Alan Alexander

Sp2

What do the initials HP stand for in the name of the weird fiction writer, H P Lovecraft?

Howard Phillips

(not Phillip!)

1.

Who was the villain of the second Flashman novel, Royal Flash, in which Flashman has to pose as a minor Danish royal in an attempt to solve the Schleswig-Holstein question?

Otto von Bismarck

2.

Which Royal Navy cruiser, named for a queen consort, is the only ship that was present at The Battle of Jutland and has survived to the present day?

HMS Caroline

3.

Early works by which dramatist and librettist include Dulcurama, or The Little Duck and the Great Quack, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

W S Gilbert

4.

In 1917, the German army withdrew to which set of defensive fortifications, named after one of the victors of Tannenberg?

The Hindenburg Line

5.

Of what kind of geological entity does Jupiter’s moon, Io, have over 400 examples - more than any other object in the Solar System?

Volcanoes

6.

In 2012, which England cricketer became the youngest player ever to reach 7000 Test runs?

Alastair Cook

7.

Chemist Kathleen Lonsdale and biologist Marjory Stephenson, both elected in 1945, were the first female fellows of which body, currently housed in Carlton House Terrace, London?

The Royal Society

8.

Who represented the United States of America at Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation?  He was a Nobel prize winner who had held the offices of Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State, both under the presidency of Harry Truman?

George Marshall

Sp1

Which Scottish sci-fi writer was the 'Acting Honorary Non-Executive Figurehead President Elect pro-tem (trainee)' of the London Science Fiction Book Club, a title of his own devising, until his death in 2013?

Iain M Banks

(accept Ian Banks – it’s the same person!)

Sp2

Who was married on Wednesday, but became tragically ill the following day, and was dead by the end of the week?

Solomon Grundy

ROUND 3 - 'Enforcing the follow on'

Each questions will in some way follow on from the previous question. It’s an attempt at elegance!

1.

Winston Churchill, like his father, only used the name Churchill, rather than his full, double-barrelled name, in public life; though as a writer he styled himself Winston S Churchill.  For what did the 'S' stand?

Spencer

2.

A statement made by sixteen year old Brenda Ann Spencer in response to journalists' questions about her involvement in a high school shooting, inspired which 1979 number one hit?

I Don’t Like Mondays

(by the dreadful Boomtown Rats, of course)

3.

Which annual US holiday takes place on the 1st Monday of September?

Labor Day

4.

Name any five of the twelve labours of Hercules.

(any five from)

a. Slaying the Nemean Lion

b. Slaying the Hydra

c. Capturing the Golden Hind (of Artemis)

d. Capturing the Erymanthian Boar

e. Cleaning the Augean Stables

f. Slaying the Stymphalian Birds

g. Capturing the Cretan Bull

h. Stealing the Mares Diomedes (or Mares of Thrace)

i. 'Obtaining' the Girdle of Hippolyta (Queen of the Amazons)
j. Stealing the cattle of Geryon

k. Stealing the apples of Hesperides

l. Capturing Cerberus

5.

In the Hercule Poirot works of Agatha Christie, which figure, first introduced in 1920 novel The Mysterious Affair at Styles appeared in nine novels and narrated several more?  In the David Suchet television adaptations of Christie novels this character was mostly restricted to gasping “I SAY!” at every possible opportunity.

Captain Arthur Hastings

6.

Following the Hastings Cut-off through the Wasatch Mountains and the Great Salt Lake Desert proved the downfall of which group of pioneers, who resorted to cannibalism after becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevadas?

The Donner Party

(or Donner-Reed Party)

7.

Rivalling cannibalism as the last resort option for the starving, the doner kebab is known as 'shawarma' in Arabic and 'gyros' in Greek.  What does the Turkish word 'döner' literally mean?

Turning

(accept close synonyms)

8.

This seabird of the tern family performs by far the longest migration of any animal, with annual round trips of up to 80,000km.  It sees more sunlight than any other creature on Earth.  What is it?

The Arctic Tern

Sp.

Which sovereign state has an Arctic 'coastline' that is nearest to the North Pole of any country on earth?  (NOTE: such a coastline would, of course, be beneath an ice sheet!)

Denmark

(not Greenland which is not a sovereign state, but a constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark)

ROUND 4 - 'How do you like your eggs?'

1.

Boiled

First released in 1978 and re-issued in 1982, Being Boiled was an early single for which British pop band?  It is notable as an early example of British electronic pop, which the band would pioneer with great commercial success throughout the 1980s.

The Human League

2.

Sunny Side Up

Much of the action of which 2010 Oscar-winning animated film takes place in Sunnyside Daycare?

Toy Story 3

3.

Fried

Who wrote the 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café, which dealt with the relationships of women in a small Alabama town, and was made into a 1991 film staring Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy?

Fannie Flagg

4.

Benedict

Benedict Cumberbatch has recently appeared in a series of Radio 4 plays based on the works of John Mortimer playing a young version of which well-known character?

Horace Rumpole

5.

Poached

The dastardly poacher Victor Quartermaine, voiced by Ralph Fiennes, is the main antagonist in which Academy Award winning animated movie, in which he is attempting to hunt down one of the title characters?

Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

6.

Devilled

Ken Russell’s The Devils, based partially on the non-fiction book by Aldous Huxley, is a dramatized account of the hysteria surrounding the 17th century witchcraft trials that took place in which French town?

Loudun

(Huxley’s source work is entitled The Devils of Loudun)

7.

Scrambled

From the following slightly odd phrase unscramble the names of TWO regular Radio 4 shows (bearing in mind that any punctuation has been ignored): 'Homeowner has hurt cars'.

The Archers and Woman’s Hour

8.

Pickled

“The whole place is pickled; the people are pickles for sure” is a line from which UK Top 10 single, which shares its name with a European city?

Rotterdam

(by The Beautiful South)

ROUND 5 - Given theme - 'Elections'

1.

The Danish television series Borgen focuses on huge, post-election, political fall out.  Who plays the female lead Brigitte, who becomes Prime Minister?  She recently garnered praise from critics for her role in the film The Duke of Burgundy.

Sidse Babett Knudsen

2.

The Tom Perotta novel Election was turned into a hit 1999 film, winning an Academy award for best-adapted screenplay.  Who plays female lead, schoolgirl Tracy Flick?  She was also the producer of acclaimed 2014 film Gone Girl and a best actress nominee at this year’s Oscars.

Reese Witherspoon

3.

Who became Pope following the Papal conclave in 1939?  He has been a figure of controversy ever since his key role in the Reichskondkordat of 1933 with Nazi Germany.

Pius XII

4.

Who was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in 2004?  Their work on regulating energy balance in relation to obesity, and on neuro-degeneration in relation to strokes was cited in the nomination.

Nancy Rothwell

5.

In 2012, which UK constituency had the lowest turnout for any by-election since 1945?

Manchester Central

(with 18.2% turnout)

6.

Which of the 32 Scottish council areas saw the highest 'Yes' vote in the 2014 independence referendum?

Dundee City

(with 57.35%)

7.

David Dimbleby will present his last election night coverage for the BBC this May.  At the beginning of his career, which quiz show did he co-present, following its move to television from radio?

Top of the Form

8.

Jeremy Paxman will be presenting election coverage for Channel 4 for the first time this May.  In 2012 on Newsnight, he described what as "like bad kebab vomiting", for which he was heavily criticised?

Greece's potential exit from the Eurozone

ROUND 6 - Given theme - 'Pigs'

1.

What is the name of the pig in the novel Charlotte’s Web, written by EB White, whose bacon the titular spider quite literally saves by spinning messages in her web?

Wilbur

2.

Gouger, Snouter, Rooter and Tusker are four large boars who pull a sleigh driven by which character (a twisted equivalent of Santa Claus) from a series of books by an author, who died last week.

The Hogfather

3.

What was the title of the 1998 sequel to the enormously successful 1995 movie Babe?  It was somewhat less successful at the box office.

Babe: Pig in the City

(accept Pig in the City)

4.

The prize-winning pig, The Empress of Blandings, created by P G Wodehouse, is the property of which aristocratic character?

Lord Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth

(accept Lord Emsworth)

5.

The giant boar Hildivini is the steed of which deity from Norse mythology?

Freyja

6.

This cartoon character made her first appearance in the 1937 Looney Tunes cartoon Porky’s Romance, in which she was introduced as the love interest of the titular pig.  What is her name?

Petunia Pig

7.

On the cover of which album by Pink Floyd can a pig be seen floating above Battersea Power Station?

Animals

8.

Which highly-acclaimed 2001 animated film, directed by Hayao Miyazaki, tells the story of a ten year old girl called Chihiro whose family accidentally enters the ghost realm where her parents are turned into pigs?

Spirited Away

ROUND 7 - Pairs

1.

The late, great Terry Pratchett collaborated with which sci-fi author on a trilogy release between 2012 and 2014, and consisting of The Long Earth, The Long War and The Long Mars?

Stephen Baxter

2.

In 1990, Sir Terry wrote Good Omens in collaboration with which author of American Gods and the graphic novel Sandman?

Neil Gaiman

3.

One century ago today the battleships HMS Ocean and HMS Irresistible, and the French battleship Bouvet were sunk by mines while attempting to force which straits?

The Dardanelles

(accept The Hellespont)

4.

The first major offensive of the First World War took place a hundred years ago last week.  It was fought over and named after which French village?

Neuve Chapelle

5.

In Greek mythology, who was the queen consort of the Underworld?

Persephone

(grudgingly accept Proserpina, who is the Roman equivalent)

6.

Who did Orpheus vainly attempt to rescue from the clutches of Hades and Persephone?

Eurydice

7.

What class of organic chemical, probably familiar to Withington Quiz Leaguers, consists of a carbon chain with a hydroxyl OH group attached?

Alcohols

8.

Vinegar, or ethanoic acid, is an example of which class of organic chemicals, consisting of a carbon chain with both a hydroxyl group and oxygen attached to the same carbon?

Carboxylic Acid

(prompt on an answer of just 'acid')

ROUND 8 - 'Pick Your Own Country'

Please pick a numbered country from the map and receive your question with all the grace and goodwill of an international jetsetter like yourself.

1.

Slovenia

What is the name of the Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic, whose works include The Sublime Object of Ideology, Living in the End Times and The Year of Dreaming Dangerously?

Slavoj Žižek

2.

Poland

Sometimes called 'The Polish Manchester' due to its status as an industrial centre, what city 84 miles south-west of Warsaw was almost made the nation’s capital by its new communist regime after the Second World War, when Warsaw had been almost completely destroyed?

Łódż

(approximately pronounced “wooch”)

3.

Portugal

If Anglophones are English language speakers, and a Francophone is a French language speaker, what similar term describes Portuguese language speakers?

Lusophones

(the prefix 'Luso' comes from Lusitania, the name of the Roman province that occupied the territory of present day Portugal)

4.

Finland

What is the name of the islands that lie at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia that constitute the smallest of Finland’s regions?  They are autonomous and the population is monolingually Swedish-speaking.

The Åland Islands

(approximately pronounced Awe-land)

5.

Czech Republic

Which Czech composer wrote the symphonic cycle Má vlast, meaning 'My Homeland', but is best known for his opera The Bartered Bride?

Bedřich Smetana

6.

Slovakia

By what German name was the Slovak capital, Bratislava, known for much of its history, until the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1919, and the formation of Czechoslovakia?

Pressburg

7.

Hungary

Which Hungarian sports club, best known for its football team, has a name that translates as 'defence', which it adopted in the 1950s?

Budapest Honvéd FC

(accept Honvéd - it was so named in the 1950s when it became the Hungarian army’s team)

8.

Belgium

Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte’s work The Treachery of Images contains an image of an unremarkable item, below which is written a sentence.  Can you name the item, and the sentence?  (Give the sentence in either the original French or in its English translation)

A pipe - 'Ceci n’est pas une pipe'

('This is not a pipe')

9.

Greece

By what name is the period of Greek history from around 1600 BC to about 1100 BC known?  It is also the name of the form of the Greek language spoken at the time.  The name is derived from the name of a major centre of Greek civilization, and now an archaeological site, some 56 miles southwest of Athens.

Mycenaean

10.

Ireland

“I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.”

These words are from a 1790 work by which Irish statesman and political philosopher?

Edmund Burke

(they are from Reflections on the Revolution in France)