ROUND 1 - Stockport style - Verbal

1.

Which brass instrument plays the solo part in the theme music to Coronation Street?

2.

In which antipodean city is the international cricket ground known as The Manuka Oval?

3.

Which famous film star was discovered on a World War One battlefield and went on to feature in a number of Hollywood silent films such as Where the North Begins and Frozen River.  He died aged 14 and was buried back in France, the country of his birth.

4.

Which European political party was founded in 2009 by Beppe Grillo, a comedian and blogger, and Gianroberto Casaleggio, a web strategist?

5.

In 1816 a French ship was wrecked off the West coast of Africa.  The fate of the survivors of the wreck was the subject of a famous painting.  Name the artist.

6.

Which of the UK sea areas mentioned in the daily shipping forecasts is the furthest south?

7.

Of the fictional Blackadder family depicted in various versions of the TV comedy only one member was not called Edmund.  He was a Victorian moustache-shop owner renowned for his kindness until visited by a spirit after which he was famed for his cruelty.  What was his first name?

8.

What is the traditional name for someone who makes stringed instruments?

9.

In which Scottish town is the Roman Catholic Cathedral for the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles?

10.

Which is the most populous of the regions of Italy?

11.

On which real city is the fictional city of Christminster that appears in Hardy’s Jude the Obscure based?

12.

In 2004 what was the first symbol to be added to the Morse Code since World War I?

13.

Which famous actor died in 2000, just over half a century after he had been seen having a stroke, falling off a weir, being shot, drowned, poisoned and involved in two explosions and an aircrash?

14.

Which landlocked country is the only one in the world to share all its borders with other countries that – like it – have a name that ends ‘stan’?

15.

What is the relationship between a character mentioned in a 1968 Simon and Garfunkel hit and a character mentioned in a 1974 Elton John hit?

16.

In France ‘un trombone’ not surprisingly means a trombone – but it has another meaning in French; what is that?

17.

Which antipodean city has an international cricket ground called the Bellerive Oval?

18.

What was the name of the Parson Russell Terrier famous for his roles in the films Water for Elephants and The Artist?

19.

Which European political party has a name which, when translated into English, means ‘soldiers of destiny’?

20.

A famous painting set in the Great St Bernard Pass was created by Jacques-Louis David.  What was it called?

21.

Which Norwegian municipality gets a mention each day on British Radio at 00.48, 05.20, 12.01 and 17.54?

22.

In the Blackadder the Third TV series the episode called Dish and Dishonesty concerned a by-election for a rotten borough.  What was the name of this rotten borough?

23.

What is the traditional name for someone who makes the metal parts of a horse’s harness?

24.

The Norse name for the Hebrides (or ‘Southern Isles’ as distinct from Orkney and Shetland which were known as the ‘Northern Isles’) has found its way into a title used in the Church of England. What is this word?

25.

Which of the German states is the most populous?

26.

Which popular work of fiction features two place names in its title, one of the places being based on the town of Buckingham, and the other on the Oxfordshire hamlet of Juniper Hill?

27.

Until 1877 the word ‘Hullo’ had only ever been used to express surprise. Which American is credited with introducing it to general usage as a term of greeting?

28.

After being put to death on a roadside south of Rome in 1960 which actor went on to star in the List of Adrian Messenger and Seven Days in May amongst many other films?

29.

Of the 7 ‘-stan’ countries which is the smallest in land area?

30.

“Ba deedily deedily deedily dum, boo boo bee doo!” are the concluding lyrics of a song that featured in which 1959 Oscar winning comedy film?

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ROUND 2 - Stockport style - Written - Hidden theme – The Final Countdown by Europe

QM:

1. Read the questions in the sequence shown being sure to call each question by the question number shown

2. Tell competitors at the start that the theme words are often hidden as part of other words in the answers

3. Allow an extra few minutes after reading out all the questions for competitors to deduce the theme (if they haven’t already done so) and then go back and use the theme to work out missing answers

10.

What helped resolve the 18th century border dispute between Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware?

9.

The 1914 wartime hit song Keep the Homes Fires Burning was written by David Davies.  By what name did Davies become well-known?

8.

What was founded at the end of the 13th century in north western Anatolia by the tribal leader Osman?

7.

Which Kurt Weill song made famous by Frank Sinatra included these lyrics:

“And I have lost one tooth
And I walk a little lame
And I haven't got time
For the waiting game”

6.

Beno Gutenberg worked at the California Institute of Technology in the 20th century in which specific field of science?  With a colleague he was responsible for developing one of the best-known scientific scales of measurement.

5.

Which 1964 Beach Boys hit includes the line: “'Til her daddy takes the T-bird away”?

4.

Who is currently manager of the French Ligue 1 football team Nice?

3.

St Mary’s is the largest of the Isles of Scilly, but which is the second largest?

2.

Which 1971 car chase movie starring Dennis Weaver marked the directorial debut of Steven Spielberg?

1.

Who was an employee of the Swiss Patent Office between 1902 and 1909 whilst producing the work for which he is best-known?

Sp.

(0)

Which American comic actor created the starring role of Tevye in the original Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof?

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ROUND 3 - WithQuiz style - ‘Chapter and Verse’

Each question lists the titles of chapters from a famous work of literature and you are required to give the title of the whole work

The 4 chapters in each question are listed in the order in which they occur in the work but are not necessarily consecutive in that work

1.

‘I am born’ – ‘Somebody turns up’ – ‘I corroborate Mr Dick, and choose a profession’ – ‘Agnes’

2.

‘The Ghost at the Window’ – ‘The Death of Mr Earnshaw’ – ‘Isabella Learns Her Fate’ – ‘The Last of the Lintons’

3.

‘In the year 1817’ – ‘Petit Picpus’ – ‘Little Gavroche’ – ‘Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn’

4.

‘How Captain Dobbin bought a piano’ – ‘In which all the principal personages think fit to leave Brighton’ – ‘In which Jos Sedley takes care of his sister’ – ‘Am Rhein’

5.

‘The Eve of the War’ – ‘What I saw of the destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton’ – ‘What we saw from the Ruined House’ – ‘Dead London’

6.

‘The Milkman Sets Out on His Travels’ – ‘The Adventure of the Bald Archaeologist’ – ‘The Coming of the Black Stone’ – ‘Various Parties Converging on the Sea’

7.

‘The Witching Hour’ – ‘Snozzcumbers’ – ‘Frobscottle and Whizzpoppers’ – ‘The Royal Breakfast’

8.

‘The River bank’ – ‘The open road’ – ‘Mr Badger’ – ‘The return of Ulysses’

Sp.

‘The Sound of the Shell’ – ‘Painted Faces and Long Hair’ – ‘Castle Rock’ – ‘Cry of the Hunters’

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ROUND 4 - WithQuiz style - Pairs

1.

Which of Eliot’s Four Quartets is named after a Cambridgeshire village?

2.

Which of Eliot’s Four Quartets does not bear the name of an English location as its title?

3.

In La Ligue, the French football top division, which of the current season’s teams has won the French top division most often?

4.

In Serie A, the Italian football top division, the record for the most individual appearances in league matches is shared between Paolo Maldini, the legendary AC Milan defender and which Juventus player?

5.

The US TV drama series Breaking Bad had a spin-off prequel drama based on a lawyer that appeared in Breaking Bad.  What was this prequel called?

6.

Family patriarch, Logan Roy (played by Brian Cox) is the leading character in which US TV drama?

7.

Which part of the body contains a bone called the astragalus?

8.

Where in the body would you find the oxter?

Sp1

What was the name of the Berlin airport that opened in 1923 and closed in 2008 that was the destination for all the ‘Berlin Airlift’ flights during the Cold War?

Sp2

Which airport was originally established in 1915 as the first RAF base in the UK?

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ROUND 5 - WithQuiz style - Announced theme - ‘Worth the price of admission’

Each answer contains a word that can precede the word ‘worth’ to form another word or phrase

1.

Clove, stone, tod and wey are former measures used to describe quantities of what material?

2.

Jony Ive is a British designer who most famously worked for which US business magnate?

3.

Which Royal Navy Reservist followed Gavin Williamson as Defence Secretary in May 2019?

4.

Which novel published in 1993 is about a 10-year-old boy living in Barrytown, North Dublin?

5.

On 19th July 1821 King George IV’s Coronation was celebrated by children in Manchester leading to an annual tradition still going today. Brass bands were often involved and for many years St Ann’s Square was the focus of the celebrations. In 2019 the celebrations were held on May 27th.  What are the celebrations known as?

6.

After Rhodes and Karpathos which is the third largest of Greece’s Dodecanese islands?

7.

In 1979 pop group Fiddler’s Dram recorded a novelty song that reached No. 3 in the UK charts.  It told of a day’s journey into deepest Wales.  What was the first line of this song by which the hit was commonly known?

8.

In 1733 John Kay invented a device that played a key role in the mechanisation of weaving enabling a single operator to work a loom. What was it?

Sp.

Which work of literature starts with a farmer getting drunk with his friends in a public house in the Scottish town of Ayr?

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ROUND 6 - WithQuiz style - Pot pourri

1.

Which Premiership football club once played at the Goldstone Ground?

2.

Kangaroo Island lies just offshore from which city?

3.

In 1949 who wrote The Second Sex, a tract regarded as a key foundation work for modern feminism?

4.

Which lifelong friend of Vaughan Williams is commemorated by a statue in Cheltenham.  Amongst his works is an orchestral work called Egdon Heath written as a homage to Thomas Hardy?

5.

Which 20th century British circus owner was famous for his Christmas shows at Olympia in West London?

6.

Which company markets a medicinal product with the following ingredients: camphor, menthol, spirits of turpentine, oil of eucalyptus, cedarwood, nutmeg, and thymol?

7.

A neo-Gothic building on Eastcheap close to London Bridge carries a relief decoration showing a boar’s head. It also carries decorations showing the heads of two English monarchs.  Which two?

8.

Billy Cooper is a trumpeter.  With which group of singers has he most often been heard?

Sp.

Which two Premiership football clubs would be playing each other if it appeared that two members of the Holy Trinity were in competition with each other?

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Tiebreakers

1.

In the South Africa v England ‘Timeless’ Cricket Test in Durban in 1939 England had to abandon their 2nd innings run chase with just 5 wickets down in order to catch the boat home.  By that point how many runs had they scored? 

2.

As of the start of the 2019/20 season what is the ground capacity at Accrington’s Crown Ground?

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ROUND 1 - Stockport style - Verbal

1.

Which brass instrument plays the solo part in the theme music to Coronation Street?

Cornet

2.

In which antipodean city is the international cricket ground known as The Manuka Oval?

Canberra

3.

Which famous film star was discovered on a World War One battlefield and went on to feature in a number of Hollywood silent films such as Where the North Begins and Frozen River.  He died aged 14 and was buried back in France, the country of his birth.

Rin Tin Tin

4.

Which European political party was founded in 2009 by Beppe Grillo, a comedian and blogger, and Gianroberto Casaleggio, a web strategist?

5.

In 1816 a French ship was wrecked off the West coast of Africa.  The fate of the survivors of the wreck was the subject of a famous painting.  Name the artist.

Géricault

(the painting was called The Raft of the Medusa)

6.

Which of the UK sea areas mentioned in the daily shipping forecasts is the furthest south?

Trafalgar

7.

Of the fictional Blackadder family depicted in various versions of the TV comedy only one member was not called Edmund.  He was a Victorian moustache-shop owner renowned for his kindness until visited by a spirit after which he was famed for his cruelty.  What was his first name?

Ebenezer

8.

What is the traditional name for someone who makes stringed instruments?

Luthier

9.

In which Scottish town is the Roman Catholic Cathedral for the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles?

Oban

10.

Which is the most populous of the regions of Italy?

Lombardy

11.

On which real city is the fictional city of Christminster that appears in Hardy’s Jude the Obscure based?

Oxford

12.

In 2004 what was the first symbol to be added to the Morse Code since World War I?

13.

Which famous actor died in 2000, just over half a century after he had been seen having a stroke, falling off a weir, being shot, drowned, poisoned and involved in two explosions and an aircrash?

Alec Guinness

(reference to the fate of the characters he played in the film Kind Hearts and Coronets)

14.

Which landlocked country is the only one in the world to share all its borders with other countries that – like it – have a name that ends ‘stan’?

Uzbekistan

15.

What is the relationship between a character mentioned in a 1968 Simon and Garfunkel hit and a character mentioned in a 1974 Elton John hit?

They were husband and wife

(Joe di Maggio in Mrs Robinson and Marilyn Monroe in Candle in the Wind were married to each other)

16.

In France ‘un trombone’ not surprisingly means a trombone – but it has another meaning in French; what is that?

A paperclip

17.

Which antipodean city has an international cricket ground called the Bellerive Oval?

Hobart

18.

What was the name of the Parson Russell Terrier famous for his roles in the films Water for Elephants and The Artist?

Uggie

19.

Which European political party has a name which, when translated into English, means ‘soldiers of destiny’?

Fianna Fail

(in Ireland)

20.

A famous painting set in the Great St Bernard Pass was created by Jacques-Louis David.  What was it called?

Napoleon Crossing the Alps

21.

Which Norwegian municipality gets a mention each day on British Radio at 00.48, 05.20, 12.01 and 17.54?

Utsire

(sea areas North Utsire and South Utsire on the Radio 4 Shipping Forecast)

22.

In the Blackadder the Third TV series the episode called Dish and Dishonesty concerned a by-election for a rotten borough.  What was the name of this rotten borough?

Dunny-on-the-Wold

23.

What is the traditional name for someone who makes the metal parts of a horse’s harness?

Lorimer

24.

The Norse name for the Hebrides (or ‘Southern Isles’ as distinct from Orkney and Shetland which were known as the ‘Northern Isles’) has found its way into a title used in the Church of England. What is this word?

Sodor

(as in the Diocese of Sodor and Man covering the Isle of Man)

25.

Which of the German states is the most populous?

North Rhine-Westphalia

26.

Which popular work of fiction features two place names in its title, one of the places being based on the town of Buckingham, and the other on the Oxfordshire hamlet of Juniper Hill?

Lark Rise to Candleford

(Buckingham = Candleford; Juniper Hill = Lark Rise)

27.

Until 1877 the word ‘Hullo’ had only ever been used to express surprise. Which American is credited with introducing it to general usage as a term of greeting?

Thomas Edison

(who suggested it be used as a way of two people greeting each other at the start of a telephone conversation)

28.

After being put to death on a roadside south of Rome in 1960 which actor went on to star in the List of Adrian Messenger and Seven Days in May amongst many other films?

Kirk Douglas

(reference to the crucifixion of Spartacus in the Stanley Kubrick film)

29.

Of the 7 ‘-stan’ countries which is the smallest in land area?

Tajikistan

30.

“Ba deedily deedily deedily dum, boo boo bee doo!” are the concluding lyrics of a song that featured in which 1959 Oscar winning comedy film?

Some Like It Hot

(the lyrics are from I Wanna Be Loved By You sung by Marilyn Monroe in the film)

ROUND 2 - Stockport style - Written - Hidden theme – The Final Countdown by Europe

QM:

10.

What helped resolve the 18th century border dispute between Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware?

The Mason-Dixon line

9.

The 1914 wartime hit song Keep the Homes Fires Burning was written by David Davies.  By what name did Davies become well-known?

Ivor Novello

8.

What was founded at the end of the 13th century in north western Anatolia by the tribal leader Osman?

Ottoman Empire

7.

Which Kurt Weill song made famous by Frank Sinatra included these lyrics:

“And I have lost one tooth
And I walk a little lame
And I haven't got time
For the waiting game”

September Song

6.

Beno Gutenberg worked at the California Institute of Technology in the 20th century in which specific field of science?  With a colleague he was responsible for developing one of the best-known scientific scales of measurement.

Seismology

(the colleague was Charles Richter and the scale was the Richter scale)

5.

Which 1964 Beach Boys hit includes the line: “'Til her daddy takes the T-bird away”?

Fun, Fun, Fun

4.

Who is currently manager of the French Ligue 1 football team Nice?

Patrick Viera

3.

St Mary’s is the largest of the Isles of Scilly, but which is the second largest?

Tresco

2.

Which 1971 car chase movie starring Dennis Weaver marked the directorial debut of Steven Spielberg?

Duel

1.

Who was an employee of the Swiss Patent Office between 1902 and 1909 whilst producing the work for which he is best-known?

Albert Einstein

(the work being The Special Theory of Relativity)

Sp.

(0)

Which American comic actor created the starring role of Tevye in the original Broadway production of Fiddler on the Roof?

Zero Mostel

Theme: Each answer contains the Spanish, Italian, French or German for a number between 0 and 10 and the numbers are arranged as a countdown ten to zero…

Dix (F), Nove (I), Otto (I), Sept (F), Sei (I), Funf (G), Vier (G), Tres (S), Due (I), Ein (G), Zero (I & F)

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ROUND 3 - WithQuiz style - ‘Chapter and Verse’

Each question lists the titles of chapters from a famous work of literature and you are required to give the title of the whole work

The 4 chapters in each question are listed in the order in which they occur in the work but are not necessarily consecutive in that work

1.

‘I am born’ – ‘Somebody turns up’ – ‘I corroborate Mr Dick, and choose a profession’ – ‘Agnes’

David Copperfield

2.

‘The Ghost at the Window’ – ‘The Death of Mr Earnshaw’ – ‘Isabella Learns Her Fate’ – ‘The Last of the Lintons’

Wuthering Heights

3.

‘In the year 1817’ – ‘Petit Picpus’ – ‘Little Gavroche’ – ‘Supreme Shadow, Supreme Dawn’

Les Misérables

4.

‘How Captain Dobbin bought a piano’ – ‘In which all the principal personages think fit to leave Brighton’ – ‘In which Jos Sedley takes care of his sister’ – ‘Am Rhein’

Vanity Fair

5.

‘The Eve of the War’ – ‘What I saw of the destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton’ – ‘What we saw from the Ruined House’ – ‘Dead London’

The War of the Worlds

6.

‘The Milkman Sets Out on His Travels’ – ‘The Adventure of the Bald Archaeologist’ – ‘The Coming of the Black Stone’ – ‘Various Parties Converging on the Sea’

The 39 Steps

7.

‘The Witching Hour’ – ‘Snozzcumbers’ – ‘Frobscottle and Whizzpoppers’ – ‘The Royal Breakfast’

The BFG

8.

‘The River bank’ – ‘The open road’ – ‘Mr Badger’ – ‘The return of Ulysses’

Wind in the Willows

Sp.

‘The Sound of the Shell’ – ‘Painted Faces and Long Hair’ – ‘Castle Rock’ – ‘Cry of the Hunters’

Lord of the Flies

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ROUND 4 - WithQuiz style - Pairs

1.

Which of Eliot’s Four Quartets is named after a Cambridgeshire village?

Little Gidding

2.

Which of Eliot’s Four Quartets does not bear the name of an English location as its title?

The Dry Salvages

3.

In La Ligue, the French football top division, which of the current season’s teams has won the French top division most often?

Saint-Étienne

4.

In Serie A, the Italian football top division, the record for the most individual appearances in league matches is shared between Paolo Maldini, the legendary AC Milan defender and which Juventus player?

Gianluigi Buffon

(the goalkeeper)

5.

The US TV drama series Breaking Bad had a spin-off prequel drama based on a lawyer that appeared in Breaking Bad.  What was this prequel called?

Better Call Saul

6.

Family patriarch, Logan Roy (played by Brian Cox) is the leading character in which US TV drama?

Succession

7.

Which part of the body contains a bone called the astragalus?

Ankle

(it’s another name for the talus or ankle-bone)

8.

Where in the body would you find the oxter?

Armpit

(it’s an alternative name for the armpit or axilla)

Sp1

What was the name of the Berlin airport that opened in 1923 and closed in 2008 that was the destination for all the ‘Berlin Airlift’ flights during the Cold War?

(Berlin) Tempelhof

Sp2

Which airport was originally established in 1915 as the first RAF base in the UK?

(RAF) Northolt

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ROUND 5 - WithQuiz style - Announced theme – ‘Worth the price of admission’

Each answer contains a word that can precede the word ‘worth’ to form another word or phrase (these words are highlighted in red)

1.

Clove, stone, tod and wey are former measures used to describe quantities of what material?

Wool

2.

Jony Ive is a British designer who most famously worked for which US business magnate?

Steve Jobs

(at Apple)

3.

Which Royal Navy Reservist followed Gavin Williamson as Defence Secretary in May 2019?

Penny Mordaunt

4.

Which novel published in 1993 is about a 10-year-old boy living in Barrytown, North Dublin?

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

5.

On 19th July 1821 King George IV’s Coronation was celebrated by children in Manchester leading to an annual tradition still going today. Brass bands were often involved and for many years St Ann’s Square was the focus of the celebrations. In 2019 the celebrations were held on May 27th.  What are the celebrations known as?

Whit Walks

6.

After Rhodes and Karpathos which is the third largest of Greece’s Dodecanese islands?

Cos

7.

In 1979 pop group Fiddler’s Dram recorded a novelty song that reached No. 3 in the UK charts.  It told of a day’s journey into deepest Wales.  What was the first line of this song by which the hit was commonly known?

“Didn't we have a lovely time the day we went to Bangor”

(the song was called Day Trip to Bangor - Didn't We Have a Lovely Time?)

8.

In 1733 John Kay invented a device that played a key role in the mechanisation of weaving enabling a single operator to work a loom. What was it?

Flying shuttle

Sp.

Which work of literature starts with a farmer getting drunk with his friends in a public house in the Scottish town of Ayr?

Tam O’Shanter

(by Robert Burns)

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ROUND 6 - WithQuiz style - Pot pourri

1.

Which Premiership football club once played at the Goldstone Ground?

Brighton and Hove Albion

2.

Kangaroo Island lies just offshore from which city?

Adelaide

3.

In 1949 who wrote The Second Sex, a tract regarded as a key foundation work for modern feminism?

Simone de Beauvoir

4.

Which lifelong friend of Vaughan Williams is commemorated by a statue in Cheltenham.  Amongst his works is an orchestral work called Egdon Heath written as a homage to Thomas Hardy?

Gustav Holst

5.

Which 20th century British circus owner was famous for his Christmas shows at Olympia in West London?

Bertram Mills

6.

Which company markets a medicinal product with the following ingredients: camphor, menthol, spirits of turpentine, oil of eucalyptus, cedarwood, nutmeg, and thymol?

Vicks

(VapoRub)

7.

A neo-Gothic building on Eastcheap close to London Bridge carries a relief decoration showing a boar’s head. It also carries decorations showing the heads of two English monarchs.  Which two?

Henry IV and Henry V

(based on the Boar’s Head Tavern which appeared in Shakespeare’s historical plays named after those two kings)

8.

Billy Cooper is a trumpeter.  With which group of singers has he most often been heard?

The Barmy Army

(who follow England’s Cricket team)

Sp.

Which two Premiership football clubs would be playing each other if it appeared that two members of the Holy Trinity were in competition with each other?

Manchester City and Wolverhampton Wanderers

(Jesus for City would be up against the Wolves manager, Nuno Espirito Santo)

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Tiebreakers

1.

In the South Africa v England ‘Timeless’ Cricket Test in Durban in 1939 England had to abandon their 2nd innings run chase with just 5 wickets down in order to catch the boat home.  By that point how many runs had they scored? 

654

2.

As of the start of the 2019/20 season what is the ground capacity at Accrington’s Crown Ground?

5450

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