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Brain of London 2006

Brain of London

Qualifying

The qualifying competition took place on the evening of Tuesday 28 February 2006. Qualifiers plus the last 8 from 2005 proceed to the Preliminaries on Tuesday 28 March where the four finalists are decided to play for the trophy on Tuesday 25 April.

PosNameTeamPre/TotalStatus
-Kevin AshmanAllsortsWP
-Roger BennettPriory NomadsFP
-Mike BillsonRising SonsFP
-Robert WillerAtleticoFP
-Sean CareyBroken HeartsSP
-Gavin FullerAllsortsSP
-John McDonnellBread & RosesSP
-Stuart SolomonsAtleticoSP
1Kathryn JohnsonBroken Hearts34Q
2Ian BayleyBroken Hearts33Q
3Mark BythewayGuest33Q
4Mick LancasterBelly32Q
5Jesse HoneyBroken Hearts32Q
6Donald YuleBarbican31Q
7Olav BjortomtBroken Hearts31Q
8Brian WrightAtletico31Q
9Phil SmithAtletico30Q
10David StainerBroken Hearts29Q
11Roger MortimoreGuest29Q
12Andrew FrazerPriory Nomads28Q
13Peter EdissUncosy27Q
14Paul SteeplesAnimals26Q
15David LeaAnimals25Q
16Thomas DineenAldersgate24Q
17Larry WhitehurstChester Army24Q
18Howard PizzeyTelstars24Q
19Rudy NoriegaGuest24Q
20John GrantChester Army24Q
21Mike AbbottGuest23Q
22William De AthAtletico23Q
23Bob JonesWaterloo Sunset22Q
24Brian WilkinsGuest22Q
25Tony SherwoodOvalytes22R
26Will JonesUncosy21R
27Ray WardWaterloo Sunset21R
28Adrian FieldChester Army21R
29Barry ScottBread & Roses21N
30Tony AllenAldersgate21N
31Jeremy EdgeChester Army20N
32Andy CraneRosslyn Park20N
33Roger RobinsonBarbican19N
34Roger BarnesAtletico18N
35Richard JonesPriory Nomads18N
36Josh MandelAnimals18N
37Patrick HurleyOvalytes18N
38Bill StrattonTelstars18N
39David ShenkinGuest17N
40Annie PikeBread & Roses17N
41Bob BuntingTelstars17N
42Ken EmondAllsorts17N
43Phil EvisonRosslyn Park16N
44Martin JamesBelly16N
45Mike PrattPriory Nomads15N
46James CollenetteAccrington Cylindricals14N
47Russ GouldAllsorts14N
48Peter JohansenBelly13N
49Mark CooperUncosy13N
50Tony JennerWaterloo Sunset12N
51Richard EdwardsAllsorts12N
52Sunil RaoUncosy12N
53Steve GreyOvalytes11N
54Jan SmithAtletico8N
55Matt WhitworthOvalytes5N
56Siddhanth SinharayGuest2N

Key (Columns)

  • W - Winner
  • F - Finalist
  • S - Semi-finalist
  • P - Pre-qualified
  • Q - Qualifiers
  • R - Reserves
  • N - Non-qualifiers

Questions

  1. The Moorgate disaster on the London Underground occurred on 28 February of which year?
  2. Known to the French as Aix-la-Chapelle, what, alphabetically, is the first city in Europe?
  3. How are hollow pasta quills, cut diagonally into short tubes, known?
  4. Who is the current Anglican Bishop of London?
  5. In terms of population, which is the largest state capital in the USA?
  6. IG Metall is the largest trade union in which country?
  7. Which brewery, based in Blackburn, sponsored Andrew Flintoff during the 2005 cricket season?
  8. Which group had their only chart topper in the British singles charts with “Son of my Father” in 1972?
  9. Which member of the Deer family has the scientific name Dama Dama?
  10. In which opera are the characters Gilda and the Duke of Mantua?
  11. Who is the heroine of the novel “Mansfield Park”?
  12. Rafflesia, the world’s largest single flower, has which characteristic odour?
  13. Jordanian vehicles bear the international registration HKJ. What does the “H” stand for?
  14. What is the name for the Japanese art of flower arranging?
  15. What is the capital of the Central African Republic?
  16. Which is the only team to have won the European Cup/Champions League more times than its own domestic league?
  17. Education secretary Ruth Kelly is one of three Labour MPs representing which northern town?
  18. Which Booker Prize winning author is the sister of Margaret Drabble?
  19. A large specimen of which fish of the genus Latimeria, previously thought to be extinct, was discovered off the coast of east Africa in 1938?
  20. Which well-known comedian was a member of the folk group “The Humblebums” alongside Gerry Rafferty?
  21. In which London borough is Waterloo Station?
  22. Who painted the altarpiece “The Garden of Earthly Delights”, which can be seen in the Prado, Madrid?
  23. Which Oscar winning director was a scriptwriter on “Grange Hill” in the 1980s?
  24. What does the musical term “con brio” mean?
  25. The blood of which Saint, whose body is preserved in Naples Cathedral, is said to liquefy at various times through the year?
  26. Danny, Toots and Smiffy are members of which comic “gang”?
  27. Born Margaret Lake in Accrington, by what name is the woman who shot to TV fame in 1994 better known?
  28. Who was the Secretary of the Communist party of Great Britain from 1929 to 1956?
  29. What is the name of the MGM lion?
  30. Which football League team plays home matches at Liberty Stadium?
  31. Notably borne by a golfing great, a 1990s England footballer and a rock drummer, which surname indicates that an ancestor had been a pilgrim to the Holy Land?
  32. Name the product advertised by a fictional character named Barry Scott?
  33. Which element has a name derived from the German name for “troll”?
  34. The largest naval battle in history took place between 23-26 October 1944 - where?
  35. Which x-ray crystallographer, whose work was crucial to the discovery of the structure of DNA, died of ovarian cancer on 16 April 1958?
  36. What is the English title of the Salvador Dali picture depicting limp watches hanging from tree branches?
  37. What is the principal ingredient of marzipan?
  38. Which ship sank after colliding with HMS Camperdown in June 1893 with the losss of 358 men?
  39. The Kessock (suspension) bridge bears the A9 south into which city?
  40. Africa’s first democratically elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, holds the presidency of which country?
  41. What is the name of the house in which the Cluedo murders take place?
  42. Lecturer Howard Kirk is the central figure in which novel by Malcolm Bradbury?
  43. Which English comedian formed a double act with his cousin Ben Warriss?
  44. What name is shared by a white “whale” (actually a dolphin) and a kind of sturgeon?
  45. What pseudonym was used by Ronnie Barker when writing sketches for “The Two Ronnies”?
  46. Which woman was the BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 1963?
  47. Born in France, who died in the arms of Jean Harlow at the age of thirteen?
  48. Who was the last pagan Roman Emperor?
  49. Bearing the name of a minor prophet, which is the last book of the Old Testament?
  50. Which famous English novel closes: “He drew a deep breath. ‘Well, I’m back,’ he said.”?

Tie-breaker: The north-western peak of Mount Rysy, in the High Tatra mountains, is the highest point in Poland. What is its height, in metres?


Answers

  1. 1975
  2. AACHEN
  3. PENNE
  4. (Richard) CHARTRES
  5. PHOENIX, Arizona
  6. GERMANY
  7. THWAITES
  8. CHICORY TIP
  9. FALLOW Deer
  10. RIGOLETTO
  11. FANNY PRICE
  12. ROTTING MEAT
  13. HASHEMITE
  14. IKEBANA
  15. BANGUI
  16. NOTTINGHAM FOREST
  17. BOLTON
  18. A S BYATT
  19. COELACANTH
  20. Billy CONNOLLY
  21. LAMBETH
  22. Hieronymus BOSCH
  23. Anthony MINGHELLA
  24. WITH VIGOUR AND SPIRIT
  25. St. JANUARIUS
  26. BASH STREET KIDS
  27. MYSTIC MEG
  28. Harry POLLITT
  29. LEO
  30. SWANSEA CITY
  31. PALMER
  32. CILLIT BANG
  33. COBALT
  34. LEYTE GULF
  35. Rosalind FRANKLIN
  36. THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY
  37. ALMONDS
  38. HMS VICTORIA
  39. INVERNESS
  40. LIBERIA
  41. TUDOR GRANGE
  42. THE HISTORY MAN
  43. Jimmy JEWELL
  44. BELUGA
  45. Gerald WILEY
  46. Dorothy HYMAN
  47. RIN TIN TIN
  48. JULIAN (the Apostate)
  49. MALACHI
  50. THE LORD OF THE RINGS

Tie-breaker: 2499

Preliminaries

StageSeatNamePoints
Round 11Larry Whitehurst (Chester Army)13
Round 12Stuart Solomons (Atletico)14
Round 13Phil Smith (Atletico)10
Round 14Mike Abbott (Guest)10
Round 11Peter Ediss (Uncosy)14
Round 12Howard Pizzey (Telstars)13
Round 13William De Ath (Atletico)5
Round 14Kevin Ashman (Allsorts)22
Round 11Mike Billson (Rising Sons)17
Round 12Brian Wright (Atletico)11
Round 13Gavin Fuller (Allsorts)13
Round 14John McDonnell (Bread & Roses)8
Round 11Bob Jones (Waterloo Sunset)13
Round 12Ian Bayley (Broken Hearts)15
Round 13Olav Bjortomt (Broken Hearts)10
Round 14Andrew Frazer (Priory Nomads)13
Round 11Rudy Noriega (Guest)12
Round 12Donald Yule (Barbican)12
Round 13Brian Wilkins (Guest)12
Round 14John Grant (Chester Army)12
Round 11Roger Mortimore (Guest)14
Round 12Roger Bennett (Priory Nomads)13
Round 13Paul Steeples (Animals)11
Round 14Mark Bytheway (Guest)12
Round 11Robert Willer (Atletico)16
Round 12Mick Lancaster (Belly)17
Round 13David Lea (Animals)7
Round 14Sean Carey (Broken Hearts)13
Round 11Kathryn Johnson (Broken Hearts)10
Round 12David Stainer (Broken Hearts)11
Round 13Thomas Dineen (Aldersgate)13
Round 14Jesse Honey (Broken Hearts)16
Round 21Thomas Dineen (Aldersgate)11
Round 22Mike Billson (Rising Sons)12
Round 23Kevin Ashman (Allsorts)17
Round 24Mick Lancaster (Belly)10
Round 21Robert Willer (Atletico)10
Round 22Roger Bennett (Priory Nomads)16
Round 23Ian Bayley (Broken Hearts)15
Round 24Peter Ediss (Uncosy)7
Round 21Roger Mortimore (Guest)7
Round 22Gavin Fuller (Allsorts)9
Round 23Jesse Honey (Broken Hearts)14
Round 24Donald Yule (Barbican)11
Round 21Larry Whitehurst (Chester Army)9
Round 22Andrew Frazer (Priory Nomads)13
Round 23Rudy Noriega (Guest)8
Round 24Stuart Solomons (Atletico)6
Semi-Final1Andrew Frazer (Priory Nomads)12
Semi-Final2Larry Whitehurst (Chester Army)9
Semi-Final3Jesse Honey (Broken Hearts)12
Semi-Final4Ian Bayley (Broken Hearts)19
Semi-Final1Kevin Ashman (Allsorts)19
Semi-Final2Roger Bennett (Priory Nomads)11
Semi-Final3Donald Yule (Barbican)11
Semi-Final4Mike Billson (Rising Sons)12

Final

StageSeatNamePoints
Final1Kevin Ashman (Allsorts)14
Final2Ian Bayley (Broken Hearts)13
Final3Mike Billson (Rising Sons)4
Final4Jesse Honey (Broken Hearts)7
WinnerKevin Ashman (Allsorts)
PosTablePWDLAvgBPts
1West London870147.50533
2North London850346.13121
3Outer London840441.25218
4Central London831444.13317
5South London821536.50010
6East London820637.0008
PosDivision 1PWDLAvgBPts
1Broken Hearts (C)20171252.901484
2Pericardium20162250.95977
3Nomads20142450.151272
4Atletico20131647.85862
5Allsorts20121747.35454
6Old Itonians20102845.55953
7Telstars20801242.00537
8Barb20511438.70527
9Pineapple20411537.65422
10Waterloo
Sunset
20301737.40113
11Five Bells20211738.10111
PosDivision 2PWDLAvgBPts
1Gray Monks (W)20170348.75977
2Banana Splits20152343.65367
3Rosslyn Park20130739.85557
4Eclectics20121740.80454
5Accies20120838.25351
6Sons of the
Dessert
20101939.40648
7Mealy Bugs20901139.10440
8Ovalytes20811138.20438
9Outcasts20511434.05729
10Wharfside20221629.70214
11London
Scottish
20301729.90113
PosTablePWDL2sPts
1Sussex1080211716
2Mastermind Club1051412211
3Oxford105148111
4London104061038
5Beds & Herts10406948
6Cambridge10307896