As you’d expect the questions in the national final are a bit tougher than those set in the heats so in some cases we’ve given some extra clues. Answers below.

• 1. Just before his death in 2003, who responded to an interviewer’s question: “Who wore the trousers at home?” with “I do. I wear the trousers. And I wash and iron them too”? (He had a very forceful wife with an iron will!)
   
• 2. In 2007 it was in Helsinki, in 2008 in Belgrade and in 2009 in Moscow. Where (in Scandinavia) will it be in 2010?
   
• 3. Which was the last team to win the FA Cup in successive seasons (in 2002 and 2003)?
   
• 4. Which scientist is credited with inventing the cat flap (to stop his cat letting light into his attic while he studied the planets to apply his laws of motion)?
   
• 5. In which (water-based) Olympic sport do men play with bigger balls?
   
• 6. In which television cartoon, beginning with the letter D,  did the characters Muskie the muskrat, Pig Newton and Vincent Van Gopher all appear?
   
• 7. In which film, beginning with the letter E, did Michael Caine actually come out with the line "Now there's not many people know that"?
   
• 8. In The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Slartibartfast won an award for his design of the coastline of which (Scandinavian) country?
   
• 9. Which footballer appeared for Watford in the 1984 FA Cup Final, currently manages Millwall and shares his surname with an item of clothing?
   
• 10. August’s Club Journal reported that Fairport Convention were being supported by the artiste now known as Yusuf. By what name is he better known (after having several hits in the 60s and 70s)?

Answers: 1.  Denis Thatcher; 2.  Oslo (Eurovision Song Contest); 3. Arsenal; 4. Sir Isaac Newton (he had his blind spots like many geniuses. He cut a load of extra small
holes in his door when the cat had kittens!) 5. Water polo; 6. Deputy Dawg; 7. Educating Rita; 8. Norway; 9. Kenny Jackett 10. Cat  Stevens.

The ten most common pub names (according to a CAMRA survey in 2007) are:
1. CROWN    (704)
2. RED LION    (668)
3. ROYAL OAK    (541)
4. SWAN     (451)
5. WHITE HART   (431)
6. RAILWAY    (420)
7. PLOUGH    (413)
8. WHITE HORSE   (379)
9. BELL     (378)
10. NEW INN    (372)

And finally, the guaranteed UFO detector sold for $135.10 and there are 26 words in Albanian to describe a moustache.

Quiz Questions - 2009