Instant Quiz

10 questions from each category.

Animals

	Question	Answer
1	What is the male bee whose sole function is to mate with the queen	The drone
2	What type of creatures are cetaceans	Whales,dolphins and porpoises
3	Hyraxes, which grow to weigh a maximum of 5kg & and are conies mentioned in the bible, have a shared ancestry with which large mammal	Elepahnt
4	Which curved billed bird is the largest european wader	Curlew
5	Smuck is the collective noun for which marine creature	Jelly fish
6	What is the world's largest mammal	The blue whale
7	Which is the only bird that casn fly backwards	The hummingbird
8	What type of creature is a sidewinder	A snake
9	Which small rodent , highly valued for it's fine , silky fur, lives almost exclusively high in the andes	Chinchilla
10	What does a butterfly use to taste	Its feet

Art & Literature

	Question	Answer
1	Impressionists: who developed a style of seperare small dots of pure colour	Georges seurat
2	Poets: according to t. S elliot which month is the cruellist	April
3	Which stephen king novel is set at the overlook hotel	The shining
4	Dance: who originally choreographed chicago	Bob fosse
5	Which author wrote novels apon which the tv series (all creatures great & small) was based	James herriot
6	Name the famous greek writer of fables	Aesop
7	Dance: what was unusual about adventures in motion pictures version of swan lake	All male cast of swans
8	What is tthe ballet term for spinning on one foot	A piroutte
9	Which writer, archaeologist & soldier joined the raf after the first world war & changed his name to shaw in 1927	T e lawrence
10	Agatha christie: what was hercule poirot's brother called	Achille

Blockbusters

	Question	Answer
1	What 'bb' is the sinister watcher of george orwells 1984	Big brother
2	What 'e' was a nineteenth-century socialist leader who worked with marx	Engels
3	What 'o' means erstwhile, former	Quondam
4	What 'mil' is the person reggie perrin always thought of as a hippopotamus	Mother in law
5	What 'r' is an exhibition of riding skills	Rodeo
6	What 'l' is an irish elf	Leprechaun
7	What 's' is a yorkshire coalfield	Selby
8	What 'p' is the industry with unions called natsopa and sogat	Printing
9	What 'p' was the name given to english 19th century colonists who grew rubber, tea, cotton, coffe and sugar	Planters
10	What 'j' means to expose to danger	Jeopardise

Entertainment

	Question	Answer
1	Winston groom wrote the book and tom hanks starred in the film that came from the book what was it's title	Forrest gump
2	Fawlty towers: what are the 4 ingredients of a waldorf salad	Apple, celery, walnuts, grapes
3	Films of books: which edith wharton novel has been filmed three times most recently by martin scorsese in 1993	The age of innocence
4	In which tv series might you have heard the phrase (book em danno)	Hawaii 5-0
5	Nostalgia: on what part of you body were deely bobbers worn	Your head
6	In the smash hit tv show crackerjack what did all the contestants leave with	Crackerjack pencil
7	Movie taglines: 'if nancy doesn't wake up screaming, she won't wake up at all... '	A nightmare on elm street (1984)
8	Nostalgia: who were the cavemen in wacky races	The boulder brothers
9	In the film factory girl starring sienna miller, which artist did guy pearce play	Andy warhol
10	Movie characters: which series of movies follows the rather eventful life of 'ethan hunt'	Mission impossible

Food & Drink

	Question	Answer
1	What are dried plums called	Prunes
2	What is the main flavour in the following alcohols 'curacao'	Orange
3	The turkish dish of small pieces of meat and vegetables cooked on a skewer	Shish kebab
4	From which fruit is grenadine obtained	Pomegranate
5	Laetrile is associated with the pit of which fruit	Apricot
6	I belong to the same family as the potato, and more of me are canned than any other fruit or vegetable. What am i	Tomato
7	Wine vinegar, egg white and what other ingredient goes into making hollandaise sauce	Butter
8	Who released the following 'edible' album 'the spaghetti incident'	Guns & roses
9	Taramasalata is made from the roe of which fish	Cod or grey mullet
10	Which sweet treat is often found at the ambassador's parties	Ferrero rocher

General Knowledge

	Question	Answer
1	Which actor played boxer rubin 'hurricane' carter in the 1999 film the hurricane	Denzel washington
2	The flower of which tree is called may blossom	Hawthorn
3	Which car manufacturer makes a model called the camargue	Rolls royce
4	In 1955 who became the last woman to be executed by hanging in britain	Ruth ellis
5	Who admitted to adultery in a 1995 interview with jonathan dimbleby	Prince charles
6	Which state in america is the biggest oil producer	Alaska
7	What is the 3rd largest selling soft drink in the uk (2008)	Lucozade
8	How many children did winston churchill (british prime minister) have	Four (diana, randolph, sarah, marigold)
9	From which fruit is the spirit kirsch made	Cherries
10	What is the last letter of the greek alphabet	Omega

Geography

	Question	Answer
1	Mountains: which mountain in the swiss alps is featured in a clint eastwood film	The eiger
2	What's the largest museum in the world	The louvre
3	Australia: how many time zones are there within australia	Three
4	Capitals: who was the last person to be imprisoned in the palace of westminster in 1902	Emmeline pankhurst
5	What's the capital of zimbabwe	Harare
6	Apart from water, what runs through the mouth of the river amazon and lake victoria	The equator
7	London: who founded the london library	Thomas carlyle (waited 2 hours book)
8	Ireland: which town was captured by the spaniards but retaken by the english in 1601	Kinsale
9	Africa: adopted as a national emblem what species of gazelle is found in the southern drylands	The springbok
10	Australia: which penal settlement was home to 12,500 convicts & connected to tasmania by a strip land known as eaglehawk neck	Port arthur

History

	Question	Answer
1	Dates: when did einstein first publish his theory of relativity	1905
2	Natural history: what is the main difference between a monkey and an ape	Monkeys have tails
3	1980s: milos forman is one of the elite few to have won two best director oscars. In 1975 he recieved an oscar for one flew over the cukoos nest. For which opulent film did he recieve the oscar in 1984	Amadeus
4	British monarchs: what relation was george iii to george ii	Grandson
5	For which european country did mozambique declare independence in 1975	Portugal
6	How many colonies signed the american declaration of independence	13 colonies
7	The french revolution: which prestigous decoration was created towards the end of the revolutionary period	The legion d'honneur
8	2000s: which singer released her debut album in 2004 entitled 'unwritten''	Natasha bedingfield
9	1950s: in 1952. 'elizabeth becomes queen'. Who was her late father	George vi
10	1980s: what was the first video mtv played	Video killed the radio star

Music

	Question	Answer
1	Which group has an exclusive range of clothing available through the k-9 club	East 17
2	Instrumental band b bumble & the stingers had a no. 1 hit in 1960 with a single based on a tchaikovsky tune what was the song	Nut rocker
3	The single 'respect yourself'' was released in the 1990's by which die hard music lover	Bruce willis
4	What was norwegian band aha's first album called	Hunting high and low
5	Which dire straits album features the song 'walk of life' and 'money for nothing'	Brothers in arms
6	Glen miller received the first ever golden record award, for which single	Chattanooga choo choo
7	Which artists recorded the album the original soundtrack	10cc
8	From the 1970's which song and artist 'you're a rhapsody, a comedy, you're a symphony and a play. You're every love song ever written, but honey what do you see in me''	Rod stewart / you're in my heart
9	Which was the first beatles album to consist entirely of original material	A hard days night
10	The lovin spoonful were cats from which town in 1967	Nashville

Science & Nature

	Question	Answer
1	Which organ of the body has the aorta	Heart
2	How do procumbent plants grow	They spread overground
3	Occuring twice yearly what name is given 2 a day that consists of 12 hours of daylight & 12 hours of darkness	Equinox
4	What name is given to the diagram in which sets are represented by circles	Venn diagram
5	In which desert does the wind known as the sirocco originate	The sahara
6	What fruit is considered to be the most nutritious	Avocado
7	What nationality was anders celcius who devised the centigrade scale of temperature measurement	Swedish
8	In the 19th century who was the railway king	The financier george hudson
9	What type of glass darkens when exposed to light	Photochromic
10	What is the unit used to measure supersonic speed	Mach

Sports & Leisure

	Question	Answer
1	Who won back to back world snooker championships in the 1980's	Steve davies
2	Which football club's badge depicts a golden lion on a claret and blue background	Aston villa
3	Who was the last briton to win the wimbledon singles title before virgina wade in 1977	Anne jones (1969)
4	Which football team plays at pride park	Derby county
5	Which country did australia not play against between 1946-1973	New zealand
6	Lincoln, east end, manchester & london are all types of what piece of sporting equipment	Dartboards
7	What is the minimum rest period between two games for any team at the 2006 world cup according to fifa competition rules	48 hours
8	Which team scored the most goals in an fa cup game	Preston
9	In which sport might you start from pole position	Motor racing
10	Which english striker scored 4 goals in two games during euro 2004 against croatia & switzerland	Wayne rooney

Tie Breaks

	Question	Answer
1	Fred a goldfish from surrey is the oldest goldfish on record how old was fred when he died	41
2	Number of permutations of the band wings	6
3	How long did 'release me' by engelbert humperdink stay in the uk charts	56
4	How many professional fights did muhammad ali/ cassius clay have	61
5	In what year was 'mary poppins' written	1934
6	Canadian tattoo artist arnold spencer the 3 rd holds the record for the most tatttoo's on a human body but how many does he have	4831
7	How many times is the `f-word` used in the film `goodfellas`	246
8	The first set of rules for the sport of boxing, the london prize ring rules, were introduced in which year	1643
9	The first ever tv episode of 'heartbeat' was screened in which year	10th april / 1992
10	Tony mattia of brighton,has the largest collection of barbie dolls on record how many barbies were in that collection	1125

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