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Animals

	Question	Answer
1	What is the worlds largest mammal	Blue whale
2	Which bird is renowned for taking over the nests of other species	Cuckoo
3	What creatures were frequently used to bleed patients in the nineteeth century	Leeches
4	Which is the second heaviest land animal	The hippopotamus
5	What type of animal is pulex irritans	Flea
6	What name is given to a creature equally at home on land and in water	Amphibian
7	Where do birds of paradise come from	New guinea
8	Which creature had a short nose horn & two larger horns on the brow	Triceratops
9	Which rodent has given it's name to a mean spirited or bad tempered woman	Shrew
10	Name the only monkey living in freedom in europe	Barbary ape, gibraltor

Art & Literature

	Question	Answer
1	Dance: who choreographed west side story	Jerome robbins
2	Poets: which trinadadian poet won the nobel prize for literature in 1992	Derek walton
3	Which novel was originally going to be titled elinor and marianne	Sense and sensibility
4	How old was adrian mole when he began writing his secret diary	13 & three quarters
5	What was the only novel to be written by margaret mitchell	Gone with the wind
6	Who wrote the novel lady chatterly's lover	Dh lawrence
7	Which word created by jk rowling gained entry into the oxford english dictionary in 2003	Muggle
8	What is the fourth book in the harry potter series	The goblet of fire
9	In which book which is also a film has the characters pod, arrietty, homily & peagreen	The borrowers
10	American writers: what was erica jongs first novel, published in 1973	Fear of flying

Blockbusters

	Question	Answer
1	What 'a' is your signature	Autograph
2	What 'g' could be seen and heard at the start of films made by the rank organisation	Gong
3	What 'wb' is the footwear named after sir arthur wellesley	Wellington boot
4	What 'f' is a brimless hat named after a town in morocco	Fez
5	What 'c' comes before stick, wick and light	Candle
6	What 'it' would you find inside a bicycle tyre	Inner tube
7	What 'ahal' means very cheerful	As happy as larry
8	What 'p' were voted the best new musical group of 1988	Pasadenas
9	What 'yay' is a basis of chinese philosophy	Yin and yang
10	What 'k' was a german-speaking, czech-born writer	Kafka

Entertainment

	Question	Answer
1	Movie one liners: well, thank you, harvey. I prefer you, too. '	Harvey (1950)
2	On tv how are (daphne, cj, chris, kevin & judith) collectively known	Eggheads
3	Movie taglines: 'where do you go when the record is over... '	Saturday night fever (1977)
4	Debuts: whose first play appeared in a double bill with t. S eliot's sweeney agonistes	W h auden (the dance of death)
5	Buffy: why was buffy kicked out of her previous school	She burnt down the gym
6	In 1955 who was the first ever presenter of crackerjack	Eamonn andrews
7	In which film does bruce willis have to stop an asteroid on collision course with earth	Armageddon
8	Which musical features the song (the rain in spain)	My fair lady
9	Which late actor played the joker in the 2008 movie 'the dark knight''	Heath ledger
10	Nostalgia: what type of animal was dill	A dog

Food & Drink

	Question	Answer
1	Saffron comes from the stamen of which flower	Crocus
2	From which nut is marzipan derived	Almonds
3	What is the fruit flavour of cointreau	Orange
4	In monty pythons the meaning of life what was mr. Creosote's very last course	A wafer thin mint
5	What french word is used for the water ice often served between courses to refresh the palette	Sorbet
6	Which fish is smoked and cured and called 'finnan'	Haddock
7	By what is the seasoned jellied loaf made from the head of a pig generally known	Brawn
8	The stomach of a cow or sheep is known as what	Tripe
9	For which occasion was vichyssoise soup created	The opening of the roof garden at the old ritz carlton hotel, new york city
10	What is the main ingredient of the korean soup bosintang	Dog

General Knowledge

	Question	Answer
1	Which london bridge connects st paul's cathedral and the tate modern	The millennium bridge
2	What is particularly unusual about the railway station in dartmouth, devon	The planned railway line was never built so no train has ever arrived there
3	Which king did guy fawkes attempt to kill with his gunpowder plot	James i
4	Which musician links the rolling stones, the jeff beck group and the faces	Ron wood
5	With regard to banks what do the initials tessa stand for	Tax exempt special savings account
6	Which conflict lasted between 1337 and 1553	Hundred years war
7	The name of which popular spirit is also a machine for seperating cotton from it's seeds	Gin
8	St pierre, the capital of martinique in the west indies was completely wiped out in 1902 what caused this catastrophie	Volcanic eruption
9	True or false: the grapefruit got it's name because it grows in clusters on a tree(like grapes)	True
10	What colour comes after red in the rainbow	Orange

Geography

	Question	Answer
1	Which is the largest freshwater lake	Lake superior
2	Ireland: which irish word meaning 'chief' is used for the irish prime minister	The taoiseach
3	Who accidently sailed around the cape of good hope in 1488	Bartolomeu dias
4	In which country is the great victoria desert	Australia
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	On which side of the road do they drive in india	The left
8	Mountains: in which american state are the adirondack mountains	New york
9	To the nearest 100 million years how old is the earth	4,540 million years
10	Which motorway connects london with cardiff	The m4

History

	Question	Answer
1	Henry viii: when catherine howard was executed she was the wife of a king but who did she say she wished she was wife to	Thomas seymour/culpepper
2	1990s: which world famous musician died on 1 december 1997	Stephane grappelli
3	Famous battles: after the usa which country provided the most troops to fight iraq in the gulf war in 1991	Saudi arabia
4	Firsts: when was the first national lottery draw held in britain	19th november 1994
5	To what was byzantium renamed in 330 ad	Constantinople
6	Famous battles: at which famous sea battle did the americans defeat the japanese in 1942 despite their ships being out numbered 3 to 1	The battle of midway
7	1970s: nanny, sandra rivett was the victim of which infamous murderer	Lord lucan
8	1990s: which movie released in 1994 was the first animated disney feature not based on an existing story	The lion king
9	1970s: elvis presley died on august 16th 1977 but where exactly was he when he died	On the toilet
10	In which year was joan of arc burned at the stake	1431

Music

	Question	Answer
1	Who played guitar on the michael jackson song give in to me	Slash (guns and roses)
2	How are jake shears, baby daddy, ana matronic, del maquis & paddy boom better known	Scissor sisters
3	Which entertainer was born pricilla white	Cilla black
4	Which of the gold diggers movies contains the song 'we're in the money'	Gold diggers of 1933
5	Which member of the police starred in the film quadrophenia	Sting
6	Why does gene kelly suddenly stop in the singing in the rain routine	He notices the policeman
7	The rolling stones first single 'come on' was a cover of a b side by a famous us rock n roller name him	Chuck berry
8	What is paul mccartney's real first name	James
9	On the song 'dear prudence', who's prudence	Mia farrow's sister
10	What 80's band included members from bad company and led zeppelin	The firm

Science & Nature

	Question	Answer
1	What is hansen's disease better known as	Leprosy
2	The 2 stars to the right of the plough in the constellation of ursa major are called the pointers to what do they point	Polaris the pole star
3	What do the initals a. I. D. S. Stand for	Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
4	What name is given to the diagram in which sets are represented by circles	Venn diagram
5	What do we call a 3d picture created by lasers	Hologram
6	Which element has the chemical symbol k	Potassium
7	Scrivanous palsey is otherwise known as what	Writers cramp
8	How many days will it be before a clock, losing 30 minutes a day shows the right time again	Twenty four
9	What does an apiarist keep	Bees
10	What is an otoscope used to look at	The ear

Sports & Leisure

	Question	Answer
1	What type of rock is used to make curling stones	Granite
2	Who captained the england football team on 65 occasions between 1982-1991	Bryan robson
3	Who bought gazza for 5 million	Lazio
4	How many gold medals did britain win in the sydney olympics	Eleven
5	Which is the only one of the majors to be staged at the same course every year	Us masters, augusta
6	Which modern gymnastics event made its first appearance at the 2000 sydney olympics	Trampolining
7	Who were the only 2 players to score for england in the 1986 football world cup finals (pfe)	Gary lineker & peter beardsley
8	At london 2012 who partnered andy murray in the mixed doubles	Laura robson
9	When was the last game at wembley before the refurb	2000
10	Who did duncan mckensie play for	Leeds

Tie Breaks

	Question	Answer
1	Worlds fastest roller coaster is the 'kingda ka' in new jersey at its highest point 456ft but what's its maximum speed	128 mph
2	Number of years that beatlemania toured the united states	5
3	In which year was the worlds first mcdonalds opened	1954
4	The sunday times is credited as publishing the first ever crossword puzzle in what year	1924 (nov)
5	What age was the youngest person to ever have a full set of dentures	4 years 301 days
6	How many freckles did howdy doody have	48
7	How many emeralds make up the crown jewles	11
8	How many times a day does the human heart beat	100000
9	In which year was the chubb lock invented	1818
10	What was william hagues consituency majority at the 1997 general election	10051

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