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10 questions from each category.

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Animals

	Question	Answer
1	Apart from humans there is only one other creature that has sex for pleasure can you name it	Dolphin
2	Which flightless bird from mauritus is now extinct	The dodo
3	What does a butterfly use to taste	Its feet
4	The echidna, or spiny anteater , & the duck billed platypus shares a characteristic which does not apply to any other mammal what is it	They lay eggs
5	Which mammal fires a mixture of methane, butane and sulphur from its scent glands	The skunk
6	Which bird has the best sense of smell	Kiwi
7	Featured in the film jurassic park, which creatures name means 'quick plunderer'	Velociraptor
8	Native to america , what type of bird are lewis's red bellied , ladder-backed & nuttall's	Woodpeckers
9	Owing to the sound it makes, what is the alternative name for the australian bird the kookaburra	The laughing jackass
10	What type of creature is a sidewinder	A snake

Art & Literature

	Question	Answer
1	How is jack dawkins otherwise known as in a dickens novel	Artful dodger
2	Who painted the creation of adam	Michelangelo
3	Which gallery has exhibitions in london & st ives, cornwall	The tate gallery
4	What is the fourth book in the harry potter series	The goblet of fire
5	Who painted the blue boy	Gainsborough
6	Which tavern was the favourite haunt of falstaff in shakespear's henry iv	The boar's head
7	In swifts gullivers travels what is gullivers profession	Surgeon
8	Dance: when judy garland dropped out which film gave ginger rogers the chance to star with fred astaire one last time	The barkleys of broadway
9	Who was william shakespear's wife	Anne hathaway
10	Dance: which child stars father starred in the nutcracker in the 1950's alongside bonnie bedelia	Macaulay culkins father

Blockbusters

	Question	Answer
1	What 'r' is to repay an attack or insult in kind	Retaliate
2	What 'c' is coconut fibre used to make matting	Coir
3	What 'og' is the name used by some americans for the us flag	Old glory
4	What 'g' has the quetzal as it's currency	Guatemala
5	What 'h' is to worry by repeated attacks	Harass
6	What 'ttpoe' is described as - the first was the rivers turning to blood and the last the death of the first born. There were eight in between. How are they collectively known	The ten plagues of egypt
7	What 's' is a group of hotel rooms a set of furniture or a musical composition	Suite
8	What 'ttbb' precedes 'in the forests of the night' in a poem by william blake	Tiger tiger burning bright
9	What 'kf' is a chinese martial art	Kung fu
10	What 'em' was how joseph merrick was known to victorian society	Elephant man

Entertainment

	Question	Answer
1	Movie one liners: i think we oughta leave now. ' 'that's probably a good idea. '	Pulp fiction (1994)
2	Kevin federline is romanticly linked to which famous entertainer	Britney spears
3	Whho used to say, (just like that	Tommy cooper
4	Movie one liners: broadways nothing compared to children, toughest audience in the world	Three men & a little lady
5	What was the name of arthur daley's local in the tv show minder	The winchester club
6	Movie one liners: friends then. '	Saturday night fever (1977)
7	Family guy: you know what time it is	It's time for a sexy party
8	What was the name of the three singer/dancers on the show rainbow	Rod, jane & freddie
9	Tony curtis reportedly said of which actress that kissing her was like kissing hitler	Marilyn monroe
10	Advertising slogans: 'where do you want to go today''	Microsoft

Food & Drink

	Question	Answer
1	Where did worcester sauce originate from	India
2	How would you say 'house wine' in 'italian'	Vino della casa
3	Whiskey, hot coffee, and whipped cream make up which type of drink	Irish coffee
4	Who released the following 'edible' album 'burnt weeny sandwich'	Frank zappa
5	Which beer sponsors a pre-wimbledon tennis tournament	Stella artois
6	What gives pasta its green colour	Spinach
7	Which drink is served in a schooner	Sherry
8	What is the italian name for squid in a restaurant	Calamari
9	What are sometimes called chinese gooseberries'	Kiwi fruit
10	How big is a jeroboam compared to a normal size bottle	4 times

General Knowledge

	Question	Answer
1	Complete the title of this arthur miller play, death of a... What	Salesman
2	True or false: more people are allergic to cows milk than any other food	True
3	Advertising, who invented the ball point pen	Laszlo biro
4	True or false: couples who marry in january february and march tend to have higher divorce rates	True
5	Abbreviations, in computing what doe the letters lan stand for	Local area network
6	What is the lowest possible hand in poker	2,3,4,5,7
7	A macfarlane is what type of clothing item	Coat
8	Which famous us lawman had brothers called morgan and virgil	Wyatt earp
9	Easter, who was jesus betrayed by	Judas iscariot
10	In geography, the namib desert is in which continent	Africa

Geography

	Question	Answer
1	Rivers: into which body of water does the river volga flow	Caspian sea
2	Which british county has the longest coastline	Cornwall
3	Russia: how many islands make up st petersburg	101 islands
4	What city is served by tempelhof airport	West berlin
5	Which king hired henry stanley to carve out an empire for him in central africa	King leopold ii of belgium
6	Name the capital city of rhode island.	Providence
7	What is the highest peak in england and wales	Mount snowdon
8	The british isles: which national park includes the black mountains and usk valley	Brecon beacons national park
9	New york: how did the bronx get it's name	From jonas bronck's purchase of 500 acres of local land from the dutch west india company in 1641
10	Public buildings: where is the pirelli skyscraper	Milan, italy

History

	Question	Answer
1	1980s: who was margaret thatcher	Prime minister of great britan
2	What did lord carnavon & howard carter vdiscover in 1922	The tomb of tutankhamen
3	1980s: name eddie murphy's skit about vocabulary on saturday night live.	Mr. Robinson's neighborhood
4	British monarchs: which king of england was killed while hunting in the new forest in 1100	William ii (rufus)
5	In what year was robert kennedy assassinated (2 points spot on, 1 point year either way)	1968
6	In what year did the great fire of london occur	1666
7	What is the only national spectator sport originating entirely in the united states	Rodeos
8	1960s: name the remake of a 1960's film with the aid of the following actors. The first actor was in the 60's original, the second actor played the same role in the remake robert mitchum and robert de niro	Cape fear
9	With which ship did francis drake circumnavigate the world	The pelican, renamed the golden hind after clearing cape horn
10	1970s: who had a hit with the smooth and soulful you to me are everything	The real thing

Music

	Question	Answer
1	What yeasr was whitney houstons 'saving all my love for you' released a) 1982 , b) 1985, c) 1988	C) 1988
2	Name the 2 no. 1 singles for the seekers in the 60's	I'll never find another you / the carnival is over
3	How many years were there between blondies fifth & sixth no. 1 hits	17
4	Which band had a 1994 number one with 'cotton eye joe'	Rednex
5	Who is the youngest member of boyzone	Ronan keating
6	Bluebird, tishbite & violaine were all minor hits for whom	The cocteau twins
7	Who had a hit in 1983 with 'hey little girl'	Ice house
8	Which 1970's disco pop band ended their chart career in 1981 with 'we kill the world, don't kill the world)'	Boney m
9	The album simply entitled the beatles is usually known by what name	The white album
10	Which songwriters connect david bowie, chris farlowe , melanie & marianne faithful	Mick jagger & keith richards

Science & Nature

	Question	Answer
1	What is the fastest fish in the ocean	Sailfish
2	What part of the body is affected by aneurysm	The arteries
3	How many pairs of ribs does the humaan body have	12
4	What material was invented by belgian-born us chemist leo baekeland in 1905	Bakelite
5	What is a common name for the trachea	The windpipe
6	For what is na the chemical symbol	Sodium
7	In the food processing industry , what do the initials mrm stand for	Mechanically recovered meat
8	What type of engine was invented by german felix wankel in the mid 1950's	Rotary internal combustion engine
9	What is an anechoic chamber	An acoustic echo free room
10	Who invented the lift	Elisha otis

Sports & Leisure

	Question	Answer
1	In which decade was the super bowl first contested	1960's
2	In which part of london did the broncos start out	Fulham
3	Which band is named after the clubs colours	Simply red
4	From which football club did manchester united sign roy keane in 1993	Nottingham forest
5	Was jimmy connors left or right handed	Left handed
6	In athletics which event has styles called scissors and western roll	High jump
7	Which football team managed to loose the 1974,1978 world cup finals	Holland
8	Fill in the missing name in this sequence of england managers: taylor, venables, hoddle, , keegan.	Howard wilkinson (caretaker manager in 1999 & 2000)
9	Oliver mccall lost his world title against who when he was disqualified for not defending himself	Lennox lewis
10	Which tennis player won wimbledon twice with an 8 year gap between victories	Jimmy connors

Tie Breaks

	Question	Answer
1	In which year was the boston tea party	1773
2	In what year did kellogg's launch rice krispies	*1929*
3	Carmen dell'orefice has the longest career as a catwalk model on record how many years	69 years
4	In which year was the charity shield first contested	1909
5	The first ever tv episode of 'heartbeat' was screened in which year	10th april / 1992
6	Rick canzier holds the record for unhooking the most bras in one minute. Can anyone tell me how many bras he unhooked	42 bras
7	Length of the longest beatles track	Revolution 9,'' from the white album
8	Andre j ludwick has the largest collection of nail clippers in the world how many does he own	505 clippers
9	In what year did sweet rationing come to an end in great britain	1949
10	How heavy are the ashes from an average person once they are cremated (in pounds)	9 pounds

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