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Animals

	Question	Answer
1	Which is the largest living rodent	Capybara
2	What type of creature is the most poisonous in the world	Frog , (half inch golden frog)
3	Which creature had a short nose horn & two larger horns on the brow	Triceratops
4	What is the collective term for ducks	A paddling
5	Which curved billed bird is the largest european wader	Curlew
6	What creatures were frequently used to bleed patients in the nineteeth century	Leeches
7	Which gentle creature did walt disney create in 1942	Bambi, the fawn
8	What is the world's largest mammal	The blue whale
9	Which creature had 2 rows of plates running down it's neck, back & tail culminating in large spikes at the end	Stegosaurus
10	Which is the smallest mammal in europe	Pygmy shrew

Art & Literature

	Question	Answer
1	Agatha christie: in which book did she kill of hercule poirot	Curtain
2	What type of animal is rupert the bears best friend bill	Badger
3	Who wrote the novel emma	Jane austen
4	Who painted the creation of adam	Michelangelo
5	What is the name of the russian national ballet	The kirov ballet
6	In 2007 who topped the best sellers non fiction list with born to be riled	Jeremy clarkson
7	Impressionists: who was the only one of the impressionists to have exhibited at all 8 of their exhibitions	Camille pissarro
8	Agatha christie: in sidney lumet's murder on the orient express, who plays hercule poirot	Albert finney
9	Which st louis born novelist & poet became a british subject in 1927	T s eliot
10	Impressionists: which english painter is considered the precursor of the french impressionists	Joseph turner

Blockbusters

	Question	Answer
1	What 'h' comes after moor and before pecked	Hen
2	What 'tnl' is where you wish to get when you aim to improve	The next level
3	What 'd' was heroine of shakespeare's othello	Desdemona
4	Which 'ia' is the american science-fiction writer with his own sci-fi magazine	Isaac asimov
5	What 'k' was a german-speaking, czech-born writer	Kafka
6	What 'y' comes after tax, calendar and leap	Year
7	What 'az' is the lowest temperature that could possibly exist	Absolute zero
8	What 'r' is another word for traitor	Renegade
9	What 'p' is an assignment involving a period of work experience for a student	Placement
10	What 'b' starred in god created woman	Bardot

Entertainment

	Question	Answer
1	Movie characters: which popular movie character hails from the fictional planet of 'morph'	Buzz lightyear
2	Who presented the saturday superstore on childrens tv between 1982 & 1987	Mike reid
3	Which disney movie was the highest grossing movie of the year 1961	101 dalmations
4	Which tv detective was confined to a wheelchair	Ironside
5	Which film was re-named flight pacific 121 and then changed back to its original title	Snakes on a plane
6	Nostalgia: princess diana made a public apology in 1997 after underage william & harry saw which 15 certificate film	The devil's own
7	Which murder suspect in cluedo is represented by a purple playing piece	Professor plum
8	Which comedian is associated with a tickling stick	Ken dodd
9	Disney films: which famous artist worked at the disney studios for a few months in 1946 on a project that was eventually abandoned	Salvador dali
10	In which comedy western did kevin kline play dual roles	Wild wild west

Food & Drink

	Question	Answer
1	What 'r'' is the name given to a picked herring	Rolemop
2	Which vegetable did president george bush senior declare publicly that he did not like	Broccoli
3	What can you do after eating a garlic doused indian meal in order to prevent your breath smelling of garlic the day after	Drink a lassie (yoghurt drink) to coat your throat
4	Which are more nutritious brown or white eggs	They are both the same
5	The prongs on a fork are actually known as what	Tines
6	What ingredient is added to wine to make port	Brandy
7	Salted and glazed biscuit shaped like a knot	Pretzel
8	What do american's call an aubergine	Eggplant
9	Who released the following 'edible' album 'chocolate starfish and the hot dog flavoured water'	Limp bizkit
10	From which country does bulls blood originate	Hungary

General Knowledge

	Question	Answer
1	If a bottle of beer had the letters ipa written on it what does the ipa stand for	India pale ale
2	In astrology, the star sign virgo is represented by what image	A virgin
3	Which of the teletubbies is the smallest	Po
4	What did alan freeman call his audience of sunday afternoon radio listeners	Pop pickers
5	In which bavarian town is the passion play performed every ten years	Oberammergau
6	In the nursery rhyme where did little polly flinders sit	Amoung the cinders
7	On tv which character has a best friend called (robbie the seal)	Pingu
8	Which island in san francisco bay was the site of a maximum security federal prison from 1934 to 1963	Alcatraz
9	What nationality is the lager giant grolsch	Dutch
10	What is the densest planet in our solar system	The earth

Geography

	Question	Answer
1	In which continent would you find the congo river	Africa
2	Parks: which park in rome is situated in the palace garden of its most notorious family	The villa borghese
3	Where was henry stanley when he uttered the phrase (dr livingstone i presume)	Ujiji on the shores of lake tanganyika
4	Which 2 countries occupy the iberian peninsular	Spain & portugal
5	Public buildings: where is jose marti international airport	Havana, cuba
6	Parks: what is the name of the only real park in florence, italy	The boboli gardens
7	Name the continent that consists of a single country.	Australia
8	Islands: where in canada would you find elk island & reindeer island	Lake winnipeg
9	Public buildings: why was the eiffel tower built	To celebrate 100th anniversay of the french revolution
10	In which country is the bridge over the river kwai	Burma (myanmar)

History

	Question	Answer
1	1980s: who was the leader of the transformers	Optimus prime
2	1960s: for which allegedly obscene publication were 'calder & boyars'' prosecuted in 1967	Last exit to brooklyn
3	Famous battles: who put vienna under siege in 1529	The turks
4	Who was the last british viceroy of india	Lord louis mountbatten
5	British history: who summoned the model parliament	Edward i in 1295
6	1970s: 'afternoon delight'' was the only major hit for which one-hit-wonder group	Starland vocal band
7	Military history: after the chinese civil war of 1946-9 the nationalists remained in control of only one island which one	Taiwan
8	What was deciphed as a result of the discovery of the rosetta stone	Hieroglyphics
9	1980s: what type of men's jacket featured it's name on the outer breast pocket,and epaulets on the shoulders	Member's only
10	1950s: who played the younger scrooge in the classic with alistair sim	George cole

Music

	Question	Answer
1	Which band have an album at number one at the moment called 'we are the night'	Chemical brothers
2	In which pop band does damon alburn sing	Blur
3	Which techno artists albums include accelerator, lifeforms & dead cities	Future sound of london
4	Who did the avalon boys accompany on the 1976 hit 'the trail of the lonesome pine'	Laurel & hardy
5	What was the name of robson & jeromes 1996 chart topping album	Take two
6	Who is the oldest of these a) brett anderson, b) keith flint, c) robbie williams	Brett anderson
7	Which trio released the album crazy sexy cool	Tlc
8	Who was the first african american group to reach no. 1 in the singles charts	The platters
9	What 1958 eddie cochran song became his biggest us hit and a rock classic	Summertime blues
10	Which 2 groups combined on the 1969 hit 'i'm gonna make you love me'	Diana ross & the supremes & the temptations

Science & Nature

	Question	Answer
1	What is the hardest bone in the human body	The jaw bone
2	What name is given to an unusually long period of hot weather well above the average for a paticular region	A heatwave
3	Which organ's action is replaced by artifical dialysis	The kidney
4	Which insect transmits african sleeping sickness	The tsetse fly
5	Whose report led to a much reduced british national rail system the 1960's	Dr beeching
6	Acetic acid is more commonly known as what	Vinegar
7	What does wysiwyg mean in the field of computing	What you see is what you get
8	What is anaemia	A deficiency of red blood cells
9	What bone is the patella	Kneecap
10	Which branch of science is the study of sound	Acoustics

Sports & Leisure

	Question	Answer
1	At which grand prix circuit did aryton senna lose his life	San marino , italy
2	For which sport is peter allis a noted tv commentator	Golf
3	1998 was the 2nd time france hosted the world cup , which other 2 countries have hosted it twice	Italy (1934, 1990) & mexico (1970 1986)
4	For which sport is andy murray well known	Tennis
5	What does a black flag signify in motor racing	Driver disqualified
6	Leighton rees and bobby george are practitioners at which sport	Darts
7	Which is the only british league club with the last name academicals	Hamilton
8	In which game are projectiles thrown at stakes called hobs	Quoits
9	In 1986, whose infamous 'hand of god'' helped argentina defeat england at the football world cup	Diego maradona
10	How many players make up a water polo team is it six, seven or eight	Seven

Tie Breaks

	Question	Answer
1	In what year did work first start on the construction of the whitehouse	1792
2	How many eyes does a bee have	5
3	In which year did the first ever bank robbery take place in the usa	1831
4	On what date did english cricketer dennis compton hit his 100th century	1952 (11th june)
5	In what year was 3rd class rail travel abolished in the uk	1956
6	In which year was the encyclopedia britanica first published	1768
7	Heathrow is the busiest airport in europe; how many passengers does it handle annually	45,000,000 passengers
8	In what year was the first wimbledon tennis tournament	1877
9	Walter watts crossed canada on a unicyle, how many days did it take him	93 days
10	The yangtze river is the deepest in the world but how deep is it	150 metres

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