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Animals

	Question	Answer
1	What term is given to the annual marking of swans on the thames	Swan upping
2	Which curved billed bird is the largest european wader	Curlew
3	Where do birds of paradise come from	New guinea
4	Which large rodents fur is known as nutria	Coypu
5	What animal can change its colour	A chameleon
6	Native to america , what type of bird are lewis's red bellied , ladder-backed & nuttall's	Woodpeckers
7	What type of creature is the most poisonous in the world	Frog , (half inch golden frog)
8	Which bird brought back a twig to noah to signal the end of the flood	The dove
9	What is the most common uk bird	The blue tit
10	With which animals do you associate the disease myxomatosis	Rabbits

Art & Literature

	Question	Answer
1	Which american artist is known for a portarit of his mother	James whistler
2	Dance: who formed the dance theatre of harlem	Arthur mitchell
3	In which city is leonardo da vinnci's (last supper) displayed	Milan
4	Agatha christie: in which book did she kill of hercule poirot	Curtain
5	Artists: which cities national palace is decorated with a series of historic murals by diego rivera	Mexico city
6	Impressionists: about whom was the term 'impressionist' used for the first time in 1872	Claude monet
7	Name the tibetan mountain retreat featured in (the lost horizon)	Shangri-la
8	What was michelangelo's first name	Michelangelo!!
9	Which famous book begins with the line: the great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail	Jaws
10	In which shakespearean tragedy does laertes appear	Hamlet

Blockbusters

	Question	Answer
1	What 'p' is a heap of combustible material	Pyre
2	What 'bab' is the simplest form of accommodation	Bed and breakfast
3	What 'm' is a contagious disease marked by swelling of the neck	Mumps
4	What 'n' is the country since its independence in 1905 has had 3 kings harkon 7th, olaf 5th and harold 5th	Norway
5	What 'o' is a synthetic textile fibre	Orlon
6	What 'd' was a toothy transylvanian	Dracula
7	What 'q' is used to carry arrows	Quiver
8	What 'ttt had love on their side in 1983	The thompson twins
9	What 'la' is the city of angels	Los angeles
10	What 'j' is the style of architecture, furniture and art during the reign of james i	Jacobean

Entertainment

	Question	Answer
1	Which tv puppet was made famous by magician david nixon in 1978	Basil brush
2	Which future princess starred in (dial m for murder)	Grace kelly
3	Who was the very first presenter of the tv show 'blankety blank'	Terry wogan
4	Who presented tv's room 101 before paul merton	Nick hancock
5	Movie one liners: i'd rather be dead than living with you. For all the things you've done, j. J. , i know i should hate you. But i don't. I pity you. '	Sweet smell of success (1957)
6	In what tv show would you encounter doctor teeth and the electric mayhem	The muppets
7	Who played the uncle on family ties	Tom hanks
8	Advertising slogans: lipton's gets into more hot water than anything.	Lipton tea
9	Movie taglines: 'the most devastating detective story of this century. '	All the president's men (1976)
10	Movie one liners: tower, this is ghost rider requesting a flyby.	Top gun

Food & Drink

	Question	Answer
1	Who released the following album 'whipped cream and other delights '	Herb albert and the tijuana brass
2	Black german rye bread	Pumpernickel
3	In which country was ice cream invented	China
4	What does it mean about the taste if a wine is described as 'brut'	Very dry
5	What gives pasta its green colour	Spinach
6	What is the smell given off by wine called	The boquet
7	Gazpacho is a type of what	Soup
8	What percentage of total production does the arabic coffee bean represent	70%
9	Who released the following 'edible' album 'flaming pie'	Paul mccartney
10	If you were eating escargots in a french restaurant what would you be eating	Snails

General Knowledge

	Question	Answer
1	In which decade were windscreen car tax discs introduced in the uk	1920s (1921)
2	What is the name for the triangular shaped piece of land at the mouth of a river	Delta
3	What acid is associated with muscles in the body experiencing oxygen debt	Lactic acid
4	Which series features a family with an evil baby and a talking dog	Family guy
5	Which english monarch was queen elizabeth ii's grand father	George v
6	Which artist painted the famous painting known as (la guernica)	Picasso
7	In which asian mountain range is the yeti said to live	Himalayas
8	If the density of an object is less than that of the substance in which it is immersed what happens	It floats
9	Observation, what colour are mr blobbys spots	Yellow
10	Which type of cocktail are you likely to find in a toolbox	Screwdriver

Geography

	Question	Answer
1	Name the capital of italy.	Rome
2	Where is le figaro published	Paris
3	Which countries collectively are known as benelux	Belgium, netherlands, luuxemborg
4	Russia: how many time zones does the trans siberian railway	Seven
5	Mountains: which east african mountain has a swahili name mountain of the god of cold	Kilimanjaro
6	Mountains: in which mountain range is the ski resort of aspen	The rocky mountains
7	What is the capital of china	Beijing
8	The british isles: in which us state is yosemite national park	California
9	What european country did romans call lusitania	Portugal
10	In which european capital is the famous Ã¢â¬Ëmankin pisÃ¢â¬â¢	Brussels

History

	Question	Answer
1	1980s: which two friends were brother and sister	Monica and ross
2	What were (mulberries)	Floating harbours used on d-day
3	1960s: to what did the chant hell no we won't go refer	The vietnam war
4	What was the name given to the coding machine used by the germans in world war ii	Enigma
5	Dates: when did marx & engels publish the 'communist manifesto'	1848
6	1960s: which british coin ceased to be legal tender in 1960	Farthing
7	2000s: who became the first winner of the reality tv show 'fame academy'' in 2002	David sneddon
8	Beginning in the 1820s, who from the southeastern united states were relocated to indian territory over numerous routes	The five civilized tribes
9	In what year was queen elizabeth the i born	1533
10	To what was byzantium renamed in 330 ad	Constantinople

Music

	Question	Answer
1	Which pianist joined the chicago symphony orchestra when he was just nine years old	Liberace
2	Amazing grace entered the charts eight times in this decade sung by whom	Judy collins
3	Which group started a bumper crop of singles in 1986 with system addict	Five star
4	Eurovision: which country won the eurovision song contest in 2012	Sweden
5	In 1977 the darts & boney m had hits with different songs with the same title what was the title	Daddy cool
6	Eurovision: which country won the eurovision song contest in 1999	Sweden
7	Which 1960's band was formed by eric clapton, ginger baker and jack bruce	Cream
8	Name the label that links joy division, durutti column, omd, a certain ratio, new order & happy mondays	Factory
9	What was the first place the beatles worked in hamburg	The indra club
10	What was the beat's second chart success achieving no. 9 in feb 1980	Hands off, she's mine

Science & Nature

	Question	Answer
1	Which vital part of the atmosphere makes up about 7 millionths of it's volume	A stratosphere
2	What is the hardest bone in the human body	The jaw bone
3	In chemistry, what type of substance is formed when an acid is mixed with an alkali	A salt
4	How many colours are the in a rainbow	7
5	Where is the world's largest atomic establishment	Underground at cern between france & switzerland
6	What percentage of the population has an iq above 100	Fifty percent
7	Which snake is also known as a hamadryad	King cobra
8	What, on the human body is the scapula	Shoulder blades
9	In computing what does the word modem an abbreviation of	Modulate demodulate
10	Who invented the ball point pen	Lazlo biro

Sports & Leisure

	Question	Answer
1	In metres how long is an olympic size swimming pool	50 metres
2	What is the last event in a decathlon	1500 metres
3	What height is the crossbar of a goal in professional football	8 feet
4	Who was the first british athlete to hold the world javelin record	Fatima whitbread
5	Who was sent off against argentina in france 98	David beckham
6	Which olympic sport prohibits the wearing of a beard	Boxing
7	According to rules of both sports, the top of which net is highest from the ground, tennis or table tennis	Tennis
8	Which female tennis star won the french open & australian open in 2002	Jennifer capriati
9	How many balls are on a pool table at the start of a game	16
10	Which city do the maple leafs ice hockey team come from	Toronto

Tie Breaks

	Question	Answer
1	Tom baker played doctor who in how many episodes of the tv series	172
2	In what year did agatha christie die	1976
3	In what year did roger bannister run the worlds first four minute mile	1958
4	In what year did the first mcdonalds restaurant open in london	1974
5	How many taste buds does a cat fish have	27000
6	Ove nordstrom from sweden has the worlds largest piggy bank collection from over 40 countries how many piggy banks does she have in total	5750
7	How many births were recorded in the uk in 2002 to unmarried mothers	596, 122
8	American colonies declared their indepenence from britain on 4 th of july in what year	1776
9	Longest chart life of any beatles single: 19 weeks	19 weeks / hey jude
10	In which year was albert einstein born	1879

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