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10 questions from each category.

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Animals

	Question	Answer
1	What is the collective term for ducks	A paddling
2	Which is the smallest mammal in europe	Pygmy shrew
3	Which species of bird has the longest wingspan	The albatross
4	In edward lear's poem, which bird sang to the pussycat	The owl
5	Which is the smallest of all birds	Bee, hummingbird (2 grams)
6	Which bird is resident of the american southwest & has been immortilized in a cartoon series	Roadrunner
7	What type of creature is an aardvark	An anteater (edentata)
8	What sort of animal was tarka	An otter
9	Which curved billed bird is the largest european wader	Curlew
10	What are a whales breathing organs called	Lungs

Art & Literature

	Question	Answer
1	Whose first collection of short stories entitled in our time was published in 1925	Ernest hemmingway
2	Poets: of whom are the seasons of mist & mellow fruitfulness a close bosom friend	The maturing sun - to autumn john keats
3	Dance: of which petipa ballet did rudolf nureyev make a film starring himself	Don quixote
4	Artists: which famous couples personal collection did much to bring the work of cezanne , renoir & matisse into the public eye	Leo & gurtrude stein
5	Poets: which poet, an icon of the counter culture 's first collection of poetry was called howl	Allen ginsberg
6	The renaissance: whose lives of the artists is the main contemporary source of information on the italian renaissance	Giorgio vasari
7	Agatha christie: in which village did miss marple live	St mary mead
8	In the book the secret diary of adrian mole, what was the name of adrian's girllfriend	Pandora
9	Poets: what kind of symmetry did the tyger possess, according to william blake	Fearful symmetry songs of experience
10	What is the most performed opera in the uk	La boheme

Blockbusters

	Question	Answer
1	What 'b' is made up from platelets and cells	Blood
2	What 'j' was jupiter's wife in roman mythology	Juno
3	What 'i' is a type of lettuce	Iceberg
4	What 'f' is a short word for a hobby or interest that doesn't last very long	Fad
5	What 'r' was the first labour prime minister of britain	Ramsey macdonald
6	What 'o' is a group of eight notes	Octave
7	Which 'sg' was, according to the rhyme, born on monday, christened on a tuesday, etc	Solomon grundy
8	What 'l' comes before shot, division and hand	Long
9	What 'm' performed the sticky and sweet tour	Madonna
10	What 'acv' is a hovercraft	Air cushion vehicle

Entertainment

	Question	Answer
1	Harry potter: who is the attractive barmaid and owner of the three broomsticks in hogsmeade	Madam rosmerta
2	What fraternity do the lewis and gilbert join in revenge of the nerds	Lambda lambda lambda
3	Who plays the role of barty crouch junior in the harry potter films	David tennant
4	In which tv show did nicholas lyndhurst wander down an alley that took him back to 1943	Goodnight sweetheart
5	Who co-starred with steve mcqueen in the film the thomas crown affair	Faye dunnaway
6	Who was the 3rd housemate to enter the big brother house in the year (2008)	Luke
7	Which ex benny hill girl is part of a multi emmy winning comedy show	Jane leeves
8	Which ginger-haired tv star presents radio 1 fm's breakfast show	Chris evans
9	Which brewery supplies the beer at the rovers return in coronation street	Newton & ridley (issac)
10	In which film did julia roberts play the part of tinker bell	Hook

Food & Drink

	Question	Answer
1	Thin round mexican maize cake	Tortilla
2	How many 75cl bottles of champagne would you get from a jeroboam	4 bottles
3	Who invented the egg mcmuffin	Ed peterson
4	Which drink was once advertised with the slogan: 'i'm only here for the beer'	Double diamond
5	What is the smell given off by wine called	The boquet
6	Which alcoholic drink is the main ingredient of the cocktail 'zombie'	Rum
7	What happens if you add water to pernod	It goes cloudy
8	What is the ginger like root crop associated with thai cooking	Galangal
9	What are pontefract cakes made from	Liquorice
10	How is steak tartare cooked	It is served raw

General Knowledge

	Question	Answer
1	How is the (manx shearwater) traditionally known in the scilly isles	The cockathrodon
2	Who is the greek god of music	Apollo
3	What substance has the chemical symbol o3	Ozone
4	In history, which russian revolutionary leader arrived in st petersburg, then called petrograd, in a sealed train from zurich in 1917	Lenin
5	50 / 50, which rock band released an album entitled beggars banquet the who or the rolling stones	The rolling stones
6	Complete the title of the james joyce novel, a portrait of the artist as a... What	Young man
7	On what street does the bank of england in london stand	Threadneedle street
8	What c name is given to the french brandy which has been distilled twice	Cognac
9	Emma samms played the character fallon in which 1980s television soap opera, which was a spin-off from dynasty	The colbys
10	What was the first underground railway line in london	The metroplitan line (paddington to farringdon, 1863)

Geography

	Question	Answer
1	What is the colour of the cross on the finish flag	Blue
2	By what name do argentina refer to the falkland islands	The malvinas
3	Africa: zanzibar lies off the coast of which country	Tanzania
4	Into what sea does the elbe river flow	North
5	In 1904 danish biologist johannes schmidt discovered the sargasso sea in the north atlantic to be the breeding ground of which fish	European eel
6	Parks: who wrote the novel gorky park	Martin cruz smith
7	Kingston is the capital of which country	Jamaica
8	By how many degrees does true north vary to magnetic north in britain	8 degrees west
9	Islands: on which island are the new york boroughs of brooklyn and queens	Long island
10	In which city is marco polo airport	Venice

History

	Question	Answer
1	1950s: the gold coast gained its independence from great britain in 1957 and renamed itself as what	Ghana
2	1950s: february 6th 1958 saw a plane carrying manchester united home from a match in belgrade crash during take-off at which city's airport	Munich
3	1960s: who sang el condor pasa (if i could)	Simon & garfunkel
4	Firsts: which countrys national beauty won the first miss world contest in 1951	Miss sweden (kiki haakonson)
5	1980s: what show was 'whatcha talkin' 'bout willis' a standard catch phrase	Different strokes
6	Military history: which 17 marked the end of the jacobite rebellions	Culloden
7	1990s: who won the eurovision song contest for the uk in 1997	Katrina & the waves
8	Who was the last to sit on the peacock throne	Shah mohammed reza pahlavi
9	1980s: what was the name of the funky van scooby doo and friends rode in	The mystery machine
10	World war 2: who was appointed to command the us pacific fleet shortly after pearl harbour	Admiral chester w nimitz

Music

	Question	Answer
1	Which former beatle became a travelling wilbury	George harrison
2	Which song penned by the gibb brothers provided barbara streisand with her only uk number one single in 1980	Woman in love
3	What beatles song won a grammy as the best song of 1966	Michelle
4	Which album was at one time going to be called 'everest'	Abbey road
5	Which beatles movie won the oscar for best original score	Let it be
6	Eurovision: when cyprus participated for the first time, what action was taken by turkish television	Showed ads during the cypriot song
7	With which artist is the funk band the new power generation associated	Prince
8	Who had a hit with the song 'like a prayer'	Madonna
9	What fact of life did jewel akens tell us about in 1965	The birds and the bees
10	What musical instrument does the leader of an orchestra always play	Violin

Science & Nature

	Question	Answer
1	There are two types of sex chromosome, x and y. Males have one x and one y but what do females have	Two x's
2	There are 5 elements in the periodic table that conttain 4 letters in their name iron & lead are 2 of them 1 point each for any of the other 3	Gold, neon, zinc
3	What name was given to the boeing b-52 heavy bomber that first flew in 1952	Stratofortress
4	What element can be added to petrol to eliminate to eliminate knock	Lead
5	In what units would you measure frequency	Hertz
6	Occuring twice yearly what name is given 2 a day that consists of 12 hours of daylight & 12 hours of darkness	Equinox
7	If a husband was to caress his wife's vomer where would he have to insert his finger	Up her nose
8	Which german company introduced the interrupter gear enabling a machine gun to fire through an aeroplanes propeller	Fokker
9	In what year were tissue cells first grown outside the body by us biologist ross harrison	1905
10	Which alloy is made with nine parts tin and one part lead	Pewter

Sports & Leisure

	Question	Answer
1	Which nation did france beat 3-0 in the final of the football world cup in 1998	Brazil
2	Who was the first snooker player to score a maximum 147 break in the world championships	Cliff thorburn
3	With which sport do you associate harvey smith, nick skelton and rob hoekstra	Show jumping
4	In which sport do family members john, michael and robert whitaker all compete	Show jumping
5	In which sport might you encounter a clothes lines, a pile driver and a half nelson	Wrestling
6	Which club did jose mourinho leave to become manager of chelsea in 2004	Porto
7	Which well known snooker player was a policeman before becoming professional	Ray reardon
8	What does it mean if a racehorse is described as a maiden	It hasn`t won a race yet
9	Who were the first winners of the fa cup	Wanderers
10	Which was the first italian team roy hodgson managed	Inter milan

Tie Breaks

	Question	Answer
1	How many pennies did the royal mint produce in 1933	Only 4 pennies
2	In which year did the beatles release their first single 'love me do'	1962
3	How many episodes of the tv show seinfeld were made	180
4	How many times is the f-word used in the film `scarface`	206
5	In which year did bugs bunny first ask elmer fudd ' whats up doc	1940
6	What % of vitamin c, does a brussels sprout loose if cooked	0. 9
7	In which year did lawrence of arabia die	1935
8	A headmaster at eton like flogging boys what was his record for one day	80 boys
9	In the entire works of william shakespeare how many times is the word fork mentioned	4
10	In which year was the first british census held	1801

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