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10 questions from each category.

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Animals

	Question	Answer
1	What does a butterfly use to taste	Its feet
2	Which animal is the symbol of the world wide fund for nature	Giant panda
3	What colour is the beak of a mature mute swan	Orange
4	What type of creatures are cetaceans	Whales,dolphins and porpoises
5	What animal has the longest lifespan in captivity	The giant tortoise
6	Which creature had a short nose horn & two larger horns on the brow	Triceratops
7	Which bird can fly backwards	The humming bird
8	What do invertebrates lack	A backbone
9	What type of creature is a whydah	A bird
10	Archaeopteryx differed from it's modern counterparts in that it had teeth, clawed fingers & a bony tail core. Otherwise it bore the characteristics of which group of creatures	Birds

Art & Literature

	Question	Answer
1	Poets: who was the love of dante alighieri's life	Beatrice portinari
2	Impressionists: whose painting lola de valence inspired a poem by baudelaire	Edouard manet
3	Artists: his wife was saskia , his son titus & his most famous painting is 'the night watch' who is he	Rembrandt van rijn
4	Dance: of which petipa ballet did rudolf nureyev make a film starring himself	Don quixote
5	In which country was john constable born	Suffolk
6	Which author's father was imprisoned for debt	Charles dickens
7	Which english author created horatio hornblower	C. S. Forester
8	Poets: which cleric poet told death not to be proud 'though some have called thee mighty & dreadful'	John donne
9	What is the surname of cathy in wuthering heights	Earnshaw
10	How old was adrian mole when he began writing his secret diary	13 & three quarters

Blockbusters

	Question	Answer
1	What 'f' is traditional music	Folk
2	What 'a' was the number one man	Adam
3	What 'u' describes the principle which limits an atomic particle's momentum	Uncertainty
4	What 'a' is blooming	Abloom
5	What 'nos' is a tennis player thought likely to be top	Number one seed
6	What 'rr' has as its hero alan breck	Rob roy
7	What 'm' is a woman's name that means song thrush	Mavis
8	What 's' goes before man, line and jacket	Straight
9	What 'g' is a port in italy which gives its name to a rich fruit cake decorated with almonds	Genoa
10	What 'c' means to increase in italian	Crescendo

Entertainment

	Question	Answer
1	Name the film featuring characters caractacus potts and truly scrumptious	Chitty chitty bang bang
2	In the 2005 bafta's what was voted best tv comedy programme	Little britain
3	Movie taglines: 'to enter the mind of a killer she must challenge the mind of a madman. '	The silence of the lambs (1991)
4	In which 1983 film will you encounter the character 'dr frank bryant'	Educating rita
5	James bond: which bond movie features a spectacular car chase around las vegas	Diamonds are forever
6	Movie taglines: 'incredible! Invisible! Insatiable! '	Invasion of the body snatchers (1956)
7	Which cartoon characters human companion is called shaggy	Scooby doo
8	The simpsons: who is the guest star at the springfield auto show	Adam west
9	Can you name the 5 original mtv vj's	Martha quinn,j. J. Jackson,mark goodman,alan hunter and nina blackwood
10	Which tv show that ran from (1999-2006) featured the character 'josiah jed" bartlet'"	The west wing

Food & Drink

	Question	Answer
1	Cumberland sauce is tradiotionally served cold with what	Venison
2	Which vegetable is a welsh emblem	Leek
3	What is the ginger like root crop associated with thai cooking	Galangal
4	Which familiar carbonated soft drink contains quinine, a fact which influenced the name it was given	Tonic water
5	What is compote	Fruit preserved or stewed in syrup
6	What on a bottle of wine, is the punt	The dent on the base
7	What happens if you add water to pernod	It goes cloudy
8	At that temperature centigrade does water boil at	100 degrees c
9	From where does sherry the fortified wine originate	Jerez in spain
10	Webb's wonderful and winter density are varieties of which vegetable	Lettuce

General Knowledge

	Question	Answer
1	In maths how many furlongs are there in a mile	8
2	Which small fruit is named after a new zealand bird that cannot fly	Kiwi
3	Which motor manufacturer made the model called dyane	Citroen
4	How many degrees are there in one angle of an equilateral triangle	60 (3 x 60=180)
5	What do shirley bassey, sheena easton and duran duran have in common	They all recorded james bond themes
6	On the move, which country used to make zastava cars	Yugoslavia
7	What did george bernard shaw say (was the only sport more boring than cricket)	Football
8	Whose official residence is lambeth palace	Archbishop of canterbury
9	In literature,complete the title of this frederick forsyth novel, the fourth...	Protocol
10	In food, a wiener schnitzel traditionally consists of a cutlet of which meat coated with breadcrumbs and fried	Veal

Geography

	Question	Answer
1	What famed ranch can you see from ranch road no. 1 near stonewall, texas	The lbj ranch
2	Australia: what is the capital of south australia	Adelaide
3	Capitals: what capital of which country was formerly was formerly named fort salisbury	Harare, zimbabwe
4	In which country is guallatiri (the worldÃ¢â¬â¢s largest volcano)	Chile
5	Capitals: what are the inhabitants of madrid called	Madrilenos
6	Before the discovery of mount everest what was the tallest mountain in the world	Mount everest
7	London: londonÃ¢â¬â¢s first playhouse was built in east london by james burbage in 1576 what was it called	The theatre
8	Which capital city stands on the potomac river	Washington d. C.
9	In which us state is the city of new orleans	Louisiana
10	What city did the mormons establish as their headquarters in 1847	Salt lake city

History

	Question	Answer
1	Firsts: in which country were europe's first banknotes issued	Sweden (stockholm 1661)
2	The french revolution: why did the woman of paris march to versailles on 5 october 1789	To drag the king & queen back to paris
3	1970s: which famous giant panda died at london zoo in 1972	Chi chi
4	Religion & myth: who is the elephant headed hindu god of good luck	Ganesh
5	World war 2: when general douglas macarthur told the australian press 'i shall return' to where was he referring	The phillipines
6	1970s: which famous arab / israeli war took place in 1973	Yom kippur war
7	In which english town was the co-operative society formed in 1844	Rochdale
8	Firsts: where was the worlds first skyscraper	Chicago in 1883
9	1970s: who released the 70's album entitled the scream	Siouxsie and the banshees
10	British history: who was the mother of james i of england	Mary queen of scots

Music

	Question	Answer
1	How many times was george michaels video 'i want your sex' re-edited before mtv would show it	3 times
2	Which 80's hit was dedicated by her boyfriend to christie brickley	Uptown girl
3	What nationality is tina arena	Australian
4	Which single gave alessi their one and only claim to fame reaching no 8 in june 1977	Oh lori
5	Which female singer had a hit with 'crazy for you'	Madonna
6	The american band chicago have numbered all their albums from 'chicago 2' in 1970 onwards what number had they reached by 1986	Chicago 18
7	What was rod stewarts 2nd number one after maggie may	You wear it well
8	Which band recorded the album entitled 'slippery when wet'	Bon jovi
9	Which british band released two hit albums in the 1970's with titles taken from marx bros film	Queen (a night at the opera & a day at the races)
10	Which english punk band had rat scabies on drums	The damned

Science & Nature

	Question	Answer
1	Which nation invented paper	China / chinese
2	In what country was the portable domestic electric room heater first marketed in 1912	England
3	From where on 4th october 1957, was the first man made satellite launched into space	Baikonur kosmodrome , kazakstan
4	In which country was fuel injection for cars inroduced in 1954	Germany
5	What material was invented by belgian-born us chemist leo baekeland in 1905	Bakelite
6	What parasitic infection is the most wide-spread	Malaria
7	How many moons are there in our solar system a) 43 b) 53 c) 63	C = 64
8	What is the longest freshwater loch in scotland	Loch awe
9	How many faces has the solid a dodecahedron	12
10	Acetic acid is more commonly known as what	Vinegar

Sports & Leisure

	Question	Answer
1	Which moroccan athlete became the first man to run 5000m in under 13 minutes	Said aouita
2	Which sport includes events called the halfpipe, the slopestyle and the bordercross	Snowboardring
3	Which player scored the most goals in international football	Pele
4	In which sport do you use balls weighing from 6lbs to 16lbs	Ten pin bowling
5	What connects garrison savannah in 1991, party politics in 1995 and blue charm in 1999	They all came 2nd in the grand national
6	Just two sports feature a slalom, one is skiing can you name the other	Canoeing
7	Which was alan ball's league club at the time of the 1966 world cup	Blackpool
8	Which times journalist's interview led to the sacking of glen hoddle as england manager	Matt dickenson
9	What sport was first introduced into the olympics in 2000	Trampoline
10	The duckworth lewis method is used to keep the score in which sport	Cricket

Tie Breaks

	Question	Answer
1	In what year was the lawnmower invented	1830
2	How many countries, excluding british or otherwise colonies, make up the continent of asia	50
3	In what year was nato formed	1949
4	How long in years did moors murder myra hindley spend behind bars before her death in 2002	37 years
5	How old was james dean when he died	24
6	What percentage of americans believe that the apollo moon landings in 1969 were fake	0. 27
7	In which year was the children in need charity founded	1979
8	In what year did the victoria underground line first open	1969
9	On what date was 'countdown' first shown on british television	November 2nd 1982
10	How many times the earth's weight is the weightt of the sun	330,000 times

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