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10 questions from each category.

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Animals

	Question	Answer
1	Which is the second heaviest land animal	The hippopotamus
2	Which creature had 2 rows of plates running down it's neck, back & tail culminating in large spikes at the end	Stegosaurus
3	With which animals do you associate the disease myxomatosis	Rabbits
4	What term is given to the annual marking of swans on the thames	Swan upping
5	What does a butterfly use to taste	Its feet
6	Smuck is the collective noun for which marine creature	Jelly fish
7	What type of animal is pulex irritans	Flea
8	What are animals called if they are abl to live on land or in water	Amphibians
9	Which flightless bird from mauritus is now extinct	The dodo
10	What animal can change its colour	A chameleon

Art & Literature

	Question	Answer
1	Dance: who choreographed west side story	Jerome robbins
2	Artists: where did joseph wrights experiment on a bird take place	An experiment on a bird in the air pump 1768
3	What was the name of charles dickens last novel unfinished at his death	The mystery of edwin drood
4	Whose smile remained after the rest of it had vanished	The cheshire cat's
5	Artists: whose bigger splash takes place in a swimming pool in california	David hockney
6	The renaissance: leonardo da vinci & michelangelo were simultaneously employed to decorate different parts of which room	The council chamber in the palazzo vecchio, florence
7	Poets: which american poet was escorted home from italy in 1945 but was never tried & instead placed in a mental asylum where he won the bollingen prize for poetry	Ezra pound
8	Impressionists: whose nude olympia in 1863 outraged the paris salon	Edouard manet
9	Which author penned the disc- world series of sci-fi novels	Terry pratchett
10	Which sculptor produced a lobster telephone	Salvador dali

Blockbusters

	Question	Answer
1	What 'tt' is used for drying dishes	Tea towel
2	What 'u' is a secret resistance group known as	Underground
3	What 'mmw' do you tell someone to do when you want them to pay close attention to what you are saying	Mark my words
4	What 'u' is the occupation of oliver twists employer and what americans call a mortician	Undertaker
5	Which 'sj' was a famous ragtime composer- his music was used as the theme for the film the sting	Scott joplin
6	What 'g' is a famous type of tapestry	Gobelin
7	What 'o' is a type of birds famous for having an eye thats bigger than it's brain	Ostritch
8	What 'gp' is a means of finding people's opinions -usually in the street	Gallup poll
9	What 'h' is a burnt offering, or wholesale destruction	Holocaust
10	What 'm' is the second heaviest primate weighing on average a 3rd of the weight of a gorilla	Man

Entertainment

	Question	Answer
1	What links the films mermaids, the addams family & casper	Christina ricci starred in all 3
2	Revolver, dagger, spanner, candlestick, rope so what's missing	Lead piping
3	Nostalgia: what was known as big head	Whitbread trophy bitter
4	Presenters: which disc jockey played himself in george lucas's film american graffiti	Wolfman jack
5	Of which hollywood star was it said wet she was a star	Esther williams
6	What was the club house of the get along gang	A red caboose
7	Which best selling author had the middle name ronald ruel	J. R. R tolkien
8	Which show do you associate ken brockman	The simpsons
9	The simpsons: on which tough guy actors voice did hank azaria base that of chief wiggum	Edward g robinson
10	Movie taglines: 'to enter the mind of a killer she must challenge the mind of a madman. '	The silence of the lambs (1991)

Food & Drink

	Question	Answer
1	Who released the following 'edible' album 'tigermilk'	Belle and sebastian
2	From which fruit is grenadine obtained	Pomegranate
3	Which mixer was used to take quinine	Tonic water
4	Which french district does claret come from	Bordeaux
5	What herb is used most often in garnishes	Parsley
6	Harrissa is what in cooking	A spicy paste
7	A black russian cocktail is made with one part coffee liqueur and two parts of which spirit	Vodka
8	What is amontillado	Sherry
9	What is ghee	Clarified butter used in asian cooking
10	If you ordered cherries jubilee, how would you expect them to be cooked	Flambeed (in kirsch)

General Knowledge

	Question	Answer
1	Kathmandu is the capital of which country	Nepal
2	True or false: london has a larger population than switzerland	True london 7. 6 / swiss 7. 2
3	Which london church stands at the top of ludgate hill	St pauls cathedral
4	50 / 50,which is the largest of the channel islands guernsey or jersey	Jersey
5	From which country did smorgasbord originate	Sweden
6	Who had a 1970's hit with 'yellow river'	Christie
7	Which state is the youngest state in the usa	Hawaii
8	Which element has the highest melting point	Carbon
9	What is a 'clouded yellow'	Butterfly
10	Which designer was awarded a best fashion design oscar in 1985	Yves saint-laurent

Geography

	Question	Answer
1	Parks: which park in berlin houses both the zoo & a memorial to rosa luxemburg	The tiegarten
2	What are the 3 components called that form the earth	Core, mantle, crust
3	Holiday destinations: which canary island's main resort town is called playa de las americas	Tenerife
4	Public buildings: why was the eiffel tower built	To celebrate 100th anniversay of the french revolution
5	Africa: which snake has distinctive orange & black bands the length of its body	The coral snake
6	London: what is believed to be the derivation of the name soho	So hol' a hunting cry
7	Capitals: where is the capital of tibet in exile	Dharamsala, india
8	What river is known as china's sorrow because of its flooding	The yellow river
9	In which country will you find the bay of pigs	Cuba
10	Capitals: of which country is kathmandu the capital	Nepal

History

	Question	Answer
1	By what name was baron manfred von richthofen better known	The red baron
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	American history: which is the nations oldest chartered city	Albany, new york
4	1980s: name the tv show which featured an average housewife teamed up with a secret agent.	Scarecrow and ms. King
5	Natural history: what is blader wrack	Seaweed
6	1980s: name the female comedy star who once had a show on fox, that had a pop hit in the early eighties	Tracy ullman
7	2000s: which celebrity spent part of 2008 cleaning and collecting garbage on the streets of new york	Boy george
8	1990s: who invaded the stage during michael jacksons performance at the 1996 brit awards	Jarvis cocker
9	In 1959 who established a communist government in cuba	Fidel castro
10	Natural history: what do you call a group of kangeroos	A troop

Music

	Question	Answer
1	What was the best selling abba single in the uk	Dancing queen
2	No. 3 in the charts was a lucky number for whom	Lene lovich
3	What was unusual about the american top 100 singles charts in june 1983	It contained more records by foreigners than americans for the first time
4	Which wrestler had a hit with im the leader of the gang in 1993	Hulk hogan
5	In the film risky business tom cruise danced around his living room in his underpants to what song	Old time rock & roll
6	When radio 2 compiled a list of songs of the 20th century, which 1998 movie theme was the highest placed song of the 1990's	Celine dion / my heart will go on
7	By what name is beethoven's sixth symphony known	The pastoral symphony
8	Planet earth' was duran duran's first hit, but what was their first top ten entry	Girls on film
9	Although often close what was the only no. 1 madness ever achieved	House of fun
10	What is the connection between jean luc ponty, stephane grappelli, & jerry goodman	Violin

Science & Nature

	Question	Answer
1	What is the term hydrocephalus more commonly known as	Water on the brain
2	Of what illness is petit mal a form	Epilepsy
3	Are worker ants male or female	Female
4	In india what name is given to the period between june & september when about 75 percent of the regions annual rainfall arrives	Monsoon season
5	What can babies do that adults cannot	Breathe and swallow at the same time
6	Of what is a jenny the female	Donkeys
7	Who invented the lift	Elisha otis
8	What does an ammeter measure	Electrical current
9	Which contemporary scientist is suffering from from motorneurone disease	Steven hawkins
10	Which metal is the best conductor of electricity	Silver

Sports & Leisure

	Question	Answer
1	When boris becker was the first unseeded player to win wimbledon, who did he beat in the final	Kevin curran
2	How many balls are on a pool table at the start of a game	16
3	How many draughts pieces are on one row at the beginning of a game	Four
4	How many lanes does an olympic standard swimming pool have	Eight
5	Who was the first manager from outside the british isles to win the english fa cup	Ruud gullit
6	In which sport does play commence with a tip off	Basketball
7	Who declared the 1936 olympics officially open	Adolf hitler
8	Whose nickname is beefy	Ian botham
9	Which steeplechase horse racing course famously crosses the melling road	Aintree
10	What is the only swimming stroke not started by a dive	Backstroke

Tie Breaks

	Question	Answer
1	If all the coca-cola vending machines in the us were stacked on top of each other how high would they reach (in miles)	450 miles
2	The largest internet caf in the world is in new york called easyeverything. How many computer terminals does it have	763
3	How many aces did goran ivanisevic serve on his way to winning the men's title of 2001	212
4	In what year did the royal navy launch its first submarine	1901
5	In what year did the first meeting of alcoholics anonymous take place	1935
6	If 1 pound of cooked spaghetti was laid out in 1 long noodle how long would it be in feet	300 foot long
7	In which year was the children in need charity founded	1979
8	In what year was the budweiser brewery founded	1876
9	How many hours a day do dolphins spend asleep	2 hours
10	Number of beatles fanzines currently published worldwide	44

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