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10 questions from each category.

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Animals

	Question	Answer
1	What herb do cats love	Catnip/ cat mint
2	What color spots has the common ladybird	Black
3	What type of insects are hawkers, clubtails, biddies, emeralds, darts & skimmers	Dragon flies
4	Which water bird has brown & black feathers with a white flank slash & a red beak shield	Moorhen
5	What type of creature is the most poisonous in the world	Frog , (half inch golden frog)
6	What sort of creature is a fluke	Worm
7	Apart from humans there is only one other creature that has sex for pleasure can you name it	Dolphin
8	What are insects chewing jaws called	Mandibles
9	Smuck is the collective noun for which marine creature	Jelly fish
10	What is also known as the freshwater lobster	The crayfish

Art & Literature

	Question	Answer
1	The renaissance: leonardo da vinci & michelangelo were simultaneously employed to decorate different parts of which room	The council chamber in the palazzo vecchio, florence
2	Who was the merchant in shakespear's (the merchant of venice)	Antonio
3	Who penned the 1999 autobiography entitled 'managing my life'	Alex ferguson
4	In which city is the encyclopediaa britanica published	Chicago
5	How is jack dawkins otherwise known as in a dickens novel	Artful dodger
6	Agatha christie: which of agatha christie's plays in now the longest continually running drama in the west end	The mousetrap
7	By what name is the great italian sculptor & artist buonarroti better known	Michelangelo
8	Where would you find poets corner	Westminster abbey
9	Childrens books: what is the tin man searching for in the wizard of oz	His heart
10	Agatha christie: in guy hamiltons film version of the mirror crack'd who played miss marple	Angela lansbury

Blockbusters

	Question	Answer
1	What 'bm' is a jewish celebration of a boy reaching the age of 13	Bar mitzvah
2	What 'sit' saves nine	Stitch in time
3	What 'm' precedes and shakers to describe influential people	Movers
4	What 'shgts' is an advertising slogan that hits you right between the eyes	Should have gone to specsavers
5	What 'ascnd' was a 1951 movie starring marlon brando & vivien leigh	A street car named desire
6	What 'e' is everlasting	Eternal
7	What 'u' is a tunnel taking one road beneath another	Underpass
8	What 'f' did john travolta stir up on saturday night	Fever
9	What 's' are a group of people who combine to do business	Syndicate
10	What 'tcomc' is the literary character 'edmund dantes' otherwise known	The count of monte cristo

Entertainment

	Question	Answer
1	Which quentin tarantino film was originally called black mask	Pulp fiction
2	Movie one liners: im 10 days late , and theres no way you could have had it and not noticed	Nine months
3	Songs in films: the supremes provided the hit theme to a movie starring 'anthony quinn & faye dunaway' what was the film	The happening
4	Movie one liners: this is the end! The absolute end! '	The lady in the dark (1944)
5	What was the name of the bar in which the tv show (cheers) was set	Cheers
6	Who killed maxine peacock in coronation street	Richard hillman
7	Nostalgia: who were the aliens in captain scarlet	The mysterons
8	In which 1997 movie did gaz gerald, guy and dave shed their clothes	The full monty
9	In which show would you find the character of captain jack harkness	Torchwood
10	Movie one liners: _alla famiglia_! _salud! _' ('to family! ')	Moonstruck (1987)

Food & Drink

	Question	Answer
1	From what country does advocaat originate	Holland
2	In which english county is brie made	Somerset
3	Poteen is a distilled spirit made in the west of ireland. What is it made from	Potatoes
4	What are you doing if you are shucking an oyster	Opening it
5	What ingredient is used to flavour amaretto liqueurs and biscuits	Almond
6	From which fish does caviar come	Sturgeon
7	Of what is bonito a variety	Tuna
8	Where is the oldest distillery in the world	The old bushmills, cty antrim
9	With what is champagne mixed to produce `buck's fizz'	Orange juice
10	Which part of the english breakfast was known derisively in victorian times as little bags of mystery	Sausages

General Knowledge

	Question	Answer
1	Wing chun is a popular form of which martial art	Kung fu
2	Sing sing is located in new york city. What is it	A prison
3	Genoa is a city in which country	Italy
4	What in radio does fm actually stand for	Frequency modulation
5	Under what name does rapper 'calvin broadus'' operate	Snoop doggy dog / snoop dog
6	Abbreviations, what is the hmso	His/her majesty's stationary office
7	True or false: there was someone called george in enid blyton's secret seven'	True
8	In science, what is extracted from a substance for it to be described as 'anhydrous'	Water
9	Can you spell the word for me fluorescent	Fluorescent
10	Who was the first woman to present the british children's tv show, _blue peter_	Leila williams

Geography

	Question	Answer
1	Rivers: on which river does inverness stand	The ness
2	Ireland: what does the word cork mean	The gaelic for cork 'corcaigh' means marshy
3	What forms the natural border between europe & asia	The ural mountains
4	Who was head of state of spain before king juan carlos	General franco
5	Africa: the cameleopard is an old european name for which african animal	The giraffe
6	Mountains: why would it be incorrect to describe this mountain as mount fujiyama	Yama means mountain so it should be mount fuji
7	The tenge is the basic monetary unit of which country	Kazakhstan (1 tenge = 100 teims)
8	Mountains: in which country is mount ararat	Turkey
9	London: which 19th century engineer design paddington station	Isimbard kingdom brunnel
10	Russia: in which town were tsar nicholas ii & his family executed during the russian revolution	Yekaterinburg

History

	Question	Answer
1	1980s: which eighties musician got sued by a music related company for using their name as part of his pseudonym*	Thomas dolby
2	British history: who was the first woman to be elected as speaker of the house of commons	Betty boothroyd
3	Firsts: where was the first purpose built observatory constructed in 1576	Uraniborg in denmark
4	Religion & myth: which branch of christianity holds meetings in kingdom halls	Jehovah's witnesses
5	British monarchs: which family of monarchs reigned after the normans & before the house of lancaster	The plantagenets
6	British monarchs: which monarch died from smallpox in 1694 at the age of 32	Mary ii
7	Military history: where did the boer war take place	South africa
8	1970s: 'who loves ya, baby'was the catchphrase of which `70s tv sleuth*	Kojak
9	Natural history: which wood are divining rods usually made from	Hazel
10	2000s: which british actor was on the receiving end of a vile prank call made by jonathan ross and russell brand during 2008	Andrew sachs

Music

	Question	Answer
1	Which oxford university professor of poetry had his lyrics for les miserables rejected	James fenton
2	What beatles song won a grammy as the best song of 1966	Michelle
3	Who titled his 1977 top ten album after the 2nd book in the bible	Bob marley
4	In whose band is madonna wayne gacy the keyboard player	Marilyn mason
5	Which john lennon song did roxy music take to number one the year after his death	Jealous guy
6	Whose 1976 debut hit was 'you to me are everything'	The real thing
7	Eurovision: which country won the eurovision song contest in 1966	Austria
8	Which album cover had to be reshot because it featured unauthorised shots of various personalities	Some girls
9	Who reached no. 1 with the song 'you're the first the last my everything'	Barry white
10	Who had a hit in 1997 with 'torn'	Natalie imbruglia

Science & Nature

	Question	Answer
1	What is a portuguese man-o-war	Jelly fish
2	In dyeing what is the name given to the substance used for fixing the color	Catalyst
3	In which year did the last manned expedition to the moon take place	1972
4	What does the xp in the operating system 'windows xp' actually stand for	Experience
5	In computing what does the word modem an abbreviation of	Modulate demodulate
6	True or false, wild fish always have more omega-3 fatty acids than farm-raised fish	False
7	What is the essential differences between arteries & veins	Arteries carry blood from the heart veigns return it
8	How many days will it be before a clock, losing 30 minutes a day shows the right time again	Twenty four
9	In chemistry, what type of substance is formed when an acid is mixed with an alkali	A salt
10	What does the letter c stand for in the computer term ascii	Code (american standard code for information interchange)

Sports & Leisure

	Question	Answer
1	Which football player has played first team football for liverpool 658 times and for wales 67 times	Ian rush
2	Which grand prix racing team are based in woking, surrey	Mcclaren
3	Who was the first snooker player to score a maximum 147 break in world championship snooker	Cliff thorburn
4	California dolls is an 80's movie comedy about which sport	Wrestling
5	Who wore englands number 15 shirt during euro 2004	Owen hargreaves
6	Which footballer was sentenced to 3 months at ford open prison in 1984 for drink driving and assaulting a police officer	George best
7	He wears a no. 10 jersey, i thought it was his position but it turns out to be his iq who was george best describing	Paul gascoigne
8	In which game might you castle	Chess
9	Which famous sporting star was kidnapped in 1983	Shergar (racehorse)
10	Which central-eastern european country is dynamo kiev from	Ukraine

Tie Breaks

	Question	Answer
1	In which year were three points for a win introduced to the english league	1981
2	Venus williams holds the record for the fastest serve in tennis by a woman, but can anybody tell in miles per hour how fast the serve was	127. 4 mph
3	How much has nicolas anelka cost thus far	85 million
4	How many feature films did alfred hitchcock direct which had only one word in the title	15
5	Sir robin day was born on which date	24th october 1923
6	How many episodes of 'prisoner: cell block h' were made	692
7	A 50 year old bottle of glenfiddich whiskey is the most expensive bottle ever sold how much did it cost =	45200
8	As of the last census carried out in the uk (2001) what was the population of london (all 32 boroughs)	11620000
9	The tv series planet of the apes starring roddy mcdowell waas set in which year	3085
10	How much did sylvester stallone earn from his first rocky film that came out in 1976 (in dollars)	$23,000

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