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10 questions from each category.

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Animals

	Question	Answer
1	What type of creatures are slugs and snails	Gastropods
2	Which animal has young called elver	The eel
3	Which large animals did hannibal bring with him across the alps	Elephants
4	The word ophidian refers to what sort of animal	Snake
5	What type of creature is a whydah	A bird
6	Which gentle creature did walt disney create in 1942	Bambi, the fawn
7	What was the first animal to be domesticated	Dog
8	What is the largest living bird	The ostrich
9	What kind of animal was willy in free willy	A killer whale
10	Which bird was the emblem of prussia	The eagle

Art & Literature

	Question	Answer
1	Which literary character had a dog called bulls eye	Bill sykes (oliver! )
2	Poets: with whom did w h auden collaborate on letters from iceland	Louis mcneice
3	What is the name of the russian national ballet	The kirov ballet
4	Dance: in 1905 who first danced the dying swan	Anna pavlova
5	Which famous book contains the line 'it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife'	Pride & prejudice
6	Impressionists: whose last great painting was 'a bar at the folies-bergere'	Edouard manet
7	Which famous book begins with the line 'the mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home'	The wind in the willows
8	By what name is the great italian sculptor & artist buonarroti better known	Michelangelo
9	Poets: who succeeded ted hughes as poet laureate	Andrew morton
10	Where is the worlds largest art gallery	Paris (lourve)

Blockbusters

	Question	Answer
1	What 'je' is a book by charlotte bronte	Jane eyre
2	What 'o' is a british international athlete, born in 1955	Ovett
3	What 'k' is a small australian bear	Koala
4	What 'w' is a simple card game	Whist
5	What 'e' is a small cream-filled cake topped with chocolate icing	Eclair
6	What 'u' takes. Over when an actor is sick	Understudy
7	What 'w' was the co-founder of the promenade concerts	Wood
8	What 'm' is a female singer and actress	Madonna
9	What 'h' is a cross between two different types of plants	Hybrid
10	What 'v' is a wanderer or vagrant and is considered a rascal	Vagabond

Entertainment

	Question	Answer
1	What was the name of the actress who played (melonie) on the show (webster and melonie)	Heather o' rourke
2	What was the name of captain pugwash's pirate ship	The black pig
3	What did walt disney turn tommy kirk into in 1959	The shaggy dog
4	Movie one liners: the old man was dreaming about the lions. '	The old man and the sea (1958)
5	Who played jane, the girlfriend of detective frank drebin, in the film (the naked gun)	Priscilla presley
6	Who played the birdman of alcatraz in the 1962 film	Burt lancaster
7	Who traveled pole to pole and around the world in 80 days	Michael palin
8	What is the sequel to bill and ted's excellent adventure	Bill and ted's bogus journey
9	Songs in films: elton john wrote & performed the songs for a film about 2 kids aged 14 & 15 who run off to a cottage to have a child of their own name the film	Friends
10	What is the real name of jem from jem and the holograms	Jerrica benton

Food & Drink

	Question	Answer
1	Which brewery makes 'abbot ale'	Greene king
2	Singapore banned which popular western foodstuff because of litter implicatons	Chewing guim
3	Blanket and honeycomb are both varieties of which food stuff	Tripe
4	What is a `kiwano', a spiky orange fruit, a fish dish, or a cocktail	A spiky orange fruit.
5	What nationality is the lager producer, `grolsch'	Dutch
6	How would you say 'house wine' in 'french'	Vin (de la) maison
7	Which is the most eaten fruit in the world	Banana
8	What does 'v. S. O. P' stand for on a bottle of wine or sherry	Very special old pale
9	Which country house in the south of england gives its name to a summer drink of claret, soda, and sugar	Badminton
10	What does it mean about the taste if a wine is described as 'brut'	Very dry

General Knowledge

	Question	Answer
1	What does the b stand for in lyndon b johnson	Baines (lyndon b johnson, 1908-73
2	Name all the members in the original lineup of the boyband east 17 (pfe)	Brian terry john tony
3	In which film did they say if god wanted to be a fish he'd be a whale	Moby dickl
4	How many numbers are there on a standard bingo card	15
5	Who directed alice doesn't live here anymore	Martin scorsese
6	Who wrote the childrens book (the adventures of abdi) which was published in november 2004	Madonna
7	In carpentry, 'countersunk', 'raised head and 'round head' are types of what	Screws
8	Abbreviations, what is unesco	United nations educational scientific and cultural organisation
9	What was the main competitor to vhs video	Betamax
10	In what 1982 film does richard gere star as a naval officer who falls in love with debra winger	An officer and a gentleman

Geography

	Question	Answer
1	Which is the largest lake in the british isles	Lough neagh in northern ireland
2	What is the worldÃ¢â¬â¢s most southerly capital	Wellington, new zealand
3	In which country is sapporo	Japan
4	Africa: at 2,900 what is africa's 2nd longest river, the 7th longest in the world	The congo
5	Name the largest cathedral in the world.	St. Peter's
6	Australia: what are the highest water falls in australia	The wollomombi falls new south wales
7	In which state is the mayo clinic	Minnesota
8	In which state is mount vernon	Virginia
9	Why did david livingstone go to africa	He was a missionary
10	Capitals: which asian capital's name means 'the city in the bend of a river'	Hanoi , vietnam

History

	Question	Answer
1	1980s: how many uk number ones did madonna have during the 80's	Six
2	1990s: which movie released in 1994 was the first animated disney feature not based on an existing story	The lion king
3	1980s: what was the claymation domino's pizza thing to avoid	The noid
4	1980s: which movie prompted the style of wearing cutoff sweatshirts over the shoulder	Flashdance
5	Natural history: what is a red admiral	Butterfly
6	Natural history: how many hearts does an octopus have	Three hearts
7	In what year did the vietnam war begin	1954
8	1980s: in which year was michael jacksons thriller album released	1982
9	1980s: what was the famous line uttered by an old woman in wendy's ads	Where's the beef
10	1970s: who released the 70's album entitled muswell hillbillies	Kinks

Music

	Question	Answer
1	She' was a hit for who in the mid 70's	Charles aznavour
2	Who co-wrote 'stop the world i want to get off' with anthony newley in 1960	Lionel bart
3	The spice girls had 3 successive uk no. 1's in 1996, 1997, 1998 name the 3 songs (pfe)	2 become 1, too much, goodbye
4	Which groups had hits with 'at the hop' & 'rock & roll is here to stay'	Danny & the juniors
5	What were the first names of the 3 original members of bananarama	Siobhan, sara, keren
6	How many revolutions per minute does an lp play at	33 & a third
7	Eurovision: which country has won the eurovision song contest the most times	Ireland
8	Was silence is golden credited to brian poole & the tremeloes or just the tremeloes	The tremeloes
9	Which band was formed in the 1970's by fomer miles davis band members joe zawinul & wayne shorter	Weather report
10	Which was the first group beginning with the letter v to have a no. 1 hit in the uk	The village people

Science & Nature

	Question	Answer
1	What material was invented by belgian-born us chemist leo baekeland in 1905	Bakelite
2	What venomous serpent is known as the gentlemen among snakes	The rattlesnake
3	Which element has the chemical symbol k	Potassium
4	What vaccine did edward jenner develop	The smallpox vaccine
5	What is the longest side of a right angled triangle called	It's hypotenuse
6	What is the psychological disorder which results in compulsive theft	Kleptomania
7	What is another name for the large intestines	The colon
8	Pc world have announced that they will no longer be selling what due to lack of demand	Floppy disks
9	What is the name of the russian space station, sent into orbit in 1986	Mir
10	What does a palaeontologist study	Fossils

Sports & Leisure

	Question	Answer
1	For which team did michael schumacher drive in his first grand prix in belgium in 1991	Jordan
2	Which darts world champion of the 80's had the first names of john thomas	Jocky wilson
3	What is the name of chicago's american football team	Bears
4	How many goals did france score in total in the 2002 world cup	Zero
5	There are 2 major league baseball teams in new york city cab you name them pfe	Yankees & the mets
6	Which midlands football club are nicknamed 'the rams''	Derby county
7	In which decade was the super bowl first contested	1960's
8	Who was the first snooker player to score a maximum 147 break in the world championships	Cliff thorburn
9	Name one of the 3 years in which the olympics were cancelled	1916, 1940, 1944
10	Which south american country do boca juniors come from	Argentina

Tie Breaks

	Question	Answer
1	In what year was the nspcc first founded	1884
2	In what year did plasticine first go on sale	1908
3	How many miles long is the m6	229 miles
4	In which year was the 999 service introduced into britain	1937
5	In what year was the battle of trafalgar	1805
6	How many bananas were used to make the worlds largest banana split	11333
7	Which year saw the deaths of george peppard, burt lancaster, & matt buzby	1994
8	How many copies did the band aid single 'do they know it's christmas' sell in its first week on release in the uk	292594
9	How many different herbs and spices are contained within a piece of kfc	Eleven
10	Approximately how many coffee beans make up an expresso measure	40

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