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Animals

	Question	Answer
1	Which bird was depicted on the rear of the farthing coin	Wren
2	Which small rodent , highly valued for it's fine , silky fur, lives almost exclusively high in the andes	Chinchilla
3	Which mammal has the longest gestation period	The african elephant
4	Which stage of an insects life cycle comes between egg and pupa	Larva
5	What is the most common uk bird	The blue tit
6	What features of the african elephant are larger that those of an indian elephant	The ears
7	Which is the largest living rodent	Capybara
8	What name is given to a female swan	Pen
9	What name is given to a creature equally at home on land and in water	Amphibian
10	The echidna, or spiny anteater , & the duck billed platypus shares a characteristic which does not apply to any other mammal what is it	They lay eggs

Art & Literature

	Question	Answer
1	In 1526 hans holbein became the officiaal portrait painter of which english king	Henry viii
2	American writers: whose book rosinante to the road again is set in spain after the first world war	John dos passos
3	What was michelangelo's first name	Michelangelo!!
4	What famous gothic novel was written by mary shelley	Frankenstein
5	What was the famous novel written in gaol, by john bunyan	Pilgim's progress
6	The renaissance: what was filippo brunelleschi's profession	Architect
7	American writers: which conflict provided the setting for ernest hemmingway's 'for whom the bell tolls'	Spainsh civil war
8	What is tthe ballet term for spinning on one foot	A piroutte
9	Which publishing company was founded in london in 1935 by allen lane	Penguin
10	Which english author created horatio hornblower	C. S. Forester

Blockbusters

	Question	Answer
1	What 'u' was discovered by herschel in 1781	Uranus
2	Which 'hsb' features captain furillo and his men on television	Hill street bllues
3	What 'u' was the warrior symbolically buried in westminster abbey on nov 11th 1920	Unknown
4	What 'm' goes before shine and after once in a blue	Moon
5	What 'tm' is a famous open space, not far from leeds, featured in a well known song	Ilkley moor
6	What 'ctc' does a cow do when eating	Chewing the cut
7	What 'o' appears in a newspaper after a person's death	Orbituary
8	What 'a' is the country that won the 2011 eurovision song contest	Azerbaijan
9	What 'l' is unevenly balanced or proportional	Lopsided
10	What 'l' are vegetables called little gems	Lettuce

Entertainment

	Question	Answer
1	Fawlty towers: what is mauels birthday present from basil	An umbrella
2	Nostalgia: what nationality was the inventor of the rubiks cube	Hungarian
3	When he died, 100,000 people filed past his coffin. Who was he	Rudolph valentino
4	Nostalgia: what cereal was tasty, tasty very very tasty!!	Kellog's bran flakes
5	Movie one liners: he said he wanted his wife to get this letter, didn't he? He said there was nobody to look after the kids, didn't he? '	The ox-bow incident (1943)
6	Movie gangsters: in which film do james cagney & humphrey bogart appear together for the 3rd and final time	The roaring 20's
7	Big brother: who was the very first person to be evicted from the bb house	Sada walkington
8	Hospital shows: which hospital show featured a pathologist who had a penchant for making love in the morgue	St elsewhere
9	To date (2007) for which two films has clint eastwood won a best director oscar (pfe)	Million dollar baby & unforgiven
10	Films at sea: what was the name of captain nemo's submarine in the 1954 film 20,000 leagues under the sea	The nautilus

Food & Drink

	Question	Answer
1	Gnocchi is a food from italy. What is it	Small dumplings made of potato, flour or semolina
2	What is the head waiter at a french restaurant called	Maitre d' or maitre d' hotel
3	Which cereal is the only one grown standing in water	Rice
4	What is the main ingredient in meringue	Egg whites
5	What was bretts last supper in the film pulp fiction (food and beverage)	A big kahuna (cheese)burger and sprite
6	Which german spirit is flavoured with caraway seeds and distilled from potatoes	Schnapps
7	Which country is the source of stilton cheese	England
8	What is the basic ingredient of the indonesian dish nasi goreng	Rice
9	How are tandoori dishes cooked	In a clay oven (tandoor)
10	What is amontillado	Sherry

General Knowledge

	Question	Answer
1	In medicine, which i is a respirator consisting of an airtight metal chamber encasing the body	Iron lung
2	What french term beginning with the letter c is given to a road closed at one end	Cul-de-sac
3	Which 1981 hit for the pointer sisters is also the nickname for eric clapton	Slow hand
4	In which city is the headquarters of the international monetary fund	Washington dc
5	Which saint's feast day is the 15th july	Swithen
6	In television, which us sitcom created spin-offs mork and mindy and laverne and shirley	Happy days
7	Who was the greek goddess of divine punishment	Nemesis
8	What was the name of the first ever communications satellite	Telstar
9	Abbreviations, what is gnp	Gross national product
10	What item was stolen in march 1966 that made news headlines	The world cup

Geography

	Question	Answer
1	In which country is sapporo	Japan
2	What country consists mainly of the jutland peninsula	Denmark
3	New york: which mayor of new york city was awarded an honorary knighthood in 2001	Rudi giuliani
4	Which cambridge bridge took its name from an architectural masterpiece in venice	The bridge of sighs (st johns college)
5	Who established a colony at roanoke island & christened it (virginia) in honour of elizabeth i, the virgin queen	Sir walter raleigh
6	Africa: zanzibar lies off the coast of which country	Tanzania
7	Russia: what was the name of gorbachev's predecessor	Konstantin cherenko
8	Mountains: which australian mountain was discovered by a polish explorer & named after one of his countrymen	Mount kosciusko
9	What is a sextant used to measure	The angle of the sun or stars above a horizon
10	Of which settlement did local people invite sir francis drake to become king	San francisco

History

	Question	Answer
1	Mottos & epitaphs: who penned his own epitaph 'here lies one whose name was writ in water'	John keats
2	1970s: who released the 70's album entitled deja vu	Csny
3	1990s: what was madonna's biggest hit of 1990	Vogue
4	What was the name of charles lindbergh's plane in which he completed the first non-stop solo trans-atlantic flight	Spirit of st louis (achieved in 1927)
5	1970s: who released the 70's album entitled slayed	Slade
6	Firsts: which was the marx brothers first film	Coconuts
7	2000s: former goalkeeper luke mccormick started a prison sentence in oct 2008 for the murder of 2 children following a drink drive accident, for which club did he play	Plymouth
8	1980s: what late night news show became popular in the eighties after the iranian hostage takeover	Nightline
9	Religion & myth: of which religion is sufism a branch	Islam
10	1980s: what was the name of david hasselhoff's talking car in knight ridder	Kitt

Music

	Question	Answer
1	What stevie wonder song was recorded by 'beck bogart and appice'	Superstition
2	Father abraham was the guiding light for which hit making figures	The smurfs
3	Rock & roll revival band 'sha na na' appeared as johnny casino & the gamblers in which film	Grease
4	Whose debut solo album was 'i got dem kosmic blues again mama' in 1969	Janis joplin
5	According to the lyrics of the song 'house of the rising sun'' what was the occupation of his mother	Tailor
6	Who sung their own theme before moving on to a 'superfly guy'	S express
7	About which jazz player was ain't misbehavin	Fats waller
8	Crazy train' & 'mr crowley' were songs from whose 'blizzard of ozz'	Ozzy osbourne
9	Who had a hit in 1993 with 'she don't let nobody'	Chaka demus & pliers
10	Name one of big country's two top ten hits of 1983	Fields of fire & chance

Science & Nature

	Question	Answer
1	To which family does the jay belong	Crow
2	What does a. M stand for on radios	Amplitude modulation
3	Paleontologist sir richard owen is credited with coining the name 'dinosaur' in 1841. From greek origin what is the rough translation of the term	Terrible lizard (deinos saurus)
4	What is the name of stephen hawkins famous cosmology book published in 1998	A brief history of time
5	What is the more common name for sodium chloride	Salt
6	How many legs per segment does a millipede have	4 legs
7	What causes the inflammation resulting from touching a stinging nettle	Formic acid
8	How many faces has the solid a dodecahedron	12
9	Which contemporary scientist is suffering from from motorneurone disease	Steven hawkins
10	Who propsed the theory of relativity	Albert einstein

Sports & Leisure

	Question	Answer
1	Who was the first football transfer over 10m between english clubs	Alan shearer (blackburn-newcastle in 96)
2	Which water sport was introduced to the olympics at sydney 2000	Water polo
3	Who was the first man to jump 8 feet in the high jump	Javier sotomayor, cuba
4	Who beat muhammad ali in 1978 to assume his world heavyweight title	Leon spinks
5	How many times do entrants hurdle the water jump in the steeplechase	7 times
6	In which us state is augusta golf course	Georgia
7	Which american horse race is run at churchill downs	The kentucky derby
8	Who was the first english player to play in 50 internationals	Rory underwood
9	Which country turned the five nations into six in rugby	Italy
10	Who was the last player to captain england before david beckham	Martin keown

Tie Breaks

	Question	Answer
1	In which year was the nhs established	1948
2	How many weeks did the soundtrack to the 'sound of music'' spend in the uk album charts	382 weeks
3	In what year was the breathalyzer first introduced	1967
4	In the crash test dummies song mmm mmm mmm how many mmm's are there in total	24 mmm's
5	Grown in 1996 how long is the longest carrot ever recorded (feet & inches)	16. 10 inches
6	In which year was desert island discs first broadcast	1942
7	In miles per hour, what is the average speed of a raindrop	7 mph
8	How many 1 litre coke bottle labels stuck together would it take to make a standard size sleeping bag	85 labels!!
9	How many islands are there in indonesia	17508
10	What is the maximum speed of a raindrop in miles per hour	18 mph

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