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General knowledge
53. If you were a `chalkie` in Australia, what would your profession be?
Teaching
54. In which English county is the Queen`s private residence, Sandringham House?
Norfolk
55. Which American city is home to the Padres and the Chargers?
San Diego
56. Which American city is home to the Timberwolves, the Twins and the Vikings?
Minnesota
57. What do the names Charlie, Oscar, Victor, Mike and Juliet have in common?
They are names in the NATO phonetic alphabet
58. How many dots are there in total on a pair of dice?
42
59. What South American capital city has a name that means `our lady of peace`?
La Paz (the capital of Bolivia)
60. What is the capital city of the American state of Kansas?
Topeka
61. What is measured on the Mohs scale?
The hardness of minerals
62. What are Grey Dagger, Forester and Dingy Footman species of?
Moths
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Music Quiz
39. What do the letters O.M.D. stand for as in the name of the 1980s pop group who had hit singles including
'Joan Of Arc' and 'Locomotion'?
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
40. Who played bass guitar in the Beatles?
Paul McCartney
41. Which pop group named themselves after a fictional band from the novel 'A Clockwork Orange'?
Heaven 17
42. Alex Turner is the lead singer with which band?
Arctic Monkeys
43. Which song begins with the line 'The taxman's taken all my dough'?
'Sunny Afternoon' (by The Kinks)
44. What is the singer Prince's real first name?
Prince
45. How many quavers are there in a minim? 2, 4 or 8?
4
46. Which female vocalist sang on Eminem's hit song "Stan"?
Dido
47. What former "X-Factor" contestant had a top ten hit album called "Picture Of You" in 2007?
Ben Mills
48. By what name was singer Charles Weedon Westover better known, who committed suicide in
1990 by shooting himself?
Del Shannon
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Named After…
6. Which town in Yorkshire has liquorice based sweets named after it?
Pontefract (Pontefract cakes)
7. The Phillipines were named after which Philip II, king of which country?
Spain
8. What is the full name of the owner of the company AMSTRAD?
Alan Michael Sugar (AMSTRAD = Alan Michael Sugar TRADing)
9. Volgograd, a Russian city on the river Volga, was known until 1961 as what name?
Stalingrad
10. Dame Nellie Melba the Australian soprano was ill in the London Savoy in 1893, and would only
eat one thing that was later named in her honour. What was this?
Melba Toast (Note: Peach Melba was inspired by her singing at Covent Garden)
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Banned
6. Which movie, directed by Stanley Kubrick and released in 1972, was withdrawn from UK cinemas
a year later because of copycat sexual violence?
A Clockwork Orange
7. Who wrote the novel Lady Chatterley`s Lover, which was famously banned in the UK for breaking
obscenity laws?
D.H. Lawrence
8. Which novel by James Joyce was banned in 1922 under obscenity laws?
Ulysses
9. Which Anna Sewell novel was banned in some countries because of the word "black" in its title?
Black Beauty
10. Who was the female vocalist alongside Serge Gainsbourg on the song Je t’aime, which was banned
by the BBC in 1969 for sexual references?
Jane Birkin
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The Other One
6. Nelson Mandela was one of two men who were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993
for their role in ending apartheid in South Africa. Who was the other one?
Frederik Willem De Clerk
7. There are four British drivers taking part in the 2008 Formula One championship. Lewis Hamilton,
David Coulthard and Jenson Button are three of them, but who is the other one?
Anthony Davidson
8. Mars has two moons. Phobos is one, but what is the other one called?
Deimos
9. In the 1966 movie The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, Clint Eastwood played "the Good” and
Lee van Cleef played “the Bad”, but who played “the Ugly”?
Eli Wallach
10. During Margaret Thatcher’s years as Prime Minister, there were three Chancellors of the Exchequer.
Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson were two, but who was the other one?
John Major
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Movie Quotes
1. In which film was the famous quote “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” first spoken?
Gone With The Wind
2. Which actress spoke the line “Play it Sam... play As Time Goes By” in Casablanca?
Ingrid Bergman
3. “Nobody’s perfect” is the last line from which famous 1959 film?
Some Like It Hot
4. Which actor spoke the line “I love the smell of Napalm in the morning” in the film Apocolypse Now?
Robert Duvall
5. “You talking to me?” was a line famously spoken by Robert de Niro in the film Taxi Driver,
but what was the name of the character who said this?
Travis Bickle
6. With which movie would you associate the quote “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here –
this is the war room”?
Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
7. With which movie would you most associate the famous quote "Rosebud”?
Citizen Kane
8. “Why don’t you come up and see me” was said by Mae West in which 1933 movie?
She Done Him Wrong
9. “Made it, Ma – top of the world” was spoken by James Cagney in which 1949 movie?
White Heat
10. “Go ahead, make my day” was spoken by Clint Eastwood in which movie?
Sudden Impact
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Ships
1. Which famous ship was damaged by fire in May 2007 while undergoing restoration at
Greenwich in London?
The Cutty Sark
2. What was the name of Captain Nemo’s submarine?
Nautlius
3. The Black Pig was a ship belonging to which fictional character?
Captain Pugwash
4. Sir Francis Drake set off to circumnavigate the globe in 1577 in the Pelican, but renamed the
ship half way through his voyage. What new name did he give it?
The Golden Hind
5. What was the name of the raft used by Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean?
Kon-Tiki
6. What was the name of Hans Solo’s ship in Star Wars?
The Millennium Falcon
7. What is the name of the ferry service that links Hong Kong island to Kowloon across Victoria harbour?
Star Ferry
8. In 1989, which ship hit a reef in Prince William Sound in Alaska, causing a major oil spill?
Exxon Valdez
9. What was the name of the ship used by Squire Trelawney and Dr Livesey in the novel Treasure Island?
Hispaniola
10. What was the name of Quint’s fishing boat in the movie Jaws?
Orca
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Creatures of the night
1. What type of animal lives in a sett?
Badger
2. True or False: Vampire bats feed on blood?
True
3. What is the more common name for the bird that is sometimes called the goatsucker?
The Nightjar
4. Short-eared, long-eared, little, and horned are all types of which bird?
Owl
5. In a famous song that was first published in 1940, what type of bird sang in Berkeley Square?
A Nightingale
6. What nocturnal creature links a TV broadcasting network, a type of Volkswagen and the nickname
of Leicester Football Club?
Fox
7. How many species of bat are there in the UK? 7, 17 or 77?
17
8. Native to Madagascar, which nocturnal primate has a bony elongated finger that it uses to tap on trees
to find its food?
Aye-Aye
9. Heath Ledger plays which character in the 2008 film The Dark Knight?
The Joker
10. Death’s-head, large yellow underwing, tiger, and peppered are all types of which creature?
Moth
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Acronyms and Abbreviations
1. In government, what does the letter R stand for in DEFRA?
Rural (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
2. In industry, what does the letter D stand for in CAD?
Design (Computer Aided Design)
3. In diving, what does the B stand for in SCUBA?
Breathing (Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus)
4. In media, what does the letter C stand for in CNN?
Cable (Cable News network)
5. In European politics, what does the letter H stand for in ECHR?
Human (European Convention on Human Rights)
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