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No | Airlines of the World

Sabena is the national airline of which country?

Which airline is the national carrier for Switzerland?

British Airways was formed in the mid 1970s when the two state-owned
airlines were amalgamated. What were the names of the two airlines?

TAP is the national airline of which country?

SAS is the joint national carrier for which three countries?

Which former great US airline filed for bankruptcy in February 1998?

LH is the flight prefix for which national airline?

Where does Cathay Pacific Airways have its base?

In February 1921, why did all British airlines cease to operate for several weeks,
leaving services entirely to foreign competition?

Using airships to transport fare-paying passengers, Delag was the world’s first
commercial airline; in which European country was it based?

Answers
No 2 Airports

The airports of Linate and Malpensa serve which city?

Keflavik is the main international airport for which country?

Which airport has the code LHR?

What is the main international airport for New York?

What is the name for Amsterdam’s international airport?

O’Hare serves which US city?

Which was Paris’s main international airport before Charles de Gaulle opened?

Which London Underground line serves Heathrow Airport?

Opened in 1919, where was London’s first airport located?

To where was London’s airport moved in 1920?

Answers
No 3 Famous Belgians

Who is Agatha Christie’s dapper super-sleuth?

Which playwright and Nobel prizewinner wrote Pelleas and Melisande?

In which sport did Eddie Merckx excel?

Which actor starred in the films Double Impact and Universal Soldier?

Which famous driver was involved in several forms of motor sport including
Formula | with Ferrari?

Which composer is famous for his Symphony in D minor and The Haunted
Huntsman?

Which Flemish painter’s famous works include The Suicide of Saul and The
Triumph of Death?

What did singer Sandra Kim win in 1986?

What is the better-known name of George Remi, writer of books about the
exploits of a certain young adventurer and his dog, ‘Snowy’?

What was the name of the song by Jeanne Deckers (‘The Singing Nun’) which
became a worldwide hit in the early 1960s?

Answers
No 4 National Anthems

The British National Anthem shares its tune with that contained in which
German composer’s Jubilee Overture?

What is the National Anthem of the USA called?

Which country has as its anthem The Soldier’s Song?

Which country has as its anthem La Marseillaise?

The German National Anthem’s tune is an adaptation of a composition by

which Austro-Hungarian composer?

Storm Over the Tatras is the national anthem of which country?

Which country’s anthem’s first line starts with “Yumi, yumi, yumi’?

“O ____ our home and native land.” is the first line of which country’s national
anthem (the line here takes the place of the name of the country)?

The EU anthem, using the lines from Ode to Joy by Schiller, is taken from the
finale of which composer’s last symphony?

Scotland has no official national anthem, but contenders include Scotland the
Brave, Flower of Scotland and which other possibility?

Answers
No 5 The Crusades

The Crusades were brought about as a result of the capture of which holy city
in 1076?

In 1095, which pope persuaded European Christians to fight to regain the holy
city?

In which year did the First Crusade set out for the Holy Land?

In the year 1212, large numbers made up two Crusader groups from France and
Germany. What was unusual about these two groups?

Which great Muslim leader recaptured the holy city in 1187?

Which English king was one of the main leaders of the Third Crusade, and was
held captive on his return journey by Duke Leopold of Austria?

Which Crusade was the last to be undertaken, in 1271-2?

Which German Christian reformer condemned the Church’s involvement with

the Crusades in his theses of 1517?

What was the name of the monastic military order, formed at the end of the
First Crusade to protect Christian pilgrims en route to the Holy Land?

In which modern-day country is Kerak, scene of a great siege by Saladin in 1183?

Answers
No 6 Explorers

In which ship did Captain Robert Scott set sail in 1901 on his voyage to the
Antarctic?
Scott’s last expedition, an attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole, was
brought to a tragic end in which year?
Which Conquistador explorer made important discoveries in South America
but destroyed the Inca civilisation in the process?
Which German explorer has, amongst other things, a glacier, a lake, several
towns, a moon-crater and a mountain named after him?
Which Welsh-born explorer uttered the famous words “Doctor Livingstone, |
presume’?
Which 13th century Venetian explorer is famed for his explorations across
Asia?
In 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail to try to find a western route to the
Orient; where did he make landfall?
Roald Amundsen achieved two great goals; the most famous was leading the
first expedition to reach the South Pole, but what was the other?
Which Irish monk made voyages out into the Atlantic during the sixth century,
and is thought by some to have discovered North America?
Who led the first successful trans-antarctic crossing expedition in 1957-58?

Answers
No 7 The Bible — Genesis

From what did God create Adam?

God renamed Abraham from which former name?

Who was the son of Abraham and Sarah?

In Genesis 19.26 what fate befalls Lot’s wife?

What were the names of the twin sons of Isaac and Rebekah?

After selling Joseph into slavery, how did his brothers convince their father,
Jacob, that Joseph had been killed?

7 Joseph is later sold on to which pharaohic officer?

What service does Joseph provide to the pharaoh?

What age was Abraham when he died?

How old was Joseph when he died?

Answers
No 8 African Geography

Which body of water separates the Horn of Africa and the Arabian peninsula?

Lake Kariba is located on the borders of Zimbabwe and which other country?

Which major island lies in the Indian Ocean opposite the coast of
Mozambique?

The construction of which dam on the River Nile created the world’s largest
artificial lake?

Ndjamena is the capital of which country, a former part of French Equatorial

Africa?

Port Sudan stands on the shore of which body of water?

Cyrenaica is a region of which country?

Which capital city stands on the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile?

What is the name for the city of Al Qahirah in English-speaking countries?

With its capital at Windhoek and its main seaport at Walvis Bay, which
country, a former German colony, was once known as South West Africa?

Answers
No 9 Photography

Who invented the first photographic process?

Which famous company was founded by George Eastman in the 19th century?

What was the important invention by American D A Woodward in 1857?

Who invented cinematography in 1895?

Which German company manufactured the Leica camera range?

Which Japanese company produced the first generally available SLR cameras
with through-the-lens light-metering in the 1960s?

What factor denotes the resolving power of digital cameras?

What factor denotes the sensitivity of photographic film?

In 1840, John Draper took what is believed to be the first image of what
subject?

10 James Clerk Maxwell invented which process in 1861?

Answers
No 10 Deserts

The world’s driest place is in which South American desert?

Which desert lies mainly within Botswana in southern Africa?

In which country is the Nafud Desert?

Which desert expands southward by about 20 km a year?

In which American state is the Mojave Desert?

The Sahara is the world’s largest hot desert, but can you name the second
largest?

Which is Asia’s largest desert?

What is a ‘haboob’ in the Sahara?

In terms of average annual rainfall, what is the definition of a desert?

What is an ‘erg’?

Answers
No II European Geography

The Dodecanese Islands are located in which sea?

Which town is the seaport for Athens?

What is the present day name for the Adriatic town known as Ragusa in
ancient times?

In which country is Lake Inari?

The Monte Rosa massif straddles the frontier of which two countries?

Mount Triglav is the highest mountain of which country?

What is the northernmost point in continental Europe?

Which sea strait separates Denmark and Sweden?

What is the name of the Russian enclave on the Baltic Sea which is enclosed
by Poland and Lithuania?

At 233,000 square miles, which is Europe’s largest country (Russia excluded)?

Answers
No 12 Fabrics & Materials

Which two cities have been said to make up an acronym which gave the name
‘nylon’?

The fibres of which plant are used to make sisal?

From what is Rayon produced?

Which dyeing process originated in Indonesia and involves the use of a wax
masking technique?

Which port of the Caspian Sea gives its name to a type of wool produced in
the region?

Which fabric is a closely-woven twill, usually of cotton and wool, commonly

used for raincoats?

What is the common name for a woman’s scarf usually made of feathers?

How does denim get its name?

What was George de Mestral’s clever fastening invention of 1948?

What is generally thought to be the optimum ratio of wool to nylon in

carpeting products?

Answers
No 13 The FA Cup

In which year did Wembley first host the FA Cup Final?

How old was Stanley Matthews when he won his first FA Cup Winners’ medal?

Who was the first player to have a penalty kick saved in a Wembley FA Cup
final?

In the 1990s, which player played both for and against Chelsea in FA Cup finals?

Who was the first goalkeeper to captain an FA Cup-winning team?

Which two clubs featured in the first London derby FA Cup Final held at
Wembley?

In 1993, which team became the first to win both the FA Cup and League Cup
in the same season?

Who, in May 2000, scored the winning goal in the last FA Cup Final to be
staged at Wembley Stadium before its redevelopment?

In the period of construction of the new Wembley Stadium, which venue is

used to stage the FA Cup Final?

As at 2005, which club has won the trophy the most times?

Answers
No 14 Shakespeare

Which two feuding families appear in Romeo and Juliet?

Who was the wife of William Shakespeare?

“A young man married is a man that’s marr’d.” From which play does this
quotation come?

Which play is set in Athens and in a forest nearby?

What is the full title of the play Cymbeline?

Kiss Me Kate was a musical based on which of Shakespeare’s plays?

Which play includes the characters Leontes, King of Sicily, and his wife
Hermione?

Which King had daughters named Cordelia, Regan and Goneril?

‘All the world’s a stage...’ is a line from which play?

Which play is set in the kingdom of Navarre during the |4th century?

Answers
No 15 The Middle East

Which country was invaded by Iraq in 1990?

In which country would you find the ancient city of Petra?

Which peninsula separates the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba?

Damascus is the capital of which country?

The Dead Sea is shared by which two countries?

The Saudi Arabian port city of Jeddah stands on the shore of which sea?

Known as the Trucial States until 1971, what is this federation of seven states
on the Persian Gulf now called?

In which year was the state of Israel admitted to the United Nations?

Which city is called El Quds by the Arabs?

Which port and holiday resort lies at the narrow southern coastline of Israel?

Answers
No 16 Nursery Rhymes

In The Animals Went In Two By Two, which two pairs went in first?

In which nursery rhyme is the line ‘The sheep’s in the meadow, the cow’s in the
corn?

In Who Killed Cock Robin, who saw him die?

In Rain, Rain Go Away, where is the rain persuaded to go?

For what did Simple Simon go fishing?

What is the last line of Oranges and Lemons?

Why did the old lady who swallowed a fly later swallow a bird?

Which nursery rhyme has its origins from when James VI of Scotland became
James | of England and the unification of the two countries?

Which king had ‘fiddlers three’?

Which unlikely avian-feline partnership made an aquatic-borne journey to

a land where, after acquiring a ring from a motionless porcine, they were
matrimonially conjoined by a flightless, elevated terrain dwelling avian of a type
much favoured at Yuletide?

Answers
No 17 Cats

Which Roman goddess is said to have sometimes assumed the form of a cat?

What is the generally accepted maximum possible lifespan of the domestic cat?

In official cat shows there are sections for different types of cat; to which
section do Devon Rex and Cornish Rex belong?

What physical feature denotes a Manx cat?

From where does the slang name ‘moggie’ originate?

In Norse mythology, cats pulled the chariot of which goddess?

What is the common term for upper respiratory tract disease in cats?

Which member of the cat family is the largest to roam free in Europe?

Eva Gabor and Maurice Chevalier provided the voice parts for the two main
characters of which cartoon cat film?

Approximately how long has the common house-cat been domesticated?

Answers
No 18 Islands

Which island (Australia excluded) is the world’s largest?

Majorca, Minorca and Ibiza are the main islands of which group?

Which group of islands lie in the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 400 miles west
of Dakar in Senegal?

Which island lies at the toe of Italy?

Which Canadian island lies to the east of the Gulf of St Lawrence?

The Caribbean island of Hispaniola is shared between Haiti and which other
country?

The Azores are administered by which country?

Which Pacific island group, lying about 600 miles west of Ecuador, is associated
with Charles Darwin?

Which island in the Barents Sea, to the north of Russia, was extensively used
by the Soviet Union for nuclear bomb testing during the 20th century?

Which island lies about eleven miles north of Hartland Point in Devon?

Answers
No 19 Medicine

The synthesis of which naturally occurring chemical is the basis of aspirin?

Which common medicine came originally from the bark of the Andean
Cinchona tree?

What is the proper medical term for blood-poisoning?

Which disease is caused by inflammation of the membrane covering the brain

and spinal cord?

How does whooping cough fundamentally differ from chickenpox?

Which disease is commonly known as ‘lockjaw’ because of difficulty in opening

the mouth?

Which disease was declared to be eradicated worldwide in 1980?

What kind of infections cause athlete’s foot and ringworm?

The drug ‘Reyataz’ is used for the treatment of which condition?

The organisation RCHM was set up in 1987 to provide information about, and
to regulate which area of medicine?

Answers
No 20 Record Companies

For which company did the Beatles record most of their work?

In 2004 which company did the Rolling Stones try to take to court over a
royalties dispute?

American label CBS was bought by which corporation in 1988?

What did the initials CBS stand for?

In 1986 the American RCA label was acquired by which German media
conglomerate?

Reprise Records was set up by which singer after he stopped recording with
Capitol?

The year 1959 saw the start of which label, in the American city of Detroit?

Blue Note Records specialises in which kind of music?

Melodiya was the state-run label of which country?

Which British label was marketed as ‘London’ in the USA?

Answers
No 21 Twentieth Century Classical Music

Which composer’s ballet caused a riot at the first performance, which took
place in Paris in 1913?

Whose eighth symphony involved over a thousand performers at its premiere

in 1908?

Which composer’s muse deserted him for the last 30 years of his life before
his death in 1957?

Which British composer’s first symphony is known as A Sea Symphony?

Which composer’s seventh symphony is known as the Leningrad, being mostly

composed there during the German siege of World War II?

Which German composer wrote the Four Last Songs?

Which of Gustav Holst’s Planets is missing?

Which Austrian composer, who was driven out of his country by the Nazis
and settled in the US, wrote the opera Moses and Aaron?

What nationality was Jon Leifs, who composed music inspired by the
impressive geography and geology of his native country eg Hekla and Geysir?

Whose first symphony is known as the Classical Symphony?

Answers
No 22 The Incas

| Where did the Incas make their capital city, the name of which is still retained?

From whom did the Incas believe they were descended?

Across how many parts of modern-day countries did the Inca Empire stretch?

At its height, what was the population of the Inca Empire?

Which Inca fortress was discovered in 1911 and declared a World Heritage site
in 1983?

Which of their gods did the Incas consider to be the most important?

In what form did the average Inca pay his ‘taxes’?

Who led the Conquistador army which discovered the Inca Empire in 1532, an
event which was to subsequently cause the rapid decline of the Incas?

Educationally, what did the Incas do to boys and girls at age thirteen?

What were Quechua and Aymara to the Incas?

Answers
No 23 Waterfalls

| Which falls are the world’s highest?

In which country are four of the world’s ten highest waterfalls?

Which falls pass the greatest volume of water?

In which country are the waterfalls Gullfoss and Dettifoss?

On 4th May 1891, who, along with his arch-enemy, met his ‘death’ on plunging
into the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland?

In which country are the Krimml Falls?

In which US national park is the Bridalveil waterfall?

Which waterfall is the highest in the UK?

Where in England are the Aysgarth Falls?

Which river flows over the Victoria Falls?

Answers
No 24 Food

What are ‘angels on horseback’?

Which dish comprises round slices offillet steak with sautéed truffles and foie
gras, and was named after an Italian composer?

Which pudding is said to have been named after the Swiss mountain resort of
Meiringen?

What is ‘gravlax’?

In which country would you find a ‘carpetbag’ steak?

What is the general meaning of the word ‘julienne’?

What is the name of the Hungarian paprika-flavoured stew?

Which meat is normally used in Wiener schnitzel?

What are the usual main ingredients of ‘bubble and squeak’?

What is the name for the selection of hot and cold hors d’oeuvres of meat and
vegetables served in Eastern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries?

Answers
No 25 Mental Arithmetic

What is the sum total of 60 multiplied by 3, plus 175?

What is 1050 divided by 50?

How many days are there in the period (both dates inclusive) Ist January 2005
to 3lst December 2008?

Can you multiply a soccer team by the cardinal points on a compass, double
the figure and divide by II?

How many millimetres are there in one kilometre?

If you had a 1:50 scale drawing of a 10 metre by 5 metre area, what would be
the actual area as drawn on paper (in square centimetres)?

A man drives 261 miles. His average speed, when travelling, is 58 mph. He
makes two stops, of 16 and I] minutes. What is his total journey time?

The Earth is about 25,000 miles in diameter; light travels at 186,000 miles per
second. How many full Earth-revolutions will light travel in one second?

What is the cube root of 64?

What is the area of a right-angled triangle if the two shortest sides are 10
inches by 8 inches?

Answers
No 26 Poetry

An old children’s favourite, The Owl and the Pussycat, was written by whom?

Who wrote The Prisoner of Chillon?

Which famous poem ends with ‘...And my soul from out that shadow that lies
floating on the floor, shall be lifted — nevermore!’ ?

Who wrote Prometheus Unbound?

Which English-born poet wrote The Age of Anxiety and Night Mail?

Which Poet Laureate, author and broadcaster, who died in 1984, wrote Slough?

Which poem opens with ‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close
bosom-friend of the maturing sun’?

Which American poet wrote The Death of the Hired Man and Fire and Ice?

Who wrote the poem Jerusalem?

What is the term for a poem whose narrative is meant to be symbolic rather
than literal?

Answers
No 27 Flags of Europe

Which country’s flag is a white band across the middle of a red background?

Which country’s flag is a bold white cross on a red background?

A horizontal tricolour of red, white and blue, this flag is common to which
two countries?

Which country’s flag is a vertical tricolour of green, white and orange?

Which five countries’ flags have in common a cross of one or two colours on
a single colour background, the vertical stripe being closer to the hoist side?

Which country’s flag is a vertical tricolour of black, gold and red?

Which country’s flag is a horizontal tricolour of black, red and gold?

Which country’s flag is a series of white stripes on a blue background with a

white cross at the top of the hoist side?

Which principality’s flag comprises two horizontal half sections, the upper
being red and the lower white?

Which flag carries a symbol of the George Cross at its hoist side?

Answers
No 28 Famous Ships

Which British warship met her end in May 1941, taking with her over 1400
sailors to the bottom of the Denmark Strait?

Which ship carried Sir Francis Drake on his circumnavigation of the world
between 1577 and 1580?

Which German battleship was sunk on 27th May 1941 on what was to be her
only voyage?

Which shipping line took delivery of the new Queen Mary II in 2003?

Which ocean liner was hijacked by Palestinians in the Mediterranean in 1985?

Which was the first steamship to make regular crossings of the Atlantic?

Britannic and Olympic were members of a trio of sister-ships; what was the name
of the third ship?

What were the names of the two ships used on Captain James Ross’s
expedition to the Antarctic in 1839-43?

What was the name of the ship first served on by Horatio Hornblower in the
books by C S Forester?

Which RN survey ship sailed nearly 80,000 nautical miles from 1872 to 1876?

Answers
No 29 Minerals & Gems

Who made famous the song Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend in the film
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes?

Which mineral is able to be cut and polished to look like diamonds and is
virtually indistinguishable from the ‘real thing’?

Which gemstone can be yellow, blue, orange or colourless?

Emerald and aquamarine are varieties of which stone?

What is the common name for iron pyrite; a mineral which has caused dismay
to many a prospector?

Which precious stone, normally seen in dark red or brown varieties, can
commonly occur in any colour, except blue which is very rare?

The Bible states that wisdom is more precious than which precious stone?

What did the ancient Chinese regard as the Royal Gemstone?

What is the more romantic name of the Cullinan diamond?

What kind of gem is the ‘Star of India’?

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No 30 Birds

What name is given to the study of birds?

‘King’ and ‘emperor’ are types of which flightless bird?

What is the name of the organ, found in many species of bird, used for storing
food?

Which is the only bird capable of flying backwards?

Which South American flightless bird is a distant cousin of the ostrich?

Which type of swan is the smallest to be found in the UK?

Which bird is the most common member of the crow family in the UK?

Which seabird is similar to, but smaller than, the cormorant?

Diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory drug given to livestock, has been identified

with a 95% decline in the population of which type of Asian bird?

Found in Scotland in April 2006, H5NI refers to which disease in birds?

Answers
No 31 Ice Skating

How many gold medals did Eric Heiden win in the speed-skating at the 1980
Lake Placid Olympics?

The 1961 World Figure-Skating Championships were cancelled due to the

entire team of which country being killed in an air crash?

Where were the 2005 World Figure-Skating Championships held?

Which British skater won the Men’s World Figure-Skating Championship in

19762

Who won the Women’s World Figure-Skating Championship four times in the
1980s?

At which Winter Olympics did Torvill and Dean stun the world with their
‘Bolero’ routine?

Norwegian Axel Paulsen was the first to do it, then Dick Button doubled it in
1948. What was it?

Where are the 2006 World Synchronized Skating Championships to be held?

Which female Olympic skater was physically attacked to prevent her from
competing in the US Championships in 1994?

Which female Norwegian skater (1912-1969) was nicknamed the ‘Pavlova of

the Ice’?

Answers
No 32 Drinks

What is the name of the cocktail made with vodka and orange juice?

From which country does the wine ‘Bull’s Blood’ originate?

‘A spirit obtained by distillation from a mash of cereal grains saccharified by

the diastase of malt’ is a definition of which popular drink?

The spirit, aquavit, comes from which part of Europe?

What is the name of the resinated wine of Greece?

In wine-making, what does secondary fermentation produce?

From which country does Red Stripe lager come?

What name is given to the largest available champagne bottle size?

What was the drink invented in 1898 by Caleb Bradham and still popular over
a hundred years on?

Seen on the labels of cognac bottles, what do the initials VSOP stand for?

Answers
No 33 Bridges

Which bridge connects the East Riding of Yorkshire with North Lincolnshire?

Which is Britain’s most famous hydraulically-operated bascule bridge?

Which river does the bridge at Arnhem in Holland cross?

In which European city does the Charles Bridge cross the River Vitava?

Which bridge is the world’s highest (ie above the ground, not above sea-level)?

Which is the world’s longest bridge?

In 2001, President Mubarak of Egypt opened the world’s longest swing-span

bridge. Which stretch of water does this bridge cross?

In December 1879, which Scottish bridge collapsed, taking with it a train and
causing 75 fatalities?

In London, HMS Belfast lies between Tower Bridge and which other bridge?

The Great Belt Bridge connects the islands of Zealand and Funen in which
country?

Answers
No 34 The Aztecs

The Aztec civilisation was located in which present-day country?

For what purpose did the Aztecs build pyramids?

What were Quetzalcoatl and Tlaloc to the Aztecs?

Now very popular all over the world what was xoco-atl to the Aztecs?

The Aztec city of Tenochtitlan was the site of which present-day city?

Unlike the Incas, gold was not thought to be precious to the Aztecs. Which
precious stone did they prize above gold?

Which Aztec hero has a volcano named after him?

After the arrival of which European adventurer in 1519 did the Aztec Empire
rapidly decline?

Who was the last Aztec emperor, killed by the Spanish conquistadors in 1520?

What was the alternative name for the Aztecs?

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No 35 International Organisations

What is the full title of the international OECD, which was founded in 1961 to
promote the economic growth of its member states?

Which organisation was initially formed by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and
Venezuela in 1960?

Which organisation did the United Nations replace in 1945?

What is UNHCR?

What is UNICEF?

What is OAU?

What is ESA, which celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in 2005?

Eire left in 1949, South Africa left in 1961 and re-joined in 1994; can you name
the relevant organisation?

Trygve Lie was the first Secretary General of which organisation?

Britain, USA, Japan, Germany and France hold the five permanent executive
directorships of which financial organisation?

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No 36 Crime & Punishment

In which year was capital punishment abolished in the UK?

Who was the last woman to hang in the UK, in 1955?

For how many years was Great Train Robber, Ronnie Biggs sentenced to
prison?

Which playwright died in a tavern brawl in 1593?

Who shot and killed John Lennon in 1980?

Who was brought to trial in 1962, accused of being the ‘A6 Murderer’?

On 3rd January 1981, which serial killer was finally caught after a five-year reign
of terror in the north of England?

In which English city is Strangeways Prison?

What was the strange crime of German computer technician Armin Meiwes,
who was brought to trial in 2003?

On 19th August 1987, in which English town did Michael Ryan shoot dead
sixteen people, including his mother, before killing himself?

Answers
No 37 Fairy Stories

In which country were Hans Christian Andersen’s tales published before being
published in his native Denmark?

How many mattresses did the Princess sleep on, even though she could still feel
the pea through all of them?

Who slept in a walnut shell for a cradle?

Which Hans Christian Andersen tale is about self-delusion, trickery and a

child’s innocence?

Which American singer/actor sang The Ugly Duckling?

Whose naivety resulted in the demise of herself and six other avians whilst on
their way to report doubts about the sky’s ability to remain aloft?

Who let down her hair for the prince to join her in the tower?

Who is Dornréschen in German-speaking countries?

In which Grimm’s tale does the wicked witch end up in the oven?

Which animal first helped, and then ate, the gingerbread man?

Answers
No 38 Modern Inventions

What was American, Robert Goddard’s main contribution to rocket

technology with his ‘first’ of 1926?
We have Carlton Cole Magee to thank for which ‘aid’ to car parking, his
invention of 1932?
In 1940, a CBS team led by Peter Goldmark was credited with the invention of
which first successful entertainment medium?
Which invention of 1950 was introduced as a means to settle restaurant bills
without cash payment?
Which invention of the 1950s, worked on simultaneously and separately by
Kilby and Noyce, revolutionised the computer and electronics industries?

Stephanie Kwolek led the research by the DuPont company which resulted in
the invention of which material, used in bullet-proof jackets etc?

Which revolutionary communications system was invented by Tim Berners-Lee

in 19892
In 1980, a vaccine against which disease affecting the liver was co-invented by
Blumberg and Millman?

Which invention was first usefully applied to a packet of chewing gum in 1974?
Which invention resulted from a melted bar of chocolate at a radar station?

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No 39 Martial Arts

| Kung fu originated in which country?

2 Which martial art, brought to the West in the 1950s, translates from the
Japanese as ‘harmony energy way’?

In which martial art are opponents allowed to hit with fists and feet, but only
above the hip?

4 Judo is a development of which martial art?

What is the translation into English of the Japanese word ‘kendo’?

In 2005 Craig Fallon became World Champion in which martial art?

In which year was judo introduced into the Olympic Games?

Which martial art may feature for the first time in the 2012 Olympics?

What is the BNMAA?

Which martial arts film star was born in San Francisco in 1940?

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No 40 Opera

What is the name of the cycle of four operas by Wagner, which is based on old
German legends?

Rigoletto, La Traviata and II Trovatore are operas by which composer?

Which opera by Weber tells the story of a hunter who sells his soul to acquire
magic bullets?

Which tragic opera by Puccini contains the aria which translates as “Your tiny
hand is frozen’?

From which opera by Mascagni does the famous Easter Hymn come?

Based on a novel by Pushkin, the opera Eugene Onegin was composed by whom?

What was Beethoven’s only opera?

In which opera do the characters Queen of the Night, Tamino and Pamina
appear?

Who composed the music for the opera Boris Godunov?

Which opera by Richard Wagner contains the famous wedding march, known
as Here Comes the Bride?

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No 41 Musical Instruments

What is a Gibson Flying V?

Which I7th and |8th century Italian family is renowned as makers of violins?
The founder, Andrea, was a pupil of Amati.

In an orchestra, what is a commonly-used term for a large gong?

The saxophone is not just one instrument but a whole family. How many
commonly used saxophones are there?

Which electronic musical instrument was invented by Leon Termen, a Russian

cellist and electronics engineer, in 1917?

What is a marimba?

In Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade, which solo instrument depicts the heroine

teller of tales from A Thousand and One Nights?

The obsolete ophicleide was superseded by which modern brass instrument?

Which three solo instruments feature in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto?

American-born Larry Adler was a great virtuoso on which instrument?

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No 42 Physics

What are the three fundamental states of all matter?

‘Heat will always flow from a hotter body to a colder one and not the other
way round’ is the simplified second law of what?

What is the SI unit of electrical resistance?

What is the SI unit of force?

Which American physicist was the director of atomic research at Los Alamos
where the first atomic bombs were developed?

‘To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction’ is a definition of the
third of whose laws of motion?

What describes the resistance of a liquid to flow?

Which optical device causes the convergence or divergence of light rays?

What is the property of an object that determines how difficult it is to alter its
velocity?

What is the term for sound frequency waves that are below the human ear’s
ability to detect (approximately 20 cycles per second)?

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No 43 North American Geography

I Four American states meet at the same point; Arizona and Colorado and which
two others?

The Canadian town of Churchill stands on the shore of which large body of
water?

Which Canadian seaport stands at the eastern-most point of North America?

In which American state is Lake Okeechobee?

Which is the largest city, by population, in Texas?

The Hoover Dam stands on which river?

Mount St Helens volcano lies in which mountain range?

The city of Cleveland stands on which of the Great Lakes?

Which island, which shares its name with a city in the same region, lies just off
the coast of western Canada?

The town of Gander is the second largest of which Canadian island?

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No 44 The Romans in Britain

In which year did the Romans invade Britain?

Which king did the Romans defeat at the Battle of Medway?

Which queen led a revolt against the Romans but was defeated in 61 AD?

Incursions by the Scots caused the Emperor Hadrian to order the building of a
defensive wall. Between which two rivers did Hadrian’s Wall run?

What was the name for the coastal forts built by the Romans to keep out
invaders from the sea?

In around 300 AD, much of the Roman army was withdrawn from Britain to help
against attacks in Europe. Who were the attackers?

After the Romans ventured further north they built a second defensive wall
across Scotland. What was the name of this wall?

In which year did the Romans finally withdraw their armies from Britain as a
result of wars in Europe and the need to defend Italy?

What name did the Romans give to the town we now call Bath?

Camulodunum was the Roman name for present-day Colchester; but this was
based on Camulodunon, a name given by which earlier race of people?

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No 45 Modern Arab History

Which Middle Eastern country was freed from Vichy French rule by Britain and
the Free French in 1941?

Which three Arab countries fought against Israel in the Six Day War of 1967?

Which organisation was formed by several Arab countries in 1945, to give

political expression to Arab nations?

Which British army officer united the Arabs to fight against the Turks in the
First World War?

Which notorious dissident was stripped of his Saudi Arabian nationality in

1994, being considered a threat to the ruling House of Saud?

Which president was assassinated in October 1981, in retaliation for his lack of
a strong stance against Israel?

After the First World War, Britain created the state known today as Jordan,
but what was the country called before changing its name in 1948?

In 1981, where was a nuclear reactor destroyed by Israeli planes after the
facility was seen as being capable of producing nuclear weapons?

Palestinian elections early in 2006 gave victory to which political party, better-
known for its strong militant stance against Israel?

Which country endured a civil war from 1975 to 1991?

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No 46 Soap Operas Out of Character

What was the name of the character in Neighbours portrayed by Jason

Donovan...?

... and that played by Kylie Minogue?

In The Colbys, which Hollywood legend played Jason Colby?

What was the forename ofJoan Collins’ character in Dynasty?

The maiden name of which Coronation Street character is Nugent?

6 Julia Sawalha who plays Ab Fab’s Saffron has a sister Nadia, who turned up in
EastEnders — as who?

Married in real life to the legendary Elvis Presley, what rdle did Priscilla play in
Dallas?

In which soap did the Gioberti family feature?

Now a singer, who played the réle of Beth Brennan Willis in Neighbours?

Who played the part of Kathy Mitchell in EastEnders and also the part ofJackie
Pascoe in Footballers’ Wives?

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No 47 Newspapers & Magazines

Which UK daily was re-launched as the Sun in 1964?

Who faced trade union wrath with his Today newspaper, launched in 1986?

Which Russian daily was founded in Moscow in 1912?

Which controversial and outspoken fortnightly UK magazine was initially

launched in 1961?

German newspapers Die Neue Zeitung, Die Welt, Tagesspiegel and Tagliche
Rundschau were all founded in which important year in history?

Which editor of the UK daily Independent was to become a BBC TV news

correspondent and political editor?

Which church in London’s Fleet Street was for centuries the spiritual home of
the journalist and the printer?

Which famous cartoon layabout and his long-suffering wife have been a feature
of the Daily Mirror for many years?

9 Jyllands Posten — which in 2006 carried cartoons allegedly blaspheming against

Islam, causing widespread Muslim protests — is published in which country?

10 In 1987, which newspaper was sued for libel by Jeffrey Archer?

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No 48 Motorcycle Racing

In which year was the first recorded motorcycle race?

The Daytona Race was originally held at which other US location?

In which year was the first TT race held?

During the 2000 TT Races, David Jefferies became the first rider to exceed
what lap speed?

5 Joey Dunlop achieved how many wins between 1977 and 2000?

6 What nationality is Tatu Lauslehto, winner of the 2004 European Supersport

Championship?

At which circuit were the first and last rounds of the 2005 British Superbike
event held?

Which famous rider made his debut in 1968, was the 500cc world champion in
1976 and 1977 and died from cancer in 2003?

Which racing circuit is located near Tarporley in Cheshire?

Which motorcycle manufacturer introduced the ‘Fireblade’ sports bike in

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No 49 Marine Life

Of which international environmental charity is an initiative called “Ocean

Rescue’ an attempt to protect the world’s oceans and marine species?

Which eel can grow up to three metres in length?

Which marine creature has the Latin name hippocampus hippocampus?

Which microscopic organisms are at the bottom of the marine food chain?

‘Fiddler’, ‘hermit’ and ‘spider’ are all species of which crustacean?

Certain types of which creature can change its sex annually?

The anchovy is a member of which family of fish?

Experts were baffled after the catching of which kind of fish, normally only
found in tropical waters, off the coast of Devon in 2005?

In January 2006, which species of whale found its way up the Thames and into
central London?

The oarfish, because of its great length, is the most likely candidate for
mistaken sightings of which creature?

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No 50 Ballet

Who composed the music for Billy the Kid?

Which ballet includes the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy?

From which ballet does the theme for the TV series The Onedin Line come?

While visiting Paris with the Kirov company in 1961, which Russian dancer
defected to the West?

Whose ballet compositions include Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty?

In which ballet does a girl trick a toymaker into thinking that she is one of his
dolls come to life?

From which ballet by Manuel de Falla does the Ritual Fire Dance come?

Whose ballet compositions include The Firebird and Petrushka?

With a selection of Chopin’s piano music transcribed for orchestra, which

ballet was first performed in Paris in 19092

Which ballet includes the piece Dance of the Hours, which Alan Sherman once
used in his comic song Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda?

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No 51 The Royal Navy

| Where is Admiral Lord Nelson buried?

What naval rank is the equivalent of a Field-Marshal in the British Army?

Which veteran ship of World War Il is now permanently moored between

London Bridge and Tower Bridge?

What type of vessel is HMS Torbay?

What is the name of the Royal Navy’s air force?

Who was Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet at the time of the Battle of
Jutland in 1916?

Which aircraft carrier was torpedoed and sunk off Gibraltar in November
1941?

The wreck of which famous vessel is preserved at No 3 dock in Portsmouth?

What was HMS Daedalus between 1917 and 1996?

Which RN base is located about twenty-five miles north-west of Glasgow?

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No 52 Golf

Which Scottish town is regarded as being the birthplace of golf?

The world’s first golf tournament, in 1860, took place at which course?

In which country is the Ryder Cup event being held in 2010?

The Ryder Cup competition was started in 1926 by Samuel Ryder. At which golf
course was the first event held?

Near which UK city is the Belfry Golf Club?

Who won the 2005 German Masters?

Which golfing trophy has remained dented after a near-miss by a German

bomb in World War II?

Who won the World Matchplay Championship in 1994, 1995 and 1996?

How old was Seve Ballesteros when he won the British Open in 1979?

The rules of the game allow a player to carry which maximum number of clubs?

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No 53 Jazz

| Which British jazz musician had a hit on both sides of the Atlantic with Stranger
on the Shore?

2 Jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt was born in which country?

Oscar Peterson is famed as a master of which instrument?

In which US city does jazz have its origins?

Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe is the real name of which musician?

6 John Dankworth is married to which singer?

Which clarinettist (1909-1986) made several films, including an autobiographical

one in 1955?

Which black female singer had hits with God Bless the Child and Gloomy Sunday?

‘Bleeding Gums’ Murphy was the jazz mentor to which sax-playing TV cartoon
heroine?

Ben Webster, Herschel Evans and Charlie Parker were all masters of which
instrument?

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No 54 The Football Premiership

Who were the first Premiership champions?

Who scored the first ever Premiership goal?

Who was the first player to score 100 Premiership goals?

How many teams were in the original Premier League format?

How many of the 2005-2006 Premiership clubs have been ever-presents?

Who scored the Premiership’s 10,000th goal, Tottenham’s opener in the 4-0
victory over neighbours Fulham on |5th December 2001?

Who was the Premiership’s top scorer for season 2004-2005?

Which teams were relegated at the end of season 2003-2004?

In February 1999, which team lost 8-1 to Manchester United?

Which Sydney-born player was voted ‘Young Player of the Year’ in 2000?

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No 55 Gardening

Celestial, Alba Maxima and Maiden’s blush are all varieties of which flower?

Ailsa Craig is a popular variety of which vegetable?

What is often used on fruit and vegetables to correct a magnesium deficiency?

What is the term for the removal of surplus growth in order to allow new
growth?

What is the term for increasing humidity in a greenhouse by way of watering

the floor surface?

What are John Innes I, 2 and 3?

Which two methods are used to start a new lawn?

What is Derris, as a general aid to the British gardener?

Hypericum is better-known as which plant, that when used medicinally

produces an anti-depressant effect?

Which vegetable comes in varieties of ‘crisphead’ and ‘butterhead’?

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No 56 Russian History

Who was Russia’s first Czar?

Which city was the Russian capital during the I Ith century?

Which eastern empire invaded Russia in the I3th century?

In 1762, who succeeded her husband as Czarina after her lover had him
assassinated?

In which year did Napoleon’s armies retreat from Moscow after initial victories
at Smolensk and Borodino?

In which year was the first Russian revolution?

At which great battle of 1914 was Russia defeated by Germany?

In 1922, Russia, Belorussia and Transcaucasia (present-day Armenia, Georgia

and Azerbaijan) united to form what?

Which two communist countries were invaded by the Soviet Union in 1956 and
1968 when their governments were seen as being too liberal?

Following the fall of communism in 1990, which president of Russia banned the
Communist Party the following year?

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No 57 Early Cinema

Invented by Thomas Edison, which apparatus was the first to record motion
pictures?

Gertie the Dinosaur was the first successful film of which kind?

In 1895 the Lumiére brothers caused an audience stampede on demonstrating

their projection system. What did their film show?

In which US city did the first cinema open in 1896?

In which year did Charlie Chaplin first play his “Little Tramp’ character?

In 1919 Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and director D W

Griffith united to protect their interests. What was this association called?

The Sheik of 1921 made a star of which now famous screen lover?

A German shepherd ‘played’ which réle as the first canine film hero in 1923?

Which German classic horror film of 1921 was based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula?

Who directed Blackmail; a 1929 film considered to be the first British film with
a soundtrack?

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No 58 Music Based on Literature & Art

Who composed symphonic works based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Romeo and

Juliet, and The Tempest?
2 Also Sprach Zarathustra, a symphonic poem by Richard Strauss, was based on a
literary work by which philosopher?
The Kalevala, the Finnish national epic poem was a source of inspiration for,
amongst other works, The Swan of Tuonela, by which composer?
Which orchestral music by Edvard Grieg was composed to accompany a play
by Henrik Ibsen?
Who composed the incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, from
which the famous wedding march is taken?
Which famous piece of music for violin and orchestra by Vaughan Williams is
based on a poem by George Meredith?
Which Polish composer’s third symphony includes a sung text of a prayer
scratched by a young girl on the walls of a Gestapo prison?
Carmina Burana, a cantata based on a collection of mediaeval verse on love and
liquor, was composed by whom?
Three Botticelli Pictures and Church Windows were written by which Italian
composer?
Don McLean’s song which begins ‘Starry starry night...’ was about which
artist?

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No 59 Extinct Animals

Approximately how long ago were most of the dinosaurs rendered extinct,
probably as a result of a meteorite striking Earth?

What kind of animal was a tarpan, last recorded in the mid |9th century?

Which bird, whose name is synonymous with species extinction, was last seen
in the 17th century?

Which animal, similar to the zebra, died out in the 1880s?

What was the name of the giant wild ox which roamed in great numbers all
over Europe until its extinction in the early 1600s?

Numbering at least five billion at the time that Europeans began to settle
North America, which bird was rendered extinct there in 1914?

Which large penguin-like bird of the North Atlantic was, in 1844, knowingly
rendered extinct to satisfy an Icelandic man’s collection of rare birds?

Which type of whale, the largest mammal ever to have lived, is declining
rapidly, due mainly to hunting and pollution, and may be extinct by 2030?

What kind of animal is the dibbler, which is no longer classified as extinct?

The last indigenous female of which species was killed by hunters in the
Pyrenees in 2004?

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No 60 Here Today...

Which hip-swinging fad of the late 1950s later lent its name to a snack food?

In which year did the Rubik’s Cube appear in the UK?

What is the name for the Japanese computer ‘pet’?

What was the spring-loaded pole with a fixed pedal at either side and propelled
by jumping, popular in the 1960s?

Which child’s toy was a large rubber ball with ears or antennae at the top, and
propelled by bouncing up and down?

What was the name of the small loose-leaf personal filing system which became
popular in the 1990s?

Which battery-powered, pedal-assisted road vehicle came and went in 1985?

What was originally known as the Pluto Platter?

Which 1980s dolls were ‘offered for adoption’ rather than sold?

Which communications fad came in a blaze of publicity in the early 1980s and
fizzled out in a short space of time?

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No 61 Man-Made Disasters

In 1987, which car ferry capsized shortly after leaving Zeebrugge harbour?

In which year was Pan American flight 103 blown up over Lockerbie?

In which country did the Vaiont Dam disaster of 1963 take place?

Which Indian city was devastated by a toxic gas escape in 1984?

What was the name of the ferry which sank in the Baltic Sea on its journey
from Tallin to Stockholm in 1994?

Fans of which football team were killed at the Hillsborough Stadium disaster in
Sheffield?

Although initially caused by a natural event (hurricane) the 2005 flooding of

New Orleans was mostly due to deficiencies with which man-made features?

The worst marine disaster of the 20th century occurred when which ship was
torpedoed in the Baltic Sea in 1945, with the loss of over 7000 lives?

In 1966, 144 people, 116 of them schoolchildren, were killed at the Welsh
town of Aberfan; what caused the disaster?

In which sea did a ferry, carrying passengers from Saudi Arabia to Egypt, sink
in early 2006, with the loss of a thousand lives?

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No 62 Films of the 1970s

Which Australian film concerns the events in which a party of schoolgirls

disappears?

Who played the leading role in the 1975 film Rollerball?

In which year did the original Star Wars film appear?

In which year was the original Rocky film released?

Which 1930 classic anti-war film was re-made in 1979?

Which 1976 film, based on a Stephen King novel, concerns a teenage girl who
discovers she has kinetic powers?

Which 1978 film tells the story of a student arrested in Turkey for a drug
offence and the subsequent tribulations during his imprisonment?

Which 1974 cowboy spoof featured possibly the wild west’s only black sheriff,
and Yiddish-speaking Indians?

Appearing in 1972, which film tells of a group of people trapped inside a

capsized cruise ship?

“There’s no reason to become alarmed and we hope you'll enjoy your flight.
By the way is there anybody on board who knows how to fly a plane?” Comes
from which spoof film?

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No 63 The Nobel Prizes

Why is the annual prize-giving ceremony held on 10th December?

Which is the only category of award not decided by a Swedish institute?

In which year was the first prize-giving ceremony held?

Which British university has more Nobel prizewinners than any other
institution in the world?

In 1991, which US university instigated a spoof prize called the Ig-nobel Prize, for
‘achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced’?

In 1945, Fleming, Chain and Florey were jointly awarded the Prize for
Physiology and Medicine for their work on which project?

In 2005, the Peace Prize was jointly awarded to the UN International Atomic
Energy Agency and its director. What is the name of the director?

Which former US president received the Peace Prize in 2002?

In 2005, which rock star was among nearly 200 candidates for the Peace Prize?

In 1958, which Russian author was forced to decline the Literature Prize
because the Soviet authorities believed his writings had defamed their system?

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No 64 Films After 1999

Black Hawk Down is based on the actual events of a US helicopter mission to

which African city?

Which Ang Lee-directed martial arts film of 2000 won an Oscar for Best
Foreign Film?

Who played Amsterdam Vallon in the film Gangs of New York?

Which Mel Gibson-directed film concerns the final hours of the life of Jesus
Christ?

Which part was played by Orlando Bloom in the Lord ofthe Rings trilogy?

Which actor died before the final filming of Gladiator, necessitating re-editing of
his scenes and the use of a computer-generated stand-in?

‘The time has come for those who are different to stand united’ was a tag-line
for which sequel film of 2003?

Which gangster film of 2002 starred Tom Hanks as hitman Michael Sullivan?

Which cast member from Bridget Jones’s Diary was nominated for an Oscar?

Which film of 2004, starring Jamie Foxx in the title role, depicts the life and
career of a famous soul singer?

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No 65 Football Songs

Which club’s supporters can be heard chanting “Boing-boing’?

The anthem of which team is I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles?

Blue is the Colour for many teams. But for which team is it also their anthem?

At which club are you likely to hear When The Saints Go Marching In?

Which club is associated with the Gerry and the Pacemakers song You'll Never
Walk Alone?

Which footballer had a hit with Lindisfarne with Fog On The Tyne?

What is the title of the hit song recorded by Glenn Hoddle and Chris Waddle?

What is the title of the song recorded by the 1970 England World Cup squad?

From which opera does Nessun Dorma come?

At which event is the hymn Abide With Me sung?

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No 66 Famous Americans

| Which conductor — also composer and pianist — had his big break when he was
invited to conduct the New York Philharmonic at short notice in 1943?

Which general started out as a schoolteacher, was involved in conflicts in

Mexico, Cuba and Europe in World War | and had a WWII tank named after
him?

Philanthropist and industrialist Andrew Carnegie was born in which country?

General George C Marshall is perhaps best known for what action in 1947,
when he was secretary of state?

How is Erich Weiss, born in Budapest, the son of a rabbi, better known?

Which inventor is credited with creating the first industrial research laboratory
and over a thousand inventions, including the cinema projector?

Who was the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo in 1932?

Who was famous for his ‘prairie style’ designs and architecture?

Which right-wing politician damaged the reputations of many innocent people

in his notorious communist ‘witch-hunts’ of the 1950s?

In 1890 which Sioux chief was killed by police officers while resisting arrest?

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No 67 Swimming

Who was the first man officially to swim the English Channel?

What was the feat achieved by Argentinian, Antonio Abertondo in 196]?

What did American, Kris Rutford do in 5 hours 54 minutes in August 1992?

In ancient Greece, swimming races were held in honour of which god?

What do the initials FINA stand for?

What is the modern term for ‘Scientific and Ornamental Swimming’, as it was
known in the I9th century?

Which stroke is defined as ‘a double crawl with simultaneous movements of

the arms and legs’?

At the Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, which three distances constituted

the swimming competitions?

Which British Olympic Gold swimmer and Swimathon president’s

autobiography is called Sink or Swim?

Which British swimmer has played ‘Amazon’ in television’s Gladiators and for a
time presented the Big Breakfast show?

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No 68 Firsts

In which city was the world’s first motorway built?

What kind of material was ‘Parkesine’, the first of its kind and invented in the
mid 19th century?

An important aid for all motor vehicles, what was patented by R W Thompson
in 18452

Who printed the first Bible, using a movable type?

What was the name of the first animal, a dog, to go into orbit around the
earth?

Which cosmonaut made the first space walk in 1965?

Which beverage was first introduced into Europe in 1609?

Which product was the first to be advertised in colour on British television?

Which composer’s first symphony was given the title of Titan?

What was the ‘first’ set by Thrust in 1997?

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No 69 The Orchestra

Stringed instruments are divided into how many sections?

Although a fairly unusual member of the orchestra, in which section would a

saxophone be included?

In which section are trumpets included?

Which instrument has 46 or 47 strings?

In which section of the orchestra does a cor anglais belong?

In which section do cymbals and glockenspiel belong?

What is the smallest member of the flute family?

Which brass instrument has the lowest pitch?

Which is the UK’s longest-established professional symphony orchestra?

Which instrument plays the ‘A’ to which the other players tune their
instruments?

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No 70 Conductors

Which conductor negotiated, at the age of 94, a new six-year contract with a
recording company? He was also famous for his part in Disney’s Fantasia.

Which great composer conducted the New York Philharmonic from 1909 until
just before his death in 1911?

Who was the principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic from 1955 to 1989?

Which pianist, jazz musician and film composer was principal conductor of the
London Symphony Orchestra from 1969 to 1979?

Eugene Ormandy conducted which American orchestra for 44 years?

Which conductor founded several British orchestras, using his own money
inherited from his father’s pharmaceutical business?

Which conductor, born in 1885, left Germany in 1933, became a US citizen,

conducted the Philharmonia in the UK and died in Switzerland in 1973?

In 2001, which conductor died of a heart attack during a performance of Aida in

Berlin?

Who conducted the Hallé Orchestra from 1943 until his death in 1970?

Who was appointed Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in

2005; the first woman to head a major US orchestra?

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No 71 Games

Which game is played with two decks of cards plus four jokers; hands being
played until one partnership reaches 5000 points?

Which game includes a character called Dr Black, and a lead pipe?

Which game includes the terms ‘pung’ and ‘chow’?

Which board game was originally invented by Alfred Butts in 1931, but not sold
under its present name until 1949?

In Monopoly, how many railway stations are featured?

From which country was the game of Snakes and Ladders introduced?

In a European casino, how many divisions does a roulette wheel have?

What kind of game is ‘skat’?

Which game is based on a tower built from identical wooden bricks, each of
which are removed by players in turn, who try not to knock the tower over?

What is unusual about the card game, ‘euchre’?

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No 72 Television

Which comedy multi-series has starred Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson and
Tim Mclnnerny, each playing several parts?

Who played the leader of the Tooting Popular Front in Citizen Smith?

Which TV duo were the “Two Fat Ladies’?

Back in the early 1960s, what was TW3?

Which cartoon series started TV life as short sketches on the Tracy Ullman
show in the US?

What type of ‘company car’ is run by the Trotter family on Only Fools and
Horses?

In which US city is the bar in Cheers located?

Which long-running multi-series includes Chris Barrie and Craig Charles in the
cast?

Who has been the presenter of the BBC series Question Time since 1994?

Which ITV news presenter also has a weekly current affairs programme?

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No 73 Climate Change
Which worldwide campaigning group started in 1971 and is involved with
many issues, including tackling the causes of climate change?
Climate change is thought to be the cause of an increase in severity of which
kind of storm, seriously affecting the Caribbean and southern USA?
Which term describes the phenomenon which traps the sun’s rays: a result of
the burning of oil, gas and coal?
Which geographical features, found on all continents, have largely begun to
recede as a direct result of global warming?
Which kind of energy generation process is a possible alternative to the
burning of fossil fuels, but has long-term environmental consequences?
After years of debate between politicians and scientists, which 1997
agreement finally became international law in February 2005?
What is likely to be the single worst worldwide long-term effect of global
warming?
One of the main single causes of global warming is the car. How many cars are
expected to be on the world’s roads by the year 2020?
One of the consequences of climate change is its effect on agriculture; which
continent is likely to be first and worst-affected?
The more people, the greater the problem; what is the world’s population
likely to be by the year 2050?

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No 74 French History

Which 18th century political philosopher wrote The Social Contract?

In 1778, with which country did France make an alliance in a war against
Britain?
in
The year 1789 saw which event which was to mark a great turning point
French history?

Which system of measurement was formally adopted by France in 1795?

Who came to power in a coup d'etat of 1799 and in 1804 declared himself
emperor?

Who was the last French monarch, deposed in 1848?

Which army general of World War | later headed the pro-German Vichy
regime in World War Il?
struggle
Which African country gained independence from France after a fierce
which killed over a quarter of a million people between 1954 and 1962?

1954 forced them

The defeat of the French at the Battle of Bien Dien Phu in
out of which colony?

Rioting by tens of thousands of students and a general strike caused the

resignation of which leader in 1969?

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No 75 World Geography

What was the former name of the Indian city of Mumbai?

Tanzania was formerly a colony of which European country?

In which country is Baikonur, the site of Russia’s space launches?

What was the former name of Malawi?

The Kamchatka peninsula is part of which country?

Where is the lowest point on the surface of the Earth?

The port of Pusan is in which country?

The equator passes along the northern edge of which great African lake?

Which continent (excluding Antarctica) stretches furthest south?

What name is given to the 40,000 km long chain of volcanoes and trenches
around the edge of the Pacific Basin?

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No 76 Rowing

Between which two points is the yearly Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race held?

How many times in the 1990s did Cambridge beat Oxford?

Which team won the Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race in 2005?

The Thames Challenge Cup and Princess Grace Challenge Cup are both parts
of which annual event?

Several-times World Champion rower Rob Waddell comes from which

country?

How many Olympic gold medals have been won by Steve Redgrave?

In which year was the first Oxford v Cambridge Race held?

Which three venues hosted the Rowing World Cup in 2005?

What does ARA stand for?

Which British rower captained the quadruple sculls team that won the Silver at
the 2004 Athens Olympics?

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No 77 Imaginary Places

Where did Peter Pan come from?

Which mythical submerged land has been ‘located’ as being sited in the Greek
Islands and beneath the Atlantic, amongst other places?

Where is the court of King Arthur said to have been?

Perhaps mistaken for, or based on Iceland, what name was given to the far-
northern land which was first written about in the 4th century BC?

At which imaginary castle did Sir Percival supposedly leave the Holy Grail?

Which mythical ‘land of gold’ did the Spanish Conquistadors search for?

In Greek mythology, what is the mythical land at the world’s end?

In Norse mythology, where are the souls of fallen warriors taken?

Which is Batman’s home town?

Who created ‘Middle Earth’?

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No 78 19th Century Classical Music

Who composed the Symphonie Fantastique?

Which German composer’s first symphony is known as the Spring Symphony?

Which Russian composer, who died from cholera in 1893, wrote six numbered
symphonies and three piano concertos?

Which Austrian composer wrote Symphony No 0?

Who composed A German Requiem?

Which composer, much admired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, wrote
the Scottish Symphony, Italian Symphony and Reformation Symphony?

Which Czech composer’s ninth symphony is known as the New World Symphony?

Who composed the Dante Symphony, Faust Symphony and Dance of Death?

Who composed the Missa Solemnis?

Which two solo instruments appear in Brahms’s Double Concerto?

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No 79 Scientists

Who was the Swedish naturalist who founded the scientific nomenclature for
animals and plants?
Which French chemist’s researches led to the science of bacteriology and to
immunisation protection against infectious diseases?
Which German physicist made the discovery that the boiling point of liquids
varied according to different atmospheric pressures?
What was the married name of Manya Sklodowska, who shared the Nobel
Prize for chemistry with her husband Pierre in 1903?
Which Scottish bacteriologist discovered penicillin in 1928?
Which English scientist and mathematician is especially famous for his work on
the subjects of gravity and optics?
Which New Zealand born British physicist, eminent in atomic research,
succeeded in splitting the atom in 1919?
Which German born Swiss-American physicist was awarded the Nobel Prize
for physics in 1921 for his discovery of the photo-electric effect?
Whose observations on the similarities of cowpox and smallpox led to his
developing a vaccine against the latter disease in 1796?
Who discovered electromagnetic induction, the basis of electrical power
generation, in 1831? His name is lent to the unit of electrical capacitance.

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No 80 Vegetables

Allium Sepa is the Latin name for which common vegetable?

‘Arran Pilot’, ‘Pentland Javelin’ and ‘Maris Bard’ are all varieties of which
vegetable?

Which vegetable is nicknamed the ‘love apple’?

Of which genus are cabbages, broccoli and cauliflowers?

Which vegetable was the first to be canned?

‘Pepinex’ and ‘Telegraph’ are both varieties of which salad vegetable?

Former US president George Bush once publicly stated that he totally disliked
which vegetable?

According to Mark Twain, which vegetable was “nothing but a cabbage with a
college education”?

What is a ‘White Lisbon’?

Which vegetable has varieties ‘purple sprouting’ and ‘calabrese’?

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No 8I Vitamins & Minerals

Which vitamin’s chemical name is riboflavin?

How do vitamins A, D, E and K differ from all other vitamins?

The deficiency in which mineral is the main cause of anaemia?

Which main mineral is found in bananas?

The deficiency in which mineral can produce cretinism in new-born children

and goitre in adults?

Retinol is the chemical name of which vitamin?

Which mineral deficiency, which can cause muscular weakness and insomnia,
can be cured by including raw green vegetables and nuts in the diet?

The deficiency in which mineral can cause impaired sexual development and
reduced sexual appetite?

The deficiency in which vitamin is a cause of rickets?

What is another name for ascorbic acid?

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No 82 Wales

I A skeleton known to date from 24,000 BC, discovered at Paviland on the

Gower peninsula, was given what name when it was found in 1826?

In the 8th century, in order to establish a border, which Mercian king built a
defensive dyke from the River Dee to the River Wye?

In which year were the first elections held for seats of the Welsh Assembly?

Which deep-water port and major tanker terminal lies on the south
Pembrokeshire coast?

Which strait separates mainland Wales from Anglesey?

Which city is known as Abertawe in Welsh?

The ‘backbone’ of Wales is formed by which range of mountains?

Which abbey lies near the River Wye, about 8 miles north of Chepstow?

What is the name of the Italianate seaside village built by Clough Williams Ellis,
which was completed in 1975?

What is Llyn Tegid?

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No 83 Athletics

Who first ran a mile in under four minutes?

Sprinter Alan Wells won two medals at which Olympics?

What is the exact distance run in a marathon?

Who was disqualified for drug use after winning the 100 metres during the
1988 Olympics?

Which race involves three disciplines; typically running, swimming and biking?

In which event might you see a ‘Brill Bend’?

What is the maximum regulation weight of a discus?

The Greeks and Romans measured a sprint race in a ‘stade’. What is the
distance of a ‘stade’?

In which year was the London Marathon first staged?

Who had to pull out at the 23-mile stage of the Women’s Marathon at the
Athens 2004 Olympics?

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No 84 Plants & Flowers

Which flower gets its name from ‘day’s eye’?

What is the more common name for the strelitzia?

From which genus of plants does the Transvaal daisy come?

Which common spring flower has the Latin name Narcissus pseudonarcissus?

Which common yellow meadow flower is of the genus Ranunculus?

‘An English unofficial rose’. To which flower was Rupert Brooke referring in
his poem The Old Vicarage, Grantchester?

What is Yorkshire fog?

What is the more common name for the antirrhinum?

What is the common name of Meconopsis cambrica?

What is the common name of Papaver somniferum?

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No 85 Famous Battles

Which was the final battle of the Napoleonic wars?

Which battle took place between German and Soviet forces in July 1943, and
was the turning point of the war on the Eastern front?

During which war was the Battle of Towton fought?

What did the surprise attack by the North Vietnamese against US and South
Vietnamese forces in January 1968 come to be known as?

The Battle of Midway was fought between the navies of which two countries?

Where was victory secured by British forces over Argentine invaders in the
Falklands war of 1982?

Which battle was fought near Inverness on |6th April 1746?

At which battle, which took place from [5th July - 4th August 1918, were the
Germans defeated by allied armies under General Pétain?

In which war was the Battle of the White Mountain (1620 AD) fought?

In which war was the Battle of Guadalcanal fought?

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No 86 Theatre

Which playwright of ancient Greece created The Birds, The Wasps and The Frogs?

First staged in 1932, which Noel Coward play is about a ménage 4 trois
comprising Otto, Leo and Gilda?

Which Italian wrote The Accidental Death of an Anarchist and Can’t Pay? Won’t
Pay!?

Which play was co-written by Tom Stoppard and André Previn?

Which play by August Strindberg deals with a young woman’s conflict between
love and social position?

Who wrote A Streetcar Named Desire?

Whose plays Nuts in May and Abigail’s Party were adapted for television, starring
Alison Steadman?

Whose plays include The Winslow Boy, Separate Tables and French Without Tears?

Who wrote the plays Equus and Amadeus?

One For the Road is the title of two different plays; one by Willy Russell, the
other by which writer?

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No 87 German History

Crowned Emperor in AD 800, how is Charles the Great better known?

Who took up the cause of Protestantism and nailed his ‘ninety five theses’ to
the door of the church at Wittingen in 1517?

Which war started in Prague in 1618 and continued until the Peace of
Westphalia in 1648?

Who made Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany in 1933?

In which country was the region of Sudetenland, occupied by Germany in

1938?

In March 1936, which region, demilitarised under the Treaty of Versailles, was
re-occupied by German forces?

In which year did the Soviet Union begin their blockade of Berlin which
resulted in the Berlin Airlift?

Which year saw the building of the wall separating West and East Berlin?

Who was the East German leader at the time of the reunification of Germany?

In 2002, Chancellor Schroeder announced delays in tax cuts in order to

finance repairs to which city following catastrophic flooding during the
summer?

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No 88 Before They Were Famous

Which famous comedian, who died in 1992, was at one time a milkman?

Which politician, whose views on immigration caused great controversy and

cost him his political career, was once a Professor of Greek?

What was the unlikely former job of ex-US president Gerald Ford?

Which British pop singer used to be a gravedigger?

Which comedy duo were both one-time PE teachers?

Who was an intelligence officer before he took up writing secret-agent novels?

Which former leader of the Liberal Democrats was once a commando?

Who was an officer in the Imperial Indian Police before returning to Britain to
take up serious writing?

Which snooker player was once a policeman?

Which screen actress appeared in a 1950s Coal Board information film?

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Mu Ay Unusual Deaths

1 Hew did Eniily Davisen die ih 1919?

2 Atte) 4 life BF eahiquering and terrarising Much of Europe, what led to the death
BP Attila the Hun in 453 AD?

4 Sieh Haren Carpenter died of a heart attack brought about by which illness?

A aw did RRB singer Johnny Ace die in 1954?

® \Wihat catised the death of the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov in London in
1878?
% heith Rel ead singer with the band The Yardbirds, died accidentally in 1976.
Haw?
> Ava eorpawer Alban Berg died on Christmas Eve 1935 from an infection
used By & Bite. What was fe that bit him?

RB rad Was deaenativt foe Orton killed in 1967?

© Which staper died When he crashed into a tree while skiing?

1D th [OBR Which Writer choked to death on a medicine bottle cap?
No 90 Asian Geography

Which range of mountains forms the boundary between Europe and Asia?

Four countries meet at the same point: Kazakhstan to the west, Russia to the
north, Mongolia to the east, and which other country to the south?

Which Russian city and port is the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian
railway?

Which state is divided between India and Pakistan and has for many years been
a cause of contention between the two countries?

The region of Sinkiang is a part of which country?

Which group of islands were once known as the Spice Islands?

Which bay, a part of the Indian Ocean, is bordered by India, Bangladesh and
Myanmar?

Which city is the main seaport of Pakistan?

Xizang Zizhiqu to the Chinese is known as what, in the West?

In which country is the Deccan, an upland region of fertile soils which enables a
flourishing cotton-growing industry?

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No 91 Scotland

Which Scottish castle is the home of the Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne
and is the legendary setting for Shakespeare’s Macbeth?

In which city is Strathclyde University located?

Which island is the largest of the Outer Hebrides?

In which mountain range is Ben Nevis?

Which historic county, now part of Highland, is the most northerly of mainland
Scotland?

Which city stands near the northern end of Loch Ness?

On which island is the town of Brodick and the mountain, Goat Fell?

Which is the largest freshwater loch in Scotland?

What was the subject of Lord Fraser of Carmyllie’s report of 19th September
2004?

Which city is known as ‘The Granite City’?

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No 92 Glaciers

Where in Africa are there glaciers within 15 miles of the Equator?

By what percentage have glaciers in the European Alps shrunk in the last 150
years?

In which country is Vatnajokull, Europe’s largest glacier?

On which continent is the vast Beardmore Glacier?

What is the name for the large blocks and pillars which form when a glacier
breaks up ona steep incline?

Outside Antarctica, in which mountain range are the world’s longest glaciers
to be found?

Glaciers are the ‘leftovers’ from ice ages. Approximately how long does each
ice-age last?

Which is the longest glacier in the European Alps?

What drastic measures are being taken in 2006 to reduce glacial melting in
some parts of the Swiss Alps?

In which European country is the Briksdal Glacier?

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No 93 Marine Life

| What is the general name for organisms at the bottom of the marine food-
chain?

Which kind of large seaweed can grow at a rate of thirty centimetres a day?

Which types of fish generally have both eyes on the right side of the head?

Which order of marine mammals includes whales, dolphins and porpoises?

Which marine biologist was born in 1910, co-invented the aqualung in 1943, and
died in Paris in 1997?

Also known as the clownfish, which fish is so-called because of its tendency to
adopt a certain other sea-creature for purposes of mutual defence?

Which arctic marine mammal was discovered in 1741 and rendered extinct
within thirty years due to hunting?

What is the proper name of the gulf-weed which floats on the Sargasso sea
area of the mid Atlantic Ocean?

What kind of marine life are the Porifera?

About twenty million of which exotic sea creatures are killed each year to
satisfy demand in Chinese ‘medicine’?

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No 94 Boxing

Who was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1942 and recorded 56 wins out of 61
professional bouts between 1960 and 1981?

Which two boxers were both known as ‘Sugar Ray’?

Which British light welterweight boxer is known as ‘The Hitman’?

Which boxer was born in 1934, won the British, European and Commonwealth
titles, and was awarded an OBE in 2000?

Who did Sonny Liston beat to take the World Heavyweight title in 1962?

What nationality was Ingemar Johansson, World Heavyweight Champion 1959-

1960?

Where was Joe Bugner born?

In 1967, why was Muhammad Ali stripped of his World Title?

Who was known as the ‘Brown Bomber’?

In March 1971, who beat Muhammad Ali on points in a fifteen rounder at

Madison Square Gardens, a fight which put both boxers in hospital?

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No 95 Wonders of the World

| The Colossus of Rhodes is a statue of which god?

In which country were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?

Where is the site of the Pharos Lighthouse?

The Pyramids of Giza stand close to which city?

Where is the site of the Statue of Zeus?

In which country is the site of the Temple of Artemis?

The Tomb of Maussollos at Halicarnassus was sited in which present-day

Turkish city?

Of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World, designated by the American

Society of Civil Engineers, which one is linked to Britain?

For which Egyptian king was the Great Pyramid built?

Which king is said to have built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?

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No 96 Film Music Composers

Which prolific composer wrote the scores for many of David Lean’s films,
including Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and Ryan’s Daughter?

Which Ukrainian-born composer wrote the music for The Alamo, The Guns of
Navarone, 55 Days at Peking, Fall of the Roman Empire and It’s a Wonderful Life?

Who composed the music for the Lord ofthe Rings trilogy and Aviator?

Who wrote the scores for several westerns, including The Magnificent Seven,
and many other famous films such as The Great Escape?

Who composed the music for Titanic, Apollo 13 and Braveheart?

Which German composer wrote scores for The Lion King, Thelma and Louise,
Rain Man, Driving Miss Daisy and Gladiator?

Also noted for his introductory music for the BBC’s Desert Island Discs, Eric
Coates wrote which stirring march for a 1954 British war film?

Composer of music for many James Bond films, who also wrote scores for
Born Free and Midnight Cowboy?

Whose second piano concerto was made famous by its inclusion in the classic
1945 film Brief Encounter?

Whose music accompanies the 2005 nature film March of the Penguins?

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No 97 The Planets — Astronomy

Which planet is the closest to the Sun?

How many planets have rings?

The moens of which planet are all named after Shakespearean characters?

Whose observations of Mars in the I9th century led to a belief that there were
canals on the planet’s surface?

What makes lo, one ofJupiter’s largest moons, different from others in our
solar system?

Which planet’s size is closest to that of the Earth?

Which planet takes 248 years to orbit the Sun?

The comet, Shoemaker-Levy crashed into which of the planets in 1994?

Why is Venus the brightest object (after the Moon) in the night sky?

What gives Mars its red appearance?

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No 98 The Planets — Mysticism

Each planet is said to be guarded by an individual angel. Which planet is

supposed to be allocated to Camael?

Often identified as the cherub who “stands at the Gate of Eden with a fiery
sword,” Uriel is associated with which planet?

Originally an archangel made known in ancient Judaism, who performs all

manner of healing, Raphael is associated with which planet?

Cassiel is the guardian angel of which planet?

Considered to be an angel of mercy and often depicted holding a dagger,

Zadkiel is associated with which planet?

Of which planet is the angel Hagiel the presiding intelligence?

According to the description after each section of Gustav Holst’s orchestral

suite The Planets, which planet was The Bringer of War?

Remaining on the subject of Holst’s The Planets; which planet is The Mystic?

...and which is The Bringer of Old Age?

...and The Winged Messenger?

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No 99 Weird Words

What is a menhaden? A. a small knife B.a fish C.a ship’s steering oar.

What is a puy? A. a pie B. an ornamental coffin C. a volcanic cone in central

France.

What is a farrago? A. a confused pile of objects B. a Spanish dance C.a loose

woman.

What is an Iroko? A. a hardwood B.a river in South America C. a small lizard.

What is a vespa? A. a Roman boat B. a religious song C. the common wasp

genus.

What does the prefix ‘xylo’ mean? A. wood B. bell C. solid.

Which part of the human body is the ‘axilla’? A. the sole of the foot B. the
armpit C. the crook of the arm.

‘Helvetic’ pertains to which country? A. Greece B. Holland C. Switzerland.

What is a basilisk? A. a headstone B. a fabulous creature C. a stone trough.

What isa MOSFET? A. a type of tractor B. a type of crop-spraying aeroplane

C. a type of transistor.

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No 100 Famous People

In 1997, which fashion designer was murdered outside his Miami home?

Who was the leader of the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381?

Which famous comedian took his own life in a Sydney hotel in 1968?

Born 1897, died 1968, which English author wrote over 400 children’s books,
including The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat?

Which US gay rights activist was shot dead in San Francisco in 1978?

Who was the North Vietnamese leader whose struggles led to independence
from France in 1954?

Which Bristol-born social reformer was the inventor of a means to ensure that
ships were not overloaded?

Which British general lead the capture of Quebec in 1759, but was killed in the
battle?

During whose reign did the Fire of Rome occur in 64 AD?

Who famously proclaimed “Ich bin ein Berliner” in 1963?

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No 101 Famous Australians

In 1975, which Australian prime minister was sacked over his refusal to call a
general election over a budget crisis?

Which outlaw, born of Irish immigrants in 1854, was hanged for murder at
Melbourne Gaol in 1880?

What was the former name of Evonne Cawley, tennis star of the 1970s?

Which self-styled ‘megastar housewife’ is also an acclaimed landscape artist?

Who is regarded as the greatest batsman of the 20th century, and in 1949 was
knighted for his services to cricket?

Who wrote the women’s liberation book The Female Eunuch?

Which classical pianist was the subject of the 1996 film Shine?

Which media mogul developed polio in the 1940s but made a full recovery and
went on to start World Series Cricket in 1977?

Which actor, actually born in New Zealand, appeared in television’s Neighbours

before moving on to Hollywood? His first film rdle was in Spotswood (1991).

Which actress has starred in Muriel’s Wedding, Blow and Six Feet Under?

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No 102 Language

Other than English, what is the most commonly spoken language in the UK?

What is the official language of Austria?

Switzerland has four official languages; German, French and which two others?

What are the two main languages of Belgium?

After German, what is the most commonly spoken language in Germany?

Letzeburgish is the most commonly spoken language of which European

country?

Berber is spoken in which part of Africa?

Which is the world’s most spoken language?

Although each having different languages, the people of which three European
neighbouring countries would have little difficulty in understanding one another
because of the great number of word similarities?

As a first language, where is English in the world table of most-spoken

languages?

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No 103

Which is England’s largest lake?

How is the lake, Bodensee, known in English-speaking countries?

Lake Lugano straddles the borders of which two countries?

Which lake is the world’s deepest?

In which country is Lake Balaton?

What is said to lie at the bottom of Lake Toplitz in Austria, but which has so far
resulted in disappointment for many investigating divers?

Which Australian lake is so-called due to the fact that when explorers followed
rivers leading to it, the water proved to be undrinkable?

Which large Canadian lake drains into Hudson Bay via the Nelson River?

In what respect is the Lost Sea in the American state of Tennessee the world’s
largest lake?

In which country is Lake Neuchatel?

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No 104 Time of the Year

In the Northern Hemisphere, spring lasts from the vernal equinox on

2\st March to what, on 2Ist June?

Which gemstone is considered to be associated with the month of April?

Which flower is considered to be associated with November?

What does CE stand for when appended to a year, eg 1066 CE?

Which pope introduced the Gregorian calendar?

Which calendar is calculated from the year 3761 BC, thought to have been the
year in which the world was created?

Which calendar is calculated from the year 622 AD?

In the Northern Hemisphere, autumn lasts from the autumnal equinox on

23rd September to what, on 2Ist December?

Where would you not be able to see the sun between mid-March and mid-
September?

In Britain, when is the shortest day?

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No 105 Cycle Racing

Where was the first recorded cycle race held, in 1868?

Which annual event, still current, was first staged in 1903?

What is the RAAM race?

Which rider won the European Tour series in 2005?

Who, in 2005, rode to his seventh straight victory in the Tour de France?

A Sunday in Hell, a documentary film about the Paris to Roubaix race in 1976,
featured which famous Belgian cyclist?

Which British cyclist was the Pursuit Champion at the 1992 Olympics?

What is the WCRA?

What is the name of a vehicle which follows a race to pick up riders who have
dropped out?

Which country hosts the ‘Ras’, an annual race first staged in 1953?

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No 106 Seas & Oceans

Which sea, part of the Arctic Ocean, lies to the north of Norway?

Which strait would you have to pass through to get from the Persian Gulf to
the Indian Ocean?

In which sea are the Gulfs of Finland, Bothnia and Riga?

What is the name of the 350-mile-wide gulf off the north coast of Australia?

The Kara Sea and Laptev Sea belong to which Ocean?

Which strait separates Europe and Africa?

The two northern arms of the Red Sea; the Gulfs of Suez and Aqaba are
separated by which peninsula?

The Ross Sea and Weddell Sea are in which continent?

In which sea is the Gulf of Venice?

The Yucatan peninsula separates the Caribbean from which gulf?

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No 107 Geography of Australasia
Located approximately 750 miles east of Australia, the island of New Caledonia
belongs to which country?

Near which town in South Australia was a joint UK-Australia weapons testing
and rocket launch area established in 1947?

Puncak Jaya, or Mount Victory, 5030 metres or 16,500 feet, is the continent’s
highest mountain; on which island is it located?

The island of Espiritu Santo is part of which archipelago?

Which sea lies off the Great Barrier Reef?

Which mountain range runs almost the whole length of the eastern side of
Australia?

Which country has towns called Hastings and Winchester and has a Mount
Snowdon?

Suva is the capital of which archipelago?

What is the capital of Tasmania?

Which Tropic runs through the middle of Australia?

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No 108 Animal Homes

What creature constructs and lives in a drey?

What creature constructs and lives in a lodge?

A formicary would be home to which kind of insect?

A vespiary would be home to which kind of insect?

What animal might be kept in a byre?

What creature lives in a sett?

What creature lives in a warren?

What creature lives in an eyrie?

What is the proper term for a termite nest?

A holt is the home of which kind of animal?

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No 109 World Heritage Sites

On which Pacific island, belonging to Chile, are the Moai stone statues to be
found?

Cathedrals account for several sites in Germany; which one stands in a city
next to the River Rhine and has twin spires over 500 feet high?

What kind of structure is the site at Suomenlinna in Finland?

Which site in Jordan is known as the Rose Red City?

Which site stands in Athens?

Which English city has a site comprising its cathedral, St Augustine’s Abbey and
St Martin’s Church?

Zambia and Zimbabwe share which site?

World Heritage sites include whole regions of countries. In which country is

the Kamchatka volcanic region?

Which site, near Bradford in Yorkshire, is described as “a well preserved

industrial town, giving a vivid impression of Victorian philanthropic
paternalism’?

From which prehistoric era is the Skara Brae Settlement site on Orkney?

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No 110 Insults

Who said of poet Robert Browning, “He has plenty of music in him but he
cannot get it out”?
Who said of critics in general, “It is only an auctioneer who can equally and
impartially admire all schools of art’?
Who said of Clement Attlee, “He is a modest little man with much to be
modest about’?

Of whom did Lady Cunard say, “...black and wicked and with only a nodding
acquaintance with the truth’?
Who said, “America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone
from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation’?
Which country was described by Winwood Reade as, “This gloomy region,
where the year is divided into a day and a night, lies entirely outside the stream
of history”?
Of whom did actor Christopher Plummer say, “Working with her is like being
hit over the head with a Valentine’s card”?
Who said, “Having an argument with Geoffrey Howe is like being savaged by a
dead sheep”?
Who said “Americans always try to do the right thing — after they’ve tried
everything else”?
Who said “Living in Australia permanently is like going to a party and dancing
all night with your mother”?

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No III British History

In which year was the Battle of Stamford Bridge, where King Harold defeated
a Viking army?

Which event of the years 1347 to 1361 caused great loss of life, resulted in
widespread social upheaval and the collapse of the economy?

Which war was caused by the ineffective rule of Henry VI and the power
vacuum which attracted the ambitions of Richard, Duke of York?

Which monarch had Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, executed in 1556?

Of which conspiracy of 1605 was Robert Catesby the leader?

In 1688, what was founded at Edward Lloyd’s coffee house in London?

Fourteen years before the Great Fire of London, which Scottish city had its
own Great Fire in which a third of its houses were destroyed?

What were the anti-catholic riots of 1780, in London, which caused the deaths
of over 700 people, known as?

What was the minimum voting age for women when they were given the right
to vote in 1918?

The General Strike of 1926 was called by the TUC in support of which group
of already-striking workers?

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No 112 Earth Statistics

What is the Earth’s circumference at the equator?

By how much smaller than it’s circumference at the equator is the Earth’s
circumference as measured via the poles?

What is the average surface temperature?

What percentage of the Earth’s surface is covered by water?

Which is the largest of the Earth’s oceans?

Which is the Earth’s largest lake?

What type of land cover is the most common?

What is the approximate age of the Earth?

What results from the Earth’s year being 365.24 days long as opposed to a
round 365 days?

Which is the most abundant gas in the Earth’s atmosphere?

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No 113 Former Names of Countries

1 What was the former name of Thailand?

2 What was the former name of Taiwan?

3 Which African country used to be called Nyasaland?

4 What was the former name of Djibouti before independence from France in
1977?

5 Which country was formerly known as the Dutch East Indies?

6 Known previously as both Kampuchea and Khmer Republic, by what name is

this country now known?

7 What was the former name of Suriname?

8 Which country used to be called South West Africa?

9 Which two countries comprised the United Arab Republic?

10 Which country was once called New Holland by the Dutch?

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No 114 Endangered Species
Which alligator-like reptile of South America is under threat, mainly due to
trophy-hunting?

What kind of creature is an olm, found around the Adriatic areas of Italy and
former Yugoslavia?

The orang-utan of Borneo and Sumatra faces which major threat?

Which large Indian snake is declining rapidly due to being a favourite of the pet
trade?

The brown hyena is being rendered extinct in which country?

The Californian condor has been pushed to the edge of extinction due to
which main factor?

Which two related animals of South America, one hairy and one ‘armour-
plated’ are under threat from rapid habitat destruction?

From the point-of-view of extinction risk, which part of the world is the worst
place for mammals to live?

Why is the rhinoceros so popular with hunters?

Which classes of animals are the two most endangered?

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No 115 Norse Mythology

Who was the god of mischief?

Which god is known as the Allfather?

Who were the handmaidens of Odin whose task it was to deliver the bodies of
fallen warriors to Valhalla?

Who was the consort of Odin and the goddess of marriage and of the sky?

What was Mjollnir to the god Thor?

What was the name given to the Tree of Life, or World Tree?

What was the name of the home of the gods?

Who was goddess of death and of the underworld?

Which warrior fought and killed the monster, Grendel?

What was the name of the rainbow bridge which connected the realm of men
to the realm of the gods?

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No 116 Volcanoes

Which American national park sits on top of a supervolcano?

Toba, the last super-volcanic eruption of 74,000 years ago, and ten thousand
times more powerful than the Mount St Helens eruption, lies on which island?

In which group of islands is Mount Teide?

Which Scottish city sits on an extinct volcano?

Which Greek island exploded in 1650 BC and probably resulted in the

extinction of the Minoan civilisation?

Mount Egmont, which last erupted in 1755, is located in which country?

Which Mexican volcano did not exist before 1943, first appearing in a cornfield
in that year and quickly growing to its present height of over 10,000 feet?

What are andesite, dacite and basalt?

What kind of phenomenon is a ‘lahar’?

In which group of Italian islands is Vulcano, a volcano that last erupted in the
late nineteenth century?

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No I17 Music & Songs from Films

The song Wandrin’ Star came from which 1970s film?

Who composed the music for the film The Bridge on the River Kwai?

Who composed the music for several Hitchcock films including Vertigo?

The opening section from Richard Strauss’s symphonic poem Also Sprach
Zarathustra was used at the beginning and end of which film?

Who sang the title song from the 1965 film What’s New Pussycat?

Who composed the music for swashbuckling epics such as The Adventures of
Robin Hood and The Sea Hawk?

Who composed the score for Schindler’s List?

Which film featured the song Summer Nights, sung by Olivia Newton-John and
John Travolta?

Climb Every Mountain and The Lonely Goatherd are two songs from which well-
known film of 1965?

There is Nothing Like a Dame and Bali Ha’i are from which film of 1958?

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No I18 Roman Empire

What is the present-day name of the Mare Internum?

Which modern country comprised Macedonia, Achea and Epirus in 120 BC?

How was Ireland known to the Romans?

What was Pontus Euxinus?

Which English town bore the name Corinium in Roman times?

Which two names were applied to the known regions of Africa at the time
when Ptolemy made his map of the world in around 150 AD?

The city of Byzantium is today known as what?

What was the Turkish seaport of Izmir called in Roman times?

In 49 BC, against orders not to do so, who crossed the Rubicon River with his
army?

In 54 AD, who poisoned Claudius in order for her son Nero to become
emperor?

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No 119 Europe

How many countries in Europe have monarchs?

Germany is Europe’s largest economy. Which country is second?

In 2005, which country in the EU had the highest per capita gross domestic
product?

In 2005, which two European countries had the highest population density?

Not including Russia, which four countries are partly within the Arctic Circle?

Which EU city is the largest by population?

Which country has the longest coastline?

Which country has the most borders with other countries?

After the 2004 inclusion of several former Eastern Bloc countries, plus Malta
and Cyprus into the EU, which four further countries are likely to join in 2007?

Which EU country has the largest population?

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No 120 TV Comedies

In which series did the characters René and Edith Artois appear?

In which series did Peter Kay play Potter, Max and Paul Le Roy?

Who played Sir Humphrey Appleby in Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister?

Which series had Jasper Carrott and Robert Powell in the main rdles?

What was the title of the spoof soap opera in the Victoria Wood — As Seen on TV
series?

In which series were Henry Davenport and Sally Smedley the newsreaders?

Gregor Fisher played which Scottish work-shy waster?

Who played Baldrick in each of the four Blackadder series?

Which series starred Mel Smith, Griff Rhys-Jones, Pamela Stephenson and
Rowan Atkinson?

Who played Jeeves and Wooster in the early 1990s ITV series?

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No 121 International Car Index Marks

Which country has the mark CH?

Which country has the mark DK?

Which country has the mark PL?

Which country has the mark I?

Which territory has the mark GB)?

Which territory has the mark GBZ?

Which country has the mark AUS?

Which country has the mark TR?

Which country has the mark A?

Which country has the mark B?

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No 122 18th & 19th Century Classical Music

Who composed the Symphony No 41, known as the Jupiter Symphony?

What is the English translation of Ma Vlast, by Smetana, a cycle of six
symphonic poems, each describing a place or geographical feature in his Czech
homeland?
The Great Gate of Kiev and Catacombs are two sections of which work by
Mussorgsky; written for piano and orchestrated by Ravel and others?
Which composer wrote 104 symphonies, many earning nicknames such as The
Clock, and The Military due to their descriptive themes?
Whose third symphony of 1804 is said to have changed music in the I9th
century in much the same way as the Beatles did for pop in the 20th century?
Which composer, although dying aged 31, wrote nine symphonies, hundreds of
songs, masses, many piano works and chamber music and some operas?
Which German took to composing after his intended career as a pianist was
ended after injuring his hand on his own ‘finger development’ invention?
Who composed the Christmas and Easter Oratorios, the six Brandenburg
Concertos and the Toccata & Fugue in D minor?
Who composed the Russian Easter Festival Overture, Overture on Russian Themes,
Christmas Eve and many other works, inspired mainly by exotic Russian and
Middle Eastern subjects?
Which |8th century composer had his ‘250th birthday’ in 2006?

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No 123 General Sport

Who was named ‘Footballer of the Year’ in 1999?

What was the unusual technique of runner Zola Budd?

What is the required diameter of the ball in table tennis?

In which sport are the Boston Celtics involved?

In which sport might you see an Eskimo roll?

What nationality is Ray Barneveld, World Darts Champion in 1998 and 1999?

The legendary runner Paavo Nurmi represented which country in

international competitions?

How many laps of the track are covered in a speedway race?

Which three sports comprise the triathlon?

In the decathlon, which are the four running sports?

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No 124 Strange Place Names

The town of Pickle Lake stands on the Otoskwin River; in which country?

In which US state is Whorehouse Meadows?

Bad Egg is a village in which German-speaking country?

Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Poland, China and Peru can all be found in which
country?

Which US state has towns named Oatmeal, Gun Barrel City, Happy, and
Uncertain?

Near which German city is the town of Pantz?

In which English county is Blubberhouses?

In which southern African country is Big Bend?

In which English county is Giggleswick?

Near which Scottish city is Wormiehills?

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No 125 Winter Olympics
Which three venues have held the games twice?

Which venue was the scene of siege and civil war within ten years of the 1984
games?

High winds, rain, fog and an earthquake seriously disrupted several events at the
early stages of the games in which year and venue?

In which year was the cycle of the winter games changed so as not to conflict
with the summer games?

Where are the games due to be held in 2010?

Which countries came first and second in the medal total at the 2002 event at
Salt Lake City?

At the 2002 games, there was great controversy over the judging of which
event?

In 2002, in which event did a British team win a gold medal?

At which venue and in which year were the winter games first televised?

Where were the Winter Olympics held in 1994?

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No 126 Cricket

Which county’s ground is at Headingley?

What was the series score when England beat the West Indies in the final
Cornhill Test in 2000?

Which country runs the ‘SuperSport’ series?

In 1994, which player set a world record of 375 runs in a test innings, only to
beat this with a score of 400 runs not out in 2004?

Who captained the Australian team which lost the Ashes to England in 2005?

In 1938, a drawn-out test match between England and South Africa in Durban
was stopped and declared a draw for what highly unusual reason?

Which great player was nicknamed ‘Beefy’?

Who received the PCA Player of the Year award in both 2004 and 2005?

Which county’s ground is at Trent Bridge?

Which county’s ground is at Eaton Road?

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No 127 The Bible — Exodus

Whose daughter found Moses in a basket on the Nile?

After which disaster did Pharaoh give Moses and Aaron leave to take the
Israelites out of Egypt?

What kind of birds arrived to sustain the Israelites just before the sending of
manna?

Where was Moses given the Ten Commandments?

From the wood of which kind of tree were the Israelites instructed to make
the Ark of the Covenant?

With what were the Israelites instructed to overlay the Ark of the Covenant?

In Moses’ absence, the Israelites persuaded Aaron to fashion a ‘god’ for them
to worship. What form did the ‘god’ take?

How many tablets of stone were used to record the Ten Commandments?

For how long did Moses stay on the mountain to receive the Ten
Commandments?

On discovering the false ‘god’, Moses instructed the sons of Levi to kill the
sinners. How many did the sons of Levi kill?

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No 128 Africa

The African continent is comprised of how many countries: 44, 54 or 64?

Carthage is in which modern-day country?

The Qattara Depression is situated in which country?

What is the importance of Cape Agulhas?

What is the name of the peninsula, mainly Somali territory, which protrudes
into the Indian Ocean?

Which is Africa’s most populous city?

In which country is the port of Mombasa?

The Gulf of Sirte lies off which country?

The regions of Northern and Southern Darfur are located in which country?

Eritrea was formerly a part of which country?

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No 129 Famous Russians

In 1613, Mikhail was the first tsar of which dynasty which was to rule for the
next 300 years?

What was the pseudonym of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov?

What was the first name of President Gorbachev?

How did cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin die in 1968?

What was Valentina Tereshkova the first woman to do?

Who became world chess champion in 1969 but was defeated in 1972 by
American, Bobby Fischer?

Who is Chelsea Football Club’s Russian owner?

Who succeeded Gorbachev as Russian President in 1991?

Which nuclear physicist and Nobel prizewinner was banished into internal exile
in 1980, after his criticism of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan?

Which chess master played, and lost, against an IBM computer in 1997?

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No 130 Royal Air Force

In which year was the Royal Flying Corps, forerunner of the RAF, formed?

In 1937, the last biplane entered service with the RAF; what was its name?

What was the RAF’s mainstay four-engined bomber in the last year of World
War Il?

What was the RAFP’s first jet fighter, which entered service in 1944?

What was the RAF’s first jet bomber, which entered service in 1951?

Which type of aircraft was used to drop Britain’s first hydrogen bomb in 1957?

Which fighter aircraft will eventually replace the Tornado and Jaguar?

In 2006, which type of aircraft is used by the RAF air display team, The Red
Arrows?

Which RAF base is located on the island of Cyprus?

The airframe of the Nimrod anti-submarine and search-and-rescue aircraft is

based on which historic civilian aircraft?

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No 131 Snooker

Which event was reintroduced in 2005 after an absence of fourteen years?

2 In which UK city is the Crucible Theatre, the venue for snooker events over
many years?

Who won the 2005 World Snooker Championship?

What is the size of a standard snooker table?

In which year was the World Championship Final where Dennis Taylor beat
Steve Davis after the famously exciting black ball finish?

Who won the World Championship title five years in a row from 1992 to 1996?

Who was the winner of the first Pot Black in 1969, again in 1979 and has won
the World Professional Snooker Championship six times?

As at 2005, who had been six times runner-up at the World Championship, but
had never won the title?

Who beat John Higgins nine frames to eight to win the 2006 Malta Cup?

10 In 2005, which veteran player announced that he would change his name to
James Brown?

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No 132 Films of the 1960s & 1970s

Which film was Marilyn Monroe’s last?

Who directed the Pink Panther films?

Who composed the music for Breakfast at Tiffany’s?

Who received an Oscar for his performance as Sir Thomas More in A Man For
All Seasons?

Which British actor played opposite Julie Andrews in Thoroughly Modern Millie?

Which was the first ‘Bond’ film not to star Sean Connery in the leading role?

Which 1971 Stanley Kubrick film was based on a novel by Anthony Burgess?

Who was the special-effects master who created monsters and fighting
skeletons in films such as Sinbad and the Eye ofthe Tiger?

Who played Paul McCartney’s grandfather in A Hard Day’s Night?

Which 1962 film, starring Alan Bates, tells the story of a young man, who after
being forced into marriage has to live with his awful mother-in-law, whilst
trying to form a true relationship with his unhappy wife?

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No 133 Flowers & Plants

What is the more common name for the Belladonna?

What is the common English name for the genus Papaver?

What is the common English name for Veronica?

Which South American herb is used to make a treatment for digestive

disorders and is commonly used as a flavouring in cocktails?

Which herb gives Earl Grey tea its distinctive flavour?

What is the common English name for the plant Sempervivum?

What is the alternative name for the Pasque Flower?

Saffron is produced from the dried stigmas of which flower?

Which common plant is often found where nettles thrive and can be used to
alleviate the irritation of nettle stings?

What is the English name of Primula Veris, a common meadow flower, also
known in the West Country as ‘Bunch of Keys’?

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No 134 General History

What was the name of the |7th century Dutch settlement on the site of
present-day New York?

Near which German city is Dachau, site of the first Nazi concentration camp?

In which present-day country was the Lombard Kingdom founded in the 6th
century?

The Massacre of St Brice’s Day in 1002 AD was part of an attempt by King

Ethelred to exterminate which group of people in England?

Which dynasty ruled China from 1368 to 1644?

Which notorious incident of 1756, in India, caused many British prisoners to

suffocate to death?

The joint fleets of which two countries navies were destroyed by a joint British,
French and Russian fleet:at the Battle of Navarino in 1827?

Which rights movement was founded in 1897 by Millicent Fawcett?

What is the better-known name and title of the King of Wessex, who ruled
from 871-899 AD?

Who was Israel’s ‘founding father’ who died in 1973, aged 87?

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No 135 Mixed Bag

To which royal was film star Grace Kelly married in 1956?

Which Christian festival commemorates the coming of the Magi?

Who developed a theory of calculus at about the same time as did Sir Isaac
Newton?

The Muppets first appeared on which American TV series?

Who did Hitler name as his successor in 1939?

What is the capital of Ecuador?

In which Shakespeare play do Mercutio and Tybalt appear?

In which sport might you see a ‘western roll’?

With regard to facial hair, which of Snow White’s seven dwarfs was the odd
one out?

Which EU treaty of 1991 was supposed to be the blueprint for future

economic, social and monetary union?

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No 136 Stately Homes

Where in the UK is Osbourne House?

Which Norfolk home was built in the mid 19th century by the Prince and
Princess of Wales, and is the country retreat of HM The Queen?

Which Scottish castle is the home of the Duke of Argyll?

Which West Country house boasts five mazes and a wildlife park?

In which English county is Castle Howard?

The birthplace of Winston Churchill and the home of the I Ith Duke of
Marlborough, which palace is named after a battle which took place in 1704?

Located in Derbyshire, which home is owned by the Duke and Duchess of

Devonshire?

Which Essex house was built in 1603 by the Earl of Suffolk, was purchased by
King Charles Il in 1668 and is now owned by English Heritage?

Which stately home is located at Beaulieu, home of the National Motor

Museum?

Originally built in the 12th century, which castle in West Sussex is the home of
the Duke of Norfolk?

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No 137 Fashion

Which designer produced the wedding dress and coronation robes for Queen
Elizabeth II?

Which designer adapted her New Romantic look to attire several pop groups
and singers, including Adam and the Ants?

The TV series Dallas and Dynasty helped promote which 1980s ‘big-shouldered’
style?

Which duo designed the wedding dress for Diana, Princess of Wales?

Which fashion house is based at 14 Savile Row, London?

Which fashion house was born of a nineteenth century French trunk

manufacturer?

Who started out as a tailor’s apprentice in Venice, the city of his birth, before
moving to Paris in 1945, where he opened his first house in 1950?

Born in 1951, who originally designed for Jordache before launching his own
lines, and was awarded the CFDA Menswear Designer of the Year in 1995?

Which fashion designer lives in and works from her home at the Fashion
Museum in Bermondsey, London?

In which area of fashion design does Andrew Logan have a world-wide

reputation?

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No 138 Opera

Which opera by Wagner concerns a sea captain who is condemned to sail the
seven seas forever?

Who composed the music for Der Rosenkavalier?

In which opera by Mikhail Glinka is a bride abducted by an evil dwarf called

Chernomor?

Who composed the music for Lucia di Lammermoor?

Which famous composer was director and conductor at the Vienna Court
Opera from 1897 to 1907?

Which opera by Leoncavallo translates as ‘The Clowns’?

Which of Puccini’s operas was left unfinished at his death in 1924 and was
completed by Franco Alfano?

Who wrote the operas William Tell and The Barber of Seville?

Who composed the music for the operas Macbeth and The Force of Destiny?

Which opera has as its central characters, an American naval lieutenant and an
innocent Japanese girl?

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No 139 Battles

During which war did the Battle of Ferrybridge take place in 1461?

The raid on which French port by Allied forces against the Germans in 1942,
resulted in a catastrophic loss of Canadian troops when the mission failed
completely?

The Battle of Edgehill was the first battle fought during which war?

In which country is Sevastopol, scene of a successful siege in 1854-55?

Who commanded the British force which defeated the French at the Battle of
Vitoria in 1813?

At which battle during the American War of Independence, were the British
defeated, thus ending the war?

At which sea battle in 1652 did the Dutch fleet defeat the British?

During which war was the Battle of the Coral Sea fought?

At the Battle of Imjin River, during the Korean war, British troops were
defeated by the forces of which country?

Which battle started with the D-Day landings on 6th June 1944 and lasted
until the middle of August?

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No 140 Ballet

Who founded the Ballet Russes company in Paris in 1909?

In which Russian city is the Kirov Opera and Ballet company based?

Who composed the music for The Tales of Hoffmann, originally written as an
opera but later arranged for ballet?

Who composed the music for the short ballet, Bolero?

Which orchestral work by Rimsky-Korsakov was adapted for ballet by Fokine

in 19102

Which ballet by Sir Arthur Bliss enacts a game of chess between Love and
Death?

Who composed L’Aprés-midi d’un faune, originally an orchestral concert piece

and choreographed by Nijinsky in 1912?

Which ballet by Ravel, a pastoral love story set in ancient Greece, is often
represented by two short orchestral suites?

The Stone Flower and Romeo and Juliet were ballets with music composed by
which Russian?

Which ballet is set to music composed by Gustav Mahler?

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No 141 Literary Awards

Which Harry Potter book won the Whitbread Award for Children’s Book of the
Year in 1999?

For which category of writer is the annual Orange Prize awarded?

In 2005, to mark its Golden Jubilee, the Crime Writer’s Association decided to
make a special ‘best-of-the-best’ award to which book by John le Carré?

For which category of novel is the Arthur C Clarke Award given?

For which book did Ernest Hemingway receive the Pulitzer Prize in 1953?

Winner of the first ever Man Booker International Prize in 2005, what is the
nationality of novelist Ismail Kadare?

Who was awarded the 1981 Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel, Midnight’s
Children?

Which Swedish writer received the 2001 Crime Writers’ Association Macallan
Gold Dagger Award for the detective novel, Sidetracked?

The annual Samuel Johnson Prize is awarded to writers in which area of

literature?

The Nestlé Smarties Prize goes to writers in which area of literature?

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No 142 Mental Arithmetic

Add the number of pounds in a kilo (one decimal place) to the nearest number
of inches in a metre.

Divide the number of contiguous US states by the number of legs on a spider.

Multiply the number of engines on a Boeing 747 by the number of days in

February 2008.

Divide the number of seconds in an hour by the number of degrees in a circle.

Add the number of planets closer to the Sun than the Earth to the total
number of planets (up to and including Pluto only) in the Solar System.

A ‘baker’s dozen’ plus a trio plus a gross gives a total which when divided by a
score =?

Divide the number of days in a leap-year by the usual number of leaves on a

clover.

Multiply the number of pillars of wisdom in T E Lawrence’s book by the number

of symphonies composed by Johannes Brahms.

An easy one (perhaps!): what is the square root of twelve dozen?

Multiply the number of UK cities with populations of more than a million by the
number of whole inches in a metre.

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No 143. Heroes & Villains (Real & Fictional)

Who was the Austrian arch-enemy of William Tell, who gave Tell a chance to
avoid execution if he agreed to shoot an apple placed on his son’s head?

Who was the arch-enemy of Robin Hood?

Which famous German pilot was killed on 2|st April 1918?

What was the alias of Sir Percy Blakeney, who with his heroic deeds helped
many French aristocrats to avoid the guillotine?

Who was the creator of the heroes, Rob Roy and Ivanhoe?

Which famous highwayman is buried at St George’s Church in York?

How did a Dutch boy, Hans Brinker, save his home town of Haarlem?

Which hero of German mythology, who features in Wagner’s Ring operas, was
rendered invincible after bathing in dragon’s blood?

Heroes and Villains was a 1967 hit for which pop group?

Which ‘pilot of the future’ appeared in the boy’s comic, The Eagle?

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No 144 Early Civilisations

The Nabataeans, who flourished in the region of what is today Jordan and
northern Saudi Arabia, had their capital at which famous desert site?

Which civilisation, believed to be the earliest, is associated with the cities of

Ur and Uruk in Iraq?

Which civilisation occupied the Yucatan Peninsula in present-day Mexico from

around 2600 BC to around 900 AD?

Which people of central Mexico flourished in the l4th, 15th and 16th
centuries but were decimated by the Conquistadors under Cortés?

The Hittite kingdom, which lasted from around 1700 BC to 1200 BC occupied
parts of which modern-day country?

Which people had their capital at Ilium, in present-day Turkey?

On which island was the Minoan civilisation based?

In which modern-day country is the city of Harappa, discovered in 1922 and

known to have been built around 2000 BC?

What is the traditional date for the Founding of Rome?

Axum is thought to be the centre of an early civilisation located in which

present-day African country?

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No 145 Abbreviations

What is USAF?

What is SHAPE?

What is RIBA?

If you were invited to a party, what does BYOB mean?

Fortunately, Société autonyme belge d’exploitation de la navigation aérienne, has

been reduced to what name for Belgium’s national airline?

The separatist movement, Euzkadi ta Askatasuna, is better known by which

name?

What does E&OE stand for?

What does the pp stand for when signing a letter on behalf of someone?

Why would you be pleased to see FOC appearing on a bill?

What is the opposite of NNW?

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No 146 Japan

Which is the largest of the four main islands which make up Japan?

Following the end of World War II, until which year did the US formally occupy
the country?

What is the ‘Diet’?

Who did Emperor Akihito succeed in 1989?

What title was given to the country’s ruler from 1192 to 1868?

What is Japan’s main seaport?

What distinction is held by Keio University?

What is the main religion of Japan?

Which Japanese word literally means ‘tray (or ‘bowl’) cultivation’ and relates to
the specialised cultivation of trees?

Which is the greater part of the Japanese economy; the industrial sector or the
service sector?

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No 147 Cockney Rhyming Slang

What would you do if you got a ‘needle and pin’ from the ‘near and far’?

What is ‘Pat and Mick’?

What would you get if you bought ‘Persian rugs’?

What would you be doing if you went to the ‘fish tank’ to deposit a ‘monkey’?

How much money is a ‘Real Madrid’?

Where is ‘rusty nail’?

What relation is your ‘saucepan lid’?

What is a ‘space hopper’?

Where would you wear your ‘eggs and kippers’?

What would you do with your “Widow Twanky’?

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No 148 Switzerland

Which sector makes up the largest part of the economy?

Which city is the financial capital?

What is the name for the districts into which the country is divided?

Of the four official languages, which is the most widely spoken?

Which city is the largest of the French-speaking part of the country?

Which river passes over the great waterfalls near Schaffhausen?

Which country invaded Switzerland in 1798?

In which year were all Swiss women finally given the right to vote?

Which country shares its currency and postal service with Switzerland?

Is the population of Switzerland greater or less than that of London?

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No 149 Cities of the World

Which city has a museum of 100,000 antiquities and is the most populous city
within the Arab world?
Which city was called Saigon until its name was changed in 1975?
Which British city is home to Cribbs Causeway and Broadmead shopping
centres and has strong associations with Isambard Brunel?
To where would you travel to see St Basil’s Cathedral and the Pushkin Museum
of Fine Arts?
Which city, the former capital of Norway and now the country’s second city, is
known as the Gateway to the Fjords?
Which German city, sited on the Rhine, boasts a museum dedicated to
chocolate and has the world’s fourth tallest cathedral?

Which city, sited on the Red Sea and the country’s largest seaport, is a staging
post for Moslems on their Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca?
This city started out as Gastown. It is now the largest city in British Columbia
and hosted the World Expo in 1986. What is its present-day name?
Which capital city, a one-time Olympics venue, stands at over seven thousand
feet above sea level and has a museum dedicated to Leon Trotsky?
Which English city is the home of the National Museum of Photography, Film
and Television?

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No 150 Animals

Which kinds of mammals comprise the order Chiroptera?

The order Edentata is comprised of anteaters, armadillos and which other

mammal?

Which is the only great ape to be found outside Africa?

What is the alternative name for the North African jerboa?

What is special about the royal antelope?

Which large antlered animal’s bones have been found in Irish bogs and in the
UK, and although extinct its relatives live on in parts of northern Europe?

What kind of animal is a capuchin?

What term is given to animals whose young develop inside their mothers?

Cochin and Welsummer are breeds of which animal?

What kind of animals belong to the order Chelonia?

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No I51 Buildings

The ‘inside out structure’ centre, completed in 1977, located in central Paris, is
named after which French president?
Which building by Inigo Jones stands directly opposite Horse Guards in
Whitehall and was built for James | in 1622?
Which tower in Toronto was, at its completion in 1976, the world’s tallest
free-standing structure?
Which London building of revolutionary construction was built in 1851, moved
in 1852, and burned down in 1936?
Sited at the junctions of Broadway, 23rd Street and Fifth Avenue, which
oddly shaped, and descriptively named building is considered to be the oldest
skyscraper in New York?
Which Thames-side futuristically-shaped building was designed by Sir Norman
Foster and is occupied by the Greater London Authority?
With the structure made from cast iron and brick, which London station was
designed by Brunel, and completed in 1854?
Built during WWII, and said to be the largest office building in the world, which
US building was damaged in a suicide attack in September 2001?
What was the original use for the building which now houses the Tate Modern
art gallery in London?
Which famous church stands to the east side of London’s Trafalgar Square?

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No 152 Famous British People Born Abroad

Which footballer was born in Singapore in 1958, played for Ipswich Town and
Rangers and became player-manager at Coventry in 1990?
Which blazer and tie-clad British broadcaster and jet-age journalist who was
born in Cairo in 1925, once had his own TV travelogue series?
Which actor was born in Burma in 1925, and was a star of a long-running TV
comedy series set in the scrap trade?
Which naturalist was born in Austria in 1910 and moved to Kenya where her
experiences inspired a book about a lioness called Elsa?
Which actress was born in India in 1940, starred in Darling (1965) and
Dr Zhivago and opposite Donald Sutherland in Don’t Look Now?
Which actor was born in Berlin in 1930 and is perhaps best known for his
portrayal of a bumbling waiter working at a certain Torquay hotel?
Which Irish-born female impersonator has a night club on London’s Hanover
Square?
Which Hungarian-born film producer’s work includes Jungle Book (1942), and
The Third Man?
Which famous actress and one-time wife of Lawrence Olivier was born in
Darjeeling, India, in 1913?
Which author of classic fantasy novels was born in South Africa in 1892 and
died in England in 1973?

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No 153 Famous Britons

Which cabinet-maker was born at Stockton-on-Tees in 1751, his style being

applied to many kinds of furniture in the late 18th century?
Scottish physician, Sir Patrick Manson (1844-1922) discovered the means of
transmission of which disease?
Which explorer discovered the great bay, between north-east Canada and
Greenland, which has since borne his name?
Which musician of the Tudor era inspired an orchestral piece by Vaughan
Williams, the title of which includes his name?
Who wrote Studies in the Psychology of Sex?
Which famous seaman, son of a Norfolk clergyman, joined the navy at the age
of twelve and died in 1805, having risen to the highest naval rank?
Which great computer genius (1912-1954) committed suicide after being unable
to come to terms with his criminalisation for being homosexual?
Which architect (1632-1723) was also a professor of mathematics and of
astronomy, and helped to found the Royal Society?
Who had the title of ‘Lord Protector of England’?
Which English poet (1812-1889) wrote Home Thoughts From Abroad, Meeting at
Night and The Pied Piper of Hamelin?

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No 154 Geology

From how long ago have fossilised plant remains been found?

From how long ago have fossilised animal remains been found?

What is the name for small regular-shaped pieces of opaque glass which are
produced by impact events such as meteor strikes, and are found worldwide?

What name is given to the study of fossils?

Which major geological feature extends from Mozambique through Africa and
the Red Sea and along the Jordan valley; a total of about 5,000 kilometres?

What term is given to describe the movement of the plates of the Earth’s crust?

What is the name of the single ‘supercontinent’ which is thought to have

existed before it broke apart into separate land masses?

What kind of geological activity is responsible for the hexagonally-shaped rock

formations of Northern Ireland’s Giant’s Causeway?

The Cretaceous, Jurassic and Triassic periods make up which geological era?

How are igneous rocks formed?

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No 155 Roman Roads

The Appian Way, which runs from Rome to Brindisi, was the scene of some
6,000 crucifixions in 71 AD; of the followers of which rebel leader?

What is the name of the road which ran from the Kent coast via London and
St Albans to Wroxeter near Shrewsbury?

The Aurelian Way ran from Rome to which Italian seaport?

Ermine Street which ran from London to York is today partly followed by the
route of which major road out of London and through Hertfordshire?

Which road ran from Lincoln to Exeter, linking outposts on the rivers Trent,
Avon and Severn?

Stane Street ran from London to which town in West Sussex?

Which present-day major alpine pass between Northern Italy and the Austrian
Tyrol follows the route of an old Roman trade road?

The Pines of the Appian Way is one of a group of four symphonic sketches
entitled The Pines of Rome; music composed by which Italian?

The Via Valeria circled which Italian Mediterranean island?

Which road crosses the fens of Cambridgeshire and terminates at Denver in

Norfolk?

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No 156 Organisations

The Office for Strategic Services of World War Il was the forerunner of which
present-day intelligence organisation?

Which organisation comprises the USA, Japan, Germany, the UK, France, Italy
and Canada?

Which UK political body is comprised of Conservative back-bench MPs in the

House of Commons?

What is the name of the Israeli domestic security service?

What is the name of the UK independent scientific academy founded in 1660?

Although having its origins in Canada in 1897, which organisation was started in
the UK in 1915 by John Nugent Harris and Madge Watt?

What does ‘Sinn Féin’ mean?

Which international police organisation is based in Lyon, France?

BOSS was (now disbanded) a feared branch of the intelligence service of which
country?

Which Brussels-based international organisation was formed at the time of the

Soviet blockade of Berlin, and exists as a mutual protection pact between most
European countries plus the USA and Canada?

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No 157 Famous Religious Buildings

Which great mosque in Istanbul was built by Sultan Ahmed | and is the only
mosque with six minarets?
Which great basilica and the largest church in the world, stands at the end of
the great colonnade in the Vatican City?
Which English cathedral, dedicated to St Mary, was damaged by an earthquake
in 1185, and houses the body of St Hugh?
St Stephen’s cathedral was badly damaged by Russian forces in April 1945 but
was re-built after World War II. In which city is it?
The Grand Gallery, the North, West and South Rose Windows and the King’s
Gallery are all features of which French cathedral?
Once the coronation place of French kings, which cathedral was damaged in
World War | and later restored partly by grants from the Rockefeller family?
Which English cathedral contains the grave of the Venerable Bede?
8 Which cathedral is the largest Gothic church in England?
9 Which English cathedral was destroyed by German bombs on |4th November
1940?
The Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King is one of two cathedrals in
which UK city?

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No 158 Relief Agencies

Which international organisation was founded by the Swiss, Henry Dunant

after he witnessed the terrible aftermath of the Battle of Solferino in 1859?
Which organisation was set up in 1942, initially to assist the people of Greece,
who were being denied supplies because of an Allied blockade?
Which Brussels-based agency was set up by French doctors in 1971 to provide
worldwide medical emergency relief?
Which organisation was founded by Eglantyne Jebb and Dorothy Buxton after
they saw the after-effects of World War | on the children of Europe?
CARE International was founded in the US in 1945. Which was the first
country to receive aid from this organisation?
Founded in 1945 as Christian Reconciliation in Europe, how is this organisation
now known?
Founded in the UK in 1972, in which country is ActionAid now based?
What started as The Christian Mission in London in 1865 and is today present
in more than 100 countries?
In which year was Band Aid formed?
Which human rights organisation was formed in 1961 by British lawyer Peter
Benenson, after he read about two Portuguese students who were sentenced
to seven years in prison for raising their wine glasses in a toast to freedom?

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No 159 Film Directors

| Which Italian director is noted for his films on literary subjects, e.g. The Taming
of the Shrew, Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet and Jane Eyre?

Who directed the Death Wish films?

Which French director’s films included La Ronde and Barbarella?

Actress Liv Ullmann has been closely associated, both professionally and
personally, with which director?

Which film of 1971 was the first to be directed by Steven Spielberg?

Who directed Full Metal Jacket of 1987?

The Maltese Falcon was the first and The Dead the last film of which director?

Who directed the Lord ofthe Rings trilogy?

Which director is married to Julie Andrews?

Which Italian director was married to actress Ingrid Bergman?

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No 160 Environmental Groups

Which international non-governmental organisation was created to promote

the implementation of agreements reached at the 1992 Earth Summit?

What do the initials of IFAW stand for?

Which high-profile pressure group started out by disrupting nuclear tests in

Alaska in 1971? In 1985, French secret agents bombed and sank their ship,
Rainbow Warrior.

Which group’s logo is a panda standing on the initials WWWF?

Which California-based group was formed in 1892, probably making it the

world’s oldest environmental pressure group?

Which organisation is represented by the initials FoEl?

Which group is represented by the initials El?

RAN is dedicated to the protection of the world’s rainforests. What do the

initials stand for?

Which three whaling nations were criticised by several environmental groups

in early 2006?

Esperanza and Arctic Sunrise are two ships belonging to which group?

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No |61 Numbers

How many labours was Hercules given to complete?

How many were the Graces of Greek mythology?

How many were the Muses of Greek mythology?

How many were the Virtues?

How many were the ‘Ternperaments’ or ‘Humours’?

Which of the Seven Deadly Sins is number one?

What is the numbers theme of Shakespeare’s ‘All the world’s a stage...’ etc,
from As You Like It?

How many were the Wonders of the Ancient World?

Of the Ten Commandments, which one deals with adultery?

What were the names of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?

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No 162 Famous Germans

Which controversial anatomist and artist has staged his ‘Body Worlds’
exhibition in many parts of the world?
Awarded the Nobel Physics prize in 1932 for his work on quantum mechanics,
which scientist is best known for his ‘uncertainty principle’?
Who was known as the ‘Mad King of Bavaria’ due to his eccentric patronages
and fantastic projects such as Neuschwanstein Castle?
Which philosopher and writer is regarded as the ‘father of communism’?
Who founded a news agency in Aachen in 1849 and became a British citizen on
moving to London where he established a telegram news agency in 1851?
Which physicist discovered X-rays, for which he received the first Nobel
Physics prize in 1901?
Who started making optical instruments at Jena in 1846 and founded the
company that still bears his name?
Which great literary figure, author of Faust and Werther, also wrote scientific
works such as The Metamorphosis ofPlants?
In 2005 who narrowly defeated Gerhard Schroeder for the Chancellorship of
Germany?
Which Lutheran pastor was executed by the Nazis in 1945 after he had publicly
criticised Hitler for several years?

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No 163 Art

Which term describes European designs based on Chinese ornamental art?

Founded in about 1870 and continuing into the early 20th century, the
‘Wanderers’ group of painters were active in which country?

In painting, what is the term for a layering over of the canvas in order to give a
new surface on which to apply the paint?

In the mid-20th century, what name was given to art produced by prisoners,
children and mentally impaired people?

Which family of painters started the Venetian Renaissance style during the
15th century?

Tiziano Vecellio was the proper name of which well-known artist?

Which Italian’s paintings of Venice and London were promoted in England by

Joseph Smith?

Which English sculptor created the statue of Eros which stands in London’s
Piccadilly Circus?

What was the nationality of the ‘Group of Seven’ landscape painters?

Which period of Italian art started in around 1490 and is personified by

Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Raphael and Titian?

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No 164 Mixed Bag

Which is taller, the London Eye or London’s Telecom Tower?

Which English statesman wrote Utopia?

Which Beatle narrated the Thomas the Tank Engine TV series?

Which German terrorist group was named after two of its founders?

Bertrand Russell was a founder member of which anti-nuclear organisation?

On which river does the city of Winchester stand?

Who commanded the Scots at the Battle of Bannockburn?

What did BBC Radio’s Light Programme become in 1967?

Blackpool stands on the shore of which sea?

Travelling south from the UK, in which body of water does the Meridian of
Greenwich first meet with the Equator?

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No 165 Brazil

In which city is Copacabana beach?

What is the official language of Brazil?

What is the capital city?

Which city is the most populous?

Which major seaport lies at the southern mouth of the Amazon?

Actress Carmen Miranda became famous for wearing what kind of unusual
headgear?

One of Brazil’s best known personalities is Edson Arantes do Nascimento; how

is he better known?

Which are the only two South American countries with which Brazil does not
have borders?

What is the name of the large raised plateau region of central Brazil?

Which river port stands at the confluence of the Amazon and Negro rivers?

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No 166 Mental Arithmetic

Divide the number of inches in ten feet by the number of millimetres in a

centimetre.

How many inches are there in a mile?

Multiply the number of edges on a cube by the number of faces.

Divide the number of spots on a die by the number of faces.

Divide the number of yards in a mile by the number of metres in a kilometre.

Multiply the number of old pennies in a pound by the number of farthings in an

old penny.

What is the square root of ten thousand?

To one decimal place, what is the square root of the number of days in June?

Add the number of ‘hills of Rome’ to the number of heads of Cerberus.

Multiply the normal number of teeth of the adult human by 10.1.

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No 167 The Moon

What name is given to the darker areas of the Moon as seen from Earth?

2 Located in the south-southwest as seen from Earth, which crater shows the
brightest and most extensive ray system (named after a Danish astronomer)?

What is the distance from the Earth to the Moon?

Into which area of the Moon did the first manned landing take place in 1969?

After which goddess did the Romans name the Moon?

Where on the Moon has water ice been detected?

Which spacecraft was the first to reach the Moon, in 1959?

What is the strength of the Moon’s gravity as a fraction of the Earth’s?

After which goddess did the ancient Greeks name the Moon?

Which lunar features can be ‘terraced’, ‘ghost’ and ‘ray’ in type?

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No 168 Literature

| Which English novelist’s works include Under the Net, The Message to the Planet
and Jackson’s Dilemma?

Don’t Laugh at Me is the autobiography of which comedian?

Who wrote Little Lord Fauntleroy?

Who wrote The Last of the Mohicans?

Which novel of 2003 concerns conspiracy in high religious circles; its title
inspired from a supposed ‘message’ in a painting of the ‘Last Supper’?

Which actor and TV presenter wrote Making History and The Liar?

Whose autobiography is entitled A Long Walk to Freedom?

Lord Peter Wimsey is the creation of which novelist?

Which author and playwright was born Tom Straussler?

Who sometimes writes under the pseudonym, William Boot?

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No 169 Kings and Queens

In 2005, who was Europe’s longest reigning monarch?

Who is the wife of King Juan Carlos of Spain?

King Albert and Queen Paola are from which country?

Queen Margrethe II is the reigning monarch of which country?

King Harald and Queen Sonja are from which country?

Queen Beatrix is the reigning monarch of which country?

What relation is Queen Elizabeth II to the King of Norway?

King Carl Gustaf is the reigning monarch of which country?

Who was the first King of Israel?

Who was the last Tsar of Russia?

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No 170 Mixed Bag

Death of a Princess, a TV drama based on a real event, caused a diplomatic row

between Britain and which country in 1980?

Which mammal is the only one that has four knees that all bend in the same
direction?

Who had a hit with Copacabana in 1978?

What unusual event occurred in Britain on IIth August 1999?

Which country lies to the south of Switzerland?

Who was Chancellor of the Exchequer on ‘Black Wednesday’; 16th September

1992?

Which European city was called Massilia by the Romans?

What is mainland Europe’s westernmost capital city?

What do Mercury and Hermes have in common?

What do Francis Smith and Edmond Halley have in common?

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No I71 Mountains

Which is higher: Snowdon in Wales or Scafell Pike in England?

The Jura Mountains lie on the borders of which two countries?

After Everest and K2, which is the third highest mountain in the world?

Of which country is Mount Logan the highest mountain?

Which range stretches from Slovakia, through Ukraine and into Romania?

Kosciusko is the highest mountain of which country?

The Caucasus range stretches between which two seas?

Which range runs parallel along most of New Zealand’s South Island west
coast, the highest point being Mount Cook at 12,400 feet?

In which country are the Drakensberg Mountains?

The Otztal and Zillertal Alps lie on the border between which two countries?

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No 172 Word Origins

The word ‘assassin’ has its origins in which language?

The name of which drink comes from Russian for ‘little water’?

From which language is the word ‘robot’ derived?

The word ‘toboggan’ comes from the languages of which continent?

From which language does ‘ketchup’ come?

The words ‘bungalow’ and ‘shampoo’ come from the languages of which
country?

‘Bazaar’ and ‘magic’ are derived from Farsi, the language of which country?

‘Honey’ and ‘hair’ have their origins in which language?

From which language does ‘muesli’ come?

From which language does the word ‘kayak’ come?

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No 173 Animal Extinction

What is the name of the World Conservation Union catalogue of endangered

species?

In 2005, how many animal species were under serious threat of extinction?

What percentage of all the world’s amphibians are endangered?

What percentage of turtles and tortoises are facing the danger of extinction?

The lynx is now critically endangered in which part of Europe?

In which century did the wolf become extinct in Britain?

A 1947 USSR ban on hunting which type of animal was not enough to prevent
extinction by the mid 1950s?

Which North American animal numbered 60 million before being hunted down
to around 1,000 in 1900, but has since increased to some 200,000?

The rapid decline of which fish has badly affected the caviar trade in recent
years?

The European monk seal, whose numbers have declined to about 600 in 2005,
is native to which sea?

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No 174 Sayings

Complete the saying: ‘If wishes were horses then ...’

‘Nothing is certain but death and ...’ what?

‘The longest journey starts with ...’ what?

‘You catch more flies with honey than with ...’ what?

‘To err is human, to forgive ...’ what?

What do ‘only fools and horses’ do?

‘Marry in haste, repent at ...’ what?

Complete the saying: ‘It is better to light a candle than ...’

Who took the punishment on behalf of those who could not be touched
because of their high status?

The saying, ‘pound of flesh’ has its origin in which of Shakespeare’s plays?

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No 175 Classical Musicians

Violinist Yehudi Menuhin was also known for his expertise in which other area
of musical activity?

With which instrument is John Lill associated?

Mstislav Rostropovich is a grand master of which instrument?

Which famous musician was appointed principal flautist with the Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra in 1969, moving on to a solo career in 1975?

Hakon Hardenberger is well-known for his playing in concertos for which solo
instrument?

What is the relationship between violinists David and Igor Oistrakh?

Conductor and composer Stephen Barlow is the husband of which well-known

actress?

With which instrument is Marie-Claire Alain associated, especially in the works

of |S Bach?

Which German-born American has held principal conductorships of major

orchestras in London (twice), Houston, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and Oslo?

With which instrument is Kyung Wha Chung associated?

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No 176 Famous Italians

Which nationalist and military leader (1807-1882) was largely responsible for
the unification of Italy?

What was the better-known name of Leonardo of Pisa, who discovered the
system of numbers which bears his alternative name?

A Nobel Prize winner in 1938, Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was best known for
his work in which area of science?

What did Alessandro Volta invent in 1800?

Which scholar, writer and, by his own accounts, famous lover, has the name
which translates into English as Jack Newhouse?

Which political philosopher and author wrote The Prince and Discourses? His
name has become synonymous with ruthless political behaviour.

Which sixteenth century sculptor and goldsmith created the famous bronze
statue of Perseus and Medusa?

Which actress was born in 1939, achieved stardom in Fellini’s 8/2 and early in
her career changed her name from Claude Josephine Rose Cardin?

Which Italian is the patron saint of animals?

In which city was Christopher Columbus born in 1451?

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No 177 Currencies

What is Canada’s unit of currency?

What was Austria’s currency before the Euro?

Andorra is not part of the EU. What is its currency?

What is Denmark’s unit of currency?

Although each country has a separate currency, Pakistan, India, Nepal and Sri
Lanka’s currencies all share which name?

What is Israel’s unit of currency?

What was Italy’s currency before the Euro?

Before the Euro, what was Portugal’s unit of currency?

The Dong is the unit of currency of which Asian country?

The currencies of Syria, Egypt and Lebanon all have which common name?

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No 178 Airports Named After Famous People

Previously called Speke, what is the present name of Liverpool’s airport?

2 What was the name of New York’s main airport before its current name of
John F Kennedy?

After which famous explorer is Venice airport named?

Which major US airport is named after a secretary of state under President

Eisenhower?

What name has been given to the airport developed on the former RAF base
at Finningley near Doncaster?

Which city is served by Leonardo da Vinci Airport?

What is the name of the airport at Roissy, near Paris?

After which statesman was Johannesburg airport named?

The Cologne/Bonn airport bears the name of which German statesman?

What is the name of the airport located in the Gaza Strip, closed since its
destruction by Israel in 2000?

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No 179 Cats

What emotion is being shown when a cat ‘kneads’ its paws?

What is the term for when a female cat is rendered sterile?

How many times more sensitive is a cat’s sense of smell than that of humans?

Where are a cat’s nictating membranes?

What is ailurophobia?

How many toes do cats have on each of their front and rear paws respectively?

Approximately how many hours a day does a cat sleep?

Is a cat’s normal body temperature lower or higher than a human’s?

What is special about the Singapura breed?

What was the name of the cat who became famous for the way he scooped
out food from a can in an advertisement for a well-known brand of cat-food?

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No 180 Dogs

Do dogs see in colour?

2 Where on a dog are its sweat glands?

3 Feeding a dog on chocolate can be harmful because the theobromine it contains

over-stimulates the nervous system and which major organ?

The Saluki is one of the oldest breeds of dog, originating from where, about
5,000 years ago?

Into either of which two categories do all dogs belong?

The lundehund is a very rare breed of which country?

What is unusual about the basenji breed of Africa?

What is unusual about the Newfoundland breed of dog?

What colour are Dalmatians at birth?

In which African country was the greyhound breed developed?

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No I8I Which Month?

During which month does the Notting Hill Carnival take place?

The London Promenade Concerts start in which month?

In which month is the Edinburgh Military Tattoo held?

In which month does the London to Brighton bicycle race take place?

Which annual event, held in June at Earl’s Court, came to an end after 120
years?

In which month is the FA Cup Final normally held?

In which month is the Earth closest to the Sun?

The State Opening of Parliament usually takes place in which month?

During which months do mayflies appear?

During which month is St Swithin’s Day?

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No 182 Adopted Foreign Words & Phrases

The Prince of Wales’s motto ‘Ich Dien’ comes from which language?

What is the literal translation of ‘sieg heil’?

What is the literal translation of ‘deja-vu’?

What is the literal meaning of the Latin phrase ‘ad-hoc’?

Meaning a pill or medicine that has no effect other than a psychological one,
‘placebo’ comes from which language?

The word ‘kudos’ comes from which language?

‘Berserk’ comes from which old European language?

What is the literal meaning of the Italian phrase ‘la dolce vita’?

From which language does the word ‘trek’ come?

From which ancient language

guag of India do the words ‘karma’ and ‘swastika’ come?

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No 183 Anatomy

What is the proper name for the voice-box?

2 The sioatrial node controls the constant function of which organ?

3 Human skin thickness varies in different parts of the body. What are the
minimum and maximum thicknesses?

What is the name for the tube leading from the bladder, through which urine is
passed?

Which organ stores bile which has been passed from the liver?

In an adult, how long is the average appendix?

Which organ filters the blood and destroys old red blood cells?

In which organ is the limbic system?

The classifications of human body-types are mesomorph, ectomorph, and

which other?

What is the common name of the ‘lingua’?

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No 184 Which County?

In which county of England is the town of Chelmsford?

In which county of England is the town of Horsham?

In which county of Wales is the town of Wrexham?

In which county of England is the town of Lowestoft?

In which county of England is the town of Tiverton?

In which county of Scotland is the town of Stranraer?

In which county of England is Leamington Spa?

In which county of Northern Ireland is the town of Ballymena?

In which county of England is Beachy Head?

In which county of Wales is St David’s Head?

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No 185 European Health

In 2005, which country statistically has the longest male average life expectancy
(78 years)?

What is the average life expectancy of the British male?

Which country has the shortest male average life expectancy (73 years)?

Which country has the highest per capita average daily calorie intake?

In a table of 27 countries, which position does the UK hold on calorie intake?

Which country has the fastest rising obesity rates in children aged 5-11?

Which country has the highest per capita average alcohol intake?

How much longer can the average European woman expect to live compared
to the average European man?

Which country has the highest per capita tobacco-use rate?

Which country has the greatest rate of hypochondria?

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No 186 Flags of the World

Which country’s flag is a red circle on a white background?

Which country’s flag is a plain green sheet?
Which country’s flag is a white background with a blue band across the top and
bottom, and a six pointed star formed from two blue triangles?
Which country’s flag is a dark blue background with a Union Jack at the top
corner, and four red stars at the centre?
Which country’s flag is a dark blue background with a Union Jack at the top
corner, and six white stars across the rest of the blue field?

Which country’s flag is a white background with a wide red stripe at each side
and a red maple leaf at the centre?
Which small European country’s flag is comprised of two equally-sized fields,
the top one red and the bottom one white?
Which is the only national flag to not have the traditional rectangular or square
format, having instead the shape of a double pennant?
9 What is the name of the flag of the United Kingdom?
In 2006, where is it intended to fly the world’s largest flag, which will measure
160 metres by 100 metres?

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No 187 European Islands

Which country partly lies on the islands of Funen and Zealand?

Gotland and Oland, in the Baltic Sea, belong to which country?

Texel and Terschelling, in the North Sea, belong to which country?

The Lofoten Islands belong to which country?

Which German island in the North Sea was the scene of a big sea battle in
August 1914?

To which country does the Adriatic island of Korcula belong?

Which Italian island lies about twenty miles west of Naples?

Valletta is the capital of which Mediterranean island?

Corsica belongs to which country?

In which group of islands is Herm?

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No 188 Female Singers

Who was born in New York in 1981, and had great first-time success with Songs
in A Minor?

Who started life as Cherilyn Sarkisian La Pierre in 1946?

With which group was Judith Durham the lead singer?

Who was born in Devon in 1987, won a talent contest at 14 and was signed up
by a US label to produce the hit album The Soul Sessions?

Who was born Frances Ethel Gumm in 1922 and later became Dorothy for a
while? She was married five times and died in London aged 47.

Whose successful albums include Come Away With Me and Feels Like Home?

Who was born Eleanora Fagan in Baltimore in 1915, and went on to become
one of the all-time great jazz and blues singers, but died aged 44?

New Mexico-born Susan Graham is a foremost singer in which kind of music?

Which star of several Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals was once married to
him?

Confessions On A Dance Floor was a 2005 hit album for which singer?

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No 189 Inventions

| What was Thomas Twyford’s gift to civilisation with his invention of 1885?

2 Joseph Swan invented a primitive form of which device in 1860, several years
before the man who is usually credited for this invention?

What did Kirkpatrick Macmillan invent in 1840?

Who, in 1854, invented a process which revolutionised the production of steel?

Who, in the 1850s, discovered a method of food preservation which today

bears his name?

In 1852, J E Lundstrém of Sweden started producing which convenient product

which had been invented by a German, G E Pasch, in 1844?

Around 1670, Hennig Brand of Hamburg produced what substance with his
experiments involving the distillation of urine?

In the 1930s, Walt Disney developed the multiplane camera, which

revolutionised the production of which kind offilms?

What was invented by Willis Haviland Carrier in 1902 and patented by him in
1906?

Which iconic doll (complete with fashion accessories) was invented by Ruth
Handler in 1959?

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No 190 Landlocked Countries

Which country has Bratislava as its capital city?

Which two countries are bounded by Tibet to the north and India to the south?

Which Middle East country would be landlocked but for a short strip of
coastline on the Red Sea?

Which country has the Altai Mountains in the west and the Gobi Desert in the
south and east?

Which former Soviet republic is bounded by Ukraine and Romania?

Which country is bounded by Iran to the west, Pakistan to the south and east
and three former Soviet republics to the north?

Which country borders seven others, including Austria to the west and
Romania to the east?

Which West African country has Algeria to the north, Niger to the east and
Mauritania to the west?

What is the capital of Luxembourg?

In which country are the Hindu Kush mountains?

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No 191 Skiing

Which Austrian won twenty-five downhill ski events between 1974 and 1984?

Which Italian male downhill skier won two gold medals in the 1988 Winter
Olympics, a gold and a silver in 1992 and a silver in 1994? He retired after 1998.

Which French male downhill skier won 12 out of 16 World Cup races in 1966-
67, and won Olympic golds in all three Alpine events in 1968?

Which event involves a sharply twisting steep course with the route marked by
flags?

Which two competitions comprise the Nordic events?

How old is skiing, as evidenced by the discovery of prehistoric skis in

Scandinavia?

At which ski resort is the annual Hahnenkamm Race held?

In which country are the ski resorts of Geilo and Voss?

In which US state is the ski resort of Aspen?

What is the nationality of seven-times Olympic medal winner Kjetil Andre

Aamodt?

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No 192 Male Singers

Beyond the Sea, a film released in 2004 starring Kevin Spacey, is a biopic about
which singer?

Who was the lead singer of Led Zeppelin?

Whose Sittin’ On the Dock of the Bay was a hit a year after he died in a plane
crash in 1967?

What is the stage name of George Alan O’Dowd?

Which Sting song was written after he had lunch with Quentin Crisp in New
York?

Who released the albums The Heart of Saturday Night and Swordfishtrombones?

Who has written an orchestral work, I] Sogno, which has been recorded by the
London Symphony Orchestra?

Thom Yorke is the lead singer with which band?

Who had number one hits with | Only Have Eyes for You and Bright Eyes?

Which unusual partnership sang Ebony and Ivory, a number one in 1982?

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No 193 Cinema Terms

Which term describes the deliberate use of strong light and shade?

Which technique is used to create a silhouette effect?

Which technique is used to provide an artificial background scene against

which the foreground action is filmed?

Which camera or processing technique is used to fade out one scene and fade
in another simultaneously?

What is the term for camera work which follows the action as it passes
laterally from right to left or vice versa?

What is the name for a small piece of scenery or object which is hung close to
the camera but gives the impression of being larger and further away?

What word describes the type or category of a film, eg action thriller,

western, whodunnit etc?

What name, literally meaning ‘cinema truth’, popular in the 1950s and 60s, was
given to films, usually of a lower budget, which relied on real life scenes?

Which animation technique is used in films such as the Wallace and Gromit
series?

CGl, the technique used in Toy Story and Shrek for example, stands for what?

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No 194 Science Fiction

Which early novel describes a time in the future when humans have evolved into
two species, the Eloi and the Morlocks?

Which early novel tells of a party of men who travel to the moon in a space-
ship fired from a cannon?

What was the first SF magazine, appearing in the United States in 1926?

Which 1951 SF film ended with the words “..watch the skies.” and was re-made
in 1982, with lurid detail which alienated some audiences?

Who wrote the novels Earthworks and The Primal Urge?

Who wrote the Foundation series of SF novels?

Who created the time-travelling anti-hero Jerry Cornelius, who features in

several of his novels?

Who wrote The Martian Chronicles?

Who wrote Starship Troopers and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress?

Which 1973 SF film was based on a Michael Crichton novel about Delos, a high
tech theme park where tourists can live out their movie-inspired fantasies, such
as taking on the robot ‘gun-slinger’ played by Yul Brynner?

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No 195 Environmental Disasters

Which company owned the chemical plant in Bhopal, India, a leakage from
which caused many deaths in 1984?
Which man-made compounds are particularly destructive of the ozone layer
and have now been largely banned from use?
What factor has caused the biggest radioactive contamination of the Earth’s
atmosphere?
In which country is the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which caused extensive
radioactive fallout after the melt-down in 1986?
The grounding of which tanker off the Brittany coast in 1978 caused the spillage
of over one and a half million barrels of oil, affecting 200 miles of coastline?
In which inland sea is Vozrozhdeniya Island, a laboratory and test site for the
production of biological weapons, simply abandoned by the Soviets in 1992?
In which year were most of the oilfields in Kuwait set ablaze by retreating Iraqi
armed forces?
In which country is Harbin, site of a massive chemical spill in 2005, which
polluted hundreds of miles of river and cut off water supplies to cities?
What was the name of the site of the USA’s worst nuclear accident, which
occurred in 1979?

November 1986 saw a huge chemical spill from a plant in Basle, Switzerland;
which river was affected, killing half a million fish?

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No 196 Economics

What word describes the undue increase in the quantity of money in

proportion to buying power?

Which simple term defines the rate of increase of GDP?

Which simple term defines economic activity which has not been recorded
through the tax system?

Which term describes the value of people’s income expressed in terms of its
buying power?

What is the name of the effect where economic growth gains pass down
through society and eventually increase development?

What is the term which describes the difference between the value of exports
and the value of imports?

In 1995, which world organisation replaced GATT, the General Agreement on

Tariffs and Trade?

What was the US balance of trade deficit in 2004?

What is the better-known title of the International Bank for Reconstruction

and Development?

To which country’s stock exchange does the DAX index belong?

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No 197 Insects

How does the mosquito cause the deaths of around one million people,
worldwide, every year?

The total number of insect species may number anywhere from two to thirty
million, but how many were listed as at 2005?

What do spiders, centipedes and scorpions have in common?

What is the general term for the siphonaptera order of insects?

Insects of the order Acarina can be a pest to owners of dogs and cats. What is
the common name for these insects?

What is the name for an immature insect?

The year 2004 was a difficult one for farmers across Africa and the Middle East,
due to a sudden increase in the numbers of which insect?

Which order of insects has the greatest number of species?

Approximately what percentage of all the world’s species are insects?

Which UK museum has a collection of twenty-seven million insect specimens?

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No 198 Architecture

Which German-born English historian said “A bicycle shed is a building. Lincoln

Cathedral is a piece of architecture’?

Walter Gropius was the first director of which school of architecture?

Architect Charles Edouard Jeanneret is better known by which pseudonym?

What is a ‘green building’?

In classical architecture there are five different types of column; Doric, lonic,
Tuscan, Composite and which other?

What is the name for an upright division between panes of glass in a window?

What is the name for the usually carved or decorated stone which sits at the
top of a column?

What name was given to the entrance halls of Roman houses and is now applied
to central areas of buildings open to the sky?

What is the name for dressed stones on the corners of buildings, especially
churches, usually contrasting with the walls in texture and colour?

What type of buttress, often seen on the exterior of cathedrals, is a free-

standing column linked to the building by an arch or part of an arch?

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No 199 Earthquakes

Which Alaskan city was badly damaged by the undersea earthquake which
occurred in March 1964?

How much more powerful is a magnitude six earthquake than a magnitude five?

In 1960, where was the world’s strongest earthquake, recording 9.5 on the
Richter Scale?

Which Japanese city was devastated by an earthquake and subsequent fires in

19952

In 1999, the price of coffee increased sharply after an earthquake disaster in

which major coffee-producing country?

Which region of Pakistan was hit by a severe earthquake in October 2005,

killing over 90,000 people?

What is the EQL phenomena?

What phenomenon is the result of sudden loss of soil strength due to violent
ground shaking, which can cause buildings to keel over?

In January 1994, which US city was badly affected by an earthquake which killed
sixty people and caused thirty billion dollars worth of damage?

In 1997 which Italian basilica was destroyed together with its priceless frescoes?

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No 200 Classical Mythology

What was the name ofJason’s ship in which he sailed on many adventures
accompanied by the Argonauts?

What was Jason instructed by his brother, Pelias, to find and bring back from
Colchis?

The mythical Isthmian games, held at Corinth every two years, were held in
honour of which god?

Who was the wife of Zeus who dwelt with him on Mount Olympus?

Who was the spirit of the west wind?

Who were the forty sea-nymph daughters of Oceanus?

Which creature was killed by Theseus in the labyrinth on Crete?

Who assumed the form of a swan in order to seduce Leda?

Which group of gods, which included Atlas, Oceanus, Prometheus and

Hyperion, were the descendants of Uranus and Gaea?

Which Greek god was the equivalent of Vulcan in Roman mythology?

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No 201 EastEnders Family Album

When Pauline’s granddaughter, Vicki moved back to Walford, she fell pregnant
but had an abortion. Who was the father?

What is the name of Charlie Slater’s late wife, mother of his ‘girls’?

What’s the name of Dot’s no-good son?

Christmas Day weddings took place in 2002 and 2003. Who were the lucky
couples?

Who originally thought he was the father of Laura Beale’s son Bobby?

What was the name of Den and Angie’s standard poodle?

Lucy and Peter are lan Beale’s twins — can you name their paternal
grandparents?

What’s the name of Ruby Allen’s elder sister who died in a house fire?

Who are the children of Keith and Rosie Miller?

Which number husband was Roy Evans to Pat Evans?

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No 202 Rivers

In which country is the 2,700-mile-long Lena River?

On which river do the Italian cities of Florence and Pisa stand?

How many British rivers share the name ‘Dee?

In which region of Germany does the Danube rise?

In which country does the Mekong reach the sea?

Which river flows through Myanmar (Burma) via Mandalay and into the
Andaman Sea?

Which 1,975-mile-long river rises in Tibet and flows generally southwards

through Pakistan and the city of Hyderabad and into the Arabian Sea?

Which 1,980-mile-long river flows from Tagish Lake in British Columbia,

through Alaska and into the Bering Sea?

On the mouth of which river does Dundee stand?

Loop Head and Kerry Head stand at the extremes of the mouth of which river?

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No 203 Famous Greeks

Which Athenian (427-347 BC) philosopher and pupil of Socrates founded a

school of philosophy which some regard as being the world’s first university?
Which mathematician and engineer (287-212 BC) is famous for his invention of
a helical system of raising water?
Which philosopher and mathematician (582-500 BC) is renowned for his
theorem on the right-angled triangle?
Who was the founder of Greek drama who wrote several plays, including
The Seven Against Thebes and Prometheus Bound?
Which famous general, and king of Macedonia, is thought to have been
homosexual and probably died of a drink-related illness?
Who developed a method of medical observation which enabled a patient to be
cured when it was fully understood what the ailment was?
Which king was toppled from his reign by a military coup in 1967, and was in
fact the last Greek monarch?
Which magnate was born in Turkey, but had to flee after the Greek-Turkish
war of 1922, and is perhaps most famous for marrying | F Kennedy’s widow?
Which well-known Greek songstress represented Luxembourg in the 1963
Eurovision Song Contest?
Which actress-turned-Minister of Culture campaigned for the return of the
Elgin Marbles which are displayed in the British Museum?

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No 204 Lakes

Which is the smallest of the five Great Lakes of North America?

Which lake is shared by Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Burundi and

Zambia?

In which US state is the Great Salt Lake?

In which country is Lake Vanern?

Which European country has over 187,000 lakes, covering about ten per cent
of its territory?

Lake Peipus straddles the border between Estonia and which other country?

What is the French name for Lake Geneva?

In which country is Lake Neuchatel?

Which country has a lake district called Salzkammergut?

In which country are Lake Athabasca, Great Slave Lake and Great Bear Lake?

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No 205 Canada

| What is the present-day name for the town named York at the time of early
British occupation?

In which province is the capital, Ottawa?

Of which European people has evidence been found of settlement in around

1000 AD?

What are the two Official languages of Canada?

Which famous company was founded in 1670, had its main headquarters in York
Factory and controlled the country’s fur trade for centuries?

Where was the great ‘gold rush’ of the late nineteenth century?

How is the ‘Gendarmerie Royale du Canada’ better known?

What title is given to the head of Canada’s government?

Which famous explorer did George Vancouver, whose name was given to the
west-coast city, accompany on the voyages of 1772-75 and 1776-1780?

Which city is the site of the annual ‘Stampede’ outdoor festival of western
culture?

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No 206 Former Names

Which pop singer was born Leslie Sebastian Charles?

Who did Eric Patrick Clapp become?

Who was born Robert Zimmerman?

What was the original first name of German bandleader, James Last?

What was Linda McCartney’s surname before she married Paul?

Which singer used to be Barry Pinkus?

What was the calmer former first name of Hurricane Smith?

How is Gordon Sumner better known?

Which singer’s real name is the more likely one of Paul Gadd?

Who was known as Marie-Christine von Reibnitz before taking her present
royal title?

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No 207 Ideas and Beliefs

Which philosophy states that everything tends towards evil and is associated
with the philosopher, Schopenhauer?
Which Buddhist sect has its roots in around the 6th century but has come to
the world’s notice through the books of Christmas Humphreys?
Which ‘guru’ brought ‘transcendental meditation’ to the West during the
1960s?
What nationality was Sigmund Freud, generally accepted as the founder of
psychoanalysis?
To which philosophy does the creed ‘every man should be his own government,
his own law, his own church’ by American, Josiah Warren, apply?
Which old religion of Celtic Britain is thought to have had its last stronghold on
Anglesey and was stamped out by the Romans in the first century AD?
7 Which religious movement was founded by John Wesley in the I8th century?
8 What was the name of the religious movement of the 16th century which
brought about the establishment of Protestantism?
Considered to be the creator of the English Reformed Church, which
Archbishop of Canterbury was burned at the stake for heresy in 1556?
Which cult faith grew out of the black people’s self-empowerment philosophies
of Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey?

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No 208 Hit Records

In 1993, who had a hit with This Is It?

Who had a hit with Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood in 1965?

Who had hits with Millennium, Freedom and Old Before | Die?

Who had a hit with Summertime of Our Lives in 1999?

In 1988, who had a hit with Loadsamoney (Doing Up the House)?

Who had hits with The Sun Always Shines On TV and Cry Wolf?

Which American singer’s hits include Can’t Help Falling in Love, Home Lovin’ Man
and Can’t Get Used to Losing You?

Who had hits with Around the World and House of Love?

What was the early 2006 hit for Beyonce and Slim Thug?

Which Little Jimmy had a number one hit in 1972?

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No 209 Musical Instruments

I Which percussion instrument comprises a metal frame on which are arranged

tuned bars of wood which are struck by sticks?

Which is the lowest register brass instrument?

Which instrument gets its name from the Greek word ‘kithara’?

Which is the lowest register string instrument?

Which main solo instrument appears in Saint-Saéns’ third symphony, giving the
work its nickname?

Which rarely used wind instrument is essentially a bass clarinet?

What is the more common name for the cor anglais?

Which solo traditional instrument gave the theme to The Third Man much of its
characteristic flavour?

The obsolete shawm was the forerunner of which modern instrument?

What is the name of the cauldron-shaped drum, usually arranged in a group of

three, which forms the main or only part of the timpani section of an orchestra?

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No 210 Plants & Flowers

| ‘London pride’ is a common garden hybrid of which plant which grows in rocky
terrain in the wild?

What is the colour of a tansy’s petals?

To which genus do forget-me-nots belong?

What common name is given to the impatiens?

By what other name is the sea pink known?

Which poisonous plant related to the potato, was so-named because it was
considered to be especially dangerous to poultry?

What is the common name for saintpaulia, a common house plant?

What do the pitcher plant, bladderwort and sundew plant all have in common?

The asphodel belongs to which family of flowers?

What is a stolon?

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No 211 Monarchs and Emperors

Where is Princess Anne in the Order of Succession to the throne?

Which ancient kingdom did King Orestes and King Perseus rule?

Which queen of Scotland was known as the Maid of Norway?

Who was Kaiser in Germany at the time of the outbreak of World War |?

Franz Josef was the emperor of which empire in 1914?

The House of Vasa was a royal house of mainly which country?

Which king was known as the Sailor King?

Stanislas August Poniatowski was the last king of which country?

Which king of France was the husband of Marie Antoinette?

Remembered in the words of a Christmas carol, ‘Good King Wenceslas’ ruled

over which duchy in the 10th century?

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No 212 Former Names of Cities

What was the name for the capital of Greenland before it became Nuuk?

What was the former name of the Russian city of Volgograd?

What was the name of the DR Congo capital Kinshasa before 1966?

What was New York called in the middle of the seventeenth century?

Which city used to be known as both Petrograd and Leningrad?

Which Canadian city was formerly Bytown?

What was the name for the (East) German city of Chemnitz during the
communist era?

What was the former name for Maputo, capital of Mozambique?

How was Uskiidar, in Turkey, known at the time Florence Nightingale was
based there during the Crimean War?

What is the present-day name for the English city called Venta Belgarum in
Roman times?

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No 213 Birds

The lapwing belongs to which family of birds?

2 Which bird is known in its native Australia as the ‘laughing jackass’?

3 Which North and Central American bird is born featherless, later developing
brown feathers which turn scarlet as it matures?

What is the term for a male swan?

What species of bird is a rockhopper?

What is the colour of a shelduck’s beak?

A murmuration is the collective noun for which common bird?

What species of bird is a greylag?

) The jay is a member of which family of birds?

The blackcock is the male bird of which species?

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No 214 Famous Women

Who was the world’s first woman prime minister?

Which black American, who died in 2005, was famous for her refusal to give up
her bus seat to a white passenger, an event which brought the black civil rights
cause to the attention of the American public?

In 1992, who became the first woman head of MI5?

Who was Britain’s first woman astronaut?

Aung San Suu Kyi is a political activist in which Asian country?

In 2000, women activists finally gave up their anti-armaments protest at which

airbase in Berkshire?

Who became the first woman speaker of the House of Commons in 1992?

Caroline Hamilton led the first all-female expedition to where, in 1997?

Who was known as The Angel of Calcutta?

Almost all of the surface features of which planet have been named after
famous women?

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No 215 Anagrams

‘Match hero late in’ is an anagram of which England cricketer?

Of which Scottish geographical feature is ‘hates romantic mourning’ an

anagram?

Which politician’s name is an anagram of ‘random advice’?

‘Nice team thunders’ is an anagram of which football club?

Which US president’s name is an anagram of ‘ghost now agreeing’?

‘Envied long part’ is an anagram of which actor’s name?

Which author ‘could rather annoy’ when the letters of his name are
rearranged?

‘Alas not the best fight’ is an anagram of which historic battle?

‘A lib ’n tory’ could describe which famous politician?

‘He bugs Gore’ may be true of this former world leader?

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No 216 Spelling

Which spelling is correct? . Skulduggery B. skullduggery C. skulduggary

Which spelling is correct? . anihilate B. annihilate C. anhilate

Which spelling is correct? . contemporanious B. contemporaneous

C. contemperaneous

Which spelling is correct? . renaissance B. rennaisance C. rennaisance

Which spelling is correct? . defennestration B. defenestrasion

C. defenestration

Which spelling is correct? . manoverability B. manoeverability

C. manoeuvrability

Which spelling is correct? . coelacanth B. coelocanth C. ceolacanth

Which spelling is correct? . troglodite B. troglodyte C. trogladyte

Which spelling is correct? .antirrinum B.antirrhinum C. antirhinum

Which spelling is correct? . fluorescent B. flourescent C. fluorecent

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No 217 Dances

Which dance is said to have been developed from the Austrian ‘landler’ folk
dance in the early 19th century?

Which fast Russian dance, a famous example of which appears in Tchaikovsky’s

Nutcracker, is especially associated with Cossack dancers?

Which Cuban dance of rustic origin found its way into modern ballroom
dancing via the jazz era?

The ‘habanera’ is named after which Caribbean city?

Which dance, originating in Brazil, is Portuguese for ‘new style’?

The ‘halling’ and ‘springer’ dances originated in which country?

Which style has its origins in the 1940s when it was danced to jazz, moving to
rock-and-roll in the 1950s?

In which decade of the 20th century did the ‘Charleston’ become popular?

Which country introduced the ‘pasa doble’?

Which country introduced the ‘mazurka’?

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No 218 Sporting Terms

In which sport might you see an ‘Irish whip’?

In which sport might you see a ‘lutz jump”?

What is the name of the line on a snooker or billiard table from where play
begins?

In karate, what is a ‘shuriken’?

In golf, what is a ‘double eagle’?

In which sport might you see a ‘Fosbury flop’?

In mountaineering, what is the name for the spiked frames which are fitted to
the soles of boots to give good grip on ice?

In boxing, what is a ‘southpaw’?

In which sport might you see a ‘snowplough’?

In which sport might you use a ‘piton’?

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No 219 Famous Dutch People

In which field was Gerrit Rietveld an expert?

Which Dutch-born actor starred as an android in the film Blade Runner?

Which Dutchman directed the films Basic Instinct, Total Recall and Starship
Troopers?

Elly Ameling is a leading singer in which kinds of music?

What was the full name of the artist, Rembrandt?

Whose famous diary recorded events from June 1942 to August 1944?

In which of the arts was Pieter de Hooch (1629-1684) active?

Which mathematician, astronomer and scientist discovered Titan, Saturn’s

largest moon, and also invented the pendulum clock?

Which explorer gave his name to the sea, which is a part of the Arctic Ocean,
lying to the north of Scandinavia?

Which footballer, born in 1947, three times European Footballer of the Year,
was named Footballer of the Century by the IFFHS in 1999?

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No 220 Latin Phrases

Which phrase means an ‘admission of fault’?

Which phrase means ‘all through’?

Which phrase means ‘with the highest praise’?

What is meant by the term ‘vox populi’?

What is the ‘Via Lactea’ of the night sky?

What does ‘quod erat demonstrandum’ (QED) mean?

In the pre-decimal currency of pounds, shillings and pence, what did L.s.d stand
for?

‘INRI’, which was inscribed on a sign above Christ at his crucifixion, stands for
lesus Nazarenus Rex ludaeorum. How does this translate into English?

What is meant by ‘fiat lux’?

What is meant by ‘vade in pace”?

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No 221 Cities of the World

With over 18 million inhabitants, which is South America’s most populous city?

According to a phrase attributed to Goethe, which city should one see and then
die?

In which country is the beautiful city of Dubrovnik?

Which Indian city was renamed Chennai in 1996?

Which city at the northern tip of Sumatra was almost completely destroyed by a
tsunami at Christmas 2004?

Which Israeli seaport lies below Mount Carmel?

Cordoba is the second city of which South American country?

Which river divides the city of Budapest into what used to be the separate cities
of Buda and Pest?

Which capital city stands on the island of Sjzlland (Zealand)?

Which two capital cities stand on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola?

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No 222 Famous Warships

What was the incident involving the USS Vincennes in 1988?

What name has been given to five Royal Navy ships from the time of Sir Walter
Raleigh to the present day ship — a 20,000-ton aircraft carrier?

Which British cruiser, which took part in the sinking of the Scharnhorst in World
War Il, is moored in central London?

HMS Sheffield and HMS Coventry were both sunk within a few days of each
other, during which war?

Which British ship managed to inflict serious damage on the Bismarck at the
time the Bismarck sank HMS Hood in 1941?

What was the name of Britain’s first nuclear-powered submarine?

Which battleship was sunk by a German submarine in Scapa Flow in October

1939, with the loss of over 800 crew?

The US Navy battleships USS Utah, USS Arizona and USS Oklahoma were all sunk
during which action of World War II?

What type of ships were Soryu, Hiryu, Kaga and Akagi; all Japanese vessels sunk
during World War II?

What kind of vessel was the French navy’s Clemenceau; the subject of a row
over her decommissioning at an Indian shipyard in 2006, due to the massive
amounts of asbestos needing to be removed?

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No 223 Which Year?

‘Green’ protesters disrupt Newbury bypass building; London’s Docklands

devastated by IRA bomb; massacre of schoolchildren at Dunblane, Scotland.
Swedish man becomes England football coach; Dutch driver jailed after 58
Chinese people found dead in his lorry; John Prescott punches protester.
Violent poll-tax protest in Trafalgar Square causes much damage; Iraq holds
many Westerners hostage; Britain joins ERM; ‘Guinness Four’ are found guilty.
Michael Heseltine and Leon Brittan resign over Westland affair; Richard
Branson beats transatlantic record; Jeffrey Archer resigns over allegations.
Neil Kinnock resigns as Labour leader; Andrew Morton ‘Diana’ book released;
David Mellor resigns over sex scandal.
Shah of Iran flees as Ayatollah Khomeini flies in; Sid Vicious dies from a drugs
overdose; council tenants given ‘right to buy’ from the following year.
Scientists warning over GM food; Charles Kennedy voted Liberal Democrat
leader; Tony Martin arrested for shooting a burglar at his farmhouse.
Fred and Rosemary West arrested for murders; Ayrton Senna killed in crash;
Britain’s National Lottery gets under way; car ferry Estonia sinks in Baltic.
George W Bush beats John Kerry in US election; Boscastle devastated in flash
flood; Britney Spears marries for second time in nine months.
Launch of controversial Jerry Springer: The Opera; Concorde aircraft’s final
commercial flight; England beat Australia in Rugby World Cup.

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No 224 Spy & Secret Agent Films

Which agent was played by Michael Caine in the trilogy of 1960s films based on
Len Deighton’s spy novels?

Who was also known as ‘The International Man of Mystery’?

In which film of 2002 does Matt Damon play an amnesiac secret agent?

Who starred as the eponymous hero in Our Man Flint of 1965?

Which film, starring Alec Guinness who plays a vacuum cleaner salesman
turned spy, is based on a book by Graham Greene?

Which 1960s film, together with the TV spin-off series, featured Leo G Carroll
as Mr Waverly?

Which film starred Richard Burton as world-weary spy Alec Leamas?

Which 1970s TV series was made into a film released in 1996, starring Tom
Cruise?

Which Len Deighton trilogy was adapted for a TV series in the 1980s, with lan
Holm as the cynical hero, Bernard Samson?

The 1939 Warner Brothers anti-Nazi film Confessions of aNazi Spy, starred
which actor in the leading role?

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No 225 Easter

| The name of which goldsmith is associated with making decorated eggs for the
Russian Court?

What are the only two months in which Easter can occur?

The word ‘Easter’ is derived from ‘Eostre’. Who or what was ‘Eostre’?

Which animals, often associated with Easter, are of the Leporidae family of
animals?

What is the first day of Holy Week, the week before Easter?

Which holy day comes before the day on which Jesus was crucified?

Which prisoner was spared by Pontius Pilate after he gave the people the
choice between him and Jesus?

On which hill, the name meaning ‘place of the skull’ did the crucifixion of Jesus
take place?

How many balls of marzipan are traditionally placed around the top of a Simnel
cake at Easter time?

Which king of England paid one shilling and sixpence for 450 eggs to be
decorated for use as Easter gifts?

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No 226 Nicknames

What was the nickname of Air Marshal Sir Arthur Harris?

Which newspaper was nicknamed ‘The Thunderer’?

Which radio presenter is known as ‘Fluff’?

‘Tricky Dicky’ was the nickname of which US president?

Which British politician was given the nickname ‘Vindaloo’?

How was snooker champion Steve Davis known on TV’s Spitting Image?

Who was nicknamed the ‘Louisville Lip’?

How was goalkeeper Peter Bonetti affectionately known in the football world?

Which US politician earned himself the nicknames of “Conan the Republican’

and ‘The Governator’?

Which actress was the original ‘Blonde Bombshell’?

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No 227 Philosophers

Which German, who was born in 1770 and died of cholera in 1831, wrote
The Science of Logic?
Which Austrian-born philosopher (1889-1951) started out as an engineer but
moved to philosophy (and to Britain in 1938) via mathematics?
Which German-born political theorist, whose works include Das Kapital, is
buried in Highgate cemetery in London?
The Problems of Philosophy was written by which British philosopher, who was
imprisoned for a time in 1961 for his protests against nuclear weapons?
Which German philosopher and mathematician is, together with Sir Isaac
Newton, credited with the invention of calculus?
Whose ideas of the ‘superman’, who would rise through evolution to become
supreme, was taken up as the philosophy of the Nazis?
Which French philosopher, who wrote The Stranger and The Plague, died in a car
crash at the age of 46 in 1960?
Which German philosopher (1788-1860) who wrote The World as Will and Idea,
has a plaque dedicated to him in Wimbledon High Street?
Which Scottish political philosopher and economist (1723-1790) wrote Wealth
of Nations?

Which English philosopher (1561-1626) referred to Aristotle as a dictator? He

served as a statesman under Elizabeth | and James I.

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No 228 Pop Stars of Yesteryear

Who had pop chart successes with Secret Love and Dance On, and sang for
Britain in the Eurovision Song Contest of 1965?

Who had a short pop chart career in the 1960s with Venus in Blue Jeans and Go
Away Little Girl being the high points?

Whose Mary’s Boy Child was No | at Christmas in 1957?

Two versions of Singing the Blues were released by two singers, both reaching
No I, one after the other, in January 1957. Who were the two singers?

Which group had just one No | record, Have | the Right, in 1964, and are
especially remembered for their girl drummer, Honey Lantree?

The Story of My Life and Starry Eyed were the highlights of the career of which
singer of the 1950s, who died aged 35 from a drugs overdose?

Which guitar and drums group had several big hits in their own right, but are
also remembered as a backing group for Cliff Richard?

According to his No | of 1960, whose father was a garbage disposal operative?

Who had great success with Who’s Sorry Now, Stupid Cupid and Carolina Moon?

Which pianist had No | hits with Side Saddle and Roulette?

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No 229 Theatres

Which two central London theatres share the title ‘Theatre Royal’?

The operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan are closely associated with which London
theatre?

Opera North is based in which English theatre?

In which English city is the Royal Exchange Theatre?

London’s Sadlers Wells Theatre, though now a venue for a wider range of
entertainment, was famous for which of the performing arts?

In which city of southern England is the Hexagon Theatre, nationally famous as

a venue for snooker tournaments?

What is the name of Basingstoke’s theatre/concert hall?

What is the name of the theatre in Venice which was reopened in 2003, after
being seriously damaged by a fire in 1996?

In 2004, the audience at which London theatre had their enjoyment of When
Harry Met Sally spoilt by a chandelier falling from the ceiling?

Which famous theatre district gets its name from the Dutch ‘Breede Weg’?

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No 230 Pop Trivia

Who sang for the crowd during a rain-break at Wimbledon in 1996?

Who co-wrote Do They Know It’s Christmas with Bob Geldof?

What was Duran Duran’s first single?

Which impromptu duo made It Takes Two in 1990?

How old was Helen Shapiro when she released her first record You Don’t Know
in the early 1960s?

Who is the lead vocalist of the band ‘Texas’?

Which single was the best-selling of 2005?

Which album was the best-selling of 2005?

Which band called themselves ‘The Engaged Couples’ before they became
famous in the mid-1970s?

Whose album was the big-selling Born in the USA?

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No 231 Rap
What do Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls have in common?

Which band earned their record company a warning from the FBI because of
the ‘anti-police’ lyrics on their single of 1988?

Who did George W Bush declare was the greatest threat to American youth
since polio?

In 2004 which actor/singer announced that he was teaming up with Ice T to

turn his attentions to rap music?

In which US city did rap originate?

Which band released Rapper’s Delight in 1979?

Formed in New York in 1981 by Mike Diamond, which was the first white rap
band to become popular?

Which artist was with World Class Wreckin’ Cru before moving on to NWA
and later to a solo career?

Who had a 1995 single and album release entitled Gangsta’s Paradise?

Whose album had the title 4 5 6?

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No 232 Shipping Lines

Which of the White Star Line’s passenger liners is the most infamous?

The cruise ships Arcadia, Oriana and Aurora all belong to which line?

Which is the only passenger ship now regularly connecting the UK and the USA
ona scheduled basis?

Which country is the home of the Fred Olsen Line?

...Magic and ...Wonder are the two cruise ships of which international
entertainment group?

The Queen Elizabeth II, launched in 1969, belongs to which line?

Which company, whose ships included the Vaal and Edinburgh Castle, sailed
between the UK and South Africa from 1857 until 1977?

What does ‘P&O’ stand for?

Although founded in London in 1951, the Maersk shipping line has its origins in
which European country?

What kind of transports were operated by Aquila from Berth 50 at

Southampton’s Eastern Docks from 1949 until 1958?

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No 233 Famous Scandinavians

Which Norwegian explorer is noted for his arctic voyages in the ship Fram?

What is the best-known invention of the Swede, Anders Celsius?

In which branch of science was the Dane, Tycho Brahe mainly involved?

Which renowned playwright wrote Peer Gynt?

Which Finnish president and former army general was forced to sign a peace
treaty with the Soviet Union in 1944?

Swedish philanthropist Alfred Nobel, founder of a fund for the annual prizes
which bear his name, was the inventor of which explosive?

Which Danish composer is famous for his Inextinguishable symphony and the
opera Saul and David?

Whose name became a generic term for a traitor, after aiding Germany to
invade his country in 1940?

Which creatures of children’s books and TV were created by Tove Jansson?

Why are shoppers all over the world grateful to Ingvar Kamprad?

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No 234 American Wild West

By what name is William Frederick Cody better remembered?

Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday defeated which gang at the OK Corral?

Which city in Nevada was named after a river which, in turn, was named after
a famous frontier guide?

Which explorer first found a route across the deserts and mountains of the
USA, through to California and the Pacific?

Which hunter and fighter for native Americans rights and political
representative had as his motto ‘Be always sure you are right, then go ahead’?

In March 1836, where did nearly 200 Americans die after a 13-day long siege
and battle with Mexican soldiers?

At which battle was General Custer’s last stand?

Which adventurer’s legacy is the name of a type of hunting knife?

What was the more romantic alias of Harry Longbaugh?

What was Doc Holliday a doctor of?

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No 235 Chinese History

The port of Macau is a former colony of which country?

The first Anglo-Chinese war of 1839-42, is commonly known as what?

From 1898 to 1900 a series of attacks was made on foreign interests in China;
what was the name for these events?

In which year did the Republican Revolution take place?

Which province did the Japanese seize in 1931?

Who was leader Chiang Kai-shek’s rival in the communist struggles of the
1930s?

To which island did Chiang Kai-shek’s forces flee following defeat in the civil
war which ended in 1949?

In which year did China stage its first nuclear test?

Which imperial dynasty was China’s last before the country became a republic?

What was ceded to Britain under the Treaty of Nanjing of 1842?

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No 236 South American Geography

What is the capital of Paraguay?

What is the highest mountain in the Andes range?

Which two countries are separated at the mouth of the River Plate?

What is the English translation of Tierra del Fuego which lies at South
America’s southern tip?

Antofagasta and Valparaiso are both seaports of which country?

The Mato Grosso plateau is in which country?

The Iguacu Falls are located at the meeting of the borders of Brazil, Paraguay
and which other country?

Quito, the capital of Ecuador, lies close to which major line of latitude?

Cayenne is the capital city of which country?

Which two countries share the territory of Tierra del Fuego?

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No 237 All Abroad for Football

Which Italian club did Paul Gascoigne leave to join Rangers?

From which Dutch club did Manchester United sign Ruud Van Nistelrooy?

With which club did Glenn Hoddle win a French League Championship medal?

In 1995, which Scot was manager of Galatasaray?

Which German side did Kevin Keegan leave to join Southampton?

In which country will you find the massive Maracana Stadium?

For which Spanish side did Gary Lineker play?

What number shirt does David Beckham wear when playing for Real Madrid?

For which French team did Eric Cantona last play before moving to England in
19928

Which foreign team was managed by Terry Venables from 1984 to 1987?

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No 238 Famous Hospitals

Which South African hospital is famous for its links with Dr Christiaan Barnard?

In which English town is the Queen Victoria Hospital, famous for its work with
burns injuries during World War Il?

Which English hospital, specialising in transplant surgery, in 2005 passed the

milestone of over 1,000 lives saved through heart transplants?

Which London hospital is the largest centre for research, outside the USA, into
childhood illness?

In which European city is the Karolinska Institute?

Which doctor was the hero of Blair General Hospital in a 1960s television
series?

Which famous D] and television personality has helped to raise millions of

pounds for the benefit of Stoke Mandeville Hospital?

In which UK city is St James’s Hospital, the subject of the television

documentary Jimmy’s?

First reported in 1998, which Liverpool hospital was the centre of a scandal
concerning the retention of foetuses and children’s organs?

In which English city is the Diana Princess of Wales Children’s Hospital?

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No 239 Photography

Which company introduced the first mass-produced generally available camera?

Which company invented the 35 mm format?

Which system did Edwin Land invent?

What term is given to a camera lens of variable focal length?

The Sony Mavica was the first available camera using which technology?

What kind of cameras are produced by the Swiss company, Bolex?

What kind of photographic products are made by Agfa-Gevaert?

What is the term for a camera lens which has a field of vision close to one
hundred and eighty degrees?

What is macrophotography?

What does a UV filter do?

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No 240 Shakespeare

In Macbeth what is the name of the Queen of the Witches?

“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child” is spoken by

whom?

“Full many a glorious morning have | seen’, is the first line of Sonnet No 33;
what is the second line?

Which character in The Merry Wives of Windsor was the subject of an opera by
Verdi?

In The Tempest who is Prospero’s spirit helper?

Christopher Sly, a beggar, is a character from which play?

Who is the cave-dwelling monster of The Tempest?

“Cry ‘Havoc’, and let slip the dogs of war” is a famous line from which play?

“The course of love never did run smooth” comes from which play?

Who is the Prince of Norway in Hamlet?

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No 241 Bridges

| The Bridge over the River Kwai is in which country?

The Ponte Vecchio straddles the River Arno in which city?

At which town in Bosnia Herzegovina was the famous 16th century bridge
destroyed by warring factions in 1993?

The original Bridge of Sighs in Venice was the inspiration for a similar bridge of
the same name in the UK. Where is the UK bridge?

What is the name of the bridge which spans the River Thames at the M25
Dartford Crossing?

The Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol was designed by which great British
engineer?

Which bridge connects the island of Anglesey with the Welsh mainland?

Which is London’s oldest bridge still in use?

Which famous bridge is colloquially known as ‘The Coathanger’?

Which construction method is particularly suited to bridges that are curved

— as seen from above — and gives high torsional strength?

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No 242 Opera & Ballet

Which opera has, as its central characters, a soldier — Don José, and a girl who
works in a cigarette factory?

The music for the opera Elektra, first performed in 1909, was written by which
German composer?

Who composed the music and wrote the libretto for the opera Jenufa?

Which opera by Benjamin Britten is based on the relationship between

Elizabeth | and the Earl of Essex?

Which Russian composed the music for the communist-era ballets The Age of
Gold and The Bolt?

Who arranged music by Rossini for the ballet The Fantastic Toyshop?

The ‘Danse Infernale’ comes from which opera by Stravinsky?

Who composed the music for the ballet The Creatures of Prometheus?

From which of Tchaikovsky’s ballets does the ‘Waltz of the Flowers’ come?

Which young British dancer’s autobiography is entitled A Dancer’s Life?

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No 243 Seas & Oceans

Which gulf stands between the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa?

Which sea lies between Cornwall and Ireland?

In 1904, in which area of the North Sea was a Hull trawler fleet attacked by
Russian warships who mistook them for Japanese gunboats?

On which sea, an arm of the Arctic Ocean, does the Russian port of Archangel
stand?

Which sea, a part of the Mediterranean, is bounded by Italy, Sardinia, Corsica

and Sicily?

Which strait separates Russia and the USA?

Ellesmere Island lies in which ocean?

Cabot Strait separates Nova Scotia from which island?

In which continent is the Ross Sea?

Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine and Russia all have coastlines with which
sea?

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No 244 Famous Religious Buildings

Which German cathedral was started in 1377 but not fully completed until 1890
with the addition of a spire, which made it the world’s tallest cathedral?
Which church, with its Byzantine architectural features, is connected to the
Doge’s Palace in Venice?
What is unusual about the 13th century Cathedral of St Martin in Utrecht,
Holland, which stands on the town’s Dom Plein?

What is the better-known name for the Intercession Cathedral of Moscow?

Which Spanish cathedral is said to be the burial place of St James and stands at
the terminus of the pilgrimage route, the Way of St James?
In which city is St Nicholas’s Church, the city’s cathedral since 1942, and stands
in the ‘“Gamla Sta’n (Old Town) district?
Standing in Istanbul, which great church dates from the 6th century, was
originally Greek Orthodox, later a mosque and now a museum?
In which city is St John’s Cathedral, an English Gothic style structure destroyed
by the Germans in 1944, and now rebuilt in its original style?
Which cathedral in New York is said to be the largest in the world? It was
damaged by fire in December 2001.
Which holy shrine sits at the centre of the Great Mosque in Mecca?

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No 245 Classical Mythology

Which goddess, a daughter of Zeus, spent the winter months in Hades and was
known as the Queen of the Underworld?

Who slew the gorgon, Medusa?

Who was turned into a spider after she won a weaving contest against Athene?

In Roman legend, which queen of Carthage killed herself as a result of her

unrequited love for Aeneas?

What is the collective name for the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione, who
were turned into doves and placed among the stars by Zeus?

Who was the king of Ithaca and the father of Odysseus?

Who was the ferryman who took the souls of the dead across the River Styx
to Hades?

Which daughter of King Priam was given the gift of foresight by Apollo, but was
never believed each time she made a prophesy?

How many gods were said to have lived on Mount Olympus?

Who was the eldest son of King Priam, killed by Achilles in the Trojan War?

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No 246 Mixed Bag

What is the vegetable ingredient of Eggs Florentine?

What was a ‘dromond’?

Which mythical sailor-hero was carried off by a great bird, the ‘Roc’?

In which sport did Phil Read win several World Championships during the 1960s
and 1970s?

Which style of Chinese food translates into English as ‘bits and pieces’?

What was the Christmas number one record in 1974?

In which street did the Great Fire of London start?

Who was chased by witches as he rode home from Ayr at night, his horse losing
her tail in the process?

How was the Goon Show retitled when it was adapted for television?

Heinrich Himmler was the head of which Nazi organisation?

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No 247 Britain in the Swinging Sixties

Ilya Kuryakin and Napoleon Solo were the chief characters of which 1960s TV
series?

David Jones and Peter Tork were two members of which pop group?

In which year did Procol Harum’s Whiter Shade of Pale spend five weeks at
No I?

With which fashion designer is the mini-skirt and banana-split dress associated?

In which year was homosexuality decriminalised in the UK?

Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies are associated with the disgrace of
which government minister in 1963?

Which supermodel was the one-time girlfriend ofJustin de Villeneuve?

In which year did the oral contraceptive pill go on sale in the UK?

Which Conran store was opened on Fulham Road in 1964?

What was the title of Kenneth Tynan’s “experiment in elegant erotica” full
frontal nude show, first staged in 1969?

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No 248 Britain in the Seventies

Which series of children’s books was the brainchild of Roger Hargreaves?

Which famous fashion designer, together with Malcolm McLaren, opened her
first shop, ‘Let it Rock’ in 1971?

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars appeared in 1973; who was Ziggy
Stardust?

Which TV cook first featured in the programme Family Fare in 1973?

Because of its almost six-minute playing time, which smash hit of 1975 was
predicted to be a flop?

Which notorious Torquay hotel ‘opened’ for business on |9th September 1975?

In the week before the Silver Jubilee in 1977, which notorious record was
denied the number one single spot by Rod Stewart’s | Don’t Want to Talk About
It?

Rumours of alien invasion surfaced in 1978, due to which phenomenon

appearing in fields in southern England?

Louise Brown, the first IVF baby, was born in which year?

What phrase, taken from Shakespeare’s play Richard III, is used to describe the
period of industrial unrest that started late in 1978 which toppled the Labour
government in the General Election of the following year?

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No 249 Britain in the Eighties

What was the name of the Brighton hotel which was bombed during the 1984
Conservative Party Conference?

When Margaret Thatcher made her famous “The lady’s not for turning” speech
in 1980, to which government policy was she referring?

Whose ‘secret diary’ was introduced by Sue Townsend in 1982?

Which band did the Eurovision Song Contest jury make their mind up to vote
the winners in 1981?

At which air base did a large group of women set up their ‘peace camp’ in
protest at cruise-missile deployment in September 1981?

Which conflict broke out with an invasion on 2nd April 1982?

Who was the miners’ union chief spokesman during the miners’ strike in 1984?

What was the identification technique that resulted from the DNA
experiments of Dr Alan Jeffreys at Leicester University in 1984?

In which month and year was the Great Storm, or hurricane, which swept
across southern Britain, causing widespread devastation to property and the
loss of millions of trees?

Whose book, A Brief History of Time, was published in 1988?

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No 250 Britain in the Nineties

Who invaded who in August 1990, prompting the involvement of British forces
in the war which was to follow in 1991?

What controversial action was voted on by the Church of England in November

1992?

Which iconic household appliance was put into production at a Wiltshire

factory for the first time in 1993?

What was the ingenious invention of Trevor Bayliss which was first produced in
the mid-nineties, initially to benefit parts of the world which had no electricity?

In 1994, which cities became linked by the ‘Eurostar’ train service?

Who won the 1995 Turner Prize with his Mother and Child Divided; a work
involving dropping half a cow and half a calf into tanks of formaldehyde?

In which London borough is the Swaminarayan Temple, the largest Hindu

temple in Europe, opened in 1995?

Which 1997 film portrays the career-changes of six Sheffield steel-workers?

Which Harry Potter book was the first to appear, in 1997?

In 1998, which giant statue was dressed in Alan Shearer’s number nine shirt by
Newcastle United fans before their team played in the FA Cup Final?

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 Tie-Breaker Questions

Which is the largest of the Greek Islands?

a. Corfu b. Crete
c. Lesbos d. Rhodes
What was the language of Palestine at the time of Christ?

a. Aramaic b. Greek

c. Hebrew d. Latin

If a shoe is size 8 in the UK, what is it in Europe?

a. 40 b. 4
Cin 42 d. 43
What is a belvedere?

a. an Italian palace b. a dungeon

c. achurch cellar d. a tower or turret

Which US general of Gulf War fame received an honorary knighthood in 1991?

a. Colin Powell b. Charles Horner

c. Frederick Franks d. Norman Schwarzkopf

Who did Claus von Stauffenberg attempt to assassinate in 1944?

a. Winston Churchill b. Adolf Hitler

c. Franklin D Roosevelt d. Benito Mussolini

What was actor Richard Burton’s real surname?

a. Burton b. Davies
c. Jenkins d. Williams

What percentage of the world’s fresh water is contained in Antarctic ice?

a. 70 b. 60
c. 80 d. 50

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 Tie-Breaker Questions

Which of the planets has moons whose names translate as ‘Fear’ and ‘Terror’?

a. Jupiter b. Mars

c. Neptune d. Saturn

In which European city is the Tivoli Gardens park and amusement centre?

a. Amsterdam b. Brussels
c. Copenhagen d. Vienna

In which of Shakespeare’s plays do Benedick and Beatrice appear?

a. All’s Well That Ends Well b. As You Like It

c. Much Ado About Nothing d. A Winter’s Tale

What is the better-known title of the Christmas Carol Adeste Fideles?

a. Inthe Deep Midwinter b. Hark, the Herald Angels Sing

c. Silent Night d. O Come All Ye Faithful

Who composed the tone poem Death and Transfiguration?

a. Nielsen b. Rachmaninov
c. Richard Strauss d. Tchaikovsky
Which king was nicknamed ‘Farmer George’?

a. George | b. George II

c. George Ill d. George IV

What kind of animal is a coypu?

a. A large rodent b. Apig

c. Anantelope d. Acamel

What kind of animal is a pipistrelle?

a. Abird
c. Acat

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 Tie-Breaker Questions

What is the chemical symbol for iron?

ae et b. Fe
Cok d. Ir
In which year did Elvis Presley die?

a. 1978 b. 1976
CG. ..1977, d. 1975
What do author P G Wodehouse’s initials stand for?
a. Philip Graham b. Patrick Gillam

c. Peter Guy d. Pelham Grenville

Which is furthest south?

a. Cairo b. Baghdad

c. Beijing d. Tehran

What kind of travel guides were published by George Bradshaw (1801-1853)?

a. Coach b. Road

c. Rail d. Sea
What does ‘Sabaoth’, a word found in the Bible, mean?

a. Sabbath b. Armies
c. Law d. Punishment
Who played Captain Peacock in TV’s Are You Being Served?
a. Clive Dunn b. Arthur Lowe

c. Trevor Bannister d. Frank Thornton

Which company produced the World War II fighter-bomber, the Typhoon?

a. Vickers b. Avro

c. Bristol d. Hawker

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 Tie-Breaker Questions

Who wrote The Pit and the Pendulum?

a. Mary Shelley . Bram Stoker

c. Edgar Allan Poe . Arthur Conan Doyle

What kind of animal is a grampus?

a. A dolphin b. A deepwater flatfish

c. A goat d. A vulture

In which sport did Briton, Jason Queally, win a Gold at the 2000 Olympics?
a. Equestrian b. Swimming

c. Athletics d. Cycling
The administrative HQ for the county of Suffolk is located in which town?

a. Lowestoft b. Ipswich

c. Sudbury d. Bury St Edmunds

Where is the North Magnetic Pole?

a. Ellesmere Island, Canada b. Victoria Island, Canada

c. Inthe Arctic Ocean d. Greenland

What is the title of American composer Charles lves’s 1908 composition for a
solo trumpet with woodwinds playing against a background of quietly shifting
massed strings?

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No |
I Belgium, 2 Swiss (formerly Swissair), 3 BOAC and BEA, 4 Portugal, 5 Denmark,
Norway and Sweden, 6 Pan American, 7 Lufthansa, 8 Hong Kong, 9 Foreign airlines
were government subsidised, the British companies were not, 10 Germany.

No 2
I Milan, 2 Iceland, 3 London Heathrow, 4 John F Kennedy, 5 Schiphol, 6 Chicago, 7 Orly,
8 Piccadilly Line, 9 Hounslow Heath, 10 Croydon.

No 3
I Hercule Poirot, 2 Maurice Maeterlinck, 3 Cycling, 4 Jean-Claude van Damme, 5 Jackie
ickx, 6 Cesar Franck, 7 Pieter Brueghel (the Elder), 8 The Eurovision Song Contest,
9 Hergé, 10 Dominique.

No 4
I Carl Maria von Weber, 2 The Star-Spangled Banner, 3 Ireland, 4 France, 5 Josef Haydn,
6 Slovak Republic, 7 Vanuatu, 8 Canada, 9 Beethoven, 10 Scots Wha Hae.

No 5
I Jerusalem, 2 Urban Il, 3 1096, 4 They were all children, 5 Saladin, 6 Richard |, 7 The
Ninth, 8 Martin Luther, 9 The Knights Templar, 10 Jordan.

No 6
I The Discovery, 2 1912, 3 Francisco Pizarro, 4 Baron von Humboldt, 5 Henry Morton
Stanley, 6 Marco Polo, 7 The Bahamas, 8 Finding the North-West Passage in 1906,
9 St Brendan, 10 Sir Vivian Fuchs.

No7
I Dust, 2 Abram, 3 Isaac, 4 She was turned into a pillar of salt, 5 Esau and Jacob, 6 They
dipped his coat in goat’s blood, 7 Potiphar, 8 Joseph interpreted the Pharaoh's dreams,
9 175,10 110.

No 8
I The Gulf of Aden, 2 Zambia, 3 Madagascar, 4The Aswan High Dam, 5 Chad, 6 The
Red Sea, 7 Libya, 8 Khartoum, 9 Cairo, 10 Namibia.
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No 9
I Joseph Niépce, 2 Kodak, 3 The enlarger, 4 The Lumiére brothers, 5 Ernst Leitz,
6 Topcon, 7 The number of pixels, 8The ISO or ASA number, 9 The Moon, 10 Colour
photography.

No 10
| Atacama, 2 Kalahari, 3 Saudi Arabia, 4 The Sahara, 5 California, 6 Australian, 7 Gobi,
8 A sand or dust storm, 9 10 inches, 10 An area of sand dunes.

No II
| The Aegean Sea, 2 Piraeus, 3 Dubrovnik, 4 Finland, 5 Italy and Switzerland, 6 Slovenia,
7 The North Cape, Norway, 8 The Kattegat, 9 Kaliningrad, 10 Ukraine.

No 12
I New York and London, 2 The agave, 3 Cellulose, 4 Batik, 5 Astrakhan, 6 Garberdine,
7A boa, 8 From the French town of Nimes, where it originated, 9 Velcro, 10 80/20.

No 13
1 1923, 2 38,3 John Aldridge, 4 Mark Hughes, 5 Dave Beasant, 6 Tottenham and
Chelsea, 7 Arsenal beating Sheffield Wednesday on both occasions, 8 Roberto
Di Matteo for Chelsea against Aston Villa, 9 The Millennium Stadium, Cardiff,
10 Manchester United.

No 14
I The Montagues and the Capulets, 2 Anne Hathaway, 3 All’s Well That Ends Well,
4 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 5 Cymbeline, King of Britain, 6 The Taming of the Shrew,
7 A Winter’s Tale, 8 King Lear, 9 As You Like It, 10 Love’s Labour’s Lost.

No 15
I Kuwait, 2 Jordan, 3 Sinai, 4 Syria, 5 Israel and Jordan, 6 The Red Sea, 7 United Arab
Emirates, 8 1949, 9 Jerusalem, 10 Eilat.

No 16
| The elephant and the kangaroo, 2 Little Boy Blue, 3 The fly, 4 Spain, 5A whale, 6 Chip
chop chip chop — the last man’s dead, 7 To catch a spider, 8 The Lion and the Unicorn,
9 Old King Cole, 10 The Owl and the Pussycat.
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No I7
| Diana, 2 34 years, 3The Foreign section, 4 The lack of a tail, 5 Probably from ‘Maggie’,
a common pet name for a cow, in the 19th century, 6 Freya, 7 Cat flu, 8 The Eurasian
lynx, 9 The Aristocats, 10 4,000-5,000 years.

No [8
| Greenland, 2 The Balearic Islands, 3 Cape Verde Islands, 4 Sicily, 5 Newfoundland,
6 Dominican Republic, 7 Portugal, 8The Galapagos Islands, 9 Novaya Zemlya, 10 Lundy.

No 19
I Salicylic acid, 2 Quinine, 3 Septicaemia, 4 Meningitis, 5 The first is caused by bacteria,
the other by a virus, 6 Tetanus, 7 Smallpox, 8 Fungal infections, 9 HIV, 10 Chinese herbal
medicine.

No 20
| Parlophone, 2 Decca, 3 Sony, 4 Columbia Broadcasting System, 5 Bertelsmann,
6 Frank Sinatra, 7 Motown Records, 8 Jazz, 9The USSR, 10 Decca.

No 21
I Igor Stravinsky (ballet Rite of Spring), 2 Gustav Mahler, 3 Jean Sibelius, 4 Ralph Vaughan
Williams, 5 Dmitri Shostakovich, 6 Richard Strauss, 7 Pluto, 8 Arnold Schoenberg,
9 Icelandic, 10 Sergei Prokofiev.

No 22
1 Cuzco, 2 The king of heaven, 3 Five (parts of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina),
4 Six to ten million, 5 Machu Picchu, 6 The Sun God, Inti, 7 By labouring on roads,
buildings, fields etc, 8 Francisco Pizarro, 9 A ‘13+’ examination of intelligence to
determine whether a trade should be learned or an academic career should be taken
up, 10 Languages.

No 23
1 Angel Falls, Venezuela (3212 ft.), 2 Norway, 3 Niagara Falls, USA/Canada, 4 Iceland,
5 Sherlock Holmes, 6 Austria, 7Yosemite, 8 Eas a’ Chual Aluin, Scotland (658 ft.), 9 The
Yorkshire Dales, 10 Zambezi.
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No 24
| Oysters wrapped in bacon, 2 Tournedos Rossini, 3 Meringue, 4 Salmon cured
in salted dill-water, 5 Australia, 6Vegetables cut into fine strips, 7 Goulash, 8 Veal,
9 Potatoes and cabbage, 10 Mezze.

No 25
1 355, 2 21,3 1461 (3 years plus one leap-year), 4 8,5 One million, 6 200 square
centimetres, 7 4 hours 57 minutes, 8 7,9 4, 10 40 square inches.

No 26
| Edward Lear, 2 Lord Byron, 3 The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, 4 Percy Bysshe Shelley,
5 W H Auden, 6 John Betjeman, 7 Ode to Autumn by John Keats, 8 Robert Frost,
9 William Blake, 10 An allegory.

No 27
I Austria, 2 Switzerland, 3 Netherlands and Luxembourg, 4 Ireland, 5 The five Nordic
countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, 6 Belgium, 7 Germany,
8 Greece, 9 Monaco, 10 Malta.

No 28
1 HMS Hood, 2 The Golden Hind, 3 The Bismarck, 4 Cunard Line, 5 The Achille Lauro,
6 The Great Western (built 1838), 7 The Titanic, 8 Erebus and Terror, 9 HMS Indefatigable,
10 HMS Challenger.

No 29
I Marilyn Monroe, 2 Cubic zirconium, 3 Topaz, 4 Beryl, 5 Fool’s gold, 6 Garnets, 7 Ruby,
8 Jade, 9 ‘Great Star of Africa’, 10 A blue star sapphire.

No 30
| Ornithology, 2 Penguins, 3 The crop, 4 The hummingbird, 5 The rhea, 6 Bewick’s swan,
7 The rook, 8 The shag, 9 Vultures, 10 Avian flu.

No 31
I Five, 2 The USA, 3 Moscow, 4 John Curry, 5 Katarina Witt of East Germany, in 1984,
1985, 1987 and 1988, 6 Sarajevo, 1984, 7 The Axel jump, 8 Prague, 9 Nancy Kerrigan,
10 Sonja Henie.
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No 32
1 A screwdriver, 2 Hungary, 3 Whisky, 4 Scandinavia, 5 Retsina, 6 Sparkling wine,
7 Jamaica, 8 Nebuchadnezzar, 9 Pepsi Cola, 10 Very Special Old Pale.

No 33
| The Humber Bridge, 2 Tower Bridge, London, 3 The Rhine, 4 Prague, 5 The Millau
Viaduct, France, 900 feet, 6 Lake Pontchartrain causeway, Louisiana USA, 38 km in total
7 The Suez Canal, 8 The Tay Bridge, 9 London Bridge, 10 Denmark.

No 34
| Mexico, 2 Human sacrifice, 3 Gods, 4 Chocolate, 5 Mexico City, 6 Topaz,
7 Popocatépetl, 8 Hernando Cortés, 9 Montezuma Il, 10 Mexica.

No 35
| Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2 OPEC, 3 League
of Nations, 4 UN High Commission for Refugees, 5 UN International Children’s
Emergency Fund, 6 Organisation of African Unity, 7 European Space Agency, 8 The
British Commonwealth, 9 The United Nations, 10 The World Bank.

No 36
| 1999 (1965 for murder), 2 Ruth Ellis, 3 Thirty, 4 Christopher Marlowe, 5 Mark
Chapman, 6 James Hanratty, 7 Peter Sutcliffe, 8 Manchester, 9 Cannibalism,
10 Hungerford.

No 37
| The USA, 2 Twenty, 3 Thumbelina, 4 The Emperor’s New Clothes, 5 Danny Kay,
6 Chicken Licken, 7 Rapunzel, 8 Sleeping Beauty, 9 Hansel and Gretel, 10 The fox.

No 38
I First liquid-fuelled rocket motor, 2 Parking meter, 3 Colour TV, 4 Credit card,
5 Integrated circuits, 6 Kevlar, 7World Wide Web, 8 Hepatitis B, 9 A bar-code, 10 The
microwave oven.

No 39
I China, 2 Aikido, 3 Kickboxing, 4 Jujitsu, 5 Way of the sword, 6 Judo, 7 1960 Rome,
8 Karate, 9 British National Martial Arts Association, 10 Bruce Lee.

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No 40
| The Ring of the Nibelungs, 2 Giuseppe Verdi, 3 Der Freischiitz, 4 La Bohéme, 5 Cavalleria
Rusticana, 6 Piotr Tchaikovsky, 7 Fidelio, 8 Mozart’s Magic Flute, 9 Modest Mussorgsky,
10 Lohengrin.

No 41
I An electric guitar, 2 Guarneri, 3 Tam-tam, 4 Four (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone), 5 The
theremin, 6 A percussion instrument similar to a xylophone, 7 A violin, 8 The tuba,
9 Piano, violin and cello, 10 The harmonica.

No 42
I Gas, solid, liquid, 2 Thermodynamics, 3 The ohm, 4 The newton, 5 J Robert
Oppenheimer, 6 Isaac Newton, 7 Viscosity, 8 A lens, 9 Inertia, 10 Subsonic.

No 43
| Utah and New Mexico, 2 Hudson Bay, 3 St John’s, Newfoundland, 4 Fiorida,
5 Houston, 6 The Colorado River, 7 The Cascade range, 8 Lake Erie, 9Vancouver Island,
10 Newfoundland.

No 44
| 43 AD, 2 Caractacus, 3 Boadicea, 4 The Tyne and the Solway, 5 Saxon shore forts,
6 The barbarians, 7 The Antonine Wall, 8 410 AD, 9 Aquae Sulis, 10 The Celts.

No 45
I Syria, 2 Egypt, Jordan and Syria, 3 The Arab League, 4 T E Lawrence (Lawrence
of Arabia), 5 Osama bin Laden, 6 Anwar Sadat of Egypt, 7 Transjordan, 8 Baghdad,
9 Hamas, 10 Lebanon.

No 46
I Scott Robinson, 2 Charlene Mitchell 3 Charlton Heston, 4 Alexis, 5 Emily Bishop,
6 Annie Palmer, 7 Jenna Wade, 8 Falcon Crest, 9 Natalie Imbruglia, 10 Gillian Taylforth.

No 47
| The Daily Herald, 2 Eddie Shah, 3 Pravda, 4 Private Eye, 5 1945, 6 Andrew Marr,
7 St Brides, 8Andy Capp, 9 Denmark, 10 The Daily Star.
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No 48
| 1896, 2 Savannah, 3 1907, 4 125 mph, 5 26, 6 Finnish, 7 Brands Hatch, 8 Barry Sheene,
9 Oulton Park, 10 Honda.

No 49
1 World Wildlife Fund, 2 The conger eel, 3 The seahorse, 4 Plankton, 5 Crabs, 6 The
oyster, 7 Herring, 8 Flying fish, 9 A bottle-nose whale, 10 The sea-serpent.

No 50
| Aaron Copland, 2 The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky, 3 Spartacus, by Khachaturian,
4 Rudolf Nureyev, 5 Tchaikovsky, 6 Coppélia, by Delibes, 7 E/ Amor Brujo, 8 |gor
Stravinsky, 9 Les Sylphides, 10 La Giaconda by Ponchielli.

No 51
I] St Paul’s Cathedral, 2 Admiral of the Fleet, 3 HMS Belfast, 4 A submarine, 5 The Fleet
Air Arm, 6 Sir John Jellicoe, 7 HMS Ark Royal, 8 The Mary Rose, 9 A Fleet Air Arm station
at Lee-on-Solent, 10 Faslane.

No 52
I St Andrews, 2 Prestwick, 3 Wales, 4 Wentworth, 5 Birmingham, 6 Retief Goosen,
7 The Llandudno International Trophy, 8 Ernie Els, 9 22, 10 14.

No 53
I Acker Bilk, 2 Belgium, 3 Piano, 4 New Orleans, 5 Jelly Roll Morton, 6 Cleo Laine,
7 Benny Goodman, 8 Billie Holiday, 9 Lisa Simpson, 10 The saxophone.

No 54
| Manchester United, 2 Brian Deane (for Sheffield Utd v Manchester Utd: 15 August
1992), 3 Alan Shearer, 4 22,5 7: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool,
Manchester Utd, Tottenham, 6 Les Ferdinand, 7 Thierry Henry, 8 Leeds United,
Leicester City and Wolverhampton Wanderers, 9 Nottingham Forest, 10 Harry Kewell.

No 55
I Rose, 2 Tomato, 3 Epsom salts (magnesium sulphate), 4 Pruning, 5 Damping down,
6 Composts, 7 Seed or turf, 8 An insecticide, 9 St John’s wort, 10 Lettuce.
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No 56
I Ivan the Terrible, 2 Kiev, 3 The Mongols, 4 Catherine II (‘The Great’), 5 1812, 6 1905,
7 The Battle of Tannenberg, 8 The USSR, 9 Hungary and Czechoslovakia, 10 Boris
Yeltsin.

No 57
I Kinetograph, 2 Cartoon (1914), 3 An oncoming train, 4 New Orleans, 5 1914,
6 United Artists, 7 Rudolf Valentino, 8 Rin Tin Tin, 9 Nosferatu, 10 Alfred Hitchcock.

No 58
| Peter Tchaikovsky, 2 Friedrich Nietzsche, 3 Jean Sibelius, 4 Peer Gynt, 5 Felix
Mendelssohn, 6 The Lark Ascending, 7 Henryk Gorecki, 8 Carl Orff, 9 Ottorino Respighi,
10 Vincent
Van Gogh (Vincent).

No 59
1 65 million years, 2 A wild horse, 3 The dodo, 4 The quagga, 5 The aurochs, 6 The
passenger pigeon, 7 The great auk, 8 The blue whale, 9 A marsupial mouse 10 A brown
bear.

No 60
| The hula hoop, 2 1979, 3 Tamagotchi, 4 The pogo stick, 5 The space hopper, 6 The
Filofax, 7 The Sinclair C5, 8 The frisbee, 9The Cabbage Patch Kids, 10 CB radio.

No 6l
| The Herald of Free Enterprise, 2 1988, 3 Italy, 4 Bhopal, 5 The Estonia, 6 Liverpool,
7 Sea defences, 8 The Wilhelm Gustloff, 9 A coal waste tip slid into nearby houses and
a school, 10 The Red Sea.

No 62
I Picnic at Hanging Rock, 2 James Caan, 3 1977, 4 1976, 5 All Quiet on the Western Front,
6 Carrie, 7 Midnight Express, 8 Blazing Saddles, 9 The Poseidon Adventure, 10 Airplane.

No 63
I The date of Alfred Nobel’s death, 2 Peace Prize (decided by a Norwegian committee),
3 1901,4 Cambridge University, 5 Harvard, 6 Penicillin, 7 Mohamed El Baradei, 8 Jimmy
Carter, 9 Bono, 10 Boris Pasternak.
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No 64
| Mogadishu, 2 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 3 Leonardo DiCaprio, 4 The Passion of the
Christ, 5 Legolas, 6 Oliver Reed, 7 X2, 8 Road to Perdition, 9 Renee Zellweger, 10 Ray.

No 65
1 West Bromwich Albion, 2 West Ham, 3 Chelsea, 4 Southampton, 5 Liverpool, 6 Paul
Gascoigne, 7 Diamond Lights, 8 Back Home, 9 Turandot by Puccini, 10 FA Cup Final.

No 66
| Leonard Bernstein, 2 John Pershing, 3 Scotland, 4 The Marshall Plan:a 13 billion dollar
aid plan for Europe, 5 Harry Houdini, 6 Thomas Edison, 7 Amelia Earhart, 8 Frank Lloyd
Wright, 9 Joseph McCarthy, 10 Sitting Bull.

No 67
| Captain Matthew Webb, 2 He swam the English Channel both ways, 3 He swam
around Manhattan Island, New York, 4 Dionysus, 5 Fédération Internationale de
Natation Amateur, 6 Synchronised swimming, 7 The butterfly stroke, 8 100, 500 and
1200 metres, 9 Duncan Goodhew, 10 Sharron Davies.

No 68
I Berlin, 1921, 2 Plastic, 3 The pneumatic tyre, 4 Gutenberg, 5 Laika, 6 Lt Col Aleksey
Leonoy, 7 Tea, 8 Bird’s Eye peas, 1969, 9 Gustav Mahler, 10 A vehicle designed to break
the world land speed record, which it did — reaching 763 mph, and thus was the first
land vehicle to break the sound-barrier.

No 69
I Five (violins |,violins Il, violas, cellos and double basses), 2 Woodwind, 3 Brass, 4 The
concert harp, 5 Woodwind, 6 Percussion, 7 The piccolo, 8 The bass tuba, 9 The Hallé
Orchestra, 10 The oboe.

No 70
| Leopold Stokowski, 2 Gustav Mahler, 3 Herbert von Karajan, 4 Andre Previn, 5 The
Philadelphia Orchestra, 6 Sir Thomas Beecham, 7 Otto Klemperer, 8 Giuseppe Sinopoli,
9 Sir John Barbirolli, 10 Marin Alsop.

No 71
1 Canasta, 2 Cluedo, 3 Mah jong, 4 Scrabble, 5 Four, 6 India, 7 Thirty-seven, 8 A card
game, 9 Jenga, 10 It is played with only 24 or 32 cards.
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No 72
I Blackadder, 2 Robert Lindsay, 3 Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright, 4 That
Was The Week That Was, 5 The Simpsons, 6 A Reliant Robin, 7 Boston, 8 Red Dwarf,
9 David Dimbleby, 10 Trevor McDonald.

No 73
1 Greenpeace, 2 Hurricanes, 3 Greenhouse effect, 4 Glaciers, 5 Nuclear energy, 6 The
Kyoto Protocol, 7 Rising sea levels, 8 Over one billion, 9 Africa, 10 9.2 billion (6.4
billion in 2005).

No 74
I Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 2 The USA, 3 The revolution, 4 Metric, 5 Napoleon
Bonaparte, 6 Louis Philippe, 7 Henri Pétain, 8 Algeria, 9 Vietnam, 10 Charles de Gaulle.

No 75
| Bombay, 2 Germany, 3 Kazakhstan, 4 Nyasaland, 5 Russia, 6The Dead Sea, 7 South
Korea, 8 Lake Victoria, 9 South America, 10 The Ring of Fire.

No 76
I Putney to Mortlake, 2 Seven, 3 Oxford, 4 Henley Regatta, 5 New Zealand, 6 Five,
7 1829, 8 Eton, Munich and Lucerne, 9 Amateur Rowing Association, 10 Debbie Flood.

No 77
I Never Never Land, 2 Atlantis, 3 Camelot, 4 Thule, 5 Montsalvat, 6 El Dorado,
7 Elysium, 8 Valhalla, 9 Gotham City, 10 J R R Tolkien.

No 78
| Hector Berlioz, 2 Robert Schumann, 3 Peter Tchaikovsky, 4 Anton Bruckner,
5 Johannes Brahms, 6 Felix Mendelssohn, 7 Antonin Dvorak, 8 Franz Liszt, 9 Beethoven,
10 Violin and cello.

No 79
I Linnaeus, 2 Louis Pasteur, 3 Gabriel Fahrenheit, 4 Marie Curie, 5 Alexander Fleming,
6 Sir Isaac Newton, 7 Ernest Rutherford, 8 Albert Einstein, 9 Edward Jenner, 10 Michael
Faraday.
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No 80
I Onion, 2 Potato, 3 Tomato, 4 Brassica, 5 Peas, 6 Cucumber, 7 Broccoli, 8 Cauliflower,
9 A salad onion, 10 Broccoli.

No 81
| B2, 2 They are fat soluble; all others being water soluble, 3 Iron, 4 Potassium, 5 lodine,
6 Vitamin A, 7 Magnesium, 8 Zinc, 9 Vitamin D, 10 Vitamin C.

No 82
I The Red Lady of Paviland, 2 King Offa, 3 1999, 4 Milford Haven, 5 Menai Strait,
6 Swansea, 7 The Cambrian Mountains, 8 Tintern Abbey, 9 Portmeirion, 10 Wales’s
largest natural lake.

No 83
| Roger Bannister, 2 Moscow 1980, 3 26 miles 385 yards, 4 Ben Johnson, 5 Triathlon,
6 High jump, 7 2.25 kilograms, 8 Approximately 180 metres, 9 1981, 10 Paula Radcliffe.

No 84
I Daisy, 2 Bird of paradise, 3 Gerbera, 4 Daffodil, 5 Buttercup, 6 Dog rose, 7 Grass,
8 Snapdragon, 9 Welsh poppy, 10 Opium poppy.

No 85
I Waterloo, 2 Kursk, 3 War of the Roses, 4 The Tet Offensive, 5 The US and Japan,
6 Goose Green, 7 Culloden, 8 The Second Battle of the Marne, 9 The Thirty Years War,
10 World War Il.

No 86
I Aristophanes, 2 Design for Living, 3 Dario Fo, 4 Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, 5 Miss
Julie, 6Tennessee Williams, 7 Mike Leigh, 8 Terence Rattigan, 9 Peter Shaffer, 10 Harold
Pinter.

No 87
| Charlemagne, 2 Martin Luther, 3 Thirty Years War, 4 Hindenburg, 5 Czechoslovakia,
6 The Rhineland, 7 1948, 8 1961,9 Erich Honecker, 10 Dresden.

No 88
1 Benny Hill, 2 Enoch Powell, 3 A male model, 4 Rod Stewart, 5 Hale and Pace, 6 lan
Fleming, 7 Paddy Ashdown, 8 George Orwell, 9 Ray Reardon, 10 Joan Collins.
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No 89
I She threw herself under the King’s horse at the Epsom Derby, for the Suffragette
cause, 2 A nosebleed, 3 Anorexia nervosa, 4 He was playing Russian roulette,
5 A poisoned umbrella tip, 6 Electrocuted by his guitar, 7 An insect, 8 Killed with a
hammer by his lover, Keith Halliwell, 9 Sonny Bono, 10 Tennessee Williams.

No 90
I The Urals, 2 China, 3 Vladivostok, 4 Jammu and Kashmir, 5 China, 6 The Moluccas,
7 The Bay of Bengal, 8 Karachi, 9 Tibet, 10 India.

No 91
| Glamis, 2 Glasgow, 3 Lewis with Harris, 4 Grampians, 5 Caithness, 6 Inverness,
7 Arran, 8 Loch Lomond, 9 The cost of the new Scottish Parliament building, which at
£431 million had gone ten times over budget, 10 Aberdeen.

No 92
| Mount Kenya, 2 Fifty per cent, 3 Iceland, 4 Antarctica, 5 Seracs, 6 The Karakorum,
7 One hundred thousand years, 8 The Aletsch, Switzerland, 9 Covering with reflective
tin foil, 10 Norway.

No 93
I Plankton, 2 Kelp, 3 Flat fish, 4 Cetacea, 5 Jacques Cousteau, 6 Anemone fish,
7 Steller’s sea cow, 8 Sargassum, 9 Sponges, 10 The seahorse.

No 94
| Muhammad Ali, 2 Leonard and Robinson, 3 Ricky Hatton, 4 Henry Cooper, 5 Floyd
Patterson, 6 Swedish, 7 Hungary, 8 He refused to join the US army, 9 Joe Louis, 10 Joe
Frazier.

No 95
I Apollo, 2 Iraq, 3 Alexandria, Egypt, 4 Cairo, 5 Olympia, Greece, 6 Turkey, 7 Bodrum,
8 The Channel Tunnel, 9 Khufu (Cheops), 10 Nebuchadnezzar.

No 96
I Maurice Jarre, 2 Dmitri Tiomkin, 3 Howard Shore, 4 Elmer Bernstein, 5 James
Horner, 6 Hans Zimmer, 7 The Dambusters, 8 John Barry, 9 Sergei Rachmaninov, 10 Alex
Wurman.
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No 97
| Mercury, 2 Four (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune), 3 Uranus, 4 Giovanni
Schiaparelli, 5 lo is intensely volcanic, 6 Venus, 7 Pluto, 8 Jupiter, 9 Because of its dense
cloud cover which reflects light, 10 Because of high concentrations of iron oxide on its
surface.

No 98
I Mars, 2 Uranus, 3 Mercury, 4 Saturn, 5 Jupiter, 6 Venus, 7 Mars, 8 Neptune, 9 Saturn,
10 Mercury.

No 99
1B,2C,3A,4A,5 C,6A,7B,8C,9B,10C.

No 100
1 Gianni Versace, 2 Wat Tyler, 3 Tony Hancock, 4 Enid Blyton, 5 Harvey Milk, 6 Ho Chi-
minh, 7 Samuel Plimsoll, 8 James Wolfe, 9 Nero, 10 John F Kennedy.

No 101
| Gough Whitlam, 2 Ned Kelly, 3 Evonne Goolagong, 4 Barry Humphries, 5 Don
Bradman, 6 Germaine Greer, 7 David Helfgott, 8 Kerry Packer, 9 Russell Crowe,
10 Rachel Griffiths.

No 102
1 Welsh, 2 German, 3 Italian and Romansch, 4 Dutch and French, 5 Turkish,
6 Luxembourg, 7 North Africa, 8 Chinese Mandarin, 9 Denmark, Norway and Sweden,
10 Fourth.

No 103
| Windermere, 2 Lake Constance, 3 Italy and Switzerland, 4 Lake Baikal in Russia,
5 Hungary, 6 Nazi gold, 7 Lake Disappointment, 8 Lake Winnipeg, 9 It’s the world’s
largest underground lake, 10 Switzerland.

No 104
| Summer solstice, 2 Diamond, 3 Chrysanthemum, 4 Common Era, 5 Gregory XIll,
6 Jewish, 7 Islamic, 8 Winter solstice, 9The South Pole, 10 21st December.
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No 105
1 St Cloud, Paris, 2 Tour de France, 3 Race Across America, west coast to east coast
of the US, 4 Murilo Fischer, 5 Lance Armstrong, 6 Eddie Merckx, 7 Chris Boardman,
8 Women’s Cycle Racing Association, 9 Sag wagon, 10 Ireland.

No 106
| The Barents Sea, 2 The Strait of Hormuz, 3 The Baltic Sea, 4 The Gulf of Carpentaria,
5 The Arctic Ocean, 6 The Strait of Gibraltar, 7 Sinai, 8 Antarctica, 9 The Adriatic,
10 The Gulf of Mexico.

No 107
| France, 2 Woomera, 3 New Guinea, 4 Vanuatu, 5 Coral Sea, 6 Great Dividing Range,
7 New Zealand, 8 Fiji, 9 Hobart, 10 Tropic of Capricorn.

No 108
1 A squirrel, 2 A beaver, 3 An ant, 4A wasp, 5 A cow, 6A badger, 7 A rabbit, 8 A bird of
prey, 9 Termitary, 10 An otter.

No 109
I Easter Island, 2 Cologne cathedral, 3 Naval fortress, 4 Petra, 5 The Acropolis,
6 Canterbury, 7 Victoria Falls, 8 Russia, 9 Saltaire, 10 Neolithic.

No 110
| Lord Tennyson, 2 Oscar Wilde, 3 Winston Churchill, 4 Prime Minister Asquith,
5 Georges Clemenceau, 6 Canada, 7 Julie Andrews, 8 Dennis Healy, 9 Winston
Churchill, 10 Barry Humphries.

No III
| 1066, 2 The Plague, 3 The Wars of the Roses, 4 Queen Mary, 5 The Gunpowder Plot,
6 A marine insurance society, 7 Glasgow, 8 The Gordon Riots, 9 Thirty, 10 The miners.

No 112
1 24,902 miles, 2 About 26 miles, 3 15 degrees Centigrade, 4 71%, 5 The Pacific,
6 Caspian Sea, 7 Forest (28.9%), 8 4,500 million, 9 A Leap Year every fourth year,
10 Nitrogen.
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No 113
| Siam, 2 Formosa, 3 Malawi, 4 Afars and Issas, 5 Indonesia, 6 Cambodia, 7 Dutch
Guyana, 8 Namibia, 9 Egypt and Syria, 10 Australia.

No 114
| Caiman, 2 Cave-dwelling salamander, 3 Habitat destruction, 4 Python, 5 South Africa,
6 Pesticide residues in their food, 7 Anteater and armadillo, 8 USA, 9 For its horn,
which is valued mainly for its unproved ‘aphrodisiacal’ qualities, 10 Reptiles and fish.

No 115
I Loki, 2 Odin, 3 The Valkyries, 4 Frigga, 5 His hammer, 6 Yggdrasil, 7 Asgard, 8 Hel,
9 Beowulf, 10 Bifrost.

No 116
I Yellowstone, 2 Sumatra, 3 Canary Islands, 4 Edinburgh, 5 Santorini, 6 New Zealand,
7 Paricutin, 8 Volcanic rocks, 9 A mudflow, 10 The Aeolian Islands.

No 117
I Paint your Wagon, 2 Sir Malcolm Arnold, 3 Bernard Herrmann, 4 2001: A Space
Odyssey, 5 Tom Jones, 6 Erich Korngold, 7 John Williams, 8 Grease, 9 The Sound of Music,
10 South Pacific.

No 118
I The Mediterranean Sea, 2 Greece, 3 Hibernia, 4 The Black Sea, 5 Cirencester, 6 Libya
and Aethiopia, 7 Istanbul, 8 Smyrna, 9 Julius Caesar, 10 Agrippina.

No 119
I Seven: Denmark, Belgium, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Spain, UK, 2 The UK,
3 Luxembourg, 4 Holland and Belgium, 5 Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, 6 Paris,
7 Norway — over 13,000 miles, 8 Germany (9), 9 Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Turkey,
10 Germany (82.5 million).

No 120
I “Allo ‘Allo, 2 Phoenix Nights, 3 Nigel Hawthorne, 4 The Detectives, 5 Acorn Antiques,
6 Drop the Dead Donkey, 7 Rab C Nesbitt, 8 Tony Robinson, 9 Not the Nine O’clock News,
10 Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.
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No 121
I Switzerland, 2 Denmark, 3 Poland, 4 Italy, 5 Jersey, 6 Gibraltar, 7 Australia, 8 Turkey,
9 Austria, 10 Belgium.

No 122
| Mozart, 2 My Country, 3 Pictures at an Exhibition, 4 Haydn, 5 Beethoven, 6 Schubert,
7 Schumann, 8 Johann Sebastian Bach, 9 Rimsky-Korsakov, 10 Mozart.

No 123
I Rivaldo, 2 She ran barefoot, 3 4 centimetres, 4 Basketball, 5 Canoeing, 6 Dutch,
7 Finland, 8 Four, 9 Swimming, cycling and running, 10 100 metres, 400 metres,
110 metres hurdles and 1500 metres.

No 124
| Canada, 2 Oregon, 3 Switzerland, 4 USA, 5 Texas, 6 Hamburg, 7 North Yorkshire,
8 Swaziland, 9 North Yorkshire, 10 Dundee.

No 125
I Lake Placid, Innsbruck, St Moritz, 2 Sarajevo, 3 1998, Nagano, Japan, 4 1994,
5 Vancouver, 6 Germany and the USA, 7 Figure skating, 8 Curling, 9 Cortina in Italy,
1956, 10 Lillehammer, Norway.

No 126
I Yorkshire, 2 3-1, 3 South Africa, 4 Brian Lara, 5 Ricky Ponting, 6The England team had
to catch a ship home, 7 lan Botham, 8 Andrew Flintoff, 9 Nottinghamshire, 10 Sussex.

No 127
| Pharaoh’s, 2 The death of the first-born, 3 Quail, 4 Mount Sinai, 5 Acacia, 6 Gold,
7A golden calf, 8 Two, 9 Forty days and forty nights, 10 About 3,000.

No 128
I 54, 2 Tunisia, 3 Egypt, 4 It is the most southerly point, 5The Horn ofAfrica, 6 Cairo,
7 Kenya, 8 Libya, 9 Sudan, 10 Ethiopia.

No 129
I Romanoy, 2 Lenin, 3 Mikhail, 4 Air crash, 5 First woman in space, 6 Boris Spassky,
7 Roman Abramovich, 8 Boris Yeltsin, 9 Andrei Sakharov, 10 Gary Kasparov.
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No 130
1 1912, 2 Gloster Gladiator, 3 Avro Lancaster, 4 Gloster Meteor, 5 English Electric
Canberra, 6 Vickers Valiant, 7 Typhoon (ex-Eurofighter), 8 BAe Hawk, 9 RAF Akrotiri,
10 The Comet airliner.

No I31
1 Pot Black, 2 Sheffield, 3 Shaun Murphy, 4 12 feet by 6 feet, 5 1985, 6 Stephen Hendry,
7 Ray Reardon, 8 Jimmy White, 9 Ken Doherty, 10 Jimmy White.

No 132
I The Misfits, 2 Blake Edwards, 3 Henry Mancini, 4 Paul Scofield, 5 James Fox, 6 On Her
Majesty’s Secret Service, 7 A Clockwork Orange, 8 Ray Harryhausen, 9 Wilfrid Brambell,
10 A Kind of Loving.

No 133
| Deadly nightshade, 2 Poppy, 3 Speedwell, 4 Angostura, 5 Bergamot, 6 Houseleek,
7 Easter flower, 8 Crocus, 9 Dock, 10 Cowstlip.

No 134
1 New Amsterdam, 2 Munich, 3 Italy, 4The Danes, 5 Ming, 6 The Black Hole of
Calcutta, 7 Turkey and Egypt, 8 The Suffragettes, 9 Alfred the Great, 10 David Ben-
Gurion.

No 135
I Prince Rainier Ill of Monaco, 2 Epiphany, 3 Leibniz, 4 Sesame Street, 5 Hermann
Goering, 6 Quito, 7 Romeo and Juliet, 8 High jump, 9 Dopey, 10 The Maastricht Treaty.

No 136
I Isle of Wight, 2 Sandringham, 3 Inveraray Castle, 4 Longleat House, 5 Yorkshire,
6 Blenheim, 7 Chatsworth House, 8 Audley End, 9 Palace House, 10 Arundel.

No 137
1 Norman Hartnell, 2 Vivienne Westwood, 3 Power Dressing, 4David and Elizabeth
Emanuel, 5 Hardy Amies, 6 Louis Vuitton, 7 Pierre Cardin, 8 Tommy Hilfiger, 9 Zandra
Rhodes, 10 Jewellery.
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No 138
I The Flying Dutchman, 2 Richard Strauss, 3 Ruslan and Ludmilla, 4 Donizetti, 5 Gustav
Mahler, 6 Pagliacci, 7 Turandot, 8 Gioacchino Rossini, 9 Giuseppe Verdi, 10 Madame
Butterfly.

No 139
| The Wars of the Roses, 2 Dieppe, 3 The English Civil War, 4 Russia, 5 Wellington,
6 Yorktown, 7 Dungeness, 8 World War Il, 9 China, 10 The Battle of Normandy.

No 140
I Serge Diaghilev, 2 St Petersburg, 3 Jacques Offenbach, 4 Maurice Ravel, 5 Sheherazade,
6 Checkmate, 7 Claude Debussy, 8 Daphnis and Chloé, 9 Prokofiev, 10 The Song of the
Earth.

No [41
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner ofAzkaban, 2 Best novel written by a woman, 3 The Spy
Who Came in From the Cold, 4 Science Fiction, 5 The Old Man and the Sea, 6 Albanian,
7 Salman Rushdie, 8 Henning Mankell, 9 Non-fiction, 10 Books for children.

No 142
1 41.2 (2.2439),26 (48+8),3 116 (4x29),4 10 (3600+360), 5 11 (2+9),
6 8 (13+3+144+20), 7 122 (366+3), 828 (7x4), 9 12, 10 78 (2x39).
No 143
| Landburger Gessler, 2 The Sheriff of Nottingham, 3 Manfred von Richthofen, 4 The
Scarlet Pimpernel, 5 Sir Walter Scott, 6 Dick Turpin, 7 He was the boy who used his
finger to stop a leak in a dyke, 8 Siegfried, 9The Beach Boys, 10 Dan Dare.

No 144
| Petra, 2 Sumerian, 3 Mayan, 4 Aztecs, 5 Turkey, 6 Trojans, 7 Crete, 8 Pakistan,
9 753 BC, 10 Ethiopia.

No 145
I United States Air Force, 2 Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, 3 Royal
Institute of British Architects, 4 Bring Your Own Bottle, 5 Sabena, 6 Eta (Basque
separatists), 7 Errors and Omissions Excepted, 8 Per Pro (on behalf of), 9 It stands for
free of charge, 10 SSE (south-south-east).
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No 146
I Honshu, 2 1952, 3 The parliament, 4 Hirohito, 5 Shogun, 6 Yokohama, 7 It is the
country’s oldest university, 8 Shintoism, 9 Bonsai, 10 The service sector (approximately
three times the size of the industrial sector).

No 147
I A gin from the bar, 2 Sick, 3 Drugs, 4 To the bank to deposit £500, 5 £1 (quid), 6 Jail,
7 Child (kid), 8 Policeman (copper), 9 On your feet (slippers), 10 Wipe your nose
(hanky).

No 148
I Services (about 66%), 2 Zurich, 3 Cantons, 4 German, 5 Geneva, 6 The Rhine,
7 France, 8 1990, 9 Liechtenstein, 10 Less (Switzerland 7.2 million; London 7.6 million).

No 149
| Cairo, 2 Ho Chi Minh City, 3 Bristol, 4 Moscow, 5 Bergen, 6 Cologne, 7 Jeddah,
8 Vancouver, 9 Mexico City, 10 Bradford.

No 150
I Bats, 2 Tree sloth, 3 Orang-utan, 4 Desert rat, 5 World’s smallest (12 inches high),
6 Irish elk, 7 Monkey, 8 Viviparous, 9 Chickens, 10 Turtles.

No 151
| Pompidou, 2 The Banqueting House, 3 CN Tower, 4 Crystal Palace, 5 The Flat iron
building, 6 City Hall, 7 Paddington, 8 The Pentagon, 9 A power station, 10 St Martin-in-
the-Fields.

No 152
I Terry Butcher, 2 Alan Whicker, 3 Harry H Corbett, 4 Joy Adamson, 5 Julie Christie,
6 Andrew Sachs, 7 Danny La Rue, 8 Alexander Korda, 9 Vivien Leigh, 10 JR R Tolkien.

No 153
| Thomas Sheraton, 2 Malaria, 3 William Baffin, 4Thomas Tallis, 5 Havelock Ellis,
6 Lord Nelson, 7 Alan Turing, 8 Sir Christopher Wren, 9 Oliver Cromwell, 10 Robert
Browning.

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No 154
I 3 billion years, 2 600 million years, 3 Tektites, 4 Palaeontology, 5 The Great Rift Valley,
6 Continental drift, 7 Pangaea, 8 Volcanism, 9 Mesozoic, 10 By solidified lava.

No 155
I Spartacus, 2 Watling Street, 3 Genoa, 4A10, 5 Fosse Way, 6 Chichester, 7 The
Brenner Pass, 8 Ottorino Respighi, 9 Sicily, 10 The Fen Causeway.

No 156
I CIA, 2 G7,3 1922 Committee, 4 Shin Bet, 5 The Royal Society, 6The Women’s
Institute, 7 We, ourselves, 8 Interpol, 9 South Africa, 10 NATO.

No 157
| The Blue Mosque, 2 St Peter’s, 3 Lincoln, 4Vienna, 5 Notre Dame de Paris, 6 Reims,
7 Durham, 8 York Minster, 9 Coventry, 10 Liverpool.

No 158
I The Red Cross, 2 Oxfam, 3 Médicins Sans Frontiéres, 4 Save The Children Fund,
5 The UK, 6 Christian Aid, 7 South Africa, 8The Salvation Army, 9 1984, 10 Amnesty
International.

No 159
I Franco Zeffirelli, 2 Michael Winner, 3 Roger Vadim, 4 Ingmar Bergman, 5 Duel,
6 Stanley Kubrick, 7 John Huston, 8 Peter Jackson, 9 Blake Edwards, 10 Roberto
Rossellini.

No 160
1 Earth Council, 2 International Fund for Animal Welfare, 3 Greenpeace, 4 World Wide
Fund for Nature, 5 Sierra Club, 6 Friends of the Earth International, 7 Earthwatch
Institute, 8 Rainforest Action Network, 9 Iceland, Norway and Japan, 10 Greenpeace.

No 161
1 12,2 3,3 9,4 7,5 4,6 Pride, 7 Seven ages of man, 8 7,9 Number 7, 10 Death,
Famine, War, Pestilence.
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No 162
| Gunther von Hagens, 2 Werner Karl Heisenberg, 3 Ludwig II of Bavaria, 4Karl Marx,
5 Baron von Reuter, 6 Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen, 7 Carl Zeiss, 8 Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe, 9 Angela Merkel, 10 Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

No 163
| Chinoiserie, 2 Russia, 3 Grounding, 4 Art Brut, 5 Bellini, 6 Titian, 7 Canaletto, 8 Alfred
Gilbert, 9 Canadian, 10 High Renaissance.

No 164
I Telecom Tower — 189 metres (Eye = 135 metres), 2 Sir Thomas More, 3 Ringo
Starr, 4 Baader-Meinhof Gang, 5 Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 6 River Itchen,
7 Robert the Bruce, 8 Radios | and 2, 9 The Irish Sea, 10 The Atlantic Ocean.

No 165
I Rio deJaneiro, 2 Portuguese, 3 Brasilia, 4 Sao Paulo (18 million), 5 Belém, 6 Fruit,
7 Pele, 8 Chile and Ecuador, 9 Mato Grosso, 10 Manaus.

No 166
1 12 (120+10), 2 63,360, 3 72 (12x6), 4 3.5 (21+6),5 1.76 (1,760+1000), 6 960 (240x4),
7 100, 8 5.5,9 10 (7+3), 10 323.2 (32x10.1).

No 167
I Maria (seas), 2 Tycho, 3 239,000 miles, 4 Sea of Tranquility, 5 Luna, 6 Under the
surface at the north and south polar regions, 7 Luna 2 (Russian), 8 One sixth, 9 Selene,
10 Craters.

No 168
I Iris Murdoch, 2 Norman Wisdom, 3 Frances Hodgson Burnett, 4 James Fenimore
Cooper, 5 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, 6 Stephen Fry, 7 Nelson Mandela,
8 Dorothy L Sayers, 9 Tom Stoppard, 10 Tom Stoppard.

No 169
1 Queen Elizabeth Il, 2 Sofia, 3 Belgium, 4 Denmark, 5 Norway, 6 Netherlands,
7 Second cousin, 8 Sweden, 9 Saul, 10 Nicholas Il.
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No 170
I Saudi Arabia, 2 The elephant, 3 Barry Manilow, 4 A total solar eclipse, 5 Italy,
6 Norman Lamont, 7 Marseilles, 8 Lisbon, 9They are both messengers in Roman and
Greek mythology, 10 Both were Astronomers Royal.

No I71
| Snowdon, 2 France and Switzerland, 3 Kangchenjunga, 4 Canada, 5 Carpathians,
6 Australia, 7 Black Sea and Caspian Sea, 8 Southern Alps, 9 South Africa, 10 Austria
and Italy.

No 172
I Arabic, 2 Vodka, 3 Czech, 4 North America, 5 Malay, 6 India, 7 Iran, 8 German, 9 Swiss
German, 10 Eskimo.

No 173
| The Red List, 2 Over 7,000, 3 21%, 4 50%, 5 Spain and Portugal, 6 18th century,
7 Caspian tiger, 8 Bison, 9 Sturgeon, 10 The Mediterranean.

No 174
| ...beggars would ride, 2 Taxes, 3 ...a single step, 4 ...vinegar, 5 ...divine, 6 Work,
7 ...leisure, 8 ...curse the darkness, 9 The whipping boy, 10 The Merchant ofVenice.

No 175
| Conducting, 2 Piano, 3 Cello, 4 James Galway, 5 Trumpet, 6 Father and son, 7 Joanna
Lumley, 8 Organ, 9 Andre Previn, 10 Violin.

No 176
I Giuseppe Garibaldi, 2 Fibonacci, 3Atomic physics, 4 Electric battery, 5 Giacomo
Casanova, 6 Niccolo Machiavelli, 7 Benvenuto Cellini, 8 Claudia Cardinale, 9 St Francis
ofAssisi, 10 Genoa.

No 177
| Canadian dollar, 2 Schilling, 3 Euro, 4 Krone, 5 Rupee,6 Shekel, 7 Lira, 8 Escudo,
9 Vietnam, 10 Pound.
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No 178
I John Lennon, 2 Idlewild, 3 Marco Polo, 4 Dulles International, Washington DC,
5 Robin Hood, 6 Rome, 7 Charles de Gaulle, 8 Jan Smuts, 9 Konrad Adenauer,
10Yasser Arafat International.

No 179
| Happiness, 2 Spayed, 3 14, 4 Eyes (they are its inner eyelids), 5 Fear of cats, 6 5 and 4,
7 16,8 Higher (approximately 101.5 Fahrenheit), 9 It’s the smallest breed of domestic
cat, 10 Arthur.

No 180
I Yes (though less well than humans), 2 The pads of their feet, 3 Heart, 4 Mesopotamia,
5 Purebred and mongrel, 6 Norway, 7 It rarely, if ever, barks, 8 It has webbed feet,
9 White, 10 Egypt.

No [81
1 August, 2 July, 3 August, 4 June, 5 Royal Tournament, 6 May, 7 January, 8 November,
9 May to September, 10 July (15th).

No 182
I German, 2 Victory hail, 3 Already seen, 4 For this purpose, 5 Latin, 6 Greek, 7 Old
Norse, 8 The sweet life, 9 Dutch, 10 Sanskrit.

No 183
I Larynx, 2 Heart, 3 0.5 mm to 4.0 mm, 4 Urethra, 5 Gall bladder, 6 9 cm, 7 Spleen,
8 Brain, 9 Endomorph, 10 The tongue.

No 184
I Essex, 2 West Sussex, 3 Clwyd, 4 Suffolk, 5 Devon, 6 Dumfries & Galloway,
7 Warwickshire, 8 Antrim, 9 East Sussex, 10 Pembrokeshire.

No 185
I Sweden, 2 76 years, 3 Ireland, 4 Austria, 5 15th, 6The UK, 7 Luxembourg, 8 About
6 years, 9 Greece, 10 France.

No 186
I Japan, 2 Libya, 3 Israel, 4 New Zealand, 5 Australia, 6 Canada, 7 Monaco, 8 Nepal,
9 The Union Flag, 10 Bahrain.
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No 187
| Denmark, 2 Sweden, 3 The Netherlands, 4 Norway, 5 Helgoland, 6 Croatia, 7 Ischia,
8 Malta, 9 France, 10 The Channel Islands.

No 188
I Alicia Keys, 2 Cher, 3 The Seekers, 4 Joss Stone, 5 Judy Garland, 6 Norah Jones,
7 Billie Holiday, 8 Opera, 9 Sarah Brightman, 10 Madonna.

No 189
I First one-piece china toilet pan, 2 Electric light bulb, 3 Pedal-operated cycle, 4 Henry
Bessemer, 5 Louis Pasteur, 6 Safety match, 7 Phosphorus, 8 Cartoon films, 9 Air-
conditioning 10 Barbie.

No 190
I Slovakia, 2 Nepal and Bhutan, 3 Jordan, 4 Mongolia, 5 Moldova, 6 Afghanistan,
7 Hungary, 8 Mali, 9 Luxembourg, 10 Afghanistan.

No 191
| Franz Klammer, 2 Alberto Tomba, 3 Jean-Claude Killy, 4 Slalom, 5 Ski jump and cross
country, 6 4,000 years, 7 Kitzbuhel, Austria, 8 Norway, 9 Colorado, 10 Norwegian.

No 192
| Bobby Darin, 2 Robert Plant, 3 Otis Redding, 4 Boy George, 5 An Englishman in New
York, 6 Tom Waits, 7 Elvis Costello, 8 Radiohead, 9 Art Garfunkel, 10 Paul McCartney
and Stevie Wonder.

No 193
| Chiaroscuro, 2 Back lighting, 3 Back projection, 4 Dissolve, 5 Panning, 6 A hanging
miniature, 7 Genre, 8 Cinema verité, 9 Stop motion, 10 Computer-Generated Imagery.

No 194
| The Time Machine by H G Wells, 2 From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne,
3 Amazing Stories, 4 The Thing, 5 Brian Aldiss, 6 Isaac Asimov, 7 Michael Moorcock, 8 Ray
Bradbury, 9 RobertA Heinlein, 10 Westworld.

No 195
| Union Carbide, 2 CFCs, 3 Nuclear tests, 4 Ukraine, 5 The Amoco Cadiz, 6 The Aral
Sea, 7 1991, 8 China, 9 Three Mile Island, 10 The Rhine.

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No 196
I Inflation, 2 Economic growth, 3 The black economy, 4 The real wage, 5 Trickle-down
effect, 6 Balance of trade, 7WTO (World Trade Organisation), 8 618 billion dollars,
9 The World Bank, 10 Germany.

No 197
| Malaria, 2 Approximately 80,000, 3 They are not true insects, 4 Fleas, 5 Ticks,
6 Nymphs, 7 Locust, 8 Beetles, 9 95%, 10 The Natural History Museum, London.

No 198
I Nikolaus Pevsner, 2 Bauhaus, 3 Le Corbusier, 4 Energy efficient, 5 Corinthian,
6 Mullion, 7 Capital, 8 Atrium, 9 Quoins, 10 Flying buttress.

No 199
| Anchorage, 2 10 times, 3 Chile, 4 Kobe, 5 Colombia, 6 Kashmir, 7 Earthquake lights
(cause unknown), 8 Liquefaction, 9 Los Angeles, 10 The basilica of St Francis in Assisi.

No 200
I The Argo, 2 The Golden Fleece, 3 Poseidon, 4 Hera, 5 Zephyrus, 6 The Oceanides,
7 The Minotaur, 8 Zeus, 9 TheTitans, 10 Hephaestus.

No 201
I Spencer Moon, 2 Viv, 3 Nick Cotton, 4 Billy Mitchell and Little Mo in 2002, and Alfie
Moon and Kat Slater in 2003, 5 Gary Hobbs, 6 Roly, 7 Kathy and Pete Beale, 8 Scarlet,
9 Darren and Demi, 10 Number four.

No 202
I Russia, 2 Arno, 3 Three, 4 The Black Forest, 5 Vietnam, 6 Irrawaddy, 7 Indus, 8 Yukon,
9 River Tay, 10 River Shannon.

No 203
I Plato, 2 Archimedes, 3 Pythagoras, 4 Aeschylus, 5 Alexander the Great, 6 Hippocrates,
7 King Constantine Il, 8 Aristotle Onassis, 9 Nana Mouskouri, 10 Melina Merkouri.

No 204
I Lake Ontario, 2 Tanganyika, 3 Utah, 4 Sweden, 5 Finland, 6 Russia, 7 Lac Leman,
8 Switzerland, 9 Austria, 10 Canada.
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No 205
I Toronto, 2 Ontario, 3 The Vikings, 4 English and French, 5 Hudson’s Bay Company,
6 The Klondike River, 7 Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 8 Prime Minister, 9 Captain
James Cook, 10 Calgary.

No 206
I Billy Ocean, 2 Eric Clapton, 3 Bob Dylan, 4 Hans, 5 Eastman, 6 Barry Manilow,
7 Norman, 8 Sting, 9 Gary Glitter, 10 Princess Michael of Kent.

No 207
I Pessimism, 2 Zen Buddhism, 3 The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 4 Austrian, 5 Anarchism,
6 Druidism, 7 Methodism, 8 The Reformation, 9Thomas Cranmer, 10 Rastafarianism.

No 208
1 Dannii Minogue, 2 The Animals, 3 Robbie Williams, 4 Al, 5 Harry Enfield, 6 A-Ha,
7 Andy Williams, 8 East 17,9 Check on It, 10 Jimmy Osmond.

No 209
| Xylophone, 2 Bass tuba, 3 Guitar, 4Double bass, 5 Organ, 6 Heckelphone, 7 English
horn, 8 Zither, 9 The oboe, 10 Kettledrum.

No 210
I Saxifrage, 2 Yellow, 3 Myosotis, 4 Busy Lizzy, 5 Thrift, 6 Henbane, 7 African violet,
8 They are carnivorous, 9 Lily, 10 A shoot from the base of a plant.

No 211
| Number 9 in line, 2 Macedonia, 3 Margaret, 4 Wilhelm II, 5 Austro-Hungarian,
6 Sweden, 7 William IV, 8 Poland, 9 King Louis XVI, 10 Bohemia.

No 212
| Godthab, 2 Stalingrad, 3 Leopoldville, 4 New Amsterdam, 5 St Petersburg, 6 Ottawa,
7 Karl Marx Stadt, 8 Lourenco Marques, 9 Scutari, 10 Winchester.

No 213
I Plover, 2 Kookaburra, 3 Scarlet ibis, 4 Cob, 5 Penguin, 6 Red, 7 Starling, 8 Goose,
9 Crow, 10 Black grouse.
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No 214
I Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, 2 Rosa Parks, 3 Stella Rimmington, 4 Helen
Sharman, 5 Myanmar (Burma), 6 Greenham Common, 7 Betty Boothroyd, 8 The North
Pole, 9 Mother Teresa, 10 Venus.

No 215
| Michael Atherton, 2 The Cairngorm Mountains, 3 David Cameron, 4 Manchester
United, 5 George Washington, 6 Nigel Davenport, 7 Arthur Conan Doyle, 8 The Battle
of Hastings, 9 Tony Blair, 10 George Bush.

No 216
1A,2B,3B,4A,5 C,6C,7A,8 B,9 B, IOA.

No 217
| Waltz, 2 Trepak, 3 Rumba, 4 Havana, 5 Bossa nova, 6 Norway, 7 Jive, 8 1920s, 9 Spain,
10 Poland.

No 218
| Wrestling, 2 Ice skating, 3 Balkline, 4A sharp-edged throwing weapon, 5 A score of
three under par on a hole, 6 High jump, 7 Crampons, 8 A boxer who leads with his
right hand, 9 Skiing, 10 Rock-climbing.

No 219
I Architecture, 2 Rutger Hauer, 3 Paul Verhoeven, 4 Opera and lieder, 5 Rembrandt
Harmenszoon van Rijn, 6 Anne Frank, 7 Painting, 8 Christiaan Huygens, 9 Willem
Barents, 10 Johan Cruyff (or Cruijff).

No 220
I Mea culpa, 2 Passim, 3 Summa cum laude, 4 Voice of the people, 5 The Milky Way,
6 Which was to be demonstrated, 7 Libra, solidus, dinarius, 8 Jesus of Nazareth, King of
the Jews, 9 Let there be light, 10 Go in peace.

No 221
I Sao Paulo, 2 Naples, 3 Croatia, 4 Madras, 5 Banda Aceh, 6 Haifa, 7 Argentina, 8 The
Danube, 9 Copenhagen, 10 Port-au-Prince (Haiti) and Santo Domingo (Dominican
Republic).
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No 222
| Accidentally shot down an Iranian airliner, killing nearly 300 passengers and crew,
2 The Ark Royal, 3 HMS Belfast, 4The Falklands War, 5 HMS Prince of Wales, 6 HMS
Dreadnought, 7 HMS Royal Oak, 8 Pearl Harbor, 9 Aircraft carriers, 10 An aircraft carrier.

No 223
1 1996,2 2001,3 1990,4 1986,5 1992, 6 1979, 7 1999,8 1994,9 2004, 10 2003.

No 224
| Harry Palmer, 2 Austin Powers, 3 The Bourne Identity, 4 James Coburn, 5 Our Man
in Havana, 6 The Man From UNCLE, 7 The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, 8 Mission
Impossible, 9 Game, Set and Match, 10 Edward G Robinson.

No 225
| Fabergé, 2 March and April, 3 Anglo-Saxon goddess of the dawn, 4 Rabbits, 5 Palm
Sunday, 6 Maundy Thursday, 7 Barabbas, 8 Golgotha, 9 Eleven (one for each disciple,
except Judas), 10 King Edward I.

No 226
I ‘Bomber’, 2 The Times, 3 Alan Freeman, 4 Richard Nixon, 5 Edwina Currie,
6 ‘Interesting’, 7 Muhammed Ali, 8 ‘The Cat’, 9 Arnold Schwarzenegger, 10 Jean Harlow.

No 227
| Georg Hegel, 2 Ludwig Wittgenstein, 3 Karl Marx, 4 Bertrand Russell, 5 Gottfried
von Leibniz, 6 Friedrich Nietzsche, 7 Albert Camus, 8 Arthur Schopenhauer, 9Adam
Smith, 10 Francis Bacon.

No 228
I Kathy Kirby, 2 Mark Wynter, 3 Harry Belafonte, 4 Guy Mitchell and Tommy Steele,
5 The Honeycombs, 6 Michael Holliday, 7The Shadows, 8 Lonnie Donegan’s (My Old
Man’s a Dustman), 9 Connie Francis, 10 Russ Conway.

No 229
| Drury Lane and Haymarket, 2 Savoy, 3 Grand Theatre, Leeds, 4 Manchester,
5 Ballet and opera, 6 Reading, 7 The Anvil, 8 La Fenice, 9 Theatre Royal, Haymarket,
10 Broadway, New York.
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No 230
I Cliff Richard, 2 Midge Ure, 3 Planet Earth, 4 Rod Stewart and Tina Turner, 5 14,
6 Sharleen Spiteri, 7 Is This the Way to Amarillo? Tony Christie, 8 Back to Bedlam, James
Blunt, 9 ABBA, 10 Bruce Springsteen.

No 231
| They were both murdered, 2 NWA, 3 Eminem, 4 David Hasselhoff, 5 New York,
6 Sugarhill Gang, 7 The Beastie Boys, 8 Dr Dre, 9 Coolio, 10 Kool G Rap.

No 232
I The Titanic, 2 P&O Cruises, 3 The Queen Mary 2,4 Norway, 5 Disney, 6 Cunard,
7 Union Castle, 8 Peninsula & Oriental, 9 Denmark, 10 Flying boats.

No 233
_ | Fridtjof Nansen, 2 The centigrade thermometer, 3 Astronomy, 4 Henrik Ibsen, 5 Carl
Mannerheim, 6 Dynamite, 7 Carl Nielsen, 8 Vidkun Quisling, 9The Moomins, 10 He is
the founder of IKEA.

No 234
I Buffalo Bill, 2 The Clanton Gang, 3 Carson City, 4 Jedediah Smith, 5 Davy Crockett,
6 The Alamo, 7 Little Big Horn, 8 James Bowie, 9 The Sundance Kid, 10 Dentistry.

No 235
I Portugal, 2 The Opium War, 3 The Boxer Uprising, 4 19!1,5 Manchuria, 6 Mao Tse-
tung, 7 Formosa (Taiwan), 8 1964, 9 Qing, 10 Hong Kong.

No 236
I Asuncion, 2 Aconcagua, 3 Uruguay and Argentina, 4 Land of Fire, 5 Chile, 6 Brazil,
7 Argentina, 8 The Equator, 9 French Guyana, 10 Chile and Argentina.

No 237
I Lazio, 2 PSV Eindhoven, 3 Monaco, 4 Graeme Souness, 5 Hamburg, 6 Brazil,
7 Barcelona, 8 No 23, 9 Nimes-Olympique, 10 Barcelona.

No 238
1 Groote Schuur, Cape Town, 2 East Grinstead, 3 Harefield, 4 Great Ormond
Street Hospital, 5 Stockholm, 6 Dr Kildare, 7 Jimmy Savile, 8 Leeds, 9 Alder Hey,
10 Birmingham.
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No 239
| Eastman (Kodak), 2 Ernst Leitz, 3 Polaroid, 4 Zoom lens, 5 Digital, 6 Cine cameras,
7 Films, 8 Fisheye, 9 Close-up photography, 10 Absorbs some of the ultra-violet light
which cannot be seen by the human eye, but can be seen as a haze by photo-film.

No 240
I Hecate, 2 King Lear, 3 Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, 4 Sir John
Falstaff, 5 Ariel, 6 The Taming of the Shrew, 7 Caliban, 8 Julius Caesar, 9 A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, 10 Fortinbras.

No 241
I Thailand, 2 Florence, 3 Mostar, 4 St John’s College, Cambridge, 5 Queen Elizabeth
Il Bridge, 6 lsambard Kingdom Brunel, 7 The Menai Bridge, 8 Westminster Bridge,
9 Sydney Harbour Bridge, 10 Box girder construction.

No 242
I Carmen by Bizet, 2 Richard Strauss, 3 Leos Janacek, 4 Gloriana, 5 Shostakovich,
6 Respighi, 7 The Firebird, 8 Beethoven, 9 The Nutcracker, 10 Darcey Bussell.

No 243
I The Gulf of Aden, 2 The Celtic Sea, 3 The Dogger Bank, 4 The White Sea, 5 The
Tyrrhenian Sea, 6 The Bering Strait, 7The Arctic Ocean, 8 Newfoundland, 9 Antarctica,
10 The Black Sea.

No 244
1 Ulm, 2 St Mark’s Basilica, 3 It was never finished, 4 St Basil’s, 5 Santiago de
Compostela, 6 Stockholm, 7 St Sophia’s, 8 Warsaw, 9 Cathedral of St John the Divine,
10 The Ka’aba.

No 245
| Persephone, 2 Perseus, 3 Arachne, 4 Dido, 5 The Pleiades, 6 Laertes, 7 Charon,
8 Cassandra, 9 Twelve, 10 Hector.

No 246
I Spinach, 2 A medieval warship, 3 Sinbad, 4 Motorcycle racing, 5 Chop suey, 6 Lonely
This Christmas by Mud, 7 Pudding Lane, 8 Tam O’Shanter, 9 The Telegoons, 10 The SS.
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No 247
| The Man from UNCLE, 2 The Monkees, 3 1967, 4 Mary Quant, 5 1967, 6 John Profumo,
7 Twiggy, 8 1960, 9 Habitat, 10 Oh! Calcutta!

No 248
| The Mister Men, 2 Vivienne Westwood, 3 David Bowie, 4 Delia Smith, 5 Bohemian
Rhapsody by Queen, 6 Fawlty Towers, 7 God Save the Queen by The Sex Pistols, 8 Crop
circles, 9 1978, 10 The Winter of Discontent.

No 249
| The Grand Hotel, 2 Counter-inflation policy, 3 Adrian Mole, 4 Bucks Fizz,
5 Greenham Common, 6 The Falklands War, 7 Arthur Scargill, 8 Genetic ‘fingerprinting’,
9 October 1987, 10 Stephen Hawking.

No 250
I Iraq invaded Kuwait, 2 The ordination of female priests, 3The Dyson vacuum cleaner,
4 The ‘wind-up’ radio, 5 London, Paris and Brussels, 6 Damien Hirst, 7 Neasden, 8 The
Full Monty, 9 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, 10 The Angel of the North.

Tie-breaker Question Solutions

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