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1. Who is Reginald Dwight better known as ?
Answer: Elton John.
2. Name the king who failed to keep an eye on things at the battle of Hastings ?
Answer: Harold.
3. In which sport would you use a chucker ?
Answer: Polo.
4. What sort of books is Arthur C Clarke famous for writing ? Answer: Science fiction.
5. Name the actor who played Ben Hur ?
Answer: Charlton Heston.
6. Toy, gun, and working are all types of what
Answer:Dogs.
7. What is the capital of the Falkland Islands ?
Answer: Port Stanley.
8. Name the actor who played Lovejoy ?
Answer: Ian Macshane.
9. Fruit, pipistrol, and horseshoe are all types of what ?
Answer: Bats.
10. If a snail climbed up a 12 ft wall at a steady rate of 3 feet a day, but slipped down a 2ft every night, how many days would it take him to reach the top ?
Answer: 10 days.
11. Name the actor who became famous after his part as the lieutenant in Zulu ?
Answer: Michael Kaine. 12. Name the athlete who won 4 gold medals in
the 1936 Berlin Olympics ?
Answer: Jesse Owens. 13. What was Percy Shaw`s contribution to road safety ?
Answer: Cat`s eyes.
14. Of the 518 seats in the European parliament how many does the U.K. have, is it 21, 51, or 81, ?
Answer: 81.
15. Which leading politician caused a stir when he attended the remembrance day service in a duffel coat ? Answer: Michael Foot .
16. what was the Christian name of the younger Steptoe in T.V.s Steptoe and son ?
Answer: Harold.
17. What is the square root of 361 ?
Answer: 19.
18. Name the captain of the Nautilus in Jules Vernes` 20,0000 leagues under the sea ?
Answer: Nemo.
19. In which London borough is the Royal Albert Hall ?
Answer: Kensington.
20. What are you if you are AWOL or A.W.O.L ? Answer: Absent without leave.
21. Name the actor who plated Ted Bovis in T.V.s Hi de Hi ?
Answer: Paul Shane.
22. When told that the people had no bread, what was Marie Antionette`s reply ?
Answer: "let them eat cake."
23. Specifically, on which part of your body would you find your patella ?
Answer: knee.
24. In the United States which president abolished slavery ?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
25. What is a fandango ?
Answer: Dance.
26. Traditionally, what type of wood do Rolls Royce put on the dashboards of their cars?
Answer: Walnut.
27. How many vowels are there in the word unprepossessing ?
Answer: 5.
28. What do the letters Y.M.C.A. stand for ?
Answer: Young Mens Christian Association. 29. A man spends one eighth of his money on food and four times as much on his mortgage, this leaves him with 90 pounds, how much did he have to start with ?
Answer: 240.
30. In which country is the state of Tobasco ?
Answer: Mexico.
31. what would an Irishman do with his Shone ?
Answer: Cut peat.
32. What was the name of Pricilla Presley`s character in Dallas ?
Answer: Jena Wade.
33. What is the diameter of the centre circle on a soccer pitch ?
Answer: 20 yards.
34. What sport features sails, wishbone booms, and universal joints ?
Answer: Wind surfing.
35. What world famous card features a centurion on its face ?
Answer: American Express. 36. What is the highest active volcano in Europe ?
Answer: Mount Etna.
37. Name the political party which secured 99% of the vote in Germany in 1936 ?
Answer: Nazi party.
38. What star sign is represented by the water carrier ?
Answer: Aquarius.
39. Which Island is the furthest north - Sicily, Corsica or Sardinia ?
Answer: Corsica.
40. Who wrote A Tale Of Two Cities ?
Answer: Charles Dickens.
41. What is the national emblem of Canada ?
Maple leaf.
42. Name the former royal jockey who became a best selling author of thrillers about horse racing ?
Answer: Dick Francis.
43. Name the clockwork devices used by musicians to measure time ?
Answer: Metronome.
44. Who played inspector Cleuseau in the Pink Panther films ?
Answer: Peter Sellers.
45. What is universal time better known as ?
Answer: G.M.T. or Greenwich Mean Time. 46. Are Gorillas carnivores, omnivores, or herbivors ?
Answer: Herbivors
47. The cassowary and Emu are both flightless birds of which country ?
Answer: Australia.
48. What does Hellas mean to a Greek person ?
Answer: Greece.
49. If there are 35 gallons of oil in a barrel how many barrels would you need to fill a tank which holds 7000 gallons ?
Answer: 200.
50. According to Arthurian legend what did the ady of the lake give to Arthur ?
Answer: Excalibur.
51. Free Willey was a film about what ?
Answer: A whale.
52. According to legend who flew too close to the sun, melting the wax on his wings ?
Answer: Icarus.
53. What does N.S.P.C.C. stand for ?
Answer: National society for the prevention of cruelty to children. 54. Can pigs swim ? yes or no.
Answer: yes.
55. Name the ship which began its epic voyage on 6th September 1620 ?
Answer: Mayflower.
56. By what name was Emperor Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus better known ?
Answer: Nero.
57. What World War II operation was code named `Dynamo` ?
Answer: Evacuation of Dunkirk.
58. What would a tailor do with his hot plonker ?
Answer: Iron cloth.
59. What classic board game involves points, blots, tables and bearing off ?
Answer: Back gammon.
60. What `G` is in the United States, in the Soviet Union and "on my mind" ?
Answer: Georgia.
61. How many old pennies were there in a Groat?
Answer: Four.
62. In total, how many gold rings are mentioned in the song, The 12 days of Christmas ?
Answer: 40.
63. According to the legend, which night became lady Guinavere`s lover ?
Answer: Lancelot.
64. What name was given to the political of 1963 which eventually resulted in the fall of the government ? Answer: Profumo affair.
65. What name is given to a 70th wedding anniversary ?
Answer: Platinum.
66. What would a farmer do with his mangelwurzel ?
Answer: Feed it to his animals. 67. What is the rugby term for a ball that is dropped forward ?
Answer: A knock-on.
68. Pintail, Pochard and Shoveler are all varieties of what ?
Answer: Duck.
69. What name is given to snakes such as pythons because of their method of killing their prey ?
Answer: Constrictor.
70. What word is used to describe the tiny animals and plants that live in the surface water of seas and lakes ?
Answer: Plankton.
71. What does N.A.L.G.O. stand for ?
Answer: National Association of Local Government Officers. 72. In which children's film did Benny Hill star as the toy maker ? .Answer: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
73. What is the square route of 250,000 ?
Answer: 500.
74. Which American actor died in a car crash while travelling west on California highway 466 ?
Answer: James Dean.
75. Who is Reputed to have said, "Look, I send you out like sheep among wolves; so be wary as serpents and innocent as doves" ?
Answer: Jesus.
76. How many miles do the teams race in the Oxford and Cambridge boat race ?
Answer: Four.
77. Name the actor who starred in the Die Hard series of films ?
Answer: Bruce Willis.
78. What `A` can mean join, fasten or connect ?
Answer: Attach. 79. Ovation, Fender, & Gibson are famous makes of what ?
Answer: Guitar
80. How many legs does a triffid have ? ( They are real )
Answer: Three.
81. Name the two original presenters of the B.B.C.`s Breakfast Time ?
Answer: Frank Bough ,Selina Scott .82. The city of Venice is situated in the north west corner of which sea ?
Answer: Adriatic.
83. In the song `The 12 days of Christmas`, what are the 6 geese a-doing ?
Answer: Laying.
84. Whose army was massacred at the battle of the battle `little big horn` in 1839 ?
Answer: Lee Armstrong Custer. 85. Where are the headquarters of the of the Metropolitan police situated ?
Answer: New ScotlandYard, Westminster. 86. According to the nursery rhyme, who`s children were given `broth, no bread, all whipped soundly and sent to bed ?
Answer: The old woman who lived in a shoe. 87. Which pop Group opened the live aid concert at Wembley ?
Answer: Status Quo.
88. What `H` means disorder and confusion ?
Answer: Havoc.
89. What sort of wood is used to make the black keys on a piano keyboard ?
Answer: Ebony.
90. Which popular American sport is played on a diamond ?
Answer: Baseball.
91. Lagos is the capitol of which African country ?
Answer: Nigeria.
92. In which of Sheakspear`s plays does Shylock demand his pound of flesh ?
Answer: The Merchant of Venice. 93. In cricket, where would you find the chain ?
Answer: Between the wickets. ( A unit of measurement )
94. How many cards are dealt to each player in contract bridge ?
Answer: Thirteen.
95. Which children's T.V. program featured professor Yaffety ?
Answer: Bagpuss.
96. If a customer orders 100 dozen widgets and wants them delivered in three equal quantities on consecutive days, how many widgets will there be in each delivery ?
Answer: 400.
97. Who starred alongside Roger Moore in The Persuaders ?
Answer: Tony Curtis.
98. Which of the B.B.C.`s radio stations is broadcast on 88 to 91 F.M.
Answer: Radio 2.
99. Which Band have released albums called `The dark side of the moon`, and `Wish you were here` ?
Answer: Pink Floyd.
100. Name both British prime ministers of 1970 ?
Answer: Harold Wilson Edward Heath .101. Epee, sabre and foil are all used in which sport ?
Answer: Fencing.
102. Name the oath sworn by medical graduates which regulates their future professional conduct ?
Answer: Hippocratic.
103. Spell extraterrestrial ?
Answer: Extraterrestrial
104. According to Dr Johnson once you are tired of London what else are you also tired of ?
Answer: Life.
105. Which sign of the Zodiac is depicted by the ram ?
Answer: Aries.
106. Name the golfing accessory which was patented by George Grant on Dec 12th 1899 ?
Answer: Tee peg.
107. In which county would you find Trent Bridge cricket ground ?
Answer: Nottingham-shire. 108. How many times in a year is a bi-mionthly periodical published ?
Answer: Six.
109. What sort of plant is a truffle ?
Answer: Fungus.
110. Name the actor who is also one of the
world`s top professional bridge players ?
Answer: Omah Sherrif
111. Name the sport which always starts a game in front of the south stake ?
Answer: Croquet.
112. Name the man who has the most monuments erected in his honour ?
Answer: Budda.
113. Name the character played by Joanna Lumbley in the New Avengers ?
Answer: Purdy.
114. On his egg deliveries, farmer Fred sets off with 400 eggs. At the first delivery he drops off 5 doz` at the second, 12 doz` and at the last one he delivers 15 doz`. How many eggs does he take home to his brooding wife ?
Answer: Sixteen.
115. Give the names of the 3 tunnels dug by the prisoners in the film `The Great escape`?
Answer: Tom, Dick, Harry. 116. Name both official languages of south Africa ?
Answer: English Africaan. 117. According to the song, from which track does the Chattanooga choo choo leave Pennsylvania station ?
Answer: Track 29.
118. Who painted the Mona Lisa ? .Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
119. In ancient history who betrayed Samson to the philistines ?
Answer: Delihla.
120. Name the fruit which earned its name from the way it hung in bunches like grapes ?
Answer: Grapefruit.
121. Name the army formed by Michael Collins in 1919 to fight against Britain ?
Answer: I.R.A.
122. Name the very famous book which was completed in 1086 ? .Answer: The Doomsday book
123. In which country would you find the Cambrian mountains ?
Answer: Wales.
124. Name the two oceans which meet at the Cape of Good Hope ?
Answer: Atlantic, Indian. 125. Which sport requires the competitors to throw stones at houses ?
Answer: Curling.
126. Which nursery rhyme character was warned that the cow was in the corn ?
Answer: Little boy blue . 127. Name the Tibetan mammal which lives at the highest altitude of all mammals ?
Answer: Yak.
128. In the first world war who was Baron von Riched Hoffen better known as ?
Answer: The Red Baron.
129. Name the world`s warmest sea ?
Answer: Red sea.
130. Who scripted, directed , and starred in the silent film, `The Plank` ?
Answer: Eric Sykes.
131. What is the most north westerly letter on
a standard typewriter keyboard ?
Answer: Q
132. What game would you be playing if your cue ball had a black spot on it ?
Answer: Billiards.
133. What name is given to an eagles nest ?
Answer: Eyrie.
134. Who seized power from Milton Obote 1971 ?
Answer: Idi Armeen.
135. In the Star Wars trilogy who turns out to be Luke`s feather ?
Answer: Darth Vader.
136. As the equator crosses South America, through which three countries does it pass ? Answer: Brazil Columbia Equador. 137. Which character has been played by Roger Moore, George Lazenby, and David Niven ?
Answer: James Bond.
138. Name the first non-human to win an Oscar ?
Answer: Mickey mouse
139. If you were standing outside the House of Keys, on which British island would you be ?
Answer: Isle of man.
140. Which film ends with the line, "after all, tomorrow`s another day" ?
Answer: Gone with the wind .
141. By what name was the German secret police known ?
Answer: Gestapo.
142. Name the disabled detective played by Raymond Burr ?
Answer: Ironside.
143. Name the defence secretary resigned over the Westland affair in 1886 ?
Answer: Micheal Heseltine.
144. In music a whole note is called a semibreve,what is a half note called ?
Answer: A Minim
145. Which is the largest of the Scottish lochs ?
Answer: Loch Lommand
146. Neptune and Poseidon were both Gods of the sea but Which was the Roman God and which was the Greek ?
Answer: Neptune was Roman.Poseidon was Greek.
147. What would you do with calcium hydroxide, put on your garden, eat it,or rub it in your eyes ? Answer: Its lime, so you put it on the garden. 148. In which part of your body would you find your radius and ulna ?
Answer: Forearm.
149. What is a fifth columnist ?
Answer: A spy.
150. Who wrote the novel `1984` ?
Answer: George Orwell. 151. What does N.F.U. stand for ?
Answer: National Farmers Union. 152. Who was the star in the 1954 film `Apache` ?
Answer: Burt Lancaster. 153. The film `My fair lady` was inspired by which Bernard Shaw play ?
Answer: Pygmalion.
154. Name the river which runs through the city of Norwich ?
Answer: Yare.
155. What comes in Blue Shropshire, Swaledale and Red Cheshire varieties ?
Answer: Cheeses.
156. In which country would you find the plains of Jericho ?
Answer: Jordan.
157. Name the instrument used by children to measure angles in geometry ?
Answer: Protractor.
158. Who do Vince and Musky accompany in their cartoon capers ?
Answer: Deputy Dog.
159. What race circuit would take you through Stowe, Copse, and club corners ?
Answer: Silverstone.
160. What girls name is also the term used to describe a female donkey ? Answer: Jenny.
161. What word describes milk which contains the same amount of cream as pasteurised milk but has been processed in a way that stops the cream floating to the surface ?
Answer: Homogenised.
162. Where was the t.v. series Inspector Morse set ?
Answer: Oxford.
163. Name the singer who had a hit with a song about a rat called Ben ?
Answer: Michael Jackson.
164. What is agoraphobia an irrational fear of ?
Answer: Open spaces.
165. The Aswan damn is to be found on which river ?
Answer: Nile.
166. What is the name or term used to describe -273 deg centigrade ?
Answer: Absolute zero
167. Name the first bridge built across the Thames at London
Answer: London Bridge.
168. Name the star of the western True Grit for which this actor received his only Oscar ?
Answer: John Wayne.
169. Who composed `The flight of the bumble bee` ?
Answer: Rimsky Korsacov. 170. Which ship sank in the Solent in 1545 and was re-floated in the 1980 s ?
Answer: Mary Rose.
171. What is the maximum number of pullers allowed in a tug-o-war team ?
Answer: Eight.
172. What is the name of the dim witted hunter who never catches the rabbit in Bugs Bunny cartoons ?
Answer: Elmar Fudd.
173. What was the predecessor of the R.A.F. called ?
Answer: Royal Flying Corps 174. What name is given to someone who makes barrels and casks ?
Answer: Cooper.
175. What do the numbers 2,3,5,7,11, and 13 all have in common ?
Answer: All Prime numbers.
176. Name the heavyweight boxer who retired in 1956 as the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world ?
Answer: Rocky Marciano.
177. How many quarts are there in 2.72 litres ?
Answer: Two.
178. What does a Cordwainer make ?
Answer: Shoes.
179. Write the way in which you could arrange three nines to equal 11 ?
Answer: 99 divided by 9 180. How is Trinitrotoluene usually abbreviated ?
Answer: T.N.T.
181. What major changed affected car registration in 1983 ?
Answer: Year suffix became a prefix.
182. In a witches coven there are 13 places but only 12 witches, who takes the 13 th place ?
Answer: The Devil.
184. What is graphology the study of ?
Answer: Handwriting.
185. Name the Walt Disney film shot in 1956 which was the first film shot in cinimascope and featured dogs ?
Answer: The lady and the tramp .
186. What sort of cooking does Madhur Jaffrey right about ?
Answer: Indian.
187. On a weather chart what name is given to the lines which connect areas of the same atmos- pheric pressure ?
Answer: Isobars.
188. What district of Birmingham suffered riots in 1985 ?
Answer: Handsworth.
189. Where is the sun in relation to some-one who is looking at a rainbow ?
Answer: Behind them.
190. What does S.T.D, stand for ?
Answer: Subscriber trunk dialling. 191. Whose army went to No 2 with Elvis Costello 1979 ?
Answer: Oliver`s.
192. If a ship has enough food to last the crew of 250 men for 6 months how long would it last a crew of 600 men ?
Answer: 2.5 months.
193. What common water loving rodent is often mistakenly referred to as a water rat ?
Answer: Vole.
194. Name the character played by Michael Crawford in `Some mothers do `ave `em` ?
Answer: Frank Spencer.
195. In which Tv series was there a company called Barnes Wentworth ?
Answer: Dallas.
196. By what nickname is Jack Dawkins known in Oliver Twist ?
Answer: Artful Dodger .
197. Who was `The Bush Kangaroo` ?
Answer: Skippy.
198. Name the two Johns who played the title roles in the musical `Grease` ?
Answer: Olivier-Newton John & John Travolta. . 199. Name the Character played by Pat Phoenix in Coronation Street ?
Answer: Elsie Tanner. 200. What do frogs have in their mouths that toads don`t ?
Answer: Teeth.
201. Which American city is known to the Americans as Motor City ?
Answer: Detroit.
202. What sort of engine set the speed record of 126.4 mph which will probably never be broken ?
Answer: Steam locomotive.
203. How many orbits of the earth does the moon make in a year ?
Answer: 13.
204. What goes through its life as an elvin, parr, smolt, grilse, and kelt ?
Answer: Salmon.
205. In a chilli con carne, the chilli is the spice but what is the carne ?
Answer: The meat.
206. Which is the furthest west, Inverness Chester, or Bristol ?
Answer: Inverness.
207. From which country does the Triad secret society hail. Hong Kong, China or japan ?
Answer: China.
208. Who was the star of the cult movie `Rebel without a cause` ?
Answer: James Dean.
209. In which country was Charlie Chaplin born ?
Answer: England.
210. On which day of the week do Americans cel- ebrate thanks giving?
Answer: Thursday.
211. Which of the following is not wholly divis- able by 9. 243, 345, 459 ?
Answer: 345.
212. How many years would you have been married if it was your tin wedding anniversary ?
Answer: Ten.
213. What was the name of the disastrous, sun drenched soap launched by the B.B.C. in 1992 ?
Answer: Eldorado.
214. What is the name given to the area where horses are paraded in front of the public before a race ?
Answer: Paddock.
215. Which of the following was originally called Johnny and the moon dogs. The Beatles, The Sex Pistols, or The who ?
Answer: Beatles.
216. What is the metal most commonly used to make a set of darts ?
Answer: Tungsten.
217. On what colour square does a white king begin a game of chess ?
Answer: Black.
218. What industry provides Spain with its larg- est source of income ?
Answer: Tourism.
219. What chess-piece must move in an L shape ?
Answer: Knight.
220. In Sept. 1979 Paul Wilson ran 100 yards in 13.1 seconds, but what was so unusual about his achievement that it earned him a place in the Guinness book of records ?
He ran backwards.
221. Where do Batman and Robin do their crime fighting ?
Answer: Gotham City.
222. Which London underground line has stations at London Bridge, Leicester square and Waterloo ?
Answer: Northern.
223. Who was Lord Black adder`s Man servant in Black Adder II ?
Answer: Baldrick.
224. Which mamal is generally accepted as being the most intelligent creature on
earth after humans ?
Answer: Dolphin.
225. According to the nursery rhyme when is the teddy bears picnic ?
Answer: Today.
226. Name the character played by Joanna Lumbley in the New Avengers ?
Answer: Purdey.
227. What type of whales are renowned for their singing ?
Answer: Humpbacks.
228. Which actor portrayed the Scottish republican William Wallace in the film
`Braveheart` ?
Answer: Mel Gibson.
229. What does the word Matador mean ? Fighter or Killer or Hunter.
Answer: Killer.
230. Who had hits with `Two Little Boys` and `Stairway to Heaven`
Answer: Rolf Harris.
231. Which photocopier company took its name from a Greek word which means dry ?
Answer: Xerox.
232. What turns litmus paper red ?
Answer: Acid.
233. Name the official language of Brazil ?
Answer: Portuguese.
234. Which species of ape is our closest relative ?
Answer: Chimpanzee.
235. Name the fungus used in the bread making process ?
Answer: Yeast.
236. From which country did the Skoda car originate ? Answer: Checko-slovakia. ( as it was then ) 237. What name is given to the nerve which carries signals from the retina to the brain ?
Answer: Optic nerve.
238. What do Gorillas do when the get nervous ?
Beat their Chests. 239. If you were playing your violin `pizzicato` how would you be playing it ?
Answer: By plucking it.
240. Who was Popeye`s arch rival ?
Answer: Bluto.
241. Which legendary hero sailed aboard the Argo ?
Answer: Jason.
242. What colour is an aircraft`s "black box" flight recorder ?
Answer: Orange.
243. What sort of precious stone is the star of India ?
Answer: Sapphire.
244. What organisation used to be knows as "Peelers" ?
Answer: The Police.
245. Which motorway links Birmingham and Exeter ?
Answer: M5.
246. Of which American tribe was Geronimo a chief ?
Answer: Apache.
247. In Russia, how many Kopecks are there in a Rouble ?
Answer: 100.
248. What was the first brand of instant coffee to go on sale in Britain ?
Answer: Nescafe.
249. What star sign would you be if your birthday was on American independence day ?
Answer: Cancer.
250. Approximately how long is Britain's coastline 5,000-6,000-7,000 miles ?
Answer: 7,000.
251. The film `The Misfits` saw the last appearance of two of Hollywood`s all time
mega stars, name one ?
Answer: Clark Gable or Marilyn Munroe. 252. In which of the following did the game of polo originate, Persia, India, England ?
Answer: Persia.
253. What would you normally call your gluteus maximus ?
Answer: Backside.
254. A Kumquat is a fruit but is it a gooseberry, a plum, or an orange ?
Answer: Orange.
255. Which great event began in pudding lane in London in 1666 ?
Answer: The great fire of London. 256. Which sheakesperean play do actors consider it unlucky to mention ?
Answer: Macbeth.
257. In which Italian city did Romeo and Juliet fall in love, Verona, Florence or Naples ?
Answer: Verona.
258. On which part of the body is your skin the thickest ?
Answer: Your feet.
259. Which composer wrote the Messiah ?
Answer: Handel.
260. If some one is described as being uxorious, who would they be excessively fond or dependant on ?
Answer: Their wife.
261. In which European country would you find The Algarve ?
Answer: Portugal.
262. Name the ship on which the Pilgrim Fathers set sail ?
Answer: Mayflower.
263. What is the C.B.I. ?
Answer: Confederation of British Industry .
264. What would get if you mixed Bill Oddie with Tim Brooke Taylor and Grahame Garden ?
Answer: Goodies. ( Goody goody yum yum )
265. Name the branch of the armed forces known as Sappers ?
Answer: Royal Engineers.
266. What "J" can be a disreputable woman or a semi precious stone ?
Answer: Jade.
267. Who, according to legend, is the Scandinavian God of all gods.
Answer: Odin.
268. What are Corinth, Tuscan, and Doric styles of ?
Answer: Architecture.
269. How many Gospels are there in the New Testament ?
Answer: Four.
270. What is known to the French as La Manche ?
Answer: The English Channel. 271. What two bodies of water are connected by the Suez canal ?
Answer: Mediterranian and Red seas. 272. Name the English peer who disappeared in suspicious circumstances in 1974 ?
Answer: Lord Lucan.
273. How many astronoughts manned each Apollo mission ?
Answer: Three.
274. How many land miles are there in a league ?
Answer: Three.
275. What were sent to Australia for the last time in 1849 ?
Answer: Convicts. ( English cricketers )
276. Which one of the following is not wholly divisible by 11, 165 or 231 or 333 ?
Answer: 333.
277. What is generally excepted to be the world`s oldest golf course ?
Answer: St Andrews.
278. At what time did the Everly Brothers and Little Suzie wake up ?
Answer: 4 am.
279. What are rats unable to do which makes them highly susceptible to poison ?
Answer: Vomit. 280. In India you will find quite a few punkawallahs but what does a Punkawallah do ?
Answer: Waves a fan. 281. Which puppet`s catch phrase was boom boom ?
Answer: Basil Brush.
282. By what term is the explosive strip in a Christmas cracker known ?
Answer: A snap.
283. What commodity made John Paul Getty one of the richest men in the world ?
Answer: Oil.
284. In the film The Wizard of Oz, name the actress who played Dorothy ?
Answer: Judy Garland. 285. Before becoming president of the United States which state was Bill Clinton the Governor of ?
Answer: Arkensaw.
286. In the James Bond movie who played the man with the Golden Gun ?
Answer: Christopher Lee. 287. What is the collective noun for a group of owls ?
Answer: Parliament.
288. Which sign of the zodiac lies between Leo and Libra ?
Answer: Virgo.
289. Which of the following is the closest cityto London ? Brussels, Paris or Amsterdam ?
Answer: Brussels.
290. Name three of the five European countries which remained Neutral in the second world war ?
Answer: Sweden, Spain, Switzerlan , Portugal, Ireland. 291. Which of the Bronte sisters wrote Jayne Eyre ?
Answer: Charlotte.
292. Which of the following did Galileo invent ? Periscope, telescope, or microscope.
Answer: Telescope.
293. He was born in Tupelo Mississippi on the 8th of January 1935. The surviving brother of twins, he was most disappointed when at the age of 11 he was given a guitar for his birthday instead of a bicycle. Who was he ?
Answer: Elvis Presley
294. St George`s day is on 23rd of which month ?
Answer: April.
295. Which American state is known as the `Blue Grass State`?
Answer: Kentucky.
296. What does a palaeontologist study ?
Answer: Fossils.
297. In which year were the Olympic games last held in Britain ?
Answer: 1948.
298. As we Associate the rose with England and the thistle with Scotland, which flower is that of Wales ?
Answer: Daffodil 299. What colour is the precious stone amethyst ?
Answer: Violet/blue.
300. By what name is your 5th wedding anniversary known, cotton, leather, or wood ?
Answer: Wood.
301. Name three types of owl which reside in Britain ?
Answer: Tawny or wood,Barn, Little, Long Eared,& Short Eared.
302. In the film Gremlins, what caused the little fellows to reproduce ?
Answer: Water.
303. Spindle-back, Wheel back, Comb and Splat are all terms used to describe what items of furniture ?
Answer: Chairs.
304. What do John Christie, Dennis Nilson and
Jeremy Bamber all have in common ?
Answer: All serialkillers or murderers. 305. What is esthatology, theoretically concerned with ?
Answer: The end of the world. 306. Which race of conquering invaders brought the leek to Britain ?
Answer: The Romans.
307. Name the only two pieces that may be used to make the 1st move in chess ?
Answer: Pawn, Knight.
308. The Long Rough Dab, Brill, and Sole are all fish but what do they all have in common ?
Answer: Flat fish.
309. What is the cubed route of one eighth ?
Answer: Half.
310. In the Flintstones what was the name of Barney Rubbles` baby ?
Answer: Bam Bam.
311. Naame a shocking T.V. drama series was created by Jimmy Mcgoven ?
Answer: Cracker or The Lakes
312. According to the song what are the only two things that go out in the midday sun ?
Answer: Mad dogs & Englishmen. 313. In which middle Eastern capital was Terry Waite Captured ?
Answer: Beirut.
314. Which female artist had a hit with, `What`s Love Got To Do With It` ?
Answer: Tina Turner.
315. What sort of animals go around in troops ?
Answer: Monkeys.
316. Who was the Prime Minister on new years day in 1960 ?
Answer: Harold Macmillan. 317. Which motor manufacturer makes the Clio, Chamade and Safrane ?
Answer: Renault.
318. What beer was promoted on T.V. to the tune of `There`s a Hole in My Bucket ?
Answer: Double Diamond
319. How many different letters are used in roman numerals ?
Answer: 7. ( I,V,X,l,D,C,M, ) 320. What is the only stringed instrument in an orchestra that is not played with a bow?
Answer: Harp.
321. What brings death to a were wolf and law and order for the Lone Ranger ?
Answer: Silver Bullet.
322. In which sea would you find the Great Barrier Reef ?
Answer: Coral Sea.
323. How many times has the liberal party won an election this century ?
Answer: Twice.
324. What must a frog close when it swallows ?
v Its eyes.
325. Name the Scottish swimmer who set a 200m backstroke record in the Montreal Olympics ?
Answer: David Wilke.
326. Name the airport which saw Israeli commandos free 103 hostages in July 1974 ?
Answer: Entebbe.
327. Name the woman who has had the most statues erected after her ?
Answer: Virgin Mary.
328. Which country was Farouk the last king of ?
Answer: Egypt.
329. Name two of the three Benelux countries ?
Answer: Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland.
330. Name the actress who played Sally Bowes in the film Cabaret ?
Answer: Lisa Minelli.
331. What country did Winston Churchill refer to as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma ?
Answer: Russia.
332. What term is used to describe a beer mug with a hinged lid ?
Answer: Stein.
333. Name all four tournaments which go to make a golfing grand slam ?
Answer: The Masters The P.G.A.The U.S. and British opens.
334. Name the two brothers who played for England in the 1966 world cup final ?
Answer: Jack 'n' Bobby Charlton.
335. What, on average takes 8 minutes to reach Earth ?
Answer: Sunlight.
336. What term is used to describe an area of space which is void of matter ?
Answer: A vacuum.
337. What part of a highlanders dress is known as a filibeg ?
Answer: Kilt.
338. Who was the fist prime minister to be elected after the second world war ?
Answer: Clement Atlee. 339. Which Bond film`s theme tune was a hit for Paul Macartney and Wings ?
Answer: Live 'n' let die . 340. What do you get if cross a donkey with a horse ?
Answer: A mule. 341. What is the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief better known as ?
Answer: OXFAM.
342. What aid to miners was invented by Sir Humphrey Davy in 1815 ?
Answer: Miners` Lamp.
343. What is Prattware ?
Answer: A type of pottery. 344. Name the island which was awarded the George cross in 1942 ?
Answer: Malta.
345. How is 60 written in Roman numerals ?
Answer: LX.
346. In the R.A.F. who holds the higher rank group captain or wing commander
Answer: Group capt`.
347. Where would you find an ox bow lake ?
Answer: On the bend of a river.
348. To which British territory do the car
registration letters G.B.M. belong ?
Answer: Isle of man.
349. What name is given to the sport which combines map reading and cross country running ?
Answer: Orienteering.
350. What is the most northerly race-course in Britain ?
Answer: Perth.
351. What name is given to male bees ?
Answer: Drones.
352. What Australian animal is totally dependant on eucalyptus leaves for its food ?
Answer: Koala bear.
353. K.L.M. is the national air line of which country ?
Answer: Holland.
354. What is the name given to the fortified area of an old Russian city, the most famous example of which is in Moscow ?
Answer: Kremlin.
355. How old must you be before you can become president of the united states ?
Answer: 35.
356. If you happened to be plaining and pearling what would you be doing ?
Answer: Knitting.
357. The scales relate to which sign of the zodiac ?
Answer: Libra.
358. In which Indian city, at the head water`s of the river Betwa, did a leakage of poisonous gas kill 2000 people in 1984 ?
Answer: Bhopal.
359. Name the ancestral home of the Dukes of Devonshire ?
Answer: Chatsworth, Derbyshire.
360. What sort of vegetable are the following varieties of, Marfona, Romano, and Pentland Javelin ?
Answer: Potatoes.
361. At which battle was Lord Nelson killed ?
Answer: Trafalgar.
362. Name the river in South America which shares its name with that of a Womble ?
Answer: The Orinoco.
363. Including the cue ball, how many balls are there on the table at the start of a game of snooker ?
Answer: 22.
364. Who played James Bond in the film `Diamonds Are Forever` ?
Answer: Sean Connery.
365. Which two South American countries have no coastline ?
Answer: Bolivia and Paraguay. 366. Which pop group had a number 1 hit with `Two Tribes` ?
Answer: Frankie goes to Hollywood. 367. Apart from English there are 2 other languages
used on English currency mane them.
Answer: Latin & ( Welsh on some pound coins )
368. What are Clorofluorocarbons better known as ?
Answer: C.F.C.s.
369. Which Doctor has been portrayed by William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton ?
Answer: Dr Who.
370. Which two of the seven dwarfs do not have names which end in `y` ?
Answer: Doc, Bashful 371. Give the term used to describe winds which are of force 12 or over 80 M.P.H. ?
Answer: Hurricane.
372. In his song, Tony Orlando was on his way to Amarillo, but who did he claim was waiting for him there ?
Answer: Sweet Marie.
373. Which brand of motor sport is Roger Clark famous for ?
Answer: Rallying.
374. What does the word brut signify on a bottle of champagne ?
Answer: Dry.
375. Which sport is played by the Washington Red Skins and the Pittsburgh Stealers.
Answer: American football.
376. On a carton of milk what does U.H.T. mean ?
Answer: Ultra heat Treated. 377. Which bird has the largest wing span of all ?
Answer: Albatross.
378. What do the opposite sides of a dice always add up to ?
Answer: 7.
379. According to Paul Hardcastle, what was the average age of an American soldier in the Vietnam war ?
Answer: 19.
380. Which country produces Hyundai cars ?
Answer: South Korea.
381. What is the rating of a standard brown domestic plug fuse ?
Answer: 13A.
382. Eastern cut off, western roll and the straddle are all technics used in which athletics event ?
Answer: High jump.
383. Which, on average, is the heavier an African or Indian elephant ?
Answer: African.
384. Red, Roe and fallow are all breeds of what ?
Answer: Deer.
385. What body in the United States is divided into the Senate and the House of Representatives ?
Answer: Congress.
386. In the far East what name is given to a sacred building which is in the shape of a tapered tower with many stories each with an upward projecting roof ?
Answer: Pagoda.
387. Beverley Hills is a suburb of which American city ?
Answer: Los Angeles.
388. What do Australians call a long, narrow lake ?
Answer: Billabong.
389. Which Victorian lady wrote a comprehensive and now famous book of cookery and house hold management ?
Answer: Isabella Beeton
390. According to the proverb what cannot be made out of a pig`s ear ?
Answer: Silk purse. ( A decent sandwich )
391. On a set of traffic lights what colour follows amber ?
Answer: Red.
392. In the world of finance what are equities better known as ?
Answer: Shares.
393. By what nickname was the Vee-one flying bomb known in W.W.II ?
Answer: Doodlebug.
394. Name the radio program which features Joe Grundy as one of the main characters ?
Answer: The Archers.
395. What made the radio valve obsolete ?
Answer: The transistor
396. Oil of vitriol is a highly corrosive substance what is it ?
Answer: Sulphuric acid
397. Give the unit of measurement of an explosive power that is equivalent to 1 million tons of T.N.T. ?
Answer: One megaton.
398. Name the mountain range which forms the backbone of Italy ?
Answer: Apennines.
399. What confection is made from almonds, eggs and sugar ?
Answer: Marzipan.
400. How many square inches are there in an square foot ?
Answer: 144.
401. What is the biggest selling hit single of all time ?
Answer: White Christmas.
402. What term is used to describe a picture made up of various materials which are glued to the paper ?
Answer: Collage.
403. `Do Ray Me` and `Edelweiss` were songs from which musical ? of Music.
Answer: The Sound of Music
404. Which London soccer club`s home ground is Stamford Bridge ?
Answer: Chelsea.
405. Which popular Spanish dish consists of baked saffron rice with meat and seafood ?
Answer: Paella.
406. Name the inventor of the bouncing Bomb ?
Answer: Barnes Wallace
407. What are Large white, Chester White and Landrace all varieties of ?
Answer: Pigs.
408. Name the dodgy motel keeper in the film Psycho?
Answer: Norman Bates
409. On the human body what grows at a rate of approximately 12 cm a year ?
Answer: Hair.
410. What name is given to the part of an insect`s body which lies between its head and its abdomen ?
Answer: Thorax.
411. Which U.S. state has the smallest population ?
Answer: Alaska.
412. As we get Lancashire Hot Pot and Bakewell Tart. What do we get from Arbroath ?
Answer: Smokies.
413. What do Americans call a car boot?
Answer: A Trunk.
414. In cockney rhyming slang what are your daisy roots ?
Answer: Boots.
415. What is Elvis Presley`s house called ?
Answer: Graceland.
416. What name is given to the spine injection offered to stop pain during child birth ?
Answer: Epidural.
417. To which family of birds does the Kittewake belong ?
Answer: Gulls.
418. What illegal substance is Jamaica's` leading export ?
Answer: Marijuana.
419. What does a Vintner sell ?
Answer: Wine.
420. What is the female equivalent of a Knight?
Answer: A Dame.
421. The slow worm is not a worm at all what sort of creature is it ?
Answer: A legless lizard. 422. Which artist painted the famous painting called Sunflowers ?
Answer: Vincent Van Gogh. 423. Give the name of the American project that was to put a man on the moon ?
Answer: Apollo.
424. According to the bible of which tree were Adam and Eve forbidden to eat the fruit ?
Answer: The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of the tree of knowledge 425. What is the name of the of the official
country home of the British prime minister ?
Answer: Chequers.
426. As the cheetah is the fastest runner with four legs what creature is quickest on two ?
Answer: The ostrich.
427. What did Norma Baker Jean change her name to ?
Answer: Maralyn Munroe 428. In which year did we get rid of L.S.D. in favour of decimalisation ?
Answer: 1971.
429. Which children's T.V. programme features a cat called Jesse, a post office owner called Mrs Coggins, and the twins Katie and Tom Pottage ?
Answer: Postman Pat.
430. The rough areas of sea in the north and south of the Atlantic are called the roaring 40s, but what are calm still waters around the equatorial regions known as ?
Answer: The Doldrums.
431. Of which Mediterranean Island is Nicosia the capital ?
Answer: Cyprus.
432. Australians do a lot of waltzing with their Matildas, What is as a Matilda ?
Answer: A Knapsack.
433. What is the main ingredient of Bombay Duck ?
Answer: Fish.
434. According to Cockney rhyming slang what are your Hampstead Heath ?
Answer: Teeth.
435. Which famous American said "you can fool some of the people all the time and you can fool
all the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time" ?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln. 436. What is the most common reason for some-one being admitted to hospital when they are not actually ill ?
Answer: To have a baby. 437. In the film The Silence of the Lambs who played F.B.I. agent Clarice Starling ?
Answer: Jodie Foster.
438. Two female singers had a hit with The Locomotion. Name one?
Answer: Little Eva, and Kyle Minogue. 439. What sport features a Pin Spotter, Strikes & Spares and has a maximum possible score of 300 points ?
Answer: 10 pin Bowling.
440. What are Young eels called ?
Answer: Elver.
441. Which country is known as the land of the rising sun ?
Answer: Japan.
442. What device was first used by the police in 1967 ?
Answer: Breathalyser.
443. What was the title of Roger Moore`s first Bond film ?
Answer: Live`n`Let Die. 444. Name the famous underwater explorer who invented the aqualung ?
Answer: Jaques Cousteau.
445. Which 70`s sci fi film was promoted with the slogan,`In space, no-one can hear you scream ?
Answer: Alien.
446. How many cards are there in a set of Tarot cards ?
Answer: 78.
447. Which religious group publishes The Watchtower ?
Answer: Jahovas` witnesses
448. In astronomy, what is visible from Earth once every 76 years ?
Answer: Hailey`s Comet. 449. What was Mollie Sugden`s character name in T.V. series `Are You Being Served ?` ?
Answer: Mrs Slocombe.
450. Name the only British monarch in this century not to have his head on British coinage ?
Answer: Edward VIII.
451. What word described an Indian triangular shaped snack which contains spiced meat or vegetables ?
Answer: Samosa.
452. By what name is the Gravely Hill Interchange better known ?
Answer: Spaghetti Junction. 453. As a fraction, what is 5% of 50 ?
Answer: 2.5.
454. What breaks when its height is equal to 3/4 of its depth ?
Answer: A wave.
455. In Coronation Street what is the name of Audrey Robert`s long lost son from Canada ?
Answer: Stephen.
456. Which unpopular pudding is made from the root of the cassava plant ?
Answer: Tapioca.
457. In American football how many points are scored for a touchdown ?
Answer: 6.
458. Which English soccer club plays at .Pride Park
Answer: Derby County
459. What type of animal is the English artist Stubbs famous for portraying ?
Answer: Horses.
460. By what name is Westminster Palace better known ?
Answer: Houses of Parliament. 461. Name the Three Musketeers ?
Answer: Aramis,Porthos,Athos
462. What does `Rot` mean on a bottle of German wine ?
Answer: Red.
463. Name the actor who played the title role in the T.V. series Dr. Kildare ?
Answer: Richard Chambelein. 464. In the Robert Louis Stevenson novel `Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde`, who commits the murders ?
Answer:Mr Hyde.
465. What is the lowest number of darts needed to score 501 ?
Answer: 9.
466. It forms the part of the border between England and Scotland and is a thick woollen
cloth used to make quality garments what is it ?
Answer: Tweed.
467. In which film did Maralyn Munroe sing `Diamonds are a girl`s best friend` ?
Answer: Gentlemen prefer blondes.
468. What cartoon character wears a badge with D.M. on it ?
Answer:Danger Mouse.
469. What coloured rose did the Lancastrians adopt in the wars of the roses ?
Answer: Red.
470. As far as the B.B.C. were concerned, what did the sex pistols version of `God save the Queen`,`Relax` and `My dinga ling` all have in common ?
Answer: All bannedfrom being broadcast.
471. How many cents are there in a dime ?
Answer:10.
472. What do the three sets of numbers on the bottom of a cheque each identify ?
Answer: Cheque No' Account no` Sort code
473. Name three of the 7 letters on the bottom row of a standard typewriter keyboard ?
Answer: ZXCVBNM.
474. What special type of leather did a goat-like European antelope give it`s name to.
Answer: Chamois.
475. What can a professional boxer wear no more than 36 feet of ?
Answer: Bandages.
476. What is the most common type of plant in the world ?
Answer: Grass.
477. What is a ship about to do when it flies the blue peter ?
Answer: Set sail.
478. Who played the part of Han Solo in the Star Wars films ?
Answer: Harrison Ford.
479. In our garden there are 2 badgers 3 spiders and 2 flamingos, How many legs are there ?
Answer: 36.
480. What is a John Dory ?
Answer: A fish.
481. On the banks of which river does the city of Bristol stand ?
Answer: Avon.
482. In which comic does Lord Snooty Appear?
Answer: The Beano.
483. Which gun-slinging actor was christened Marion Morrison ?
Answer: John Wayne.
484. Which British city has the most canals ?
Answer: Birmingham.
485. What was the name of the ferry which sank after leaving Zeebruge in 1987 ?
Answer: Herald of Free Enterprise. 486. What name is given to the disease which involves compulsive eating ?
Answer: Bulimia.
487. What Chocolate was advertised as just enough to give your kids a treat ?
Answer: Finger of fudge. 488. Whose children are called Fifi Trixabelle, Peaches, and Little Pixie ?
Answer: Paula Yates Bob Geldof .489. Which Caribbean Island was invaded by the U.S. in 1983 ?
Answer: Grenada.
490. From which country would you get enchiladas and tortillas ?
Answer: Mexico.
491. On `Opportunity Knocks` what was only for fun ?
Answer: Clapometer.
492. According to the nursery rhyme, what is Wednesday`s child ?
Answer: Full of Woe.
493. What type of creature is a Water Moccasin ?
Answer: A Snake.
494. Whose last work was entitled `The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms with observations of their habits` ?
Answer: Charles Darwin.
495. What sort of poem is restricted to 14 lines ?
Answer: A Sonnet.
496. In archery what is a bluffie ?
Answer: A practice arrow. 497. Name the soap opera which was set in the village of King`s Oak ?
Answer: Crossroads.
498. Which country had a civilian airliner shot down by the Russians in 1983 ?
Answer: Korea.
499. Which acid is found in vinegar ?
Answer: Acetic.
500. In which Shakespearean play does the line `Alas poor Yorik...` appear?
Answer: Hamlet.