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1 A CROWD VISIT CHINA (anagram of something to eat) - Victoria sandwich
2 Who wrote the 1966 comic novel The Virgin Soldiers - Leslie Thomas
3 What is the currency of Poland - Zloty
4 What relation to you is your father's brother - Uncle
5 How did Lorena Bobbitt make the headlines in 1993 - Cut off her husband's penis
6 Which cartoon character was regularly stoked by Jones the Steam - Ivor The Engine
7 What is the main alcohol used in a Bellini - Prosecco
8 What is considered to be the cowboy capital of America - Dodge City
9 What disease is called the English disease by the French and the French disease by the English - Syphilis
10 Who became the Metropolitan Police Forces first female commissioner in February 2017 - Cressida Dick
11 What English word contains the combination of letters: "xop" - Saxophone
12 Who played Faith Addis in the comedy drama Down to Earth - Pauline Quirke
13 In which South American country was the film Romancing The Stone mostly set - Colombia
14 Established in 1386, which is the oldest university in Germany - Heidelberg
15 Which motor manufacturer make the Touareg - Volkswagen
16 Complete the proverb The more you have - The more you want
17 What did a 2010 publicity-driven competition called the Carbuncle Cup focus on in Britain - Architecture
18 What did Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow name his cat following a vote on Twitter - Order
19 How many ships did Nelson's fleet lose at Trafalgar - None
20 In 1685 The Earl of Argyll what the last man in Britain to be executed by which method - Guillotine

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1 AND I REST AS A RULE (anagram of a book and a film) - Treasure Island
2 At which circuit is the French Grand Prix held - Magny-Cours
3 Which 1981 TV series was set in a Japanese prison camp for women - Tenko
4 How is Black Rod received when he approaches the House of Commons - Door is slammed in his face
5 In which ocean is Tahiti - Pacific
6 How many tiles are at there in a Double-12 set of dominoes - Ninety one
7 Who was the busty blonde female star of the 50's musical film The Girl Can't Help It - Jayne Mansfield
8 At which sport would you compete for the Mayleigh Trophy - Pistol shooting
9 What part of the banana is used to make banana oil - None banana oil is a synthetic compound made from coal
10 Which sauce made from ham drippings and coffee and seen in the cuisine of the Southern United States gets its name from its appearance like that of a certain body organ - Red-eye gravy
11 Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, Gene Clark, Chris Hillman and Mike Clarke were the original members of which successful American band - The Byrds
12 What is the state capital of Colorado - Denver
13 Who founded the country of Taiwan in 1949 (it was then called Formosa) - Chiang Kai-Shek
14 Who told us that Sheena Was a Punk Rocker in 1977 - The Ramones
15 Who was the commentator who uttered the unforgettable line, "They think it's all over, it is now" - Kenneth Wolstenholme
16 The American presidential inauguration ceremony is held in front of which building - Capitol
17 Complete the proverb (Needs must) - When the devil drives
18 What did Jane Reeves and Peri Gilpin (Daphne and Roz in Frasier) call their production company - Bristol Cities
19 Which organization in the US was founded by Clara Barton - American Red Cross
20 What is the nickname of the A 830 trunk road - The Road to the Isles

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1 AVENGE WAR HORSE (anagram of a former English football international) - Owen Hargreaves
2 Egg, Barcelona, Ball and Korum are all types of which item of furniture - Chair
3 What is the most popular luxury chosen by people appearing on Desert Island Discs - Piano
4 After returning from an elephant hunt in Botswana, who was sacked as honorary president of the Spanish branch of the WWF - King Juan Carlos of Spain
5 What is the most popular jukebox song of all time - Crazy (Patsy Cline)
6 In 1982, Time Magazine's "Man of the Year" was neither a man, nor a woman. What was it - The Computer
7 What was the first commodity to be rationed in the UK during WW2 - Petrol
8 What was the make and model of the aircraft that crashed during an air-show in Shoreham-by-Sea, England, killing 11 people in 2015 - Hawker Hunter
9 Which singer said, "If I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I would now be speaking to you from a jar in the Harvard Medical School" - Frank Sinatra
10 What was the more common name of the WW1 third battle of Ypres - Passchendaele
11 What was the name of Alistair MacLean's ice station - Zebra
12 The Bill Shankly Stand can be found at which football club's ground - Preston North End
13 What unit of power is defined as a derived unit of 1 joule per second - Watt
14 What was the name of the Victorian medical drama series in the nineties that starred Jemma Redgrave - Bramwell
15 The Left Bank generally refers to the left bank of which river - Seine
16 What was the name of the boutique opened by fashion designer Jeff Banks in London in 1964 - Clobber
17 What does the medical term Hydrosis mean - Sweating
18 Which multi-award-winning eighties film is considered to have included the biggest ever crowd of extras - Gandhi (over 300,000 for the funeral scene)
19 What is the current name of the product that was originally sold as Chemgrass - Astroturf
20 In the Northampton area in the sixties what was a bottle of spruce - Lemonade

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1 THUMB ON EURO (anagram of an English town) - Bournemouth
2 Who was nicknamed the Bouncing Czech - Robert Maxwell
3 What are you suffering from if you have graphospasms - Writer's cramp
4 What is the proper name for TNT - Trinitrotoluene
5 In 2002, who was the first athlete to win FHM's Sexiest Woman in the World award - Anna Kournikova
6 In which city is the Rembrandt Museum and The Rijksmuseum - Amsterdam
7 Which well-known radio comedian played the headmaster William Wakefield in the third Carry On film Carry On Teacher - Ted Ray
8 What is the herb in the green sauce associated with jellied eels - Parsley
9 Well she was just seventeen, you know what I mean (name the song these lyrics are from) - I Saw Her Standing There – Beatles
10 Cartomancy is fortune-telling using what - Playing cards
11 What is the largest and heaviest flighted bird in the UK - Mute swan
12 Which piece of kit was made compulsory wear by FIFA In 1990 - Shin pads
13 Which toy manufacturer produces the Connect 4 game - Hasbro
14 Which two-time world snooker champion died at the age of 61 on 24th July 2010 - Alex Higgins
15 In computing what does IPA stand for - Internet Protocol Address
16 What is the most common man’s name in the Bible--shared by 32 people in the Old Testament and one in the New Testament - Zachariah
17 Who played the part of disreputable antique dealer Lovejoy in the TV series of the same name - Ian McShane
18 Which TV detective pioneered designer stubble - Sonny Crocket
19 In which country was newsreader George Alagiah born - Sri Lanka
20 Hastings Banda was the first Prime Minister of which African country - Malawi

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1 ACE NOW SAINT (anagram of a scientist) - Isaac Newton
2 What London address is the only one with the postcode: SW1A 2AA - 10 Downing Street
3 Edward (Ned) Maddrell who died in 1974 was the last Briton in the twentieth century to have which language as his native tongue - Manx
4 Which one of Saturn's moons is larger than the planet Mercury - Titan
5 What is the nickname of the Canadian national rugby league team - Wolverines
6 Which birds name is linked to a famous nurse, a radio DJ a film and a song - Nightingale
7 What city is the home port of the Russian Pacific Fleet and the largest Russian port on the Pacific Ocean - Vladivostok
8 In motoring what is the American term for a manually operated transmission - Stick shift
9 What is the full title of the 2017 King Kong film starring Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, and John Goodman Kong: - Skull Island
10 Which 1969 UK number one mentions Picasso, The Aga Khan and Marlene Dietrich - Where Do You Go To My Lovely by Peter Sarstedt
11 Cilla Black's version of which Bacharach and David song was the UK's biggest selling single by a female artist in the 1960s - Anyone Who Had a Heart
12 What is the national flower of Belgium - Red poppy
13 The Merchant Navy flag is called the Red Duster whose flag is the Blue Duster - The Royal Navy Reserve
14 Which Tom Clancy character has been played on film by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, and Chris Pine - Jack Ryan
15 What is the name of the French satirical magazine whose offices were attacked by armed gunmen in January 2015, killing 11 people - Charlie Hebdo
16 Diastema is the medical term for what - Gap between the two front teeth
17 What was the name of the fiery pensioner played by Stephanie Cole in Waiting for - God Diana Trent
18 Who presented the first Oscars - Douglas Fairbanks Snr
19 Which British comedienne's autobiography is entitled 'Look Back In Hunger - Jo Brand
20 Placophobia is the fear of what - Tombstones

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1 URBAN CHIMNEY (anagram of a football team) - Bayern Munich
2 In motor advertising what does FFSR stand for - Factory Fitted Sun Roof
3 What is the correct name for the ankle bone - Talus
4 Who had a top ten hit in the seventies with Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed
5 According to a 2008 survey what is Britain’s favourite biscuit - Custard cream with bourbons second
6 How does the Bishop of Durham sign his name - Dunelm
7 Who plays the main character DCI Janine Lewis in the TV series Blue Murder - Caroline Quentin
8 What is a third divided by a half - Two thirds
9 Which film star's name is the only one defined in the Oxford dictionary - Mae West
10 Which American state is nicknamed the Big Pineapple - Hawaii
11 According to Yorkshire superstition what happens if you cut both ends off a loaf - The devil would fly over the house
12 For which 1949 film did Anton Karas write and perform the music using a zither - The Third Man
13 What is the only Shakespeare play with an English place name in the title - The Merry Wives of Windsor
14 What kind of instrumentalist would use a hi-hat - Drummer
15 No.1 Blue, No.2 Blue with red stripes, No.3 Green with red stripes. What world syndicated children´s TV programme are we referring to - Thomas The Tank Engine
16 In Spaceballs what does the bumper sticker say on the back of Lonestar's ship - I Love Uranus
17 What has been done to Dartmoor ponies to stop them getting hit by cars - Glow in the dark paint added
18 Yuri Gargarin was the first Russian in space, who was the second - Gherman Titov
19 Which two football clubs located in the South of England play in what is sometimes called the M23 Derby - Crystal Palace and Brighton And Hove Albion
20 What is the capital of Crete - Iraklion

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1 DEMON WHITE MICE (anagram of a TV series) - Come Dine with Me
2 What is a young elephant seal called - Weaner
3 If you were a chalkie in Australia, what would your job be - A teacher
4 Which county in Northern Ireland is sometimes known as Ireland's Lake District - Fermanagh
5 Who made up the word chortle - Lewis Carroll (Chuckle and snort)
6 What is the skin that peels off after a bad sunburn called - Blype
7 "I met a devil woman. She took my heart away. She said, I've had it comin' to me. But I wanted it that way" are the opening lines to which 1974 song - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
8 Name the USA Gymnastics national team doctor sentenced in 2018 to 40 to 175 years in prison for sexually abusing more than 150 gymnasts - Larry Nassar
9 What institution located in Berkshire, near Windsor in England has been called 'the chief nurse of England's statesmen' - Eton
10 What type of sea creature is a Crown-of-Thorns - Starfish
11 In the Thomas the Tank Engine stories what is the name of the barge - Bulstrode
12 In stamp collecting what is the name given to a horizontal or vertical row of three or more joined stamps - A strip
13 Which Yorkshire born artist painted A Bigger Splash (1967) - David Hockney
14 What colour are the flowers of a tomato plant - Yellow
15 Who, in 1813, famously described his soldiers as "scum of the earth" - The Duke of Wellington
16 Which actor played Abdul in the Beatles film 'Help!' - Warren Mitchell
17 What is the name of the fictional brewery in Emmerdale's Woolpack - Ephraim Monk
18 What was the capital of West Germany from 1949 until 1990 - Bonn
19 Complete the proverb: Ale sellers should not be - Tale tellers
20 Name one of the only two top ten UK hits by Ella Fitzgerald - Swinging Shepherd Blues and Mack the Knife

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1. LET CHEAT FIX is an anagram of which cartoon character - Felix the Cat
2. How many strings does a banjelele have - Four
3. Which Roman god was always shown holding a bunch of grapes - Bacchus
4. In adverts who wanted to buy his book on fly fishing - JR Hartley
5. What is the name of Hong Kong's main airport - Chep Lap Kok
6. Which character murdered Bruce Wayne's parents in Batman Begins - Joe Chill
7. Alma, Brown Turkey, Desert King, Italian Black, and Kadota are types of which fruit - Figs
8. Which album in 2013 became the first film soundtrack to top the UK album charts since Evita in 1997 - Les Miserables
9. What is the term used when an article is rejected by the editor - It is said to have been "spiked"
10. What is a person who is said to be dextral - Right handed
11. Lovely Day was a 1978 top ten hit for which American soul singer - Bill Withers
12. Which first lady was known as the Smiling Mamba - Nancy Reagan
13. Who produced Cilla Black's number one hits - George Martin
14. If a man is suffering from diphallic terata what is wrong with him - He has two penises
15. Which American vice president was awarded the Ig-Nobel prize for demonstrating better than anyone else the need for science education - Dan Quayle
16. Which TV comedy pair had a 1963 hit single with At The Palace (Parts 1 and 2) - Wilfred Brambell and Harry H Corbett
17. What is the upper cc limit for speedway motor cycles - Five hundred cc
18. For what would you train at White Lodge - Ballet dancing
19. What is meant by the musical term subito - Immediately
20. What during WW2 was 'Operation Bernard Germany' forging - British banknotes

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1 - How many candles does a menorah have in all? - 9

2 - What are the two chambers of the Canadian Parliament called? - Senate and House of Commons

3 - Which number in Morse code is represented by five dots? - 5

4 - On which day is Thanksgiving celebrated in the United States? - The fourth (not last) Thursday in November

5 - In mythology, who killed the 9-headed Hydra? - Heracles (or Hercules in Roman mythology)

6 - What is the meaning of the word 'Bible'? - The Books (from the Greek 'ta biblia')

7 - Who historically lives in 11 Downing Street? - The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Second Lord of the Treasury)

8 - What is biblioclasm? - Destroying books usually ceremonially
9 - The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is a cartel of twelve countries which has its headquarters in which city? - Vienna

10 - In mythology, who was the first (and last) person to solve the Riddle of the Sphinx? - Oedipus

11 - According to legend, who was the tallest of Robin Hood's men and the only one with him when he died? - Little John

12 - The Penny Black was the first modern postage stamp in the world but the Penny Red was the first to have what? - Perforations

13 - Tenzin Gyatso was born on the 6th of July 1935 in Qinghai, People's Republic of China. By what title is he better known? - The (14th) Dalai Lama

14 - In the United States, who is second in presidential line of succession after the vice president? - The Speaker of the House of Representatives

15 - What do Aspirin, Dry Ice, Kerosene and Linoleum have in common? - They were all trademarks

16 - SEAT, the car manufacturer, is an acronym of what? - Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo

17 - The Prince of Orange is the title carried by the heir to which crown? - The Netherlands

18 - In which country is the Court of Justice of the European Communities, usually called the European Court of Justice (ECJ)? - Luxembourg

19 - The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. By what name are they better known? - Tony Awards

20 - The European Parliament meets in which two cities? - Strasbourg and Brussels

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General Knowledge

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1. Dr HUNTS BRIDE (is an anagram of which children’s TV program) - Thunderbirds
2. From which song are thee lyrics taken “I can make you mine, taste your lips of wine” - All I Have To Do Is Dream (The Everly Brothers)
3. Who was the whispering snooker commentator - Ted Lowe
4. What does the workplace flexi-hours acronym TOIL stand for - Time Off In Lieu
5. What did Muhammad Ali call his tactic of lying on the ropes letting his opponent wear himself out - Rope a dope
6. What was the name George Jones backing band - The Jones Boys
7. What modern-day country was originally named New Holland in 1644 - Australia
8. Hanged at Wandsworth prison in 1949 for killing six people how was John Haigh known - Acid bath murderer
9. The first cricket championship game to finish in a tie for 15 years happened in September 2018, which two teams played the game - Somerset and Lancashire
10. In which book and film did Bigwig encounter a fox - Watership Down
11. In America what is a chipwitch - A sandwich of ice cream between two biscuits
12. In Leadville Colorado Oscar Wilde marvelled at a sign that said what - Please don't shoot the piano player he is doing his best
13. What is a cicatrice - Scar
14. What is the collective noun for circuits - Bank
15. You sail a boat, fly a plane, but what do you do with a submarine - Drive
16. In 1992 who was the first man to appear on the cover of the American Vogue magazine - Richard Gere
17. Which entertainment arena is traditionally forty-two feet in diameter - Circus Ring
18. Aegis belonged to Zeus what was Aegis - His shield
19. The informal term nomophobia refers to anxiety from being without one's what - Mobile-phone or no signal
20. What is added to graphite to make pencil lead harder (HH) or softer (HB) etc. - Clay

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