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  1. Who won the 500cc world motor cycling championship each year from 1966 to 1972 (inclusive)? Answer

  2. The English County of Somerset has the motto 'Sumorsaete ealle' meaning 'All the men of Somerset': what language is 'Sumorsaete ealle'? Answer

  3. What one name links the following: a sailing ship that accompanied explorer James Cook on his third and final major voyage; Henry Hudson's ship used in 1610–1611 to search for a Northwest Passage; a vessel used by Scott and Shackleton for Antarctic expeditions in 1901-1904; a fictional spaceship from the films '2001: A Space Odyssey' and '2010: The Year We Make Contact' and a space shuttle? Answer

  4. The 2007 FIA Formula One World Championship concluded on Sunday 21 October 2007, what drivers finished in first, second and third places and what teams were they each driving for? Answer

  5. Researchers at Bangor University have discovered the world's longest-lived animal ever recorded, it was an ocean quahog clam what age has it been calculated to be? Answer

  6. Which landlocked country is surrounded by the following countries (clockwise from the west) Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, China and Pakistan? Answer

  7. Name the singer who had a UK top fifty hit in 1982 with 'Don't Pay the Ferryman'? Answer

  8. In what country is Ulaanbaatar the capital and largest city? Answer

  9. What series of books features the words 'Identity', 'Supremacy' and 'Ultimatum' in the titles of the original and sequels respectively? Secondly, who was the author who wrote these novels? Answer

  10. Fill in the missing words from this song verse (NB the traditional version!):

    "On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
    Twelve ..... drumming
    Eleven ..... piping
    Ten ..... a-leaping
    Nine ..... dancing
    Eight ..... a-milking
    Seven ..... a-swimming
    Six ..... a-laying
    Five ..... rings
    Four ..... birds
    Three ..... hens
    Two ..... doves
    And a ..... in a pear tree"
     Answer

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  11. Replace the eight missing names with Santa's reindeer as they were originally called in this anonymous poem from 1823?
    'A Visit from St. Nicholas' (which is also known as 'The Night Before Christmas' or 'Twas the Night Before Christmas')

    "With a little old driver so lively and quick,
    I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
    More rapid than eagles, his coursers they came,
    And he whistled and shouted and called them by name:

    Now D.....! Now D.....! Now, P..... and V.....!
    On, C.....! On, C.....! On, D..... and B.....!
    To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall! and off and off we will fly!
    Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!"     Answer

  12. Who played the role of the daughter, Anna, in the 2003 film 'Freaky Friday'? Answer

  13. What 'R' is an eleven letter plural describing the Nazgûl in JRR Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings'? Answer

  14. In what 1947 Road to... film did the Andrews Sisters appear? Answer

  15. For what film did James Cagney win the best actor Oscar in 1942? Answer

  16. What U.S. state, with a population of 522,830 in 2007, is the least populous? Answer

  17. What two countries border Estonia?< Answer

  18. What are the following obsessions with or manias for: Arithmomania, Balletomania and Cacodemonia? Answer

  19. Which of these European countries were monarchies at the start of 2008: Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, France, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia or Sweden? Answer

  20. What song contains these lines, and what singer first recorded it in 1968:"Someone left the cake out in the rain
    I don't think that I can take it
    'cause it took so long to bake it
    And I'll never have that recipe again"      Answer

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  21. Identify ten U.S. presidents from the past 200+ years from these anagrams of their names:

    Hairball Conman
    Bugger Whose
    Fed Jenny Honk
    Segregating Nohow
    A Churlish Dioxin Norm
    Larded Frog
    Blond Son Johnny
    Redesigned With Who
    Major Offset Hens
    Snarly Gussets Answer

  22. What, in Roman numerals, is the result of this sum: MCMLIV + MCMXLV?  Answer

  23. Who, in a song, jumped off Tallahatchie Bridge?  Answer

  24. After what animal are the Faeroe Islands named? Answer

  25. In what year did a spacecraft first land on the Moon? Answer

  26. Who created Sherlock Holmes, and when did he, Holmes, first appear in a publication? Answer

  27. By what English name is La Légion Étrangère known? Answer

  28. In what year, in what city and in what type of premises did the the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre take place? Answer

  29. Whose mythical run from Marathon to Athens was the inspiration for the modern marathon? Answer

  30. Who, on 18th March 1965, became the first person to walk in space? Answer

  31. What board game was devised by Anthony E. Pratt in 1949 Answer

  32. Which poet wrote 'Ode to the West Wind', 'To a Skylark' and 'The Masque of Anarchy' Answer

  33. Five of the six counties of Northern Ireland have a shore on Lough Neagh; what county does not? Answer

  34. Who was the U.S. President and U.K. Prime Minister on the 26th March 1957? Answer

  35. Who is normally attributed with discovering penicillan, and in what year and in what city did this discovery take place?  Answer

  36. In what island group is Scapa Flow? Answer

  37. What, in Roman numerals, is the sum of LXXXIV and DCCLIX? Answer

  38. Between July 1969 and December 1972 twelve U.S. astronauts walked on the surface of the Moon, name four of them? Answer

  39. What island territory, which lies 700 miles southeast of Ascension Island, has the port of Jamestown as its capital? Answer

  40. What Bond film featured the song Nobody Does It Better, who sang it and who played Bond in the film? Answer

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41 List these polygons in order of their number of sides, starting with the lowest:Dodecagon, hendecagon, icosagon, nonagon, octadecagon, pentagon and tetradecagon Answer
42
What seven letter word links all of the following: 15th April, 1912; 41°46'N 50°14'W; 41°43'N 49°56'W; and Edward J. Smith Answer
43
In what sport did the following compete in the years shown: Maria Teresa de Filippis (1958 - 1959) and Lella Lombardi (1974 - 1976)? Answer

44
In what British city was a plaque erected by the City Council suggesting that the game of golf may have been invented and first played on Bruntsfield Links? Answer
45 With what song did Minnie Ripperton achieve a US number 1 in 1975? Answer
46
What country hosted the July 2008 G8 summit?  Answer
47
By what name is the study of lighthouses known? Answer
48 What is the capital city of Armenia?  Answer

49 What word completes the title of this early seventies UK top ten hit for Deep Purple: 'Strange Kind of ...'?  Answer

50 What nationality is the former athlete Donovan Bailey?  Answer

51 What planet is the eighth and farthest from the Sun in the Solar System?  Answer

52
What are the two character names used by Whoopi Goldberg in the film 'Sister Act'?  Answer

53
Who wrote 'The Darling Buds of May'?  Answer

54 Who was eventually called "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement" in the U.S. Congress after her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery Alabama in December 1955?  Answer
55 Who set a world record of 9.72 seconds for the 100 metres on 31st May 2008, and what nationality was he?  Answer
56
Which ex-Beatle had a U.S. number 1 with 'Photograph'?  Answer

57 Who was the king of Norway in 2007?  Answer
58 In what U.S. State, and in what year, was Barack Obama born?   Answer
59 What is the Olympic motto?   Answer

 

 

 

 
 
 
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