AMERICA 1. Which American State has the smallest population? A. Wyoming 2. What is the official address of the White House in Washington? A. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue 3. There have been 43 Presidents of the United States, but how many inaugurations have there been? A. 55 4. What famous landmark was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland? A. Statue of Liberty 5. What is the name of the first American University, founded in 1636? A. Harvard BETTER KNOWN AS 6. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his detective novels, but for which football team did he play in goal? A. Portsmouth 7. Sir Edmund Hillary is best known for being the first person to scale Mount Everest, but what was his main profession? A. Beekeeper 8. The Oval is best known for hosting Test Matches in cricket, but what historic match was played there in 1872? A. FA Cup Final 9. What was Samuel Morse’s main profession? A. Portrait Painter 10. What trade did Peter the Great come to London to learn? A. Shipbuilding COLOURS 11. What colour is given to the Friday’s preceding a Bank Holiday Monday in Germany? A. Blue 12. Flamingos have developed their pink appearance due to their predominant diet of what? A. Shrimp 13. Texas is known as The Lone Star State, but which is the Big Red State? A. Kansas 14. Hyacinthoides non Scripta is better known as which flower? A. Bluebell 15. What is the colour of a Black Box flight recorder? A. Orange DELIVERY 16. In which year was the use of the postcode first introduced into Britain? A. 1959 17. In 1586 the first potatoes were introduced to England from which country? A. Colombia 18. Who was responsible for bringing these first potatoes to Plymouth? A. Sir Thomas Harriott 19. What does a deltiologist collect? A. Postcards 20. Which was the first national daily newspaper to be printed in Britain? A. The Daily Courant EASY? 21. What was the name of the standard class aircraft carriers introduced by the United States Navy in the wake of World War II? A. Essex 22. In Victorian times, which town was known as the English Naples? A. Eastbourne 23. What was the name of the 1980’s pop group that Patsy Kensit used to front? A. Eighth Wonder 24. Which month in the year was originally the only one to have an even number of days? A. February 25. Which movie received its world television premiere on BBC1 on Christmas Day 1990? A. E.T. FOOTBALL 26. Which two countries contested the first World Cup Final in 1930? A. URUGUAY and Argentina 27. Which League football team is nicknamed the Grecians? A. Exeter City 28. At which Football club would you have found a stand called the Clock End? A. Arsenal 29. Which team were the first winners of the English League title? A. Preston North End 30. What was significant about the attendance for the 1985 F.A.Cup Final between Manchester Utd and Everton? A. The last crowd of 100,000 for a football match in England G-UP 31. Pall Mall was the first London Street to be what in 1807? A. Gas-lit 32. The Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg song written for The Wizard of Oz, and sung by Judy Garland: Somewhere Over the Rainbow was voted the AFI’s number one movie song, but what was Judy Garland’s real name? A. Frances Gumm 33. Which Canadian Ice Hockey player was known as “The Great One”? A. Wayne Gretzsky 34. Fawlty Towers was actually filmed at a country club in Bedfordshire, but what is the name of the recently refurbished hotel in Torquay that inspired the series? A. Gleneagles 35. Brooklands hosted the first of these in Britain in 1926, but what? A. Grand Prix Motor Race HORSE SENSE 36. Still generally considered the greatest steeplechaser, Arkle was so revered that he was usually referred to as what? A. Himself 37. The first horse race in England took place in 1540, but at which racecourse? A. Chester 38. At which racecourse would you find the July course? A. Newmarket 39. Excluding the All-Weather season, from which months does the Flat Race season run? A. March to November 40. At which racecourse would you find the Mildmay course? A. Aintree IN THE SHADOWS 41. Which sitcom featured a neighbour called Wilson whose face was always partially obscured by the garden fence or some other prop? A. Home Improvement 42. Which shady dealer had an unseen but often commented upon wife affectionately known as ’Er Indoors? A. Arthur Daley 43. In Dad’s Army, what was the first name of Captain Mainwaring’s domineering wife who was never seen? A. Elizabeth 44. In The Third Man, what was the name of the racketeer who hides out in the sewers of Vienna? A. Harry Lime 45. Who was Director of Communications for the Labour Government from 1997 to 2003? A. Alastair Campbell JUST ABOUT ANYTHING 46. The World Wide Web is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, but what is the name of the British scientist who founded it? A. Tim Berners-Lee 47. In the long-running television series Frasier, what is the number of his Seattle apartment? A. 1901 48. The current Miss Universe, Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza comes from which country? A. Puerto Rico 49. The pop group Strontium 90 changed their name and gained multi-million selling success with their singles and albums, but what is that name they are known for? A. The Police 50. At which famous mountain resort would you find the legendary Cresta Run? A. St. Moritz KANGAS 51. What is the collective noun for a group of kangaroos? A. A Mob 52. During the “populate or perish” emigration of the English to Australia in the 1950’s, how much was the relocation fee? A. £10 53. In which year did the Queen officially open the Sydney Opera House? A. 1973 54. Barry Humphries is best known for portraying Dame Edna Everage, but what is the name of his character who is the cultural attaché to the Court of St.James? A. Sir Les Patterson 55. Which Australian Prime Minister was known as “The Lizard of Oz?” A. Paul Keating 1991 - 1996 LONDON 56. The first one of these in Britain was opened in Enfield by Reg Varney in 1969, but what was it? A. Cash Machine 57. Where would you find the world’s largest cut diamond? A. In the Sovereign’s Sceptre in the Tower of London 58. In which year did the London Underground first open? A. 1863 59. Which residence is home to the National Mulberry Museum? A. Buckingham Palace 60. They are Britain’s oldest military corps, who are they? A. Yeoman of the Guard MONEY 61. The monthly projection of the American economy is overseen by the US Federal Reserve, but what is the colourful name of the book that contains this survey? A. Beige 62. R$ is the abbreviation for the currency of which country? A. South Africa 63. Who was Dawn Primarolo’s predecessor as Chief Secretary to the Treasury? A. Andrew Smith 64. What was the name of the group who had a top five hit with their cover of the Beatles song – Money? A. The Flying Lizards 65. In which year was the Bank of England established? A. 1694 NIGHT TIME 66. What will some nine out of ten of us eat while we’re sleeping? A. A spider 67. Per capita, which country drinks the most coffee? A. Finland 68. Which radio station known for its night-time broadcasting began in 1930? A. Radio Luxembourg 69. Who did Edwina Currie describe as having something of the night about him? A. Michael Howard 70. Who were the first married couple to be seen together in bed on U.S. television? A. Fred and Wilma Flintstone OUTWARD BOUND 71. What was the name of the yacht that Sir Alec Rose used to sail around the world in 1968? A. Lively Lady 72. What is the collective noun for a group of sea-lions? A. Splash 73. In 1955, what first went on sale in the U.K. in a Wimpy Bar in London? A. Fish Fingers 74. What was the nickname given to the trawlers that ferried the commandos known as the Heroes of Telemark from Lerwick to Norway during World War II? A. The Shetland Bus 75. In 1953, the first scheduled jet airliner flew from London to which African city? A. Johannesburg PICK AND MIX 76. Which other fictional detective created in the same month that Sherlock Holmes was killed off also lived in Baker Street? A. Sexton Blake 77. In which city would you find Snow Hill Station? A. Birmingham 78. The first TUC Congress was held in 1868, but where? A. Manchester 79. Which one of the Bronte sisters wrote Jane Eyre? A. Charlotte 80. In which Yorkshire village was she born? A. Thornton RELATIONSHIPS 81. Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather) and Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) won Oscars for directing and screenplay, but what is the name of the only father and daughter to win Academy Awards as actors? A. John Huston and Anjelica Huston 82. In which city would you find the world’s most famous pair of dockyard cranes that are named Samson and Goliath? A. Belfast 83. Who were the first Royal couple to have their marriage broadcast live on the radio from Westminster Abbey in 1934? A. The Duke of Kent and Princess Marina 84. Which British Prime Minister was a cousin of the author and diarist Rudyard Kipling? A. Stanley Baldwin 85. Marilyn Monroe married three times. Joe di Maggio and Arthur Miller were husbands numbers two and three, but who was her first husband? A. James Dougherty SOUTH COAST 86. In which city would you find Palmerston’s Follies? A. Portsmouth 87. At which Sussex equestrian course would you find the Devil’s Dyke? A. Hickstead 88. Sir Robert Baden-Powell’s first experimental camp for scouting in 1907 took place on which island? A. Brownsea Island 89. In 1909 Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel from Calais to Northfall Meadow adjacent to which castle? A. Dover 90. In which county would you find King Harry’s Ferry? A. Cornwall T-TIME 91. What is mined in a stannery? A. Tin 92. In which country did tea first come into general usage? A. Japan 93. In 1926, the first of these in Britain appeared in Piccadilly Circus, what are they? A. Traffic Lights 94. In Blackadder, what was Baldrick’s favourite vegetable? A. Turnip 95. Invented in 1951 by Ruben Rausing in Sweden this patented design shape has since gone on to sweep the world, but what is the logo known as? A. Tetra-Pak URBAN 96. Who did singer Keith Urban marry in July 2006? A. Nicole Kidman 97. This multi-million selling act were made up of T-Boz, Chilli and the late Lisa Left-Eye Lopez, what was the name of the group? A. TLC 98. Which singer was killed by Eminen’s obsessive fan character in the video for his song Stan? A. Dido 99. Which long-established star of the urban scene whose name suggests that he’s a canine private investigator also stars in and produces porn movies? A. Snoop Dogg 100. Which rap star holds an annual party in St.Tropez called the White Party? A. P. Diddy VARIABLES 101. Although best known as General Franco, what was the full name of the military ruler of Spain from 1939 – 1975? A. Francesco Franco Sahamonde 102. In the original movie of Bedazzled, Peter Cook played the Devil, but what mundane name did he go by? A. George Spiggott 103. If you were to book a seat on a round trip journey to Mars, then on current projections, when the first excursions take place how many years should your trip take there and back? A. 3 years 104. Two of the top three producers of methane gas are rice fields and rubbish tips, but what is the third? A. Cows 105. How many mph did the Wright Brothers have to attain in order to successfully get off the ground on their first flight? A. 30mph WORDS 106. What is unique about the word SCREECHED? A. The longest one syllable word in the English language 107. What is the badger-dog better known as? A. Dachshund 108. What does ISBN stand for? A. International Standard Book Number 109. Most people remember that the initials of wartime radio show ITMA stood for It’s That Man Again, but who was the man that it derived its name from? A. Adolf Hitler 110. M*A*S*H was a successful film and long-running television series, but who wrote the original novel? A. Richard Hooker AKA H. Richard Hornberger YES or NO GAME (Just answer yes or no) 111. A cat has thirty-two muscles in either ear. A. Yes 112. Almonds are a member of the peach family. A. Yes 113. Norwich was once England’s second city. A. Yes 114. The British Isles consists of 6289 different islands. A. Yes 115. Blackpool Rock was actually first made in Dewsbury. A. Yes ZIGZAG 116. Which James Bond actor did tennis player Pam Shriver marry in 2003? A. George Lazenby 117. What is the name of the oldest city in the United States? A. St. Augustine, Florida 118. In which mountain range would you find the Seven Summits? A. Himalayas 119. Richard D’Oyly Carte, whose opera company staged Gilbert & Sullivan’s works, owned which famous hotel? A. The Savoy 120. The world’s first Public Library opened in 1747 in which European city? A. Warsaw