GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1

1. Which birds of prey have soft plumage, acute hearing, binocular vision and heads which can turn 180 degrees?

2. Which motor manufacturer's name is taken from the latin for I Hear?

3. In which Charles Dickens story does Uriah Heep appear?

4. How many Popes have been murdered?

5. Which company makes the perfume Opium?

6. By what name are the Laurel and Hardy fan clubs around the world known?

7. Which Country has won the Eurovision Song Contest most often?

8. How many minutes of play are in an American football match?

9. What were the names of the three ships Christopher Columbus led, in his discovery of the Americas in 1492?

10. In which EU Country was the actress Audrey Hepburn born?

GEOGRAPHY & HISTORY

1. Which US City, founded by the Quakers in 1682, has a name meaning
City of Brotherly Love?

2. In which English County would you find Stonehenge?

3. Who was assassinated on December 8th, 1980?

4. What U.S. national holiday was first officially celebrated in November of 1789?

5. In Africa what is the Harmattan?

6. Whom did Hitler appoint as commander of the Luftwaffe in March 1935?

7. What did Frenchman Andre Turcat famously do on 2nd March 1969?

8. Which three South American countries does the Equator cross?

9. G. Leroy Parker was the real name of which outlaw?

10. Which is the largest City in Switzerland?

TELEVISION

1. In which series did Amanda Burton play the role of Dr Sam Ryan?

2. Which fictional family lives at 742 Evergreen Terrace?

3. Where might you have seen a Reliant Regal Supervan III with the registration number DHV 938D?

4. Who was the most famous employee of Cage Fish & Associates?

5. What nationality are South Park's Terrance and Phillip?

6. In which series did David Jason play Pop Larkin?

7. Which was the first British sitcom to win the best comedy prize at the Golden Globe awards?

8. In which TV series did Francis Urquhart issue his famous line "You might very well think that. I of course couldn't possibly comment"?

9. What was the name of the studio band on the Jonathan Ross Show?

10. What is the name of the talking turd in South Park?

WHO SAID THAT?

1. Which male pop star once said, "In the early 80's, I was pretty innocent and confused. I was like Marie Osmond, only with bigger eyelashes"?

2. Which politician in 1981 famously said of his unemployed father, "He got on his bike and looked for work, and he went on looking until he found it"?

3. Which female pop icon said, "Losing my virginity was a career move"?

4. Who described the poet Lord Byron as, "Mad, bad and dangerous to know"?

5. Which British Prime Minister said, "I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat"?

6. Which famous nobelman, born in Dublin, is reputed to have declared, "Not everything born in a stable is a horse"?

7. Which world leader said "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun"?

8. Which British PM said, "You've never had it so good"?

9. Who, in 1982, said, "The battle for women's rights has been largely won"?

10. Which rock musician said, "Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read"?

FILM

1. The beginning of which Bond movie has 007 skiing off a cliff and a opening a Union Jack parachute?

2. Who played Sid Vicious in the film Sid and Nancy?

3. Who directed the 1960 film The Alamo?

4. What was the name of the boy who befriended ET?

5. What is Bruce Willis's occupation in the 1992 film, Death Becomes Her?

6. What is the name of the character played by Anthony Perkins in Psycho?

7. What were the christian names of The Blues Brothers?

8. In which '90s film did Tom Jones play himself?

9. In which James Bond film does 007's Lotus Esprit Turbo turn into a submarine?

10. What was the first colour movie to win a Best Picture Oscar?

ART & LITERATURE

1. Which American writer created Tarzan?

2. Dove Cottage in Grasmere, Cumbria was the one-time home of which famous poet?

3. Who painted Irises and Sunflowers?

4. Which of William Shakespeare's plays has the most lines?

5. Which artist do you associate with the painting 'Flatford Mill'?

6. Which artist was the inventor of the pointillist technique, where he built up large-scale paintings from tiny dots?

7. Who created the children's classic Swallows and Amazons?

8. Who wrote stories about the fox and the grapes; the lion and the mouse and the dog and his reflection?

9. Who painted The Laughing Cavalier?

10. What were the forenames of the Railway Children?

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 2

1. What name is given to white wine distilled with herbs, often drunk with gin?

2. Which animal, at one time native to the British Isles, became extinct in Scotland in 1743 and in Ireland in 1766?

3. By what name is the Russian Parliament known?

4. Which City in Northern Ireland has two cathedrals dedicated to St. Patrick?

5. In which European City is the International Court of Justice based?

6. Who, in 1972, became the first Secretary of State for Northern Ireland?

7. Why did Americans celebrate the end of 1933?

8. A glove puppet has a hand up its orifice but what name is given to a puppet worked by strings?

9. Speaking of strings, how many strings does a balalaika have?

10. What colour is a blue tit's breast?