GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1

1. What is the highest value bank note in Monopoly?

2. What is the collective noun for a group of owls?

3. What is the term for partitions within a ship's superstructure that divide the ship into several compartments?

4. What form of transport is a Sea Wasp?

5. Which B is the Patron Saint of pipe smokers?

6. Which is the only European country that has never imposed censorship for adult films?

7. Which football team did Gordon Ramsey play for before becoming a chef?

8. Three banks in Scotland are allowed to issue banknotes, The Bank of Scotland and The Royal Bank of Scotland, what is the third?

9. In which Spanish town is there a Guggenheim Museum?

10. Which will freeze quicker - pure antifreeze or diluted antifreeze?

BOOKS & STUFF

1. In which book does Squire Trelawney appear?

2. Lyra Belacqua is the heroine of which trilogy?

3. In Alice In Wonderland which creature smokes a hookah?

4. 'By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes' is a quote from which Shakespeare play?

5. What is the name of the wood where Winnie the Pooh lives?

6. Who wrote the novel Bravo-Two-Zero?

7. What genre of novels does Louis L'Amour write?

8. Who wrote the story of Hansel And Gretel?

9. Who wrote the novel on which the Oscar-winning film The African Queen was based?

10. In which series of stories did Sinbad the Sailor first appear?

FILM

1. Who played Gandalf in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy?

2. Which 1994 Western starred Mel Gibson & Jodie Foster?

3. Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce traveled together in which vehicle?

4. Who played Steed and Peel in the 1998 film, The Avengers?

5. In which 1979 film did Bob Hoskins play a nasty piece of work called Harold Shand?

6. In which film did Tom Hanks play the part of Pip Striebeck?

7. Who played the defrosted villain in Demolition Man?

8. Who was the child star of Steven Spielberg's Empire Of The Sun?

9. Who directed the 1992 film Hook?

10. Who played the crazy ex-girlfriend in The Blues Brothers?

GEOGRAPHY

1. In which South American Country are Panama hats made?

2. In which Country would you find Tugela Waterfall?

3. In which Country is Mt. Kilimanjaro?

4. What Continent has the most people per square mile?

5. What is the second largest Country in South America?

6. What is the Capital of Rwanda?

7. What is latitude 66° 33' N otherwise known as?

8. Which is the World's warmest sea?

9. In which US State would you find the city of Sarasota?

10. Which Italian volcano constantly erupts but rarely seriously?

FOOD & DRINK

1. Polar Beer is from which country?

2. What are champignons on a French menu?

3. What name is given to the Greek hors d'oeuvre made from smoked cod's roe?

4. True Italian salami is made from the flesh of which animal?

5. Rice is the staple food of what proportion of the worlds population?

6. What type of pastry is used to make a Steak & Kidney pudding?

7. What ingredient is contained in beer but not ale?

8. Bonny Lad and White Windsor are types of what vegetable?

9. Which country does the wine Mateus Rose come from?

10. HP Sauce was named after the man who 'invented' it - true or false?

TELEVISION

1. Which character did Jack Lord play in Hawaii Five-0?

2. Which detective, created by Dorothy L Sayers, did Ian Carmichael play on TV?

3. Which TV cartoon mother is voiced by Julie Kavner?

4. Barry Corbin played the ex-NASA astronaut Maurice in which sureal series?

5. What was the name David Cassidy's character in The Partridge Family?

6. What was the name of the block of flats in which Del & Rodney Trotter lived?

7. Which 1988 TV drama about a wounded Falklands survivor starred Colin Firth?

8. What was Geoffry Palmer's occupation in 'Butterflies'?

9. Dervla Kirwin has played the pub landlady in 2 different TV series, Assumpta in Ballykissangel, what was the other?

10. In which series would you find a Sheriff's Department patrol car with the slogan 'To Patronize and Annoy' written on the doors?

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 2

1. The Challenger 1 replaced which tank as the main battle tank of the British Army?

2. What is the Spanish variant of the English name Paul?

3. Which car manufacturer produces the Outlander?

4. Royal wedding rings for the UK's Royal Family are made with gold from which country?

5. What falls on the first Monday in September in the USA?

6. What is the collective noun for a group of finches?

7. John Flynn formed which Australian service?

8. What does the 'E' in UNICEF stand for?

9. Who formed the charter airline Amsair?

10. Where might you find a 'Joint Photographics Expert Group'?