GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1

1. On what date does the pheasant-shooting season begin in Great Britain?

2. Why don't polar bears eat penguins?

3. Why is the Empire State Building so called?

4. What is the name of Harry Potter's school?

5. What is the national bird of New Zealand?

6. Whose dummy controversially represented the Virgin Mary in Madame Tussaud's 2004 Nativity scene?

7. If the Spanish word is manzana, what is the English word?

8. Chinchillas are native to which mountain range?

9. How is Calvin Broadus better known?

10. Which country's flag is a yellow cross on a blue background?

FILM

1. Which famous publisher makes a cameo appearance in the film Beverley Hills Cop II?

2. Which instrument does Marilyn Monroe play in the film Some Like It Hot?

3. In what year were The Oscars first presented?

4. Which film starred Julia Roberts and Patrick Bergin?

5. Which Oscar-winning actress starred with Lisa Kudrow in Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion?

6. In which film does Pierce Brosnan drive a tank around Moscow?

7. Who won a Best Actor Oscar for his part as Atticus Finch in the film To Kill A Mocking Bird?

8. In the films of the same name, what are The Blue Gardenia, The Blue Dahlia; and The Blue Angel?

9. In which 1985 film is Arnold Schwarzenegger's daughter kidnapped by terrorists?

10. Which actor played Sinbad the Sailor in the 1947 film?

SPORT

1. Which of the following world championship series is the oldest; The Super Bowl, (American football) The World Series (Baseball), The World Cup (Soccer) or Wimbledon (tennis)?

2. Name the Irish swimmer who won 3 gold medals in the 1996 Olympics?

3. In 1987, which nation won the inaugural Rugby Union World Cup?

4. Horse Guards Parade will be the venue for which sport in the 2012 Olympics?

5. The Eredivisie is the top football league of which country?

6. How many laps of the track are needed to complete the 10,000 metres?

7. In which sport are penalties awarded for slashing, holing and spearing?

8. In which sport could you be awarded a 16-yard hit?

9. Which outdoor sport began as a military event but became a competitive sport in 1919, first in Sweden?

10. Steve Parrish is a former European Champion in which sport?

THE HUMAN BODY

1. Lacking of which vitamin causes rickets?

2. In what part of the body does a rhinologist specialise?

3. What is the common name for the scapula?

4. What is the medical term for blood poisoning?

5. What is the only part of the human body that can't repair itself?

6. What is the coloured part of the eye called?

7. How many valves are there in your heart?

8. What is the longest bone in the body?

9. How many teeth does an adult have (assuming a full compliment)?

10. What part of a man's body swells to ten times its normal size when excited?

MUSIC

1. Which musical instrument evolved from the sackbut?

2. Who played bass guitar in Suzi Quattro's band?

3. In which song does the joker tell the thief "There must be some way out of here"?

4. Which composer wrote The Pines of Rome?

5. Which band's 2005 album is titled Never Forget - The Ultimate Collection?

6. Who composed Peter and the Wolf?

7. Which group recorded the best-selling album by an English group of all time?

8. Who had a 1996 hit with Mysterious Girl?

9. Which Irish band topped the charts with 1977?

10. What was the title of the late Kirsty McColl's first top twenty UK hit?

FOOD & DRINK

1. What is Aioli?

2. What do peach schnapps and orange juice make?

3. In which country did Limburger cheese originate?

4. We call it aubergine, what is it called in the USA?

5. What is the Italian foodstuff Provolone?

6. Common mushrooms are sold in most supermarkets at four different stages of growth, name two?

7. What gives the drink Triple Sec its flavour?

8. What type of spirit is J & B?

9. Wellington and Blacksmith are varieties of which fruit?

10. What type of cheese is made from the milk of the Water Buffalo?

TELEVISION

1. In what sort of establishment is the BBC series Waterloo Road set?

2. Which South Park character is Ike's big brother?

3. Who has now returned to our screens after a 288-MPH accident?

4. Who narrated BBC-1's Walking With Dinosaurs?

5. Anne Malone died in a Fresco freezer in which soap?

6. In which series would you find the characters, Leroy 'Jethro' Gibbs, Anthony DiNozzo, Dr. Donald 'Ducky' Mallard and Abby Sciuto?

7. In Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds who was the youngest of the Tracy brothers?

8. Which US soap ended a series with one of its characters being kidnapped by a flying saucer?

9. What area of space were the crew of the starship Voyager trying to return from?

10. How old is Bart Simpson?

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 2

1. What name is given to the physical disintegration of a nuclear reactor's core?

2. In which comic did Korky the Cat 1st appear?

3. Who was General de Gaulle's successor as President of France?

4. In which country was the Battle of El Alamain fought?

5. Which Lloyd Webber musical does the song 'Memory' come from?

6. What is the Gestation Period of an elephant, to within a month either way?

7. Which weapon did the British Army officially get rid of in March 1927?

8. H14 N2 is consumed daily by millions of people worldwide, how is it more commonly known?

9. Which City in South Carolina gave the world a dance craze in the 1920's?

10. In which sport do professionals hit their balls at speeds in excess of 250 mph?