GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1

1. Which car manufacturer produces a model named the Ignis ?

2. According to BT on which day of the year are the most telephone calls made?

3. The Hang Seng is the stock exchange of where?

4. Who recently filed for divorce from rap star Kid Rock after just four months of marriage?

5. What name is given to untertakers in the USA?

6. Ship's Captains are empowered to conduct two religious rites, burial at sea and which other?

7. Which Australian made car first rolled off the production line on May 26th 1948?

8. Which mass murderer once auditioned for The Monkees?

9. Which organ in the body produces glucose?

10. Which German term is used to indicate taking pleasure in another person's misfortune?

FILM

1. Who plays Clarice Starling in the film Hannibal?

2. What was the title of Marilyn Monroe's unfinished 1962 film?

3. Which 1974 film about 6 children on holiday is based on a novel by Arthur Ransome?

4. In which Sylvester Stallone movie are all the restaurants Taco Bells?

5. The Last King Of Scotland starring Forest Whitaker is about who?

6. What make of car does 007 drive in Tomorrow Never Dies?

7. What character did Mel Gibson play in the Lethal Weapon films?

8. What make of motorcycle did Marlon Brando ride in the 1953 movie The Wild One?

9. Which classic film was adapted from the Noel Coward Play Still Life?

10. In Walt Disneys film Peter Pan, which hand of Hook's was a hook?

CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. Which seventeen-year-old shocked fans across the world with an announcement that he is to appear nude in a play in London's West End?

2. Microsoft launched its latest operating system recently, what is it called?

3. What number of offenders are electronically tagged in Great Britain?

4. Turbans for men and pink saris for women is the dress code that who has issued for her wedding in March?

5. Who will be hosting the 79th Academy Awards ceremony on 25th February?

6. Michel Platini has succeeded Lennart Johansson as what?

7. Which female star has become second in line to the Queen, in the number of waxworks made of her?

8. It has been announced that there is not enough evidence to charge headteacher Des Smith with what?

9. How much has a car enthusiast spent on a 1966 Shelby Cobra motor belonging to the developer, making it the most expensive car in history?

10. Rupert and Penny being taught to play the piano at their Devon farm why is it newsworthy?

SPORT

1. Which soccer team were the last winners of an FA Cup final at Wembley?

2. In the Six Nations Rugby Tournament which cup is played for when England and Scotland meet?

3. What is the oldest golf course in Europe?

4. Who won the F.A. Cup for the first time in 1965 and won the 1986 FA Cup without any English players?

5. Which US City has an American Football team called the Falcons and a Baseball team called the Braves?

6. Which British athlete won two silver medals at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics?

7. Which International Rugby Union team has the shortest name?

8. With 31 to his name, which British driver has most F1 Grand Prix victories?

9. What name is given the baseball equivalent of a wicketkeeper in cricket?

10. Which Japanese sportsmen were banned, in 1994, from having head implants to bring them up to regulation height?

ART & LITERATURE

1. Large Bathers is a work by which French Post-Impressionist painter?

2. What is the sisters' surname in the novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott?

3. Which famous American artist died in a car crash in 1956?

4. What is the title of the latest Harry Potter novel due for release on July 21st this year?

5. 'The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones' is a quote from which Shakespeare play?

6. Which Spanish City would you visit to see Gaudi's fantastical architecture?

7. Who wrote Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal?

8. Who designed the fountains in Trafalgar Square?

9. To what popular sport did the 17th cent. English writer Issak Walton dedicate his most memorable book?

10. Who painted the famous work, The Birth of Venus?

TELEVISION

1. Who killed Laura Palmer on Twin Peaks?

2. Oceanic flight 815 to Los Angeles features in which series?

3. Who's Eric Cartman's father?

4. Spider and Toyah liberated Christmas turkey Theresa in which soap?

5. What was the name of the TV series in which would-be opera singers competed against each other for a chance to win a major role in an English National Opera production?

6. The crew of which ship were brought back to life (after a fashion) by nanobots?

7. On the show FRIENDS what was Phoebes twin sisters name?

8. Which cartoon character lived in the top left-hand corner of Wales?

9. In the TV programme The Dukes of Hazzard who played Daisy Duke?

10. What is the name of Mulder and Scully's supervisor on the X-files?

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 2

1. What do Fletchers make?

2. What gas has the symbol CH4?

3. What year was the Treaty of Versailles signed?

4. Which mountain was sacred to Apollo and the Muses?

5. Vertumnus was the Roman God of what?

6. What nationality was Marie Curie?

7. Which Florida National Park is bisected by Alligator Alley?

8. What is the main ingredient of glass?

9. How many wings does a Bee have?

10. How many Grams make a dekagram?