GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1

1. In Egypt, there are 100 piastres to what?

2. Who did John F Kennedy defeat in the 1960 Presidential elections?

3. What is shown at the top of the pyramid on the back of the US $1 bill?

4. In 1895 Steven Perry patented an invention which keeps things together, was it; the elastic band, the paper clip or the zip fastener?

5. Which animal is on top of Rugby's Calcutta Cup?

6. Rainfall is measured by what instrument?

7. In the Eskimo tongue, what is a nanook?

8. What famous film director had an affair with his stepdaughter?

9. When the game of Scrabble ends what do you do with the tiles you have left over?

10. In 1885 John Lee was sentenced to death, why did he not die?

FILM

1. What was the name of the character played by Paul Newman in The Hustler?


2. In which film did Mel Gibson play Nick Marshall?

3. What was the nickname of Tom Cruise's character in the movie Top Gun?

4. What is the title of the 2007 Luc Besson film with voices by David Bowie and Robert De Niro and Mia Farrow as Granny?

5. Which singing actress ran The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas?

6. In which 2003 film is Jack Nicholson torn between Amanda Peet and her mother Dianne Keaton?

7. In which film did Sandra Bullock play the character Gwen Cummings?

8. Which film is essentially one long group therapy session set in the detention class at an Illinois high school?

9. Who plays Harry Callaghan's (Clint Eastwood) partner in The Enforcer?

10. What is the name of Chevy Chase's wisecracking LA newspaper columnist?

THE ARTS & LITERATURE

1. Who painted 'Three Dancers' on show in the Tate Gallery?

2. Who wrote How The Grinch Stole Christmas?

3. In which art gallery would you see Constable's The Haywain?

4. In which Thomas Hardy novel does the character Bathsheba Everdene appear?

5. What was the title of Brecht's adaptation of The Beggar's Opera, which included the song Mac the Knife?

6. Which prize-winning British artist is famous for her unmade bed?

7. Which group of travellers set out from the Tabard Inn?

8. Which Novel by Jules Verne features the character Professor Challenger?

9. What artwork was stolen in Paris in August 1911 and recovered in Florence 28 months later?

10. Who wrote the 1989 best selling novel Shogun, which was subsequently made into a TV mini-series, starring Richard Chamberlain?

MUSIC

1. Which band's biggest hit was The Final Countdown?

2. Who composed the Operetta The Merry Widow?

3. In which of Gilbert and Sullivan's Operas do the characters Dick Deadeye and Buttercup appear?

4. Which group released singles about an Arnold and an Emily?

5. Which Dylan song has the line 'Everybody must get stoned'?

6. What connects; The Sorcerer, Patience, Utopia Ltd and The Grand Duke?

7. What nationality was the composer Ivor Novello?

8. Who wrote the music for West Side Story?

9. With whom did Elton John duet on Written in the Stars?

10. Which actor provided the voice-over on Blur's album Parklife?

SCIENCE & NATURE

1. What is the smallest species of penguin?

2. In Astronomy Polaris is also known as what?

3. What is the claw on a bird of prey called?

4. What element has the chemical symbol Pb?

5. Adrastea is a satellite of which planet?

6. What term is used to describe a plant growing in high altitude mountainous areas?

7. What animal is used as the symbol for Britain's Wildlife Trust?

8. What are the two ends of a magnet called?

9. What gas did Joseph Priestley discover in 1774?

10. Which bird can swim the fastest?

TELEVISION

1. Which character from Beavis and Butthead has their own show?

2. What happened to Jerry Seinfeld and his pals in the series finale?

3. Who has replaced Des Lynam as host of Countdown?

4. The US sitcom Sanford and Son, was adapted from which popular British sitcom?

5. In the series Friends, why did Phoebe win $7,000 in a settlement?

6. Which animated TV programme begins with a warning that it is "not to be viewed by anyone"?

7. Tamzin Outhwaite plays Rebecca Mitchell, manager of where?

8. D.I. Sam Tyler is struck by a car and is catapulted into a bizarre adventure in which BBC series?

9. Who created The Muppetts?

10. What is the TV connection between Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin, Cliff Robertson and Julie Newmar?

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 2

1. With whom did Beardsley form a famous friendship in 1894, which was destined to fizzle out two years later amidst scandal?

2. What was the name of the first satellite sent into space?

3. What is the French word for petrol?

4. Which French-born British financier, who died in Spain in 1997, established the Referendum Party in 1995?

5. In Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, who is Fezziwig?

6. Heavily advertised on the run-up to Valentine's Day, which company makes the perfume Be Delicious?

7. On what ship did John Jacob Astor die?

8. What was the name of Sitting Bull's right hand man?

9. Which actress gave birth to Dylan in the year 2000?

10. In the Bible it says: "Before there was anything, there was -" what?

Tie break - In what year was the 1st copy of the book Nineteen Eighty Four sold?