GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1

1. Who is the God of mischief and trickery in Norse mythology?

2. In January 2007 politicians from the All-Party Folk Music Group gathered to pay homage to which U.S. 'folkie' who played live at the House of Commons?

3. A Pygmy Blue is the smallest Butterfly in the World - true or false?

4. The video for which 80s hit featured Freddie Mercury dressed in a black leather mini skirt?

5. What is the name of the ancient Mexican God of civilization?

6. What organ in the human body is affected by encephalitis?

7. Which chef who died in 1935 was the 1st chef to receive the French Legion d'Honour?

8. Which zany American magazine featured the comic strip Spy vs Spy?

9. If you dial 999 or 112 you can obtain one of six emergency services. Fire, Police, Ambulance and Coastguard, name either of the other two?

10. Where is the oldest man-made building in the Western World?

GEOGRAPHY

1. Ida is the highest mountain on which Mediterranean Island?

2. Where is the world's largest desert?

3. What is the capital of Lithuania?

4. In which Country would you find Lake Como?

5. In which City would you find the Arch of Hadrian?

6. Which Country has Anas Vaduz as it's capital?

7. Which Country (apart from a narrow coastal strip) is entirely surrounded by Senegal?

8. In which U.S. State is DisneyWorld located?

9. By what name was Myanmar formerly known?

10. Which is longer - the Suez or Panama Canal?

THE ARTS & CLASSICAL MUSIC

1. Who was the painter famous for his Water Lilies?

2. In which City would you find the Walker Art Gallery?

3. What is the name of the Italian village renowned for its violin-making families of Amati, Guarneri and Stradivari?

4. In 2006 a new arts venture began in Glasgow with the inaugural programme of the N.T.S. what does NTS stand for?

5. What sculptor created The Kiss?

6. The Shipwreck, is a work by which famous English painter?

7. Which aid to music was invented by Johann Maelzel in 1814?

8. What is the wingspan of Anthony Gormley's Angel of the North +/- 25 feet?

9. What is the title of the famous painting that hangs in the National Gallery and shows a horse and cart in the river outside Willy Lott's farm?

10. What nickname is given to Piano Sonata No. 14 by Beethoven?

FILM

1. Who played the lead role in the movie The Bourne Identity?

2. Which character made 'The Ring' in The Lord of the Rings trilogy?

3. Which 1990 film stars Jamie Lee Curtis as Megan Turner a novice New York cop who is being stalked and framed for murder?

4. Who plays the vampire slayer Van Helsing in the 2004 film?

5. The song They call the wind Maria is featured in which movie?

6. Ben Stiller, Gwynth Paltrow and Luke Wilson play Gene Hackman's kids in which film?

7. What film largely set in Venice, and directed by Nicholas Roeg, features a blind clairvoyant stalking Julie Christie and a razor-wielding dwarf in a red raincoat?

8. What was the name of the monkey played by Roddy McDowall in the Planet Of The Apes?

9. Which character does John Cleese play in the James Bond film Die Another Day?

10. Which Disney character had a cat called Cleo?

BIRDS

(There's a bird in the answer)

1. What is the name of the character played by Johnny Depp in the Pirates of the Caribbean films?

2. Which beer was first brewed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the MG car factory?

3. Who is the current presenter of NBC's Tonight Show?

4. In which building in Grasmere did William Wordsworth live from December 1799 to May 1808?

5. Which actor has voiced characters in AI, Happy Feet, Robots and Ferngully, The Last Rainforest?

6. Which English hero was born in Tavistock, in Devonshire, around 1540?

7. Which English singer-songwriter best known for his acoustic, autumnal songs died from an overdose of antidepressants, at the age of 26 in 1974?

8. Which poem first published in 1845 begins "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore"?

9. What is the name of the MLB team from Toronto?

10. Who owned the mansion in the series Magnum PI?

HISTORY

1. What was the name of the hurricane that devastated New Orleans in 2005?

2. Which victory of Horatio Nelson was also known as The Battle of Abu Kir Bay?

3. What actual rank did Horatio Nelson hold at the Battle of Trafalgar?

4. The Enolia Gay was the plane that dropped the Atom Bomb on Hiroshima, who was it named after?

5. 2006 saw the 200th Anniversary of the death of the youngest British Prime Minster, who was he?

6. Mars was the Roman god of what?

7. In which century did the Chinese Ming Dynasty start?

8. Who was the longest reigning King of England?

9. In what year did the 1st man walk on the surface of the Moon?

10. The Frelimo Independence Movement operated in which African country?

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 2

1. What is the only clockwise rotating planet in our Solar System?

2. Elected in Nov 2005, Ellen Johnston Surleaf is the 1st freely elected African female head of State in which country?

3. Of which Asian country is Khalka the official language?

4. In steering a boat under a canal bridge, why should you normally not aim for the centre of the bridge arch?

5. Who was the Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967?

6. What is the opposite of aestivation?

7. Which Beach Boy drowned in a boating accident off California in 1983?

8. Which word can go in front of biscuit, closet and colour?

9. What name is given to the brittle glazed salty biscuit usually made in the form of a knot?

10. Which car manufacturer is Frances biggest vehicle producer?