GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1

1. In which Country was Audrey Hepburn born?

2. What is the name of the Asian dish of spiced meat or vegetables in pastry triangles?

3. Which act of 1986 requires a register of all personal information held in computer files?

4. Which Country was the first to have two successive elected female Heads of State?

5. Which US soul singer was shot dead in 1964 aged 33?

6. Which City was designed by Oscar Niemeyer, in the shape of an aircraft?

7. What is the official language of Liechtenstein?

8. What is the most popular breed of dog in Britain?

9. Beriberi is a disease said to be caused by the deficiency of which vitamin?

10. Which country was previously called Mesopotamia?

TELEVISION

1. In the 1980's series Dempsey and Makepeace, what was Makepeace's Christian name?

2. Sam Waterston plays Assistant DA Jack McCoy in which Channel Five series?

3. What was the name of Buffy's mentor & school librarian?

4. Who played Fanny Price in the recent ITV adaptation of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park?

5. Which series features the expert work of the Las Vegas Criminalistics Department?

6. Which kids TV programme features Auntie Mabel and her dog Pippin?

7. How are the TV chefs Simon King and David Myers better known?

8. From whom did Sally and Kev buy Number 13 Coronation Street?

9. According to his Ch 4 show title, who is a Born Survivor?

10. What is the world's longest running children's TV programme?

CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. Who controversialy piloted a pedalo pissed in St Lucia?

2. Why did James McGreevey resign as Governor of New Jersey?

3. It weas recently revealed that the mother of the home secretary, John Reid, was a cleaner in houses where the young Tony Blair lived - true or false?

4. The Independent on Sunday has reversed which campaign it began in 1997?

5. Which African leader told his international critics to 'go hang' after opposition politicians were beaten up in a police station?

6. 95 Labour M.P.s voted against what, last week?

7. Which Holywood star has recently opened a new play in Dublin's Peacock Theatre?

8. The world's oldest man attributed his longevity to never getting married, what age was he last week?

9. What, recently found in Boreno, long thought to be a sub-species of a mainland animal, turned out to be a species in its own right?

10. One of the Las Vegas Strip's famous casinos was reduced to a pile of rubble in a controlled implosion. Which one?

LITERATURE

1. Mary Grandpre illustrates which series of very popular books?

2. What was Lady Chatterley's first name?

3. What is the name of the four holy books of the Hindus?

4. What book starts with the words, "If you want to find Cherry Tree Lane all you have to do is ask a policeman at the crossroads"?

5. Which canine heroine came from the pen of Eric Knight?

6. Whose autobiography was entitled Unreliable Memoirs?

7. What is the children's version of Penguin Books called?

8. Who wrote The Time Machine and Kipps?

9. Which British author said, "The target of my books lies somewhere between the solar plexus and the thigh"?

10. Who wrote the Just William books?

SPORT

1. FISA is the ruling body for which sport?

2. Who recently became the 1st cricketer to score six consecutive sixes in a one-day international during the Cricket World Cup?

3. Which 'Elvis' cost Ireland a 2007 Championship?

4. Which City was the principle venue for the 2006 Winter Olympics?

5. Which Golfer originated the Masters Tournament?

6. Which team knocked Pakistan out of the Cricket World Cup and surprisingly made the Super Eight stage?

7. Which ex-motorcycle champion won the Formula 1 World Championship in 1964?

8. Kauto Star won the 2007 Cheltenham Gold Cup, which horse came second?

9. What is the world's longest race?

10. Who is due to take over from Ian Woosnam as captain of Europe's Ryder Cup team in 2008?

FILM

1. Which 1998 vampire film had the tagline "against an army of immortals, one warrior must draw blood first"?

2. Who played the part of Vincent Van Gogh in the film Lust For Life?

3. The 2002 film K-19: The Widowmaker is set on board what type of vessel?

4. James Stewart played Jeff and Grace Kelly his girlfriend Lisa Carol Fremont, in which 1954 Hitchcock film?

5. What is the name of the nerd trapped in marriage to an evil shrew, with Eddie Murphy playing both characters?

6. Kim Bassinger played Nadia Gates and Bruce Willis played Walter Davis in which 1987 film?

7. Who starred as the main character Eisenheim in the 2006 movie The
Illusionist?

8. Which 2001 film stars Bob Hoskins and Michael Caine as part of a gang of drinking friends who scatter their friend's ashes off Margate pier?

9. Vincent Price made his last screen appearance in which 1990 film?

10. Which actor played the Spice Girls' manager in the film, Spiceworld: The Movie?

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 2

1. The femoral artery is located in what part of the body?

2. Which World famous restaurant is located in the Berkshire village of Bray?

3. Who did Edward Heath succeed as leader of the Conservative Party?

4. The Secret Policeman's Ball was staged in aid of which organization?

5. How many time zones are there in China?

6. What part of a cat is the vibrissae?

7. Which motor manufacturer makes the Roomster, introduced in 2006?

8. Who on 1st January 2007 became the current Secretary-General of the United Nations?

9. Who had 3 Bags, one for a little boy one for a Dame and one for the Master?

10. What is known in Norway as Barberskum?