GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 1

1. What is the name of Frank Dickens' strip cartoon ofice worker?

2. Which is the longest bone in the human body?

3. Which word can mean any form of transport and is the legal term for the transfer of property by way of deed?

4. What is the distinctive smell of hydrogen sulphide?

5. Long, Rump and Short have each described what in Britain's history?

6. In February 2006, Robbie Williams bought up all the available shares in which football club?

7. Professor Martin Rees is the current what?

8. Who is the MP for Neath?

9. Who is the patron saint of horses?

10. How is Gravelly Hill interchange better known?

FILM

1. If Doris Day was Calamity Jane, who was Wild Bill Hickok?

2. Paul Newman bet he could eat how many hard-boiled eggs in an hour in Cool Hand Luke?

3. Which musical features the songs I Whistle A Happy Tune and Getting to Know You?

4. Which Bond film was the first to feature Timothy Dalton?

5. Who played Forrest's mother in the film Forrest Gump?

6. In which film does John Travolta play a Miami based loan collector called Chili Palmer?

7. In which 1983 film did Jennifer Beale play a welder?

8. Which 1973 Western staring Kris Kristofferson was directed by Sam Peckinpah, and had music by Bob Dylan?

9. In the film The Wizard Of Oz, what does Dorothy have to steal from the Wicked Witch of the West?

10. What is the title of the award-winning 1976 film about the Watergate scandal?

BLOCKBUSTERS

1. Which 'N' is the mother of invention?

2. Which 'N' a marsupial native to south-west Australia, has distinctive white bars across its back, a long bushy tail and a black stripe through the eyes?

3. Which 'C' literally meaning slipper, is a moist aerated Italian bread, made using olive oil?

4. What 'B' is a headscarf worn by Russian peasant women?

5. Which 'H' is a Devon village in which lace has been produced since the 17th century?

6. In which 'S' did The Muppets first appear?

7. Which 'S' are a Scottish football club nicknamed The Warriors?

8. What 'P' on a ship is an officer who keeps the accounts and attends to the passengers' welfare?

9. Which 'N' can be Serena, Tirano or Pathfinder?

10. What 'F' was Spain's right wing nationalist party formed in 1937 by General Francisco Franco, and formally abolished on 1st April 1977?

MUSIC

1. Which jazz trumpeter recorded the albums Bitches' Brew and Birth of the Cool?

2. What was the 1st UK top ten hit for Them back in 1964?

3. In which City is the opera Carmen set?

4. Pussycat, were the 1st group from which country to top the UK top 10?

5. What was used to conduct the orchestra before the baton was introduced in the early 19th century?

6. Whose Maple Leaf Rag was the first instrumental sheet music to sell a million?

7. What is Paul McCartney's middle name?

8. Which instrument do you associate with John Williams, Julian Bream and Andres Segovia?

9. Who was the Forces' Sweetheart of World War II?

10. Mike Oldfield's hit album, Tubular Bells was released on which label?

GEOGRAPHY / HISTORY

1. Yellowknife is the capital of which part of Canada?

2. Who led the 1957/8 British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition?

3. What is the State Capital of California?

4. Which Italian, Secretary to Mary Queen of Scots, was murdered by a group of men led by Lord Ruthven, who stabbed him on the orders of Lord Darnley in 1566?

5. Cape Farewell is the name given to the southern tip of which large island?

6. Which Marxist politician was elected President of Chile in 1970?

7. Which is the most easterly of the main Canary Islands?

8. Which Lancashire born engineer invented the Spinning Jenny in the 18th Century?

9. What did Finisterre become in 2002?

10. In Greek mythology, Persephone was the Queen of what?

TELEVISION

1. Lou Todd and Andy Pipkin are characters in which British TV show?

2. If Ronnie Ancona is 'Posh' who is 'Becks'?

3. Which Coronation Street actor was axed in 2003 after 21 years on the Street?

4. What is the Dr Meridith's surname in the TV series Grey's Anatomy?

5. Which former presenter on Tomorrow's World was married to Keith Chegwin?

6. Who did Billie Piper play in Dr Who?

7. Which character in The Simpsons has the forename Clancy?

8. Who presents the TV programme Streets Ahead?

9. Who is 'centred' in the title of a BBC comedy?

10. Which TV series, first shown in 1983 starred Kevin Whately, Tim Healy & Jimmy Nail?

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE 2

1. What was the name of Butch Cassidy's gang?

2. How many digits do pigs have on each hoof?

3. In the book of Genesis, what would you find to the East of Eden?

4. Who, in October 1983, was shown on the news slipping on Brighton beach and getting his trousers wet?

5. Who painted Mr and Mrs Clarke and Percy?

6. Astraphobia is a fear of what?

7. Who was the first jockey to be knighted?

8. What is the English translation of the Russian word Bolshevik?

9. What is the title of the 4th book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams?

10. Which gum resin is possibly one of the most famous birthday presents in the World?