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1. Who is the current FA President?
   Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
2. What miraculous food was given to the Israelites wandering in the wilderness?
   Manna
3. Whose daughters were Goneril, Regan & Cordelia?
   King Lear
4. What is a motte?
   A mound a castle sits on
5. What musical does the football anthem ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ come from?
   Carousel
6. What name is given to young pilchards?
   Sardines
7. What 90s grunge band featured Krist Novoselic & Dave Grohl?
   Nirvana
8. What area of work was Jacob Epstein famous in?
   Sculpture
9. What country has more bikes than any other?
   Netherlands – at 1.3 bikes per person
10. What astrological sign comes after Cancer and before Virgo?
    Leo
11. In geometry, what is a reflex angle?
    One that is more than 180 degrees but less than 360
12. Who sang the punk cult classic ‘White Man In Hammersmith Palais’?
    The Clash
13. What is the notorious tidal current in the Lofoten Islands off northern Norway called?
    The Maelstrom
14. What is the disorder Sydenham’s chorea often called?
    St Vitus’s Dance
15. If you were in Amman, what country’s capital would you be in?
    Jordan
16. In what film does Jack Nicholson announce his arrival with the declaration, ‘Here’s Johnny!’?
    The Shining
17. What opera was legally limited by its composer to be performed with all black actors?
    Porgy and Bess
18. What European country was ruled by King Zog until 1946?
    Albania
19. What Victorian literary scoundrel did George Macdonald Fraser make an anti-hero?
    Flashman
20. Ultravox’s 1981 classic ‘Vienna’ was kept from the number one spot by what song?
    ‘Shaddap You Face’ by Joe Dolce
21. What US president’s previous jobs included that of a male model?
    Gerald Ford
22. In pottery terminology, what is a banker?
    A workbench
23. What was the name of the Lone Ranger’s horse?
    Silver
24. What type of sherry is oloroso?
    Dark & sweet

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1. What Norse warriors worked themselves into a bloodthirsty frenzy before battle?
   Berserkers
2. Who is credited with devising the first waterproof fabric?
   Charles Macintosh
3. How many points would a snooker player score for potting a red then a brown ball?
   5
4. What stage show gave Jason Donovan his 1991 hit, ‘Any Dream Will Do’?
   Joseph & His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
5. What is a banderole?
   A pennant
6. James Fenimore Cooper’s character Uncas was ‘The Last Of….’ what?
   The Mohicans
7. What group of Greek islands is Corfu in?
   Ionian Islands
8. What comedy writer and actor sang the theme song for ‘One Foot In The Grave’?
   Eric Idle
9. Who is the Greek god of sleep & dreams?
   Morpheus
10. What country won the first Eurovision Song Contest?
    Switzerland
11. What film ends with the line, ‘He ran them off their feet’?
    Chariots of Fire
12. What is the only place in the world where there is no cold virus?
    Antarctica
13. Porthos and Aramis were two of the Three Musketeers; who was the third?
    Athos
14. Igor Sikorsky designed the first what?
    Helicopter
15. In what war did the Light Brigade charge?
    Crimean War
16. What would you do with an ocarina?
    Play it
17. Complete George Bush’s 1991 comment: ‘We need a nation closer to the Waltons than to…’?
    The Simpsons
18. Which human bone is the longest?
    Femur (hip to knee)
19. Where is Nelson’s flagship, The Victory, permanently docked?
    Portsmouth
20. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark had a 1980 hit with ‘Enola Gay’; what was the song about?
    The plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima
21. What city has the Prado gallery?
    Madrid
22. Who played the musical American George M. Cohan in ‘Yankee Doodle Dandy’?
    James Cagney
23. What relation was the witch Morgan le Fay to King Arthur?
    Half-sister
24. What country cricket club plays at St Lawrence Ground?
    Kent

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1. What Kenny Rogers song has the line ‘It’s hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralysed’?
   ‘Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town’
2. What‘s the name of foreigners who fought for the Spanish government in the Civil War?
   The International Brigade
3. Who invented the Mars Bar in 1920?
   Frank Mars
4. What does an Archimedes’ Screw do?
   Lifts water
5. Where is the Ocean of Storms?
   On the Moon
6. According to the Stranglers, what hero ‘got an ice-pick that made his ears burn’?
   Trotsky
7. What sport’s name translates as ‘the gentle way’?
   Judo
8. How many virtues were there traditionally thought to be?
   7
9. Who was the animator in Monty Python’s Flying Circus?
   Terry Gilliam
10. What would you expect a cooper to make?
    Barrels
11. Where is the priceless 8th-century Celtic illuminated manuscript ‘The Book of Kells’ housed?
    Dublin
12. One of the two gangs in West Side Story was the Sharks; what was the other one?
    Jets
13. Where in a boat is the stern?
    Rear
14. Prince wrote the Bangles’ first big hit. What was it called?
    ‘Manic Monday’
15. Ingrid Bergman had an infamous affair in 1949 with a director she later married. Who was he?
    Roberto Rossellini
16. Which country is part of the UK but not part of Britain?
    Northern Island
17. What did Galahad, Perceval, Tristan & Mordred all have in common?
    All were Knights of the Round Table
18. What is a greenstick fracture?
    An incomplete fracture in a child’s bone
19. What arrived in Britain in 1347?
    The Black Death
20. What is the world’s longest rail journey?
    Moscow to Vladivostok
21. What is the fastest land mammal over a short distance?
    Cheetah
22. What film earned John Wayne his only Oscar?
    ‘True Grit’
23. What event in 1447 was said by some to pave the way for the Reformation?
    The discovery of printing
24. What was the sequel to the British sitcom; Porridge?
    ‘Going Straight’

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1. Who is the wizard in The Lord Of The Rings?
   Gandalf
2. In professional boxing, what would a fighter weighing 140-147 lbs be called?
   Welterweight
3. What actor, destined for stardom, played the corpse in the 1983 film ‘The Big Chill’?
   Kevin Costner
4. Roughly what speed would you be travelling at if you were in a boat doing 20 knots?
   23mph
5. Who investigated the murdering headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow?
   Ichabod Crane
6. What TV show features the Cafe Nervosa?
   Frasier
7. What Joe Jackson song has the line ‘Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street’?
   ‘Is She Really Going Out With Him?’
8. How did Moses see God at Horen, when he told him to lead the Israelites out of Egypt?
   As a burning bush
9. What plant does gin take its flavour from?
   Juniper
10. Which Catherine outlived Henry VIII?
    Catherine Parr
11. What is the second most spoken language in the world?
    Spanish – Mandarin is first, English is third
12. What UK actor won a Tony award in 1998 for his Broadway portrayal of the MC in Cabaret?
    Alan Cumming
13. Aside from being the husband of Marilyn Monroe, what else was Joe DiMaggio famous as?
    A baseball player
14. When was the United Nations founded?
    1945
15. Where was the 2006 World Cup staged?
    Germany
16. What Kurt Weill opera, with the song ‘Mac The Knife’, was shut by the Nazis soon after opening?
    The Threepenny Opera
17. What is the tune to Danny Boy known as?
    The Derry Air
18. What Shakespeare play was the insipration for the film ‘Ten Things I Hate About You’?
    The Taming Of The Shrew
19. If you wrote the number 600 in Roman numerals, what would you write?
    DC
20. Who was Steed’s first sidekick in The Avengers?
    Cathy Gale
21. What boundary region has been long fought over by Israel and Syria?
    The Golan Heights
22. What Disney film featured the Bad ‘Uns, Jasper, and Horace?
    101 Dalmations
23. Before going solo, what pop group did Bryan Ferry front?
    Roxy Music
24. What is a cor anglais?
    A woodwind instrument

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1. How many of the Walker Brothers trio were actually related?
   None of them
2. In Dad’s Army, what was Private Fraser’s catchphrase?
   ‘Doomed, I say…we’re all doomed!’
3. Who was Sirhan Sirhan’s famous victim in the 1960s?
   Bobby Kennedy
4. What school of witchcraft and wizardry does Harry Potter attend?
   Hogwarts
5. What animal name is given to Sirius, the brightest star?
   The Dog Star
6. What is unique about the mythical bird, the phoenix?
   It is reborn in fire
7. What country first gave women the vote?
   New Zealand
8. How many points does a player score for a goal in hurling?
   3
9. Which of the Twelve Apostles was replaced by Matthias?
   Judas Iscariot
10. How did dinosaurs gestate their young?
    In eggs
11. What do Aiguebelle, Centerbe and Ettaler have in common?
    They are herbal liqueurs
12. Which movie do the main characters in When Harry Met Sally lie in bed watching?
    Casablanca
13. What do Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera have in common?
    They’re both singers, and both performed with the Mickey Mouse Club
14. If someone is an octogenarian, what decade of their life are they in?
    Ninth
15. What writer was forced by his government to decline his Nobel Prize for literature?
    Boris Pasternak
16. What solo singing star began his career with the Spencer Davis Group and Traffic?
    Steve Winwood
17. What natural feature occupies a quarter of Africa?
    The Sahara Desert
18. Which of the following did not rule the Holy Roman Empire?
    Charles the Wise
19. In what sport did Bill Beaumont captain England?
    Rugby Union
20. In the kitsch 70s series Charlie’s Angels, what was unusual about Charlie?
    He was never on screen
21. Who dreamed up the original Utopia?
    Thomas More
22. In Back To The Future, what speed must the car go to travel through time?
    88 mph
23. What country are the Ozarks in?
    USA
24. Moriarty was one of the great villains of literature. Who was his famous adversary?
    Sherlock Holmes