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Quiz I
- What colour are post boxes in Spain?
- Jeremiah Colman began making mustard in the early 1800s near which British city?
- Where would you find the 'Ocean of Storms'?
- Shirley Crabtree was better known as which seventies icon?
- What type of wood was Noah's ark made from?
- In which year was the pound coin introduced?
- Bernardo O'Higgins freed which country from Spanish rule?
- What is Barack Obama's middle name?
- Whose missing from : Julian, Dick, Georgina and Timmy the dog?
- In physics, what is the plural of quantum?
- In which American city would you find the headquarters of General Motors?
- The Maiwand Lion is a sculpture and war memorial in the Forbury Gardens, a public park in which English town?
- Who became the Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate in 1992?
- Which newspaper, once the biggest selling English language newspaper in the world, ceased publication in 2011?
Answers:
- Yellow
- Norwich
- On the Moon
- Wrestler Big Daddy
- Gopher wood
- 1983
- Chile
- Hussein
- Anne (members of Enid Blyton's Famous Five)
- Quanta
- Detroit
- Reading
- Glenda Jackson
- The News of the World
Quiz II
- In which war was the Gatling gun first used?
- Which country has a flag that is not rectangular?
- Which desert covers much of Botswana and parts of Namibia?
- Which rock band wrote and performed the theme for the long-running adult cartoon South Park?
- Which viaduct carrying the M6 motorway in Birmingham is a quarter mile longer than the Second Severn Crossing?
- Who was the 40th President of the United States?
- Where does an arboreal creature typically live?
- In heraldry, what colour is vert?
- Who asks the quiz questions in ITV's 'The Chase'?
- Considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy, who won the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature?
- Who have their headquarters at One Brewer's Green, London?
- What is the most widely recognized national symbol of Canada?
- Which unit of the Roman army consisted of 480 men?
- The mainland portion of which country is formed by Jutland?
Answers:
- The American Civil (by the Union)
- Nepal
- The Kalahari
- Primus
- Bromford Viaduct
- Ronald Reagan
- In trees
- Green
- Bradley Walsh
- Bertrand Russell
- The Labour Party
- The Maple Leaf
- Cohort
- Denmark
Quiz III
- Name the oldest equestrian weekly magazine in the UK?
- In 1997, who announced he was leaving the BBC to stand as an independent candidate in the Tatton constituency in Cheshire?
- In which city did Roger Bannister run the first sub-four-minute mile in 1954?
- Which large animal kills more people than any other animal in Africa?
- Which country do swallows migrate to when they leave Britain for the winter?
- Which country has the second largest land mass in the world if water is excluded?
- In fashion, what do the initials DKNY stand for?
- Occurring twice yearly, what name is given to a day consisting of twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of darkness?
- How many X chromosomes do women have?
- Which city is the largest port in Germany?
Answers:
- Horse and Hound
- Martin Bell
- Oxford
- Hippopotamus
- South Africa
- China (Canada drops down to fourth if water is excluded)
- Donna Karan New York
- Equinox
- Two
- Hamburg
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