General Knowledge
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1. In which English county would you find the area of Bell End? |
Worcestershire |
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2. Which car company would you associate the slogan Vorsprung Durch Technik? |
Audi |
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3. In which TV show would you find a pub called the Aidensfield Arms |
Heartbeat |
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4. SN is the chemical symbol for which element? |
Tin |
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5. Which media streaming service, based in Sweden, was launched by Startup in 2008? |
Spotify |
Abbreviations
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1. In government, what does the letter R stand for in DEFRA? |
Rural (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) |
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2. In diving, what does the B stand for in SCUBA? |
Breathing (Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus) |
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3. In politics, what does the letter C stand for in UNESCO? |
Cultural (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) |
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4. Which video game series is sometimes referred to as GTA? |
Grand Theft Auto |
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5. What do the initials in NATO stand for? |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
Food and Drink
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1. What spirit is the main ingredient in a Mojito cocktail? |
White Rum |
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2. Cullen Skink is a hearty soup made with potatoes, onion and which fish? |
Haddock |
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3. Which fruit goes into the liqueur Kirsch? |
Cherry |
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4. Which bean is used to produce a tin of baked beans? |
Haricot |
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5. Which two popular fruits are anagrams of each other? |
Lemon and Melon |
Science and Nature
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1. Which organ of the body is affected by Bright’s Disease? |
Kidney |
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2. How many wings does a bee have? |
4 |
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3. What is the common name for the medical condition epistaxis? |
Epistaxes |
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4. Common, Water and Pygmy are types of which British mammal? |
Shrew |
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5. What mineral has the lowest number on the Mohs scale? |
Talc |
Literature
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1. Who wrote the book “The Colour Purple”? |
Alice Walker |
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2. Who wrote Twilight series of novels? |
Stephanie Meyer |
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3. Who has written a series of letters entitled `Dear Fatty` in the form of an autobiography? |
Dawn French |
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4. In George Orwell`s Animal Farm, what type of animals were Clover, Mollie and Boxer? |
Horses |
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5. According to Douglas Adams what number is the meaning of life? |
42 |
1 Questions 5 Answers (1 point each)
Q: As well as the United Kingdom and USA, which other 5 countries make up the G7?
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Canada |
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Japan |
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France |
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Germany |
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Italy |
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Animals
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1. The Rhodesian ridgeback is a breed of which animal? |
Dog |
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2. How many hearts does an octopus have? |
3 |
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3. Which butterfly, commonly found in the UK, shares its name with a punctuation mark? |
Comma |
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4. What animal is used to represent zoos on UK motorway sign posts? |
Elephant |
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5. What is Britain’s only venomous snake |
Adder |
Connection
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1. Which historical city is mentioned in the first line of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Kubla Khan”? |
Xanadau |
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2. Which three-day music festival was held on a dairy farm in New York in August 1969, attracting performers such as Santana and The Who? |
Woodstock |
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3. Which 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film stars James Stewart as a former police detective with an extreme fear of heights? |
Vertigo |
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4. What was the only novel written by Emily Brontë? |
Wuthering Heights |
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5. What connects the previous four answers? |
Titles of UK Number 1 Hit Singles |