1. Which capital city was called Edo until nearly 150 years ago? TOKYO
2. Who was the last British monarch to be killed on the battlefield?
JAMES 4TH OF SCOTLAND
3. What song were the NYPD singing, according to ‘Fairytale of New York’?
‘GALWAY BAY’
4. What, in Scotland, is ashlar? RECTANGULAR / DRESSED STONE
5. ‘Dry ice’ is a solid form of what gas? CARBON DIOXIDE
6. Which 2 Scandinavian cities are linked by the Ørebro Bridge? (2-part answer)
MALMO and COPENHAGEN (1 MARK EACH)
7. Which group of people got full rights as American citizens in 1924?
NATIVE AMERICANS
8. Who claimed that work was the curse of the drinking classes? OSCAR WILDE
9. Selling at over £7 million, one of the world’s most expensive printed books is
‘______of America’ by James Audubon. Fill in the blank. ‘BIRDS’ …
10 What do complementary angles add up to? 90º
11 Which side were the rebels in the Spanish Civil War? THE FASCISTS/
FALANGE / NATIONALISTS
12 Who replaced Judas Iscariot as a disciple? MATTHIAS
13 What is the main constituent of a Glamorgan sausage? CHEESE
14 Which day marked the end of the Celtic harvest and the start of the dark half of
the year? SAMHAIN
15 In what year did Alexander Dubcek lead the ‘Prague Spring’ rising? 1968
16 Whereabouts was the Barbary Coast, feared for its pirates? NORTH AFRICA /
THE MAHGREB
17 What was Lady Chatterly’s christian name? CONSTANCE / CONNIE
18 ‘Ne’er cast a clout before May be out’ is the saying. If it’s not referring to the
month, what is May? MAYFLOWER / HAWTHORN BLOSSOM
19 The Greenwich Meridian is 0º longitiude; what, roughly, follows longitude 180º?
THE INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE
20 What make of plane did ‘The Red Baron’, Manfred von Richthofen, fly?
A FOKKER (TRIPLANE)
21. Who regularly had his hand up Sooty? HARRY CORBETT / son MATTHEW later
22. Which is the smallest of the 5 main Channel Islands? HERM
23. In which country was composer Frederick Delius born? ENGLAND (Bradford)
24. Which American city do the baseballing Braves come from? ATLANTA
25. Which spoof TV crime series starred Jasper Carrott? ‘ THE DETECTIVES’
26. In the 17th century, where would you have been banished from if you were told
to ‘Get tae Freuchie’ ? FALKLAND PALACE
27. Who played Worzel Gummidge in the children’s TV programme? JON PERTWEE
28 What fruit based drink did Michael Portillo advertise when he was a child?
RIBENA
29. Who fell off ‘Lady Ghislaine’, allegedly? ROBERT MAXWELL
30 Which 2012 action movie took its title from military slang for sometime in the small
hours before dawn? ‘ZERO DARK 30’
31 In the acronym ACAS, the ‘S’ stands for Service. What do any two of the other 3
letters stand for?
Any 2 from: ADVISORY / CONCILIATION / ARBITRATION. (1 MARK EACH)
32 Malé is the capital city of which island group? THE MALDIVES
33 In which year did the UK return Hong Kong to the Chinese? 1997
34 Which motorway runs from London to Southampton? THE M3
35 Where was the nuclear power station incident in Pennsylvania in 1979?
THREE MILE ISLAND
36 Which RAF plane, based largely at RAF Kinloss, was a version of the De Havilland
Comet? NIMROD
37 Who was the previous Duchess of York before Sarah Ferguson?
ELIZABETH BOWES-LYON / THE QUEEN MOTHER
38 In which English port city was Cary Grant born? BRISTOL
39 In the children’s book, what was the name of the spider who helped Wilbur the pig?
CHARLOTTE (‘Charlotte’s Web’)
40 In a series of 1980s adverts for Australian tourism, what did Paul Hogan invite
us to ‘come and say’? G’DAY