1.Near which Scottish town is the Aonach Mor ski centre? FORT WILLIAM
2. Which song starts: ‘I am just a poor boy, though my story’s seldom told’ ?
‘THE BOXER’ - Simon and Garfunkle
3. Sheets of paper may be described as 90 GSM. What do the letters stand for?
GRAMS per SQUARE METRE
4. Which company makes Barbie dolls? MATTEL
5. What Verdi opera was commissioned by the Khedive of Egypt in 1870? ‘AIDA’
6. According to the 2001 census, 390,000 people in the UK claimed to be what
warrior monks? JEDI
7. The saying ‘If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen’ is generally
attributed to which US President? HARRY TRUMAN
8. What P word links Hull railway station and a flawless diamond? PARAGON
9.What is the very common household use of the marine life form porifera?
SPONGE
10 In descending order of age, what could be ‘ancient’, ‘redbrick’ or ‘plate-glass’?
UNIVERSITIES
11 Who were the 2 glamorous co-stars of ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’ (2-part answer)
MARILYN MONROE and JANE RUSSELL (1 MARK EACH)
12 Which country does the liqueur Sambuca come from? ITALY
13 How did Etruria Marl bring prosperity to ‘The Six Towns’ of Staffordshire?
IT’S CLAY / RAW MATERIAL FOR THE POTTERIES or similar answers
14 Made from oats, butter, sugar and syrup, the Americans may call it Hudson Bay
Bread; what do we call it? FLAPJACK
15 Who made 1940 cartoon debuts as Jasper and Jinx in ‘Puss Gets the Boot’ ?
TOM AND JERRY
16 The speed of what playing surface is measured by a stimpmeter?
A GOLF GREEN
17 Which 1960s blues/rock band launched the careers of guitarists Eric Clapton,
Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck? THE YARDBIRDS
18 What part of your skeleton does the word ‘costal’ refer to? RIBS
19 Which Scottish mountains were described by the Vikings as ‘keel-shaped’ and so
got their modern name? CUILLINS -of Skye or Rum
20 What connects the cities of Atlanta in the USA and Tbilisi in the Caucasus?
CAPITALS OF GEORGIA
21 Due to move to a new home, which football team played their last-ever game at
the Boleyn Ground in May? WEST HAM
22 Who wrote ‘Little Women’? LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
23 What are the only two films to have been nominated for fourteen Oscars (2 parts)
‘TITANIC’ and ‘ALL ABOUT EVE’ (1 mark each)
24 Which UK airport is the hub for Easyjet? LUTON
25 In mythology, who was the son of Daedalus whom he saw fall to his death?
ICARUS
26 In which continent is the range sometimes called the ‘Mountains of the Moon’?
AFRICA – the Rwenzori Mts
27 What two colours lie either side of the blue ring on an archery target? (2 parts)
RED and BLACK (1 mark each)
28 What word describes the moon when it is between half and full? GIBBOUS
29 How many ventricles has the human heart? TWO
30 Where is the Oort Cloud? IN SPACE - beyond the Solar System
31 What was the name of the alliance of merchant towns along the Baltic and North
Sea coasts in the Middle Ages? THE HANSEATIC LEAGUE / HANSE
32 Jacques Villeneuve is the only motor F1 World Champion from which country?
CANADA
33 The origin of the surname ‘Brewster’ comes from the beer trade - a brewer of beer.
What extra bit of information did the name provide? BREWER WAS FEMALE
34 On old sailing ships, who was in charge of the rigging and sails?
THE BOATSWAIN / BO’SUN
35 Who was the murderous ‘Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ ? SWEENEY TODD
36 Which character in an Oscar Wilde novel had a supernatural mirror?
DORIAN GRAY
37 Where would you find a lych gate? (AT THE ENTRANCE TO) A CHURCHYARD
38 Which British university’s main research library is the Bodlean? OXFORD
39 What did Thomas Sheraton design? FURNITURE
40 What is the Statue of Liberty made of? (CAST) IRON