1. Scottish Cup 1938: how many games did East Fife play in the competition and which team did they defeat in the final?
  2. The World’s highest railway line runs between which two countries?
  3. In which war was the Battle of Inkerman?
  4. The islands of Gozo and Comino are part of which country?
  5. Leonard Martin was the first person to do what on B. B. C.’s ‘Grandstand’?
  6. Which King of England was crowned on Christmas Day?
  7. What was the title of Cher’s first solo U. K. No.1 single?
  8. In 1960, which two countries shared the first tied test match in cricket history?
  9. What protein is found in human hair and fingernails?
  10. What was the first British football club to have an all-seated stadium?
  11. What is Switzerland’s largest city by population?
  12. What are the first two names of T. S. Eliot?
  13. Who was Larry Grayson’s Scottish assistant on ‘The Generation Game’?
  14. What name is given to the target in quoits?
  15. Who played the title role in the 1979 film ‘Mad Max’?
  16. On a computer keyboard which letter is between ‘U’ and ‘O’?
  17. In what year was the Forth Road Bridge opened?
  18. In ‘Coronation Street’, Reg Holdsworth was manager of which supermarket?
  19. On which Scottish abbey is King Robert the Bruce to be seen in stonework at the top of the tower?
  20. The World War II film ‘A Bridge too Far’ was about the airborne landings in which country?
  21. Name the year: Vietnam splits into two, Laos gains independence from France, Doris Day has a U. K. No.1 single with ‘Secret Love’ and West Germany beat Hungary 3 – 2 in the World Cup final.
  22. What is another name for marsh gas?
  23. How many players are there in a baseball team?
  24. ‘Only Fools and Horses’: name two of the three places mentioned on the Trotter’s Robin Reliant.
  25. Which Oscar-winning film holds the record for the most extras?
  26. What is gymnophobia a fear of?
  27. What is sixty nine in Roman numerals?
  28. Which English river is swan upping performed every year?
  29. Which Scottish author was Lord Tweedsmuir?
  30. Which two Italian volcanoes erupted in 1994?
  31. Which pop-singing duo had the surnames Hodges and Peacock?
  32. A ‘taliped’ suffers from which deformity?
  33. Ian St. John played for which Scottish football club?
  34. In which TV series did Richard Chamberlain play a priest?
  35. What was the only U. K. No.1 single for The Shamen in 1992?
  36. Muster is the collective noun for what type of birds?
  37. Who took over from Terry Wogan to commentate on the Eurovision Song Contest?
  38. For which two films did Jack Nicholson win Best Actor Oscar?
  39. Which Austrian city hosts an annual Mozart festival?
  40. Name two of the four U. S. state capitals with ‘city’ in the title.

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