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1. Which battle of 1942 did Churchill call the end of the beginning? 2. Which monarch lost the battle of Actium? 3. In which castle was King Edward the Martyr murdered in AD 978? 4. Where did King Aggabodhi and King Parakrama Bahu rule? 5. Which British kings coronation was postponed because he had appendicitis? 6. Who ordered Lady Jane Grey to be executed? 7. Who first suggested the possibility of man-made satellites? 8. Which peer was a British aviation pioneer? 9. Which PM was nicknamed Pam? 10. What was the Irish politician Daniel OConnells nickname? 11. Mauritius was declared a republic on 12 March 1992 to mark the sixtieth anniversary of which important event in modern Indian history? 12. How was Darius selected to be the king of Persia? 13. Who vowed to liberate India from the British rule at the grave of Bahadur Shah Zafar in Rangoon? 14. Complete this Nehru quotation: 'If India lives, who dies. If India. 15. If Attila is called 'the Scourge of God', which Delhi sultan often called himself 'the Shadow of God'? 16. Name the famous American who has the most number of cities, towns, universities, rivers and streets named after him. 17. Which religious leader insisted that everyone in Hindu society be conferred 'Brahminhood' by giving a sacred thread? 18. In which US regiment did Bill Clinton serve during the Vietnam War? 19. Which date is written on the book held by the Statue of Liberty? 20. Which Japanese military attack was codenamed Operation Z?

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1. El Alamein. 2. Cleopatra. 3. In Corfe Castle, Dorset. 4. Ceylon, or Sri Lanka. 5. Edward VIIs, in 1902. 6. Mary Tudor, Queen Mary I, in 1554. 7. Sir Isaac Newton. 8. Lord Brabazon of Tara. 9. Lord Palmerston. 10. The Liberator. 11. The Dandi March by Gandhiji started from Sabarmati Ashram on 12 March 1930 12. Seven princes of Persia agreed that the one whose horse neighed first would be king. Darius' horse was the first to neigh. 13. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose 14. ...dies, who lives 15. Muhammad bin Tughlaq 16. George Washington 17. Swami Vivekananda 18. He did not serve-he dodged the draft 19. 4 July 1776 (The date of the American Declaration of Independence) 20. Pearl Harbor, 1941

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
21. What two-word term used to describe the period between AD 400 to AD 1500 was coined by the German historian Christopher Keller? 22. The Rigveda Samhita is divided into ten books. What are the books called? 23. To which French leader did President Bokassa give diamonds? 24. Between World War I and World War II, what was the school-leaving age? 25. Bessarabia was taken over by which country, in 1947? 26. Which PM referred to the colonies as A millstone around our necks? 27. The Royal Family of which country are called Bernadotte? 28. What did the German monk Berthold Schwartz invent in the 14th century? 29. Who was the first protestant Archbishop of Canterbury? 30. When was the Channel Tunnel first proposed? 31. How many sons did King George V have? 32. During which century did Popocatepetl last erupt? 33. Which British king was nicknamed Farmer George? 34. What do we use today instead of the old-fashioned pouncepot? 35. How many cohorts make a Roman legion? 36. The Romans used a liquid called sepia for writing. From what did this come? 37. Which Emperor married Messalina? 38. When did the Great Train Robbery take place? 39. Which kings death was caused by a little gentleman in black velvet? 40. Which country did Rhodri Mawr once rule?

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21. Middle Ages 22. Mandalas 23. Valery Giscard dEstaing. 24. Fourteen. 25. The USSR. 26. Disraeli. 27. Sweden. 28. The cannon. 29. Thomas Cranmer. 30. In 1802. 31. Five, and one daughter. 32. The eighteenth century. (1702.) 33. George III. 34. Blotting paper. 35. Winston Churchills. 36. Cuttlefish. 37. Claudius. 38. In 1963. 39. William Ills: his horse stumbled over a molehill. 40. Wales.

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41. While giving birth to whom did Jane Seymour die? 42. Right up to 1819, what was the maximum penalty for illegal tree-felling in Britain? 43. Louis Montcalm was killed in 1759, defending which city? 44. What is the modern name of the town called Dubris by the Romans? 45. Before the seventeenth century, what did pencil mean? 46. What do members of the House of Commons call the House of Lords? 47. Which Italian family produced a Pope and a poisoner? 48. Which country was ruled by the New Jewel Movement, until it was invaded by the USA? 49. For what purpose was Eau de Cologne originally manufactured? 50. What did the SS Carpathia, the SS Virginian, the SS Parisian and the SS Olympic do in common? 51. Which famous mutiny occurred in the 1850s? 52. The Spanish Inquisition was formed chiefly to wipe out what? 53. Which battle won Scotlands freedom in the Wars of Independence? 54. Which Queen lost her head in 1587? 55. Who died in 1814, leaving a box of prophecies to be opened by bishops? 56. Which famous dog was found in a foxhole during World War I? 57. Name the whopping white diamond that Richard Burton bought for Elizabeth Taylor in 1969. 58. How old was Harold Macmillan when he became Prime Minister? 59. When did Concorde first fly? 60. When Napoleon died, where was he buried?

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41. Edward, later Edward VI. 42. Hanging. 43. Quebec. 44. Dover. 45. A brush. 46. Another place. 47. The Borgia family. 48. Grenada, before 1983. 49. As a protection against the plague. 50. They all rushed to the rescue of the Titanic. 51. The Indian Mutiny. 52. Heresy. 53. Bannockburn, in 1314. 54. Mary, Queen of Scots. 55. Charles I at his execution, according to Andrew Marvell. 56. Rin Tin Tin. 57. The Cartier-Burton Diamond. 58. 62 years old. 59. In 1969. 60. St Helena. His remains were later brought back to Paris.

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61. Which country was ruled by the House of Braganza until 1910? 62. When did Vesuvius last erupt? 63. In 1477, King Edward IV outlawed which game? 64. Which deceased grand-daughter of Queen Victoria made a trip in April 1985? 65. In 19th century London, what job did toshers do? 66. Which Egyptian king caused the Great Pyramid of Cheops to be built? 67. Which battle was fought on 13 August, 1704? 68. Which monarch wrote a book about witchcraft called Daemonologie? 69. In World War II, what were the German tank divisions called? 70. Which religions calendar begins in AD 622? 71. Charles Darwin left London in early 1985. How was this possible? 72. What was Indonesia formerly called? 73. What iniquitous organization did Nathan Bedford Forrest begin, in 1865? 74. The Resurgam, which sank on its maiden voyage in 1880, was the first what? 75. In 1979, two Russians spent how many consecutive days in space? 76. What exchange was formed in 1773? 77. Which weapon did the Roman gladiators called laquearii use? 78. For what does the D stand in D-Day? 79. In which war were jet aircraft first used for fighting? 80. How much did the USA pay Spain for Florida in 1819?

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61. Portugal. 62. In 1944. 63. Cricket. 64. Spains English Queen Victoria Eugenia, who died in 1969, but whose remains were flown to Madrid for re-burial. 65. They scavenged in the sewers. 66. King Cheops. 67. The battle of Blenheim. 68. King James VI of Scotland 69. Panzer. 70. The calendar of Islam. 71. Charles Darwin is the name of a newly commissioned marine laboratory. 72. The Dutch East Indies. 73. The Ku Klux Klan. 74. Steam-driven submarine. 75. 175 days. 76. The Stock Exchange. 77. A lasso. 78. Nothing at all just day. 79. In the Korean War. 80. Five million dollars.

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81. Whom did Jack McCall kill in Deadwood on 2 August 1876? 82. Who called himself Prince Florizel when writing to an actress friend? 83. How many scenes are there on the Bayeux Tapestry? 84. Name the last remaining King of Spain before it was declared a republic in 1939. 85. Who were the Mayflowers passengers on her second journey to America the Pilgrim Fathers having travelled on her first? 86. Which is the oldest of the Pyramids? 87. Which large German battleship was sunk on 27 May 1941? 88. Who successfully defended Pondicherry against the British invasion in 1748? 89. Marengo met Copenhagen at the Battle of Waterloo. Who were Marengo and Copenhagen? 90. In ancient Rome, who would shout the Latin phrases, 'Moritufri te salutant' which means, those who are about to die, salute you? 91. According to the Egyptians, what was caused by the tears of Isis? 92. Why (according to general belief) did Shah Jahan build the Jama Masjid? 93. The marathon commemorates the heroic run of a Greek solider. Between which two places did he run? 94. What did Lord Kitchener primarily create during the Boer War, to remove women and children from the hardships of his 'scorched earth' policy in Transvaal and Cape Colony? 95. The erstwhile Soviet Union has no elephant living in its boundaries. However, 150 tonnes of ivory have been discovered in Russia in the twentieth century. What is the source of this ivory? 96. 'This is not a drill. This is the real McCoy'. When was this repetitive radio announcement made? 97. Little was heard about Joan of Arc after her death until someone resurrected her as a French cult figure. Name this person. 98. What did Dalhousie call, 'a sort of emblem of historical conquest in India'? 99. On 14 July 1789, Louis XVI wrote in his diary 'nothing'. Why was he mistaken? 100. From where did Vladimir Ulyanov get the name Lenin?

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81. Wild Bill Hickok 82. The Prince Regent, later George IV. 83. 72. 84. Alfonso XIII. 85. Slaves. 86. The Pyramid of Zoser, at Saggara. 87. The Bismarck 88. General Dupleix 89. They were the horses belonging to Napoleon and Wellington respectively 90. Gladiators 91. The swelling of the Nile 92. For his Friday prayers 93. Marathon and Athens 94. Concentration camps 95. These are the frozen remains, found in Siberia, of the woolly mammoths which existed there million years ago 96. On 7 December 1941 it was repeated on Hawaii Calls when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor 97. Napoleon Bonaparte 98. The Koh-i-noor diamond 99. Because 14 July 1789, marked the beginning of the French Revolution 100. From the river Lena

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101. In the nineteenth century, a group of people known as the abolitionists existed in US. What were they trying to abolish? 102. Which Libyan king did Colonel Gaddafi overthrow in 1969? 103. Which general addressed his troops in the natural hollow of Cheesefoot Head, near Winchester? 104. The Treaty of Ghent terminated a war in which year? 105. With which army did the Gurkhas fight in both World Wars? 106. Which process was pioneered by Johann Gutenberg? 107. How did Frederick, the Prince of Wales, son of George II, die? 108. Soviet Marshal Zhukov directed the final assault on where? 109. Which edict gave freedom to the Huguenots? 110. What did the Dowager Empress Tzu-Hsi of China order in 1900? 111. What animal did Canada adopt as an official emblem in 1851? 112. When did the Boston Tea Party take place? 113. Which notorious Colonel tried to kidnap the Lord-Lieutenant from Dublin Castle in 1663? 114. What was the sign for gladiators lives to be spared? 115. Where was Joan of Arc burned at the stake? 116. Which PM did Dimitri Tsafendas murder in 1966? 117. Against whom did Admiral Duncan fight the Battle of Camperdown in 1797? 118. Tamerlane assumed what name in the fourteenth century? 119. Who formed the Royal Ballet Company in France? 120. With which PM did George Tierney fight a duel on Putney Heath in 1798?

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101. 102. 103. 104. 105. 106. 107. 108. 109. 110. 111. 112. 113. 114. 115. 116. 117. 118. 119. 120. Slavery King Idris. Eisenhower, before D-Day. 1812. The British Army. Printing. As a result of a blow from a cricket ball. Berlin, in 1945. The Edict of Nantes. That all foreigners should be killed. The beaver. In 1773. Thomas Blood, who later had a go at the Crown Jewels. Thumbs-up At Rouen. Dr Verwoerd of South Africa. The Dutch. Great Khan. Louis XIV, the Sun King, himself a ballet dancer. William Pitt the Younger

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121. Where in Britain did the Ordovices live? 122. What were Henry VIIIs invasions of Scotland in 1544 and 1545 called? 123. What was the official language of the Roman Catholic Church until 1964? 124. Why was being a midwife a particularly hazardous occupation in the sixteenth century? 125. As what did Romans use catacombs? 126. In 1941, what did it cost to broadcast the very first TV commercial in the USA? 127. The 10,000 lb atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was given which diminutive nickname? 128. Up to the reign of Henry VIII (and some way into his too), a person could be hanged for eating meat on one day of the week. Which day? 129. Which king won the Battle of the Spurs? 130. What did Charles Townshend do in 1767 that the Americans hated? 131. In 1808, Maria Paradis was the first woman to scale which mountain? 132. What was the focal point of the Paris Exhibition of 1889? 133. Which flag day did Douglas Haig organize? 134. Which comet is featured on the Bayeux Tapestry? 135. When did the first mid-air collision between two passenger aircraft happen? 136. Who was Americas first Republican President? 137. In 1916, where did the Easter Rising take place? 138. Elected in 1867, who was Canadas first PM? 139. For what were the Skylon and Dome of Discovery built? 140. There were two at Heliopolis, Egypt. One went to New Yorks Central Park, the other to Londons Embankment. What are they?

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121. In North Wales. 122. The Rough Wooing he was annoyed about the failure of marriage plans for his son. 123. Latin. 124. Because if a baby died, the midwife was accused of being a witch. 125. As burial places. 126. Nine dollars. 127. Little Boy. 128. Friday. 129. Henry VIII, in 1513, against France. 130. As Chancellor, he put a tax on tea. 131. Mont Blanc. 132. The Eiffel Tower. 133. Poppy Day, when he was President of the British Legion. 134. Halleys Comet. 135. In 1956. 136. Abraham Lincoln. 137. In Dublin. 138. John A. MacDonald. 139. The 1951 Festival of Britain. 140. The obelisks known as Cleopatras Needles

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141. Britain began using postage stamps in 1840. How long did it take America to follow suit? 142. In 1976, where did two Vikings land? 143. Pope Gregory the Great first declared which city to be the centre of the Christian Church? 144. Which king was said to have been crowned with his mothers bracelet at nine months? 145. Who, in 1901, became MP for Oldham? 146. What is the Sealed Knot Society? 147. Who had the codename Colonel Warden Thugheart in World War II? 148. The ship The Eye of the Wind set out in 1978 to follow the same round-the-world course as that of which navigator? 149. Who caused Offas Dyke to be built in the eighth century? 150. Where did Napier take an 1868 expedition to rescue Britons held hostage by Theodore, the ruler? 151. What colour was the Red Barons plane in World War I? 152. Which country used the first aeroplane in war? 153. What took place in 1897 at Bonanza Creek, Alaska? 154. In which year was the first baby born on Antarctica? 155. Which English king was ransomed for 150,000 marks in 1194? 156. The Liberty Bell was ringing for the funeral of Chief Justice John Marshall when what happened? 157. To prevent invasions during which wars were Martello towers originally erected in Britain? 158. Who was known as Stupor Mundi? 159. Who commanded the Prussian troops at the Battle of Waterloo? 160. How were affairs of honour formerly settled?

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141. Seven years. 142. On Mars. 143. Rome. 144. Henry VI. 145. Winston Churchill. 146. An historical society which, for example, re-enacted the Battle of Sedgemoor in July 1985. 147. Winston Churchill. 148. Sir Francis Drake. 149. King Offa. 150. Abyssinia. (Napier was successful.) 151. Red. 152. Italy, in their Turkish war of 1911. 153. The Klondike gold rush. 154. In 1978. 155. Richard I. 156. Its historic crack appeared. 157. The Napoleonic Wars. 158. Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (121250). 159. General von Blow. 160. By fighting duels.

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161. In 1780, which was the first US state to abolish slavery? 162. Which famous ship did Captain Langsdorff sink off Uruguay in 1939? 163. During the 18th century, what form of tax was introduced to raise money for road improvements? 164. Which king of England was nicknamed Lackland? 165. Lady Astor, the first woman to take her seat in the Commons, was MP for which city? 166. Why did J. H. Thomas resign from the House of Commons in 1936? 167. To arrest whom did Chief Supt. Jack Slipper go to Brazil in 1974? 168. Who thought of the idea of the Great Exhibition of 1851? 169. Who belonged to the Cockyoli Birds, then led the Hooligans when he joined the Tory party? 170. Who was mainly instrumental in forming a model industrial community in Scotland early in the 19th century? 171. In 1914, which country had the largest air force? 172. What title did Pope Leo X give Henry VIII in 1521? 173. The Act of Settlement barred those of which religion from becoming British sovereigns? 174. Which army did Napoleon defeat at the Battle of Jena? 175. Wat Tyler and his followers came to London from which county? 176. In what language was the Magna Carta written? 177. Which US Presidents father was an Ambassador to Britain in 1939? 178. During which war did Popskis Private Army function? 179. Who did pilot Roy Brown shoot down on 21 April, 1918? 180. Which territory did Romania acquire in 1920?

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161. Massachusetts. 162. His own, the Graf Spee. 163. Tolls. 164. King John. 165. Plymouth, the Sutton division. 166. Because of suspected Budget leaks. 167. The Great Train Robbery, Ronnie Biggs. 168. Albert, the Prince Consort. 169. Winston Churchill. 170. Robert Owen. 171. France. 172. Fidei Defensor, or Defender of the Faith. 173. Roman Catholics. 174. The Prussian Army. 175. Kent. 176. Latin. 177. John F. Kennedys father Joseph Kennedy. 178. World War II. 179. The Red Baron. 180. Transylvania.

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181. Which is the worlds longest mountain range? 182. The king of which country became, in 1902, the first monarch to pass a driving test? 183. Which stone did Edward I steal? 184. Who was Rosie the Riveter? 185. Why was the American comic strip Bringing Up Father nicknamed the Wall Street Comic Strip in 1948? 186. Which Archbishop of Canterbury divorced Henry VIII from Catherine of Aragon? 187. Which religion came into being in 1469? 188. Which king was the first to go to see an FA Cup Final? 189. Marshal Soult, Duke of Dalmatia, was whose Chief of Staff at Waterloo? 190. What title did Leo Tolstoy have? 191. Which country has been ruled by the Al Khalifah family since 1783? 192. Who said, A Conservative government is an organised hypocrisy? 193. In which city did the Peterloo massacre of 1819 occur? 194. In 1819, King John VI of Portugal had a special throne made to help him do what! 195. Which two languages are on the Rosetta Stone? 196. Which famous Indian freedom fighter do we remember on 23 January? 197. In 1922, in the district of Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, a police station with policemen inside it was burnt, forcing Gandhiji to suspend the Civil Disobedience Movement. Name the incident. 198. The twenty-five windows in which monument symbolize the twenty-five gemstones found on earth? 199. Why was Dattatreya Apte hanged and with whom? 200. Which Indian ruler never sentenced a man to death but got more than 10,000 soldiers killed in battle to obtain a horse named 'Lali'?

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181. 182. 183. 184. 185. 186. 187. 188. 189. 190. 191. 192. 193. 194. 195. 196. 197. 198. 199. 200. The Andes, in South America. Italy. The stone of Scone. It was the name given to female factory workers in America during World War II. Because it incorporated a coded message for stock market investors in the know. Thomas Cranmer. Sikhism. George V. Napoleons. He was Count Leo Tolstoy. Bahrain. Benjamin Disraeli. In Manchester. Hear better it had speaking tubes built in. Egyptian and Greek. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose The Chauri Chaura incident The Statue of Liberty He was hanged with Nathuram Godse for the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi Ranjit Singh

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201. In 1492, Leonardo da Vinci painted 'The Last Supper'. In the same year, a mistake was made that led to the discovery of Cuba. Who made the mistake? 202. 203. 204. 205. Whose memorial stands at Phoolbagh, Gwalior? Prince Jauna became ruler under which name? Which incident on 7 December 1941, forced the Americans to enter World War II? Along with Rajguru and Sukhdev, who shouted, Inquilab zindabad (Long live the revolution) at the time of their deaths? 206. 207. 208. Whose son was the last Mughal emperor of India? Which Indian ruler's father and son shared the same name? Her parents were William and Fanny. She spent her childhood in a house called Lea Hurst in Derbyshire, England. Her parents named her after an Italian town. Who is this well-known person? 209. When Timur invaded India at the close of the fourteenth century, which dynasty formed the Sultanate of Delhi? 210. Who gave shelter to the rebel prince Akbar when he failed to dislodge his father, Aurangzeb, as Emperor? 211. 212. 213. 214. 215. 216. What precious object did Admiral Nelson lose in 1797? What pulled the first trains? Who once abolished St Valentines Day in England? What was the cause of the American Civil War? Name the first British steamship to cross the Atlantic. Who said, in 1933, I am insulted by the persistent assertion that I want war. Am I a fool? War! It would settle nothing? 217. 218. 219. What name is given to the battle won by Nelson in Aboukir Bay? How were Prince Albert and Queen Victoria related, apart from being married? During World War II, which group had a great reputation as night fighters with knives? 220. Who was nicknamed Old Noll?

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201. Christopher Columbus. 202. Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi 203. Mohammed Bin Tughluq 204. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 205. Bhagat Singh. 206. Akbar Shah II 207. Samudragupta (father was Chandragupta I and son was Chandragupta II) 208. Florence Nightingale 209. The Tughluq dynasty 210. Sambhaji, son of Shivaji 211. His arm. In the course of an assault on Tenerife, a canon charge shattered his right elbow, and back in his flagship the arm was amputated. 212. Horses. 213. Oliver Cromwell quite a spoilsport! 214. The question of slavery. 215. Great Western. 216. Adolf Hitler. 217. The Battle of the Nile. 218. They were cousins. 219. The Gurkhas. 220. Oliver Cromwell

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221. Cyrano de Bergerac loved whom? 222. In World War I, what were Little Willies? 223. The first European Parliamentary elections in Britain were held in which year? 224. What was Brummell, the Regency leader of fashion, known as? 225. Who was the second president of the US, and father of the sixth? 226. Which war was described as The war to end all wars? 227. When were England and Scotland joined under one ruler? 228. What particular use did the US Army make of Navajo Indians in World War II? 229. After which prince was Dartmoors Princetown named? 230. Which language did Napoleon first speak? 231. In the sixteenth century, John Knox preached against which religion? 232. How did the stagecoach get its name? 233. Which ruler used to prefer his armies to attack on the seventh of the month? 234. On which kings birthday was the Battle of Hastings fought? 235. In which cathedral was the first Prince of Wales proclaimed in 1301? 236. What is the meaning of the name Kwame Nkrumahs people usually called him? 237. Who reputedly started the newspaper called Acta Diurna? 238. What type of planes did the R A F use for the first bombing raid on Germany in World War II? 239. Which Midlands city had Britains first telephone kiosk? 240. Which Chancellor of the Exchequer introduced Old Age Pensions?

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221. Roxanne. 222. Tanks. 223. In 1979. 224. Beau. 225. John Adams. 226. World War I. It wasnt. 227. In 1707. 228. They used them to communicate with each other on radio and walkie-talkies in their native tongue which the enemy couldnt understand. 229. The Prince of Wales, who became George IV. 230. Italian. 231. Roman Catholicism. 232. It had to have fresh horses at stages on its journey. 233. Adolf Hitler. 234. King Harolds. 235. Lincoln Cathedral. 236. The Redeemer. 237. Julius Caesar. 238. Blenheims. 239. Nottingham, in 1908. 240. David Lloyd George.

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241. 242. 243. 244. 245. 246. 247. Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, was known by what nickname? Who died in Medina in AD 632? Charles Edward Stuart was also called what? Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian to do what? Who succeeded Lord Carrington as British Foreign Secretary? Which earl, executed in 1322, reputedly haunts Dunstan burgh Castle? The son of which former Soviet Premier allegedly shot his fathers successor in 1983? 248. 249. 250. 251. 252. 253. 254. 255. 256. 257. 258. 259. 260. In which city was the atom first split in 1932? In China, which dynasty began in 1368? Whose best troops were known as the Young and Old Guard? In which city did the Holy Roman Emperor live in the 17th and 18th centuries? Name the German pocket battleship scuttled in 1939 off Montevideo harbour. In 1431, which English king was crowned as King of Paris? Who was El Caudillo? Who reputedly haunts Hermitage Castle? Who, reputedly dubbed a joint of beef Sir Loin? Which French politician was called The Tiger? What was special about Torgou in World War II? How many of his eight wives did Bluebeard murder? Which war lasted from 1337 to 1453?

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241. The Kingmaker. 242. The Prophet Muhammad. 243. Bonnie Prince Charlie, or The Young Pretender. 244. Go into space, in 1984 in a Soyuz T11. 245. Francis Pym. 246. The Earl of Lancaster. 247. Leonid Brezhnev his son is Yuri. 248. In Cambridge, England. 249. The Ming dynasty. 250. Napoleons. 251. In Vienna. 252. The Graf Spee. 253. Henry VI. 254. General Franco. 255. Mary, Queen of Scots. 256. Henry VIII. 257. Georges Clemenceau. 258. It was where the Allied troops met the Russians. 259. Seven. 260. The Hundred Years War really about 116

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261. What was known as the Whiskey on the Rocks episode? 262. Which ruler, son of a shoemaker, was intended by his mother to be an Orthodox priest? 263. Aldo Moro was once Prime Minister of where? 264. The first assassination attempt on an American President in 1835 went wrong, from the assassins point of view. What happened? 265. Who set up shop at the Sign of the Red Pale, by Westminster Abbey, in 1476? 266. Which town in Glamorgan is renowned for its castle and its cheese? 267. What was the great female fashion craze of 1971? 268. What job did William Rees-Mogg do from 1967 to 1981? 269. What was the pig called that was run for President in the USA in 1968? 270. From which French beach were over one third of a million soldiers evacuated in World War II? 271. What was unusual about the Roman consul Incitatus? 272. Who were the original Tories? 273. At whom were the 1913 Cat and Mouse Acts aimed? 274. Where was Londons Zoo before 1834? 275. Which Queen was called Gloriana? 276. On the banks of which river did William III defeat James II in 1690? 277. In 1873, which most prolific British murderess was hanged? 278. Which nursery rhyme is generally thought to be about the symptoms of the plague of 1665? 279. Why did Boadicea commit suicide? 280. Who was the last English king to have a queen called Catherine?

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261. The Whiskey-class Soviet submarine running aground near Karlskrona (Sweden) in 1981. 262. Josef Stalin. 263. Italy. 264. Both his guns misfired. 265. William Caxton. 266. Caerphilly. 267. Hot pants. 268. He edited The Times. 269. Pigasus. 270. Dunkirk. 271. He was Caligulas horse. 272. Irish bandits. 273. The Suffragettes. 274. In the Tower of London. 275. Elizabeth I. 276. The River Boyne. 277. Mary Ann Cotton (she had 14 or 15 murders to her credit). 278. Ring-a-ring-o-roses. 279. To avoid capture by the Romans. 280. Charles II.

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281. Which king of England was termed Harefoot? 282. The people of which group of islands murdered the explorer Magellan? 283. Which king did Robin Hood support? 284. In pagan times, why did girls tie holly onto their beds before retiring? 285. Each month, Napoleon bathed in about 13 gallons of what? 286. Who receives the most from the Civil Lists? 287. Who succeeded Richard the Lionheart as King of England? 288. Who is the only person represented by two of Londons 68 statues? 289. For what is the Purple Heart awarded in the USA? 290. Which Caribbean island was invaded by the USA in October 1983? 291. After whom was the Tate Gallery named? 292. Which king of Egypt abdicated in 1952? 293. What did Henry IV of France say was well worth a Mass? 294. Who reputedly haunts Hever Castle? 295. In ancient times, why were Chinese corpses often buried with pieces of jade? 296. Which English king was killed with a red-hot poker? 297. Who was nicknamed Jack Amendall? 298. Name either of the young kidnappers and murderers of Bobby Franks in 1924? 299. If Britain had another King George, which number would follow his name? 300. Which famous Spanish fleet of heavily armed ships (ending in disaster in 1588) was commanded by the Duke of Medina-Sidonia

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281. Harold. 282. The Philippines. 283. Richard I. 284. To stop themselves turning into witches. 285. Eau de Cologne. 286. Queen Elizabeth II. 287. His brother, King John. 288. The Duke of Wellington. 289. Wounds received on active military service. 290. Grenada. 291. Henry Tate (later Sir Henry), of Tate and Lyle, the Liverpool sugar merchants and refiners. 292. King Farouk I (forcibly, following a military coup). 293. Paris, so he became a Catholic. 294. Anne Boleyn. 295. Because they thought this prevented the body from decaying. 296. Edward II. 297. Jack Cade, who led a rebellion in 1450. 298. Nathan Leopold. Richard Loeb. 299. VII. The present Queen's father was George VI (1895-1952). 300. The Spanish Armada that was defeated by the English. (It was sent by King Philip II of Spain.)

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301. Which discovery in 1799, near Alexandria in Egypt, helped scholars read Egyptian hieroglyphics? 302. When he flew in Paris on 20 May 1927, who said, 'Well here we are. I'm very happy'? 303. Which six-letter name would link a South African statesman and the Battle of Trafalgar? 304. Who were the first and the last American Presidents to be assassinated? 305. Franklin D Roosevelt, a Democratic Party candidate, was elected four times to the post of US President (he was President from 1933 to 1945). Who was the next Democrat to be elected twice to the post? 306. During World War II, if II Duce was Benito Mussolini, who was Der Fuhrer? 307. Which eight-letter name would link a Pakistani squash player and a Mughal emperor? 308. At John F Kennedy's funeral, who rode the horse which followed the cortege? 309. Which Italian World War II leader was executed and exhibited by his own people? 310. Long years ago, which well-known general took elephants over the Alps? 311. Which Mongol ruler welcomed Marco Polo to China? 312. Which Egyptian city was founded by Alexander the Great? 313. In which country was the Buddha born? 314. The poets Jayadeva and Dhoyi became famous during the reign of which king? 315. When elections were held in ancient Greece, which vegetable was used to count the votes? 316. What was Abraham Lincoln referring to when he said, 'If I ever get a chance to hit that thing, I'll hit it hard.' 317. Which invention is said to have marked the end of the Prehistoric Age? 318. Why did the Saudi censor tear out the diary and political commentary from The Times one day in April 1985? 319. Who was the first European to sail to India? 320. Who was President of the USA at the time of the Wall Street Crash of 1929?

HISTORY ANSWERS
321. The Rosetta Stone. 322. Charles Lindbergh, after his first solo, non-stop transatlantic flight 323. Nelson. 324. Abraham Lincoln was the first (1865) and John F Kennedy was the last (1963) 325. Bill Clinton: in 1992 and 1996 326. Adolf Hitler. Fuhrer means 'leader'. 327. Jahangir; Jahangir Khan is the Pakistani squash player and Jahangir was the name of a Mughal emperor. Jahangir is also spelled as Jehangir. 328. No one. It was without a rider 329. Benito Mussolini 330. Hannibal. 331. Kublai Khan. 332. Alexandria 333. Nepal 334. Lakshmanasena of the Sena dynasty 335. Beans 336. Slavery 337. Writing 338. The fashion page was on the other side, showing bare female arms and legs. 339. Vasco da Gama, in 149798. 340. Herbert Hoover.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
341. In August 1984, what became the prefix for British vehicle registrations? 342. Which King did Walter Tyrell kill? 343. In 1982, the kidnapped US Army Brigadier General James Dozier was rescued. In which country? 344. Who was the last British king to be crowned in Scotland? 345. Who founded the US governments Secret Service, in 1861? 346. Which war against the Indians was the last fought in America? 347. Which two towns formed Budapest, in 1872? 348. In which year were British gold sovereigns replaced by treasury notes? 349. Which Antarctic explorer was nicknamed The Boss by his men? 350. What was good news for dogs in 1835? 351. In which year in the 1970s were two General Elections held in the UK? 352. Which appropriately named people destroyed Rome in AD455? 353. How many Popes have been murdered? 354. In which year was Britains first proper supermarket opened? 355. Which German was nicknamed the Flying Tailor in World War II? 356. Which Queen was known by the nickname Brandy Nan? 357. In which order did the Neolithic, Palaeolithic and Mesolithic ages occur? 358. Which Albanian ruler was known asThe Lion of Janina? 359. In which year was the first human heart transplant made? 360. Outside which harbour did the Mary Rose originally sink?

HISTORY ANSWERS
341. 342. 343. 344. 345. 346. 347. 348. 349. 350. 351. 352. 353. 354. 355. 356. 357. 358. 359. 360. The letter B. William Rufus, in the New Forest. In Italy. Charles II, in 1651. Allan Pinkerton. (After founding his own detective agency.) The Sioux War. Buda and Pest. In 1914. Shackleton. Dog fighting was made illegal. In 1974. The Vandals. Twenty-six. In 1948. (The London Co-op.) Hermann Gring, because of the variety of different uniforms that he wore. Queen Anne. Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic. Ali Pasha. In 1967. Portsmouth

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
361. Who built Watling Street and the Fosse Way? 362. Which monarch ruled England from 164960? 363. What happened to US President William Henry Harrison at his inauguration? 364. In which country did the signs of the zodiac originate some 5,000 years ago? 365. How many silver coins formed the coffin of the Queen of Madagascar, who was buried in 1878? 366. What made the Pilgrim Fathers leave England? 367. US Admiral Rickover was called The Father of what? 368. Which General with the name of a former English county was commander of US forces in Vietnam? 369. Which country was the first to use number plates on cars? 370. When Queen Victoria first ascended the throne, how many pet dogs had she? 371. The Old World was all the parts of the world known to Europeans before the discovery of which continent? 372. Who planted the first vineyards in Britain? 373. How many people died in the worldwide influenza epidemic that followed World War I? 374. During World War I, for what were Q-ships used? 375. Who was the last Prime Minister called Henry? 376. The military coup in Portugal in 1974 was termed what? 377. How old was Henry V when he fought at the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403? 378. Whose chief assistant was Wynkyn de Worde? 379. Who first claimed Australia for Britain in 1770? 380. Of which country was Patrice MacMahon President in the late 19th century?

HISTORY ANSWERS
361. The Romans. 362. None. (Oliver Cromwell had something to do with it.) 363. It rained, he caught cold and died of pneumonia shortly afterwards. 364. In Mesopotamia. 365. 30,000. 366. Religious persecution. 367. The Atomic Submarine. 368. William C.Westmoreland. 369. France. 370. Eighty. 371. America. 372. The Romans. 373. Over 20 million more than the number that were killed in 374. As decoys for German submarines. 375. Herbert Henry Asquith. 376. The Revolution of Flowers. 377. Fifteen. 378. The printer William Caxtons. 379. Captain James Cook. 380. France.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
381. What were the British troops called by the Americans in their war against them? 382. How did J. K. Stanley improve the bicycle, in 1885? 383. When did the first ship sail through the Panama Canal? 384. Who was the first English king to obtain a divorce? 385. Who came to power in Malta in 1974? 386. What was the nickname of Richard de Clare that suggests a weapon or a drink? 387. The Crown Jewels James II took when he fled were given back by his descendants to which king? 388. Who, aged 21, was the youngest General in the American Civil War? 389. How tall was Olduvai Man, whose bones were discovered in 1959? 390. Housteads is the best-preserved fort where? 391. In 1614, Countess Bathory was executed for what alleged crime? 392. Which great man was nicknamed Copper Nose, Ruby Nose and The Brewer? 393. Which company made the first jet airliner, Comet 1? 394. Approximately how old is the wheel? 395. The practice of kissing what part of the Popes anatomy was abolished in 1773? 396. How many of the Tolpuddle Martyrs were named James? 397. Near where was the battle of Pinkie fought in 1547? 398. Who did Lord Wavell say was always expecting rabbits to come out of empty hats? 399. During World War II what petrol substitute was used by many vehicles? 400. Who was the last English king to be killed in battle?

HISTORY ANSWERS
381. Redcoats also Lobsters. 382. He made one with wheels of equal size. 383. In 1913. 384. Henry VIII. 385. Dom Mintoff. 386. Richard Strongbow. 387. To George IV, in 1807 119 years later! 388. General George Custer. 389. About four feet tall. 390. On Hadrians Wall. 391. Being a vampire. 392. Oliver Cromwell. 393. De Havilland. 394. 5,000 years. 395. His toe. 396. Three. 397. Edinburgh. (The English won.) 398. Winston Churchill. 399. Methane gas. 400. Richard III.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
401. In what ratio did the French cavalry outnumber the victorious English at the Battle of Agincourt? 402. Which King barred his wife from Westminster Abbey during his coronation? 403. During World War II Mussolini banned all comic strips bar one. Which? 404. Who was the first US President to wear long trousers? 405. St Bruno of Cologne founded which religious order in 1084? 406. Who married Isabella of Castile in 1469? 407. Over which ancient country did Hammurabi rule? 408. The explorer Jacques Cartier and his men were cured of what by brewing up the leaves of the white pine? 409. Of which order of architecture is the Parthenon in Athens? 410. Who first used hand grenades? 411. Approximately how many Volkswagen Beetles were manufactured? 412. When Gerald Ford became President, who was his (unelected) Vice President? 413. Which king of Englands two German mistresses were known as Elephant and Castle? 414. Joanna the Mad reigned in which country in the early 16th century? 415. Simon de Montfort led the Barons revolt against which king? 416. John Young sneaked what food on to his spacecraft in 1965? 417. During which war did the term Fifth Column originate? 418. Name one of the three main battles of the English Civil War. 419. What did the Sons of Liberty do in 1773, disguised as Red Indians? 420. Which is the oldest surviving trading company in the world, dating from 1670?

HISTORY ANSWERS
401. 5 to 1. 402. George IV. 403. Mickey Mouse. 404. Thomas Jefferson. 405. The Carthusian Order. 406. Ferdinand. 407. Babylonia. 408. Scurvy it was rich in vitamin C. 409. Doric. 410. The Mongols, under Khubla Khan. 411. Fifteen million. 412. Nelson Rockefeller. 413. George Is. 414. In Spain. 415. Henry III, in 1261. 416. A corned beef sandwich. 417. The Spanish Civil War. (19361939.) 418. Edgehill, Marston Moor and Naseby. 419. They dumped tea overboard in the incident known as the Boston Tea Party. 420. The Hudson Bay Company

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
421. To which king was Muckle John court jester? 422. In 1914, Miss M. Allen and Miss E. Harburn became Englands first women what? 423. Which battle marked the end of the American War of Independence? 424. What was the Act of Supremacy, declared by Henry VIII? 425. In which year did a nuclear-powered submarine first sail under the North Pole? 426. Which Prime Minister did Aneurin Bevan call the juvenile lead? 427. Who was the first English Prince of Wales? 428. What did the Marines capture, then defend, in 1704? 429. During World War I, who was the Kaiser of Germany? 430. On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, what ended? 431. Which kings illegitimate son was James Scott, Duke of Monmouth? 432. How did Edward VII determine that his weekend guests had eaten well? 433. What did the letters A R P stand for during World War II? 434. To whom was Louis XVI of France married? 435. Who kept a daily account of the Great Plague and Great Fire of London? 436. Death will come on swift wings to those that disturb the sleep of the Pharaohs. This curse seemed to come true for many of those associated with the opening of which tomb? 437. What did French revolutionaries replace, in 1793, with festivals of the fruits of the earth? 438. Which writer, in 1374, was appointed Controller of Customs and Subsidy of Works, Skins and Hides? 439. Who was the most famous rider of the horse Aethelnoth? 440. Who was director of music at St Marks Cathedral in Venice from 1613 until his death in 1643?

HISTORY ANSWERS
421. Charles I. 422. Policewomen, in Grantham, Lincs. 423. The battle of Yorktown. 424. That the King of England was head of the Church of England. 425. In 1958. 426. Anthony Eden. 427. Edward II. 428. Gibraltar. 429. Wilhelm ll. 430. World War I. 431. Charles IIs. 432. He weighed them both on arrival and departure and was affronted if they hadnt put on pounds! 433. Air-Raid Precautions. 434. Marie Antoinette. 435. Samuel Pepys. 436. Tutankhamuns. 437. Saints days. 438. Geoffrey Chaucer. 439. Lady Godiva. 440. Claudio Monteverdi

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
441. When the Mayflower sailed to America, how many men were on board? 442. What was the World War I slang for no more or finished? 443. Argentinas free health service was founded in 1870. When was it abolished? 444. Who was the first Chancellor of the German Federal Republic? 445. When Queen Victoria made her first rail journey in 1842, she travelled to Slough from which London station? 446. Who took the Red Army on The Long March? 447. How many dollars could you get for a pound during the US Civil War? 448. Which was the largest concentration camp formed by the Nazis in World War II? 449. Who murdered George, Duke of Buckingham, in 1627? 450. Which famous liner was launched in 1967? 451. It was called Trans-Western Airlines when Howard Hughes owned it. What is it now called? 452. Which inquisition started in 1478? 453. The Domesday Book was rebound in how many volumes for its 900th anniversary? 454. Which war was named after the Israeli participants holy day? 455. The temple of Diana was constructed from which material? 456. Who used to use a claymore? 457. For what public spectacle did crowds come to Tyburn? 458. Who became the Mayor of London during the reign of Richard II? 459. The Lusitania belonged to which shipping line? 460. In World War II which battle saw the first defeat of the strong Japanese Navy?

HISTORY ANSWERS
441. Seventy-four. 442. Napoo. 443. In 1977. 444. Konrad Adenauer. 445. Paddington. 446. Mao Tse-tung. 447. Twelve. 448. Auschwitz. 449. John Felton. 450. QE2. 451. Trans-World Airlines, or TWA for short. 452. The Spanish Inquisition. 453. Five. (It used to be two.) 454. The Yom Kippur War. 455. Marble. 456. Scottish Highlanders it was a two-edged sword. 457. Public hangings. 458. Dick Whittington. 459. Cunard. 460. The Battle of Midway

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
461. Which train was robbed in the Great Train Robbery of l963? 462. Which US President died during his fourth term of office? 463. Who was described by Lloyd George as A good Mayor of Birmingham in an off year? 464. Which island did the Romans call Vectis? 465. Against which king did Hereward the Wake rebel? 466. For how long were the American Embassy staff in Tehran held captive? 467. Who were called the shrieking sisterhood by their critics? 468. Which French king did Joan of Arc assist to defeat the British? 469. Which was the last year to read the same upside down as the right way up? 470. In 1832, Prince Otto of Bavaria became the first king of which country? 471. The Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha married which English Queen? 472. Why was 17 June of special significance to King John III of Poland? 473. How did Somerset Maugham serve his country in World War I? 474. Did Henry Stanley, who found Dr Livingstone in Africa, serve with the Confederate or Union army during the American Civil War? 475. Rehoboam was the last king of where? 476. Where in Britain did the Romans mine gold? 477. How many days were there in a week in ancient Greece? 478. Against which king was a plot hatched by Father Wilson and Lord Cobham? 479. Who were expelled from England in 1291? 480. Name Queen Isabella Is husband, co-financier of Columbus.

HISTORY ANSWERS
481. The Aberdeen Express. 482. Franklin D.Roosevelt. 483. Neville Chamberlain. 484. The Isle of Wight. 485. William I. 486. For 444 days. (Nov. 1979 Jan. 1981.) 487. The suffragettes. 488. Charles VII. 489. 1961. 490. Greece. They expelled him in 1862. 491. Queen Victoria. 492. Because he was born, crowned, married and died on that date. (Not on the same day, though!) 493. He was a spy. 494. Both. 495. Israel. 496. North Wales. 497. Eight. 498. James I, in 1603. 499. The Jews. 500. Ferdinand.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
501. In heraldry, what is the shape of a lozenge? 502. Francis Drake was knighted on which ship? 503. Where was Emily Davison killed by Anmer? 504. How long after his death was Tsar Peter II of Russia crowned? 505. Who was the assassinated sixteenth President of the USA? 506. Which European capital suffered a severe earthquake in 1755? 507. Zeno founded which school of philosophy in Athens? 508. Who was in charge of the Pinta, the Nina and the Santa Maria? 509. Which famous siege occurred in 1884? 510. What type of traders were once called flesh-fioggers? 511. Whom did Mehmet Ali Agca attempt to assassinate in 1981? 512. What did John Burns describe as liquid history? 513. In which year was the minimum voting age reduced to 18 in the UK? 514. In which year was Singapore founded? 515. In the American Civil War, which Confederate General was accidentally killed by one of his own soldiers? 516. What happened to George Mallory and Andrew Irvine in 1924? 517. Shih Huang Ti was responsible for building which massive structure? 518. Which king had the first passenger lift, called the Flying Chair, in his private apartments? 519. Why did surgeons in ancient Egypt take particularly good care of their patients? 520. Which country was once ruled by Boleslaw the Generous?

HISTORY ANSWERS

501. It is diamond-shaped. 502. The Golden Hind. 503. Tattenham Corner, in the 1913 Derby. She ran in front of Anmer, the kings horse. 504. 35 years his coffin was opened for the ceremony. 505. Abraham Lincoln. 506. Lisbon. 507. Stoicism. 508. Christopher Columbus. 509. The siege of Khartoum. 510. Butchers. 511. Pope John Paul II. 512. The River Thames. 513. In 1969. 514. In 1819. 515. Stonewall Jackson 516. They were lost on the final slopes of Mount Everest. 517. The Great Wall of China. 518. Louis XV of France. 519. Because their hands were cut off if their patients died. 520. Poland.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
521. On which side did Spain and Sweden fight during World War II? 522. Who was nicknamed Stuffy, and ran Fighter Command in the Battle of Britain? 523. Which English king suffered a nervous breakdown in July 1453? 524. Whose official residence was St Jamess Palace between 1698 and 1837? 525. Where did Michael Fagin break in, leading to the 1982 Dellow Report on security? 526. What were the secret state police of Nazi Germany called? 527. Who led the party which may possibly have reached the summit of Everest in 1924, but, since all were killed, no-one was left to tell the tale? 528. Around 250 BC, after making Buddhism the state religion, who constructed hospitals for the treatment of animals? 529. In August 1974, what did Richard Nixon do that no other US President before him had done? 530. For the Freedom 50 celebrations, speeches of which three Indians were played at midnight in Parliament House? 531. Which twentieth century head of state survived the greatest number of assassination attempts? 532. Which colony returned to China on 20 December 1999? 533. Which war was described as 'the wrong war, by the wrong people, at the wrong time, in the wrong place, against the wrong enemy'? 534. Who was Time magazine's 'Man of the Half Century' in 1949? 535. Whose sacred tooth is said to be at Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth? 536. The historian Bana wrote about which Indian king? 537. Which infamous prison was stormed on 14 July 1789? 538. In which ancient land did the Ptolemaic dynasty rule? 539. Which British explorer was murdered by natives in Hawaii? 540. Which Indian ruler was so fascinated by the tiger that he had a tiger throne built and many of his possessions had tiger stripes on them?

HISTORY ANSWERS
521. Neither they were neutral. 522. Sir Hugh Dowding. 523. Henry VI. 524. Britains reigning sovereigns. 525. Buckingham Palace. 526. The Gestapo. 527. George Leigh Mallory. 528. Ashoka 529. He resigned. Richard Nixon resigned because of the infamous Watergate Scandal in which he was implicated. It was about the irregularities during the presidential election campaign in 1972. 530. Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose 531. Charles de Gaulle of France; there were at least six major assassination attempts on him 532. Macao, from Portugal 533. The Vietnam War 534. Winston Churchill 535. The Buddha 536. Harsha 537. The Bastille. 14th of July is celebrated as Bastille Day in France. 538. Egypt. The Ptolemaic dynasty started as a result of the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. Ptolemy I or Soter I was the founder of the Ptolemic dynasty. He was a soldier and a commander in Alexander's army. The dynasty lasted for around 300 years. 539. Captain James Cook 540. Tipu Sultan

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
541. Akbar had three main ways of extending his kingdom, Wars were one, treaties were another. What was the third? 542. From which historically important structure did Nadir Shah take the peacock throne? 543. When elections were held in ancient Greece, what vegetable was used for voting? 544. The Egyptians built pyramids as tombs. What did the Mayans build them for? 545. In Greece, all men wore beards until Alexander the Great ordered all his soldiers to shave. Why did he do so? 546. In the legend of King Arthur, what was the 'holy grail' that his knights tried to find? 547. Which Indian movement was led by Tantia Tope, Nana Sahib, Begum Hazrat Mahal and Mangal Pandey among others? 548. Which Mughal emperor wrote poetry under the pen name 'Zafar'? 549. In the mid-sixteenth century, who did Haji Begum build a tomb for? 550. Vatsaraja, Nagabhatta II and Mihirbhoja all belong to which dynasty of the ninth century? 551. What was the highest court of appeal in British India? 552. Who was the first non-Indian President of the Indian National Congress? 553. Which historian became Lord Dacre? 554. Alexandra Palace was destroyed by fire in 1873. It happened again more recently. When? 555. Members of which army were the Desert Rats of World War II? 556. Who lost the battle of Borodino in1812? 557. From 19371975, who was Spains dictator? 558. Who was Portugals dictator from 19321968? 559. Nine days after Westminster Abbey was consecrated, which king was buried there? 560. What sort of food was once called marchpane?

HISTORY ANSWERS
561. Marriage 562. From the Red Fort in Delhi. It was in the Diwan-i-Khas, the hall of private audience. 563. Beans 564. To be used as temples 565. As a precaution against being seized by the beard in battle 566. Jesus' Cup from the Last Supper 567. The Revolt of 1857 568. Bahadur Shah II 569. Humayun 570. Pratihara 571. Sadar Diwan Adalat 572. George Yule 573. Hugh Trevor-Roper. 574. In 1980. 575. The 8th Army. 576. Russia. 577. Francisco Franco. 578. Salazar. 579. Edward the Confessor, in 1066. 580. Marzipan.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
581. What was the name of William Shakespeares only son? 582. Who preceded Creon as King of Thebes? 583. Who was given the Cullinan Diamond for his 66th birthday? 584. Who did not become King of Britain until he was nearly 65, then ruled for seven years? 585. In the 14th century, a pig was once publicly hanged for doing what? 586. Which huge building project began in the third century BC? 587. When did a hovercraft first cross the Channel? 588. Where did German Field-Marshal Friedrich Paulus surrender to the Russians in 1943? 589. With how many men did Cortez take Mexico from the Aztecs? 590. The treaty of 1922 in Rapallo restored diplomatic relations between Russia and which other country? 591. What sort of work did a cordwainer do? 592. Martin Luther nailed how many Propositions to a church door, in Wittenburg, Germany? 593. The inhabitants of which country were once-called Scottis? 594. How did Miss Madeleine Smith become well-known in Glasgow in 1857? 595. Who was considered to have been the central figure of the Reformation? 596. When Archbishop Cranmer was burnt at the stake, which portion of his anatomy was found intact in the ashes? 597. Before John Paul II, how many Popes were there? 598. From which reed did the Ancient Egyptians make their books? 599. In which kings reign did the Pensioner Parliament assemble? 600. Which queen is said to haunt Borthwick Castle in Scotland?

HISTORY ANSWERS
581. Oedipus. 582. King Edward VII, in 1907. 583. William IV. 584. Killing a child. 585. The Great Wall of China. 586. In 1959. 587. At Stalingrad. 588. 500 men. 589. Germany. 590. He made shoes and worked in leather. 591. 95. 592. Ireland. 593. She was accused and acquitted in a famous poisoning case. 594. Martin Luther. 595. His heart. 596. 263. 597. Papyrus. 598. In the reign of Charles II, 16619. 599. Mary, Queen of Scots 600. Mary, Queen of Scots

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
601. Who rode a horse called Black Agnes? 602. In 1982, which new soft English cheese was marketed? 603. What age came between the Stone Age and the Iron Age? 604. In which unorthodox manner did a division of the French army reach the Battle of the Marne in 1914? 605. For what do the letters SLA stand the name of the group who kidnapped Patty Hearst? 606. Charles and Henry teamed up in 1906 to make which luxury car? 607. Which leader was exiled from Cyprus to the Seychelles in 1956? 608. In the Civil War, which battle was fought in the shallow depression of Broad Moor? 609. For how long was William H. Harrison President of the USA? 610. Who had herself presented to Julius Caesar in a carpet? 611. What did Cunard originally intend to call the liner Queen Mary? 612. Where did the Venerable Bede live? 613. When was the Bank of England nationalized? 614. After whom was the liner Queen Elizabeth named? 615. When did France withdraw its troops from NATO? 616. What is the city which the Romans called Lutetia now called? 617. From what illness did George VI die? 618. Which flag did the Crusaders fly? 619. What charter did Churchill and Roosevelt sign on HMS Prince of Wales, in 1941? 620. Whose life did Flora Macdonald save?

HISTORY ANSWERS
601. Mary, Queen of Scots. 602. Lymeswold. 603. The Bronze Age. 604. In a fleet of 600 taxis. 605. Symbionese Liberation Army. 606. The Rolls-Royce. 607. Archbishop Makarios. 608. The Battle of Naseby. 609. For one month give or take a day. 610. Cleopatra. 611. Queen Victoria. 612. In Jarrow. 613. In 1947. 614. Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. 615. In 1966. 616. Paris. 617. Lung cancer. 618. The Cross of St George. 619. The Atlantic Charter. 620. Bonnie Prince Charlies.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
621. What did George Washington Goethals begin to build in 1908? 622. What did Lenin do for most of his last year? 623. What was the bombing of London during World War II generally called? 624. The last battle in 1815 between England and America should never have taken place. Why not? 625. Which was the only permitted political party in Spain under General Franco? 626. From what type of wood was the Kon- Tiki raft fashioned? 627. Why were territorial waters originally set at three miles? 628. What were darbies? 629. Who made a famous ride in the USA on 18 April, 1775? 630. Over 20 per cent of the population of which country was killed during World War II? 631. Who first navigated the North-West Passage? 632. How many of Catherine de Medicis sons became Kings of France? 633. Which US General, nicknamed Black Jack, has a missile named after him? 634. What declaration did the Scots Barons send to Pope John XXII in 1320? 635. Who or what was killed by the first bomb dropped on Leningrad in World War II? 636. What did the words, Not a penny off the pay, not a minute on the day trigger off? 637. In 1955, Ray Kroc founded which fast food chain? 638. Which Chinese revolution occurred in the mid 1960s? 639. In which year was Idi Amin of Uganda deposed? 640. How was Queen Victoria related to Wilhelm II of Germany?

HISTORY ANSWERS
621. The Panama Canal. 622. Collect mushrooms. 623. The Blitz. 624. Because a peace treaty had been signed between the two countries two weeks previously, but no one had told them in New Orleans, where the battle took place. 625. Falange. 626. From balsa wood. 627. This was the maximum firing range of a seashore cannon. 628. Handcuffs, in slang. 629. Paul Revere. 630. Poland. 631. Roald Amundsen. 632. Three. 633. John J. Pershing. 634. The Declaration of Arbroath. 635. The sole elephant in the zoo. 636. The General Strike of 1926. (They were said by A. J. Coot, Secretary of the Union of Miners.) 637. McDonalds. 638. The Cultural Revolution. 639. In 1979. 640. She was his grandmother

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
641. The Petty Bag Office was part of what? 642. The Romans built forts at towns whose names end with what? 643. Throughout all history, which was the biggest Empire? 644. When were Westerners first permitted to enter Nepal? 645. What did the Rochdale Pioneers start? 646. What was a Nilometer used to measure? 647. Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was at Ephesus? 648. What gave rise to the superstition that it is unlucky to walk under ladders? 649. What implements did the early Japanese dentists use to extract teeth? 650. Name the first primates to return from space unharmed. (28 May 1959.) 651. The prototype of which undersea vessel was originally built in 1624? 652. To whom did Lady Astor once say, If you were my husband, Id flavour your coffee with poison? 653. In Anglo-Saxon times, who had a wergild six times greater than a ceorl? 654. Which party did William Gladstone represent? 655. Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was at Halicarnassus in Turkey? 656. Which king was called the Black Boy when young? 657. Between which two cities were the Punic Wars fought? 658. In 1492, Pope Innocent VIII, who was in a coma, was given a blood transfusion from three young men. What happened? 659. Prior to Henry VIII, how were monarchs addressed? 660. At Trafalgar, who was Nelsons No. 2?

HISTORY ANSWERS
641. The Court of Chancery, until it was abolished in 1889. 642. -caster, -cester, or -chester. 643. The British Empire. 644. In 1950. 645. The Co-operative Movement. 646. The height of the Nile. 647. The Temple of Diana. 648. Before gallows were invented, people were executed by hanging them from the top rungs of ladders. 649. Their fingers. 650. Abel and Baker two chimpanzees. 651. The submarine. 652. Winston Churchill. 653. A thane, or thegn. 654. The Liberal Party. 655. The Mausoleum of King Mausolus. 656. Charles II. 657. Carthage and Rome. 658. He died, and so did the three young men. 659. Your Highness or Your Grace. 660. Admiral Collingwood.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
661. Who headed the Gestapo in World War II and is still a wanted war criminal? 662. Who was set adrift by his mutinous crew in 1789? 663. What did the Nazis plan to do in Operation Bernhard? 664. Who was murdered by Nathuran Godse, in 1948? 665. Who immediately preceded Abraham Lincoln as US President? 666. Who asked the oracle at Ammon whether the murderers of his father (Philip II) had all been punished? 667. Which English kings wife, Berengaria, never came to England? 668. What killed some 300,000 people in Calcutta, in October 1737? 669. What were Britains enemies in World War II collectively called? 670. Which war began at Fort Sumter? 671. Who passed more than 300 death sentences at the Bloody Assizes? 672. The Cutty Sark was what kind of ship? 673. How many countries, in 1950, signed The European Convention of Human Rights? 674. Over which country was King Peter II reigning when it was declared a republic in 1945? 675. Prior to 1851, where was Marble Arch? 676. What was Richard Parkers claim to fame in 1797? 677. What killed Prince Albert in 1861? 678. Hobby horses were an early form of what vehicle? 679. For what was Lady Hamilton incarcerated? 680. Why was Kaiser Leopold I repeatedly put into a freshly-killed pig when a baby?

HISTORY ANSWERS

661. Heinrich Miiller. 662. Captain William Bligh. 663. Produce masses of forged British bank-notes. 664. Mahatma Gandhi. 665. James Buchanan. 666. Alexander the Great. 667. Richard Is. 668. An earthquake. 669. The Axis. 670. The American Civil War. 671. Lord Chief Justice George Jeffreys. 672. A tea clipper. 673. Fifteen. 674. Yugoslavia. 675. In front of Buckingham Palace. 676. He led the Nore Mutiny. 677. Typhoid, a result of bad drains. 678. The bicycle. 679. Debt. 680. He was a premature baby they thought it would help him

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
681. How many Princesses of Wales preceded Princess Diana? 682. In the USA, who were Gold Star mothers? 683. Where was the murderer Dr Crippen heading for when he was caught? 684. Which Irish P.M. and President was born in New York in 1882? 685. Who was the last US President to have been a General in the army? 686. What was Sir Thomas Sopwiths best-known World War I aviation creation? 687. What tradition was begun in Hyde Park by the bread riots of 1855? 688. Which club, founded in 1950, innovated credit cards? 689. From which British king did America fight for independence? 690. In 1973, how much was a gallon of petrol? 691. Who said, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat? 692. In which year did China lease Hong Kong to Britain? 693. Which sauce is named after the Battle of Mahn? 694. E. Oxford, 1842; J. Francis, 1842; J. Bean, 1842; W. Hamilton, 1849; R. MacLean, 1882. All attempted and failed at the same enterprise, which can never be achieved now. What was it? 695. When were the Dead Sea Scrolls discovered? 696. Who succeeded Henry VIII? 697. Who was surprised to be met at Father Point, in Canada, by Inspector Dew in 1910? 698. How much older was Queen Elizabeth I than Mary, Queen of Scots? 699. After which unsuccessful trip was Sir Walter Raleigh executed? 700. Name the lost city that supposedly once existed in the Atlantic Ocean

HISTORY ANSWERS
681. Eight. 682. Those whose sons were killed in World War I. 683. Canada. 684. Eamon de Valera. 685. Dwight D. Eisenhower. 686. The biplanes called Sopwith Camels. 687. The tradition of people speaking at Speakers Corner. 688. Diners Club. 689. George III. 690. 55 pence. 691. Winston Churchill. 692. In 1841. 693. Mayonnaise. 694. They all tried to assassinate Queen Victoria. 695. In 1947. 696. His son, Edward VI, aged 10. 697. Dr Crippen. 698. About nine years. 699. His search for El Dorado. 700. Atlantis.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
701. Of which country was Eric Bloodaxe king? 702. When was the Great Wall of China built? 703. Where would you find a vambrace, a gorget and a sabaton together? 704. Which revolution began on 7 November 1917? 705. During which decade were the Liberals last in power? 706. In 1914, the wife of a French Minister shot the editor of which French national newspaper? 707. Who was the leader of the Tolpuddle Martyrs? 708. Whose ear did Spanish pirates sever, in 1739? 709. By what Arabic name meaning lord do we know Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar? 710. Whose nickname was Tumbledown Dick? 711. Which European country was last at war in 1814? 712. Which uncle of Queen Victorias was Belgiums first king? 713. Aventine, Palatine and Viminal are three of which seven? 714. What was the Allied Forces password during the D-Day landings? 715. Which countrys republican revolutionaries were called charcoal burners? 716. In 1906 HMS Dreadnought was launched from which dock yard? 717. What service, started in Britain in July 1635, helped people keep in touch? 718. Who led the Arabs into Damascus, in 1918? 719. How were Kings Richard I and John related? 720. Which two Custers died at the Little Big Horn?

HISTORY ANSWERS
701. Of Norway. 702. In 246 BC. 703. On a suit of armour. 704. The Russian Revolution. 705. The 1920s. 706. Le Figaro. 707. George Loveless. 708. Robert Jenkins, which act led to The War of Jenkins Ear. 709. El Cid. 710. Richard Cromwell, son of Oliver. 711. Sweden. 712. Leopold I. 713. The seven hills on which Rome was built. 714. Mickey Mouse. 715. Italys the Carbonari. 716. Portsmouth. 717. The Royal Mail. 718. T.E.Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia. 719. They were brothers. 720. George and Tom.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
721. Who was the great son of Philip of Macedonia? 722. When the Mayflower sailed to America, how many women were on board? 723. Who was the only US President to be impeached? 724. Which letters were termed the Willy-Nicky Correspondence? 725. Which kingdom was founded by Hasan Gangu in 1347? 726. Which temple town was founded by the Pallava King Narasimhavarman? 727. Which country was Herodotus referring to when he said: There is no country that possesses so many wonders, nor any, that such a number of works that defy description? 728. In Indian history what was held at these four places: Rajgriha, Vaishali, Pataliputra and Kundalavahana? 729. Name the epidemic that broke out in Europe in the 1300s and got its name from the black spots that it produced on victims bodies. 730. In the fifteenth century, Ivan the Great unified Russia after freeing it from which people? 731. During World War II, who offered his people only blood, toil, tears, and sweat as they struggled to keep their freedom? 732. Which war ended at 11 am on the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918? 733. Which Mughal emperor shares the first three letters of his real name with the betterknown name of his wife? 734. Charles Conrad was the third and Alan Bean the fourth. Who were the first two? 735. Name the teacher turned freedom fighter who fought the Italians in Libya and earned the nickname 'Lion of the Desert'. 736. In 1206, who was crowned (in translation) 'emperor of emperors' as he had conquered two-thirds of the known world at that time? 737. Which famous Italian artist was born on 6 March 1475 in the village of Caprese, Italy? 738. In which war did the Battle of Isandwlana take place? 739. Which Saudi Arabian king was assassinated in 1975? 740. When was the anarchy when Christ and his angels slept?

HISTORY ANSWERS
721. Alexander the Great. 722. Twenty-eight. 723. Andrew Johnson. (Not Richard Nixon.) 724. Those between the Tsar and the Kaiser in the early part of the 20th century. 725. The Bahmani kingdom 726. Mahabalipuram/Mammalapuram 727. Egypt 728. Buddhist councils 729. Black Death 730. Tartars 731. Sir Winston Churchill 732. World War 733. Jahangir; Jahangir's real name was Nur-ud-Din Muhammad and his wife was Nur Jahan 734. Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin 735. Omar Mukhtar 736. Genghis Khan 737. Michelangelo 738. The Zulu War. 739. King Faisal. 740. The civil war following the accession of Matilda in 1135.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
741. In the Middle Ages, what was lichen scraped from crucifixes supposed to cure? 742. Which European nation was the first to drink tea? 743. Who was the Man of Destiny? 744. What was Admiral Raeders sentence at Nuremberg? 745. Until 1942, what metal was used to make Victoria Crosses? 746. Which building in Rome used to be the arena where people were thrown to the lions? 747. What were last seen in naval action at the Battle of Navarino in 1827? 748. Who was the last king to be crowned in Scotland? 749. What did VE Day signify? 750. What were built along the south coast to guard against French invasions in 18056? 751. What was a Fleet marriage? 752. What in Greek history was the March of the Ten Thousand? 753. Who was the Pope during the Second World War? 754. After the Restoration the bodies of three regicides were disinterred, dismembered and put on show. Name two of them. 755. Why was Barnaby Fitzpatrick eager that Edward VI should behave? 756. What was the Harrowing of the North? 757. Who was taken ill at a banquet in Babylon and died? 758. In Mussolinis Italy what was the Balilla? 759. What was given the code name Mulberry in the Second World War? 760. Which emperor had St Peter crucified?

HISTORY ANSWERS
741. Nightmares. 742. The Dutch. 743. Napoleon. 744. Life imprisonment. 745. Metal from guns captured at Sebastopol (1855). 746. The Colosseum. 747. Wooden ships (the majority of the Turkish and Egyptian fleet was destroyed by a British, French and Russian fleet). 748. Charles II, at Scone, 1 January 1651. 749. The end of the Second World War in Europe. 750. Martello towers. 751. One performed by an imprisoned clergyman in the Fleet Prison without banns or licence (abolished in 1753). 752. The march of Greek mercenaries from Babylon to the Black Sea through a hostile Persian Empire in 401 BC. 753. Pope Pius XII. 754. Cromwell, Ireton and Bradshaw. 755. He was the royal whipping boy, whipped in place of the prince when the prince deserved punishment. 756. William Is campaign of devastation after the Saxon uprising of 1069. 757. Alexander the Great. 758. The Junior Military organization for boys of six and upwards. 759. The construction of floating harbours for D-Day. 760. Nero (AD 68).

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
761. In 1933 Mrs Klarius Mikkelson was the first women to set foot where? 762. What was a wapentake? 763. Which Irishmen wore blue shirts? 764. Who expelled the Jews in 1290 and confiscated their property? 765. In which year did the bubonic plague reach London? 766. Who was George IVs consort? 767. Which great pre-Roman emperor died, defeated, in an ox-cart? 768. Who said, on being told she was Queen, The Crown is not my right, and pleaseth me not? 769. Whom did Scipio Africanus defeat at Zama when all others had failed? 770. Whose marriage gave rise to the Tudor rose? 771. Whose arms bore a white heart with a gold chain? 772. At which battle did the tank make its first appearance? 773. How, traditionally, did Alfred the Great get his first book? 774. Protestant Britain did not adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1752. How many days were lost in order to do so? 775. Which Roman writer was killed in a litter? 776. What was a hypocaust? 777. Alexander the Great said, If I were not Alexander, I would be ? 778. Who were the signatories of the Atlantic Charter in 1941? 779. How were Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I related? 780. What exploded in 1720?

HISTORY ANSWERS
761. The Antarctic. 762. A sub-division of a county once under Danish influence (especially Yorkshire). 763. The men of the Irish Brigade, who fought on Francos side in the Spanish Civil War. 764. Edward I. 765. 1665. 766. Queen Caroline. 767. Darius the Persian. 768. Lady Jane Grey. 769. Hannibal, in 202 BC. 770. Henry VII (of Lancaster) and Elizabeth of York in 1486. 771. Richard II. 772. The Battle of the Somme, 1916. 773. His mother promised it to him if he learned to read it. He did. 774. Eleven. 775. Cicero. 776. Roman under-floor heating. 777. Diogenes. 778. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. 779. They were cousins. 780. The South Sea Bubble.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
781. Who was nicknamed Beauclerc? 782. Who was the Maid of Norway? 783. Who is said to have invited the Saxons Hengist and Horsa to Kent? 784. Which was the only City of London church not destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666? 785. What was the sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians? 786. Which British university first permitted women to take its degrees? 787. When was the Court of Criminal Appeal set up? 788. Which travel agent first organized continental holidays in 1855? 789. What was a unite? 790. Why was the division of an English shire called a hundred? 791. Which country according to its rulers needed a small victorious war to stem the tide of revolution and got a costly defeat? 792. Where was Acadia? 793. Who was the last queen of England to be tried for adultery? 794. In whose reigns did the Hundred Years War with France begin and end? 795. During the D-Day invasion for what did PLUTO stand? 796. Of what order, established in Jerusalem, did an offshoot found the St Johns Ambulance Association? 797. Which foreign monarch appeared on some English coins in the sixteenth century? 798. In ancient Egypt the standard length was a cubit (the length of a forearm from elbow to fingertip). How many palms made a cubit? 799. In which year did the Thames dry up for 9 miles from its source? 800. Against which country did England fight the war of Jenkinss Ear in 1739?

HISTORY ANSWERS
781. Henry I. 782. Margaret (c. 128390), daughter of King Eric II of Norway. Acknowledged Queen of Scotland on the death of Alexander III, she died on her voyage to Scotland. 783. Vortigern. 784. St Bartholomew-the-Great. 785. The scarab. 786. London University, in 1878. 787. 1907. 788. Thomas Cook. 789. A gold coin (value 20 shillings) minted in 1604 to commemorate the union of England and Scotland. It was replaced in 1663. 790. It consisted of 100 hides (one hide of land being a variable amount needed to support a family). 791. Russia in the 19045 war with Japan. 792. Nova Scotia (the first settlers were French and gave it this name). 793. Caroline of Brunswick (in 1820). 794. Those of Edward III and Henry VI. 795. Pipe Line Under The Ocean. 796. The Knights Hospitallers. 797. Philip of Spain (with Mary I, his wife, in 1555). 798. Seven. 799. 1976. 800. Spain.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
801. Which ministers did Hitler sentence to death from his bunker in April 1945? 802. What was a carronade? 803. When was the last sea-battle between galleys fought? 804. Who was the first British king since 1743 to join his army in the field? 805. Where did the Great Fire of London end? 806. Who said of the House of Lords debating a divorce bill that it was better than a play? 807. Who made the first tipping-bucket rain gauge in 1662? 808. Who was the longest-reigning European monarch? 809. Who set sail in HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in 1845 and never returned? 810. Who was the mother of three French kings, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III? 811. Who founded the Royal Mail? 812. John Clarke was once an English head of state. Who was he? 813. Who commanded the Confederate armies during the American Civil War? 814. In what container was Nelsons body returned to England? 815. Whose son did Bruno Richard Hauptmann kidnap and murder in 1932? 816. Marie-Augustin, Marquis de Pelier, of Brittany spent 50 years in jail for whistling. At whom did he whistle? 817. Whom did Robert Ford shoot dead on 3 April 1882? 818. Who was the first American president to resign? 819. To which Royal House did Henry VIII belong? 820. Shakespeare was born in the year Michelangelo died. Which year?

HISTORY ANSWERS
801. Himmler and Goering. 802. A short gun of large calibre with a chamber for powder like a mortar. 803. 1571 (the Battle of Lepanto). 804. George V in the First World War. 805. Pie Corner, where houses were blown up to arrest its course. 806. Charles II. 807. Sir Christopher Wren. 808. Louis XIV of France, who reigned for 72 years and 110 days. 809. Sir John Franklin and his Arctic expedition. 810. Catherine de Medici. 811. Charles I in 1635. 812. Richard Cromwell, second Lord Protector, 16589. He lived under the alias of Clarke until 1712. 813. Robert E. Lee. 814. A barrel of rum. 815. Charles Lindberghs. 816. Queen Marie Antoinette. 817. Jesse James. 818. Richard Nixon. 819. The House of Tudor. 820. 1564.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
821. On which date in 44 BC was Julius Caesar killed? 822. How long did King Edward VIIIs abdication broadcast last? 823. How many prisoners were held in the Black Hole of Calcutta? 824. How old was Joan of Arc when she led the French army to victory against the English at Orleans? 825. In medieval France, King Philip Augustus decreed that a persons rank should be immediately recognizable by a detail of dress. What was it? 826. Which king married Wallis Warfield Simpson? 827. Who was King Solomons mother? 828. Who was shot in front of the Biograph Theatre in Chicago on 22 July 1934? 829. Incitatus was both a horse and a consul. To which mad Roman emperor did he belong? 830. In which year did Marconi make the first transatlantic radio transmission? 831. Who did Sheriff Pat Garrett shoot and kill on 14 July 1881? 832. Who was the first woman to receive the Order of Merit? 833. Which Italian habit did Thomas Coryat introduce to England in 1608? 834. Why was Mary Mallon kept in permanent detention from 1915 until her death in 1938? 835. What experience did James Bartley survive in 1891? 836. What were Admiral Horatio Nelsons last words? 837. In which year did the first Pilgrims land in America? 838. Who was known as the Serpent of the Nile? 839. Which king signed the Magna Carta? 840. How were King Charles II and King James II related?

HISTORY ANSWERS
821. 15 March (the ides of March). 822. 1 minute. 823. 146. 824. Seventeen. 825. The points on his shoes, which should be between 6 inches and 12 inches the longer the point, the higher the rank. 826. Edward VIII. 827. Bathsheba. 828. John Dillinger (Public Enemy Number One). 829. Caligula. 830. 1901. 831. Billy the Kid. 832. Florence Nightingale (in 1907). 833. Eating with a fork instead of fingers. 834. She was Typhoid Mary, the notorious typhoid carrier. 835. He was swallowed by a whale and stayed inside its stomach for two days. He lived till 1926 to tell the tale. 836. Thank God I have done my duty (not Kiss me, Hardy). 837. 1620. 838. Cleopatra. 839. King John put his seal on it he couldnt write! 840. They were brothers.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
841. Which famous building is calculated to topple over in about 2015? 842. Which two mountain ranges did Hannibal and his elephants cross in 218 BC? 843. King Mongut of Siam was probably the most married man in history. Approximately how many wives and concubines did he have? 844. Which coin ceased to be legal tender on 30 June 1980? 845. Which queens last speech to Parliament was known as The Golden Speech? 846. What does the name Thermopylae, the site of a famous battle, actually mean? 847. What is the oldest British trade union? 848. Which king was the first to use the royal we? 849. Which principality did Victorias Albert come from? 850. Who were the Princes in the Tower? 851. Roger Ascham found Greek easier to write than English. Which queen did he tutor? 852. Which explorer was a servant to Kublai Khan and wrote his memoirs in a Genoese prison? 853. The Romans built a wall between the Forth and the Clyde. What was it called? 854. When was the George Cross instituted? 855. Where was the first battle of the Wars of the Roses fought? 856. What was a tally? 857. How was the Roman Emperor Claudius summoned to Britain in AD 43? 858. Which former prime minister died in the House of Lords within hours of pleading the American colonists cause? 859. Who did Wynkyn de Worde assist, then succeed? 860. Who was president of the Soviet Union from 1958 to 1964?

HISTORY ANSWERS
841. The leaning tower of Pisa. 842. The Pyrenees and the Alps. 843. 9,000. 844. The sixpence. 845. Elizabeth I. 846. Hot Gates. 847. National Society of Brushmakers and General Workers, founded in 1747. 848. Richard the Lionheart. 849. Saxe-Coburg. 850. Edward V and Richard, Duke of York. 851. Elizabeth I. 852. Marco Polo. 853. The Antonine Wall. 854. 1940. 855. St Albans, in 1455. 856. A length of wood scored across with notches representing details of a debt, etc., and split lengthwise. The two parties to the transaction kept one tally each. 857. By a chain of beacons across Europe. 858. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. 859. The printer, William Caxton. 860. Nikita Khrushchev.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
861. How many centuries before Columbus did the Vikings discover America? 862. What was Vasco da Gama the first to do? 863. Which six were sentenced to transportation and pardoned two years later? 864. Who were the Old Contemptibles? 865. In which year was the Berlin Wall erected? 866. Which British general helped to abolish slavery in China and the Sudan? 867. Who said, Ave, Imperator, morituri te salutant (Hail, Emperor, those about to die salute you)? 868. How old was Alexander the Greats horse Bucephalus when he died? 869. Who is responsible for the fact that there are almost no Crown Jewels predating Charles II? 870. Who was introduced by his father as the last king of England? 871. Which war was fought over the loss of a part of a captains anatomy? 872. Why did George I find it difficult to understand his subjects? 873. When was the Victoria Cross instituted? 874. Who speaks Quechua? 875. Originally, what were the Mamelukes, who became the ruling class of Egypt? 876. How many astronauts died in 1967 when their Apollo capsule caught fire? 877. Which people founded the cheese-making industry in England? 878. What fault caused two Comets to crash in 1954? 879. Name the vessel which carried Scotts Antarctic expedition in 1910. 880. How many Eleanor Crosses were erected by Edward I after his Queens death?

HISTORY ANSWERS
861. About four. 862. Round the Cape of Good Hope and continue to India. 863. The Tolpuddle Martyrs. 864. Members of the British Expeditionary Force under Sir John French in 1914. 865. 1961. 866. General Charles Gordon. 867. Gladiators and combatants in the Roman games. 868. Thirty. 869. Charles I got his Queen Henrietta Maria to pawn them and buy military supplies on the Continent after the outbreak of the Civil War. 870. George V. 871. Jenkinss Ear War (1739). 872. He couldnt speak English. 873. 1856. 874. Originally the Incas, but now Peruvian Indians. 875. Circassian slaves. 876. Three. 877. The Romans. 878. Metal fatigue. 879. Terra Nova. 880. Twelve, at each resting place of her coffin from Hadby in Nottinghamshire to Westminster Abbey.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
881. What was a cottar? 882. How many hundreds of heretics were burnt in the reign of Bloody Mary? 883. Which French king was known as the Fat? 884. How many were killed and wounded in the Peterloo Massacre of 1819? 885. Extremists from where murdered the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914? 886. Where did Napoleon Bonaparte suffer his last defeat? 887. What had the code-name Operation Overlord? 888. Which king was killed at the Battle of Hastings? 889. Which race did the Ancient Britons belong to? 890. What did the Cree Indians use as currency? 891. Whose horse was called Black Nell? 892. Who was put to death by a firing squad on 17 January 1977, the first person to be executed in the US A for 10 years? 893. Which cavalry regiment was George Armstrong Custers last command? 894. What forerunner of many was opened in London on 25 June 1801? 895. Which British gold coin was first struck in 1663 for trading in Africa? 896. Who was the first American in space? 897. Who was Director of the FBI from 1924 until his death? 898. How many toes did Charles VIII of France have on his right foot? 899. Which famous painting was completed in 1506? 900. Why did Louis XIV order table knives to have rounded rather than pointed ends?

HISTORY ANSWERS
881. A villain who occupied a cottage with a holding of land attached. 882. Three i.e. about 300. 883. Charles II. 884. 600. 885. Serbia. 886. Waterloo. 887. The invasion of Normandy. 888. Harold. 889. The Celts. 890. Pipes. 891. Wild Bill Hickoks. 892. Gary Gilmore, who was the illegitimate grandson of Harry Houdini. 893. The Seventh. 894. The first massage parlour. 895. The guinea. 896. John Glenn, on 5 May 1961. 897. John Edgar Hoover. 898. Six. 899. The Mona Lisa. 900. So that his quarrelsome dinner guests could not stab each other.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
901. In the nineteenth century which country used bamboo as money? 902. Which queen declared that handkerchiefs should always be square? 903. How old is the oldest bikini found in Britain? 904. In which year was the Berlin Wall built? 905. Which American traitor became a brigadier-general in the British Army? 906. How many people survived the Hindenberg disaster of 1937? 907. Which English king was beheaded in 1649? 908. How did Alexander the Great solve the problem posed by the Gordian knot? 909. Which Spanish king and queen financed Christopher Columbuss first voyage to the New World? 910. Whom did William of Orange succeed as king of England? 911. Which race of people started the trend of drilling teeth to insert gold, diamonds, etc.? 912. What ringing mechanism did James Kitty invent in 1884? 913. During which century were solid blocks of tea used as money in Siberia? 914. Where was the French revolutionary Marat born? 915. In which year did Coronation Street start? 916. What is the name of the tiny island in the North Atlantic annexed to Britain in 1955? 917. Who tried to arrest five MPs in the House of Commons in 1642? 918. How did the Emperor Nero die? 919. Between 1600 and 1800 about half the girls in England had one of three names. Give one. 920. When was the last invasion of British soil by foreign troops?

HISTORY ANSWERS
901. China. 902. Marie Antoinette. 903. About 1,900 years, found near the Roman temple of Mithras in London. 904. 1961. 905. Benedict Arnold. 906. Sixty-two. 907. Charles I. 908. He cut through it with a sword. 909. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. 910. James II. 911. The Incas of Peru. 912. The cash register. 913. The eighteenth. 914. Switzerland. 915. 1960. 916. Rockall. 917. Charles I. 918. He committed suicide. 919. Mary, Anne, Elizabeth. 920. 1797, when the Irish-American General Tate landed with 1,400 French troops near Fishguard.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
921. Why is it thought that Custer shot himself at the Battle of Little Big Horn? 922. In which year did man first land on the moon? 923. Who ruled China at the time of Marco Polos visit in 1271? 924. Which country is said to have been ruled by a dog for 3 years in the eleventh century? 925. What were the Institutes of Gaius? 926. What was the Allies code name for Winston Churchill during the Second World War? 927. What was the name of the third British D-Day beach besides Gold and Juno? 928. Who was Cesare Borgias father? 929. Which king wrote, As the holly groweth green/And never changeth hue/So I am, ever have been/Unto my lady true? 930. In ancient China, only the aristocracy were allowed to own a certain breed of dog; which breed? 931. On the Solomon Islands, dogs teeth were used for money until the middle of which century? 932. When was the last time the Thames in London froze sufficiently hard for people to walk across it? 933. Who first concocted cold cream? 934. What were the Declarations of Indulgence? 935. In whose reign did Hanover and Britain cease to share a ruler? 936. Who was drowned in drink in 1478? 937. Which tea party precipitated a war? 938. Who was the last Pope to be a father? 939. In which decade was electric street-lighting introduced to London? 940. Who commanded the British Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in the First World War?

HISTORY ANSWERS
921. Ashamed of his defeat, he was probably spared by the Indians as he was a blood brother of Sitting Bull. 922. 1969. 923. Kublai Khan. 924. Norway. 925. A digest of Roman law of the second century AD. 926. Agent. 927. Sword. 928. Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia). 929. Henry VIII. 930. Pekinese. 931. The nineteenth century. 932. 181314. 933. The Greek physician Galen, about AD 150. 934. Proclamations of Charles II and James II suspending laws against Dissenters and Catholics. 935. Victorias (because the Salic law preventing female succession applied in Hanover). 936. The Duke of Clarence, in Malmsey wine. 937. The Boston Tea Party (1773). 938. Rodrigo Borgia, who became Pope Alexander VI in 1492. 939. In the 1870s (1879, on the Thames Embankment). 940. Admiral Sir John Jellicoe.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
941. What were Charles IIs dying words? 942. Which queen died of smallpox at the age of thirty-two? 943. Which Scottish comedian was knighted in 1919? 944. For which calling did Henry VIII train? 945. After which event did Sir Charles Napier dispatch the message, Peccavi? 946. Who was the Protestant Lion of the North killed in a mist without his armour in the Thirty Years War? 947. Which battle was considered to be the turning-point of the English Civil War? 948. What was Prides Purge? 949. Which king returned to England in 1660? 950. What did William Young invent in 1800? 951. Which famous ex-Augustinian monk married an ex-Cistercian nun? 952. Who was Englands last Anglo-Saxon king? 953. Who introduced inoculation for smallpox to Britain from Constantinople in 1718? 954. In the Second World War, whose double was the actor M. E. Clifford James? 955. In which part of France did the Allied troops land on D-Day? 956. Where was the British Empire Exhibition of 1924 held? 957. Of the 147 people who escaped the wreck of the Medusa on a raft, how many survived to be rescued? 958. Who were the Beaker people? 959. When was the Wall Street crash? 960. Which American war ended in 1783?

HISTORY ANSWERS
941. Let not poor Nelly starve. 942. Mary II. 943. Harry Lauder. 944. The priesthood. 945. His victory at Hyderabad and capture of Sind in1843.(It is a pun: Peccavi is Latin for I have sinned.) 946. Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. 947. Marston Moor. 948. The arrest or shutting out by Colonel Pride on 6 December 1648 of MPs who were seeking a compromise with Charles I. 949. Charles II. 950. Different shoes for the right and left foot. 951. Martin Luther. 952. Harold. 953. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. 954. General Montgomerys. 955. Normandy. 956. Wembley Stadium. 957. Fifteen. 958. Early Bronze Age invaders of Britain. 959. 1929. 960. The War of Independence.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
961. What name is given to the handwriting developed in imitation of the style of the papal chancery in 1450? 962. In which decade was a company first formed to build a Channel tunnel? 963. What was granted by the Edict of Nantes in 1598? 964. Who is considered to have arranged the explosion that killed Darnley? 965. Who was the first king of Great Britain? 966. Whose final words were Et tu, Brute? 967. How many ships were involved in the famous mass collision off Newfoundland on 27 May 1945? 968. How old was Julius Caesar when he was killed? 969. Who, with Walter the Penniless, preached on the first crusade and entered Jerusalem victorious? 970. How did Henry H. Bliss meet his death in New York City in 1899 the first of many to perish from this cause? 971. What happened in England between 3 and 13 September 1752? 972. Which posting inn was the first stop for travellers leaving London for the north? 973. Who first circumnavigated Australia and New Guinea, discovering New Zealand too? 974. Which was the first US state to require car licences in 1901? 975. Who discovered the West Indies? 976. Of which British king was Henri IV of France the father-in-law? 977. Which is the oldest university in the USA? 978. Whom did Clarissa Churchill marry in 1952? 979. Palestine belonged to which empire up to the end of the First World War? 980. Who was portrayed in the film Anne of the Thousand Days?

HISTORY ANSWERS
961. Italic. 962. The 1860s (1867). 963. Certain guarantees and rights of worship to Huguenots. 964. Bothwell. 965. James I (so proclaimed in 1604). 966. Julius Caesars. 967. Twenty-two yet no lives were lost. 968. Fifty-eight. 969. Peter the Hermit. 970. He was hit by a car. 971. Nothing. In that year the Gregorian calendar replaced the Julian calendar (which was eleven days behind), so 14 September followed 2 September. 972. The Angel, Islington. 973. Abel Tasman. 974. New York. 975. Christopher Columbus. 976. Charles I. 977. Harvard. 978. Anthony Eden, who succeeded Winston Churchill as Prime Minister in 1955. 979. The Ottoman Empire. 980. Anne Boleyn.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
981. Which pagan custom, to frighten away evil spirits, survives today at military funerals? 982. How many guns of Navarone were there? 983. The word cabal is an acronym for Charles IIs group of ministers of 1667 73. Name two. 984. When did Robert Peel found the Metropolitan Police? 985. Which king was born at Monmouth? 986. Where did the battleship Royal Oak go down in the Second World War? 987. How, in 1517, did Luther publicize his protests against papal indulgences? 988. Name Sir Ernest Shackletons ship, trapped by polar ice in 1915. 989. Who did Queen Catherine marry, after Henry V died? 990. With whom did the USA go to war in 1898? 991. What were the Roman equivalent of the Greek satyrs? 992. Which movement held its first camp on Brownsea Island in 1908? 993. What does the prefix geo- mean? 994. What did the navy introduce in 1795 to combat scurvy? 995. The pirate Henry Morgan was appointed acting governor of which island in 1680? 996. Which Australian school did Prince Charles attend in 1966 for 7 months? 997. Which newspaper sent Henry Morton Stanley to find Dr David Livingstone in Africa in 1871? 998. Which American revolutionary heros last words were, I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country? 999. For which French king was the Palace of Versailles built? 1000. Which Italian went to China and became a diplomat for Kublai Khan?

HISTORY ANSWERS
981. Making a noise the firing of guns. 982. Two. 983. Clifford, Ashley, Buckingham, Arlington and Lauderdale. 984. 1829. 985. Henry V. 986. Scapa Flow. 987. By nailing them to the door of the castle church in Wittenberg. 988. Endurance. 989. Owen Tudor. 990. Spain (over Cuba). 991. Fauns. 992. The Boy Scouts. 993. Earth. 994. Rations of limejuice. 995. Jamaica. 996. Timbertop, or Geelong School. 997. The New York Herald. 998. Nathan Hale. 999. Louis XIV. 1000.Marco Polo.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
1001. Who made George Washingtons false teeth? 1002. During the Stone Age, from what kind of stone were tools and weapons usually made? 1003. 1004. 1005. Who were the first people to use antibiotics to cure diseases? Who succeeded Winston Churchill as Prime Minister in 1955? Name Buffalo Bills horse.

1006. What was the gun called that Sir Walter Scott arranged to be removed from the Tower and returned to Scotland in 1829? 1007. 1008. 1009. 1010. 1011. 1012. 1013. 1014. 1015. 1016. 1017. 1018. 1019. 1020. Which queen of England married her brother-in-law? How many kills are credited to the Red Baron? Off which island did Sir Richard Grenville fight the Spaniards? Which British PM held that office for a record five times? Who was the first king of the Israelites? Who was killed by an assassin in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on 28 June 1914? What did Marshal James Wilson discover at Sutters Mill, California, in 1848? Who was Britains Foreign Secretary from 1945 to 1951? What was the nickname of Davy Crocketts rifle? What did Guy Fawkes and friends attempt to blow up in 1605? Who was the king of Munster who defeated the Danes in 1014? To what were the Stoics indifferent? Who said, England is the mother of Parliaments? What were the followers of the philosopher Zeno called?

HISTORY ANSWERS
1001. Paul Revere. 1002. Flint. 1003. The Ancient Egyptians, who used mouldy bread. 1004. Anthony Eden. 1005. Brigham. 1006. Mons Meg (in Edinburgh Castle). 1007. Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIIIs first wife. She was previously his elder brother Arthurs wife. 1008. Eighty. 1009. Flores, the westernmost of the Azores. 1010. Stanley Baldwin (19234, 19249, 19356 and for two brief periods around the Abdication). 1011. King Saul. 1012. The Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife. 1013. Gold. 1014. Ernest Bevin. 1015. Old Betsy. 1016. The Houses of Parliament. 1017. Brian Boru. 1018. Pain or pleasure. 1019. John Bright (in a speech at Birmingham in 1865). 1020. Stoics.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
1021. Where did the Royal Military College move to from Great Marlow in 1812? 1022. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, which was regarded as the richest city in Europe? 1023. How has the Royal Society (Edinburgh) changed since it was founded in 1783? 1024. What are runes? 1025. Which soft-nosed rifle bullet was banned from use in war by the Hague Convention of 1899? 1026. What occupied the site of St Pauls Cathedral before the Great Fire of 1666? 1027. In which century did the pagan Midwinter Feast become the Christian Christmas? 1028. Who was Julius Caesars third wife? 1029. Who was John Wycliffes patron? 1030. The Fabian Society was named after the Roman General, Quintus Fabius Maximus. Why? 1031. During the fourteenth century in Spain, what was strange about the vogue for wearing beards? 1032. Which of Henry VIIIs wives survived him? 1033. Who was the French criminal who founded the Service de Sret? 1034. Who was Cleopatras husband? 1035. Of which kingdom was Offa the king? 1036. For what crime was the Protestant reformer Latimer burned at the stake in 1555? 1037. Which queen of England had eleven fingers? 1038. How did a small animal please the Jacobites in 1702? 1039. Which murdered Roman emperor was succeeded by his uncle Claudius? 1040. What is the name given to the years 181020 in English history?

HISTORY ANSWERS
1021. Sandhurst. 1022. Lisbon, mainly because of treasures brought back by famous explorers such as Vasco da Gama. 1023. Its activities no longer include literature; it is now confined to science. 1024. Letters of the alphabet of the ancient Teutonic peoples of north-western Europe. 1025. The dumdum. 1026. Old St Pauls. 1027. The ninth century. 1028. Calpurnia. 1029. John of Gaunt. 1030. Fabius saved Rome by delaying; the Fabians similarly seek slow change. 1031. Most of them were false. 1032. Catherine Parr. 1033. Vidocq. 1034. Her brother, Ptolemy Dionysius. 1035. Mercia. 1036. Heresy. 1037. Anne Boleyn. 1038. William IIIs horse stumbled on a molehill, killing him. 1039. Caligula. 1040. The Regency.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
1041. Who reigned in England from 1558 to 1603? 1042. How did drunken seamen cause the civil war between Matilda and Stephen? 1043. The names of two articles of clothing originated in the Crimean War; what are they? 1044. According to legend, what did Hubert do to Arthur on behalf of John? 1045. From which culture did the custom of wearing paper hats and pulling crackers at Christmas come? 1046. Who did Achilles kill and drag three times round the walls of Troy? 1047. Which revolt took place in 1381? 1048. Who did Louis XVI give the Hope Diamond to? 1049. Who allegedly ordered the slaughter of all the infants in Bethlehem? 1050. What was hippocras? 1051. At which battle did Thomas Stonewall Jackson get his nickname? 1052. What was the exact date of Rhodesian UDI? 1053. Who was the last monarch to be canonized? 1054. Who were the Brownists? 1055. Which French emperor died in Kent? 1056. When was the name United Kingdom first used? 1057. Edwin Drake sank the first of them in 1859. What were they? 1058. What, in French history, was the Fronde? 1059. Who used to count in groups of sixty? 1060. Who placed the sword of Damocles over Damocles head?

HISTORY ANSWERS
1041. Queen Elizabeth I. 1042. Their carelessness contributed to the drowning of Prince William, who would have been Henry Is successor. 1043. Balaclava and cardigan. 1044. He put his eyes out. Prince Arthur had a superior claim to the throne; he died in grisly circumstances. 1045. Ancient Roman. 1046. Hector. 1047. The Peasants Revolt. 1048. Marie Antoinette. 1049. Herod the Great. 1050. A medieval spiced wine, often served warm. 1051. The Battle of Bull Run. 1052. 11 November 1965. 1053. Louis IX of France (122670). 1054. Early Congregationalists named after their minister, Robert Browne of Norwich (c. 1580). 1055. Napoleon III. 1056. After 1 January 1801, when Great Britain and Ireland were united. 1057. Oil wells. 1058. Opposition to Cardinal Mazarin during the minority of Louis XIV. 1059. The Sumerians. 1060. Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
1061. To whom did Alexander the Great bequeath his empire? 1062. Which religious order became known as the Black Friars? 1063. What saved Rome when the Gauls attacked in 390 BC? 1064. One of the most precious cloths in the ancient world was a bolt of cloth Alexander took from Persia. What colour was it? 1065. Who was Henry VIIIs first Queen? 1066. How long did Queen Victoria reign? 1067. Which Russian ruler imposed a beard tax? 1068. What destroyed Nagasaki in the Second World War? 1069. How many soldiers did a Roman centurion command? 1070. What were the Janissaries? 1071. Which English king was on the throne throughout the Napoleonic Wars? 1072. What relation was Julius Caesar to the Emperor Augustus? 1073. Who was arguably Persias most famous astronomer? 1074. Which queen ordered Ascot racecourse to be laid out? 1075. What war was ended by the Treaty of Westphalia? 1076. Which body was founded in the reign of Henry VII for the protection of the royal person? 1077. Who called whom the Flanders mare? 1078. Troops of which country stormed Vimy Ridge in 1917?
1079. 1080.

To which king of England was Eleanor of Aquitaine married? How many judges sit in the International Court of Justice?

HISTORY ANSWERS
1061. The strongest. 1062. The Dominicans. 1063. The honking of the sacred geese. 1064. Purple. 1065. Catherine of Aragon. 1066. 64 years. 1067. Peter the Great. 1068. An atom bomb. 1069. 100. 1070. An elite Turkish corps of mainly Christian troops serving the Ottoman Empire. Founded in 1330, it was abolished after rebelling in 1826. 1071. George III. 1072. Great-uncle. 1073. Omar Khayyam. 1074. Queen Anne. 1075. The Thirty Years War. 1076. The Yeomen of the Guard. 1077. Henry VIII his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. 1078. Canada. 1079. Henry II. 1080. 15 (quorum of 9).

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
1081. Which European monarch ruled over the most territory in Europe? 1082. Who were the European Mohocks? 1083. Which monarch is associated with Weymouth? 1084. In ancient Greece, what was a hoplite? 1085. Which civilization preceded that of the Aztecs in Mexico? 1086. In what sense is the October Revolution of 1917 misnamed? 1087. In which year did the Jack the Ripper murders occur? 1088. Within how many years of each other did the Buddha and Confucius die? 1089. Which countrys merchant ships fly the flag often called the Red Duster? 1090. Which king married for the first time in 1509? 1091. How were Charles II, Nell Gwyn and the Duke of St Albans related? 1092. During which war was the term concentration camp coined? 1093. About 50,000 were killed in France in one day in 1572 at the instigation of the kings mother. Who was she? 1094. Why did Charles IIs wife, Catherine of Braganza, go to Bath? 1095. Whose body was cremated on the bank of the Ganges on 31 January 1948? 1096. By what name was William Bonney better known? 1097. Who was the religious member of Robin Hoods band? 1098. So far, which has been the most popular name for European kings? 1099. How was Alexander the Greats body preserved? 1100. In which year did Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?

HISTORY ANSWERS
1081. Charles V, the Habsburg Emperor. 1082. Eighteenth-century muggers and ruffians in London. 1083. George III who holidayed there. 1084. A soldier. 1085. The Toltecs. 1086. It took place in November (the Gregorian calendar was adopted in Russia in 1918). 1087. 1888. 1088. 3 to 4 years (the Buddha died in 483 BC, Confucius in 480 or 479 BC). 1089. Britains. 1090. Henry VIII. 1091. The last was the son of the first two. 1092. The Boer War. 1093. Catherine de Medici. 1094. It was hoped that the waters would cure her apparent infertility. 1095. Mahatma Gandhi. 1096. Billy the Kid. 1097. Friar Tuck. 1098. Charles. 1099. It was kept in a large jar of honey. 1100. 1933.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
1101. To which gang did Kid Curry belong? 1102. How did Sir John Popham, Chief Justice of England in 1592, become wealthy? 1103. Whose horse was Bucephalus? 1104. Who or what killed Cleopatra? 1105. In the nineteenth century, what was the punishment for failed suicide attempts? 1106. Who formally surrendered on HMS Bellerophon after Waterloo? 1107. Who wrote to whom, Home in three days so dont wash? 1108. Of which battleship was Captain Lindemann in command when it was sunk in 1941? 1109. Who was the wife of Louis XVI of France? 1110. Seventy-five-year-old Edmund Ruffin fired the first shot on Fort Sumter to start which war? 1111. Between Stockton and what other town was the first proper railway opened in 1825? 1112. Why were productions of King Lear banned from 1788 to 1820? 1113. Of which ship was Edward J. Smith captain when he died in 1912? 1114. Whose heart did Dr Buckland, Dean of Westminster, reputedly swallow in 1905? 1115. At which battle in 1314 did Robert the Bruce defeat the English forces? 1116. From whom did Winston Churchill take over as prime minister in the early stages of the Second World War? 1117. Which two countries were separated by Hadrians Wall? 1118. How many children did Queen Victoria have? 1119. Where was Oceanus Hopkins born? 1120. For how long did Prohibition last in the USA?

HISTORY ANSWERS
1101. The Hole-in-the-Wall gang. 1102. He was a burglar in his earlier days. 1103. Alexander the Greats. 1104. An asp. 1105. Hanging (failsafe). 1106. Napoleon. 1107. Napoleon to Josephine. 1108. The Bismarck. 1109. Marie Antoinette. 1110. The American Civil War. 1111. Darlington. 1112. In deference to King George IIIs acknowledged insanity. 1113. The Titanic. 1114. Louis XIVs. 1115. Bannockburn. 1116. Neville Chamberlain. 1117. England and Scotland. 1118. Nine. 1119. On the Mayflower the only child to be born on it (1620). 1120. 13 years.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
1121. What was the fire-and-brimstone preacher Cotton Mather responsible for instigating in 1692? 1122. Who were the parents of Queen Elizabeth I? 1123. In the nineteenth century, students at Cambridge University were not allowed to keep dogs in their rooms. What did Lord Byron keep instead? 1124. Only one dead language has been resurrected for everyday use. Which? 1125. Who was king of Sweden from 1907 to 1950? 1126. Between which years was the Spanish Civil War fought? 1127. How were the injuries from which George II reputedly died sustained? 1128. Who was the last king to lead his troops into battle? 1129. Where did Harold beat Harold? 1130. Who was the last king of Rome, expelled after his sons rape of Lucretia? 1131. Where did Washington and his army spend the winter of 1777-8? 1132. In 1392 Sir John Hawkwood wrote home from Florence. What is remarkable about his letter? 1133. Name one of the MPs Charles I tried to arrest in 1642. 1134. Which king wrote articles on farming under the name of Ralph Robinson? 1135. Who was Alexander the Greats famous tutor? 1136. What was Sir Henry Percys nickname? 1137. What was La Gironde? 1138. Which is the worlds oldest extant treaty? 1139. Whose marriage united Spain? 1140. Name two stuttering monarchs.

HISTORY ANSWERS
1121. The witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. 1122. Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. 1123. A bear. 1124. Hebrew dead for 2,300 years until revived by the Jews in Israel as their common language. 1125. Gustav V. 1126. 1936 and 1939. 1127. When he fell off the lavatory. 1128. George II at the Battle of Dettingen in 1743. 1129. Stamford Bridge (King Harold of Britain defeated Harold Haardraade of Norway). 1130. Tarquinius Superbus. 1131. Valley Forge. 1132. It is the earliest known letter written in English. 1133. Pym, Hampden, Haselrig, Holies or Strode. 1134. George III. 1135. Aristotle. 1136. Hotspur. 1137. A group of moderate republicans of the French Revolution. 1138. That between England and Portugal signed in 1373. 1139. Isabella of Castile to Ferdinand of Aragon, in 1469. 1140. William II, Charles I and George VI.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
1141. What was the Kings Evil? 1142. Name Germanys largest battleship in the Second World War. 1143. Who was the inventor of the folding bed and the swivel chair? 1144. Which is the oldest ruling family in the world? 1145. Which king led the English at the Battle of Agincourt? 1146. What happened in London on Evil May Day 1517? 1147. Name the Spanish inquisitor said to have been responsible for the burning of 10,000 people. 1148. For how long did Edward VIII reign? 1149. Clement C. Wragge began this christening custom in Australia between 1887 and 1902. What was it? 1150. Who was a minister under the Republic, the Empire, and Louis XVIII? 1151. In 1941 Germany had an ally in attacking Russia. Who? 1152. Who took part with the Earp brothers in the OK Corral shoot-out? 1153. Who fought whom at Burford in 1649? 1154. During which war were British troops first issued with hand grenades? 1155. The World War II German invasion of Russia was codenamed what? 1156. It was predicted that Henry IV would die in Jerusalem. Where did he die? 1157. What relation was William of Orange to Charles I? 1158. What were Nivse, Brumaire, Vendmiaire and Ventse? 1159. In which country was the Neanderthal valley? 1160. What was the age of consent in the UK for marriage before 1929?

HISTORY ANSWERS
1141. Scrofula (the practice of rulers touching to cure this disease was stopped by George I). 1142. The Bismarck. 1143. Thomas Jefferson, third President of the USA. 1144. That of the Emperor Hirohito of Japan: he is 124th in line. 1145. Henry V. 1146. Apprentices rioted. 1147. Torquemada. 1148. 325 days. 1149. Naming hurricanes. 1150. Talleyrand. 1151. Finland. 1152. Doc Holliday. 1153. Forces under Cromwell defeated Levellers under Captain Thompson. 1154. The First World War. 1155. Barbarossa. 1156. In the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey. 1157. Grandson. 1158. Months of the French revolutionary calendar. 1159. Germany. 1160. Twelve for a girl, fourteen for a boy.

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
1161. Two kings at the Field of the Cloth of Gold (1520) had a wrestling match. Who won? 1162. Who was killed at the pass of Thermopylae in 480 BC? 1163. In what year did Charles I (the last Habsburg) lose his throne? 1164. Which country held the first secret ballot at a parliamentary election? 1165. Who was the first king to wear a kilt? 1166. During what event did the first recorded public performance of God save the King take place? 1167. How old, within 3 years, was Henry VIII when he ascended the throne? 1168. To which organization was the only Nobel Peace Prize given during the First World War? 1169. Who defeated Prince Rupert at Marston Moor? 1170. Which ship left Boston for Genoa in 1872 and was found wrecked four weeks later? 1171. Of whom did Queen Victoria say, Such a head! I wish we had her at the War Office? 1172. After what event did the last beheadings (as opposed to hangings) take place? 1173. Where was Nelsons Pillar erected in 1809? 1174. In which decade did the first legal cremation in Britain since the time of the Roman Occupation take place? 1175. Who introduced the place-name endings of -ton and -ham? 1176. Which famous school was founded in 1440? 1177. Which black revolutionary took over the French colony of Haiti, was eventually captured, and died in France in 1803? 1178. Who was the last English monarch to be born abroad? 1179. What did William II, Henry VIII, Charles I, George V and George VI have in common? 1180. Who was the only English Pope?

HISTORY ANSWERS
1161. Franois I threw Henry VIII. 1162. King Leonidas and 300 Spartans. 1163. 1918 (of AustriaHungary). 1164. Australia, colony of Victoria in 1856. 1165. George IV (on his visit to Edinburgh in 1822). 1166. The 45 Jacobite invasion. It was an unannounced addition to the programme at Drury Lane Theatre on 28 September 1745. 1167. Eighteen. 1168. The International Red Cross. 1169. Oliver Cromwell. 1170. The Mary Celeste. 1171. Florence Nightingale. 1172. The 45 Rebellion. 1173. Dublin. It was blown up by Republican extremists in 1966. 1174. 1880s. It took place in 1885 at Woking in Surrey. 1175. The Saxons. They mean settlement. 1176. Eton. 1177. Toussaint LOuverture. 1178. George II, who was born in Hanover in 1683. 1179. They were all second sons. 1180. Nicholas Breakspear, Pope Adrian IV (11549).

HISTORY- QUESTIONS
1181. A very early set of false teeth has been discovered. Which civilization produced it? 1182. Who or what was the Sick Man of Europe? 1183. For how many terms was George Washington President of the USA? 1184. Where was Edward the Martyr, sixteen-year-old king of England, murdered? 1185. What title did Charlemagne receive at his coronation in Rome on 25 December 800? 1186. What accommodation first erected in France in 1916 earned its inventor the DSO? 1187. What was the date of the killer London pea-souper in which 4,000 more deaths were recorded than average? 1188. What single leader was responsible for conquering the largest amount of territory? 1189. What was first used in France in 1792 in the Place de Grve? 1190. How many slaves did Patrick Henry own when he made his famous speech about freedom? 1191. After whom was the state of Georgia in the US named? 1192. In ancient China, titles were conferred on which breed of dog? 1193. Who preached communism at Blackheath during the Peasants Revolt of 1381? 1194. Which king of England outlawed cricket in 1477? 1195. Which famous seaman commanded the Triumph during the Armadas attack? 1196. What did John Wesley Hyatt invent in 1869? 1197. In 1685 the Earl of Argyll was the last person in Britain to be executed by which method? 1198. Which king adopted the name of Windsor for the house of our Royal Family? 1199. After whom are Rhodes Scholarships named? 1200. What was Anna Edson Taylor, in October 1901, the first to do?

HISTORY ANSWERS
1181. The Phoenician civilization; it was found in a grave at Sidon. 1182. The Turkish Empire (according to Nicholas I of Russia). 1183. Two (178997). 1184. Corfe Castle (by retainers of his stepmother). 1185. Emperor of the West. 1186. The Nissen hut (invented by Captain Peter Nissen). 1187. 510 December 1952. 1188. Genghis Khan (approx. 4,860,000 square miles in 21 years). His empire included northern China, Mongolia, southern Siberia and central Asia. 1189. The guillotine. 1190. Sixty-five. 1191. King George II. 1192. The pekinese. 1193. John Ball. 1194. Edward IV. 1195. Frobisher. 1196. Celluloid. 1197. The guillotine. 1198. George V. 1199. Cecil Rhodes, the British Colonist. 1200. Go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.

GEOGRAPHY

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
1. In which country is Cape Wrath? 2. Approximately how deep is the Grand Canyon? 3. On which river were the Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth and Q E 2 built? 4. Which peninsula did Hardy call the Gibraltar of Wessex? 5. Approximately what proportion of Singapores inhabitants are Chinese? 6. Where are Cape Everard and Cape Otway? 7. Right up to the beginning of this century, how did the Chinese mark criminals for life? 8. Where do the Ashanti people live? 9. What is called The Sorrow of China? 10. In which city is the Little Mermaid statue sited? 11. Across which African river is the Owen Falls dam? 12. Which country did Cetewayo once rule? 13. Of which hills is Wills Neck the final summit? 14. For what is Dijon, in France, famous? 15. Which British museum attracts the most visitors? 16. The Kikuyu live in which country? 17. Barcelona is which countrys second city? 18. On which river does Leicester stand? 19. In which city is the last Shah of Iran buried? 20. Formerly in East Anglia, where is the town of Dunwich now sited?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
1. In Scotland. 2. One mile deep. 3. The Clyde. 4. The Portland peninsula. 5. 75 per cent. 6. In south-east Australia. 7. By branding them with hot irons. 8. In Ghana. 9. The Hwang-ho, or Yellow River, because it often floods. 10. In Copenhagen. 11. The Nile. 12. Zululand. 13. The Quantocks. 14. Mustard. 15. The British Museum. 16. In Kenya. 17. Spains. 18. The River Soar. 19. In Cairo. 20. At the bottom of the sea it fell off the cliff.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
21. In which field are Viking and Silja keen rivals? 22. What is the official language of Fiji? 23. Hamelin is on which river? 24. Which country produces the wine Tokai? 25. In which county is Redcar, the seaside resort? 26. What is the capital of the US state of Nevada? 27. Name two of the three flags erected on the summit of Everest in 1953 by Hillary and Tenzing. 28. The Grande Place is the main square of which capital city? 29. Which capital city contains a Temple of Peace and Health, and Cathays Park? 30. Which is Africas largest country? 31. In which country is Mount Logan? 32. How many official languages does Switzerland have? 33. Where do the Dyaks live? 34. What landed unexpectedly on the Australian town of Rawlinna in 1979? 35. In which city is the smart Ginza district? 36. In which Scots city is the Wallace monument? 37. Which city does Haneda International Airport serve? 38. Which city is called Mile High City in the USA? 39. In which US state is Amarillo situated? 40. In which English city is King Alfreds statue?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
21. The field of Baltic ferry shipping. They are, respectively, Finnish and Swedish companies. 22. English. 23. The Weser. 24. Hungary. 25. In Cleveland. 26. Carson City. (not Las Vegas.) 27. The flags were those of the UK, India, and Nepal. 28. Brussels. 29. Cardiff. 30. The Sudan. 31. In Canada. 32. Four. 33. In Borneo. 34. Pieces of Skylab. 35. In Tokyo. 36. Stirling. 37. Tokyo. 38. Denver. 39. In Texas. 40. In Winchester.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
41. The Madeira Islands belong to which country? 42. Of which English bridge is Sydney Harbour Bridge a copy? 43. What is the capital of the Shetland Isles? 44. Which international airport is identified by the letters JFK? 45. Where do Mongasques live? 46. In which country would you spend satangs and bahts? 47. In which country is Pusan? 48. In which South American country would you spend guarani? 49. What colour are New York cabs? 50. Which state of the USA today contains the Liberty Bell and Gettysburg? 51. Where are Sabra, Chatilah and Bourj-al-Barajneh which made the news in 1985? 52. Which particular pilgrimage has a Haji made? 53. In April 1985, where did Mrs Thatcher think she was when she wasnt? 54. In which English town do bananas grow in Queen Marys garden? 55. Which is the largest lake in Ethiopia? 56. With which country is the drink Tokai chiefly associated? 57. Why cannot you enter Leningrads harbour between December and April? 58. In which city is the Jorvik Viking Centre? 59. What great edifice stands on Ile de la Cit in Paris? 60. Where was the HQ of the National Union of Mineworkers relocated in 1984?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
41. Portugal. 42. The bridge at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 43. Lerwick. 44. New York City (John F. Kennedy). 45. In Monaco. 46. In Thailand. 47. South Korea. 48. In Paraguay. 49. Yellow. 50. Pennsylvania. 51. In Lebanon; they were three Palestinian camps in Beirut. 52. To Mecca. 53. She momentarily confused Malaysia with Indonesia on her Far East tour. 54. In Falmouth. 55. Lake Tana. 56. Hungary. 57. Because it is iced up. 58. In York. 59. Notre Dame Cathedral. 60. Sheffield.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
61. Which country calls itself Al-Mamlaka al-Maghribiya? 62. On which day of the week should you not eat snakes in Iraq? 63. Cetinje is the capital of where? 64. Where is the British National Lifeboat Museum? 65. Ian Smith was the PM of which country? 66. Walachia and Moldavia united to form what? 67. Which city did Wordsworth call the safeguard of the West? 68. What is particularly curious about the cake we call Swiss Roll? 69. Which is the largest state in Mexico? 70. If it is midday in London (GMT), what time is it in Hong Kong? 71. From Botswana, in which direction would you go to reach Namibia? 72. In 1980, the greatest number of visitors to Britain came from where? 73. The people of which nation eat most fish per head? 74. On which Channel Island are the Wolf Caves? 75. Which Portuguese explorer discovered the Cape of Good Hope? 76. Of which nation was Ibn Saud the first king? 77. In which country is Latakia, famous for its tobacco? 78. Name the main airport of Sydney, Australia. 79. Where do Sards live when they are at home? 80. Which ship canal bypasses the Niagara Falls?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
61. Morocco. 62. On Sunday. 63. Montenegro. 64. In Bristol. 65. Rhodesia. 66. Romania, in 1859. 67. Venice. 68. By all accounts, it is unobtainable in Switzerland. 69. Chihuahua. 70. 8.00 pm. 71. Due west. 72. The USA. 73. The people of Iceland. 74. On Jersey. 75. Bartholomew Dias. 76. Saudi Arabia. 77. In Syria. 78. Sydney International Airport. 79. In Sardinia. 80. The Welland Canal.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
81. How many different letters form the Hawaiian alphabet? 82. What does Dares Salaam mean? 83. Which country owns Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic? 84. What do the Beefeaters guard? 85. Which is Europes largest port? 86. Which was called The Dark Continent? 87. In Australian slang, a crow eater is a person from where? 88. How many states make up the German Federal Republic? 89. How many gondolas are permitted to operate in Venice, by law? 90. Where is Frisian spoken? 91. The Rhine rises in which country? 92. On the shores of which sea is Masada? 93. The MiG jet plane is the product of which country? 94. From where in France does Brie cheese come? 95. Which Commonwealth city stands on Port Nicholson Bay? 96. In Australia, what is a BYO restaurant? 97. Of which major US political party is the ass the symbol? 98. From which county did the Tolpuddle Martyrs come? 99. Which country did Prince Sihanouk rule until he was deposed in 1970? 100. After which country is Nova Scotia in Canada named?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
81. Twelve. 82. Gates of Peace. 83. Norway. 84. The Tower of London. 85. Rotterdam. 86. Africa. 87. The State of South Australia. 88. Ten. 89. 400. 90. In Northern Holland. 91. In Switzerland. 92. The Dead Sea. 93. The USSR. 94. The Brie area, to the east of Paris. 95. Wellington, New Zealand. 96. One where you can bring Your Own drink. 97. The Republican Party. 98. From Dorset. 99. Cambodia. 100. Scotland.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
101. Kosciusko is the highest mountain in which country? 102. Which Berkshire school did Prince Charles attend? 103. What is Polands parliament called? 104. The crew of which ship settled in the Pitcairn Islands? 105. Which desert is in Botswana? 106. Which capital city stands on a European island called Zealand? 107. From which country do Lancia cars originate? 108. In which country might you alight at a station called Hell? 109. Where is Zion National Park? 110. In which city is the Cathedral of Notre Dame? 111. For whom was Pennsylvania originally created? 112. What was the country of Jordan called before 1946? 113. Where is the NASA Space Centre? 114. Where is the famous Blue Grotto? 115. Which city was Sutona in the Domesday Book, and still has an area called Sutton? 116. In which English county is the worlds narrowest street, called Squeeze-Belly Alley? 117. How much did the US pay Spain for the Philippines in 1898? 118. Famed in song, where is Mandalay? 119. Which Great Lake is in Utah? 120. Which country has the worlds largest National Park?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
101. In Australia. 102. Cheam. 103. Seym. 104. EMS Bounty. 105. The Kalahari. 106. Copenhagen. 107. Italy. 108. In Norway. 109. In Utah, USA. 110. Paris. 111. Persecuted Quakers. 112. Transjordan. 113. In Houston, Texas. 114. In Capri. 115. Plymouth. 116. In Cornwall. 117. $20 million. 118. In Burma. 119. Great Salt Lake. 120. Canada. (Wood Buffalo N. P., in Alberta.)

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
121. The Devils Cataract is part of which falls? 122. Which is the oldest university in the USA? 123. What is the first name of the majority of the men on Corfu? 124. Big Muddy is the nickname of which US river? 125. From which country do Citron cars originate? 126. In which country is Galilee? 127. Laval, Verdun, Hull and Sherbrooke are among the main cities of which province? 128. Originally, what was Brisbane, in Australia? 129. Varna (Bulgaria), Brasov (Romania) and Donetski (USSR) were all once called what? 130. Only one US state does not model its laws on the British system. Which? 131. Westbury Down is the highest point of what? 132. On which street is the New York Stock Exchange? 133. What does Finland call England? 134. In which country is the source of the River Tigris? 135. What is the actual meaning of Himalayas? 136. Of what is 350 Fifth Avenue, New York, the official address? 137. What is the largest island belonging to Denmark? 138. In which country could you stay in a parador? 139. In which year was snow first known to fall in the Sahara Desert? 140. In which town may be found the oldest Christian church still in use?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
121. The Victoria Falls. 122. Harvard. 123. Spiro. 124. The Missouri. 125. France. 126. In Israel. 127. Quebec, in Canada. 128. A penal colony. 129. Stalin. 130. Louisiana. 131. Salisbury Plain. 132. Wall Street. 133. Englanti. 134. In Turkey. 135. Abode of snow. 136. The Empire State Building. 137. Greenland. 138. Spain it is a state-owned hotel. 139. In 1979. 140. In Bethlehem.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
141. What is Sinology? 142. What is the city of Caerdydd called in English? 143. After which race of people is the Caribbean named? 144. What is built on Jenkins Hill in Washington, D.C.? 145. BMW cars come from which country? 146. Where would you find Queens Island? 147. What service did the Reverend John Flynn begin in Australia? 148. Honolulu is on which of the Hawaiian islands? 149. In which city is the Gefion Fountain, which shows the goddess ploughing with her four sons, who had been turned into oxen? 150. In which country is Salonika? 151. Which is the worlds most northerly capital city? 152. What do Americans call what we call chips the edible kind? 153. What does Australia actually mean? 154. Which difficult-to-visit country calls itself Land of the Eagles? 155. For what is the Isle of Harris famed? 156. Of which country is Ruritania now part? 157. The islands of Murano, Burano and Torcello are part of which city? 158. Which mythical animal is seen on the Welsh flag? 159. What did Mrs Joan Charleston inherit in 1985? 160. Which US city is nicknamed the Mile High City?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
141. The knowledge of things connected with China and the Chinese. 142. Cardiff. 143. The Caribs. 144. The Capitol. 145. Germany. 146. In Belfast. 147. The Flying Doctor Service. 148. Oahu. 149. In Copenhagen. 150. In Greece. 151. Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland. 152. French fries. 153. Southern Land. 154. Albania. 155. Tweed. 156. None it existed only by courtesy of novelist Anthony Hope. 157. Venice. 158. A dragon. 159. An entire Tudor village. 160. Denver, Colorado.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
161. What do folk traditionally fly in Korea at New Year? 162. The Ashburton Treaty determined the boundaries between which two countries? 163. The Camargue is an area in which country? 164. Wilton, where the carpets come from, is in which county? 165. Which is Africas second largest country? 166. In which country are there the most motorbikes per capita? 167. Which mountain do Tibetans call Mother of the Snows? 168. With which countrys cuisine are biryani dishes chiefly associated? 169. Which rock in the Central Desert of Australia is famed for its colour changes? 170. Which country is ruled by the House of Orange? 171. To become President of the US, for how many years must you have lived there? 172. Which is the worlds most northerly capital of an independent nation? 173. In which city is the Guggenheim Museum? 174. In which country are Lakes Titicaca and Poopo? 175. Which is the USAs southernmost city? 176. Where is Kodiak Island? 177. In which country are the Adirondack Mountains? 178. Which country has the highest road accident rate in Europe? 179. Where is Stonecutters Island? 180. Which islands are the worlds top salt producers?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
161. Kites. 162. Canada and the USA. 163. France. 164. Wiltshire. 165. Algeria. 166. In Bermuda. 167. Mount Everest. 168. Indias. 169. Ayers Rock. 170. Holland. 171. Fourteen years, at least. 172. Reykjavik, Iceland. 173. In New York. 174. In Bolivia. 175. Honolulu. 176. In the Gulf of Alaska. 177. In the USA. 178. Greece. 179. In Hong Kong. 180. The Bahamas

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
181. What was Manchesters Airport called before 1955? 182. Breaking the ice is a well-known phrase, but from where is it reputed to come? 183. Andorra has the highest minimum voting age in the world. What is it? 184. In which country is Cook Mountain? 185. What are the two official languages of Canada? 186. Which London street is nicknamed The Street of Ink? 187. Which is the smallest of the four oceans? 188. Name two of the four English counties which, prior to 1974, began with the letter C. 189. Which US city was called Porkopolis because of its meat-packing industry? 190. From which country do Fiat cars come? 191. Which London bridge comes between Southwark Bridge and Tower Bridge? 192. What is the Aletsch? 193. Which country did the League of Nations expel in 1939 for attacking Finland? 194. Great Inagua and Cat Island belong to which group of islands? 195. What is Salop short for? 196. Egyptians are reputedly the descendants of which of Noahs sons? 197. On a map, what does an isobath show? 198. How many official languages has Singapore? 199. From which language does the prefix tele come? 200. What is the principal language of Iceland?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
181. Ringway Airport. (It is now Manchester International.) 182. At each stop of the Irish Mail the porters changed the foot-passengers got into conversation. 183. Twenty-five. 184. In New Zealand. 185. English and French. 186. Fleet Street. 187. The Indian Ocean. 188. Cornwall, Cambridgeshire, Cumberland and Cheshire. 189. Cincinnati. 190. Italy. 191. London Bridge. 192. The largest glacier in Europe. (It is in Switzerland.) 193. Russia. 194. The Bahamas. 195. Shropshire. 196. Ham. 197. The depth of water. 198. Four. 199. From Greek. (It means far off.) 200. Icelandic.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
201. Which is the most populated city in Northern Ireland? 202. On which Roman road is Ilchester? 203. Which ocean is nicknamed the herring-pond? 204. Which country in South America was called Banda Oriental before independence? 205. Which red-bonneted female symbolizes the French republic? 206. Which British islands are serviced by a scheduled helicopter service? 207. In which forest is the Rufus Stone? 208. Mount Kilimanjaro, Africas highest mountain, is in which country? 209. Its inhabitants call it Kerkira what do Britons call it? 210. What is the birth rate in the Vatican City? 211. In which city is Krasnaya Ploshchad? 212. Which countrys cars carry the letters SK? 213. Where, today, can you travel on the Lusitania? 214. The original Church of the Nativity is where? 215. What do Argentinians call the Falklands? 216. What is the largest medieval cathedral in Britain? 217. In which country might you shop at ISUM? 218. What is the centre of attraction on the Acropolis in Athens? 219. Who are the Contras? 220. In which country is Fiordland the largest national park?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
201. Belfast. 202. On Fosse Way. 203. The Atlantic. 204. Uruguay. 205. Marianne. 206. The Scilly Isles. 207. The New Forest. 208. Tanzania. 209. Corfu. 210. Zero. 211. In Moscow. It is better known as Red Square. 212. Sarawaks. 213. Between Madrid and Lisbon. It is an express train. 214. In Bethlehem. 215. Las Malvinas. 216. York Minster. 217. In Russia. 218. The Parthenon. 219. The rebel forces in Nicaragua. 220. In New Zealand.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
221. Where were the secret police known as the Tonton Macoute? 222. After which British Queen is Africas largest lake named? 223. In which country are the Golan Heights? 224. The Azores are in which ocean? 225. Nadi Airport is where? 226. Which Republic was once called the Kingdom of a Million Elephants? 227. Which is Scotlands most-visited building? 228. Manama is the capital of where? 229. Of what has Venice been called the mistress? 230. Which is the most populous city in the Republic of Ireland? 231. In which county is the town of Wellington, from which the Duke took his title? 232. Which countrys name means Resplendent Isle? 233. In which county is the Caractacus Stone under which legend says treasure is buried? 234. In Japan, which is the unluckiest number, equating to number 13? 235. Which country has the worlds most crowded railway system? 236. Which city is traditionally famous for jute, jam and journalism? 237. Which city, originally called Pile OBones, is now capital of Saskatchewan? 238. Baghdad stands on which river? 239. Which countrys anti-terrorist commandos are called Leatherheads? 240. What are Macgillycuddys Reeks?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
221. In Haiti. 222. Victoria. 223. In Syria. 224. The Atlantic. 225. In the Fiji Islands. 226. Laos. 227. Edinburgh Castle. 228. Bahrain. 229. The Adriatic. 230. Dublin. 231. Somerset. 232. Sri Lanka. 233. In Somerset. 234. Four. 235. Japan. 236. Dundee. 237. Regina. 238. The Tigris. 239. Italys. 240. Mountains in Ireland.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
241. Where is the administrative centre of the Open University? 242. If a pilot flew directly west from Paris, which country would he come to first? 243. Which is the third largest ocean? 244. In which US state is Cajun Country? 245. According to German folklore, the Lorelei threw herself into which river? 246. What is the main language of Ethiopia? 247. Which landmark do the Nepalese call Sagarmartha? 248. Which country annexed Transylvania in 1920? 249. Approximately how many islands comprise Indonesia? 250. In which Indian city is the Red Fort of the Mughals? 251. According to the saying, where do all roads lead to? 252. Which river meets the Mediterranean at the Gulf of Lions? 253. Over 2,000 people died in 1984 from deadly fumes. In which Indian city? 254. What do inhabitants of Los Angeles call themselves? 255. Mahn is the capital of which island? 256. The worlds largest what is at Cholula di Rivadabia in Mexico? 257. On which continent do the wandering Hottentots roam? 258. Which river marks the border between England and Scotland? 259. On which island is Peel Castle? 260. The Tuscany district of Italy is famed for producing which Italian wine?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
241. Milton Keynes. 242. Canada. 243. The Indian Ocean. 244. Louisiana. 245. The Rhine. 246. Amharic. 247. Mount Everest. 248. Romania. 249. 13,000. 250. In Delhi. 251. Rome. 252. The Rhne. 253. Bhopal. 254. Angelenos. 255. Minorca. 256. Pyramid. 257. Africa. 258. The Tweed. 259. The Isle of Man. 260. Chianti.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
261. Mount Kebnekaise is the highest point in which country? 262. In which country are Pulitzer Prizes awarded? 263. From which country does teak mainly come? 264. Why did 25 trade unions organize a massive demonstration in Singapore in 1985? 265. New Orleans stands at the mouth of which river? 266. Hokkaido is the northernmost island of which country? 267. Which city is called Firenze by its inhabitants? 268. Which sea is between Korea and Shanghai? 269. Why is Caldron Snout famous? 270. Where did General Wolfe die? 271. French kings used to be crowned at the cathedral of which city? 272. What does Long Legs mean in Nigeria? 273. In which valley in Egypt is Tutankhamuns tomb? 274. What was the town of Bait Lahm in Israel formerly called? 275. Which Soviet Republic and American states share a name? 276. Which country has the highest mortality rate from snake-bites? 277. Lake Bala is the biggest in which country? 278. In which state of the USA do most millionaires live? 279. From which country does the dish tamale originate? 280. Where would you find Dr Johnsons Head and Dr Syntaxs Head?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
261. Sweden. 262. In the US. 263. Burma. 264. Because of an offered pay rise they said it was too high! 265. The Mississippi. 266. Japan. 267. Florence. 268. The Yellow Sea. 269. It is Englands highest waterfall. 270. In Quebec. 271. Rheims. 272. Nepotism their equivalent of the Old Boy Network. 273. The Valley of the Kings. 274. Bethlehem. 275. Georgia. 276. Burma 15.4 per 100,000. 277. In Wales. 278. In California there were 114,427 in 1985. 279. From Mexico. 280. On either side of Lands End they are coastal features.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
281. Which mountain range is called the Backbone of Italy? 282. What is the Hellespont called today? 283. Where is the HQ of OPEC? 284. What proportion of the worlds gold comes from South Africa? 285. Which is Europes busiest airport? 286. Skyscrapers first appeared in which city? 287. What is Santa Clara Valley in California now generally called? 288. What do Send, Usk, Werrington and Blantyre have in common? 289. Before Bath was in Avon, where was it? 290. Which US state was named after a French king? 291. Where can the Kukukuku tribe be found? 292. Morea is another name for which part of Greece? 293. Why does Germanys highest mountain have a 36-metre concrete tower on its top? 294. To which Californian mission do the swallows fly each year, on 19 March? 295. What were Stoats Nest and Bo-Peep Junction? 296. The River Orwell is in which county? 297. Which river is the southern boundary between Devon and Cornwall? 298. The Xingu National Park is in which country? 299. Which international airport is identified by the letters LHR? 300. By what name is Lusitania now known?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
281. The Apeninnes. 282. The Bosphorus, or Dardanelles. 283. In Vienna. 284. About two-thirds. 285. Heathrow. 286. In Chicago. 287. Silicon Valley. 288. They are all detention centres for young offenders. 289. In Somerset. 290. Louisiana. 291. In Papua New Guinea. 292. The Peloponnese. 293. The Zugspitze is 2964 metres high, so the tower makes it 3000 exactly! 294. Capistrano. 295. Old stations on the Brighton and South Coast Railway. 296. Suffolk. 297. The Tamar. 298. In Brazil. 299. London Heathrow. 300. Portugal.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
301. In which city is Cabots Tower? 302. From which port did both Captain Cook and Francis Chichester sail to go round the world? 303. What is the capital of Puerto Rico? 304. Of which country did Queen Margrethe become the first female sovereign for over 500 years? 305. Before its Federation with Ethiopia, Eritrea was administered by which country? 306. Which countrys national emblem is a rose? 307. Aircraft from Canada are marked with which letter? 308. Quezon City was the capital of which country, until 1976? 309. After Paris, what is the largest French-speaking city? 310. In America, what is the ground floor of a building called? 311. In which English county is Boston? 312. Which country has Bullet trains? 313. Which citys symbol is the winged lion of St Mark? 314. Which country did Mark Twain describe as Mother of history, grandmother of legend, and great-grandmother of tradition? 315. Which English county possesses the greatest amount of coastline? 316. In which country are the Ox Mountains? 317. Which record is held by Loch Morar? 318. The worlds largest car ferry sails from Travemunde to where? 319. What do the Pedaung women of Burma use to stretch their necks? 320. What is the time difference between Perth, Scotland, and Perth, Australia?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
301. In Bristol. 302. Plymouth. 303. San Juan. 304. Denmark. 305. Great Britain. 306. Englands. 307. The letter C. 308. The Philippines. 309. Montreal. 310. The first floor. 311. Lincolnshire. 312. Japan. 313. Venices. 314. India. 315. Cornwall. 316. In Ireland. 317. It is the deepest lake in Britain. 318. Helsinki, across the Baltic. 319. Brass rings. 320. Eight hours.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
321. Ecosse is French for which country? 322. Which are Russias two most heavily populated cities? 323. In which town did a rich wool merchant found Blundells school, in 1604? 324. What do the Dutch call Surinam? 325. The Dogger Bank is in which sea? 326. Which county did Henry VIII call the most beastly slice in England? 327. The Temple of Athene in Athens is better known by what name? 328. Which river is called Abbai or Al-Bahr locally? 329. Wearing what colour does a bride traditionally marry, in China? 330. Between which two countries were the Opium Wars of 183942 fought? 331. Which of the Three Musketeers shared a name with a Greek mountain? 332. Which sea separates Italy and Yugoslavia? 333. Where are the Frigid Zones? 334. In which country is the Blue Mountains National Park? 335. In which gulf is Anticosti Island? 336. In which country does the River Po flow? 337. McCarren Airport serves which American city? 338. If you were a Selenite, where would you live? 339. Apart from shaking hands, what is the other traditional way of greeting one another in Tibet? 340. In which country is La Stampa a national newspaper?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
321. Scotland. 322. Moscow and Leningrad. 323. In Tiverton, Devon. 324. Suriname. 325. The North Sea. 326. Lincolnshire. 327. The Parthenon. 328. The Nile. 329. Red. 330. Britain and China. 331. Athos. 332. The Adriatic. 333. The areas between the Polar circles and the Poles. 334. In Australia. 335. The Gulf of St Lawrence, Quebec. 336. Italy. 337. Las Vegas. 338. On the moon. 339. By bumping foreheads. 340. In Italy.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
341. In the mouth of which bay do the Aran Islands lie? 342. According to the song, over which cliffs will there be bluebirds? 343. With which countrys cuisine is nan bread chiefly associated? 344. Which country produces the most coal? 345. The Iguassu Falls are in which country? 346. In which county is the Naze? 347. Of which country is Maseru the capital? 348. Where can you see the Peter and Paul Fortress and the battleship Aurora? 349. Over which islands did Queen Liliuokalani rule? 350. Which famous collection is housed in Manchester Square, London? 351. Which is the oldest city on the South American continent? 352. On 12 June 1985, a Boeing 727 was blown up at Beirut Airport. To which country did it belong? 353. What do we call what Hungarians call the Duna? 354. What is the official language of Kenya? 355. Approximately how many Indonesian islands are inhabited? 356. Which is Thailands longest river? 357. Which is the smallest of the Great Lakes of North America? 358. What came between Byzantium and Istanbul? 359. How deep is Loch Ness? 360. In which country are the Swabian Mountains?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
341. Galway Bay. 342. Dover. 343. Indias. 344. Russia. 345. In Argentina. 346. Essex. 347. Lesotho. 348. In Leningrad. 349. The Hawaiian Islands. 350. The Wallace Collection. 351. Lima, in Peru. 352. Jordan. 353. The River Danube. 354. Swahili. 355. 3,000. 356. The Mekong River. 357. Lake Ontario. 358. Constantinople. (The same city has had three names.) 359. 750 feet. (Plenty of room for Nessie.) 360. In West Germany.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
361. Where are the Ribbon Falls? 362. Where is Montego Bay? 363. What is on top of each of the Kremlins five tallest towers? 364. Which country has the highest proportion of elderly people in the world? 365. Treasure Island sits in which US bay? 366. Where is the Bay of Pigs? 367. Why does the Duchy of Cornwall (the Prince of Wales estate) seem to be misnamed? 368. Where, in Britain, are wild reindeer found? 369. Beside Paraguay, which is the only land-locked country in the Americas? 370. The wine Lacryma Christi comes solely from the slopes of which mountain? 371. Who was Abilenes famous marshal? 372. Prior to Nairobi, what was the capital of Kenya? 373. What distinction has the Condor railway station in Bolivia? 374. On which river is the Hoover Dam? 375. Speke Airport serves which city? 376. Which French city is famed for mustard? 377. Which country produces the most rice? 378. Which country has the shortest railway? 379. In which country was the Portuguese dictator Caetano overthrown in 1974? 380. In which city is the Anne Frank Museum?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
361. In California, USA. 362. In Jamaica. 363. A large red star. 364. Austria. 365. San Francisco Bay. 366. In Cuba. 367. Less than one fifth of its acreage lies in Cornwall. 368. In the Cairngorm Mountains. 369. Bolivia. 370. Mount Vesuvius. 371. Wild Bill Hickok. 372. Mombasa. 373. It is the highest in the world. 374. The Colorado River. 375. Liverpool. 376. Dijon. 377. China. 378. Afghanistan. (Less than half a mile in total.) 379. In Angola. 380. In Amsterdam.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
381. Which country has the highest sand dunes in the world? 382. On which island are Fort St Elmo and the castle of St Angelo? 383. What does one traditionally throw into Romes Trevi fountain? 384. How do Americans pronounce the letter Z? 385. In which country does the largest variety of flowers grow? 386. Which city is farthest south, Madrid, Naples, Lisbon or Ankara? 387. Of which country was Antioch the ancient capital? 388. Harare is the capital of which country? 389. Which part of London is termed the Square Mile? 390. What provides 99 per cent of Bruneis income? 391. In which country is the ngultrum the unit of currency? 392. Fort York in Canada is now named what? 393. Approximately how long is the Suez Canal? 394. On which river does Gateshead stand? 395. To what did Idlewild Airport change its name? 396. What is the most southerly city ever to hold the Olympic Games? 397. In which country are Akureyri and Kopavogur the second and third largest towns? 398. Where is the Forbidden City? 399. In which desert do the nomadic Tuaregs live? 400. Londons Little Venice is a basin of which canal?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
381. Algeria. 382. On Malta. 383. Coins. 384. Zee. 385. In South Africa. 386. Lisbon. 387. Syria. 388. Zimbabwe. 389. The City. 390. Oil and gas. 391. Bhutan. 392. Toronto. 393. 104 miles. 394. The Tyne. 395. John F. Kennedy Airport. 396. Melbourne, which held them in 1956. 397. In Iceland. 398. In Peking, China. 399. In the Sahara. 400. The Grand Union Canal.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
401. The soup artsoppa comes from where? 402. Where do Orcadians live? 403. What does the name Addis Ababa mean? 404. Which sacred volcano last erupted in 1707? 405. Where do financial gnomes congregate? 406. Which country is called Chosen by its inhabitants? 407. Which is the largest island of the Inner Hebrides? 408. In which country are the Reichenbach Falls? 409. Which Italian city is called La Superba? 410. What is the highest African capital city? 411. In which city is there a cathedral nicknamed Paddys Wigwam? 412. Which US state borders four of the five Great Lakes? 413. Which city has been called The Mistress of the Adriatic? 414. Where is Gander airport? 415. How many lighthouses are there on Lundy? 416. When is the monsoon season in India? 417. See _____ and die. Which city? 418. Where is there a smaller version of the Statue of Liberty? 419. To which country does Kharg Island belong? 420. The Samurai were warriors of which country?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
401. Sweden. 402. In Orkney. 403. New flower. 404. Mount Fuji, in Japan. 405. In Zurich. 406. Korea. 407. Mull. 408. Switzerland. 409. Genoa. It means the proud. 410. Addis Ababa. 411. In Liverpool. 412. Michigan. 413. Venice. 414. In Newfoundland. 415. Two. 416. It lasts from June to September. 417. Naples. 418. Paris. 419. To Iran. It lies in the Persian Gulf. 420. Japan.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
421. Which two countries does the Simplon Railway Tunnel link? 422. In which country are the Cantabrian mountains? 423. The Cabora Bassa dam lies on which river? 424. In which country is the volcano Cotopaxi situated? 425. Which is Wales second most populated city? 426. Where in Devon can Drakes Drum be seen? 427. In which city is the Palace of the Nations? 428. What was the former name of Wellington, New Zealand? 429. Which country is ruled by the Kuomintang? 430. Which US state capital has the same name as the state, plus City? 431. By law, what is the maximum age of a Singapore taxi? 432. Where do Novocastrians live? 433. Which animal is shown on the California State flag? 434. On which continent is Ethiopia? 435. Which US city is called Gateway to the West? 436. Which English county used to be known as Wigorn? 437. Where are the headquarters of Interpol? 438. How many hours ahead of GMT is Egyptian time? 439. In which town is the Great Ormes Head? 440. What was Sir Winston Churchills Kent home called?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
421. Switzerland and Italy. 422. In Spain. 423. The Zambesi. 424. In Ecuador. 425. Swansea. 426. At Buckland Abbey. 427. Geneva. 428. Britannia. 429. Taiwan. 430. Oklahoma City. 431. Seven years. 432. In Newcastle. 433. The bear. 434. Africa. 435. St Louis. 436. Worcester. 437. In Paris. 438. Two hours. 439. Llandudno. 440. Chartwell.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
441. Biafra is part of which country? 442. Shantung silk comes from which country? 443. What is the USAs most southerly state? 444. Under which European mountain range are the worlds deepest caves? 445. Which is the largest of the three Great Pyramids of Egypt? 446. Between which two rivers does the Wirral lie? 447. From which country does Emmenthal cheese come? 448. Which Asian capital city has a name which means Town of Victory? 449. Which Asian capital city has a name which means muddy river mouth? 450. Where is the Potala Palace? 451. Which English city has unbroken city walls? 452. Which Mediterranean island has just one railway line, 71 miles long? 453. Which countrys flag is green with a central red circle? 454. Which country produces the most timber? 455. By what name is the Thames known as it flows through Oxford? 456. Which is Scotlands most populated city? 457. In which US state is the port of Mobile? 458. Which place lies near Inaccessible Island and the Three Nightingale Islands? 459. From which country do Bretons come? 460. In which Canadian province is Gander airport?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
441. Nigeria. 442. China. 443. Hawaii. 444. The Pyrenees. 445. Cheops. 446. The Dee and the Mersey. 447. From Switzerland. 448. Djakarta, in Indonesia. 449. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 450. In Lhasa, Tibet. 451. Chester. 452. Cyprus. 453. Bangladeshs. 454. The USSR. 455. The Isis. 456. Glasgow. 457. Alabama. 458. Tristan da Cunha. 459. France Brittany, more precisely. 460. Newfoundland.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
461. Where was the Rosetta stone found? 462. La Guardia airport is named after a mayor of which city? 463. What is the native language of Liechtenstein? 464. Where is Graham Land, or the Palmer Peninsula? 465. On which river is Caldron Snout, on the Durham-Cumbria border? 466. 2 November is celebrated in Italy as what? 467. Who is the patron saint of Portugal? 468. Which city has the worlds largest school? 469. What did the name Singapore originally mean? 470. Which country claims more poets per head of the population than any other? 471. Where is the worlds largest diamond, The Star of India, kept? 472. Which islands name in its own language is Elian Vannin? 473. Gulyas soup comes from which country? 474. Elias Ashmole founded what? 475. In terms of population, what is the worlds largest democracy? 476. In which country is Chittagong? 477. In which range of hills are the Cheddar Caves? 478. On which river is Bonn? 479. What is South-West Africa now called? 480. Which caves in the Mendips are named after the Saxon word for an animal trap?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
461. Rosetta, in Egypt. 462. New York. 463. German. 464. In Antarctica. 465. The Tees. 466. The Day of the Dead. 467. St George. 468. Calcutta: there are 12,350 pupils at South Point High. 469. Lion City. 470. Hungary. 471. In the Tower of London. 472. The Isle of Mans. 473. Hungary. 474. The Ashmolean Library at Oxford. 475. India. 476. In Bangladesh. 477. TheMendips. 478. On the Rhine. 479. Namibia. 480. WookeyHole.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
481. Which European capital is the largest in area? 482. What, in the North Sea, are Anne, Corn and Ruth? 483. Which city has a nightclub area called The Cross? 484. How long is the Pan-American Highway? 485. Which of Londons bridges opens at its centre? 486. In which European city do traffic lights control the water traffic? 487. Of where is Valletta the capital? 488. Where in London is Speakers Corner? 489. Where did two Vikings land in 1978? 490. In which country is mainland Europes most southerly point, Cape Matapan? 491. Notes of which country are referred to as greenbacks? 492. Which English port is nearest to Calais? 493. On which continent is the Kalahari desert? 494. By what name are we more likely to recognize Sitsang? 495. To the nearest hundred, how many islands form the Bahamas? 496. King Arthurs tomb is in which town? 497. For what type of displays is Biggin Hill noted? 498. In which British city is the Mayflower Stone? 499. Where are remote country areas called backblocks? 500. Which Canadian province is called after a daughter of Queen Victoria?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
481. London. 482. Oilfields. 483. Sydney, Australia. 484. 13,000 miles long. 485. Tower Bridge. 486. In Venice. 487. Malta. 488. In Hyde Park. 489. On the planet Mars. 490. In Greece. 491. The USA. (Notes of all denominations are green.) 492. Dover. 493. Africa. 494. Tibet. 495. 700. 496. In Glastonbury. 497. Air displays. 498. In Plymouth. 499. In New Zealand. 500. Alberta

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
501. In which county are the Quantocks? 502. On which estuary does Hull lie? 503. Which profession has produced the most US Presidents? 504. Which Scottish city gave its name to one of Hong Kong islands ports? 505. Which ocean separates Europe from the USA? 506. Which Irish county was once called Kings County? 507. What language do Austrians speak? 508. Which famous fictional detective lives in St Mary Mead? 509. Which African capital city has a name which means elephants trunk in Arabic? 510. Logan International Airport serves which American city? 511. Which countrys civil aviation marking letter is G? 512. In which country is the geyser after which all other such springs are named? 513. The longest known canoe journey, nearly 9,000 miles, started at New Orleans, and finished where? 514. What is the capital of Jersey? 515. What is the sacred river of the Hindu religion? 516. Manchuria is a province of which country? 517. How many time zones are there in South America? 518. Where is Australias Lake Surprise? 519. On which river is Eel Pie Island? 520. Which is the largest of the Scandinavian countries?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
501. In Somerset. 502. The Humber estuary. 503. The legal profession. 504. Aberdeen. 505. The Atlantic. 506. Offaly. 507. German. 508. Miss Jane Marple. 509. Khartoum. 510. Boston, Massachussets. 511. Britains. 512. In Iceland. 513. Alaska. 514. St Helier. 515. The Ganges. 516. China. 517. Three. 518. In the Tanami Desert. 519. The Thames. 520. Sweden.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
521. Which American state has the fewest inhabitants? 522. At which University did Britains first Professor of Parapsychology take up his post? 523. Of which US state is Indianapolis the capital? 524. Which is Europes oldest university? 525. Cars from which country carry the international registration letter A? 526. Which is the nearest city to Spaghetti Junction? 527. Which country calls itself Druk-yul, or Druk Gyalkhap, meaning Realm of the Dragon? 528. The Canal de Yucatan is between Mexico and which island? 529. From which country do Skoda cars come? 530. Which New York avenue is nicknamed the Great White Way? 531. Which sea has no outlet? 532. Where is the Quirinal Palace? 533. Where is Valencia Island? 534. St Thomas, St Croix and St John are the three largest islands in which group? 535. In Italy, it is 'Stati Uniti' and in Poland it is 'Stany Zjednoczone'. How do we know this country? 536. Tanzania was formed by the merger of which two African states? 537. Which European country is enclosed within the capital of another country? 538. On which river does the city of Baghdad lie? 539. Which city was the first capital of the US? 540. If you were travelling directly from Yugoslavia to Italy, which sea would you have to cross?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
521. Alaska. 522. At Edinburgh University. 523. Indiana. 524. The University of Salerno, in Italy. 525. Austria. 526. Birmingham. 527. Bhutan, which means end of the land. 528. Cuba. 529. Czechoslovakia. 530. Broadway. 531. The Dead Sea. 532. In Rome. 533. Off the south-west coast of Ireland. 534. The Virgin Islands. 535. The USA 536. Zanzibar and Tanganyika. In 1964, Tanganyika merged with Zanzibar to form Tanzania. 537. Vatican City. It is completely enclosed within Rome, capital of Italy. 538. Tigris 539. New York, in 1789. It remained the state capital till 1796, and was replaced by Washington DC. 540. The Adriatic Sea

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
541. What famous landmark would you find between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie? 542. In which capital city would you find the Temple of the Emerald Buddha? 543. The Opera House in which city is shaped like a giant lotus? 544. Which river in Europe is sometimes referred to as The Blue'? 545. Which is the highest mountain in the world, south of Delhi? 546. If you were travelling from Istanbul to Sevastopol, which sea or ocean (body of water) would you cross? 547. What unusual weapon appears on the flag of Mozambique? 548. 'Checkpoint Charlie' was a check-point on the border of which two European cities (the check-point no longer exists)? 549. The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Richmond and Manhattan together form which city? 550. Which US state shares its name with a country (formerly a part of the USSR)? 551. In which country could you drive down an autobahn? 552. The Malvinas Islands was the centre of a war against Great Britain in the early eighties. How do we know Malvinas better? 553. Which capital city was known to the Romans as 'Lutetia'? (Hint: think Asterix!) 554. The United Kingdom is the largest country in the British Isles. Which is the second largest? 555. Which US state is known as 'The Golden State'? 556. What is common to Cree, Cherokee, Navajo and Chippewa? 557. Which is the world's highest battleground? 558. Before the Vietnam War, this was called Saigon. What is it called today? 559. Which city would you be in if you passed under the Bridge of Sighs? 560. Which is the longest of the five rivers of the Punjab?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
541. The Niagara Falls 542. Bangkok 543. Sydney 544. The Danube 545. Mount Everest 546. The Black Sea 547. An AK-47 rifle. 548. East and West Berlin 549. New York 550. Georgia 551. Germany 552. The Falkland Islands. 553. Paris 554. Republic of Ireland 555. California. 556. All are names of 'Indian tribes' in the US and Canada. 557. Siachen Glacier. 558. Ho Chi Minh City. 559. Venice. 560. Sutlej. The Amazon rainforest

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
561. Which country's population consists mostly of Flemings and Walloons? 562. King Khaild International Airport serves which city? 563. One of the countries that forms the West Indies cricket team is on the South American mainland. Name the country. 564. Which Asian city was founded by Sir Stamford Raffles? 565. Which city in Pakistan was the capital of Kanishka? 566. From which hill station in India could you view the Nanda Devi after going on horseback to 'Snow View'? 567. Which Indian state is known as the 'land of Parashuram', because, according to legend Parashuram reclaimed it from the sea? 568. The Ku Klux Klan are terrorists in which country? 569. What is common to Anjuna, Baga, Calangute and Miramar? 570. Which lake is the source of the River Nile? 571. Which African capital city is named after a US President? 572. Which Caribbean island country is the home of the voodoo cult? 573. Which is the southernmost capital city in the world? 574. Schipol Airport serves which European city? 575. If you were going on a 'silent safari' in a wildlife sanctuary, how would you be travelling? 576. Which tiger reserve was formerly the hunting reserve of the Maharaja of Mayurbhanj? 577. Why can't boats sail on the Sea of Tranquillity? 578. Which country in Africa is shaped like a horn? 579. After the breakup of the USSR, which is presently the world's largest country in terms of area? 580. Which metal and South American country have almost the same name?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
561. Belgium 562. Riyadh 563. Guyana 564. Singapore 565. Peshawar. It was known as Purushapura then. 566. Nainital 567. Kerala 568. USA 569. All are beaches in Goa. 570. Lake Victoria 571. Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, is named after President James Monroe, the fifth President of the USA. 572. Haiti 573. Wellington, the capital of New Zealand 574. Amsterdam 575. By balloon 576. Simlipal 577. Because it is on the moon 578. Somalia. (It is sometimes referred to as the 'Horn of Africa'.) 579. Russia. It is almost twice as large as the United States or China. 580. Silver (Argentum) and Argentina

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
581. Sweden, Norway and Denmark form Scandinavia. Which three former Soviet republics form the Baltic states? 582. The tropical belt of calms is called the horse latitudes. What is the equatorial belt of calms known as? 583. The people of which country are known as 'Little Russians'? 584. Which island was named by Erik the Red to trick settlers into believing it had a warm and temperate climate? 585. What do the Cubans refer to as 'white gold'? 586. Which country's major part is the Kalahari desert? 587. Which American state has a name that ends with three vowels? 588. What term is used to describe the Kosi, Damodar, Hwang Ho and Tennessee rivers? 589. Which tourist attraction runs from Anchor Cay Island to Lady Elliot Island for 1250 miles? 590. Which Asian country in the Pacific Ocean is made up of 7107 islands, the largest of them being Luzon? 591. What is the name given to the geographical structures that are created by the old loops of meandering rivers? 592. Which two towns does he city of Budapest comprises of two towns joined by a bridge. Which are these towns? 593. What is the correct term used to describe any town 5000 feet above sea level? 594. Which German city was built near the Roman fort Mongontiacum and was the birthplace of printer Johannes Gutenberg? 595. The word 'Helvetia' appears on the postage stamp of which country? 596. Where are the Onges, Jarawas and Sentinelese tribes found? 597. Name the only Asian country to share its name with a river. 598. Because Atlas (the man who is often depicted in pictures holding up the sky) refused Perseus a favour, what did he do to Atlas? 599. Which two US states are islands? 600. Other than The Republic of South Africa, which African country has 'The' before its name?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
581. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania 582. The Doldrums 583. Ukraine 584. Greenland. 585. Sugar 586. Botswana. 587. Hawaii 588. Rivers of sorrow. (Kosi in Bihar, India, Damodar in West Bengal, India, Hwang Ho in China, Tennessee in the USA.) 589. The Great Barrier Reef 590. The Philippines. The two principal islands of the Philippines are Luzon and Mindanao. 591. Oxbow lakes 592. Buda and Pest 593. Hill station 594. Mainz 595. Switzerland 596. The Andaman Islands 597. Jordan 598. Turned him into the Atlas mountains 599. Hawaii and Rhode Island 600. Gambia (also known as The Gambia)

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
601. What is the famous cartographer, Gerhardus Mercator's, contribution to geography? 602. What is common to Chile, Namibia and Saudi Arabia? 603. The equator passes through six African countries.Five are Gabon, The Peoples Republic of Congo, Zaire, Uganda and Somalia. Which is the sixth country? 604. Name the Asian city associated with three religionsJudaism, Christianity and Islam. 605. What in a desert are blue barrels, elephant teeth fish hooks and Mexican pin cushion? 606. The name of which African country is inspired, in a manner of speaking, by elephants? 607. Ball, sheet and fork are the three forms of what? 608. What is common to Latur, Los Angeles, Uttarkashi and Bhuj? 609. If pine trees are found in the coniferous region, what type of trees are found in the Pampas region of Argentina? 610. What geographical feature has the shape of a harp and gets its name from a Greek letter? 611. What island did Peter Minuit acquire for sixty guilders from the Manhottoe Indians? 612. What is the official language of Zambia? 613. What is common to New Zealand, Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines? 614. Name an African country having all five vowels in its name. 615. The word 'Poiska' appears on which country's stamp? 616. The name of which country, situated in both Europe and Asia, is also the name of a bird? 617. The name of which South American country sounds like the small pod of a type of pepper plant? 618. Which is the only South American country entirely outside the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn? 619. With regard to their names, find the connection between Madhya Pradesh and the Mediterranean Sea. 620. The word north precedes two American states. Name them.

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
601. The Atlas. 602. They are countries which have lent their names to deserts. 603. Kenya 604. Jerusalem 605. Cacti 606. Ivory Coast 607. Lightning 608. Earthquakes 609. No trees-pampas means treeless plains. 610. Delta. 611. Manhattan. Peter Minuit was the colonial governor of New Amsterdam. 612. English 613. They are all island countries. 614. Mozambique 615. Poland 616. Turkey 617. Chile 618. Uruguay 619. Both are so named because they are in the middle'. 620. North Carolina and North Dakota

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
621. The letters s, t, a and r appear in the names of which four Indian states? 622. The highest peak in this mountain range is Mount Gurushikhar. Name the mountain range. 623. Name the only country which does not have a street address or an airport but issues airmail stamps. 624. The people of which African tribe drink the blood of their live cattle drawn from the jugular vein? 625. What is common to Nissi, Daflla, Wancho, Monpa and Nocte? 626. How did the Sunderbans get its name? 627. Which Indian city was formerly called Pataligram, Kusumpura and Azeemabad? 628. Which currency is common to Mauritius, Seychelles and Sri Lanka? 629. Which Scandinavian country's capital is on the island of Zealand? 630. According to a compass, in which direction would you be travelling if you were midway between east- southeast and south-southeast? 631. Which is the only letter of the English alphabet that does not appear in the name of any US state? 632. 'Thou art the ruler of minds' (when translated) is the opening line of the national anthem of which country? 633. Name the peninsula in southern Ukraine, once a famous area for battles, bounded on the west and on the south by the Black Sea and on the east by the Sea of Azov. 634. Name the Libyan city which shares its name with the largest city of Lebanon. 635. Name two European countries which contain the letter Z in their names. 636. Where in Australia do Australians refer to other citizens as 'mainlanders'? 637. There are three US states which start and end with the letter 'A'. Name them. 638. Name the only Portuguese-speaking country in Latin America. 639. Which word was coined by Rahamat Ali and is said to be an acronym of Punjab, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Sind and Baluchistan? 640. Beside the two Germanys, name two south-west Asian countries which were unified in 1990.

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
621. Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra. The state of Chhattisgarh was carved out of Madhya Pradesh. 622. The Aravalli Range. It is approximately 5650 feet above sea level. 623. The Vatican or Vatican City 624. The Masai tribe 625. These are the different languages spoken in Arunachal Pradesh. 626. From the vana or forest of sundari trees 627. Patna 628. Rupees. Coincidentally, they are all islands. 629. Denmark 630. South-east 631. Q 632. India 633. Crimea 634. Tripoli 635. Czechoslovakia and Switzerland 636. Tasmania 637. Arizona, Alabama and Alaska 638. Brazil 639. Pakistan 640. North and South Yemen

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
641. In 1590, when the Portuguese first sighted the island of Taiwan, what did they name it? 642. Which east African capital lies closest to the equator? 643. In which European city would you find St Peter's Square? 644. In 1962, which other West Indian country did Trinidad join to form a state? 645. The artistic emblem of the 1996 Miss World pageant held in Bangalore was an apsara. From which historical site in India was it borrowed? 646. Two South American countries are bounded by both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. One of them is Colombia. Which is the other? 647. Of these four countries: USA, Great Britain, Mexico and France, which one does not have the colours red, white and blue on its national flag? 648. Singapore lies to the south of which peninsula? 649. In which continent are the Prince Charles Mountains? 650. The inhabitants of which Asian country are said to have the highest life expectancy? 651. What do the United Kingdom, Spain, the Netherlands, Nepal, Sweden, Thailand and Belgium have, that Germany, Pakistan, India and France do not have? 652. In mid-600 BC, this city was called Byzantium and in AD 330, the name was changed to Constantinople. What is it called today? 653. Apart from being African nations what is common to the following names: Gambia, Senegal, Zaire and Niger? 654. The name of the main airport of which city was changed from Idlewild to John F Kennedy? 655. With which European country would you generally associate tulips? 656. Built about 4,500 years ago, the Great Sphinx at Giza in Egypt has the head of a man and the body of which animal? 657. Which country, one of Africa's most densely populated, is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo? 658. The Dead Sea lies between Israel and which other country? 659. In which country is Bastille Day a national holiday? 660. On which African river are the Victoria Falls?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS

641. Formosa, which means beautiful 642. Kampala, the capital of Uganda 643. Vatican City, Rome 644. Tobago 645. The Ajanta Caves 646. Chile 647. Mexico 648. Mala Peninsula; Singapore was once called Tumasik 649. Antarctica 650. Japan 651. Monarchies (no kings or queens in Germany, Pakistan, India or France) 652. Istanbul 653. They are names of rivers as well 654. New York. The name was changed in 1963. 655. The Netherlands (Holland) 656. The lion 657. Rwanda 658. Jordan 659. France. It is celebrated on 14 July. 660. The Zambezi river

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
661. Which Asian country once had military leaders called shoguns? 662. Name the large island at the southern tip of Italy. 663. Which river discharges the greatest volume of water in the world? 664. The art of making porcelain was first perfected by the people of which ancient civilization? 665. What unique 'geographical record' does Mongolia hold? 666. What is the colour of the famous Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco? 667. What unusual method is used to heat homes in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland? 668. On which planet is one Earth year shorter than one Earth day? 669. Why is Antarctica so called? 670. In May 2000, which health fear did the Stewart Report in Britain dispel? 671. The moon goes through four phases. One of them is the new moon. What are the other three? 672. Which South American country comes last alphabetically? 673. What would link a peninsula near the Black Sea, 'The Charge of The Light Brigade' and Florence Nightingale? 674. In which European country is the freshwater lake Ijsselmeer? 675. What plant product was a Brazilian monopoly until its seeds were smuggled out under potted plants? 676. Which mountain contains the highest peaks in the western hemisphere? 677. Which animal holds the sword on Sri Lanka's flag? 678. How many capital cities are there in Antarctica? 679. Under what name did 'hook and loop tape' become famous? 680. What is the basic difference between a glacier and an iceberg?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
661. Japan 662. Sicily 663. The Amazon 664. Chinese 665. It is the largest land-locked country; it has no coastline 666. Orange 667. Water from volcanic springs 668. Venus. 669. As it is opposite the Arctic, 'anti Arctic' became 'Antarctic'. Antarctica's landmass is almost entirely covered by ice sheets. 670. Health hazards from using mobile phones 671. First quarter, last quarter and full moon 672. Venezuela. It means 'Little Venice'. 673. Crimea/Crimean war 674. The Netherlands or Holland 675. Rubber 676. The Andes. Situated in South America, it stretches from Lago de Maracaibo in the north to the Tierra del Fuego archipelago in the south. 677. Lion 678. None 679. Velcro 680. Although both break away from large ice sheets, a glacier is found on land and an iceberg on water

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
681. Area wise, which is the largest Arabic-speaking country in Asia? 682. Why are dykes used in the Netherlands? 683. What are classified as periodic, constant, local anti- cyclonic? 684. Which is the only American (US) state to be named after a famous American? 685. How many natural satellites do Mercury, Earth and Venus have between them? 686. What prevents the river Nile from causing floods in Egypt? 687. Which is the only Arab country without a desert? 688. According to historians, the name of which mountain comes from the Quechuan word 'anti', meaning 'east'? 689. There are many names of regions mentioned in our national anthem. Only one lies outside India. Which one? 690. The flag of Bangladesh has a red disc against a green background. What does green signify? 691. Bhutan's flag has a dragon on two triangles of yellow and orange. What does orange represent? 692. What is unusual about the names of the six continents: America, Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia and Antarctica? 693. Together with the US and Australia, which country produces over half the world's gold? 694. Which former Indian princely state lies between Assam and Bangladesh? 695. Which famous landmark in Sydney is nicknamed 'the coat-hanger'? 696. Which is USA's most northernly state on the Pacific Coast? 697. Name the major port of Pakistan. 698. Which European country is made up of more than 480 small islands, including the peninsula of Jutland? 699. In increasing order of abundance, which are the four most abundant gases in the Earth's atmosphere? 700. Through which two oceans does the International Date Line run?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
681. Saudi Arabia 682. Without the dykes, the country would get flooded as it is below sea level 683. Winds 684. Washington 685. One. The Moon is the only natural satellite of the earth. Mercury and Venus have no known natural satellites. 686. The Aswan dam. It was once the largest dam in the world measuring 7,027 feet in length. 687. Lebanon. Some of the oldest human settlements such as the Phoenician ports of Tyre (modern Sur), Sidon (Sayda), and Byblos (Jubayl) were part of Lebanon. 688. The Andes 689. Sind in Pakistan 690. Fertility of the land. The flag was designed by Kamrul Hasan. 691. The monasteries 692. All begin and end with the same letter of the alphabet 693. South Africa 694. Tripura 695. The Sydney Harbour Bridge. 696. Alaska 697. Karachi. 698. Denmark 699. Carbon dioxide, argon, oxygen and nitrogen 700. Pacific and Arctic Oceans

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
701. What were sometimes called 'dissected maps' and used to teach geography in eighteenth-century England? 702. Which European country has borders with most number of countries? 703. Name the second largest US state in terms of area. 704. Which two African countries end with the letters 'YA'? 705. Oman ends with the word 'MAN'. Which country in Asia ends with the word 'MEN'? 706. Name a European country and capital that begins with the letter 'S'. 707. Which is the biggest desert in Asia? 708. Name the only independent country of the world beginning with the letter 'Q'. 709. Which dependency in Europe is only six square km in area? (Hint: The capital and the dependency have the same name) 710. What is the celestial visible light spectrum better known as? 711. Which country is divided into two parts called Thrace and Anatolia? 712. Two Indian states have the same initials and end with the same seven-letter words. Which two? 713. Other than India, which Asian country begins with the letter 'IND' and end with 'IA' 714. Which sea lies between Korea and Shanghai? 715. Who are the worlds greatest cheese-eaters? 716. Where is the lost city of the Incas to be found? 717. Which sea is really the worlds largest lake? 718. What is the worlds longest rail journey that can be made without changing trains? 719. Which city is nicknamed the City of Light? 720. In which sea is the Dogger Bank?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
701. Jigsaw puzzles 702. Germany 703. Texas 704. Kenya and Libya 705. Yemen 706. Sweden, its capital is Stockholm 707. The Gobi desert 708. Qatar 709. Gibraltar 710. Rainbow 711. Turkey 712. Andhra Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh 713. Indonesia 714. The Yellow Sea. 715. The French. 716. In the Peruvian Andes. 717. The Caspian Sea. 718. The Moscow to Peking run on the Trans-Siberian Railway. 719. Paris. 720. The North Sea.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
721. After the end of the Vietnam war, to what was Saigons name changed? 722. In which range of English hills lies the village of Broadway? 723. What is the unit of currency in Poland? 724. Where were glass mirrors first made in Europe? 725. What mistake was made when installing the new prisoners waiting-rooms in Reading gaol? 726. In which harbour did the Mary Rose sink in 1545? 727. The Bay of Pigs is the name given to the unsuccessful invasion of an island in the early 1960s. Which island? 728. Which country was formerly East Pakistan? 729. Where in Roman times was the Saxon shore? 730. Which ocean is not recognized by the International Hydrographic Bureau? 731. Which country was Mrs Jeanne Sauv appointed the first woman GovernorGeneral of? 732. In which country was Auschwitz? 733. How many standard time divisions are there in the USA? 734. On which national flag is there an eagle and a snake? 735. In which river did the Pied Piper drown the rats of Hamelin? 736. Which bridge collapsed in 1879, causing a train to fall into the river, killing seventyeight people? 737. For which city was Jorvik the Viking name? 738. Where was the Battle of Hastings fought? 739. Which city does Tempelhof airport serve? 740. What are the Caelian, Esquiline, Quirinal, Viminal, Aventine, Capitoline and Palatine?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
721. Ho Chi Minh City. 722. In the Cotswolds. 723. The zloty. 724. Venice, in about 1300. 725. The door locks were on the inside only! 726. Portsmouth. 727. Cuba. 728. Bangladesh. 729. From the Wash to the Solent. 730. The Antarctic Ocean. 731. Canada. 732. Poland. 733. Four. 734. Mexicos (from Aztec legend). 735. The Weser. 736. The Tay Bridge. 737. York. 738. Senlac Hill (north of what is now Battle village). 739. Berlin. 740. The Seven Hills of Rome.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
741. Which countrys flag comprises three equal vertical stripes, in green, white and red? 742. What was built on the site of the old Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York? 743. The first three Eddystone lighthouses were lit by what? 744. In which country does bribery run most rife? 745. From where did the banana first come? 746. Of which Australian state is Adelaide the capital? 747. Which mountain stands at the entrance to Rio de Janeiro harbour? 748. The Alps extend into more than one country. Name three. 749. Ailsa Craig, an island in the Firth of Clyde, is composed of a greyish granite hardly found anywhere else in Britain. What sport is this connected with? 750. What English county has the motto: Invicta unconquered? 751. What was the Anschluss? 752. Name Senegals chief port. 753. Which Cornish castle is associated with Arthurian legends? 754. A tidal bore occurs on two English rivers. Which ones? 755. Which famous ruined abbey is near Chepstow? 756. A thin netlike silk is named after which town in France? 757. Which German line lay opposite the Maginot Line? 758. Which city is at the mouth of the Menam river? 759. Simon Bolivar was, in 1928, the president of three countries. Which ones? 760. In which Welsh county is Aberystwyth?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
741. Italy. 742. The Empire State Building. 743. Candles. 744. The USSR. 745. Southern Asia. 746. Southern Australia. 747. Sugar Loaf Mountain. 748. Austria, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. 749. Curling. The granite is used for curling stones. 750. Kent. 751. The union of Austria and Germany in 1938. 752. Dakar. 753. Tintagel. 754. Severn and Trent. 755. Tintern Abbey. 756. Tulle. 757. The Siegfried Line. 758. Bangkok. 759. Columbia, Peru, Bolivia. 760. Cardiganshire.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
761. Which are the two principal Dutch cheeses? 762. What are aeolian deposits? 763. A French commander of the First World War has his statue in Grosvenor Gardens. Who is he? 764. What is the name of the port which used to be the capital of Egypt? 765. Name the famous beauty spot near Eastbourne. 766. Where would you have found Vendmiaire, Ventse, Germinal, etc.? 767. Ernest Shackletons ship was crushed in the Antarctic. What was its name? 768. Where is it that the remains of earliest man were found? 769. In which country did the most destructive earthquake ever recorded occur? 770. Where would you find Kirkstone Pass? 771. Where would you hope to find an abominable snowman? 772. Where did the gigantic moa bird live? 773. What are the Pawnees? 774. In 1971, how many inhabitants did the Pitcairn Islands have? 775. Which 102-storey skyscraper was finished in 1931? 776. What connects Kabul with Peshawar? 777. The Tyrrhenian Sea is bounded by what land masses? 778. The North Sea has an average depth of 300 feet. What is the average depth of the Persian Gulf? 779. What lies 15 miles north of Quito? 780. What is the name of the island lying off the southern end of the Isle of Man?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
761. Edam and Gouda. 762. Geographical features formed by the wind (e.g. sand dunes). 763. Marshal Foch. 764. Alexandria. 765. Beachy Head. 766. They were months in the French Revolutionary Calendar 17921805. 767. Endurance. 768. Kenya. 769. In China, where it killed at least 830,000 people in 1556. 770. In the Lake District. 771. In the Himalayas. 772. New Zealand. 773. A North American Indian tribe. 774. Ninety-two. 775. The Empire State Building. 776. The Khyber pass. 777. Sardinia, Italy, Sicily. 778. 80 feet. 779. The equator. 780. The Calf of Man.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
781. The greatest what occurs at the Bay of Fundy, Canada? 782. In which city is the Heriot-Watt university? 783. Where do Vectians live? 784. What did America adopt on 14 June 1777? 785. Which country has the largest number of airlines? 786. What was the colonial name for Ghana? 787. What gave Poland access to the Baltic after the First World War? 788. With which country did Tanganyika unite in 1964 to become Tanzania? 789. What lies between Nepal and Bhutan? 790. What countrys Dominion Day is 1 July? 791. From where does the Serpents Mouth separate Venezuela? 792. In Cape Town, what is fog over Table Mountain called? 793. What extraordinary event in early 1968 was taken advantage of by polar bears? 794. The Caprivi Strip is a thin corridor between Botswana and Angola. To which country does it belong? 795. What do the Dardanelles separate? 796. Who discovered Jamaica? 797. In Japan, which colour car is reserved exclusively for the Japanese imperial family? 798. In which country was the bridge of San Luis Rey? 799. Which famous harbour is on the island of Oahu? 800. What is the capital of Poland?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
781. Range of tide (as much as 50 feet). 782. Edinburgh. 783. On the Isle of Wight. Vectis was the old Roman name for the island. 784. The Stars and Stripes as its banner. 785. The USA. 786. The Gold Coast Colony. 787. The Polish Corridor. 788. Zanzibar. 789. Sikkim. 790. Canadas. 791. Trinidad. 792. The Table Cloth. 793. An ice-bridge formed between Greenland and Iceland. 794. Namibia. 795. Europe and Asia. 796. Christopher Columbus. 797. Maroon. 798. Peru. 799. Pearl Harbour. 800. Warsaw.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
801. In which country was Adolf Eichmann captured by the Israelis? 802. In which American state is Disneyland? 803. What is the legislative assembly of Norway called? 804. Where does the Chancellor of the Exchequer live? 805. Which continent has the most people per square mile? 806. What is the colour for mourning in Turkey? 807. Which is Scotlands longest freshwater lake? 808. Where can the Rosetta stone be seen? 809. What is the holy city of Islam called? 810. What is Brussels best-known statue? 811. Which American state is the largest producer of potatoes? 812. What is the motto of the United States of America? 813. The ghost of which American president is supposed to haunt the White House? 814. In which city are the famous Tivoli gardens? 815. Which ruined Egyptian city has a namesake in Tennessee? 816. Which city boasts the most canals? 817. Which is the largest building on the Acropolis in Athens? 818. In 1978, which country lifted its ban on the works of Aristotle, Dickens and Shakespeare? 819. Where are British monarchs crowned? 820. Which country is Carrantual the highest peak of?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
801. Argentina. 802. California. 803. The storthing. 804. 11 Downing Street. 805. Europe. 806. Violet. 807. Loch Awe. 808. In the British Museum. 809. Mecca. 810. The Manneken Pis a figure of a boy respo 811. Idaho. 812. In God we trust. 813. Abraham Lincolns. 814. Copenhagen. 815. Memphis. 816. Birmingham. 817. The Parthenon. 818. China. 819. In Westminster Abbey. 820. Ireland.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
821. What is the capital of the Bahamas? 822. From which country is the airline TABSO? 823. Where would you find the Elgin Marbles? 824. What does the name Tokyo mean? 825. What is the capital of the Ivory Coast? 826. Which Scottish county is Aberdeen in? 827. Luanda is the capital of which African country? 828. Where are the Pentland Skerries? 829. What is the lake behind the Aswan Dam called? 830. Of which African state is Freetown the capital? 831. Which city is at the mouth of the Loire? 832. In which county is Leeds Castle? 833. Where was the Crystal Palace originally located? 834. Which Brazilian city is the centre of the coffee trade? 835. Where is the Eucumbene Dam? 836. Which countries regularly eat more beef per head of the population than the British? France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Italy or West Germany? 837. What is Lac Lman? 838. Where was the Flaminian Way? 839. With which gulf does the Red Sea connect at its southern end? 840. What is the Italian name for Florence?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
821. Nassau. 822. Bulgaria. 823. The British Museum. 824. Eastern City. 825. Abidjan. 826. Aberdeenshire. 827. Angola. 828. Pentland Firth, north of Duncansby Head. 829. Lake Nasser. 830. Sierra Leone. 831. Nantes. 832. Kent. 833. Hyde Park. 834. So Paulo. 835. New South Wales, Australia. 836. They all do. 837. Lake Geneva. 838. From Rome to Rimini. 839. The Gulf of Aden. 840. Firenze.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
841. What is the capital of Belgium? 842. Which was the first town in England to have electric street lighting? 843. Which state lies between Guyana and French Guiana? 844. In which country is the Legion of Honour the highest civil decoration? 845. In which Irish county is the Giants Causeway? 846. What is the capital of the state of Tennessee? 847. How high is the platform at the top of the Eiffel Tower? 848. What was unusual about the towers of the cathedrals of Winchester, Gloucester, Worcester, Lincoln and Ely? 849. In which British city were the first pavements? 850. In which American state did the surrender by Cornwallis take place? 851. Which was the first country to abolish capital punishment? 852. Which USA state is closest to the USSR? 853. Which town lies beneath Ben Nevis at the start of the Caledonian Canal? 854. When it is noon GMT in London, what time is it in Port Stanley? 855. Which Ethiopian citys name means new flower? 856. Which people invented bedsprings? 857. What is the name of the capital of the Minoan civilization in Crete? 858. Where is the centre of Londons diamond trade? 859. What is the town Giza known for? 860. Which ocean is sometimes referred to as the Herring Pond?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
841. Brussels. 842. Godalming. 843. Surinam. 844. France. 845. County Antrim. 846. Nashville. 847. 985 feet. 848. They all collapsed. 849. Edinburgh, along High Street and Cowgate in 1688. 850. Virginia (at Yorktown, to Washington). 851. Effectively Russia in 1826, when Nicholas I proclaimed that all death-sentences would be commuted to exile to Siberia (except those given for treasonous acts). 852. Alaska. 853. Fort William. 854. 8 a.m. 855. Addis Ababa. 856. The Greeks. 857. Knossos. 858. Hatton Garden. 859. It contains the Great Sphinx and the largest Pyramid. 860. The Atlantic.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
861. Where has every English Coronation since 1066 been held? 862. Where was the treaty signed at the end of the American War of Independence? 863. What is the main island of Japan called? 864. What is the capital of Monaco? 865. Which country does the wine Bulls Blood come from? 866. Where is Herm Island? 867. Which of the Great Lakes is entirely contained within the USA? 868. The railway from Bangkok through Kuala Lumpur ends where? 869. Where is the village of Mucking? 870. Where is the Whitney art gallery? 871. How long is the Grand Canyon? 872. The Aberfan disaster was due to what? 873. Which country once issued a postage stamp in recognition of the worlds heaviest smoker? 874. Approximately how many more miles of canals has Birmingham than Venice? 875. If you were a Croat, of what nationality would you be? 876. From the language of which country does anorak come? 877. From which country did Tunisia and Algeria gain independence? 878. Which mountains separate Asia from Europe? 879. In which year did the first woman climb the summit of Mount Everest? 880. Which country did the Pharaohs rule?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
861. Westminster Abbey. 862. Versailles (1783). 863. Honshu. 864. Monte Carlo. 865. Hungary. 866. It is one of the Channel Islands. 867. Lake Michigan. 868. At Singapore. 869. In Essex. 870. New York. 871. 217 miles. 872. Collapse of the mining tip above the town. 873. Albania. 874. Twenty-two. 875. Yugoslavian. 876. Greenland. 877. France. 878. The Urals. 879. 1975. 880. Egypt.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
881. With which island is voodoo particularly associated? 882. What is the capital of the Peoples Democratic Republic of Yemen? 883. What is Pariss main thoroughfare called? 884. Which is Europes largest fortress? 885. Which other Roman road just south of Lincoln does the Fosse Way join? 886. In which country were Tom Sharpes first novels set? 887. Which city does Dum Dum airport serve? 888. How long is Hadrians Wall? 889. What project was taken over by Waterhouse on the death of Fowke in 1865? 890. What is the currency of Czechoslovakia? 891. Which land did Eric the Red explore and colonize? 892. With what is the town of Redditch particularly associated? 893. Of the two townships on the Falkland Islands, Stanley is one. What is the other? 894. Of the two islands twenty degrees west of Valparaiso one is called Alexander Selkirk Island. What is the other called? 895. Which two countries does the Brenner pass link? 896. In which country is Transylvania? 897. The belt of forest running from Scandinavia to Japan is known as what? 898. Which USSR city is twinned with Nottingham? 899. Which Scottish mountains separate the Highlands from the Lowlands? 900. Where is Cape Clear?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
881. Haiti. 882. Aden. 883. The Champs Elyses. 884. The Kremlin in Moscow. 885. Ermine Street. 886. South Africa. 887. Calcutta. 888. 73 miles. 889. The design of the Natural History Museum. 890. The koruna. 891. Greenland. 892. Needles. 893. Port Darwin. 894. Robinson Crusoe Island. 895. Austria and Italy. 896. Romania. 897. The taiga. 898. Minsk. 899. The Grampians. 900. Southern Ireland.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
901. By what name is Tanganyika now known? 902. By what name is Siam now known? 903. Which country uses the tugrik as currency? 904. Name two countries that gained independence from Britain in 19478. 905. What was the ancient Greek name for the continent of Africa? 906. Where is the Isle of Axholm? 907. In which country is Marrakesh? 908. From where do hula-hula girls hail? 909. Which city does Santa Cruz airport serve? 910. What is a lee shore? 911. Where is Broken Hill, the worlds largest silver mine? 912. Where is Benghazi? 913. Where was the legendary land of Lyonesse? 914. On which island are the ruins of Knossos? 915. Which country invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968? 916. Which American city was once called New Amsterdam? 917. Which US state is called the Blue Grass state? 918. Name two of the other three provinces, apart from Slovakia, which comprise Czechoslovakia. 919. Where is Pharaohs Treasury carved into a cliff face? 920. In which country were fifty-two American hostages held for 444 days?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
901. Tanzania. 902. Thailand. 903. Mongolia. 904. Choose from Burma, Ceylon, India or Pakistan. 905. Libya. 906. East of Doncaster and bounded by the Trent. 907. Morocco. 908. Hawaii. 909. Bombay. 910. A shore lying off a ships leeward side. 911. New South Wales, Australia. 912. In Libya. 913. Between Cornwall and the Scilly Isles. 914. Crete. 915. Russia. 916. New York. 917. Kentucky. 918. Moravia, Bohemia, Silesia. 919. Petra, Jordan. 920. Iran.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
921. Which two UK cities have stations named Charing Cross? 922. Which city is closest to Copacabana beach? 923. Where is Ouagadougou? 924. Where is the port of Fray Bentos? 925. Which country is nearest to the North Pole? 926. What is Hollands largest ever flood-control project called? 927. Where is Romaic spoken? 928. What was Britains last French possession? 929. What was Stalingrad (now Volgograd) called until 1925? 930. Which Channel Island is nearest to France? 931. Which city is known as the chocolate capital of the world? 932. What is the name of Moscows chief square? 933. In which country was the Battle of El Alamein fought? 934. How many thousands of years ago did Britain become an island? 935. Why is the Transvaal so named? 936. What is the chief mining product of Kimberley, South Africa? 937. How far, to the nearest 100 miles, is London from Reykjavik? 938. Where was Prince Charles invested as Prince of Wales? 939. Which borough lies between the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the City of London? 940. Which is Switzerlands smallest canton?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
921. Glasgow and London. 922. Rio de Janeiro. 923. Upper Volta, Africa. 924. Uruguay. (The first meat-packing plant was there.) 925. Greenland. 926. The Delta Plan. 927. Greece. 928. Calais (lost in 1558). 929. Tsaritsyn. 930. Alderney. 931. Hershey, Pennsylvania. 932. Red Square. 933. Egypt. 934. Eight. 935. Because it lies over the Vaal river from Natal and the Orange Free State. 936. Diamonds. 937. 1,170. 938. Caernarvon Castle. 939. The City of Westminster. 940. Zug.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
941. Under which pass does the Simplon tunnel run? 942. What is one hundredth of a rial in Iran? 943. Which Roman road does the A5 follow for the greater part of its course? 944. Where is Spurn Head? 945. Of which country is Asuncin the capital? 946. In which country might drunken drivers face a firing squad? 947. Of which country is Quito the capital? 948. Where is Tabasco? 949. From which airport did Israelis free 103 hostages in 1976? 950. Which large American city was named after St Francis of Assisi? 951. Which sovereign knighted Isaac Newton? 952. How many prisoners can the Isle of Sark prison hold? 953. Which is the worlds highest city? 954. What was known as the Dark Continent? 955. Wigtown, Kirkcudbright and Dumfries now come under which new county of Scotland? 956. The six old counties of Northern Ireland have been split up into how many districts? 957. Where is the Jasper National Park? 958. On which Riviera is Menton? 959. Which is Frances longest river? 960. Going from west to east around Africa, place the following coasts in order: Slave Coast, Ivory Coast, Gold Coast, Grain Coast.

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS

941. The Simplon. 942. A dinar. 943. Watling Street. 944. At the mouth of the Humber. 945. Paraguay. 946. San Salvador. 947. Ecuador. 948. Southern Mexico. 949. Entebbe. 950. San Francisco. 951. Queen Anne. 952. Two. 953. Lhasa in Tibet. 954. Africa. 955. Dumfries and Galloway. 956. Twenty-six. 957. Alberta, Canada. 958. The French Riviera. 959. The Loire. 960. Grain Coast; Ivory Coast; Gold Coast; Slave Coast. (The coasts of modern- day : Liberia; Ivory Coast; Ghana; and Togo, Benin and western Nigeria.)

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
961. Place these ports in order going from east to west: Dunkerque, Boulogne, Calais, Le Touquet, Le Havre, Dieppe. 962. What was Istanbul called before it was Constantinople? 963. From which port did the Mayflower leave for America? 964. Between which two cities did the Flying Scotsman run? 965. What is Count Draculas home country? 966. Which country produces the most coffee? 967. By what name is Peiping now known? 968. By what name is Persia now known? 969. On which canal is the town of Colon situated? 970. With which place is the Stone of Destiny associated? 971. Of which country is Moravia a province? 972. Where is Mount Andrew Jackson? 973. Which lake was created by the Hoover Dam? 974. Which continent has the greatest number of countries? 975. What is the tenth letter of the Greek alphabet? 976. Which ancient city was also called Ilium? 977. Which two countries does the Rio Grande separate? 978. Between which two cities does the Trans-Siberian railway run? 979. Which country is alphabetically last? 980. In which Italian city did Mussolini found his Fascist party?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
961. Dunkerque, Calais, Boulogne, Le Touquet, Dieppe, Le Havre. 962. Byzantium. 963. Plymouth. 964. London and Edinburgh. 965. Transylvania. 966. Brazil. 967. Peking. 968. Iran. 969. The Panama Canal. 970. Scone (the Stone of Scone). 971. Czechoslovakia. 972. Antarctica. 973. Lake Mead. 974. Africa. 975. Kappa. 976. Troy. 977. Mexico and the USA. 978. Moscow and Vladivostok. 979. Zimbabwe. 980. Milan.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
981. How much more energy does Western Europe consume than it produces? 982. Nowadays, where is St Petersburg? 983. Of which country is CH the international vehicle identity mark? 984. What are the grasslands of Russia called? 985. In which country is the Black Forest? 986. How many bridges across the Tiber were there in ancient Rome? 987. In which country is the Gobi desert? 988. Which town replaced Riobamba, Ecuador, destroyed by an earthquake in 1797? 989. What now stands on the site of the Pantheon on the south side of Londons Oxford Street? 990. Where was William I of Prussia crowned German Emperor? 991. Where can the largest cannon in the world be seen? 992. Which sea has no coast? 993. Tarom Airlines belong to which country? 994. In which ocean was the Mary Celeste found abandoned and adrift? 995. Which country produces Parmesan cheese? 996. What is the name of the tiny Pyrenean nation between France and Spain? 997. What are Grimes Graves? 998. Which European country produces the most wine? 999. Which countrys flag consists of a red background with a white crescent moon and star? 1000. Under what circumstances is duelling legal in Uruguay?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS

981. More than twice as much. 982. The USA (one in Florida, one in Pennsylvania). 983. Switzerland. 984. The steppes. 985. Germany. 986. Eight or nine (no one seems to know for sure). Three are still standing. 987. China. 988. Riobamba, but 3 miles away. 989. Marks and Spencer. 990. At Versailles. 991. The Kremlin. 992. The Sargasso Sea. 993. Romania. 994. The Atlantic. 995. Italy. 996. Andorra. 997. Neolithic flint quarries near Thetford, Norfolk. 998. Italy. 999. Turkey. 1000.If both protagonists are registered blood donors.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
1001. What is the capital of Tunisia? 1002. Which language appears on the Rosetta stone? 1003. How many characters are there in the Russian alphabet? 1004. What is Uruguays chief port? 1005. What is the state capital of Texas? 1006. Which French town is noted for glove-making? 1007. Where was Voltaire buried, though he is not there now? 1008. Which major country has the slowest population growth rate? 1009. Which language is spoken in Brazil? 1010. Which sea is sometimes called the Euxine Sea? 1011. Which town is said to have taken its name from a number of trees on the Tonbridge road? 1012. In which country would you find the Heights of Abraham? 1013. What is the largest town in Alaska? 1014. In 1764 Louis Bougainville sailed south to found a French colony. Where? 1015. The first commercial air transport route was begun in 1911 by the British Post Office as an air mail link between Hendon and where? 1016. What is the longest river in north-east Africa? 1017. Which race invented the mariners compass? 1018. Which countrys flag has three equal vertical stripes of green, white and orange? 1019. Which is the worlds shortest frontier? 1020. From where to where did William Kemp dance in 1600?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
1001.Tunis. 1002.Egyptian and Greek (found at Rosetta by a French army officer in 1799). 1003.Thirty-one. 1004.Montevideo. 1005.Austin. 1006.Grenoble. 1007.The Pantheon, Paris, but his remains were found to be missing in 1864. 1008.West Germany. 1009.Portuguese. 1010.The Black Sea. 1011.Sevenoaks. 1012.Canada. 1013.Anchorage. 1014.The Falkland Islands. 1015.Windsor (it lasted one week). 1016.The Nile. 1017.The Chinese. 1018.The Republic of Ireland. 1019.Gibraltars (1,672 yards). 1020.London to Norwich.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
1021. Which mountains form the backbone of Italy? 1022. Between which towns did the Great Western Railway originally run? 1023. Which port is the capital of Trinidad and Tobago? 1024. On which island in New York is Brooklyn? 1025. Where was the wartime seat of the Ptain government in France? 1026. In the USA the Beaufort scale has been extended to what wind force? 1027. By what name is Abyssinia now known? 1028. What was the eldest son of the king of France called? 1029. Where was the German fleet scuttled in 1919? 1030. In which country is Agadir? 1031. Which language is spoken in Liechtenstein? 1032. Which Irish county shares its name with a type of fine glass? 1033. Which is Scotlands longest river? 1034. What is the capital city of Nevada? 1035. The Tibetan Sacred Mother of the Waters is what? 1036. What is unusual about the Cinque Port of Rye? 1037. Tuvalu is the name of which former UK protectorate? 1038. When did the last British troops leave Suez? 1039. Where is Tammany Hall? 1040. Where does the river Tajo change to the river Tejo?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
1021.The Apennines. 1022.London and Bristol. 1023.Port of Spain. 1024.Long Island. 1025.Vichy. 1026.Force 13 to 17. 1027.Ethiopia. 1028.The Dauphin. 1029.Scapa Flow. 1030.Morocco. 1031.German. 1032.Waterford. 1033.The Tay. 1034.Carson City. 1035.Mount Everest. 1036.It is now a mile or more from the sea. 1037.Ellice Islands. 1038.1956. 1039.New York. 1040.On the SpanishPortuguese border.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
1041. Which city was bombed on 6 August 1945? 1042. What did Cape Canaveral become in 1963, to become Cape Canaveral again in 1973? 1043. Who was Indias first female prime minister? 1044. In which London thoroughfare is Claridges situated? 1045. What are gauchos? 1046. What protected London for the first time on 22 February 1983? 1047. What are South Africas two official languages? 1048. In which desert can the highest sand dunes be found? 1049. Which is Indias largest city? 1050. Which is the largest island in Europe? 1051. Where is Checkpoint Charlie? 1052. What are the colours of the Italian flag? 1053. By what name is Danzig now known? 1054. What is the sacred language of the Buddhists of India? 1055. By what name is St Petersburg now known? 1056. To which country do the Canary Islands belong? 1057. In what ratio is the sheep population to the human in Australia? 1058. Which London landmark now stands in Lake Havasu City, Arizona? 1059. What became Istanbul officially on 28 March 1930? 1060. Which two countries border the Dead Sea?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
1041.Hiroshima. 1042.Cape Kennedy. 1043.Mrs Indira Gandhi. 1044.Brook Street. 1045.Cowboys (normally South American). 1046.The Thames flood barrier. 1047.Afrikaans and English. 1048.The Sahara. 1049.Bombay. 1050.Great Britain. 1051.West Berlin. 1052.Green, white, red. 1053.Gdansk. 1054.Pali. 1055.Leningrad. 1056.Spain. 1057.Ten to one. 1058.The old London Bridge. 1059.Constantinople. 1060. Israel and Jordan

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
1061. Who discovered Virginia in the USA? 1062. By what name was Zaire formerly known? 1063. Which is Londons second airport? 1064. Through which town did Lady Godiva ride? 1065. How many outside pockets do high officials have in China? 1066. Baton Rouge is the capital of which US state? 1067. Which is the worlds warmest sea? 1068. Which country uses the most soap per capita? 1069. Of which country is Bucharest the capital? 1070. Where can a plane fly further below sea level than some submarines can dive? 1071. By what name is East Pakistan now known? 1072. Which country is by far the worlds largest importer of herbs and spices? 1073. Where does the Obelisk of Luxor stand? 1074. What was Leningrad called immediately before it became Leningrad? 1075. How many King Leopolds of Belgium have there been? 1076. What city was called the Hundred-Gated? 1077. Where is the Britannia Bridge built by Stevenson in 1850? 1078. The guinea-pig is a native of which region? 1079. Benares is the leading holy city of which religion? 1080. Which European capital gives its name to a green vegetable?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
1061.Sir Walter Raleigh. 1062.The Belgian Congo. 1063.Gatwick. 1064.Coventry. 1065.Four. Lesser men have only two. 1066.Louisiana. 1067.The Red Sea. 1068.England. 1069.Romania. 1070.Over the Dead Sea (which is 1,300 feet below sea level). 1071.Bangladesh. 1072.The USA. 1073.In the Place de la Concorde, Paris. 1074.Petrograd. 1075.Three. 1076.Thebes, in Upper Egypt. 1077.The Menai Straits. 1078.South America. 1079.Hinduism. 1080.Brussels (sprouts).

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
1081. Of which country is Alicante a seaport and a province? 1082. In which city was Martin Luther King assassinated? 1083. What odd lake did Sir Walter Raleigh find in Trinidad? 1084. On which Hebridean island is the town of Tobermory? 1085. Which is the largest island of the Inner Hebrides? 1086. On which continent is Queen Maud Land? 1087. Which lies furthest south: Casablanca, Houston, Tenerife or Miami? 1088. On the site of which prison does the Old Bailey stand? 1089. What is Great Smoo? 1090. The old county of Radnor is represented in which new county? 1091. Which is the westernmost region of France? 1092. Which was the northernmost slave state of the American Civil War? 1093. Where do the Walloons live? 1094. In which country is the city of Salamanca? 1095. What was designed by Alfred Gilbert, unveiled in 1893, stands 9 feet high and represents charity? 1096. Where were the Spice Islands of the Middle Ages? 1097. Which is the highest volcano in Europe? 1098. On which island would you find huge ancestral figures carved from volcanic rock? 1099. What is the modern Italian name for the Roman Mediolanum? 1100. How far is South America moving away from South Africa each year?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
1081.Spain. 1082.Memphis, Tennessee. 1083.A lake of asphalt. 1084.Mull. 1085.Skye. 1086.Antarctica. 1087.Miami. 1088.Newgate. 1089.Scotlands largest cave. 1090.Powys. 1091.Finistre. 1092.Delaware. 1093.Belgium. 1094.Spain. 1095.Eros in Piccadilly. 1096.The East Indies, especially the Moluccas. 1097.Mount Etna in Sicily. 1098.Easter Island. 1099.Milano. 1100.2 inches (Continental Drift).

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
1101. In which country did paper originate? 1102. What is the US military academy called? 1103. What is the official language of Pakistan? 1104. Which American state contains the Great Salt Lake? 1105. Which part of England had its own parliaments and courts until 1897? 1106. Which island off the Cornish coast do some consider to be part of the lost kingdom of Lyonesse? 1107. Which is the highest mountain in Europe? 1108. On which river does the legendary Lorelei lie in wait? 1109. In which country are the Angel Falls? 1110. What is known as the New World? 1111. Which is the largest city in the southern hemisphere? 1112. Where is the river Orinoco? 1113. Who were the Thugs? 1114. Who wrote many of his novels in his Jamaican retreat Goldeneye? 1115. Which country was once known as Serendib? 1116. With which country is the chow-chow particularly associated? 1117. What is the national drink of Yugoslavia? 1118. Which canal connects two oceans? 1119. In which Indian state is about half of Indias tea grown? 1120. Which is Europes highest volcano?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
1101.China. 1102.West Point. 1103.Urdu. 1104.Utah. 1105.Devon and Cornwall (the Stannaries). 1106.St Michaels Mount. 1107.Mont Blanc. 1108.The Rhine. 1109.Venezuela. 1110.The Americas. 1111.Buenos Aires. 1112.Venezuela. 1113.Professional robbers and murderers in India. 1114.Ian Fleming. 1115.Sri Lanka (Ceylon). 1116.China. 1117.Slivovitz. 1118.The Panama Canal. 1119.Assam. 1120.Etna.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
1121. What does the name Punjab mean? 1122. To what does the expression seven seas refer? 1123. Tanzania was made up of two states. What were their names? 1124. What does Hong Kong mean? 1125. From which mid western US town did Smokey Robinson and the Miracles come? 1126. Where do Novacastrians live? 1127. In which country are needles still legal currency for giving small change? 1128. In which country is Mont Blanc? 1129. In which country is the Mekong delta? 1130. Where was the first lending library in Britain? 1131. What currency is used by Albania? 1132. Who was Greeces greatest poet? 1133. Name the Channel Islands. 1134. In which country are dogs not permitted in city streets? 1135. How much can you be fined for sleeping in Islingtons public library in London? 1136. Which English seaside resort has a famous tower? 1137. For what proportion of the year is there daylight at the North Pole? 1138. What is the Irish name for Ireland? 1139. What is the level of rainfall at Calama, in the Atacama desert, Chile? 1140. What is Kenyas capital?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
1121.Five rivers. 1122.To all the waters of the earth. 1123.Tanganyika and Zanzibar. 1124.Fragrant harbour. 1125.Detroit. 1126.Newcastle. 1127.Nigeria. 1128.France. 1129.Vietnam. 1130.Edinburgh (in 1726). 1131.The lek. 1132.Homer. 1133.Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark. 1134.China. 1135.50. 1136.Blackpool. 1137.Half. 1138.Eire. 1139.Nil. It has never rained there. 1140.Nairobi.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
1141. Where is the Great Bitter Lake? 1142. Of which new county is the old county of Denbighshire a part? 1143. What is the smallest state of the USA? 1144. What is the unit of currency is the United Arab Emirates? 1145. Where is the shortest street in England? 1146. In which English county is Chteau Piddle wine made? 1147. In which country did the Hudsons Bay Company function? 1148. Where was the Spanish Main? 1149. Where is the Limpopo river? 1150. Which river flows through Germany, Austria and Hungary? 1151. Which country once issued a postage stamp shaped like a banana? 1152. Who is the Queen of Canada? 1153. Which country has the highest rainfall? 1154. Which university has a football stadium and a nuclear reactor built across the San Andreas Fault? 1155. From where does a Cretan hail? 1156. Where might you spend a lev? 1157. After death, which water-lily awaited each soul in a Chinese heaven? 1158. By what name is the Thames known as it passes through Oxford? 1159. Where is the Sugar Loaf Mountain? 1160. In which country has General Alfredo Stroessner been in power for over 30 years?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
1141.In the middle of the Suez Canal. 1142.Clwyd. 1143.Rhode Island. 1144.The dirham. 1145.Queen Charlotte Street in Windsor, Berks. It is 51 10 long. 1146.Worcestershire; it is made and bottled in North Piddle. 1147.Canada. 1148.The northern coast of South America. 1149.South Africa. 1150.The Danube. 1151.Tonga. 1152.Queen Elizabeth II. 1153.Colombia. 1154.Berkeley, Oakland. 1155.Crete. 1156.Bulgaria or Romania. 1157.The lotus. 1158.The Isis. 1159.Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1160.Paraguay.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
1161. Upon how many hills is Istanbul built? 1162. Where is the Hope Diamond kept? 1163. What was the previous name of Camp David, the US Presidential retreat? 1164. Where in the USA is the White House? 1165. After whom were the Virgin Islands named? 1166. What is the meaning of wich in place names such as Northwich and Droitwich? 1167. Of which country is Durban a port? 1168. What is the official language of Nigeria? 1169. On which river does Balmoral Castle stand? 1170. What are the Sandwich Islands now called? 1171. In Greek legend, what was Pygmalions kingdom? 1172. Name any three of the five main wine-producing regions around the city of Bordeaux. 1173. Which London street is nicknamed Tin Pan Alley? 1174. Where is Limassol? 1175. What are Sandray, Pabbay, Mingulay and Berneray? 1176. Where did the worst flood in modern times drown an estimated million people in 1887? 1177. Where is the tomb of King John? 1178. Which valley separates the Cotswolds from the Severn estuary? 1179. Where is Mary Queen of Scots buried? 1180. How many mountains over 24,000 feet high are unnamed?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
1161.Seven. 1162.In the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC. 1163.Shangri La. 1164.Washington, DC. 1165.Queen Elizabeth I. 1166.A brine well. 1167.South Africa. 1168.English. 1169.The Dee. 1170.The Hawaiian Islands. 1171.Cyprus. 1172.Mdoc, Graves, Sauternes, St Emilion, Entre-deux-Mers. 1173.Denmark Street. 1174.On the south coast of Cyprus. 1175.The southernmost islands of the outer Hebrides. 1176.China, along the Huang-Ho. 1177.Worcester Cathedral. 1178.The Vale of Berkeley. 1179.Westminster Abbey. 1180.Five.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
1181. In which bay are the Andaman group of islands found? 1182. In which Belgian city can you be jailed for not killing furry caterpillars? 1183. In which city is the official residence of the President of the USA? 1184. In which ocean is Blighs Cap? 1185. Which was the first state of the USA? 1186. In which country are the Mountains of the Moon? 1187. Where did turkeys originate? 1188. How many feet has Mexico City sunk since 1900? 1189. From which town does port take its name? 1190. Which country is the largest consumer of tea in the world? 1191. Into how many states is Australia divided? 1192. What is the capital of Bermuda? 1193. Which city gave the name regatta to boat races? 1194. In which country is the Matterhorn? 1195. Where does the river Eden flow in England? 1196. On which river does Balmoral Castle stand? 1197. In which ocean is the Sargasso Sea? 1198. In which country is Gothenburg? 1199. Which European country has four national languages? 1200. How are corpses disposed of in New Orleans?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
1181.The Bay of Bengal. 1182.Brussels. 1183.Washington, DC. 1184.The Indian Ocean. 1185.Delaware. 1186.Uganda. 1187.In America. 1188.Twenty-two it is sinking even faster than Venice ! 1189.Oporto, in Portugal. 1190.Great Britain. 1191.Six. 1192.Hamilton. 1193.Venice. 1194.Switzerland. 1195.One flows through Carlisle in Cumbria to the Solway Firth, the other through Edenbridge in Kent to the Medway at Penshurst. 1196.The Dee. 1197.The Atlantic. 1198.Sweden. 1199.Switzerland. 1200.They are placed in mausoleums, as the ground is too wet for conventional burials.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
1201. What is the seaward extension of the Severn estuary called? 1202. In which UK city is the University of Aston? 1203. Which country was formed by the British North America Act? 1204. How many time zones does Canada have? 1205. In which country did the Maori wars take place? 1206. Where is the International Court of Justice? 1207. On which day of the week are General Elections invariably held in the UK? 1208. What is the official language of Andorra? 1209. Which country has the most cars per mile of road? 1210. In which year does Britains lease of Hong Kong expire? 1211. Which hills end in the Cheddar Gorge? 1212. Name four of the six old counties of Northern Ireland. 1213. Flotta, Nigg Bay, Cruden Bay and Dalmeny are all what? 1214. What position was held by the first man caught in Oslos new radar speed assessor? 1215. Where do Muscovites live? 1216. Which Roman Road connected London and Chichester? 1217. As a philanthropic experiment to give debtors from English prisons a chance, General Oglethorpe founded what in 1733? 1218. Which republic was formerly French Sudan? 1219. If you were climbing with Sherpas, in which country would you probably be? 1220. Which city in England must the sovereign ask permission to enter?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
1201.The Bristol Channel. 1202.Birmingham. 1203.Canada. 1204.Six. 1205.New Zealand. 1206.The Hague in Holland. 1207.Thursdays. 1208.Catalan. 1209.England. 1210.1997. 1211.The Mendip Hills. 1212.Fermanagh, Tyrone, Armagh, Down, Londonderry and Antrim. 1213.Terminals for North Sea oil. 1214.Oslos police chief. 1215.Moscow. 1216.Stane Street. 1217.The state of Georgia, USA. 1218.Mali. 1219.Nepal. 1220.The City of London.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
1221. In which county are the Langdale Pikes? 1222. In Africa, what is an erg? 1223. Where is Britains smallest prison? 1224. What happened to Niagara Falls during the winter of 1925? 1225. Which American state is the Badger state? 1226. By what name is the Belgian Congo now known? 1227. From which language did the word tycoon come? 1228. Which textile is mainly associated with Lancashire? 1229. In which bay is Alcatraz sited? 1230. Which region of Africa is partly submerged beneath Lake Nasser? 1231. Where is Inchn? 1232. In which country is the Meru National Park? 1233. Which country uses the ringgit as currency? 1234. Where is the Bridge of Sighs? 1235. Where does the Mekong river rise? 1236. What was the name of the longest lived hurricane in the North Atlantic? 1237. What is the capital of Tasmania? 1238. Which river marks the northern boundary of the Transvaal? 1239. Into which sea does the Danube flow? 1240. Which countries constitute Great Britain?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
1221.Cumbria. 1222.A desert region of shifting sand. 1223.On the lsle of Sark. 1224.It froze completely. 1225.Wisconsin. 1226.Zare. 1227.Chinese (but accept Japanese). 1228.Cotton. 1229.San Francisco Bay. 1230.Nubia. 1231.South Korea. 1232.Kenya. 1233.Malaysia. 1234.Venice. 1235.Tibet. 1236.Ginger. 1237.Hobart. 1238.The Limpopo. 1239.The Black Sea. 1240.England, Scotland and Wales.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
1241. In which house did the Bront sisters live for nearly all their lives? 1242. In which British city is Adolf Hitler said to have studied art? 1243. Which city does Dyce airport service? 1244. Which country forms the easternmost boundary of Indonesia? 1245. Which is reputed to be the finest street on the American continent? 1246. Where is the Queens Norfolk residence? 1247. For what is Californias Napa Valley famed? 1248. Which river is also called the Sorrow of China? 1249. Which European countrys flag is red and gold and incorporates an eagle in its crest? 1250. Which Italian cathedral has 4,440 statues? 1251. In 1700 BC there was one great city in Africa outside Egypt. What was it? 1252. How many of the worlds population are Chinese? 1253. What are French police called? 1254. Of which island group is Viti Levu the largest? 1255. Which is North Americas highest mountain? 1256. Which British dukes stately home is at Stratford Saye? 1257. By what name do we know the country Chosun Minchu-Chui Inmin KonghwaGuk? 1258. How many rivers are there in Saudi Arabia? 1259. What had Marylebone, Ranelagh and Vauxhall in common in the eighteenth century? 1260. Who is the American state of Virginia named after?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
1241.Haworth Parsonage, West Yorkshire. 1242.Liverpool. 1243.Aberdeen. 1244.Papua New Guinea. 1245.Avenida Rio Branco (ex-Central) in Rio de Janeiro. 1246.Sandringham. 1247.Wine. 1248.The Yellow River (Hwang-Ho). 1249.Spain. 1250.Milan. 1251.Carthage. 1252.800,000,000. 1253.Police. (Gendarmes are soldiers acting as policemen.) 1254.Fiji. 1255.Mount McKinley. 1256.The Duke of Wellington. 1257.Korea. 1258.None. 1259.They were all pleasure gardens. 1260.Queen Elizabeth I.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
1261. Near which city is Lulsgate airport? 1262. Which European state did George I rule before he became King of England? 1263. In which country is a pig brought into the house for good luck on New Years Eve? 1264. Where in London are the Crown Jewels kept? 1265. Which country produces Gruyre cheese? 1266. Of which country was Solon one of the seven sages? 1267. In which city are the parliamentary constituencies of Itchen and Test? 1268. Roman London has sunk. By how many feet? 1269. For what was the Eiffel Tower built? 1270. Which mountain range contains thirteen of the worlds twenty highest mountains? 1271. Bartholomew Diaz called it the Cape of Storms. How is it known now? 1272. Who said, and where, Great God! This is an awful place!? 1273. From where in Eire do they take the water to make Guinness? 1274. Which is the smallest county in the British Isles? 1275. Where did Arthur Thistlewood meet his co-conspirators to plot the murder of the Cabinet? 1276. From which language does the word alphabet come? 1277. On which river in Portugal is Oporto? 1278. Troops of which foreign country set fire to the White House in the nineteenth century? 1279. It can be said that Frances extravagant support (50,000,000) of which revolution led to her bankruptcy and her own revolution? 1280. Which is the only European country in which a wife does not take the name of her husband upon marriage?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
1261.Bristol. 1262.Hanover. 1263.Yugoslavia. 1264.The Tower of London. 1265.Switzerland. 1266.Greece. 1267.Southampton. 1268.15 feet. 1269.The Paris Exhibition of 1889. 1270.The Himalayas. 1271.The Cape of Good Hope. 1272.Captain Scott at the South Pole. 1273.The River Liffey. 1274.The Isle of Wight. 1275.Cato Street, London. 1276.Greek, the first two letters being alpha and beta. 1277.The Duoro. 1278.Great Britain, in 1814. 1279.The American War of Independence. 1280.Spain.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
1281. Which is considered to be the oldest of the English cheeses? 1282. From which London railway station do trains depart for the West of England? 1283. After which French town is the textile cambric named? 1284. Of which country is Mombasa the chief port? 1285. Where is Darwin buried? 1286. Which canal links the Mediterranean with the Red Sea? 1287. In 1867 the United States paid 1,450,000 for what? 1288. Which was the only European country before the Second World War where more than half the inhabitants were Muslim? 1289. On which lake was Donald Campbell killed in Bluebird? 1290. The Pillars of Hercules stand on either side of which stretch of water? 1291. Where did Drakes memorable game of bowls take place? 1292. Where are the remains of a Roman lighthouse to be seen in Britain? 1293. Where did calico originate? 1294. With what sort of lace is the Belgian city of Malines associated? 1295. Where was the treaty establishing the EEC signed? 1296. Of which country is Goa a former colony? 1297. Legend has it that one European city got its name from the great number of bears killed there on the day it was founded. Which city? 1298. In which county is Tiverton? 1299. In the Yugoslav language, Belgrade is called Beograd. What does Beograd mean? 1300. Which country did Texas belong to until 1821?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
1281.Cheshire. 1282.Paddington. 1283.Cambrai. 1284.Kenya. 1285.Westminster Abbey. 1286.The Suez Canal. 1287.Alaska. 1288.Albania. 1289.Coniston Water in the Lake District. 1290.The Straits of Gibraltar. 1291.Plymouth Hoe. 1292.Dover (Dubris). 1293.India. 1294.Mechlin. 1295.Rome. 1296.Portugal. 1297.Berne, Switzerland. 1298.Devon. 1299.White city. 1300.Spain.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
1301. Where, according to Burke, was the toyshop of Europe? 1302. Name a country which has the dragon as its symbol. 1303. The manufacture of Dresden china was transferred to where? 1304. Which mountain range runs from the Arctic to the Caspian Sea? 1305. In which USA state is Hell a tourist resort? 1306. Where did Covent Garden move to? 1307. What river is so powerful that the surface sea is still composed of fresh water 50 miles from its mouth? 1308. Where did the massacre of the Macdonald clan take place? 1309. For which town was Camulodunum the Roman name? 1310. From which country does Vichy water come? 1311. Of which island state is Bridgetown the capital? 1312. Which chapel in Westminster Abbey is used as the Chapel of the Order of the Bath? 1313. On which Japanese island is the port of Osaka? 1314. Which is the highest mountain in the Isle of Man? 1315. Which London district was associated with artists? 1316. A route over the curved surface of the earth that is the minimum distance between two points is called what? 1317. Which palace is the official residence of the Queen when in Scotland? 1318. An oozie in Burma is called what in India? 1319. What is the third largest island in the Mediterranean? 1320. Adams Bridge is a chain of islands linking which two eastern states?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
1301.Birmingham. 1302.China, Wales. 1303.Meissen. 1304.The Urals. 1305.Michigan. 1306.Nine Elms. 1307.The Amazon. 1308.Glencoe. 1309.Colchester. 1310.France. 1311.Barbados. 1312.Henry VI Is Chapel. 1313.Honshu Island. 1314.Snaefell. 1315.Chelsea. 1316.Great Circle Route. 1317.Holyrood Palace. 1318.A mahout. 1319.Cyprus. 1320.Sri Lanka and India.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
1321.Which was the last English town to be made into a city? 1322. In which town is the National Library of Wales? 1323. What are the Dodecanese? 1324. What is the nearest part of England to Ireland? 1325. What was the Potola? 1326. How many hours ahead of GMT is Moscow? 1327. What is the capital of Hong Kong? 1328. What was once named New Albion by Francis Drake? 1329. To where did Concorde make its first commercial flight in 1976? 1330. Where is Henry VIII buried? 1331. Where is the oldest university in the world? 1332. Which cathedral is dedicated to St Saviour? 1333. Where did the Investiture of the Prince of Wales take place in 1969? 1334. Of which Canadian province is Regina the capital? 1335. What is the area of the Isle of Wight in square miles? 1336. By which states is Kuwait surrounded? 1337. In which country did the Cultural Revolution take place? 1338. What are Royal Sovereign, Scilly, Valentia and Ronaldsway? 1339. Which cape on the coast south of Brisbane is named after a famous poet? 1340. By what name is the Paris Stock Exchange known?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
1321.Derby. 1322.Aberystwyth. 1323.Islands off Turkey belonging to Greece. 1324.St Bees Head. 1325.The palace of the Dalai Lama in Lhasa, Tibet. 1326.Three. 1327.Victoria. 1328.Oregon, USA. 1329.Bahrain. 1330.St Georges Chapel, Windsor. 1331.Fez, Morocco (founded 859). 1332.Southwark. 1333.Caernarvon Castle. 1334.Saskatchewan. 1335.147 square miles. 1336.Iraq and Saudi Arabia. 1337.China. 1338.Coastal weather stations. 1339.Cape Byron. 1340.The Bourse.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
1341. Why is Muckle Flugga notable? 1342. Which gun is named after a town in Czechoslovakia and an English rifle manufacturer? 1343. In which country is Entebbe airport? 1344. Which city does Kagoshima airport serve? 1345. In Muslim countries, what is the colour worn for mourning? 1346. Which is Indias sacred river? 1347. A Californian law makes it illegal to shoot any game bird or animal from an automobile except one. Which one? 1348. Which underground tube line goes to Heathrow Central? 1349. By what name did Hitler intend calling Berlin when the new city was finished? 1350. Over which building in India may no one fly? 1351. Which state in India is as large as France? 1352. Over which ocean did Amelia Earhart disappear? 1353. Which principality is ruled by the House of Grimaldi? 1354. What is the capital of Israel? 1355. In which country did the Mau Mau uprising take place? 1356. In which country is the Algarve? 1357. Which country moved from one continent to another? 1358. In which country is the Costa del Sol? 1359. In which Italian city is the Bridge of Sighs? 1360. Which countrys money is said to be the most difficult to counterfeit?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
1341.It is the most northerly point in the British Isles. 1342.The bren-gun (a combination of Brno and Enfield). 1343.Uganda. 1344.Tokyo. 1345.White. 1346.The Ganges. 1347.The whale! 1348.Piccadilly. 1349.Germania. 1350.The Taj Mahal. 1351.Uttar Pradesh. 1352.The Pacific. 1353.Monaco. 1354.Jerusalem. 1355.Kenya. 1356.Portugal. 1357.Panama. After gaining independence from Colombia (South America) in 1903, it was considered to be part of Central America which belongs to North America. 1358.Spain. 1359.Venice. 1360.Japans.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
1361. Representations of how many US presidents are carved on the face of Mount Rushmore? 1362. What is the capital of Switzerland? 1363. By what name is Stalingrad now known? 1364. What is the capital of Jamaica? 1365. Where is the Sea of Showers? 1366. To which country were 75,000 convicts transported between 1790 and 1840? 1367. What is the official residence of the President of France? 1368. What is the most common surname in France? 1369. What are the colours of the French flag? 1370. Which country first used aircraft equipped with bombs for war? 1371. What annual event takes place in May in the grounds of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea? 1372. Between which two cities did the Blue Train run? 1373. Which nation, on average, takes the longest time over its meals? 1374. In which language does Store Christi mean Happy Birthday? 1375. What country is Belmopan the capital of? 1376. Which city has the dialling code 0603? 1377. What is the national flower of Sweden? 1378. On which coast of Australia is Perth? 1379. On 13 February 1920 Jerusalem experienced something fairly exceptional. What? 1380. How deep is the Grand Canyon?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
1361.Four. 1362.Berne. 1363.Volgograd. 1364.Kingston. 1365.On the moon. 1366.Australia. 1367.The lyse Palace. 1368.Martin. 1369.Red, white and blue. 1370.Italy, during the Italo-Turkish war of 191112 in North Africa. 1371.The Chelsea Flower Show. 1372.Paris and Monte Carlo. 1373.The French. 1374.Norwegian. 1375.Belize. 1376.Norwich. 1377.Lily of the valley. 1378.West coast. 1379.39 inches of snow. 1380.1 mile.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
1381. Where was the Barbary coast? 1382. Which county is Snowdon in? 1383. Where is the Isle of Dogs? 1384. At which rivers mouth does Sunderland lie? 1385. Where is the worlds largest underground system? 1386. In which city is Jan Smuts airport? 1387. Where are the headquarters of the World Health Organization? 1388. When was the Panama Canal opened? 1389. What is the capital of Yugoslavia? 1390. Name Irelands national airline. 1391. In which French city is Montmartre? 1392. Name the one European state without a single railway line. 1393. In the gatehouse of which English castle is there a collection of ornamental dogcollars? 1394. In which county are the Dukeries? 1395. Three major rivers flow into the Baltic Sea. Name two. 1396. In which desert do the Bushmen wander? 1397. By what name is Stalingrad, defended by Stalin in 1917 against the White Russians, now known? 1398. Africa has four great rivers. Name three. 1399. Where did apples and pears originate? 1400. Where is Arnhem Land?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
1381.Coast of Algeria. 1382.Gwynedd. 1383.London, Tower Hamlets. 1384.Wear. 1385.London. 1386.Johannesburg. 1387.Geneva. 1388.1914. 1389.Belgrade. 1390.Aer Lingus. 1391.Paris. 1392.San Marino. 1393.Leeds Castle. 1394.Nottinghamshire. 1395.Oder, Vistula, Neva. 1396.The Kalahari. 1397.Volgograd. 1398.Nile, Niger, Congo and Zambezi. 1399.Afghanistan. 1400.North Australia.

GEOGRAPHY- QUESTIONS
1401. What was the colonial name for Malawi? 1402. What, strictly speaking, is a Creole? 1403. Where is Poets Corner? 1404. Where are the Hen and Chickens Islands? 1405. What was the colonial name for Zambia? 1406. What does the name Haiti mean? 1407. Where does 70 per cent of the worlds grapefruit come from? 1408. Which North Sea island was a German naval base in the First and Second World Wars? 1409. In which country would you be if you were at the Lion Gate of Mycenae? 1410. Which river separates Stockton from Middlesbrough? 1411. Where is the Confessors shrine? 1412. In which river valley are the special grapes for port grown? 1413. In which country is the Kwanza the unit of currency? 1414. Cape Comorin is the most southerly point of which country? 1415. How many stars appear on the flag of New Zealand? 1416. On which river is the Hoover Dam? 1417. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a union of how many republics? 1418. How many independent kingdoms united to form the United Arab Emirates? 1419. Which country has a famous national dish called sukiyaki? 1420. When and where was the worlds worst air disaster?

GEOGRAPHY ANSWERS
1401.Nyasaland. 1402.A person of European blood born in the West Indies or Spanish America. 1403.Westminster Abbey. 1404.Just off the coast of North Island, New Zealand. 1405.Northern Rhodesia. 1406.Mountainous. 1407.Florida. 1408.Heligoland. 1409.Greece. 1410.The Tees. 1411.Westminster Abbey. 1412.The Douro. 1413.Angola. 1414.India. 1415.Four. 1416.The Colorado river. 1417.Twenty-nine. 1418.Seven. 1419.Japan. 1420.In 1977 at Tenerife airport (two jumbos collided on the ground).

INDIA

INDIA- QUESTIONS
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Which state became India's twenty-fourth state in 1987? What did Sawai Jai Singh build at Delhi, Jaipur, Varanasi, Mathura and Ujjain? Which structure built by King Narasimhadeva was in the shape of a chariot with twenty-four wheels and drawn by seven horses? Which festival in India is celebrated in three ways: Rongali, Bhogali and Kangali? Name the only Indian state capital which has derived its name from a national leader? The scientific name of which creature is Pavo cristatus? Which city is the world's largest source of natural hair? In India, for what two purposes are police sniffer dogs used? Besides hygiene, for what religious reason does a person remove his shoes before entering a Hindu kitchen?

10. On 1 April 1984, who accompained Gennadi Strekalov and Yuri Malyshev on an important mission? 11. What does the Martyr's Column in New Delhi mark? 12. In which city did Rajiv Gandhi spent the penultimate day of his life? 13. Name the three Nobel Prize winners who have also received the Bharat Ratna? 14. Who was the patron deity of the Swadeshi movement? 15. On what particular occasion are doli songs sung? 16. How did Jarasanda get his name? 17. Which construction material is strictly prohibited from being used in Hindu, Jain and Buddhist temples? 18. When there are other flags hoisted alongside the Indian national flag, exactly where is the national flag placed? 19. Which former Indian Prime Minister's autobiography is entitled The Story of My Life? 20. Name the Indian state and its capital to contain the letter Z in their names.

INDIA ANSWERS
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Arunachal Pradesh Jantar Mantar The Sun Temple at Konarak in Orissa These are the three Bihu festivals of Assam Gandhinagar after Mahatma Gandhi. Hyderabad, another state capital, is named after Hyder Mahal, wife of Quli Qutb Shah. The peacock (national bird of India) Tirupati. It is a temple town in Andhra Pradesh. To sniff out narcotics and bombs Fire is considered to be sacred by the Hindus

10 Rakesh Sharmathey were the cosmonauts who accompanied him into space. 11 The spot where Gandhiji fell to his assassin's bullet 12 Bhubaneshwar 13 CV Raman, Mother Teresa and Amartya Sen 14 Lord Ganesha 15 After a wedding, when the bride leaves for her husband's home. 16 He was put together by a demon named Jara ('sandhan' means to put together). He was killed by Bhima. 17 Iron, because it corrodes and is susceptible to decay 18 At the extreme right of all the other flags; i.e. to the extreme left of those facing the flags 19 Morarji Desai. He was the first Indian Prime Minister to resign from office. 20 State: Mizoram; Capital: Aizawl

INDIA- QUESTIONS
21. What names did former IGP of Tihar Jail, Kiran Bedi, give to the juvenile delinquency reformation rooms? 22. In India, what is the difference between atta and attar? 23. Which former currency unit or coin in India was valued at 1/16 of a rupee? 24. Name the first Hindi film actor to have his wax image at Madame Tussaud's? 25. Distinguish between Kacchi biryani and Pucci biryani. 26. Which is the senior-most regiment in the Indian Army? 27. In gilli danda, the player who opens the innings starts play by placing the gilli in what? 28. Who was the first Indian to propose the earth was spherical and rotated on its axis? 29. Name the dramatist whose celebrated drama is about King Dushyanta who loves and courts a maiden he first observed while hunting. 30. Which are the two official languages spoken in India which begin and end with the same letters. What 175-foot-high structure did Akbar build to commemorate his victory in Gujarat? 31. Which tragic incident in 1984 will be remembered as 'Black December'? 32. Which is the only Indian state to contain the name of an Indian language in its name? 33. Barren Island is the one of its kind in India. Why? 34. Who was the youngest ever president of the Indian National Congress: Rajiv Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi or Subhash Chandra Bose? 35. In south India it is called 'applam'. What is it in north India? 36. In Bengal it is called 'alpana', in Tamil Nadu it is known as 'kolam'. What is it called in Gujarat? 37. Which Indian state was previously called the United Provinces? 38. How was the village built in 1982 in New Delhi different from other villages in the country? 39. Which Indian city was given to Britain by Portugal as part of the dowry at the marriage of Catherine of Braganza to Charles II? 40. Which Indian state capital begins and ends with the letter 'A'?

INDIA ANSWERS
21 Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli 22 Atta is flour made from wheat, whereas attar is a fragrant oil extracted from rose petals 23 An anna 24 Amitabh Bachchan 25 Kacchi biryani is when all uncooked ingredients are put in one pot, spiced and sealed with flour. Pucci biryani is when the meat and rice are cooked separately and then mixed together 26 The President's Bodyguard. 27 Gucchi 28 Aryabhata I. 29 Kalidasa. The play is Shakuntala. 30 Urdu 31 Buland Darwaza 32 Bhopal gas tragedy 33 Tamil Nadu 34 It is the only active volcano in India. It is situated in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 35 Subhash Chandra Bose 36 Papadam 37 Rangoli 38 Uttar Pradesh. 39 It was the village built for the Asian Games in 1982 40 Mumbai

INDIA- QUESTIONS
41. In western India, what would you do with a 'pao'? 42. Jamun trees are commonly found all over India wherever which fruit grows? 43. Who holds the record for being India's most prolific cartoonist? 44. In India, what would the following letters and numbers best apply to: Z+, Z, Y, X and X2? 45. Name the place of worship which stands in the middle of the Amrita Sarovar. 46. At the Sun Temple in Konarak, what do the twelve wheels of the chariot and the seven horses pulling signify? 47. Which medieval minaret is also the oldest tower in India? 48. Which Indian musician composed the music for the 1996 cricket World Cup tournament? 49. Which body of water was the locale of Kalidasa's Shakuntala? 50. What is common to the following: Amausi in Lucknow, Dabolim in Goa, Bajpe in Mangalore and Indira Gandhi in New Delhi? 51. On 20 December 1994, who succeeded Iftikar Mustafa Hasan Kadri in Mumbai? 52. Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur and Meghalaya are four of the north-eastern states which form the 'Seven Sisters'. Name the other three. 53. Which Indian city is called the 'Milk City'? 54. In which language did Tulsidas write? 55. Bahadur Shah Zafar II was the last ruler of which dynasty? 56. According to Lokmanya Tilak, what was his birthright? 57. Who is the constitutional head of every Indian state? 58. Put these Indian Prime Ministers in chronological order (i.e. who became Prime Minister first): Gulzarilal Nanda, Chandra Shekhar, Atal Behari Vajpayee and Charan Singh. 59. What is the difference between khichdi and kheer? 60. Who was the child of a Prime Minister, the parent of a Prime Minister and a Prime Minister?

INDIA ANSWERS
41 Agartala 42 Eat it. It is a type of bread. 43 Swami Vivekananda himself 44 Pran (he created Chacha Chaudhary) 45 The five categories of VIP security 46 The Golden Temple at Amritsar 47 The twelve wheels signify the twelve months in the year, and the seven horses signify the seven days of the week. 48 Qutb Minar. It was built in the early thirteenth century. 49 Ananda Shankar 50 Mahatma Gandhion his departure from South Africa to return to India 51 They are all airports 52 Amitabh Bachchan 53 Anand, in Gujarat. 54 Hindi 55 The Mughal dynasty 56 Freedom (Swaraj) 57 The Governor 58 Gulzarilal Nanda (1964), Charan Singh (1979), Chandra Shekhar (1990) and Atal Behari Vajpayee (1996). Gulzarilal Nanda was acting PM twice. 59 Khichdi is made with rice, dal and vegetables. Kheer is made with rice, milk and sugar. 60 Indira Gandhi

INDIA- QUESTIONS
61. Who was Chandragupta Maurya's main counsellor and adviser? 62. Konar, Tillaiya, Panchet and Maithon are dams situated on which river? 63. Which famous two-word slogan was coined by Mohammed Iqbal? 64. India and Pakistan have both renamed the Grand Trunk Road. What is its new name? 65. Who was the famous son of Vishravas and Kalkasi? 66. What is the correct term to describe residents of Mumbai? 67. In 1440, who built the Tower of Victory or Vijay Stambh at Chittorgarh? 68. Arrange the Prime Ministers in order of longest serving to shortest serving: Morarji Desai, Charan Singh, Rajiv Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri. 69. In which three languages are most films in India made? 70. What was so special about the train that carried Gandhiji's ashes from Delhi to Allahabad? 71. Who was responsible for Arjuna's son Abhimanyu's death? 72. What is the basic difference between the rasamalai and the rossogolla syrup? 73. In the film Hindustani, who was Hindustani? 74. What connects paper, rava and plain? 75. How many commands is the Indian Army organized into? 76. What is the alternative name for Indian corn? 77. After the First Great War of Indian Independence (also called The Mutiny of 1857), who took over as the ruler of India replacing the East India Company? 78. In which Indian state is Khasi commonly spoken? 79. During the rule of which dynasty did India experience the Golden Age? 80. Which Indian state has the longest coastline?

INDIA ANSWERS
61 Kautilya/Chanakya. He wrote a treatise on polity called Arthashastra. 62 The Damodar 63 Inquilab zindabad 64 Sher Shah Suri Marg 65 Ravana 66 Mumbaikars 67 Rana Kumbha. During his reign the Chaumukha temple at Ranakpur was also built. 68 Rajiv Gandhi (over five years), Morarji Desai (over two years), Lal Bahadur Shastri (around one and a half years) and Charan Singh (around six months) 69 Most films are made in Hindi, followed by Tamil and Telugu 70 It had no First Class coaches. This was done in deference to the Mahatma, who never travelled First Class. 71 Jayadratha 72 Rasamalai is milky; rossogolla syrup is transparent and usually made from sugar syrup 73 Kamal Haasan 74 Types of dosas 75 Five. Eastern, Western, Northern, Southern and Central 76 Maize, also known as bhutta 77 Queen Victoria 78 Meghalaya 79 The Guptas 80 Gujarat

INDIA- QUESTIONS
81. In India, which is the highest airport to which the national carrier, Indian Airlines, flies? 82. Which Indian leader's middle name was Karamchand? 83. Which Indian city is famous for its Marina beach? 84. What does the Anjali mudra in Bharatanatyam depict? 85. Whose portrait appears on an Indian 500-rupee currency note? 86. Something Beautiful for God is a book by Malcolm Muggeridge. Who is the subject of the book? 87. In which Indian city is the Salar Jung Museum? 88. Across which river was independent India's first hydroelectric project set up? 89. Which Indian politician has written a quiz book on animals, and another one on the origin of Hindu names? 90. What are the ages required to enable a person to become a member of: a) the Rajya Sabha and b) the Lok Sabha? 91. The name of which tribe represents the number of principles espoused by their prophet, Lord Jhambheshwar? 92. Upon completion in 1931, it was called the All India War Memorial Arch. What is it called now? 93. Which institution connects Kolkata, Lucknow and Lyon? 94. Which Indian monument did Rabindranath Tagore describe as 'a teardrop on the cheek of eternity'? 95. Which state in India has the largest number of Lok Sabha seats? 96. What is common to the following: Akash, Prithvi, Agni, Nag and Trishul? 97. In which princely state were the rulers referred to as Maharanas? 98. What mode of transport was discontinued in Chennai in 1953? 99. Which Indian has the most number of roads named after him? 100. It was originally called Burial Ground Road. How do we know this famous Kolkata road today?

INDIA ANSWERS
81 Leh, Ladakh 82 Gandhiji 83 Chennai 84 The Namaskaram greeting 85 Mahatma Gandhi. The 500-rupee note was introduced in October, 1987. 86 Mother Teresa. She was born of Albanian parents in Skopje, in present-day Macedonia. Her real name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. She was the founder of the Order of Missionaries of Charity and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. 87 Hyderabad. The Salar Jung Museum gets its name from the title 'Salar Jung'. This title was given to the erstwhile Prime Ministers of the Nizams of Hyderabad. The first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, declared the museum open. 88 Damodar 89 Maneka Gandhi 90 a) Rajya Sabha: above thirty years b) Lok Sabha: above twenty-five years 91 Bishnoi 92 India Gate. 93 The La Martiniere schools are situated in these three cities. They were established by Major General Claude Martin. Lyon is in France. 94 The Taj Mahal 95 Uttar Pradesh. It has eighty Lok Sabha seats. Before the formation of Uttaranchal, it had eighty-five. 96 All are missiles made in India 97 Udaipur 98 Trams. They are also called 'streetcars'. 99 Mahatma Gandhi. Most of these roads are called MG Roads. 100 Park Street. Almond Street and Vansittart Avenue were also previous names of this road.

INDIA- QUESTIONS
101. They are called golgappas in Delhi and pucchkas in Kolkata. What are they called in Mumbai? 102. What is the name of the first Indian nuclear submarine? 103. In Assam, what is a tuppa? 104. With which musical instrument would you associate the Lucknow gharana, Ajrada gharana, Benaras gharana and Punjab gharana? 105. With which dance form would you associate the name of Birju Maharaj? 106. What product would a factory in Sivakasi be most likely to manufacture? 107. Three countries were primarily responsible for founding the Non-Aligned Movement. India and Yugoslavia were two. Which country was the third? 108. Who is the only Indian Chief Minister to have served more than four terms in office? 109. 'Vajra' is the Indian name of which combat aircraft? 110. Tellicherry, in northern Kerala, is famous for which form of entertainment? 111. If an Indian army officer has three stars on his car plate, what is his rank? 112. In which state of India would you celebrate the Bihu festival? 113. Put these designations of the Indian Air Force (IAF) in their correct order from the highest to the lowest: Squadron Leader, Group Captain, Wing Commander and Flight Lieutenant. 114. What is common to the following: Great Rayman, Kamala, Oriental and Gemini? 115. Name the mode of transport San Francisco and Kolkata have in common. 116. The STD service has made long-distance telephone communication so much easier. What does STD stand for? 117. Which well-known car, also seen on Indian roads, has its headquarters in Turin, Italy? 118. If you were eating sorpotel, which Indian state would you be in? 119. Over which Indian monument is it forbidden to fly an aircraft? 120. What is unique about the composition of the 88th Battalion of the CRPF, formed in the early nineties?

INDIA ANSWERS
101 Paani puris 102 INS Chakra. 103 A tea basket 104 The tabla. Delhi and Farukhabad are the other well-known gharanas of tabla. 105 Kathak 106 Fireworks. Sivakasi is the 'fireworks capital of India'. 107 Egypt. The Non-Aligned Movement was created in the 1961 Belgrade Summit under the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru, President Tito of Yugoslavia and Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Prime Minister of Egypt. 108 Jyoti Basu (the former Chief Minister of West Bengal) 109 Mirage 2000 110 Circus; many circus troupes originate from there 111 Lieutenant General 112 Assam. The Assamese celebrate three Bihu festivalsBhogali Bihu or the harvest festival in January; Rongaii Bihu in the spring to celebrate the beginning of the sowing season; and the Kongali Bihu to mark the passage of a lean period sometime in November. 113 Group Captain, Wing Commander, Squadron Leader and Flight Lieutenant 114 They are all names of Indian circus troupes. 115 Tramcars 116 Subscriber Trunk Dialling 117 Fiat. It was formerly known as 'Fabbrica Itailana Automobili Torino'. Its founder was Giovanni Agnelli. 118 Goa 119 Taj Mahal 120 It is the only all-women battalion; also called the Mahila Battalion.

INDIA- QUESTIONS
121.In 1917, instead of the wheel at the centre of the Indian flag, there were two words. What were the words? 122.How are the motor vehicles Suzuki Alto and Suzuki Swift more commonly known in India? 123.There are two main entrances to Fatehpur Sikri, one is the Shahi Darwaza. Name the other. 124.Bengali, Kokborak and Manipuri are the three primary languages in which Indian state? 125. Which three cities in India are considered as the 'Golden Triangle' by tourists? 126. Which great south Indian city was founded more than 2500 years ago on the banks of the river Vaigai? 127. Kovalam beach is in which Indian state? 128. With which environmental movement would you associate Medha Patkar? 129. On the Indian flag, which colour symbolizes faith and chivalry? 130. Which incident was Nehru referring to when he said 'The light has gone out of our lives'? 131. Name the material generally used for making the national flag of India. 132. By what name are the National Security Guards better known? 133. Which national park is a 100 kilometre drive from Jorhat in Assam? 134. In India, at what age does a Field Marshal retire? 135. Indira Gandhi was the first woman Prime Minister of India. Who was the first woman to sit on the throne of Delhi? 136. Which invader of India was known as the 'Sword of Islam'? 137.From which dynasty did Babur obtain the Koh-i-noor diamond? 138.Which Mumbai-born politician's birth anniversary is celebrated as Sadbhavna Diwas and his death anniversary known as Anti-Terrorism Day? 139.Bhangra is the folk dance of Punjab. With which Indian state would you associate the folk dance Wangala? 140.The Mughal emperor in 1803 was blind. Name him.

INDIA ANSWERS
121 Rakesh Sharma. He was the first Indian to go to outer space in the Russian spaceship Soyuz T-11 on April 5, 1984. His companions on the Soyuz T-11 Mission were Col Yuri Malyshev and Col Gennady Strekalov. All of them were awarded the Ashok Chakra. 122 Virender Sehwag 123 Aslam Sher Khan. He was a member of the Indian team which won the hockey World Cup in 1975. He also represented India at the 1972 Munich Olympics. 124 Kalidasa 125 JRD Tata 126 Beating Retreat. 127 Sanghamitra, Emperor Ashoka's daughter, was sent to Ceylon as a missionary around 251 BC 128 Also Shah Jahan 129 Dr W Giri (from Ireland in 1916 for his association with Sinn Fein) 130 Chappals (slippers) 131 The flute 132 Mysore 133 A slum in Mumbai 134 The Indian Museum 135 Satyameva Jayate (Truth Alone Triumphs) 136 Forward Bloc 137 Pepper. Black pepper is one the most used spices in the world. 138 Ayodhya 139 Mother Teresa 140 Buddha. His teaching started at Sarnath. Little Buddha is the name of a film by Bernardo Bertoluccl.

INDIA- QUESTIONS
141.In 1917, instead of the wheel at the centre of the Indian flag, there were two words. What were the words? 142.How are the motor vehicles Suzuki Alto and Suzuki Swift more commonly known in India? 143.There are two main entrances to Fatehpur Sikri, one is the Shahi Darwaza. Name the other. 144.Bengali, Kokborak and Manipuri are the three primary languages in which Indian state? 145. Which three cities in India are considered as the 'Golden Triangle' by tourists? 146. Which great south Indian city was founded more than 2500 years ago on the banks of the river Vaigai? 147. Kovalam beach is in which Indian state? 148. With which environmental movement would you associate Medha Patkar? 149. On the Indian flag, which colour symbolizes faith and chivalry? 150. Which incident was Nehru referring to when he said 'The light has gone out of our lives'? 151. Name the material generally used for making the national flag of India. 152. By what name are the National Security Guards better known? 153. Which national park is a 100 kilometre drive from Jorhat in Assam? 154. In India, at what age does a Field Marshal retire? 155. Indira Gandhi was the first woman Prime Minister of India. Who was the first woman to sit on the throne of Delhi? 156. Which invader of India was known as the 'Sword of Islam'? 157.From which dynasty did Babur obtain the Koh-i-noor diamond? 158.Which Mumbai-born politician's birth anniversary is celebrated as Sadbhavna Diwas and his death anniversary known as Anti-Terrorism Day? 159.Bhangra is the folk dance of Punjab. With which Indian state would you associate the folk dance Wangala? 160.The Mughal emperor in 1803 was blind. Name him.

INDIA ANSWERS
141 Vande Mataram 142 Maruti Zen and Maruti 1000 respectively 143 The Buland Darwaza. Fatehpur Sikri was founded by Emperor Akbar and it was his capital. 144 Tripura 145 Delhi, Agra and Jaipur 146 Madurai. It was previously known as Madura. 147 Kerala 148 Narmada Bachao Andolan 149 Green 150 The assassination of Mahatma Gandhi by Nathuram Godse on 30 January 1948. It is observed as Martyr's Day in India. 151 Handwoven khadi 152 The Black Cats 153 Kaziranga National Park 154 He does not retire 155 Razia Sultana 156 Mahmud of Ghazni 157 The Lodhis 158 Rajiv Gandhi. He was born on 20 August 1944 and died on 21 May 1991. 159 Meghalaya 160 Shah Alam II

INDIA- QUESTIONS
161.The largest mangrove forest in the world lies in eastern India. What is it called? 162.The Asi and Varuna rivers give their name to which Indian city? 163.Who is the author of the earliest known grammar in Sanskrit 'Ashtadhyayi'? 164.For the sale of which animal is the largest fair in the world held in Pushkar, Rajasthan? 165.Which late Indian Prime Minister's birthday is celebrated on 23 December as Kisan Divas? 166.During World War II, which was the only part of India to be occupied by Japanese troops? 167.Which fruit comes in the following varieties: Ratna, Neelam, Sindhu, Fernandin and Enugu Datta? 168.What is common to uni, broad, metre and narrow? 169. The Nathu la Pass connects Tibet to which Indian state? 170. What does the Sansakar Kendra (museum) in Ahmedabad house? 171. Which Mughal emperor issued gold and silver coins bearing the signs of the zodiac? 172. With which Indian state do you associate the art form pipli? 173. What relation is RK Laxman (the cartoonist) to RK Narayan (the novelist)? 174. Which Indian city (also a capital) got its name from the words meaning abode of the serpent? 175. What connects Tarapur, Narora and Kakrapar? 176. Ludhiana is one of the worlds largest centres for the manufacture of which form of transport? 177. What is aubergine known in India as? 178. This Christian martyr shares his name with, arguably, Indias most famous college. Who was he? 179. Who once said, Call Him Ram, Rahim, Allah, Khuda, Hari, Gobind, but He is one? 180. If Kama's bow was made of sugarcane, what was his bowstring made of?

INDIA ANSWERS
161 The Sundarbans 162 Varanasi (Varuna and Asi) 163 Panini 164 Camel 165 Charan Singh. He was born on 23 December 1902. He was the Indian Deputy Prime Minister in Morarji Desai's government and later became Prime Minister with the help of Indira Gandhi. 166 Andaman and Nicobar Islands were occupied by the Japanese between 1942 and 1945 167 Mangoes 168 Railway track (gauges) sizes 169 Sikkim 170 A kite museum 171 Jahangir 172 Orissa 173 They are brothers. RK Narayan was the elder brother. 174 Thiruvananthapuram. It gets its name from Thiru-AnanthaPuram. 175 Nuclear power stations. Other than these, there are nuclear power stations at Rawatbhatta, Kalpakkam and Kaiga. 176 Cycles 177 Brinjal (Eggplant) 178 St Stephen 179 Kabir 180 A row of bees

INDIA- QUESTIONS
181. During the Raj, what was a 'Made in England' fire? 182. What is the popular superstition associated with something you should do at the Iron Pillar of Delhi? 183. With reference to present-day Kolkata, what connects Rabindranath, Vidyasagar and Vivekananda? 184. The inhabitants of a village in Karnataka called Mallur are the only ones in India to speak what language? 185. Who is known as the 'Father Damien of India'? 186. When Tintin came to India, at which Raja's palace did he stay? 187. In which proto-Hindi language did Surdas compose poetry? 188. What is kept in the Srinagar Hazratbal Masjid that it is such a sacred spot for the Muslims? 189. Where in south India is the most famous one-man collection of art and artifacts found? 190. Complete the Golden Triangle of Orissa: Puri, Bhubaneshwar and ? 191. The musician Mallikarjun Mansur was often called the Fakir of what? 192. Colva, Majorda, Siolom and Tirim are villages in which Indian state? 193. What is Pamulapati Venkata's claim to fame in India? 194. Who was the first Indian to win the Miss Universe title? 195. I was the first Indian musician/singer to be presented the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1974 and the first musician to receive the Padma Bhushan in 1975. Who am I? 196. According to Kautilya's Saptanga Rashtra Theory (seven-limbed body politick) in Arthashastra, what is the first constituent element of the Saptanga Rashtra? 197. Which Buddhist centre of learning was founded the Pala ruler Gopala? 198. Morarji Desal has presented something the maximum number of times in Parliament. What? 199. Muslims celebrate Id-ul-Fitr at the end of Ramadan. What does Id-ul-Fitr mean? 200. Which is the only Buddhist holiday recognized by the government of India?

INDIA ANSWERS
181 A public bonfire of British-made clothes by the Swadeshis 182 Stand with your back to the pillar and try to encircle it with your hands. Succeed and your wish will be granted. 183 They are all names of bridges. 184 Sanskrit 185 Baba Amte (Murlidhar Devdas Amte) 186 The Raja of Gaipajama 187 Braj Bhasha 188 A hair of the Prophet Mohammed 189 Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad 190 Konarak 191 Khayal 192 Goa 193 The former Prime Minister, PV Narasimha Rao 194 Sushmita Sen. She won the Miss Universe title on 21 May 1994 at Manila, Philippines. 195 MS Subbulakshmi 196 Swami (Ruler) 197 Odantapuri 198 The Union Budget 199 The fast is over 200 Buddha Jayanti (Purnima). It is the birth anniversary of Buddha.

INDIA- QUESTIONS
201. Khayal is the folk theatre of which Indian state? 202. In the Mahabharata, what was truly unique about the way Jarasandha was born and the way he died? 203. In Indian mythology, who were the female equivalent of the Gandharvas? 204. Who introduced the rupee in India? 205. What did Rudyard Kipling describe as 'a thread running across the map of India'? 206. Which famous song's lyrics were composed by Mohammed Iqbal and music by Ravi Shankar? 207. What is the most famous landmark in Mehrauli? 208. The two beautiful islands Talikud and Malud are situated in which lake famous for black tiger prawns? 209. How do we know these rivers better: Vitasta, Asuhi, Purushin, Vipasa and Satadni? 210. Which famous Indian was made honorary Air Vice- Marshal of the Indian Air Force? 211. In which country is the Keoladeo Ghana Bird Sanctuary located? 212. Which one of Jesus's disciples was referred to in India as the 'sadhu from the West'? 213. Who gave Sita an ointment that would keep her beautiful forever? 214. In India what does PNR on a railway ticket stand for? 215. What is the name of Pandit Ravi Shankar's autobiography written in 1997? 216. To the followers of the Sikh Gurus, what would Akhand Path mean? 217. What is vibhuti: sacred water or sacred ash? 218. Which Indian city had the first 'Science City'? 219. Are car batteries in India usually wet or dry cells? 220. The tandava was a dance performed by which Hindu god?

INDIA ANSWERS
201 Rajasthan 202 His body was symmetrically divided into two parts. He was killed by Bhima on the instruction of Krishna. 203 Apsaras 204 Sher Shah Suri 205 The Grand Trunk Road 206 Sare jahan se accha 207 Qutb Minar 208 Chilka Lake 209 Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas and Sutlej 210 JRD Tata 211 India (Bharatpur, Rajasthan) 212 St Thomas 213 Anusuya, wife of the sage Atri 214 Passenger Name Record 215 Raga Mala 216 The non-stop reading of the Guru Granth Sahib. It takes place on an important domestic occasion or on a gurpurab, the anniversary of the birth or death of one of the ten Gurus. 217 Sacred ash 218 Kolkata. It was set up in 1997. 219 Wet cells. 220 Shiva

INDIA- QUESTIONS
221. In India, which word describes mass suicide of women by fire? 222. In Hindu mythology, how are Krishna and Balarama related? 223. Which deity's vehicle is called Garuda? 224. Which Hindu god is also called Neelkanth? 225. In Hindu mythology, who was Kaliya? 226. In India, what are basmati and Patna types of? 227. What language do most people around the Konarak Temple speak? 228. During which dynasty's reign did Fa Hien visit India? 229. Manjit Bawa is a famous cook or painter? 230. Which Indian cricket all-rounder's first name sounds like a bird? 231. In whose reign did Hiuen-Tsang visit India? 232. Anna Salai or Mount Road is the most important road in which city? 233. Who is the Lingaraja Temple dedicated to? 234. What language do most people around the Meenakshi Temple speak? 235. What is turmeric called in Hindi? 236. What is the Indian name for the herb mint? 237. Who was born on Janamashtami? 238. Was Jatayu a vulture or an eagle? 239. What geometric shape are most Indian samosas? 240. Which river flows through Kolkata?

INDIA ANSWERS
221 Jauhar 222 They are brothers 223 Vishnu 224 Shiva 225 A serpent. Kaliya is supposed to have a thousand heads. 226 Rice 227 Oriya 228 Guptas 229 Painter 230 Robin (Robin Singh) 231 Harsha. 232 Chennai (formerly Madras) 233 Shiva 234 Tamil 235 Haldi 236 Pudina 237 Krishna 238 Eagle. 239 Triangular/pyramidal 240 The Hooghly. It is formed at the junction of the Bhagirathi and Jalangi rivers in Nabadwip.

INDIA- QUESTIONS
241. According to the Indian Penal Code, what is the difference between a robbery and a dacoity? 242. What were the last three words spoken by Uma Bharati after she took her oath in Parliament? 243. In the Lok Sabha, who do members address their speeches to? 244. What is the name of the highest peak entirely in India? 245. The 1998 nuclear tests were conducted by India at Pokhran. Which was the site for the 1974 set of tests? 246. Which two Indian state capitals start and end with the same letter? 247. Which south Indian politician's name when translated means compassion and money? 248. If the Republic Day parade starts from Rashtrapati Bhawan, where does it end? 249. Which famous person, a teacher by profession, passed away on Teacher's Day? 250. When viewed from the base, why do the Arabic verses appear to be of the same size on the main gateway of the Taj Mahal? 251. What is the difference between a chowk and a chowkidar? 252. What is the difference between a haveli and a havildar? 253. What is the difference between a hookah and a howdah? 254. What is the difference between a jheel and a jhopri? 255. What is the difference between a kachairri and a kachauri? 256. What is the difference between a shikar and a shikara? 257. Complete this slogan: 'Jab tak rahega samose mein aloo ...' 258. What is the difference between gopis and gopurams? 259. What was the alternative name thought for Jharkhand before it came into being? 260. Which queen's daughter was married to Prince Shahryar, Jahangir's youngest son?

INDIA ANSWERS
241 A dacoity involves a gang of five or more members otherwise, there is no difference 242 Jai Shree Ram 243 The Speaker 244 Nanga Parbat (8126 m). Though Kanchenjunga is 8586 metres, it lies on Nepal's border with India. 245 Also in Pokhran; Rajasthan 246 Raipur and Agartala 247 Karunanidhi of Tamil Nadu (Karuna is compassion and nidhi is money) 248 Red Fort, Old Delhi 249 Mother Teresa; she died on 5 September 1997 250 Due to an optical illusion. The large letters are at the top of the gate, while the smaller ones are at the base. 251 Chowk means a town square or market and chowkidar means a watchman 252 Haveli is a traditional mansion in Gujarat or Rajasthan, havildar is a soldier or police officer corresponding to sergeant 253 Hookah is a pipe and howdah, the seat on an elephant 254 Jheel means a swampy area and a jhopri is a hut. 255 Kachairri is an office for public business and kachauri is a puri 256 A shikar is a hunting expedition, while a shikara is a gondola boat 257 tab tak rahega Bihar mein Laloo'

258 In rural India, gopis are milkmaids and gopurams are temple gateways 259 Vananchal. The capital of Jharkhand is Ranchi. 260 Nur Jahan

INDIA- QUESTIONS
261. Amla is used in hair oil, fruit juice and pickle. What is amla? 262. How many times does the number hundred appear on the one hundred rupee note featuring Mahatma Gandhi? 263. Which is India's first planned industrial city? 264. What is the Indian equivalent of aniseed? 265. According to Hindu mythology, all plants were created from which part of Brahma? 266. Warren Hastings asked British civil servants to study Persian and which other language before coming to India? 267. The rest of South-east Asia calls it a 'trishaw'. What is it called in India? 268. Which Indian ruler passed a law forbidding the felling of fruit trees to build ships as it adversely affected the peasantry? 269. According to Hindu mythology, who sang and danced under the Kadamba tree? 270. The name of which script used in north-western India literally means 'from the mouth of the Guru'? 271. What slogan did Atal Behari Vajpayee coin after the pokhran blasts in 1998? 272. Which festival falls on the first day of the Tamil month Thai? 273. The Shringa is the Sanskrit name for which instrument? 274. According to Hindu mythology, who was the divine weaver who wove the rays of the sun into a garment for himself? 275. With which Pandava does the 'Father of the Indian Constitution' share his name? 276. In which Indian state is the Vithala Temple with musical pillars, a monolithic chariot and the stone platform called the Mahanavami Dibba? 277. Which book did Mahatma Gandhi consider 'his mother' and tried to model his life on it? 278. What do these disconnected hill ranges collectively formVelikonda, Nallamala, Seeshachalam, Palkonda, Melagiri and Nilgiri Hills? 279. Which king wrote Amuktamalyada? 280. Which fort gets its name from the words 'shepherd' and 'hill'?

INDIA ANSWERS
261 Gooseberry 262 Six times 263 Jamshedpur. It was founded by Dorabji Jamshetji Tata in 1907. 264 Saunf 265 His hair 266 Urdu. Warren Hastings was the first British GovernorGeneral of India. 267 Cycle rickshaw 268 Shivaji 269 Lord Krishna and Radha 270 Gurmukhi 271 'Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan, Jai Vigyan'. The slogan 'Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan' was coined by Lal Bahadur Shastri. 272 Pongal 273 Horn trumpet 274 Vishnu 275 Bhima. The first two names of BR Ambedkar, the 'father of the Indian Constitution' is Bhim Rao. 276 Karnataka 277 The Gita 278 The Eastern Ghats 279 Krishnadeva Raya 280 Golconda'Golla' is shepherd and 'Konda' is hill

INDIA- QUESTIONS
281. Name the only Miss World from India whose name begins and ends with the same letter. 282. In India, 'Duty Unto Death' is the motto of which branch of the centrally controlled police forces? 283. Which Indian world champion now lives in Spain and is nicknamed 'Vishy the tiger'? 284. In classical Indian dance, which term is used to describe the formations made with the hands? 285. What is the capital of Jharkhand? 286. Name the longest palindrome in the Roman script. 287. Malabar cuisine is associated with which state? 288. Which is the first Asian navy to have an aircraft carrier? 289. Which Indian Prime Minister was born near Varanasi but died in the capital of Uzbekistan? 290. What is the full form of VSNL? 291. Which city in north-eastern India was once known as Pragyotishpura (the eastern city of light)? 292. The Ramoji Rao Film City is located near which city? 293. Which is the fourth constituent of the armed forces in India? 294. How are the outer Himalayas better known? 295. In the word Bharatanatyam, what does the word 'natyam' mean? 296. Etawah is famous for which animal fair? 297. Which Chola king was the first Indian ruler to take his army overseas? 298. The bank of which river was the site of the second urbanization in India? 299. Shilbhadra was the head of which university of ancient India? 300. Which collection of stories with morals, about animals, was written during the Gupta period?

INDIA ANSWERS
281 Yukta Mookhey 282 Border Security Force 283 Viswanathan Anand 284 Mudra 285 Ranchi 286 Malayalam 287 Kerala 288 The Indian Navy 289 Lal Bahadur Shastri 290 Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited 291 Guwahati 292 Hyderabad 293 The Coast Guard 294 Siwalik Range 295 The art of dancing 296 Cattle 297 Rajendra Chola I 298 Ganga 299 Nalanda University 300 Panchatantra

INDIA- QUESTIONS
301. Which Buddhist scholar is famous for his Visuddhi-Magga (Way to Purity), a summary of current Buddhist doctrines? 302. Which sect of ancient India was intially known as Nirgrantha? 303. During the rule of the Haryanka dynasty, which city was the capital of Magadha? 304. Which work of Varahamihira discussed the five schools of astronomy, of which two reflected a close knowledge of Hellenistic astronomy? 305. To the Greeks, which Mauryan king was known as Amitrochatesperhaps a Greek transcription of the Sanskrit 'amitraghata', destroyer of foes? 306. Which historical chronicle of early India was written in 1148 in Sanskrit verse by the Kashmiri Brahmin, Kalhana? 307. In the tenth century, which dynasty was established by Taila after he had overthrown the Rashtrakutas? 308. Chand Bardai was the court poet of which king from 1165 to 1192? 309. Which university in ancient India was established by King Dharampal of Bengal in response to a supposed decline in the quality of scholarship at Nalanda? 310. Which school of ancient Indian philosophy drew on what were enumerated as the twenty-five principles which gave rise to creation? 311. In the Mauryan period, which form of tax was paid in labour? 312. Fo Kuo Chi is a famous record of which pilgrim's journeys? 313. The present form of which text is the work of Vishnugupta, from around the third century AD? 314. Which Buddhist text records a dialogue between Menander and a monk, Nagasena, who introduced him to the Buddhist doctrine? 315. Which port in south India was named Kulottunga-cholapattinam, after a Chola king? 316. The great stupa at Peshawar is rated as the greatest contribution of which king to Buddhist monumental architecture? 317. Which early Indian medical text primarily focusses on surgery? 318. In the Vedic texts, which metal is referred to as shyama? 319. Which dynasty of north India ruled Magadha from 684 bc to 424 bc? 320. The exploits of which Chalukya king are referred to in the Aihole inscription?

INDIA ANSWERS
301. Buddhaghosha 302. Jaina sect 303. Rajagriha 304. Panchasiddhantika 305. Bindusara 306. Rajatarangini 307. Chalukya dynasty of Kalyani

308. Prithviraj Chauhan 309. Vikramashila 310. Sankhya 311. Vishti 312. Fa-hsien 313. Arthashastra 314. Milindapanho 315. Vishakhapattinam 316. Kanishka 317. Susruta Samhita 318. Iron 319. Shishunaga dynasty 320. Pulakeshin II

INDIA- QUESTIONS
321. Which ancient city mentioned in the Mahabharata is thought to have been located where Delhi now stands? 322. In the seventh century, which Chinese traveller visited India during the reign of Harshavardhana? 323. Which famous work in Sanskrit grammar, attributed to Patanjati, is a commentary on the celebrated Ashtadhyayi of Panini? 324. Which ancient north Indian city was called Kanogiza by Ptolemy? 325. Who was sent as an ambassador by Seleucus I of Syria to the court of Sandrocottus of India? 326. In ancient India, to which of the 'chaturashramas' were the Sudras entitled? 327. Which ancient centre of learning was situated about twenty miles west of Rawalpindi? 328. Which Gupta king was the son of the Lichhavi princess, Kumaradevi? 329. Which king wrote the three plays, Ratnavali, Priyadarshika and Nagananda? 330. Hydapses is the ancient Greek name of which modern-day river? 331. Between the first century bc and the seventh century ad, which style of Buddhist visual art was developed in what is now north-western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan? 332. Which among the five rivers of Punjab was known as Parushni in the Vedic period? 333. In the Bhabru edict which king declared his faith in the 'three jewels' of Buddhism? 334. Which event in the Mahabharata acted as a time-maker and caused the end of Dwaparayuga and commencement of Kaliyuga? 335. Which play of Vishakhadatta is based on the Mauryan overthrow of the Nanda king? 336. Which Tamil epic poem was written by llango Atikal, a Jain monk? 337. Which precious stone sourced from Afghanisthan was used to obtain the blue colour in the Ajanta cave paintings? 338. Which group of people referred to the Indus Valley as Meluha? 339. Which quasi-philosophical Indian school of materialists, who rejected the notion of an afterworld, the authority of the sacred scriptures, the Vedas, and the immortality of the self, flourished around sixth century bc? 340. Which leading mathematician of the twelfth century used in his works, particularly Lilavati and 'Bijaganita', the decimal system?

INDIA ANSWERS
321. 322. 323. 324. 325. 326. 327. 328. 329. 330. 331. 332. 333. 334. 335. 336. 337. 338. 339. 340. Indraprastha Hiuen Tsang The Mahabhashya Kanauj Megasthenes Garhastha Taksashila Samudragupta Harshavardhana Jhelum Gandhara art Ravi Ashoka The war of Kurukshetra Mudrarakshasa Silappathikaram Lapis lazuli Mesopotamians Charvaka or Lokayata Bhaskaracharya

INDIA- QUESTIONS
341. How many Mahajanapadas existed in the age of Buddha? 342. Who is the author of Neetisataka? 343. From his campaign in Khvarazm, Mahmud brought back with him which scholar of central Asia, who was ordered to spend ten years in India? 344. Which of the four Vedas contain 1,028 hymns? 345. According to the Jaina Kalpasutra, which Tirthankara was the son of Ashvasena, the ruler of Varanasi? 346. Which Pallava ruler assumed the title Vatapikonda, the conqueror of Vatapi, after occupying the Chalukyan capital? 347. Which famous temple is located on Neelachala Parvat or Kamagiri, near Guwahati? 348. Which massive arch was built by Mohammed Quli Qutb Shah in 1591 to commemorate the end of plague in the city? 349. Which city is famous for the Venkateswara temple at an elevation of 860 m? 350. Which building in Delhi was the erstwhile residence of the British viceroy in preindependent India? 351. The name of which state means the 'land of coconuts' in the local language? 352. The points represented by the cities of Delhi, Agra and Jaipur, which form a favourite route for visitors to India, are together popularly known as what? 353. The first Muslim ruler of Delhi commenced construction of which monument in 1193? 354. The Jantar Mantar of which city is the first of the five observatories that Sawai Jai Singh II built with large masonry instruments? 355. Which bridge, also called Rama's Bridge, is a chain of shoals between the islands of Mannar, near north-western Sri Lanka and Rameswaram? 356. Which was the first garden tomb in the Indian subcontinent? 357. Which temple in eastern India did European sailors call the Black Pagoda because of the black tint it had acquired over years of exposure to the sun? 358. Which man-made lake separates the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad? 359. Which monument in Delhi was built in memory of the thousands of Indians who died in World War I? 360. From the top of which beehive-shaped structure can you get a view of Patna?

INDIA ANSWERS
341. Sixteen 342. Bhartrihari 343. Al Baruni 344. Rig Veda 345. Parshvanatha 346. Narasimhavarman I 347. Kamakhya Temple 348. Charminar

349. Tirupati 350. Rashtrapati Bhavan 351. Kerala 352. The Golden Triangle 353. Qutb Minar 354. Delhi 355. Adam's Bridge 356. Humayun's Tomb 357. Sun Temple, Konark 358. Hussain Sagar Lake 359. India Gate 360. Gol Ghar

INDIA- QUESTIONS
361. Which spectacular horseshoe-shaped waterfall is formed when the river Indravati abruptly collapses into a 100-ft-deep cavern in Chhattisgarh? 362. Which division of the ministry of external affairs is responsible for the issuance of Indian passports to citizens of India? 363. Which beach in Goa gets its name from a woman who supposedly threw herself off a cliff when refused permission to marry a local fisherman, Gaspar Dias? 364. Where in Gujarat did Mahatma Gandhi establish Sabarmati ashram? 365. Which huge gate, flanked by minarets, marks the entry to Akbar's tomb? 366. Because of its gold-foil-covered copper dome, by what name do we better know Harimandir? 367. Which fort did Shah Jahan construct when he shifted his capital from Agra to Delhi? 368. Which once-infamous jail celebrated its centenary on 10 March 2006? 369. Which place near Kullu is famous for its hot springs? 370. Inside which monument in Lucknow is the famous maze, Bhulbhulaiya, located? 371. After which freedom fighter is the international airport in Guwahati named? 372. Which is the second-longest city beach in the world? 373. Which basilica in Chennai is built over the tomb of the apostle St. Thomas? 374. Which museum in southern India is the largest one-man collection of objects d'art in the world? 375. Which temple complex in Tamil Nadu has twelve towers, a thousand-pillared mandapam and a potramaraikulam (the golden lotus tank)? 376. On the banks of which river is the holy city of Kancheepuram located? 377. In which place atop an 83-m high, sand-coloured, rocky outcrop did the Pallavas first hew the rock-cut temple? 378. Almost synonymous with Vijayawada, which shrine sits on top of Indrakila hill by the river Krishna? 379. A major attraction of which famous lake in Udaipur is the two palaces, Jagniwas and Jagmandir on the islands in the lake? 380. Who built the imposing 37-m-tall, nine-storey sandstone tower in Chittorgarh to celebrate his victory over Mahmud Khilji of Malwa in ad 1440?

INDIA ANSWERS
361. Chitrakote waterfall 362. Consular Passport and Visa Division (CPV Division) 363. Dona Paula beach 364. Ahmedabad 365. Buland Darwaza 366. Golden Temple 367. Red Fort 368. Cellular Jail 369. Manikaran 370. Bara Imambara 371. Gopinath Bordoloi (Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport) 372. Marina Beach 373. Santhome Cathedral 374. Salar Jung Museum 375. Meenakshi Temple 376. Vegavati 377. Tiruchirapalli 378. Kanak Durga Temple 379. Lake Pichola 380. Rana Kumbha

INDIA- QUESTIONS
381. Which is the only artificial lake in India that is 1,200 m above sea level? 382. After the success of the Palace on Wheels, which luxury train has the Rajasthan government started on metre gauge to the city of Bikaner and the site of Shekhawati? 383. The Junagadh Gate marks the entry to which famous temple town of western India? 384. From which station does the luxury train, Deccan Odyssey, start and end its journey? 385. Which temple complex in Bhubaneswar has some 108 temples dedicated to various deities, with the main deity being Tribhuvaneswar? 386. Which place, along with Bhubaneswar and Konark, forms the Golden Triangle of Orissa? 387. In which state is the nation's longest network of underground caves located? 388. In which popular hill station in Madhya Pradesh did the Pandavas once supposedly stay during their exile? 389. Which city in central India was a gift from Peshwa Baji Rao to his subedar, Malhar Rao Holkar, in 1732? 390. In which city by the banks of the river Shipra in Madhya Pradesh did Raja Bhoj set up his capital? 391. As of 2005, from which country did the maximum number of tourists arrive in India? 392. Which palace is the oldest property in Rajasthan being run as a heritage resort? 393. Where can you see the largest and the only full-fledged Harappan town in India? 394. Which mosque in Delhi, is also known as Masjid-i-Jahanuma? 395. The Golconda Fort was built by which dynasty in the thirteenth century? 396. In the sixteenth century, which city remained the capital of the Mughals for only a short period as it had to be abandoned due to a shortage of water? 397. Which sixteenth-century monument, constructed by the Roman Catholics under Portuguese rule, is the largest church in Asia? 398. Which author served as the private secretary to the maharajah of Dewas in 1921? 399. Who was the director of the 1965 film Bhowani Junction which revolves around the life of Victoria Jones who seeks her true identity in India? 400. Which novel by Yann Martel is about Piscine Molitor Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry?

INDIA ANSWERS
381. Mount Abu 382. Heritage on Wheels 383. Somnath 384. Chhatrapati Shivaji terminus (in Mumbai) 385. Lingaraj Temple 386. Puri 387. Meghalaya 388. Pachmarhi 389. Indore 390. Ujjain 391. France 392. Neemrana Fort Palace in Neemrana (built in 1464) 393. Lothal 394. Jama Masjid 395. Kakatiya dynasty 396. Fatehpur Sikri 397. S Cathedral 398. E.M. Forster 399. George Cukor 400. Life of Pi

INDIA- QUESTIONS
401. Which famous international singer named his son after two notes of the Indian musical scale, 'dha' and 'ni'? 402. Who became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and was conferred the Padma Shri in 1992, a rare achievement for a non-Indian? 403. Which famous author founded City of Joy Aid, a non-profit organization in Kolkata? 404. In 1923, which Russian ballerina partnered Uday Shankar in Krishna and Radha, a performance choreographed by Uday Shankar? 405. Which Hollywood director is the president of the Gandhi Foundation? 406. Which English author was born in Motihari in the eastern state of Bihar in 1903? 407. Which Buddhist monk and Chinese pilgrim was known as Mokshadeva in India? 408. Who wrote the preface to the English translation of Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali? 409. Who is the only non-Indian President of a country to receive the Bharat Ratna? 410. In which state was the Roger Moore and Kabir Bedi-starrer film Octopussy shot? 411. Apart from the king of Puri, who is the only person allowed to touch the idols of Jagannatha, Balabhadra and Subhadra in Puri? 412. Which Kanpur-born cricketer was one of the 1976 Wisden Cricketers of the Year? 413. Which famous Hollywood actress was born in Darjeeling on 5 November 1913? 414. Which Nobel Peace Prize winner studied at Lady Shri Ram College in New Delhi from 1960 to 1964? 415. Who was appointed Headmaster of the C.H. College School in 1907 and was later principal of the college? 416. Which cricketer funded the establishment of the girls' wing, Nivedita Bhavan, at 'Udayan' near Kolkata? 417. In which city was the former English cricketer Nasser Hussain born? 418. In 2003, Prince Charles sounded the clapperboard for which Aamir Khan-starrer film? 419. Who was international president of the Theosophical Society from 1907 until her death in 1933? 420. Which Jamshedpur-born animal collector, conservationist and author wrote the bestselling novel, The Bafut Beagles?

INDIA ANSWERS
401. George Harrison 402. Mark Tully 403. Dominique Lapierre 404. Anna Pavlova 405. Richard Attenborough 406. George Orwell 407. Hiuen Tsang 408. W.B. Yeats 409. Nelson Mandela 410. Rajasthan 411. The king of Nepal 412. Bob Woolmer 413. Vivien Leigh 414. Aung San Suu Kyi 415. Dr George Arundale 416. Steve Waugh 417. Chennai 418. The Rising 419. Annie Besant 420. Gerald Durrell

INDIA- QUESTIONS
421. Which famous Indian actress was married to the painter, Svetoslav Roerich? 422. Who gave the name Nivedita to Margaret Elizabeth Noble? 423. Which singer was born Harry Rodger Webb in Lucknow? 424. 'Do take care of yourself, literature demands it', Graham Greene wrote in his understated, yet touching, last letter to which Indian author? 425. Which American President's daughter, Margaret, spent the last six years of her life at the Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry? 426. Who was born Mirra Alfassa, of a Jewish Turkish father and a Jewish Egyptian mother in Paris in 1878? 427. In 1952, who established Nirmal Hriday, a hospice where the terminally ill could die with dignity? 428. Which is Jim Corbett's only book that is set outside India? 429. For which musician did Ravi Shankar compose the solo musical piece Prabhati? 430. According to German Orientalist and language scholar Max Mueller, which is the greatest language of the world? 431. Whose translation of the Bhagavad Gita was the first Sanskrit book to be directly translated into a European language? 432. Which India-born author wrote The Paris Sketch Book under the pseudonym Michael Angelo Titmarsh? 433. Which director helped Jean Renoir during the shooting of the 1951 film The River? 434. Who produced the musical Bombay Dreams with A.R. Rahman in 2002? 435. Born in Udaipur, which English ODI player played for Rajasthan in the 2006-07 Ranji Trophy? 436. Who was the first President of the USA to visit India? 437. Which story by Jorge Luis Borges is about Alexander Craigie, a professor in Lahore, who wants to know about the tiger near the Ganga delta? 438. Which leader, a follower of Mahatma Gandhi, was called the Frontier Gandhi? 439. On 15 January 1784, who founded the Asiatic Society of Bengal? 440. For his work on which disease did the Almora-born bacteriologist, Ronald Ross, win the Nobel Prize in 1902?

INDIA ANSWERS
421. Devika Rani 422. Swami Vivekananda 423. Cliff Richard 424. R.K. Narayan 425. Woodrow Wilson 426. The Mother of Auroville 427. Mother Teresa 428. Tree Tops 429. Yehudi Menuhin 430. Sanskrit 431. Charles Wilkins 432. William Makepeace Thackeray 433. Satyajit Ray 434. Andrew Lloyd Webber 435. Vikram Solanki 436. Dwight Eisenhower 437. 'Blue Tiger'

438. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan 439. William Jones 440. Malaria

INDIA- QUESTIONS
441. Which Mumbai-born cricketer led England in the first-ever Test match in India? 442. Who along with Roger White composed the music for The Bandit Queen? 443. Which British administrator co-wrote the work on ornithology named The Game Birds of India, Burmah and Ceylon? 444. In 1975, which author, won the Booker Prize for her novel Heat and Dust? 445. 'The Last Charge of the Calcutta Light Horse' is the tagline of which Gregory Peck and Trevor Howard-starrer film? 446. Which famous author introduced Mira Behn to Mahatma Gandhi? 447. Who is the youngest Nobel Prize winner for Literature? 448. In 1661, which archipelago along India's west coast did King Charles II of Britain receive as part of the dowry for his marriage with a Portuguese princess? 449. During his youth, which famous poet and historian became a dedicated follower of the saint of Delhi, Muhammad Nizam-ud-Din Awliya, of the Chishti dervish order? 450. When Chittaur fell, to which city did Maharana Udai Singh II shift his capital? 451. Who did Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah I succeed in 1707? 452. In 1516, which Hindu mystic and poet was married to Bhoj Raj, the crown prince of Mewar? 453. Which Mughal prince translated the Upanishads into Persian? 454. Who was the author of Shahnama, an epic based largely on the pre-lslamic heroes and kings of Persia? 455. Ain-i-Akbari is originally the third volume of which literary work of Abul Fazl, the court historian of Akbar? 456. Who began his diplomatic career in India as ambassador of King James I of England to the court of Jahangir? 457. Which Sikh guru is considered the founder of Amritsar? 458. Which medieval ruler introduced the new silver rupee-coin, rupiya, based on a ratio of 40 copper-coin pieces (paisa) per rupee? 459. Whose collections of poetry, are preserved in the Bharatpur museum in Rajasthan? 460. Originally known as khadki or khidki, which historical town in western India was founded by Malik Ambar in 1610?

INDIA ANSWERS
441. 442. 443. 444. 445. 446. 447. 448. 449. 450. 451. 452. 453. 454. 455. 456. 457. 458. 459. 460. Douglas Jardine Nusrat Fateh AM Khan Allan Octavian Hume Ruth Pravar Jhabvala The Sea Wolves Romain Rolland Rudyard Kipling. Bombay Amir Khasrau Udaipur Aurangzeb Mira Bai Dara Shikoh (1615-59) Firdausi Akbarnamah Thomas Roe Ram Das Sher Shah Raja Birbal Aurangabad

INDIA- QUESTIONS
461. Which Indian empire was founded by several brothers, of whom Harihara and Bukka were the most important? 462. Which dynasty built the Golconda fort in the thirteenth century? 463. In 1713, which title was conferred on Asaf Jah of Hyderabad by the Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah and was held by his descendants until the mid-twentieth century? 464. In the eighteenth century, the people of which confederacy levied taxes called chauth and sardeshmukhi? 465. In 1193, the first Muslim ruler of Delhi started the construction of which monument? 466. The Somnath temple was sacked by which Turkish ruler in ad 1024-25? 467. The first-known Muslim to write a history of India resided at Delhi for seventeen years as a nadim (boon companion) of Sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq. Who was he? 468. From whom did the British get permission to establish their first factory in Bengal at Hugli in ad 1651? 469. Surdas composed poetry in this proto-Hindi language. What is the language called? 470. Which Mughal ruler introduced the mansabdari system in India? 471. Which Mughal emperor's rule was interrupted by the Sur dynasty? 472. Which Sikh guru started the system of 'guru ka langar'? 473. In which language is Jahangir's autobiography, Tuzk-e-Jahangiri, written? 474. In which Mughal emperor's reign did the pietra dura (stone inlay) method of decoration begin? 475. Which Persian invader attacked the Mughal empire in 1739? 476. In 1526, the forces of Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur, defeated the much larger army of which Delhi sultan and laid the foundation of the Mughal empire? 477. Which dynasty of the Delhi sultanate was ruling Delhi at the time of the invasion of Timur? 478. After the conquest of which region did Akbar's new capital come to be known as Fatehpur, the City of Victory? 479. Who was the first sultan of Delhi to keep a permanent army of 475,000 horsemen? 480. During the rule of which Mughal emperor did the French physician Bernier visit India?

INDIA ANSWERS
461. The Vijayanagar empire 462. Kakatiya dynasty 463. Nizam-ul-Mulk 464. Maratha 465. Qutb Minar 466. Mahmud of Ghazni 467. Ziyau-ud-din Barani 468. Prince Shuja (son of Emperor Shah Jahan) 469. Braj Bhasha 470. Akbar 471. Humayun 472. Guru Nanak 473. Persian 474. Jahangir 475. Nadir Shah 476. Ibrahim Lodi 477. Tughlaq dynasty 478. Gujarat 479. Alauddin Khalji 480. Aurangzeb

INDIA- QUESTIONS
481. Which was the first mosque of India to be built by the Delhi sultans? 482. In the thirteenth century, which temple was built under the patronage of King Narasimhadeva of the Ganga dynasty? 483. Which was the only Rajput state that refused to accept Akbar's sovereignty? 484. Which Rajput woman was the pretext for Ala-ud-din Khilji's attack on Chittor? 485. In 1611, in which place in south India did the English open their first factory? 486. In the reign of which Delhi Sultan was jizya made a separate tax? 487. With the coronation of which king in 1674 did a new era known as the Rajybhishek era begin? 488. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ad in the court of which king was Allasani Peddana a famous Telugu poet? 489. Which Delhi sultan nominated on his deathbed his daughter Raziyya as his heiress? 490. Which was the last ruling family of the Delhi sultanate of India? 491. According to legend, which 'navratna' at Akbar's court could bring on torrential monsoon rains by his rendition of the raga Meghamalhar? 492. Who was born Mehrunissa Begum in Kandahar, Afghanistan? 493. In which official post did Shahi Bhonsale appoint Balaji Visvanath Bhat, a Chitpavan Brahmin, in 1714? 494. Which country's maritime empire acquired the name Estado da India? 495. In 1498, who became the first European to sail the sea-route to India via the Cape of Good Hope? 496. Who defeated the last Hindu King of Delhi and captured Delhi in 1192? 497. Which battle of 1565 was fought between the forces of the Hindu raja of Vijayanagar and the Muslim sultans of Bijapur, Bidar, Ahmadnagar and Golconda in the Deccan? 498. Which movement, in 1920, was led in India by the brothers Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali and by Abul Kalam Azad? 499. Which nationalist leader was the first Asian to be a British Liberal member of Parliament? 500. Which play by Din Bandhu Mitra gained great fame for vividly portraying the oppression by the indigo planters?

INDIA ANSWERS
481. Quwat-ul-lslam Masjid 482. The Sun Temple of Konark 483. Mewar 484. Rani Padmini 485. Masulipatnam 486. Firuz Shah Tughluq 487. Shivaji Bhonsle 488. King Krishnadevaraya 489. Iltutmish 490. Lodi dynasty (1451-1526) 491. Tansen 492. Nur Jahan 493. Peshwa 494. Portugal 495. Vasco da Gama 496. Muhammad of Ghur 497. . Battle of Talikota. 498. . Khilafat movement 499. . Dadabhai Naoroji 500. Neel Darpan

INDIA- QUESTIONS
501. Which political organization was founded in Bengal in 1876 by Surendranath Banerjee and Ananda Mohan Bose? 502. In the history of India, which controversial measure, proposed in 1883, sought to allow senior Indian magistrates to preside over cases involving British subjects in India? 503. Which Mughal emperor issued a firman by which the English East India Company enjoyed the right of trading in Bengal without the payment of transit dues or tolls? 504. Who was the founder of the Brahmo Samaj? 505. In the early-nineteenth century, which was the first Sanskrit work chosen for English translation by the Asiatic Society? 506. Which college was set up by Governor General Lord Wellesley in 1800? 507. Which party or movement was founded in the US and Canada in June 1913 with the aim to liberate India from British rule? 508. During which movement was the famous slogan 'Do or Die' adopted by Gandhi? 509. With the passing of which Act did India attain its dominion status? 510. Who was the first Indian woman to hold a cabinet portfolio? 511. On 29 January 1780, which building was completed in Calcutta to serve as the office of the junior civil servants of the East India Company? 512. Who was the prime minister of the United Kingdom when India became independent? 513. Who was the first Governor General of Fort William in Bengal under the terms of the Regulating Act (1773)? 514. In which Congress session were the proceedings conducted for the first time in Hindi? 515. Which pact between Hindu leaders in India, granting new rights to untouchables, resulted from the Communal Award of 4 August 1932? 516. Which Hindu reform movement in India was founded by Swami Dayananda in 1875? 517. What system of government was introduced by the Government of India Act (1919) for the provinces of British India? 518. Who was appointed Governor General of India on 21 June 1948? 519. Which Muslim leader coined the name 'Pakistan'? 520. Which village was the scene of the decisive victory of British forces under Robert Give over those of the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj-ud-Daulah, in 1757?

INDIA ANSWERS
501. 502. 503. 504. 505. 506. 507. 508. 509. 510. 511. 512. 513. 514. 515. 516. 517. 518. 519. 520. Indian Association Ilbert Bill Farukhshiyar Ram Mohan Roy The Ramayana Fort William College Ghadar party Quit India Movement Indian Independence Act 1947 Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Writers' building Clement Atlee Warren Hastings Indian National Congress Session 1918 Poona Pact Arya Samaj Dyarchy C. Rajagopalachari Choudhary Rahmat Ali Plassey or Palashi

INDIA- QUESTIONS
521. In his autobiography, who did Mahatma Gandhi describe as mentor and guide? 522. The brother of which wealthy Calcutta lawyer and Congress party politician founded the Forward Bloc? 523. Which European power was defeated in the Battle of Wandiwash in 1760? 524. Under whose Governor Generalship was English made the official language of India? 525. In 1953, who was elected president of the eighth session of the UN General Assembly? 526. Which Act, passed by the British in 1919, authorized the government to imprison any person living in the Raj without trial on suspicion of being a terrorist? 527. Which Indian President represented the University of Calcutta at the Congress of the Universities of the British Empire in 1926? 528. From which monument was the news of Independence announced by the first prime minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru? 529. Which Indian ruler was a member of the Jacobin Club, the radical nucleus of the French Revolution? 530. Which social reformer and his wife, started the first school for girls in India in 1848? 531. Which Mughal emperor was exiled in Rangoon by the British? 532. In which battle was the Maratha army destroyed by the Afghan chief, Ahmad Shah Durrani? 533. The Government of India Act of 1935 separated which country from India? 534. Who was the first Indian to join the Indian Civil Service? 535. Who signed the Treaty of Amritsar in 1809 with the British? 536. In 1878, which Act was introduced in India, imposing severe limitations on the rights of the press? 537. In February 1928, who, under the pseudonym Vidrohi, wrote several life-sketches of prominent Punjabi revolutionaries in the 'phansi' issue of the Chand? 538. In 1905, what geographical change was made on 16 October by Lord Curzon? 539. Which extremist leader's most important writings include The Story of My Deportation (1908), Arya Samaj (1915) and Unhappy India (1928)? 540. Who founded the Khudai Khitmatgar (Servants of God), called the Red Shirt Movement by the Pashtuns?

INDIA ANSWERS
521. Gopal Krishna Gokhale 522. 523. 524. 525. 526. 527. 528. 529. 530. 531. 532. 533. 534. 535. 536. 537. 538. 539. 540. Sarat Chandra Bose French Lord William Bentinck Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit Rowlatt Act Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Red Fort Tipu Sultan Jyotiba Phule Bahadur Shah II The Third Battle of Panipat Burma Satyendranath Tagore Ranjit Singh Vernacular Press Act Bhagat Singh Bengal was partitioned Lajpat Rai Abdul Ghaffar Khan

INDIA- QUESTIONS
541. In Indian history, which annexation policy was devised by Lord Dalhousie, Governor General of India (1848-56), to deal with questions of succession to Hindu Indian states? 542. Who, as Nana Sahib's general, fought in many battles during the revolt in 1857 and led his troops during the siege of Kanpur? 543. Wajid Ali Shah was the tenth and last nawab of which princely kingdom of northern India? 544. For which case were Ashfaqullah, Rajendra Lahiri and Ram Prasad Bismil convicted and hanged in 1927? 545. Which peasant rebellion at the Malabar district of Kerala coincided with the Khilafat movement? 546. Which trade union federation was formed by the Indian National Congress in 1920 to represent India at the International Labour Organization of the League of Nations? 547. Which commission, with no Indian members, was sent to India in 1927 to investigate India's Constitutional problems and make recommendations to the government on the future Constitution of India? 548. What was the name of the city established by Muhammad bin Tughluq at Delhi? 549. Who succeeded Akbar to the throne of Delhi? 550. Which Mauryan king was identified as Sandrocottos in the 18th century? 551. Who succeeded Chandragupta I of the Gupta Dynasty? 552. Who initiated the building of the Qutb Minar in 1911? 553. Which Mughal emperor commissioned the building of the Jama Masjid at Delhi? 554. Which king laid the foundation of the Chola kingdom? 555. Under which Mughal ruler did the empire have its greatest geographic reach? 556. Who was Shivaji's son and successor? 557. Who founded Calcutta in 1690? 558. Who was the first Muslim ruler to be called sultan by his contemporaries? 559. Which city was founded by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh in the year 1727? 560. In which year did the East India Company cease to exist as a legal entity in India?

INDIA ANSWERS
541. Doctrine of Lapse 542. Tantya Tope 543. Oudh or Awadh 544. Kakori Conspiracy case 545. Moplah Rebellion 546. All-India Trade Union Congress 547. Simon Commission 548. Jahanpanah 549. Jahangir 550. Chandragupta 551. Samudra Gupta 552. Qutb-ud-Din Aybak 553. Shah Jahan 554. Parantak I 555. Aurangzeb 556. Sambhaji 557. Job Charnock 558. Mahmud of Ghazna 559. Jaipur 560. 1873

INDIA- QUESTIONS
561. The Doctrine of Lapse was formulated by which governor-general? 562. Where did the 1907 split between the moderates and extremists faction of the Congress take place? 563. When did the political weapon of satyagraha first make its appearance in India? 564. Who established the Indian National Army? 565. King Bhoja belonged to which dynasty? 566. When was sati abolished? 567. Which Muslim leader, said to be the first to carry the banner of Islam into the heart of India, led 17 expeditions into this country? 568. Which ancient ruined city, the site of the temple of Shiva, was ransacked by Mahmud of Ghazna? 569. What name is given to the series of battles fought between Mu'izz-ud-Din Muhammad of Ghur and Prithviraja III? 570. Which city in south-central Tamil Nadu was the site of the Pandya capital between the 4th - 11th century AD? 571. Which city, earlier known as Bhinar, houses the Ahmad Nizam Shah's fort, in which Jawaharlal Nehru was imprisoned by the British in the 1940s? 572. Which dynasty that lasted for nearly a century in India had the name of Mui'zzi? 573. Which descendant of Genghis Khan founded the Mughal dynasty of India? 574. What term, in the Islamic empire, referred to land granted to army officials for limited periods in lieu of a regular wage? 575. Which ruling family of the Delhi Sultanate paved the way for the Mughal empire? 576. What term referred to a special Islamic fiscal imposition that was demanded from recent converts to Islam in the 7th and 8th centuries? 577. Which Turkic conqueror of Islamic faith, who invaded India in 1398, is chiefly remembered for the barbarity of his conquests? 578. Which city, famous for its production of Bidri ware, houses the Jami Masjid ("Great Mosque") and the Sola Khamba ("Sixteen-Pillar") mosque? 579. Which Mughal fort in Old Delhi was built by Shah Jahan? 580. What was the original name of the Muslim ruler Sher Shah of Sur?

INDIA ANSWERS
561. Lord Dalhousie 562. Surat 563. 1917, Champaran 564. Rash Behari Bose 565. Pratihara 566. 1829 567. Mahmud of Ghazna 568. Somnath 569. Taraori 570. Madurai 571. Ahmadnagar 572. Slave 573. Babur 574. Iqta 575. Lodi 576. Kharaj 577. Timur 578. Bidar 579. Red Fort 580. Farid Khan

INDIA- QUESTIONS
581. Which battle was decisive in breaking up the Vijayanagar Empire? 582. Which freedom fighter introduced the concept of "Do or Die"? 583. Where was the Indian Association formed? 584. Where did Chandragupta Maurya spend the last days of his life? 585. Which group of castes, famed in history as yeoman warriors and champions of Hinduism, had its homeland in Maharashtra? 586. By what name is Ramachandra Panduranga, a leader of the Indian Mutiny of 1857, better known as? 587. Who was the last Mughal emperor of India? 588. By what name was the ancient trade route that linked China with the West known? 589. Who is the father of Gulbadan Begum, the writer of Humayun-nama? 590. Which of these was the capital of the Kakatiya dynasty? 591. Who was the founder of the Lodi dynasty? 592. Who laid the foundation of the modern system of education in India? 593. Who among the following was also known as Vishnugupta? 594. Who was the founder of the Bahamani kingdom? 595. In which battle, fought in 1527, did Babur defeat Rana Sanga of Mewar? 596. Kanishka belongs to which dynasty? 597. Who passed the Vernacular Press Act in 1878? 598. Where is the mausoleum of Sher Shah of Sur located? 599. Which scholar accompanied Mahmud of Ghazna to India? 600. Who was the only woman to ascend the throne of Delhi?

INDIA ANSWERS
581. Talikota 582. 583. 584. 585. 586. 587. 588. 589. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Bengal Shravana Belgola Maratha Tantia Topi Bahadur Shah II Silk Road Babur

590. Warangal 591. 592. 593. 594. 595. 596. 597. 598. 599. 600. Bahlul Lodi Lord Macaulay Chanakya Hasan Gangu Kanwah Kushan Lord Lytton Sasaram Al-Biruni Sultana Raziya

INDIA- QUESTIONS
601. Which Mauryan ruler was also known as Amitraghata? 602. Which Sikh Guru did Jahangir exe- cute? 603. Which of these Mughal emperors translated the Upanishads and the Bhagavadgita into the Persian language? 604. Who was the emperor of India at the time of Timur's invasion? 605. Where was the first session of the Indian National Congress held? 606. Where are Samudra Gupta's best-known epigraphic inscriptions located? 607. Who was the last Afghan sultan of Delhi? 608. Who founded the city of Allahabad in the year 1953? 609. Who was the last Muslim emperor of southern India? 610. Who did Alexander defeat in the Battle of Hydaspes? 611. Who levied the tax known by the name of chauth? 612. The peacock throne originally belonged to which emperor? 613. Who was the first president of Turkey? 614. During whose reign did Thomas Roe, diplomat and author who advanced England's mercantile interest in Asia, visit India?

INDIA ANSWERS
601. Bindusara 602. Guru Arjan Dev 603. Dara Shikoh 604. Muhammad bin Tughluq 605. Bombay 606. Allahabad 607. Ibrahim Lodi 608. Akbar 609. Tipu Sultan 610. Porus 611. The Marathas 612. Shah Jahan 613. Kemal Ataturk 614. Jahangir

LITERATURE

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
1. What did the crocodile remove from Captain Hook? 2. Who was Zeuss wife? 3. Who wrote A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog? 4. T.S. Eliots Jellical Cats are which two colours? 5. In which capital city is Oscar Wilde buried? 6. In Hamlet, who drowns herself? 7. Who wrote the book One Hundred and One Dalmatians? 8. Who wrote The Playboy of the Western World? 9. Which magazine uses the mythological winged-horse Pegasus for its logo? 10. Who wrote Candy is dandy/But liquor is quicker? 11. In Dickens Great Expectations, Miss Havisham stopped her clock at 8.40 Why? 12. Who wrote An Ideal Husband? 13. Which alphabet has 31 letters? 14. Who wrote The Woodlanders? 15. What was Thackerays middle name? 16. Sir John Oldcastle was said to be the model for which Shakespeare character? 17. Who wrote Trilby? 18. Which bird did not return to Noahs Ark? 19. About which war was The Red Badge of Courage written? 20. Where did the pig keep the ring for which the Owl and the Pussycat paid him one shilling?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
1. His hand 2. Hera. 3. Dylan Thomas. 4. Black and white. 5. In Paris in the Pere Lachaise cemetery. 6. Ophelia 7. Dodie Smith. 8. J. M. Synge. 9. Readers Digest. 10. Ogden Nash. 11. This was the time at which her wedding had been cancelled. 12. Oscar Wilde. 13. The Cyrillic, or Russian alphabet. 14. Thomas Hardy 15. Makepeace. 16. Falstaff. 17. George du Maurier. 18. The dove. 19. The American Civil War. (Stephen Crane wrote it.) 20. At the end of his nose.

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
21. What was Jesus first miracle? 22. Which play introduced Lady Bracknell? 23. Which book is a prelude to The Lord of the Rings? 24. Which Somerset Maugham novel features the painter Paul Gauguin? 25. Who wrote the poem On the Grasshopper and the Cricket? 26. Name all three Bront sisters. 27. Who wrote the book The Wizard of Oz? 28. Who wrote, As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent? 29. Who wrote The Leopard Hunts In Darkness? 30. Name the Bronte brother. 31. Of what figure of speech are hrrmph,maiow and pow all examples? 32. How wide was the hat worn by the Quangle Wangle in Edward Lears poem? 33. Approximately how many different words did Shakespeare use in his plays? 34. Who was Salomes mother? 35. Lydia Languish is the heroine of which Sheridan work? 36. Whose name did God change to Israel? 37. Who wrote the Mr Moto series of novels? 38. Who is father of the Jewish race? 39. Who was said to have given Abraham the Black Stone, which is in the Great Mosque at Mecca? 40. Who wrote the novels One Fat Englishman and Jakes Thing?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
21. Changing water into wine. 22. The Importance of Being Earnest. 23. The Hobbit. 24. The Moon and Sixpence. 25. John Keats. 26. Charlotte, Emily and Anne. 27. L.Frank Baum. 28. Socrates. 29. Wilbur Smith. 30. Branwell. 31. Onomatopoeia. 32. 102 feet wide. 33. 25,000. 34. Herodias. 35. The Rivals. 36. Jacobs. 37. John Phillips Marquand. 38. Abraham. 39. The Archangel Gabriel. 40. Kingsley Amis.

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
41. Which Welsh poet died in New York in 1953? 42. Who was the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth? 43. Name the maid of the fictional detective, Miss Jane Marple? 44. Who has the longest entry in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations? 45. In which language was the Old Testament originally written? 46. Which villainous creatures did Terry Nation invent in 1963? 47. Who said, I will never desert Mr Micawber in Dickens David Copperfield? 48. Who wrote Crime and Punishment? 49. Who wrote The Black Tulip? 50. What did Aaron Ward produce in 1874 that was 8 pages long? 51. Whom did Jane Austens Emma marry? 52. Sydney Carton dies at the end of which book? 53. Which book was the sequel to Little Women? 54. Who was Ebenezer Scrooges original partner? 55. Who wrote Magnolia Street? 56. Who wrote We call him tortoise because he taught us? 57. What was Erich Segals sequel to his novel Love Story? 58. In P.D.Jamess book, what was An Unsuitable Job for a Woman? 59. During which events in Massachusetts is Arthur Millers play The Crucible set? 60. What did the M stand for in Louisa M. Alcotts name?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
41. Dylan Thomas. 42. Noah. 43. Gwen. 44. William Shakespeare. 45. Ancient Hebrew. 46. The Daleks, in Doctor Who. 47. Mrs Micawber 48. Dostoyevsky. 49. Alexandre Dumas. 50. The first mail-order catalogue. 51. George Knightley. 52. A Tale of Two Cities. 53. Good Wives. 54. Jacob Marley. 55. Louis Golding. 56. Lewis Carroll. 57. Olivers Story. 58. The job of private detective. 59. The Salem Witch Trials. 60. May.

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
61. What is the next line after A wandering minstrel I? 62. Who wrote Arms and the Man? 63. According to John, what were the last words of Jesus? 64. Whose autobiography was called Lets Get Through Wednesday? 65. Who was made from Adams rib? 66. Where in Turkey was St Paul born? 67. What nickname did John Dawkins use, in a book by Dickens? 68. In the sequel to Tom Browns Schooldays, which university did the hero attend? 69. Who wrote the play The Caretaker? 70. Who wrote the stories Winter Cruise and Gigolo and Gigolette? 71. In Hindu myth, what sort of animal is Kurma, the beast that Vishnu turns into? 72. By what name is writer Mrs McCorquodale better known? 73. Which poet was MP for Hull for 20 years, and wrote To His Coy Mistress? 74. Which famous American writers works were all out of print when he died? 75. Where did Jesus spend his childhood? 76. Who wrote Daniel Deronda? 77. By what name is the heroine Diana Prince better known? 78. Name Sebastians twin sister in Twelfth Night. 79. Whose first novel was Hatters Castle? 80. Which comic-book heros name is Lamont Cranston?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
61. A thing of shreds and patches. 62. G. B. Shaw. 63. It is finished. 64. Reggie Bosanquets. 65. Eve. 66. In Tarsus. 67. The Artful Dodger, in Oliver Twist. 68. Oxford. 69. Harold Pinter. 70. Somerset Maugham. 71. A tortoise. 72. Barbara Cartland. 73. Andrew Marvell. 74. F. Scott Fitzgeralds. 75. In Nazareth. 76. George Eliot. 77. Wonderwoman. 78. Viola. 79. A. J. Cronins 80. .The Shadow.

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
81. Who wrote Mysterious Island? 82. Which Somerset Maugham novel features Sadie Thompson? 83. Who were King Solomons parents? 84. Of whom did Ben Jonson say, He was not of an age, but for all time? 85. In which novel does Mr Knightley live at Donwell Abbey? 86. Who won a Booker Prize with Staying On? 87. From which mountain did Moses view all of the Promised Land? 88. Who was Sir Galahads father? 89. What subject did Mr Chips teach? 90. What is the VAT rate for books? 91. In Dorothy L.Sayers book, what were The Nine Tailors? 92. Who created the schoolmaster Ichabod Crane? 93. Who wrote the historical romance Hypatia? 94. In Greek mythology, how many heads had the monster dog Orthos? 95. What additional agony was inflicted on the thieves crucified with Jesus? 96. What was Joe Gargerys trade in Great Expectations? 97. Which book begins It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife? 98. Which famous poet was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, in 1809? 99. Which daily paper has the largest circulation in Britain? 100. Who is the patron saint of thieves?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
81. Jules Verne. 82. Rain. 83. David and Bathsheba. 84. Shakespeare. 85. Emma. 86. Paul Scott. 87. Mount Nebo. 88. Sir Lancelot. 89. Latin. 90. Zero. 91. Church bells. 92. Washington Irving. 93. Charles Kingsley. 94. Two. 95. Their legs were broken. 96. He was a blacksmith. 97. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. 98. Tennyson. 99. The Sun. 100. St Nicholas or St Nick!

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
101. How did The Times first receive the books of Dickens with favourable or adverse criticism? 102. How many Forsyte novels did Galsworthy produce? 103. Which author said, Shooting gives me a good feeling? 104. How many boys and girls did the Minotaur eat each year? 105. Blue Diamond is a nightclub in which John Le Carre novel? 106. Who wrote about Kimball OHara? 107. What was the staple diet of the Israelites in the wilderness? 108. What is the most popular name for Christian saints? 109. Who wrote Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead? 110. Who wrote Aurora Leigh? 111. Whose autobiography was called Hons and Rebels? 112. Which doctor wrote The Keys of the Kingdom? 113. Who, in the Bible, was raised from the dead by Jesus? 114. From which language does the word coffee originate? 115. Who was Adam and Eves firstborn son? 116. Who, in a Playboy magazine interview said, Ive committed adultery in my heart many times? 117. Whose body did Mark Antony call a bleeding piece of earth? 118. In Shaws play, what was John Bulls Other Island? 119. Who wrote, Though women are angels, yet wedlocks the devil? 120. Who wrote The Cloister and the Hearth?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
101. With adverse criticism. 102. Nine. 103. Ernest Hemingway, who shot himself! 104. Seven of each. 105. Smileys People. 106. Rudyard Kipling, in Kim. 107. Manna. 108. Felix there are 67, and 64 Johns. 109. Ayn Rand. 110. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 111. Jessica Mitfords. 112. Dr A.J.Cronin. 113. Lazarus. 114. Turkish. 115. Cain. 116. Jimmy Carter. 117. Julius Caesars. 118. Ireland. 119. Lord Byron. 120. Charles Reade.

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
121. How was John the Baptist related to Jesus? 122. What was the eighth plague? 123. What was unusual about Ernest Vincent Wrights book Gadsby, which contained over 50,000 words? 124. Who wrote The Box of Delights? 125. Who described his Antarctic expedition in his book South? 126. According to Hyman Kaplan, what is the opposite of nightmare? 127. Who wrote the science fiction story Blow Ups Happen? 128. Who wrote, He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches? 129. Who was Methuselahs father? 130. Which author was born when Halleys Comet came in 1835, and died when it returned in 1910? 131. Who described a cynic thus: A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing? 132. For how long were the Israelites in the wilderness, in the Bible? 133. Whose dying words in Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet were A plague o both your houses? 134. Who wrote, By all means marry; if you get a good wife, youll become happy; if you get a bad one youll become a philosopher? 135. In the Bible, who followed David as King of Israel? 136. Which actor called his autobiography Laughter in the Second Act? 137. Who wrote, Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly? 138. Though turned to stone by Zeus, who continued to cry for her slain children? 139. What was Abels occupation? 140. How many of Aeschylus plays have survived to this day?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
121. He was his cousin. 122. A plague of locusts. 123. Apart from in the authors name, it contained not one letter E. 124. John Masefield. 125. Sir Ernest Shackleton. 126. Daymare. 127. Robert A. Heinlein. 128. George Bernard Shaw. 129. Enoch. 130. Mark Twain. 131. Oscar Wilde. 132. For forty years. 133. Mercutios. 134. Socrates. 135. Solomon. 136. Donald Sinden. 137. Voltaire. 138. Niobe. 139. He was a shepherd. 140. Seven.

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
141. In 1842, which great American author was appointed as ambassador to Spain?

142. In the Bible, whose wife did David marry? 143. Whose first book was Call For The Dead in 1961? 144. From which illness did Dostoevskys The Idiot suffer? 145. To which head of the CI A did Ian Fleming dedicate The Spy Who Loved Me? 146. Who was the doubter among the apostles? 147. Which poet helped write a mystery story called The Death of the Kings Canary? 148. Which American magazine once printed a nine-page face-to-face interview with the Devil? 149. Who wrote the play The Ladys not for Burning? 150. How many times does the word Christian appear in the Bible? 151. Which heroine fell in love with Count Vronsky? 152. In Dickens, whose mother was Agnes Fleming? 153. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize for Literature? 154. Prince Vlad, The Impaler, was the real-life model for whom? 155. Which poem begins, He did not wear his scarlet coat? 156. According to Greek legend, who solved the riddle of the Sphinx? 157. Who wrote, Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings? 158. What kind of creature was Richard Adams Shardik? 159. Who wrote a story in which a sculptor makes a doll model of Captain Alexander Hepburn? 160. What was Grace Metaliouss only best-selling novel?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
141. Washington Irving. 142. Uriahs. (Bathsheba.) 143. John Le Carres. 144. Epilepsy. 145. Allen Dulles. 146. Thomas. 147. Dylan Thomas. 148. Life. 149. Christopher Fry. 150. Three. 151. Anna Karenina. 152. She was Oliver Twists mother. 153. Pearl S. Buck, in 1938. 154. Count Dracula. 155. The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde. 156. Oedipus. 157. Vicki Baum. 158. A bear. 159. D. H. Lawrence The Captains Doll. 160. Peyton Place.

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
161. Who wrote Midnights Children? 162. Who wrote the novel The Bridges of Toko-Ri, based on events in the Korean War? 163. Which author created characters named Car Darch, Joshua Jopp and Levi Lickpan? 164. The fabled monster known as the Chimera had a lions head, dragons tail, and the body of which animal? 165. In Shakespeare, Bardolph is remarkable for what? 166. Which poem by Rupert Brooke begins, If I should die, think only this of me? 167. How often, according to legend, does the town Brigadoon appear? 168. Why did Zeus have Prometheus chained to a rock? 169. Which French author fought over 1,000 duels? 170. Invariably, how old is Little Orphan Annie? 171. Which author lived at Ayot St Lawrence? 172. Which poet had a face like a wedding cake left out in the rain? 173. Who, in 1900, wrote The Interpretation of Dreams? 174. Where is Graham Greenes novel The Comedians set? 175. Who succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate? 176. In which Dickens novel does this line feature, Be very careful o widders all your life, specially if theyve kept a public house? 177. In Greek mythology, how many eyes had the giant Argus? 178. Who first translated Homers Odyssey and Iliad into English? 179. Tobias Smollett wrote The Adventures of Peregrine __________. What word is missing? 180. For what is the Booker McConnell Prize awarded annually?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
161. Salman Rushdie. 162. James Michener. 163. Thomas Hardy. 164. A goat. 165. His large red nose. 166. The Soldier. 167. Once every 100 years, for one day only. 168. Because he gave fire to the human race. 169. Cyrano de Bergerac. 170. Eleven. 171. George Bernard Shaw. 172. W. H. Auden. 173. Sigmund Freud. 174. In Haiti. 175. Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 176. Pickwick Papers. 177. One hundred. 178. Alexander Pope. 179. Pickle. 180. The best novel of the year.

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
181. Lew Wallace wrote Ben Hur. What rank did he hold during the American Civil War? 182. About which book did some say John, print it in 1678? 183. Who wrote Lolly Willowes, the first book ever to be offered to the Book-of-theMonth Club? 184. At which pub did Chaucers Pilgrims meet before leaving for Canterbury? 185. Which fictional spy-hunter was called The Head Eunuch by his first boss? 186. Name Miss Jane Marples writer nephew. 187. How many of the twelve apostles are saints? 188. Which newspaper was run by directors, managers, pensioners, students, MPs and a sprinkling of the peerage, headed by a couple of Duchesses? 189. From which country did detective writer Ngaio Marsh come? 190. Who wrote limericks and A Book of Nonsense? 191. Who wrote The Leatherstocking Tales? 192. In which country in 1904 did the only known first edition of Shakespeares Titus Andronicus turn up? 193. Who wrote, Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near? 194. Deuteronomy means what? 195. In Dickens Our Mutual Friend, how does Melvin Twemlow describe the House of Commons? 196. In mythology, Stheno and Euryale were what? 197. Name the blowpipe-toting Andaman Islander in Conan Doyles The Sign of Four. 198. In which language was the Gutenberg Bible printed? 199. Who described poverty as The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes? 200. Who wrote, Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
181. That of General. 182. The Pilgrims Progress, according to Bunyan. 183. Sylvia Townsend Warner. 184. The Tabard. 185. George Smiley, created by John Le Carr. 186. Raymond West. 187. Ten. 188. The Times, during the General Strike of 1926. 189. New Zealand. 190. Edward Lear. 191. James Fenimore Cooper. 192. In Sweden, at Malm. 193. Helen Rowland. 194. The second law. 195. The best club in London. 196. Gorgons. 197. Tonga. 198. In Latin. 199. George Bernard Shaw. 200. Sir Walter Scott.

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
201. Tenderness was the original title of which D.H. Lawrence novel? 202. Who wrote, Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle; she died young? 203. Theres a divinity that shapes our ends. From where does this line come? 204. Manys the long night Ive dreamed of cheese toasted mostly. Which Treasure Island character said this? 205. According to legend, how many heads had Hydra? 206. Name Moses elder brother? 207. Who wrote,Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity? 208. The Rostovs and Bolkonskys feature in which novel? 209. Which Shakespearian character said, I am constant as the Northern star? 210. Who wrote the thriller The Five Red Herrings? 211. Who used the name Robert Markham when he wrote Colonel Sun featuring James Bond? 212. Who wrote, Marriage is a sort of friendship recognised by the police? 213. What pen name did the US Supreme Court judge use to write his best-seller, Anatomy of a Murder? 214. Who wrote of Natty Bumpo in a number of novels? 215. Which author threatened to charge the BBC double if they used his first name, which he thought too English? 216. Who wrote Salar the Salmon? 217. Whose drawings first appeared in the book Is Sex Necessary?? 218. For how long was Robinson Crusoe marooned? 219. How did the Basilisk kill its enemies? 220. Who was the Roman goddess who equated with the Greek Hera?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
201. Lady Chatterleys Lover. 202. John Webster, in The Duchess of Malfi. 203. Shakespeares Hamlet. 204. Ben Gunn. 205. Nine. 206. Aaron. 207. George Bernard Shaw. 208. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. 209. Julius Caesar. 210. Dorothy L. Sayers. 211. Kingsley Amis. 212. Robert Louis Stevenson. 213. Robert Traver. 214. James Fenimore Cooper. 215. George Bernard Shaw. 216. Henry Williamson. 217. James Thurbers 218. Over 28 years. 219. Just by looking at them. 220. Juno.

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
221. By what name do we know Perraults story Cendrillon? 222. Who saw the first rainbow, according to the Bible? 223. Which fictional detective lived at 14 Farraway Street? 224. Who drank poison to save Peter Pan? 225. Who married Miriam Larkins? 226. Who writes crime stories featuring Mr Ripley? 227. Who wrote the clerihew, Geography is about maps/But biography is about chaps? 228. Who created Professor Branestawm? 229. Of which country is Shakespeares Cymbeline king? 230. Who drank from a bottle labelled Drink Me? 231. Who wrote the story The Ant and the Grasshopper? 232. Which poem ends, Fled is that music do I wake or sleep?? 233. Which poets cocker spaniel was kidnapped and ransomed three times? 234. Who was the voice of one crying in the wilderness? 235. About which town did Sam Weller say the waters tasted like warm flat- irons? 236. Who wrote, Money is like muck not good except it be spread? 237. How did Aarons serpent deal with the Egyptian serpents? 238. Which bird in The Arabian Nights could lift elephants in its claws? 239. Who created Noddy? 240. Which hero marries Arabella Donn, then Sue Bridehead?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
221. Cinderella. 222. Noah, and his family. 223. Hercule Poirot. 224. Tinkerbell. 225. Mr Polly. (H.G.Wells.) 226. Patricia Highsmith. 227. Edmund Clerihew Bentley. (Their originator.) 228. Norman Hunter. 229. Of Britain. 230. Alice. (In Alice in Wonderland.) 231. Somerset Maugham. 232. Ode to a Nightingale, by Keats. 233. Elizabeth Barrett Brownings dog, Flush. 234. John the Baptist. 235. Bath. 236. Francis Bacon. 237. It ate them. 238. The roc. 239. Enid Blyton. 240. Jude Fawley, in Jude the Obscure.

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
241. Which poet was the son of Charlotte Champe Stearns? 242. Whom did Aphrodite love? 243. Which European countrys people borrow most books each from public, libraries? 244. Who is Byrons Bride of Abydos? 245. What do Coleridges, George Eliots, Karl Marxs, and Charles Dickenss parents have in common? 246. Which was the first book ever printed outside China? 247. To which poet did Maud Gonne say, The world will thank me for not marrying you? 248. Which playwright was sentenced to have his nose cut off for making fun of Scotsmen? 249. By which of his 151 pseudonyms do we best know Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov? 250. Whose sister was Morgan Le Fay? 251. For which profession is the Lancet written? 252. How many syllables are there in an iambic pentameter? 253. The mother of which Dickens hero marries Mr Murdstone? 254. ___ ___, a Romance of Exmoor. What is missing? 255. What date is now generally recognised to be Jesuss birthday? 256. What is the colour of Kiplings bear, Baloo? 257. Which poet wrote the novel Zastrozzi? 258. Who wrote The Tenth Man, rediscovered and published in 1985? 259. What is the name of the river which features in Three Men in a Boat? 260. Who infatuates Humbert Humbert?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
241. Thomas Stearns Eliot. 242. Adonis. 243. Denmarks. 244. Zuleika. 245. They are all buried in Londons Highgate Cemetery. 246. The (Gutenberg) Bible. 247. W. B. Yeats. 248. Ben Jonson, in 1605, but he was reprieved. 249. Lenin. 250. King Arthurs. 251. The medical profession. 252. Ten. 253. David Copperfield. 254. Lorna Doone. 255. 3 April. 256. Brown. 257. Shelley. 258. Graham Greene. 259. The Thames. 260. Lolita.

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
261. In mythology, how many heads had the Spanish king Geryoneus? 262. Tom Stoppards play Squaring the Circle is about which trade union leader? 263. Who wrote Jude the Obscure? 264. What relation was Lot to Abraham? 265. What is Lady Chatterleys first name in D.H. Lawrences novel? 266. A wyvern has the tail of a serpent and the head of what? 267. Who said, The only thing to do with good advice is pass it over? 268. Genius is said to be 1% inspiration and 99% ? 269. On which voyage did Gulliver visit Brobdingnag? 270. Who wrote the patriotic poem Drakes Drum? 271. Which poet died running for a tram, in Liverpool, in 1888? 272. Which day of the week is called, by the French, after the god Mercury? 273. Who wrote Starship Troopers? 274. Who said to whom on their first meeting, I perceive you have been in Afghanistan? 275. In the Bible, who is the father of Ishmael? 276. What is the eccentric familys surname in Arsenic and Old Lace? 277. Which magazine was intended to be called the Bladder? 278. In which play by Marlowe is Barabas the central character? 279. Maundy Thursday commemorates what? 280. Which humorist wrote about dogs called Muggs, Barge, and a peke named Darien?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
261. Three. 262. Lech Walesa. 263. Thomas Hardy. 264. His nephew. 265. Constance. 266. A dragon. 267. Oscar Wilde. 268. Perspiration. (The authors agree!) 269. His second. 270. Sir Henry Newbolt. 271. Matthew Arnold. 272. Wednesday Mercredi. 273. Robert Heinlein. 274. Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson. 275. Abraham. 276. Brewster. 277. Private Eye. 278. The Jew of Malta. 279. The Last Supper. 280. James Thurber.

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
281. More haste, less______? 282. Who wrote Eugene Onegin? 283. Who is Hamlets murderous uncle? 284. What are the two top-selling (not given away with a newspaper) weekly magazines? 285. Who wrote the play Volpone? 286. As what was John Evelyn best known? 287. Yahoos are imaginary animals in which book? 288. Remember The Dam Busters? What was the title of the original book? 289. Who created Gollum and Gandalf? 290. Who wrote the novel Fame is the Spur? 291. Name Moses father-in-law. 292. Which prophet denounced Ahab and Jezebel? 293. Relating to the Arthurian legends, what was the land of heroes called? 294. Which Poet Laureate lived from 1770 to 1850? 295. In which 1945 novel does Lord Marchmain appear? 296. Who wrote The Great Hoggarty Diamond and The Fitzboodle Papers? 297. Who wrote The Quare Fellow? 298. How long did it take Solomon to build the Temple? 299. In myth, for what was Stentor famous? 300. How many years of happiness does the devil promise Dr Faustus in Marlowes play?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
281. Speed. 282. Pushkin. 283. Claudius. 284. Radio Times and TV Times. 285. Ben Jonson. 286. As a diarist. 287. Gullivers Travels. 288. Enemy Coast Ahead. 289. J. R. R. Tolkien. 290. Howard Spring. 291. Jethro. 292. Elijah. 293. Avalon. 294. William Wordsworth. 295. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. 296. W. M. Thackeray. 297. Brendan Behan. 298. Seven years. 299. His extremely loud voice. 300. 24 years.

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
301. Which book by Harold Robbins was modelled on arms-dealer Adnan Khashoggi? 302. Name Captain Marryats midshipman. 303. In Oliver Twist, what famous quote did Mr Bumble make about the law? 304. Who wrote Ode to the West Wind in a wood near Florence? 305. The magazine Over 21 rose from the ashes of which previous magazine? 306. Who left her last novel, Wives and Daughters, unfinished? 307. What did the slithy toves do in the wabe? 308. Who wrote Anna and the King of Siam? 309. Name Moses wife. 310. Who wrote the novel Our Mutual Friend? 311. In Genesis, who was Josephs younger brother? 312. What was the first name of Webster, of dictionary fame? 313. To which drug was Sherlock Holmes addicted? 314. Who said, A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds? 315. G. B. Shaw wrote a collection of plays that he termed Three Plays For Puritans. Name one. 316. According to the nursery rhyme, at what time did Wee Willie Winkie run through the town? 317. Who said, Let me die with the Philistines? 318. Which playwright made his first attempt to ride a bicycle on Beachy Head, and remarked that he wished his audiences laughed as much as the coastguards? 319. Who wrote, The reason that husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes? 320. Who wrote Ross: Story of a Shared Life?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
301. The Pirate. 302. Easy. 303. the law is a ass a idiot. 304. Shelley, in 1819. 305. Vanity Fair. 306. Mrs Gaskell. 307. Gyre and gimble (in Lewis Carrolls Jabberwocky). 308. Margaret Landon. 309. Zipporah. 310. Charles Dickens. 311. Benjamin. 312. Noah. 313. Cocaine. 314. R. W. Emerson. 315. The Devils Disciple; Caesar and Cleopatra; Captain Brassbounds Conversion. 316. Eight oclock. 317. Samson. 318. George Bernard Shaw. 319. Dorothy Dix. 320. Norris McWhirter.

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
321. Nothing but cabbage with a college education. What was Mark Twain describing? 322. Who wrote, That seems to be the crutch of the matter? 323. Who wrote, Marriage is the alliance of two people, of whom one never, remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them? 324. Who wrote,Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention? 325. Who called her autobiography Voices In My Ear? 326. The murder of John Campbell of Glenure in 1752 inspired which novel? 327. Which ex-New York Daily News sportswriter wrote the novel The Snow Goose? 328. Who first wrote, Its all Greek to me? 329. Which ex-US Vice President wrote The Canfield Decision? 330. Which dictator wrote the novel The Cardinals Mistress? 331. Who wrote The Descent of Man? 332. Who or what was the Empress of Blandings? 333. Of the nine muses, who is the muse of history? 334. Who created the detective Auguste C. Dupin? 335. Of which bird did Sindbad the Sailor discover the eggs? 336. Who was Sherlock Holmess housekeeper and landlady? 337. Which Canadian city used to be called Bytown? 338. Whose court was at Camelot? 339. What is Ms name? 340. Which early poet was once Controller of Customs on wools, skins and hides?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
321. The cauliflower. 322. John Lennon, in In His Own Write. 323. Ogden Nash. 324. Ian Hay. 325. Doris Stokes, the medium. 326. Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson. 327. Paul Gallico. 328. Shakespeare. (In Julius Caesar.) 329. Spiro T. Agnew. 330. Benito Mussolini. 331. Charles Darwin. 332. A pig (in the novel by P.G. Wodehouse). 333. Clio. 334. Edgar Allan Poe. 335. The roc. 336. Mrs Hudson. 337. Ottawa. 338. King Arthurs. 339. Admiral Sir Miles Messervy. 340. Chaucer.

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
341. Who wrote The School for Scandal? 342. Which author created the detective Nick Charles? 343. Which poet married a mathematician and was father-in-law of Charles Babbage, the inventor of the adding machine? 344. Which poet wrote The Borderers and The Prelude? 345. Shakespeare wrote a play about two gentlemen. Which city did they come from? 346. At which school did Mr Chips teach Latin? 347. Who wrote The Agony and the Ecstasy? 348. What are Inspector Teals Christian names? 349. Who wrote Man and Superman? 350. That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet who said it and who wrote the play? 351. What is Christians ultimate destination in Pilgrims Progress? 352. In which play does Dame Pliant appear? 353. Whose diary did the Reverend John Smith decipher in the nineteenth century? 354. Who are the two most translated English writers (dead or alive)? 355. Who wrote Private Angelo? 356. Which play revolves around the relationship of Martha and George? 357. By what name is the author Charles Hamilton better known? 358. Who wrote Watership Down? 359. Which author created the detective Piet van der Valk? 360. Who first wrote about haggis?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
341. Richard Brinsley Sheridan. 342. Dashiell Hammett. 343. Lord Byron. 344. William Wordsworth. 345. Verona. 346. Brookfield. 347. Irving Stone. 348. Claud Eustace. 349. George Bernard Shaw. 350. Juliet in Shakespeares play Romeo and Juliet. 351. Celestial City. 352. Ben Jonsons The Alchemist. 353. Samuel Pepyss. 354. Shakespeare and Agatha Christie. 355. Eric Linklater. 356. Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, by Edward Albee. 357. Frank Richards, creator of Billy Bunter. 358. Richard Adams. 359. Nicholas Freeling. 360. Aristophanes.

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
361. Where is the poet Robert Browning buried? 362. What were the names of the Magi? 363. Where did the Hellfire Club meet? 364. Name the Greek goddess of retribution. 365. Who was Christopher Robins nurse? 366. Name the five books of Moses. 367. Where does this quotation originate, This above all: to thine own self be true? 368. Who was Serjeant Buzfuz? 369. The first printed Bible, the Mazarin Bible, was also named after the number of lines on each page. How many lines were there? 370. Who is the hero of Captain W.E. Johns best-known stories? 371. Coleridge said, How well we seem to know Chaucer! How absolutely nothing do we know of.Who? 372. How long did it take Gray to write his Elegy in a Country Churchyard? 373. Which Apostle replaced Judas Iscariot? 374. A favourite role for actor-managers was Sir Giles Overreach. In which play does he appear? 375. Of which town was Michael Henchard mayor? 376. Which actor in Sir Henry Irvings company wrote Trelawny of the Wells? 377. On which town did Thomas Hardy base his Casterbridge? 378. Who wrote of the schoolmaster Ichabod Crane? 379. Where, in Pilgrims Progress, are all forms of worldly pleasure sold? 380. Who is the wife and sister of Osiris?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
361. Westminster Abbey. 362. Melchior, Balthasar and Kaspar. 363. Medmenham Abbey. 364. Nemesis. 365. Alice. 366. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. 367. Shakespeares Hamlet. 368. A barrister in Dickenss Pickwick Papers (counsel for Mrs Bardell in the breach-of-promise trial). 369. Forty-two lines. (It was known as the 42-line version.) 370. Biggies. 371. Shakespeare. 372. 8 years. 373. St Matthias. 374. A New Way to Pay Old Debts by Philip Massinger. 375. Casterbridge. 376. Sir Arthur Wing Pinero. 377. Dorchester. 378. Washington Irving. 379. Vanity Fair. 380. Isis.

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
381. Who was the Roman god of agriculture? 382. What is the concluding novel in Powells fictional cycle A Dance to the Music of Time? 383. Freud published his most influential book in 1900. What was it called? 384. Which designer wrote a Utopian vision which opens in Hammersmith? 385. Which is Britains oldest publisher? 386. What did God create on the fifth day? 387. Who is Prosperos treacherous brother in The Tempest? 388. Which of Shaws plays did he describe as a fantasia in the Russian manner on English themes? 389. Who wrote The Ballad of Peckham Rye? 390. Which town did the Pied Piper rid of rats? 391. Who wrote Room at the Top? 392. Which masque of Miltons was performed at Ludlow Castle in 1634? 393. What was ambrosia? 394. In which village does Miss Marple live? 395. Who was Lady Chatterleys lover? 396. Who wrote the play Chips with Everything? 397. Who was the prolific English writer who created a famous schoolboy? 398. Where are Swifts Lilliput and Brobdingnag? 399. Which English newspaper first reached one million daily sales? 400. Who, according to Boswell, said: To speak English one must place the tongue between the teeth and I have lost my teeth?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
381. Saturn. 382. Hearing Secret Harmonies. 383. The Interpretation of Dreams. 384. William Morris, in News from Nowhere. 385. Oxford University Press, whose first publication is dated 1469. 386. Sea creatures and birds. 387. Antonio. 388. Heartbreak House. 389. Muriel Spark. 390. Hamelin. 391. John Braine. 392. Comus. 393. The food of the gods. 394. St Mary Mead (in Agatha Christies novels). 395. Mellors, the gamekeeper. 396. Arnold Wesker. 397. Frank Richards, Billy Bunters creator. 398. In the South Seas. 399. The Daily Mail, on 2 March 1900. 400. Voltaire.

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
401. Who wrote A Room with a View? 402. Who wrote How Green Was My Valley? 403. In which John Osborne play does Archie Rice appear? 404. What did the Ark of the Covenant contain? 405. Who died in Dublin in 1889, 30 years before the publication of his poems? 406. With whom did Shakespeare collaborate on Henry VIII? 407. Clotho spun the thread, Lachesis measured the length, Atropos cut it. What was the thread? 408. Which Australian won the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature? 409. In Gullivers Travels, from what do scientists seek to get sunshine? 410. Shakespeare wrote of them that they come before the swallow dares and take/The winds of March with beauty. To what was he referring? 411. Whose first novel was withdrawn on the advice of George Meredith and never published? 412. How many lines are there in a Spenserian stanza? 413. Who were Oedipuss parents? 414. Who is Sir George Ethereges Man of Mode? 415. When did Charles Dickens die? 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860 or 1870? 416. Complete the clerihew Sir Christopher Wren/ Said Im going to dine with some men... 417. Who is Hagar the Horribles wife? 418. Who invented the Three Laws of Robotics in his books? 419. Who wrote of a new Eden and a new Temptation on Venus in Perelandra, part of a science-fiction trilogy? 420. Name one of Lord Peter Wimseys clubs.

LITERATURE ANSWERS
401. E.M.Forster. 402. Richard Llewellyn. 403. The Entertainer. 404. The tablets of the Ten Commandments. 405. Gerard Manley Hopkins. 406. John Fletcher. 407. In Greek mythology, a mans life. 408. Patrick White. 409. Cucumbers. 410. Daffodils. 411. Thomas Hardys. 412. Nine. 413. King Laius of Thebes and Queen Jocasta. 414. Sir Fopling Flutter. 415. 1870. 416. ... If anyone calls, say I am designing St Pauls. 417. Helga. 418. Isaac Asimov. 419. C. S. Lewis. 420. The Egotists, according to his Whos Who entry.

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
421. Who wrote No Highway? 422. Where was the case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce heard? 423. Who wrote The Ingoldsby Legends? 424. Complete Audens verse: To the man-in-the street, who, Im sorry to say, / Is a keen observer of life, / The word Intellectual suggests straight away / A man whos ... 425. What well-known play features the King of Navarre? 426. Who wrote a study of an absurd man in an absurd world and died in a car accident in Algeria? 427. Who wrote The Lyrical Ballads with Coleridge? 428. Who says, Im Charleys aunt from Brazil, where the nuts come from? 429. What is defined by Johnson in his dictionary as a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people? 430. Name the bear in Reynard the Fox. 431. What is the name of the tame lioness in Born Free? 432. In which Jules Verne novel does the submarine Nautilus feature? 433. What weapon did David use to kill Goliath? 434. Who is the Toffs valet? 435. Who is Hugh Loftings best-known creation? 436. Who wrote Les Misrables and Notre Dame de Paris? 437. How many eyes had Cyclops? 438. In which Shakespeare play does Sir Toby Belch appear? 439. Which French writer, while exiled in Britain, wrote of the wrongful conviction of Alfred Dreyfus? 440. In which Thomas Hardy play do the Spirit of the Years, Nelson and Napoleon appear?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
421. Nevil Shute. 422. In the Court of Chancery in Bleak House. 423. Richard Barham. 424. ... untrue to his wife. 425. Loves Labours Lost. 426. Albert Camus (Ltranger). 427. Wordsworth. 428. Lord Fancourt Baberley in Charleys Aunt by Brandon Thomas. 429. Oats. 430. Bruin. 431. Elsa. 432. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. 433. Sling and stone. 434. Jolly. 435. Doctor Dolittle. 436. Victor Hugo. 437. One. 438. Twelfth Night. 439. mile Zola. 440. The Dynasts.

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
441. The Last Time I Saw Paris is a well-known song. Who wrote the book of that name? 442. What is referred to in Twelfth Night and Farquhars The Recruiting Officer and is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum? 443. Who continued Anthony Trollopes Barsetshire series long after his death? 444. Who used the pen-name Michelangelo Titmarsh? 445. In which town are Colin Watsons crime novels set? 446. Name five of the six main Romance languages. 447. Who wrote The Light That Failed and Rewards and Fairies? (Be warned, they are not his best-known books!) 448. Who wrote the sci-fi classic Tiger! Tiger!? 449. Who was the skipper in Moby Dick? 450. John Creasey wrote 560 books; under how many pseudonyms? 451. In which of Shakespeares plays does Puck appear? 452. Who wrote Finnegans Wake? 453. Who wrote the novel Brighton Rock? 454. Who was Becky Thatchers boyfriend? 455. Against whom did both Samson and David fight? 456. Who wrote The Mill on the Floss? 457. Who in the Bible was taken up to heaven in a fiery chariot? 458. What was John Dawkinss nickname in Oliver Twist? 459. Who wrote the poem Maud? 460. What did James Macpherson pass off as translations until rumbled by Dr Johnson and others?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
441. Elliot Paul. 442. The Great Bed of Ware. 443. Father Ronald Knox. 444. Thackeray. 445. Flaxborough. 446. French, Italian, Portuguese, Provenal, Romanian, Spanish. 447. Rudyard Kipling. 448. Alfred Bester. 449. Captain Ahab. 450. Twenty-eight. 451. A Midsummer Nights Dream. 452. James Joyce. 453. Graham Greene. 454. Tom Sawyer. 455. The Philistines. 456. George Eliot. 457. The prophet Elijah, or Elias. 458. The Artful Dodger. 459. Tennyson. 460. The poems of Ossian.

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
461. Who wrote, Mans inhumanity to man/Makes countless thousands mourn? 462. Name the image set up by Aaron while Moses was on Mount Sinai. 463. In which Jane Austen novel do Miss Bates and Jane Fairfax appear? 464. Who wrote the boys stories Stalky and Co.? 465. Who was Nehemiah a cup-bearer to? 466. Who buried the treasure on Treasure Island? 467. What did Foxe write in Strasbourg? 468. Which mythological sisters had snakes instead of hair? 469. In which novel is Rebecca rejected for Rowena? 470. Which D.H. Lawrence book figured in a famous court case? 471. Who wrote The Foundation Trilogy? 472. How many ages of man are there, according to Shakespeares As You Like It? 473. Who is John Osbornes angry young man? 474. Of where was Pericles prince, according to Shakespeare? 475. Who created Jane Marple? 476. Who wrote The Deserted Village? 477. Which authors Christian names are John Ronald Reuel? 478. Who is Archie Rice? 479. Name the principal horse in George Orwells Animal Farm. 480. Name Shakespeares Moor of Venice.

LITERATURE ANSWERS
461. Robert Burns (Man was Made to Mourn). 462. The Golden Calf. 463. Emma. 464. Rudyard Kipling. 465. King Artaxerxes. 466. Captain Flint. 467. His Book of Martyrs. 468. The Gorgons. 469. Ivanhoe. 470. Lady Chatterleys Lover. 471. Isaac Asimov. 472. Seven. 473. Jimmy Porter, in Look Back in Anger. 474. Tyre. 475. Agatha Christie. 476. Oliver Goldsmith. 477. J.R.R. Tolkien. 478. The Entertainer in John Osbornes play of that name. 479. Boxer. 480. Othello.

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
481. Of which sea-captain did Galsworthy say, I had never before seen a man so masculinely keen, yet so femininely sensitive? 482. Who gets the black spot from Blind Pew? 483. Who was Tamoras lover in Titus Andronicus? 484. Who was the Roman equivalent of Demeter? 485. Which writer was recognized on a surgeons slab, the victim of body snatchers? 486. Who, in prison, wrote of Arthur? 487. Around which event does Barnaby Rudge centre? 488. How tall is Tom Thumb according to the Brothers Grimm? 489. In the Bible, who were Isaacs two sons? 490. Who could not write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life? 491. Who wrote the first essays in English? 492. Who wrote the poem Sea Fever? 493. Who walked from Lichfield to London together? 494. Where did Noahs Ark come to rest? 495. Which novel by William Golding is set in fourteenth-century Salisbury? 496. Which work was produced by a committee of forty-seven? 497. Finish the Kipling quote,Youre a better man than I am, ! 498. How did Phaethon, the son of the Greek sun god, come to grief? 499. Complete the following: The clever men at Oxford / Know all that there is to be knowed. / But they none of them know one half as much / As ...? 500. Which flying island did Gulliver visit?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
481. Joseph Conrad. 482. Billy Bones (in R.L. Stevensons Treasure Island). 483. Aaron. 484. Ceres. 485. Laurence Sterne. 486. Sir Thomas Malory (Le Morte DArthur). 487. The Gordon Riots of 1780. 488. 5 inches. 489. Jacob and Esau. 490. Jane Austen. 491. Francis Bacon. 492. John Masefield. 493. Samuel Johnson and David Garrick. 494. Mount Ararat. 495. The Spire. 496. The Authorized Version of the Bible. 497. Gunga Din. 498. Driving the horses of his father, Helios, he got out of control and was struck by Zeuss thunderbolt. 499. ... intelligent Mr Toad (Kenneth Grahames The Wind in the Willows). 500. Laputa.

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
501. Which fictional (not comic-strip) character in English literature has been depicted on screen the maximum number of times? 502. In children's literature, whose cradle was a 'walnut shell'? 503. Which little girl referred to her diary as 'Dear Kitty'? 504. Which famous fictional character nearly met his death at the Reichenbach Falls? 505. In fiction, who were the opposing forces in the 'Battle of the Cowshed' and the 'Battle of the Humans'? 506. In Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, apart from Mowgli, which two other animals are allowed to attend the wolves' council? 507. Sukumar Ray wrote Abol Tabol, a book of poems in Bengali for children. Name his son who was an author, illustrator and film-maker of repute. 508. What was the name of Peter Pan's fictional land? 509. Whose autobiography is called Fairy Tale of My Life? 510. In which popular fictional work would you come across the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman? 511. Which popular author's first novel was HMS Ulysses? 512. Which Enid Blyton character owned a parrot named Kiki? 513. Victor Hugo wrote a novel about a fifteenth-century bell-ringer named Quasimodo. What physical deformity did the character he created suffer from? 514. Which fictional character studied at St Xavier's, Partibus? 515. Which famous playwright willed part of his money for the development of a new alphabet for the English language? 516. What is the name of the little girl who went into the house of the three bears and ate their porridge? 517. The classic Satyajit film Ghare Baire was based on a novel by which great Indian writer? 518. In Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, what was the name of Tiny Tim's father? 519. Which literary character's favourite phrase was, 'Off with his head'? 520. On a visit to London he forgot his briefcase containing the English translation of his work in an underground railway carriage. He contacted the railway authorities and got it back the next morning from the Lost Property Office. The next year he won the Nobel Prize. Which literary great are we referring to?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
501. Sherlock Holmes 502. Thumbelina. The story of Thumbelina was written by Hans Christian Andersen. 503. Anne Frank 504. Sherlock Holmes (during his struggle with Professor Moriarty, in the book The Final Problem). The Reichenbach Falls is one of the highest falls in the Alps and is situated in central Switzerland. 505. Animals and humans in George Orwell's Animal Farm. 506. Baloo the Bear and Bagheera the Panther 507. Satyajit Ray 508. Neverland 509. Hans Christian Andersen 510. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It was written by L. Frank Baum. It was also made into a popular film in 1939, by the name The Wizard of Oz. 511. Alistair Maclean 512. Jack 513. He was a hunchback. The novel was originally called Notre-Dame de Paris and was translated into English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. 514. Kimball O'Hara. He was the principal character in Rudyard Kipling's Kim. Kim is the story of the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, who spends his childhood as a vagabond in Lahore. 515. George Bernard Shaw 516. Goldilocks 517. Rabindranath Tagore 518. Bob Cratchit 519. The Queen of Hearts in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 520. Rabindranath Tagore

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
521. Which famous author and Nobel laureate was born in 1865 in Mumbai? 522. In fiction, whose closest friends were Merrylegs and Ginger? 523. Which pair of brothers own a speedboat named 'Sleuth'? 524. Who or what did Jim Corbett describe as, 'a large-hearted gentleman with boundless courage'? 525. Which play by William Shakespeare has a title which is also a proverb? 526. How many years did Rip Van Winkle sleep? 527. In Treasure Island, where was Jim Hawkins when he overheard the crew members plotting on the ship, Hispaniola? 528. The early death of Little Eva is an important turning point in which children's classic? 529. Which fictional hero lives with his uncle Titus who is the owner of a junkyard? 530. What was the name of the boy who climbed up the beanstalk? 531. Algu Chaudhury and Jumman Sheikh are the main characters in which story written by Premchand? 532. Which play by William Shakespeare is traditionally performed at 9 pm on June 23 each year? 533. What was Little Miss Muffet eating when the spider sat down beside her? 534. The supporters of which daring outlaw wore Lincoln Green? 535. Which town did the Pied Piper rid of rats? 536. If Solomon Grundy was born on a Monday, what happened to him on Tuesday? 537. According to the nursery rhyme, how many blackbirds were 'baked in a pie'? 538. In Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, who was the captain of the submarine? 539. Which popular story is recounted by a young cabin boy named Ishmael? 540. 'Barry Bam Bam' was a children's character created by which former athlete?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
521. Rudyard Kipling 522. Black Beauty. It is a classic by British author Anna Sewell. 523. Frank and Joe Hardy (The Hardy Boys) 524. A tiger 525. All's Well That Ends Well 526. Twenty years. The story of Rip Van Winkle was written by Washington Irving. 527. In an apple barrel 528. Uncle Tom's Cabin. It was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. 529. Jupiter Jones of The Three Investigators. 530. Jack 531. Panch Parameshwar 532. A Midsummer Night's Dream 533. Curds and whey 534. Robin Hood 535. Hamelin. Robert Browning wrote the poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin. The well known legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin became associated with the German city of Hamelin with the alleged disappearance of the children of Hamelin in 1284. One hypothesis links the story with an exodus of the young men in connection with the German colonization of the east. The Pied Piper has also been likened to Nicholas of Cologne, who in 1212 led many German children on the ill-fated Children's Crusade. 536. He was christened on Tuesday 537. Twenty-four ('four and twenty') 538. Captain Nemo. The name of the submarine was Nautilus. 539. Moby Dick 540. Florence Griffith Joyner ('Flo Jo')

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
541. Which famous poem was based on an incident in the Crimean War? 542. Gandhiji lived on a farm named after a famous Russian novelist. Name the novelist. 543. In which play by William Shakespeare would you meet a character named Nerissa? 544. Which English poem has been translated into the most number of languages? 545. Rose Red had a famous sister. Her name? 546. In which series of books by Enid Blyton would you come across a dog named Scamper? 547. Which fairy-tale character (also seen in a Walt Disney film) has a lifespan of 300 years? 548. How did Robinson Crusoe find out there was another person on his island? 549. Which novelist's name is an anagram of 'Our Best Novelist Senor'? 550. In Aesop's fables, why did the mice want to bell the cat? 551. Who translated Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali into English? 552. According to HG Wells, where is the one-eyed man king? 553. Whose assistant is a retired army doctor who was wounded in Afghanistan? 554. If Archie stays in Riverdale, who stays at River Heights? 555. Name Robin Hood's musician friend. 556. The title of which Shakespearean play has the name of an animal in it? 557. Which writer based in Mussoorie once reportedly remarked 'I am the original Bond'? 558. Which great work was written by the dacoit Ratnakar? 559. Name three books written by Akbar. 560. Which Indian fictional hero studied in Albert Mission School?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
541. The Charge of the Light Brigade by Lord Alfred Tennyson. It was inspired from the Battle of Balaklava in October 1854. 542. Leo Tolstoy (Tolstoy Farm). Gandhiji established it south of Johannesburg as a refuge for 'Satyagrahis' (apostles of truth) and their families. 543. The Merchant of Venice. In the play, Nerissa is Portia's waiting-maid. 544. Rudyard Kipling's 'If' 545. Snow White 546. The Secret Seven 547. The Little Mermaid 548. A footprint on the sand 549. Robert Louis Stevenson. He is the author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. 550. So that they would be warned when the cat was coming 551. Tagore himself 552. In the land of the blind 553. Sherlock Holmes 554. Nancy Drew 555. Alan-a-dale 556. Taming of the Shrew 557. Ruskin Bond 558. Ramayana (Ratnakar was the original name of the sage Valmiki) 559. He was illiterate (He wrote nothing) 560. RK Narayan's Swami

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
561. Mrs Darrel Waters was better known by the name under which she wrote over 1000 children's stories. By what name do we know her? 562. When asked how he wanted to die, which contemporary Indian author replied 'On the thirteenth line of a sonnet'? 563. Who made his debut in the story, A Study in Scarlet? 564. In the Treasure Island, who was marooned for three years and lived on goats, oysters and berries? 565. What was the occupation of the character called Crumbs in the Noddy stories? 566. In which story would you come across Quadlings with red houses, Munchkins with blue houses and Winkies with yellow houses? 567. In George Orwell's Animal Farm, after the old Major died, there were three pigs. One was Squealer, another was Snowball. Who was the other? 568. Which fictitious metropolis was 5000 Blustrugs or twelve miles in circumference? 569. What was the name of the person who helped the Miller's daughter spin straw into gold? 570. What number connects the battle of Kurukshetra, the Bhagavad Gita and the Puranas? 571. What is common to the following: Kiki, Lago and Captain Flint? 572. How did Captain Hook get his name in the story Peter Pan? 573. How do we know the pair Mr Montague and Miss Capulet better? 574. Which series of Enid Blyton's stories features Kirrin island? 575. Which legendary sage is believed to have introduced literature to the Aryan civilization? 576. To whom did Rabindranath Tagore send this telegram: 'Give up hunger strike . . . our literature needs you'? 577. In which story by Victor Hugo does Jean Valjean steal a loaf of bread and is imprisoned? 578. Which novel was published in England by Richard Bentley as The Whale? 579. Put these writers in the order in which they were bornEnid Blyton, Charles Dickens, Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare? 580. Gulliver's ship was named after which creature.

LITERATURE ANSWERS
561. Enid Blyton 562. Vikram Seth 563. Sherlock Holmes 564. Ben Gunn 565. He was the baker 566. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by Lyman Frank Baum. 567. Napoleon (He was a Berkshire boar) 568. Lilliput in Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels 569. Rumpelstiltskin 570. Eighteen (eighteen days of war, eighteen chapters, eighteen major Puranas) 571. They were all talking parrots. (Lago belonged to Captain Haddock, Captain Flint to Long John Silver and Kiki to Jack in the Enid Blyton stories) 572. His left arm was bitten off by a crocodile, so he attached a hook instead 573. Romeo and Juliet 574. The Famous Five 575. Agastya 576. Kazi Nazrul Islam, when he was in prison 577. Les Misrables. It means the wretched or the outcasts. 578. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 579. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dickens and Blyton 580. Antelope

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
581. Who was lost in a cave with Becky Thatcher? 582. 'All for one and one for all', was the motto of which famous fictional trio? 583. How did Alice enter wonderland? 584. Who assists the famous detective Hercule Poirot? 585. Who was the first Japanese Nobel laureate to commit suicide? 586. Which thirteen-year-old girl wrote about her life in the 'annexe', which was a hiding place in a building in Amsterdam? 587. Which book by Michael Crichton about prehistoric animals was the basis for a very popular film in 1993? 588. In Washington Irving's story, what was scary about the physical appearance of the horseman who chased Ichabod Crane? 589. Which of Alexander Dumas' stories is based on the life of a secret brother of King Louis XIV? 590. Who committed the murder in the Sherlock Holmes mystery 'Silver Blaze'? 591. Which fictional character employed a chaffeur named Worthington? 592. Which American writer was the first author to use the typewriter? 593. According to a popular nursery rhyme, who could not be repaired even though he had all the king's men and horses to attend to him? 594. How do we know the 'Pope of Fools' better? 595. 596. 597. 598. In which story would you first come across the sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy? Whose first novel was Swami and Friends? Which Shakespearean character's last words were, Thus with a kiss I die'? 'Here is Edward Bear coming downstairs now bump bump bump bump on the back of his head'. Identify the character. 599. Mr Bumble was the headmaster in the novel Oliver Twist. What was the name of the benefactor? 600. Arjuna's chariot could not be destroyed. Which was the only time that the chariot broke?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
581. Tom Sawyer 582. The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas. Their names were Porthos, Athos and Aramis. 583. Through a rabbit hole 584. Captain Arthur Hastings 585. Yasunari Kawabata 586. Anne Frank (The Diary of a Young Girl) 587. Jurassic Park 588. He was headless 589. The Man in the Iron Mask 590. The horse Silver Blaze 591. Jupiter Jones of The Three Investigators 592. Mark Twain 593. Humpty Dumpty 594. Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo 595. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 596. RK Narayan 597. Romeo 598. Winnie the Pooh 599. Mr Brown low 600. When Krishna got off

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
601. Xury was a Moresco boy. He was the servant of which famous character in a book? 602. By what name is Dhanpat Rai Srivastava better known? 603. If Antonio was the Merchant of Venice, who was the Moor of Venice? 604. Allan Quartermain, Henry Curtis and Captain John Good along with Umbopa set out to find what? 605. What did King Leodegrance give King Arthur as a marriage gift? 606. Which author is associated with the Discworld series? 607. Minim, Quaver and Crochet are terms in classical music. Which king had three violinists by these names? 608. Complete the name of this famous author: Sir Vidyadhar Surajprasad . . . 609. Who wanted David Copperfield to be a baby girl and share the same name as hers? 610. Which story featuring Heathcliff, Catherine Linton and Hareton Earnshaw gets its name from the stormy conditions about and in the farm? 611. Who was called the Black Avenger of the Spanish Moor and his most important treasure was a brass door knob? 612. Which story begins: The stranger came early in February, one wintery day. He walked from Brumblehurst railway station, through the wind and snow. He was wrapped up from head to foot and his felt hat hid his face. Only the shiny tip of his nose could be seen'? 613. In the story Vanity Fair, Beelzebub, Appolyon and Legion established vanity fair in which town? 614. Ralph Rover, Jack Martin and Peterkin Grey sailed to Coral Island. Ralph had a handkerchief which contained sixteen pictures of a leader. Name the leader. 615. In the Jungle Book what animal was Tiger? 616. Name the two people who accompany a negro slave called Jim on a rafting adventure down the Mississippi. 617. Name the boy and girl who were presumed lost in McDougal's Cave. 618. Who are we talking about: According to legend, this person was an ugly deformed little man, whose audience laughed at his strange appearance but loved his brilliant story-telling? 619. Three animals appear in most of Aesop's fables. The wolf is one, name the other two. 620. Cassim was killed by forty thieves. What did Ali Baba do to ensure that his brother's murder seemed like a natural death?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
601. Robinson Crusoe 602. Munshi Premchand 603. Othello 604. King Solomon. The novel was written by English novelist Sir Henry Rider Haggarrd. 605. A Round Table. It was first mentioned in Wace of Jersey's Roman de Brut (1155). It said that King Arthur had the round table so that none of his barons, when seated at it, could claim precedence over the others. 606. Terry Pratchett 607. Old King Cole 608. Naipaul (VS Naipaul) 609. Miss Betsy Trotwood 610. Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights 611. Tom Sawyer 612. The Invisible Man 613. The town of Vanity 614. Nelson 615. Jackal 616. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn 617. Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher 618. Aesop 619. The fox and the lion 620. He employed a tailor called Baba Mustapha to stitch the corpse of his brother

LITERATURE- QUESTIONS
621. With reference to treasures, what is common to Ali Baba, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and Aladdin? 622. In Alice in Wonderland, what reason does the tortoise give for being called a tortoise? 623. When Jacob Ludwig Carl and Wilhelm Carl first published them, they were called Nursery and Household Tales. How are these stories better known today? 624. In the story Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, what was the name of the warship in which Ned Land sailed? 625. What is common to the following: Adolf Hitler, Daniel Defoe, Jawaharlal Nehru and John Bunyan? 626. Two famous writers from the world of literature were born in Mymensingh, Bangladesh. One is Taslima Nasreen. Name the other. 627. In the novel Around the World in Eighty Days, what was the name of the detective who tried to make things difficult (tried to fix) for Phineas Fogg? 628. You have been given the last four lines of a nursery rhyme. Can you say what the first four lines are? (Note: For obvious reasons, the letter X has been used to conceal certain words)Up X got and home did trot, as fast as he could caper; To old Dame Dob who patched his knob, with vinegar and brown paper. 629. Which story is generally regarded as Italy's best- known children's book? 630. In Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, if Baloo was the bear, and Bagheera the panther, what was the name of the crocodile? 631. In which book would you come across the characters Dora Spenlow, Peggotty, Steerforth and Emily? 632. How did Robin Hood select the spot where he wished to be buried? 633. In the world of literature, how is Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayanaswamy better known? 634. Which fairy tale begins this way, 'Once upon a time there lived in a certain village, a little country girl, the prettiest creature ever seen. Her mother was extremely fond of her, and her grandmother doted on her'? 635. Which English poet wrote several poems about birds like the skylark, cuckoo, nightingale, redbreast and the green lizard? 636. What was WB Yeats referring to when he said, 'I have carried the manuscripts of these translations around with me for days, reading it in trains or on the top of buses and in restaurants. I have often had to close it lest some stranger should see how much it moved me'? 637. With which fictional characters would you associate Bayport High School? 638. In the Arabian Nights, Aladdin's lamp was a source of wealth and good fortune. What purpose did his ring serve? 639. Name the controversial writer who wrote a children's book called Haroun and the Sea of Stones. 640. What is the complete title of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel about Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?

LITERATURE ANSWERS
621. All discovered treasures in caves 622. Because the teacher "taught us" and so he called us tortoise' 623. Grimm's Fairy Tales 624. Abraham Lincoln. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea was written by Jules Verne. 625. They all wrote books while in prison. Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, Daniel Defoe wrote Hymn To The Pillory, Jawaharlal Nehru wrote Discovery of India and John Bunyan wrote The Pilgrim's Progress 626. Nirad C Chaudhuri 627. Mr Fixx 628. Jack and Jill went up the hill, to fetch a pail of water, Jack fell down and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after 629. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (Lorenzini) 630. Mugger (Mugger of Mugger-ghaut, the village) 631. David Copperfield 632. He shot an arrow and the spot where the arrow landed was where he was to be buried 633. RK Narayan 634. 'Red Riding Hood' by Charles Perrault 635. William Wordsworth 636. Yeats, in his introduction to Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali 637. The Hardy Boys 638. It was a guard against evil 639. Salman Rushdie. His first published novel was Grimus. 640. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

MUSIC

MUSIC QUESTIONS
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Who is Top of the Pops longest-serving DJ? Which complete-sounding group recorded the soundtrack for Dune? Which Boney M hit had the oldest lyric ever to top the charts? Who composed the music to Lullaby of Broadway? Which composer, who died in 1971, said My music is best understood by children and animals? 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Which singer married Claude Wolff? For what do the letters W.S. stand in W.S. Gilberts name? Which rock star has the nickname Phyllis? According to Egyptian mythology, which God conquered the world with music? Which famous composer wrote love letters to Antonie von Brentano? Which composer used to shoot at neighbours cats with a bow and arrow? At what time of the day should aubades be played? What was Morecambe and Wises signature tune? Where did the Beatles last all play together? Which long-necked musical instrument has eighteen strings? Which great contralto won the Daily Mail Kathleen Ferrier Award, in 1956? Who made 1964s top-selling record I Love You Because? In ballet, what does sauter mean? What did Reginald Dixon play? Who had a big hit in 1969 with Sugar, Sugar?

MUSIC ANSWERS
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Jimmy Savile. Toto. Rivers of Babylon, which was a hit in 1978. Harry Warren. Igor Stravinsky. Petula Clark. William Schwenk. Rod Stewart. Osiris. Beethoven. Brahms. In the morning. Bring Me Sunshine. On top of the Apple building, in Savile Row, London. The sitar. Dame Janet Baker. Jim Reeves. Jump. The organ mainly at Blackpool Tower. The Archies.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. Which clarinet is the biggest and has the deepest sound? Away We Go was the original working title of which musical film? Who sang the title song in Friendly Persuasion in 1956? At which instrument is Julian Bream a virtuoso? Whom does Tamino seek to rescue in Mozarts The Magic Flute? Who composed Sinfonia Antarctica in 1953? With whom does Michael Jackson sing on the single State of Shock? Who told us in a song I feel like Buddy Holly? When Michael Jackson sang PYT, what did the initials mean? The film Death In Venice uses music by which great composer? From which operetta comes When constabulary dutys to be done/A policemans lot is not a happy one? 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. What is Toyahs surname? For what type of songs was Orlando Gibbons noted? Which two colours is lavender, in the song? Which group sang Lonely This Christmas in 1974? Who made the hit record Like a Virgin? Neil Diamond obtained a degree in biology at New York University. For what did he achieve a scholarship to gain his place? 38. 39. Which Benjamin Britten opera features a fishing village? Frankie Goes To Hollywood took the title of their LP Welcome to the Pleasure Dome from which poem? 40. Which bridge is burning down?

MUSIC ANSWERS
21. The contrabass clarinet. 22. Oklahoma. 23. Pat Boone. 24. The guitar. 25. Pamina. 26. Vaughan Williams. 27. Mick Jagger. 28. Alvin Stardust, but he didnt look like him. 29. Pretty Young Thing. 30. Mahler. 31. The Pirates of Penzance. 32. Wilcox. 33. Madrigals. 34. Blue and green. Lavenders blue, dilly dilly, Lavenders green. 35. Mud. 36. Madonna. 37. Fencing. 38. Peter Grimes. 39. Kubla Khan, by Coleridge. 40. London.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. What did a barber called Buddy Bolden reputedly start in 1900? What makes an opera a Grand Opera? Who sang with Chesney Allen in Underneath the Arches? Kiki and Dave share which surname? What is Stephen Duffys nickname? Who wrote the Hammerklavier Sonata? Who was backed by the Blue Flames? Who composed 33 variations of a Waltz by Diabelli after being paid to write just one? Springtime for Hitler is the musical featured in which film? The Witchs Curse is the subtitle of which Gilbert and Sullivan operetta? Musical directions are mainly written in which language? How many played in The Dave Clark Five? What name does New Yorks 28th Street have in common with Londons Denmark Street? 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. Who starred in the film Brimstone and Treacle? How tall are most double-basses? What does Roger Nelson of Minneapolis call himself when he sings? What nationality is violinist Yehudi Menuhin? Whose autobiography was entitled My Own Trumpet? Which street in New Orleans is famous as the cradle of jazz? In which century was the piano invented?

MUSIC ANSWERS
41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. Jazz, in New Orleans. Nothing is spoken everything is sung. Bud Flanagan. Dee. Tin Tin. Beethoven. Georgie Fame. Beethoven. The Producers. Ruddigore. Italian. Five. Tin Pan Alley. Sting. Just over six feet. Prince. He is American. Sir Adrian Boults. Basin Street. In the eighteenth century.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. Who is the worlds most successful composer of popular music? Who wrote Abide With Me? Who sat among the cinders? In which city is the Metropolitan Opera House? What instrument did Evelyn Rothwell play? Which British rock band has backed Bob Dylan on several albums? Which group had a hit with Good Vibrations? Why, for nearly 200 years, was the music of Mozart banned in the Vatican? What is Opera buffa? Who had a hit with For Once in my Life? Which group did the Mugwumps and the Lovin Spoonful become? Which pop singer starred in the film The Hunger? John Lydon formed which group post-Sex Pistols? Who received an Oscar for his music to the film Oliver? Who was invited to Come into the garden? What is the only number one hit, so far, to begin with an X? Which group, known as AWB for short, had their first break as support to Eric Clapton? 78. 79. 80. Who sang The Ugly Duckling in the film Hans Christian Andersen? Which pop group is featured in the film Take It or Leave It? Who composed the Manfred Symphony, in 1885?

MUSIC ANSWERS
61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. Paul McCartney judging by monetary rewards. Henry Lyte. Little Polly Flinders. In New York. The oboe. Dire Straits. The Beach Boys. Although a Roman Catholic, he became a Freemason just before his death. Comic opera. Stevie Wonder. The Mamas and The Papas. David Bowie. Public Image Limited. Johnny Green, for his adaptation of Lionel Barts work. Maud. Xanadu, in 1980. Average White Band. Danny Kaye. Madness. Tchaikovsky.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
81. 82. 83. Name Georgie Fames backing group. Who wrote the operetta The Grand Duke? Which group, formerly called Hotlegs, had their first number one hit with Rubber Bullets? 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. 99. The musical Man of La Mancha is based on the story of which hero? Which musical instrument has a name which means leaping flea? Which group emerged from Duddleston Manor School? Who was nicknamed the Memphis Flash? Who wrote the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy? A Spoonful of Sugar comes from which musical film? In which 1985 stage musical did Frank Finlay play Captain Bligh? To what style music did piano salesman Matt Honk lend his name? Which rock singer was nicknamed Sharon? In Mozarts The Magic Flute, to whom is the magic flute given? What did John Shore invent in 1711? Which opera by Verdi is based on the play La Dame aux Camlias? According to the Tremeloes, what is silence? Which group had their first hit with Speak Like a Child? What job does Escamillo do in Carmen? White Boy was the first single from which group?

100. Which composer did Rossini say has some wonderful moments but awful half hours?

MUSIC ANSWERS
81. The Blue Flames. 82. Gilbert and Sullivan. 83. 10cc, in 1973. 84. Don Quixote. 85. The ukelele, a Hawaiian name. 86. Musical Youth. 87. Elvis Presley. 88. Tchaikovsky. 89. Mary Poppins. 90. Mutiny! 91. Honky Tonk. 92. Elton John. 93. Tamino. 94. The tuning fork. 95. La Traviata. 96. Golden. 97. Style Council. 98. He is a bullfighter. 99. Culture Club. 100. Wagner.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
101. The Useless Precaution was the subtitle of which Rossini opera? 102. In the 1940s who was nicknamed The Voice? 103. What unusually composed orchestra played at the Wigmore Hall in July 1985? 104. What type of music was Mahalia Jackson renowned for singing? 105. Which famous German composer, born in 1770, died deaf in 1827? 106. With what style of music was Bob Marley particularly associated? 107. Who won an Oscar for his music to the film Bridge On the River Kwai? 108. Which tune was played at Peter Sellerss funeral? 109. The Pipe and Drums of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards had a No.l hit with what? 110. Which group had their only number one hit with Blockbuster in 1973? 111. Who composed the opera Lohengrin? 112. Who is nicknamed the Mother of Country Music? 113. Who composed the song Over There, which was popular in World War II? 114. Which Duke Ellington classic was originally called Dreamy Blues? 115. Who is Annie Mae Bullock? 116. Who wrote the music for the flop musical Jeeves? 117. Which line precedes Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie? 118. Who was the first composer to write a concerto for the bassoon? 119. With what activity do you associate Nat Gonella? 120. In the song, what colour ribbons did Johnny promise to buy at the fair?

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101. The Barber of Seville. 102. Frank Sinatra. 103. One of 20 lutes, believed to be the first for 300 years. 104. Gospel music. 105. Beethoven. 106. Reggae. 107. Malcolm Arnold. 108. In the Mood. 109. Amazing Grace. 110. Sweet but they had five No. 2 hits. 111. Wagner. 112. Maybelle Carter. 113. George M. Cohan. 114. Mood Indigo. 115. Tina Turner. 116. Andrew Lloyd-Webber. 117. Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye. 118. Vivaldi. 119. Music he was a jazz trumpeter. 120. Blue.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
121. Iron Maiden and Motorhead are exponents of which type of music? 122. Who was the only Osmond besides Donny to have a solo British number one? 123. Which country singer has made LPs at two Californian prisons? 124. In which opera is a silver rose central to the plot? 125. Who bought the Presidential yacht Potomac? 126. Which first award did Con Conrads song The Continental win? 127. Which member of a popular duo had a No. 1 hit on his own with Careless Whisper? 128. Which jazzman leads The Feetwarmers? 129. Who composed the opera Russian and Ludmilla? 130. Whose dying words were, I shall hear in heaven? 131. Who leads the Sharks in West Side Story? 132. For every seven white notes on a piano, how many black notes are there? 133. Which group started the Brother Record recording label? 134. Whose first hit record was Wuthering Heights? 135. Janacek wrote an opera about animals called The Cunning Little what? 136. By what name is Beethovens sixth symphony known? 137. Who starred as the cornet player Red Nichols in the 1959 film The Five Pennies? 138. Which great song composer wrote Dwight D. Eisenhowers campaign song, I Like Ike? 139. What did Peter Goldmark invent after listening to classical music at a party? 140. As what was Karl Bohm famous?

MUSIC ANSWERS
121. Heavy Metal. 122. Little Jimmy, with Long-Haired Lover from Liverpool. 123. Johnny Cash. 124. Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss. 125. Elvis Presley. 126. The first Oscar for the Best Film Song of the Year. 127. George Michael of Wham. 128. John Chilton. 129. Glinka. 130. Beethovens. 131. Bernardo. 132. Five. 133. The Beach Boys. 134. Kate Bushs. 135. Vixen. 136. The Pastoral. 137. Danny Kaye. 138. Irving Berlin. 139. The long-playing record. 140. A conductor.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
141. Who was Derek, of Derek and the Dominoes fame? 142. In which year did the Woodstock Festival take place? 143. Which LP was top of the album charts for every week in 1959? 144. Who formed The E-Street Band as his backing group? 145. Who had a big hit with Lily the Pink? 146. Who leads the Jets in West Side Story? 147. On The Street Where You Live comes from which musical? 148. Complete the Elton John title, Dont Shoot Me 149. Which bell has the highest note among church bells? 150. How many reeds are used to play a clarinet? 151. What kind of song is a Noel? 152. Which group did Roy Wood form after leaving The Move? 153. Which conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra for some 20 years received an MBE in l985? 154. To which common musical instrument is a samisen most similar? 155. Known as a virtuoso on the violin, Paganini was also a master of another instrument. Which? 156. What does the frog do on a violin bow? 157. Mark Knopfler is guitarist with which group? 158. Minnie the what was the theme song of Cab Calloways band? 159. Which unripe vegetables inspired Booker T. and the M Gs? 160. Which unlikely pair recorded Peace on Earth together?

MUSIC ANSWERS
141. Eric Clapton. 142. In 1969. 143. The South Pacific soundtrack. 144. Bruce Springsteen. 145. Scaffold. 146. Tony. 147. My Fair Lady. 148. Im Only the Piano Player. 149. The treble. 150. One. 151. A Christmas carol. 152. Wizzard. 153. Sidney Torch. 154. A guitar. 155. Guitar. 156. It tightens (and loosens) the hairs. 157. Dire Straits. 158. Minnie the Moocher. 159. GreenOnions. 160. Bing Crosby and David Bowie.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
161. Which Gilbert and Sullivan operetta is subtitled Castle Adamant? 162. Which common instrument does the Greek bazukia most closely resemble? 163. Who was termed Queen of the Music Halls? 164. Who wrote,Theres No Business Like Show Business? 165. Which Gounod opera was based on a story by Goethe? 166. How many maids were a-milking? 167. Who wrote the choral work Carmina Burana? 168. Which American composed the music for the ballets Billy the Kid and Rodeo? 169. What was John Lennon doing when he was shot? 170. In the opera Moses and Aaron the second act ends with a dance before which idol? 171. How many reeds has a bassoon? 172. Whom did Sir Thomas Beecham try to keep out of his orchestras? 173. Who composed the opera Norma? 174. Why is the song that Christine Jorgensen features in her night club act I Enjoy Being a Girl particularly apt? 175. What type of solo dancing developed on street corners in the 1980s? 176. How many holes does a French flageolet have? 177. In which country did modern ballet begin in the 17th century? 178. Which opera houses roof is designed to look like the sails of a yacht? 179. Which composer did Clara Wieck marry? 180. What is a calliope?

MUSIC ANSWERS
161. Princess Ida 162. The guitar. 163. Marie Lloyd. 164. Irving Berlin. 165. Faust. 166. Eight. 167. Carl Orff. 168. Aaron Copland. 169. Autographing his LP Double Fantasy for his killer! 170. The Golden Calf. 171. Two. 172. Women. 173. Bellini. 174. She underwent a sex change operation. 175. Break dancing. 176. Six: four in front, and two behind. 177. In France. 178. That of the opera house in Sydney, Australia. 179. Robert Schumann. 180. A steam organ.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
181. Whose waltz should last just a minute? 182. Who sang for Money, Money, Money? 183. Who wrote both words and music to The Dancing Years? 184. Fr who, by Beethoven? 185. The dancer Robert Helpmann hailed from where? 186. How many movements does a symphony normally have? 187. The Slave of Duty is the subtitle of which Gilbert and Sullivan opera? 188. Brian Francis Connerly was lead vocalist for which 1970s star group? 189. Whose second symphony was known as the Little Russian? 190. Which great composer is buried at Bayreuth? 191. What was Mischa Elmans instrument? 192. Which musician was elected Pipeman of the Year in 1981? 193. Which disc jockey is often called Fluff? 194. Which group contained Agnetha, Annifrid, Benny and Bjorn? 195. The Israelites by Desmond Dekker was the first record of this sort of music to reach number one. Which? 196. Who wrote the coronation anthem Zadok the Priest in 1727? 197. In The Pirates of Penzance, whom does Frederic love? 198. What does the title of the opera La Traviata mean? 199. What did the old lady swallow that killed her? 200. Who sang with Michael Jackson on The Girl is Mine and Say Say Say?

MUSIC ANSWERS
181. Chopins. 182. Abba. 183. Ivor Novello. 184. Elise. 185. Australia. 186. Four. 187. The Pirates of Penzance. 188. Sweet. 189. Tchaikovskys. 190. Wagner. 191. The violin. 192. James Galway. 193. Alan Freeman. 194. ABBA. 195. Reggae. (It was a hit in 1969.) 196. Handel. 197. Mabel. 198. The Wayward One. 199. A horse. 200. Paul McCartney.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
201. Who sent a musical Message in a Bottle in 1979? 202. Where do the Three Little Maids from School sing together? 203. Which instrument did band-leader Harry James play? 204. Which pop singer made his stage debut in 1985 as Sloane in Entertaining Mr Sloane? 205. In which town was Gustav Hoist born? 206. Who had a big hit with See ya Later, Alligator? 207. Which musical was originally due to be entitled Welcome To Berlin? 208. Who made the best-selling record of 1971, My Sweet Lord? 209. How many piano sonatas did J. S. Bach write? 210. Which musical film was adapted from Lynn Riggs book Green Grow the Lilacs? 211. Kate St John belongs to which pop group? 212. What is Paul McCartneys middle name? 213. Which black singer was shot dead by his father in April 1984? 214. How many strings has a ukulele? 215. Who composed the hymn Nearer My God to Thee? 216. The song Que Sera Sera originated in which film? 217. Who had hits with Lets Go Crazy and 1999? 218. Who had a hit record with Happiness? 219. What is Paul McCartneys first name? 220. Who wrote the Raindrop Prelude?

MUSIC ANSWERS
201. The pop group Police. 202. In The Mikado. 203. The trumpet. 204. Adam Ant. 205. In Cheltenham. 206. Bill Haley and the Comets. 207. Cabaret. 208. George Harrison. 209. None, as the piano had not yet been invented. 210. Oklahoma. 211. Dream Academy. 212. Paul his first name is James. 213. Marvin Gaye. 214. Four strings. 215. Lowell Mason. 216. The Man Who Knew Too Much. 217. Prince. 218. Ken Dodd. 219. James. 220. Chopin.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
221. In which US state was Elvis Presley born? 222. In The Twelve Days of Christmas, how many birds are given in total? 223. In Das Rheingold, who steals the Rhine gold from the Rhine maidens? 224. Who called music the brandy of the damned? 225. On the sale of what was the Top 20 originally based? 226. Who had a number one hit with The Finger of Suspicion in 1954? 227. Who wrote Where Have All The Flowers Gone?? 228. What sort of instrument was the Kit? 229. A policemans lot was not what, according to Gilbert and Sullivan? 230. Paul, Nasher, Pedro and Mark are members of which group? 231. What does Roger Taylor play, in the group Queen? 232. Who had a hit with You Spin Me Round in 1985? 233. Which record by Dexys Midnight Runners was the best-selling single of 1982? 234. Whose first No. 1 hit was Release Me? 235. Who had hits with Tonight and This is not America? 236. By what name was Sex Pistol John Lydon known? 237. As high as which animals eye was the corn, in Oklahoma? 238. John Gorman, Roger McGough and Mike McGear sang in which group? 239. Name the Soft Machine drummer who unfortunately became paralysed. 240. Who had a great hit with Stranger on the Shore?

MUSIC ANSWERS
221. Mississippi, in 1935. 222. 184. 223. Alberich, the Nibelung Dwarf. 224. G. B. Shaw. 225. Sheet music. 226. Dickie Valentine. 227. Pete Seeger. 228. A very small violin that could be carried in the pocket. 229. A happy one. 230. Frankie Goes To Hollywood. 231. The drums. 232. Dead or Alive. 233. Come On Eileen. 234. Engelbert Humperdincks. 235. David Bowie. 236. Johnny Rotten. 237. An elephant. 238. Scaffold. 239. Robert Wyatt. 240. Acker Bilk.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
241. Which bizarrely-dressed pop duo are made up of Jill Bryson and Rose McDowall? 242. Who wrote the song Camptown Races? 243. Which crooner enjoys playing with his vast collection of toy trains? 244. To which group did Nick Heyward belong before going solo? 245. To which conductor was Evelyn Rothwell married? 246. Who conducted the very first performance of Hoists The Planets in 1918? 247. The beautiful aria One Fine Day is from which opera? 248. See ya later, Alligator. What is the next line? 249. Edward Elgar, as well as composing, was a professional player of which instrument? 250. What distinction does Al Martinos Here In My Heart have in pop music? 251. Which musical selection was made first by Vic Oliver and last by Sheila Steafel? 252. Bright Mohawk Valley was the original title of which song, more often played as an instrumental? 253. From what material are marimbas made? 254. To which group does Joe Leeway now belong, after being their roadie? 255. From where does calypso music originate? 256. In which film was the song White Christmas first heard? 257. Which patriotic American song, did Katherine Lee Bates write? 258. Who had a 1958 hit with Whos Sorry Now? 259. Why did two major theatre circuits ban P.J. Probys act as obscene, in 1965? 260. Which singer was nicknamed Queen of Disco?

MUSIC ANSWERS
241. Strawberry Switchblade. 242. Stephen Foster. 243. Frank Sinatra. 244. Haircut 100. 245. Sir John Barbirolli. 246. Sir Adrian Boult. 247. Madame Butterfly. 248. In a while, Crocodile. 249. The violin. 250. It was the first-ever Number One in the first pop chart, in 1952. 251. Desert Island Discs, with Roy Plomley. 252. Red River Valley. 253. Wood. 254. The Thompson Twins. 255. The West Indies. 256. Holiday Inn. 257. America the Beautiful. 258. Connie Francis. 259. Because his trousers kept splitting. 260. Donna Summer.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
261. The song Alice Blue Gown comes from which operetta? 262. What is gathered in May on a cold and frosty morning? 263. Which music hall artist made the song Boiled Beef and Carrots popular? 264. Which song was banned while the Queen toured Canada in 1960? 265. Jazzmen Theodor Navarro and Thomas Waller both used the same nickname what? 266. Who had a 1959 hit with Living Doll? 267. The Swan Chorus is in which Wagner opera? 268. Christopher Robin went down with whom? 269. From which Puccini opera does the aria Nessundorma come? 270. Which telephone number was the title of a Glenn Miller favourite? 271. Which pair wrote Jesus Christ, Superstar? 272. What did Mozart forget to write for Don Giovanni? 273. Who was the original stage Evita? 274. When mares eat oats and does eat oats, what do little lambs eat? 275. Which music video became, in 1984, the first to sell more than 100,000 in Britain? 276. Which song begins Maxweltons braes are bonnie? 277. In what activity do members of the Grand Order of Guisers indulge? 278. With whose clown did the Everley Brothers have a No. 1 hit? 279. What sort of rock music did the Coventry group, the Specials AKA create? 280. Wagner wrote the opera Gtterdmmerung. What does this mean?

MUSIC ANSWERS
261. Irene. 262. Nuts. 263. Harry Champion. 264. The Battle of New Orleans. 265. Fats. 266. Cliff Richard. 267. Lohengrin. 268. Alice. 269. Turandot. 270. Pennsylvania 6500. 271. Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. 272. The overture. He wrote it on the day of the first performance. 273. Elaine Paige. 274. Ivy. 275. The video showing the making of Thriller. 276. Annie Laurie. 277. Traditional folk dancing. 278. Cathys. 279. Two-Tone music. 280. Twilight of the Gods.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
281. The scale played in semitones is called what? 282. Why was the song Refrains by Lys Assia remarkable? 283. The John Gabel Entertainer was the first what? 284. Which of Schuberts symphonies was The Unfinished? 285. From where did Burlington Bertie come, in the song? 286. How were Richard and Johann Strauss related? 287. The musical term molto allegro means what? 288. What was Pans instrument? 289. Who had a hit with The Locomotion? 290. Who had a hit in 1970 with Abraham, Martin and John? 291. Who was the Oscar-winning star of the musical film Cabaret? 292. Levi Stubbs Jr was the lead singer of which vocal quartet? 293. Which people first wrote down music? 294. What does a belly-man do? 295. According to Johnny Prestons 1959 hit, with whom is Running Bear in love? 296. How many notes are there in the pentatonic scale? 297. Which colour bottom was popular in the 1920s as a dance? 298. In June 1985, which singer was a hijack hostage? 299. Approximately how many hours would it take to play all of Joseph Haydns works? 300. Which station broadcasts records on 208 m?

MUSIC ANSWERS
281. Chromatic. 282. It was the first winner of the Eurovision Song Contest, in Switzerland. 283. Jukebox. 284. The Eighth, not his last, but his penultimate. 285. Bow. 286. They werent. 287. Very quickly. 288. The pipes. 289. Little Eva. 290. Marvin Gaye. 291. Liza Minelli. 292. The Four Tops. 293. The Greeks. 294. He makes the soundboards of pianos. 295. Little White Dove. 296. Five. 297. Black. (The Blackbottom.) 298. Demis Roussos. 299. More than 300 hours. 300. Radio Luxembourg.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
301. Pizzicato to arco. What does the music tell you to do? 302. Whom did Sir Thomas Beecham refer to as that Milanese purveyor of spaghetti? 303. Manru was the only opera written by which composer-pianist? 304. What form of music was Jacopo Peri believed to be the first to have composed? 305. Who composed the Drumroll or Paukenwirbel Symphony in 1795? 306. From which country does the dijeridu come? 307. Who was the first black entertainer to win an Emmy? 308. Name the theme song from the TV series Minder. 309. Who had a No. 1 hit with Cars? 310. What is fake about snake-charmers playing music? 311. Which great American invented a harmonica, a set of tuned glass bowls? 312. From which film does the song Secret Love come? 313. Which rock musical features Frank N. Furter, Riff-Raff, Brad and Janet? 314. What did Amati make? 315. What, in the song, is itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny? 316. In which US city is pianist Liberaces museum sited? 317. Who had a hit with the Sounds of Silence? 318. Which composer sat for his portrait by the painter Renoir? 319. Who sang for his supper? 320. Your tiny hand is frozen. In which opera does this well-known aria occur?

MUSIC ANSWERS
301. Change from plucking to bowing. 302. Toscanini. 303. Paderewski. 304. Opera. 305. Haydn. (No. 103 in E flat major.) 306. Australia. 307. Harry Belafonte 308. I Could Be So Good For You. 309. Gary Numan. 310. Snakes are deaf. 311. Benjamin Franklin. 312. Calamity Jane. 313. The Rocky Horror Show. 314. Violins, mostly. 315. Yellow polka-dot bikini. 316. In Las Vegas. 317. Simon and Garfunkel. 318. Wagner. 319. Little Tommy Tucker. 320. In La Bohme by Puccini.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
321. Who was John Lennons second wife? 322. Which punk group brought out an LP, The Raven, which had a 3-D cover? 323. Which solo pop singer belonged to the Streetband, then the Q-Tips? 324. Which instrument did George Gershwin play professionally from a young age? 325. Who turned the cartoon strip Andy Capp into a stage musical? 326. The tiktiri is mostly played by whom? 327. In 1981, who had a hit with Lets Get Physical? 328. Who was the first singer to get five Top Ten hits from one album? 329. What was Stravinskys first name? 330. Who was the fastest milkman in the West? 331. Which American musical star was called The Golden Foghorn? 332. In which musical did Billy Bigelow feature? 333. Which hymn did the Rev. Augustus Montague Toplady write after a rainstorm forced him to shelter? 334. Who packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus? 335. Americans call it a sixteenth-note. What is the British term? 336. How many reeds are used to play an oboe? 337. Anthony Dowell is a virtuoso at which activity? 338. American DJ Alan Freed was said to have coined which phrase? 339. Who wrote the music for Les Sylphides? 340. Where did Ska originate?

MUSIC ANSWERS
321. Yoko Ono. 322. The Stranglers, in 1979. 323. Paul Young. 324. The piano. 325. Alan Price. 326. Snake charmers. 327. Olivia Newton-John. 328. Michael Jackson. Thriller was the name of the album. 329. Igor. 330. Ernie, according to Benny Hill. 331. Ethel Merman. 332. Carousel. 333. Rock of Ages. 334. Nellie the Elephant. 335. A semiquaver. 336. Two. 337. Ballet dancing. 338. Rock n Roll. 339. Chopin. 340. In Jamaica.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
341. Which instrument does the Hardangerfele closely resemble? 342. Name the march William Walton composed for King George VIs coronation. 343. Who had his first hit for 17 years in 1975? 344. How was a dustman related to the singer? 345. Louis Armstrong once spent six months in jail. What was unusual about his incarceration? 346. Whose first two hit albums were No Parlez and The Secret of Association? 347. Who wrote the opera Elektra? 348. Which musical has singers on rollerskates pretending to be trains? 349. Which group did John Moss join after leaving The Clash? 350. Which pianist and composer gave his last public concert at the Guildhall in 1848 in aid of Polish refugees? 351. How far is it to Tipperary? 352. Ringo, Frog, J. T., Charley and Sniffer make up which group? 353. Who wrote the 1971 bestseller Grapefruit? 354. How many rows of keys has the Janko piano? 355. Who made 1975s best-selling record Bye Bye Baby? 356. Which group sang Robert de Niros Waiting? 357. Who, in 1959, had a hit with Oh Carol? 358. Which of Puccinis operas led to a law suit? 359. Mick Talbot and Paul Weller are from which pop group? 360. One oClock Jump is particularly associated with whose big band?

MUSIC ANSWERS
341. 342. 343. 344. 345. 346. 347. 348. 349. 350. 351. 352. 353. 354. 355. 356. 357. 358. 359. 360. The violin. Crown Imperial. Johnny Mathis. He was My old man. He was allowed out nightly to play with his band. Paul Youngs. Richard Strauss. Starlight Express. Culture Club. Chopin. A long way. Duran Duran. Yoko Ono. Six. The Bay City Rollers. Bananarama. Neil Sedaka. La Boheme. The Style Council. Count Basies.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
361. 362. 363. 364. 365. 366. 367. 368. 369. 370. 371. 372. 373. 374. 375. 376. 377. 378. 379. 380. Whose 1985 hit album was called No Jacket Required? Which singer has been called the Divine Miss M? How many separate horns has the weird-looking altohorn? Johnny Cash only performs dressed in one colour. Which? Which group sang Michael Caine? How old was Mozart when he died? Which pop singers real surname is Panayiotou? In which Puccini opera do Ping, Pang and Pong appear? Which instrument does the German dudelsack most closely resemble? Which musical instruments name means large trumpet in Italian? Tom-toms and bongos are types of what? Which instrument has been termed the clown of the orchestra? To which heavy metal group do Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler belong? What is the stage name of Stephen Judkins Saginaw? How many movements does a concerto usually have? Who had a big hit called Goody Two Shoes? The ancient Turkish qanum is the forerunner of which instrument? The Marseillaise features in which Tchaikovsky overture? What does the name of the opera house La Scala mean? Which planet did Gustav Hoist call The Mystic?

MUSIC ANSWERS
361. Phil Collinss. 362. Bette Midler. 363. Seven. 364. Black. 365. Madness. 366. He was 35. 367. George Michael, of Wham! 368. Turandot. 369. The bagpipes. 370. The trombone. 371. Drums. 372. The bassoon. 373. Black Sabbath. 374. Stevie Wonder. 375. Three. 376. Adam Ant. 377. The zither. 378. The 1812. 379. The Staircase. 380. Neptune.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
381. Who made the LP Cant Fight Lightnin? 382. Christopher Isherwoods novel Goodbye to Berlin gave rise to which musical? 383. The Impossible Dream came from which musical? 384. What was the real first name of both Bix Beiderbecke and Chuck Berry? 385. How many players were there in the Temperance Seven, the Sixties band? 386. Why might Creedence Clearwater Revivals only number one hit remind you of a werewolf? 387. Which Gilbert and Sullivan opera is subtitled The Merryman and His Maid? 388. Who, in 1985, was presented with the Burma Star 40 years after earning it? 389. Who has written operas about Einstein, Gandhi and an Egyptian Pharaoh? 390. Which pop band have a deadly sense of humour? 391. Which sweet-sounding group were called first of the heavy bands in 1967? 392. Which line precedes Mother of the free? 393. Who wrote the operas Almira and Rodrigo? 394. Which planet entered the charts five times for Dickie Valentine? 395. How many strings has an oboe? 396. Who wrote the lyrics for Julie Covingtons 1971 album The Beautiful Changes? 397. At what age did Anatole Fistoulari first conduct at a concert? 398. The theme of BBC TVs Face the Music comes from which Walton work? 399. What would you hear at Ronnie Scotts? 400. Which dance did Ponchielli write for Act 3 of La Gioconda?

MUSIC ANSWERS
381. Ringo Starr. 382. Cabaret. 383. Man of La Mancha. 384. Leon. 385. Nine they were always one over the eight. 386. It was called Bad Moon Rising, and was a hit in 1969. 387. The Yeomen of the Guard. 388. Dame Vera Lynn. 389. Philip Glass. 390. Killing Joke. 391. Vanilla Fudge. 392. Land of Hope and Glory. 393. Handel. 394. Venus, in 1959. 395. None. 396. Clive James, the critic. 397. Seven. 398. Faade. 399. Superb jazz. 400. Dance of the Hours.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
401. How many necks had a theorbo, an old style of lute? 402. At what time of the day should serenades properly be played? 403. Whose life is featured in the musical Song of Norway? 404. What was Fats Wallers theme song? 405. Whose first opera was Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio? 406. Who composed the Goldberg Variations? 407. Name Johann Sebastian Bachs youngest son. 408. Who was the guest conductor at the opening of Carnegie Hall in 1891? 409. What was Glenn Millers intended destination when he disappeared while flying over the North Sea in 1944? 410. In which Italian town were the greatest violins made? 411. Which orchestral wind instrument has a reedy tone? 412. How many operas did Gilbert and Sullivan write? 413. What was the first Dylan album to be recorded in Nashville? 414. On which instrument would you find a gemshorn? 415. Where did the polka originate? 416. What was Gays sequel to The Beggars Opera? 417. Which opera singer and film star was killed in an air crash in 1947? 418. Which composer did Alan Badel play in the film Magic Fire? 419. For which opera did Beethoven write three overtures called Leonora? 420. What was the claim to fame of the twelve-year-old pianist Josef Hofmann?

MUSIC ANSWERS
401. Two. 402. In the evening. (And always properly!) 403. Grieg. 404. Aint Misbehavin. 405. Verdi. 406. J.S. Bach. 407. Johann Christian Bach. 408. Tchaikovsky. 409. Paris. 410. Cremona. 411. The oboe, or cor anglais. 412. Fourteen. 413. Blonde on Blonde. 414. An organ. 415. Poland. 416. Polly. 417. Grace Moore. 418. Richard Wagner. 419. Fidelio. 420. He was the first classical artist to be recorded on gramophone.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
421. Who founded the London Philharmonic Orchestra? 422. Who sang about Lady dArbanville? 423. Whose music was featured in The Exorcist! 424. Who is the Divine Miss M? 425. Which Sibelius composition is used as the theme of the 1934 film Death Takes a Holiday? 426. How many semi-quavers are there in a semi-breve? 427. Which musical featured the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York? 428. Which Hoagy Carmichael song gave Ray Charles a big hit in 1960? 429. By what name was the soprano Helen Mitchell better known? 430. Who tied a yellow ribbon round an old oak tree? 431. Which artist did Don McLean sing about in Starry Starry Night? 432. What was Rimsky-Korsakovs original job? 433. In which Puccini opera does the poet Rodolfo appear? 434. What was the Supremes first UK hit? 435. Which composer did Carl Boehm play in the film The Magnificent Rebel? 436. Who did Fernand Gravet play in the film The Great Waltz? 437. B.B. Kings most famous album is called: Live at ? 438. Whose first manager was Andrew Loog Oldham? 439. Which pop singer has compiled a book of equine anecdotes? 440. What was first performed as Count Walseggs Requiem?

MUSIC ANSWERS
421. 422. 423. 424. 425. 426. 427. 428. 429. 430. 431. 432. 433. 434. 435. 436. 437. 438. 439. 440. Sir Thomas Beecham in 1932. Cat Stevens. Mike Oldfields Tubular Bells. Bette Midler. Valse Triste. Sixteen. Guys and Dolls. Georgia on My Mind. Nellie Melba. Tony Orlando and Dawn. Vincent Van Gogh. A sailor. La Bohme. Where Did Our Love Go, 1964. Beethoven. Johann Strauss (the younger). The Regal. The Rolling Stones. Alvin Stardust. Mozarts Requiem.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
441. Which was Tchaikovskys first ballet? 442. Which great jazz clarinetist recorded Mozarts Clarinet Concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra? 443. By what name is Vera Welch better known? 444. What did Musical Youth want you to pass? 445. Who got his Uptown Girl? 446. Which actress wanted to wash that man right out of her hair in South Pacific? 447. Which great composer became a monk and was given quarters in the Vatican? 448. What tune follows This is London on the BBC World Service and was much whistled by Uncle Toby in Tristram Shandy? 449. In Mozarts opera, how many lovers did Don Giovanni have in Spain? 450. Which opera-writer wrote his own epitaph: Life is a jest and all things show it: / I thought so once and now I know it? 451. Cyndi Lauper claims that girls just want to have what? 452. Who was the lead singer and guitarist for The Jam? 453. Who sang with Martha in the 1963 hit Heat Wave? 454. How often did Tchaikovsky meet his patron, Madam von Meck? 455. What was the name of Junior Walkers backing band? 456. Who lost his money in the South Sea Bubble and wrote a prison pastoral for Swift? 457. Where was Bob Dylan born? 458. What does jazzman Stephane Grappelli play? 459. Who used to be lead singer with Japan, and was once voted the most beautiful man in the world? 460. Whose nickname is Slowhand?

MUSIC ANSWERS
441. Swan Lake. 442. Benny Goodman. 443. Vera Lynn. 444. The Dutchie. 445. Billy Joel. 446. Mitzi Gaynor. 447. Liszt. 448. Lillibullero. 449. 1,003. 450. John Gay. 451. Fun. 452. Paul Weller. 453. The Vandellas. 454. Never. 455. The All Stars. 456. John Gay. 457. Duluth, Minnesota. 458. Violin. 459. David Sylvian. 460. Eric Clapton.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
461. What is the leading female role in Puccinis La Bohme? 462. Brian de Palma directed a rock version of Phantom of the Opera. What was it called? 463. Who sang American Pie? 464. Which singer was born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie? 465. What was actorsinger John Leytons first hit? 466. For what does MC5 stand? 467. What is a flourish of trumpets called? 468. Who had a hit with Tonights the Night? 469. Which singer lived at Graceland? 470. To whom is Alvin Stardust married? 471. From which opera does the Anvil Chorus come? 472. Which Beatle was not one of the original four? 473. Which of Griegs works does Anitras Dance come from? 474. By what name is Stuart Goddard better known? 475. By how much does a sharp raise a note? 476. Which four periods are represented by Vivaldis concertos Op. 8 Nos. 14? 477. What is the English name for the opera Die Verkaufte Braut? 478. Bucks Fizz won the Eurovision Song Contest with what song? 479. Which Scottish rocker described himself as Sensational? 480. Name Donovans first two singles.

MUSIC ANSWERS
461. Mimi. 462. Phantom of the Paradise. 463. Don McLean. 464. Lulu. 465. Johnny Remember Me. 466. Motor City Five. 467. A fanfare. 468. Rod Stewart. 469. Elvis Presley. 470. Liza Goddard. 471. Il Trovatore. 472. Ringo Starr. 473. Peer Gynt. 474. Adam Ant. 475. A semitone. 476. The seasons. 477. The Bartered Bride. 478. Making Your Mind Up. 479. Alex Harvey. 480. Catch the Wind and Colours.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
481. Who skipped the light fandango with sixteen vestal virgins? 482. Who asked Rhonda for help? 483. Who had Breakfast in America? 484. Covent Garden opera house was built on the site of what? 485. Who was the subject of the film Lonely Boy? 486. From which opera does Handels famous Largo come? 487. What was the first Pink Floyd album? 488. Which composers life is the basis for the musical Lilac Time? 489. What was Gene Vincents biggest hit? 490. Who sang about My Chrie Amour? 491. Which R and B star died during a concert interval while playing Russian roulette? 492. Where were Ziggy Stardusts spiders from? 493. Whose commercial jingle became a hit in 1976? 494. Who sang All I Want for Christmas is a Beatle? 495. Who was Crazy Diamond? 496. What was Buddy Hollys current single at the time of his death? 497. Who chaired Juke Box Jury? 498. Torvill and Dean used music from Mack and Mabel in one of their routines. Who was the original Mabel? 499. Who was the man with the golden trumpet? 500. What was the Troggs most famous hit?

MUSIC ANSWERS
481. Procul Harum in A Whiter Shade of Pale. 482. The Beach Boys. 483. Supertramp. 484. A convent garden (it was a produce garden of Westminster Abbey). 485. Paul Anka. 486. Xerxes. 487. Piper at the Gates of Dawn. 488. Schubert. 489. Be Bop A Lula. 490. Stevie Wonder. 491. Johnny Ace, in 1954. 492. Mars. 493. David Dundass Jeans On. 494. Dora Bryan. 495. Syd Barrett, who left Pink Floyd after their first album. 496. It Doesnt Matter Any More. 497. David Jacobs. 498. Mabel Normand, a Mack Sennett star. 499. Eddie Calvert. 500. Wild Thing.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
501. Who composed the incidental music for the play Arlsienne? 502. How many semitones are there in an octave? 503. How many calling birds were there? 504. Which famous ballet dancer defected in 1961? 505. What is Bob Hopes theme song? 506. What is Vladimir Ashkenazys instrument? 507. Which was the Beatles first hit record? 508. What instrument does Sabine Meyer play? 509. Who was known as Gentleman Jim? 510. Who wrote the song Beautiful Dreamer? 511. Who had a hit in 1951 with Come On-a My House? 512. What was Mario Lanzas theme song? 513. Who jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge? 514. Which song did Rick ask Sam to play in Casablanca? 515. Name the Everly Brothers. 516. What is the special song of the US Navy? 517. Who became known as the king of ragtime? 518. Which was the first film made by the Beatles? 519. What was Mendelssohns first name? 520. What is the favourite musical instrument of the Tinguian, tribe of the Philippine Islands?

MUSIC ANSWERS
501. Bizet. 502. Twelve. 503. Four. 504. Rudolf Nureyev. 505. Thanks for the Memory. 506. The piano. 507. Love Me Do. 508. The clarinet. 509. Jim Reeves. 510. Stephen Foster. 511. Rosemary Clooney. 512. Be My Love first sung in the 1950 film The Toast of New Orleans. 513. Billy Joe McAllister. 514. As Time Goes By. 515. Don and Phil. 516. Anchors Aweigh. 517. Scott Joplin. 518. A Hard Days Night. 519. Felix. 520. The nose flute.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
521. In which film did Clint Eastwood sing I Talk to the Trees? 522. Which musical instrument did Sir Charles Wheatstone invent? 523. From which film did the song Raindrops Keep Fallin on my Head come? 524. What is the musical term for with? 525. Who had a hit in 1963 with Limbo Rock? 526. Until 1984, which was the only million-selling record featuring bagpipes? 527. What are little girls made of? 528. Which ballet by Delibes is subtitled The Girl with the Enamel Eyes? 529. Which honour did the Beatles receive in 1965? 530. The Four Lovers changed their names to what? 531. Which famous nursery song did Sarah Josepha Hall write in 1830? 532. What did Yankee Doodle name the feather he stuck in his cap? 533. In which song do you pass Loch Tummel and Loch Rannock? 534. Who composed the first opera ever performed? 535. Who did Elsie marry in The Yeoman of the Guard? 536. Who composed The Execution of Stepan Razin? 537. What nationality was Gustav Mahler? 538. Who wrote the comic opera Robinson Crusoe? 539. Which city of West Virginia is also the name of a dance? 540. Who designed the covers for the group Yess albums?

MUSIC ANSWERS
521. Paint Your Wagon. 522. The concertina. 523. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. 524. Con. 525. Chubby Checker. 526. Amazing Grace. 527. Sugar and spice and all things nice. 528. Copplia. 529. The MBE. 530. The Four Seasons. 531. Mary Had a Little Lamb. 532. Macaroni. 533. The Road to the Isles. 534. Peri, c. 1600. 535. Colonel Fairfax (Gilbert and Sullivan). 536. Shostakovitch. 537. Austrian. 538. Offenbach. 539. Charleston. 540. Roger Dean.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
541. Who was the Mad Monk? 542. Who composed the opera La Gioconda? 543. On which instrument is Gillian Weir a virtuoso? 544. What group did Johnny Rotten form after the Sex Pistols? 545. Who brought his sisters and his cousins and his aunts on board HMS Pinafore? 546. Who claimed in 1962 that Big Girls Dont Cry? 547. What was Lulus first hit? 548. Who was portrayed in the films A Song to Remember and Song Without End? 549. Which North American city is considered to be the birthplace of jazz? 550. With whom did Jeanette MacDonald make a series of film musicals? 551. Which tune is called in German Koteletten Walze? 552. Which composer was financed by Nadezda von Meck, a rich widow? 553. Which famous singer co-wrote the words to the song California, Here I Come? 554. What is Captain Sensibles real name? 555. Name the National Anthem of France. 556. Which orchestral instrument did Denner reputedly invent? 557. Which 1972 hit record by the New Seekers was originally heard as a Coca-Cola commercial? 558. Which country does the rumba come from? 559. Which is the largest instrument in a regular string quartet? 560. With which group was Keith Moon the drummer?

MUSIC ANSWERS
541. Thelonius Monk, jazz pianist. 542. Ponchielli. 543. The organ. 544. Public Image Ltd. 545. Sir Joseph Porter. 546. The Four Seasons. 547. Shout. 548. Frdric Chopin. 549. New Orleans. 550. Nelson Eddy. 551. Chopsticks. 552. Tchaikovsky. 553. Al Jolson. 554. Ray Burns. 555. The Marseillaise. 556. The clarinet. 557. Id Like to Teach the World to Sing. 558. Cuba. 559. The cello. 560. The Who.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
561. Who was the first black entertainer to win an Emmy award? 562. From which film did the song My Kind of Town come? 563. For what were the Guarneri family famous? 564. By what name was Eleanor Holliday better known? 565. What are Biblical stories called that are performed by soloists, chorus and orchestra without the aid of action or scenery? 566. Who did the collage on the Beatles Revolver album cover? 567. Who is the lead singer with Thin Lizzy? 568. What instrument does Buddy Miles play? 569. Who packed her trunk and said goodbye to the circus? 570. What is David Bowies real name? 571. Who was given a guitar because his parents couldnt afford the bike he wanted for his twelfth birthday? 572. Who went to the Sun Studio in Memphis in 1954 and paid to record two songs? 573. Who was Phyllis Sellicks piano-playing partner? 574. What is the name of Bob Segers backing band? 575. Which English composer wrote Onward, Christian Soldiers? 576. What was Bing Crosbys theme song? 577. Which Engelbert Humperdinck opera was based on a fairy tale by the brothers Grimm? 578. Of where was St Swithun bishop? 579. Who composed the light operas The Student Prince and The Desert Song? 580. Which composer boasted that he could set a laundry list to music?

MUSIC ANSWERS
561. Harry Belafonte. 562. Robin and the Seven Hoods. 563. Violin-making. 564. Billie Holliday. 565. Oratorios. 566. Klaus Voorman. 567. Phil Lynott. 568. The drums. 569. Nellie the Elephant. 570. David Jones. 571. Elvis Presley. 572. Elvis Presley. 573. Cyril Smith. 574. The Silver Bullet Band. 575. Sir Arthur Sullivan. 576. Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day. 577. Hansel and Gretel. 578. Winchester. 579. Sigmund Romberg. 580. Rossini.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
581. What name is given to Beethovens fifth piano concerto? 582. Musically, what does piano mean? 583. Who sang the theme song in the 1952 film High Noon? 584. They started out as the Detours, then became the High Numbersthen? 585. Who composed a famous piece for the G string? 586. Who do the Coconuts play with? 587. What was Glenn Millers bands theme tune? 588. What is Paul Joness real name? 589. Who was the drummer in the Jimi Hendrix Experience? 590. What was the Kinks first No. 1 hit in the UK? 591. Which Austrian composer wrote over 600 songs in his thirty-one-year life? 592. What was the theme song of Count Basies orchestra? 593. About what sort of heart did Elvis Presley sing? 594. Where is the ballet La Boutique Fantasque set? 595. Which Peanuts character is the Beethoven fanatic? 596. What was the tap-dancer Bill Robinsons nickname? 597. Which role in Benjamin Brittens Midsummer Nights Dream was created by Owen Brannigan? 598. What are the ridges across guitar fingerboards called? 599. What instrument did Myra Hess play? 600. Who composed the song Swanee?

MUSIC ANSWERS
581. The Emperor. 582. Soft. 583. Tex Ritter. 584. The Who. 585. Johann Sebastian Bach. 586. Kid Creole. 587. Moonlight Serenade. 588. Paul Pond. 589. Mitch Mitchell. 590. You Really Got Me (1964). 591. Franz Schubert. 592. One OClock Jump. 593. A wooden one. 594. In a toyshop. 595. Schroeder. 596. Bojangles. 597. Bottom. 598. Frets. 599. The piano. 600. George Gershwin.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
601. Which Sandie Shaw hit won the Eurovision Song Contest? 602. At which horrific Rolling Stones concert was a man murdered in front of the stage? 603. Which instrument can play the highest note: the violin, the flute, the cornet or the xylophone? 604. Nobody knew what it meant, but Procul Harum had a hit with it in 1967. What was it? 605. Who slaughtered Tchaikovsky in the early 1960s? 606. Whose old man was a dustman? 607. Where is Gilbert and Sullivans Gondoliers set? 608. Tracey Ullman asked Darling to move over. Who sang the original? 609. Which American town does Randy Newman sing about? 610. Which album cover had a zip on it? 611. What was Steppen wolf born to be? 612. The Shadows had a hit with their first single in 1960.What was it? 613. Whose shoes were Letting In Water in 1967? 614. By what name was John Ritchie better known? 615. What is D J David Jensens nickname? 616. Name Eric Idles spoof Beatles group. 617. Name any two members of the original Small Faces. 618. Who composed the music (lyrics by Lorenz Hart) to Blue Moon and My Funny Valentine? 619. To whom did Stradivarius become an apprentice at eighteen? 620. From which country does the mazurka originate?

MUSIC ANSWERS
601. Puppet on a String. 602. Altamont. 603. The violin. 604. A Whiter Shade of Pale. 605. B. Bumble and the Stingers with Nut Rocker. 606. Lonnie Donegans (in 1960). 607. Venice. 608. Doris Day. 609. Baltimore. 610. Sticky Fingers by the Rolling Stones. 611. Wild. 612. Apache. 613. Traffics. 614. Sid Vicious. 615. Kid. 616. The Ruttles. 617. Jimmy Winston, Ronnie Lane, Steve Marriott, Ian McLagan. 618. Richard Rodgers. 619. Niccolo Amati. 620. Poland.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
621. By what name is the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The King of Barataria better known? 622. To which film was Mrs Robinson the theme music? 623. Whom did Prince William of Germany allow to shoot the ash from a cigarette held in his mouth? 624. What is the wet nickname of Chopins Prelude Op. 28 No. 15? 625. Who wrote the words and music for Oliver? 626. Where does the song ask Bill Bailey to come? 627. Who wrote the film score for ET? 628. What is the title of the famous musical based on The Taming of the Shrew? 629. Name one of Pink Floyds first two hit singles. 630. Which pair starred in the musical Top Hat? 631. From which disability has Stevie Wonder suffered since birth? 632. What was Britains first winning song in the Eurovision Song Contest? 633. What nationality was Bla Bartk? 634. On which radio programme did Cliff Michelmore meet his wife, broadcaster Jean Metcalfe? 635. Who collaborated with Tim Rice on the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar? 636. Who played the singer Joey Evans in the 1957 film Pal Joey? 637. Which group recorded the album Abbey Road? 638. Who married Miss World 1962 (Catherine Lodders)? 639. Who wrote the comic opera Il Seraglio? 640. What is a backgammon boards central division called?

MUSIC ANSWERS
621. The Gondoliers. 622. The Graduate. 623. Annie Oakley. 624. The Raindrop. 625. Lionel Bart. 626. Home. 627. John Williams. 628. Kiss Me Kate. 629. See Emily Play and Arnold Layne. 630. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. 631. Blindness. 632. Puppet on a String (1967, sung by Sandie Shaw). 633. Hungarian. 634. Family Favourites. 635. Andrew Lloyd Webber. 636. Frank Sinatra. 637. The Beatles. 638. Chubby Checker. 639. Mozart. 640. The bar.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
641. Which group featured in the film Rock Around the Clock? 642. Who did the Muswell Hillbillies become? 643. Who sang about an Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini? 644. In which city did the eight-year-old Mozart compose his first symphony? 645. In the song, what follows the line, Drink to me only with thine eyes? 646. How many works (to the nearest fifty) did Mozart compose? 647. Name three of the four colours of the movements of Sir Arthur Blisss Colour Symphony. 648. Which sense did Beethoven lose? 649. What is Duke Ellingtons real first name? 650. In which film did Sting spread a little happiness? 651. Who sang about the werewolves of London? 652. Who composed Stardust? 653. Who was the Monkees drummer? 654. Which great dancer was born Margaret Hookham? 655. Simon and Garfunkel started their working life as...? 656. What was Elvis Presleys middle name? 657. To which note do the players in an orchestra tune their instruments? 658. Which composer was known as the Napoleon of Music, Signor Crescendo? 659. What was Louis Armstrongs instrument? 660. Which song did Judy Garland sing to Mickey Rooneys photograph in the film Babes in Arms?

MUSIC ANSWERS
641. Bill Haley and the Comets. 642. The Kinks. 643. Brian Hyland. 644. London. 645. And I will pledge with mine. 646. Six hundred. 647. Purple, red, blue, green. 648. His hearing. 649. Edmund. 650. Brimstone and Treacle. 651. Warren Zevon. 652. Hoagy Carmichael. 653. Micky Dolenz. 654. Dame Margot Fonteyn. 655. Tom and Jerry. 656. Aaron. 657. A. 658. Rossini. 659. The trumpet. 660. I Cried for You.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
661. Who wrote the Carnival of the Animals? 662. By which name was Ferdinand Morton better known? 663. Which group had a big hit with Wild Side of Life? 664. Whose theme song is Ill Be Seeing You? 665. Who wrote 0 Susanna? 666. For which group did John Bonham, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones all play before they formed Led Zeppelin? 667. Who was the Mick Jagger look-alike lead singer in the New York Dolls? 668. What type of instrument is a cor anglais? 669. From which book was the musical Camelot adapted? 670. By what name is legendary bluesman McKinley Morganfield otherwise known? 671. How many semiquavers are there in a semibreve? 672. Where was Mrs Worthington advised not to put her daughter? 673. Which group did Steve Marriott go on to form when he left the Small Faces? 674. In which Gilbert and Sullivan opera does Sir Roderic Murgatroyds portrait come alive? 675. Who was the first lead singer with the Drifters? 676. Which great composer was once a butchers boy? 677. In Alice in Wonderland, who sings of Soup of the evening, beautiful soup? 678. How many operas are in Wagners Ring cycle? 679. Which was the first complete symphony ever to be recorded? 680. Who wrote The Kings Hunt?

MUSIC ANSWERS
661. Saint-Sans. 662. Jelly Roll Morton. 663. Status Quo. 664. Liberaces. 665. Stephen Foster. 666. The Yardbirds. 667. David Johansson. 668. A woodwind instrument rather like an oboe. 669. The Once and Future King by T. H. White. 670. Muddy Waters. 671. Sixteen. 672. On the stage (by Nol Coward). 673. Humble Pie. 674. Ruddigore. 675. Clyde McPhatter. 676. Dvorak. 677. The Mock Turtle. 678. Four. 679. Beethovens Fifth. 680. John Bull.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
681. Who composed the song Ive Got You Under My Skin? 682. Who were the first king and queen of England to make a record? 683. Prom which opera came Carusos earliest known recording? 684. Who composed what is usually called Haydns Toy Symphony? 685. Who composed the opera Billy Budd? 686. Where was composer Thea Musgrave born? 687. Who composed the choral suite Five Tudor Portraits? 688. After whom was the Music Hall, New York, renamed? 689. Which singer is known as La Stupenda? 690. What does a belly-man do? 691. What did Berlioz originally study? 692. The Slave of Duty is the sub-title of an opera. Which? 693. In which year did Caruso make his last recording? 694. Who wrote the Surprise Symphony? 695. Which was the first British instrumental recording to top the US charts? 696. Who wrote the words to the hymn Jerusalem? 697. Who sang Sealed with a Kiss? 698. Franz Liszt was the father-in-law of which famous composer? 699. By what name were Cam and the Passions better known? 700. Which socialist song is sung to the tune of Der Tannenbaum?

MUSIC ANSWERS
681. Cole Porter. 682. King George V and Queen Mary. 683. Puccinis Tosca. 684. Leopold Mozart, Mozarts father, as part of a longer work. 685. Benjamin Britten. 686. Edinburgh. 687. Ralph Vaughan Williams. 688. Andrew Carnegie. 689. Joan Sutherland. 690. Assembles and adjusts soundboards of pianos. 691. Medicine. 692. The Pirates of Penzance. 693. 1920. 694. Haydn. 695. Telstar, by the Tornados. 696. William Blake. 697. Brian Hyland. 698. Richard Wagner. 699. The Beach Boys. 700. The Red Flag.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
701. Pibroch is a form of music for which instrument? 702. What was Sindings most famous piano composition? 703. How many overtures did Beethoven write to his opera Fidelio? 704. Which ex-Beatle was the first to have a Number One hit after the break-up? 705. What is Canadas national anthem called? 706. Who fittingly starred in the 1938 film Moonlight Sonata? 707. Which composer did Richard Tauber play in Blossom Time? 708. Which of Beethovens symphonies is known as the Eroica? 709. For which instrument did the composer Widor write his best-known works? 710. What was Dusty Springfields first No. 1 hit? 711. Who wrote, If I were a carpenter? 712. Name one of the actresses who portrayed the Little Ladies in Rock Follies. 713. To whom were the Abegg Variations dedicated? 714. Who wrote the music Tubular Bells used as the theme to The Exorcist? 715. What is a tail piece rounding off a musical composition called? 716. Which Damon Runyon story inspired Guys and Dolls? 717. Which Country and Western star sings with Dylan on the album Nashville Skyline? 718. Which group first recorded Do You Believe in Magic? 719. Which Beach Boy died in 1983? 720. Name one of the two singer-songwriters credited with composing Sinatras My Way?

MUSIC ANSWERS
701. The bagpipes. 702. Rustle of Spring. 703. Four. 704. George Harrison. 705. O Canada. 706. The concert pianist and ex Polish PM Jan Paderewski. 707. Franz Schubert. 708. The third. 709. The organ. 710. You Dont Have To Say You Love Me. 711. Tim Hardin. 712. Rula Lenska, Charlotte Cornwell, Julie Covington. 713. Countess Abegg. 714. Mike Oldfield. 715. A coda. 716. The Idylls of Sarah Brown. 717. Johnny Cash. 718. The Lovin Spoonful. 719. Dennis Wilson. 720. Claude Franois and Paul Anka.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
721. If a note is preceded by a flat sign, by how much is it lowered? 722. He was known as The Bird. Who was he? 723. Where is the House of the Rising Sun? 724. Who sang about toothbrushes? 725. Who was still crazy after all these years? 726. What was the theme tune for ITVs Ready Steady Go? 727. Who Aint Misbehavin? 728. What, non-musically, are Lincolnshire Bagpipes? 729. How much recording tape moves past the heads of a cassette recorder each second? 730. Which French singer is associated with a straw hat and Gigi? 731. In which year did Sadlers Wells hold its first Gilbert and Sullivan festival? 732. Who chairs My Music? 733. In the film Gigi what did Maurice Chevalier claim, in song, to be able to do? 734. Who did Maddy Prior sing with? 735. Who sang about My Boy Lollipop in 1964? 736. What instrument does Osian Ellis play? 737. Whose rags were used in the film The Sting? 738. Who sang When a Man loves a Woman in 1966? 739. Where does Theres No Business Like Show Business come from? 740. Who wrote the symphonic poem Les Prludes?

MUSIC ANSWERS
721. A semitone. 722. Charlie Parker, king of bebop. 723. New Orleans. 724. Max Bygraves: Youre a pink toothbrush, Im a blue toothbrush. . . 725. Paul Simon. 726. Manfred Manns 54321. 727. Fats Waller. 728. Croaking frogs. 729. 1 inches. 730. Maurice Chevalier. 731. 1984. 732. Steve Race. 733. To remember it well. 734. Steeleye Span. 735. Millie Small. 736. The harp. 737. Scott Joplins. 738. Percy Sledge. 739. The musical Annie Get Your Gun. 740. Liszt.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
741. Who had a hit with Devil Woman? 742. Which English composer was the leading musical figure of the Restoration? 743. Which film star did Madness sing about? 744. Who wrote the Maple Leaf Rag? 745. Who wrote the Monkees hit Im a believer? 746. What is Kenny Bakers instrument? 747. How many hours away from Tulsa was Gene Pitney? 748. Who founded the Ballet Russe? 749. Who recorded the album Heartbreak and Vine? 750. How many of Rossinis operas have the same overture? 751. Sid Vicious recorded what must be regarded as the definitive version of which hoary old chestnut? 752. Who was the leader of the band called the Crypt Kickers? 753. Who had a hit about Baker Street? 754. Who were the first British group to top the American charts? 755. Who Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun? 756. What was The Bands first album called? 757. Who composed the song Camptown Races? 758. Who had a hit with I Know a Place in 1965? 759. Who composed the opera Boris Godunov? 760. In which city was the first public opera house opened?

MUSIC ANSWERS
741. Cliff Richard. 742. Henry Purcell. 743. Michael Cane. 744. Scott Joplin. 745. Neil Diamond. 746. The trumpet. 747. Twenty-four. 748. Diaghilev. 749. Tom Waits. 750. Three. 751. My Way. 752. Bobby Boris Pickett. 753. Gerry Rafferty. 754. The Tornados. 755. Pink Floyd. 756. Music from Big Pink. 757. Stephen Foster. 758. Petula Clark. 759. Mussorgsky. 760. Venice.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
761. Which famous jazz clarinettist usually sports a bowler? 762. Who was known in Germany as der Bingle? 763. For which instrument was Bachs Italian Concerto written? 764. Youve heard of platinum albums, but who was the first artiste to win a rhodium record? 765. Who did the Funky Chicken? 766. What are lieder? 767. Whose pig floated away? 768. Which band replaced the Rolling Stones at the Crawdaddy, Richmond? 769. Who recorded the album Broken English? 770. What was the Searchers biggest hit? 771. Who was in a purple haze? 772. Name the original Shadows. 773. What colour was mellow? 774. How much did Sherlock Holmess Stradivarius violin cost him? 775. Which was Elvis Presleys first film? 776. How did Buddy Holly die? 777. With which song are Bill Haley and his Comets most associated? 778. Who was the best-known lead-singer with The Pips? 779. Name the mythical Scottish town that appears for one day every 100 years in the musical by Lerner and Loewe. 780. In German legend, who was Lohengrins father?

MUSIC ANSWERS
761. Acker Bilk. 762. Bing Crosby. 763. The harpsichord. 764. Paul McCartney. 765. Rufus Thomas. 766. Songs. 767. The Pink Floyds giant inflatable pig, tethered by Battersea power station, broke its moorings during a promotional stunt and floated towards France. 768. The Yardbirds. 769. Marianne Faithfull. 770. Needles and Pins (1964). 771. Jimi Hendrix. 772. Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Jet Harris and Tony Meehan. 773. Yellow (in Donovans song). 774. 55 shillings. 775. Love Me Tender. 776. He was killed in a plane crash. 777. Rock Around the Clock. 778. Gladys Knight. 779. Brigadoon. 780. Parsifal.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
781. Who composed the opera La Bohme? 782. Which twelve-tone composer wrote the opera Wozzeck? 783. Who was called the Waltz King? 784. Who had a hit in 1961 with Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour on the Bedpost Overnight? 785. Who was the best-known lead singer with The Shadows? 786. Name the Magic Dragon, Jackie Papers friend. 787. Who wrote the music for the film Our Town? 788. Lady Sings the Blues is whose life story? 789. Which Gilbert and Sullivan opera has the subtitle The Lass that Loved a Sailor? 790. By what name is Reg Dwight better known? 791. Who composed the opera Ada? 792. Which opera was written to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal? 793. Which song did Irving Berlin present to his wife as a wedding gift in 1926? 794. Who did Simple Simon meet on the way to the fair? 795. Which companys trademark includes Nipper the dog? 796. Who sang the theme song to Rawhide? 797. John Howard Payne, born 1791, achieved fame with one song. Which song? 798. Who became Master of the Kings Musick in 1924? 799. Under what pseudonym did Philip Heseltine compose? 800. From which musical did the song How are Things in Glocca Morra come?

MUSIC ANSWERS
781. Puccini. 782. Alban Berg. 783. Johann Strauss Junior. 784. Lonnie Donegan. 785. Cliff Richard. 786. Puff. 787. Aaron Copland. 788. Billie Hollidays. 789. HMS Pinafore. 790. Elton John. 791. Giuseppe Verdi. 792. Ada. 793. Always. 794. A pieman. 795. His Masters Voice. 796. Frankie Laine. 797. Home, Sweet Home. 798. Sir Edward Elgar. 799. Peter Warlock. 800. Finians Rainbow.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
801. What was the Negro tapdancer Luther Bill Robinsons nickname? 802. Who brought the bagpipes to the British Isles? 803. Which British composer died in 1628? 804. What was the first opera Arthur Sullivan set to music? 805. Who wrote Love Letters in the Sand in the 1950s? 806. Who composed the music for The Threepenny Opera? 807. Billy J. Kramer and the... what? 808. Who sang about Songs in the Key of Life? 809. Which modern instrument did the viola da gamba most resemble? 810. Who was Master of the Queens Musick from 1953 to 1975? 811. Which composer wrote a song and a piano quintet with a trout in the title? 812. What was gangster Louie Brooks favourite song in the 1932 film Dancing in the Dark? 813. Who composed the William Tell overture? 814. Who was the female vocalist with Brian Augers Trinity? 815. Which bands first hit single, in 1970, was In the Summertime? 816. From which musical does They Call the Wind Maria come? 817. Who composed the Enigma Variations? 818. Which work did Ravel compose for the dancer Ida Rubinstein? 819. Who wrote Peter and the Wolf? 820. Which musical term is also the French for key?

MUSIC ANSWERS
801. Mr Bojangles. 802. The Romans. 803. John Bull. 804. Cox and Box. (Libretto by F. C. Burnand not Gilbert.) 805. Pat Boone. 806. Kurt Weill. 807. Dakotas. 808. Stevie Wonder. 809. The cello. 810. Sir Arthur Bliss. 811. Franz Schubert. 812. St Louis Blues. 813. Rossini. 814. Julie (Jools) Driscoll. 815. Mungo Jerry. 816. Paint Your Wagon. 817. Sir Edward Elgar. 818. The Bolero. 819. Prokofiev. 820. Clef.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
821. Which instrument did Sherlock Holmes play? 822. In which Wagner opera does Beckmesser appear? 823. Who wore short shorts? 824. What was the Bonzo Dog Dooda Bands first album? 825. What is Dizzy Gillespies real first name? 826. What was the title of Norman Greenbaums rather depressing hit? 827. Who first recorded the R and B classic Smokestack Lightnin? 828. What sort of emotion had the Righteous Brothers lost in 1964? 829. Who wrote the blues classic Dust My Broom? 830. Who wrote I Dream of Jeannie? 831. Who composed Land of Hope and Glory? 832. Of which disease did Tchaikovsky die? 833. What is Benny Goodmans instrument? 834. What was the theme song of the 1955 film The Blackboard Jungle? 835. In which land does Puff the Magic Dragon live? 836. For which 1960s duo was the phrase blue-eyed soul coined? 837. Which of the Allman brothers died in a motorbike accident? 838. Which American record producer played maracas on the first Rolling Stones album? 839. How many Enigma Variations are there? 840. Which composer does Schroeder idolize?

MUSIC ANSWERS
821. The violin. 822. The Mastersingers. 823. The Purple People Eater. 824. Gorilla (1967). 825. John. 826. Spirit in the Sky. 827. Howlin Wolf (Chester Burnett). 828. That Loving Feeling. 829. Robert Johnson. 830. Stephen Foster. 831. Sir Edward Elgar. 832. Cholera. 833. The clarinet. 834. Rock Around the Clock. 835. Honalee. 836. The Righteous Brothers. 837. Duane. 838. Phil Spector. 839. Fourteen. 840. Beethoven.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
841. How many men on the dead mans chest? 842. Which country does the song Cockles and Mussels come from? 843. Ding, dong, bell wheres pussy? 844. Name the group formed by the Wilson brothers in 1961. 845. Which brass instrument is considered to be the most difficult to play well? 846. Jonathan King had his first hit while still a Cambridge undergraduate. What was it? 847. Who wrote that only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun? 848. Which group had a hit with Puff the Magic Dragon? 849. Who is sweet baby James? 850. Who was San Franciscos Captain Trips? 851. On which instrument is Rostropovitch a virtuoso? 852. Where do Prince Buster, Dave and Ansil Collins, and Desmond Dekker come from? 853. How many pieces made up Mendelssohns Songs Without Words? 854. Which group sang about Baggy Trousers? 855. What did the jolly swag-man camp by? 856. Which composer introduced the dodecaphonic scale? 857. How close to destruction did Barry McGuire get? 858. Which instrument usually gives an orchestra its note for tuning-up? 859. Who was shot and killed in front of Dakota, his New York home, on 8 December 1980? 860. Name the first group founded in 1955 by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

MUSIC ANSWERS
841. Fifteen. 842. Ireland. 843. In the well. 844. The Beach Boys. 845. The French horn. 846. Everyones Gone to the Moon. 847. Nol Coward. 848. Peter, Paul and Mary. 849. Singer/songwriter James Taylor. 850. The Grateful Deads Jerry Garcia. 851. The cello. 852. Jamaica. 853. Forty-eight. 854. Madness. 855. A billabong. 856. Arnold Schnberg. 857. The eve... 858. The oboe. 859. John Lennon. 860. The Quarrymen.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
861. Who composed the opera La Clemenza di Tito? 862. Playing with each note detached what is the musical term? 863. Who sang about Samantha? 864. Who composed a symphony nicknamed the Hen? 865. In which of Puccinis operas does Scarpia appear? 866. Which American city is called Music City? 867. How did Madame Butterfly die? 868. In which film was the song New York, New York introduced? 869. Which piano concerto was featured in Elvira Madigan? 870. What is Stings real name? 871. What does rust never do, according to Neil Young? 872. Who took off his hat to Larry? 873. Who did the Banshees play with? 874. Who got his mojo working? 875. Who is known as the King of the High Cs? 876. Of which group were Brian Jones and Bill Wyman members? 877. Which Beethoven opera is subtitled Wedded Love? 878. Who was the lead guitarist of the Beatles? 879. From which musical does the song 01 Man River come? 880. What is the theme song of the Harlem Globetrotters?

MUSIC ANSWERS
861. Mozart. 862. Staccato. 863. Bing Crosby in High Society. 864. Joseph Haydn. 865. Tosca. 866. Nashville, Tennessee. 867. She killed herself with her fathers sword. 868. New York, New York. 869. Mozarts piano concerto No. 21 in C Major. 870. Gordon Sumner. 871. It never sleeps. 872. Del Shannon. 873. Siouxsie. 874. Muddy Waters composer of the R and B standard. 875. Luciano Pavarotti. 876. The Rolling Stones. 877. Fidelio. 878. George Harrison. 879. Showboat. 880. Sweet Georgia Brown.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
881. Who composed the hit song Help Me Make It Through the Night? 882. O mistress mine, where are you roving: from which play does this song come? 883. Who composed, with Frederick Loewe, Almost Like Being in Love? 884. Who composed the opera Love for Three Oranges? 885. Who was known as The Poet of the Piano? 886. Who portrayed Louis Armstrong in the 1959 film, The Five Pennies? 887. To what did the group known as The Quarrymen change their name? 888. Who wrote the theme music to Man Alive? 889. Who wrote the theme tune to Emmerdale Farm? 890. To what did John Lennon change his middle name, Winston? 891. Which groups first record was Come On? 892. Which instrument did David play in the Bible? 893. In what subject did Paul Robeson, the singer, have a degree? 894. Who wrote the two-act opera LElisir damore? 895. Who had a hit with Long Haired Lover from Liverpool? 896. Who was the lead singer in the Irish group Them who went on to greater success as a solo artist? 897. What was Scaffolds hit novelty record of 1967 with which the group is always closely associated? 898. What was given on the seventh day of Christmas? 899. Who was the 1958 Cha Cha Champ of Hong Kong? 900. How many Paris Symphonies did Haydn compose?

MUSIC ANSWERS
881. 882. 883. 884. 885. 886. 887. 888. 889. 890. 891. 892. 893. 894. 895. 896. 897. 898. 899. 900. Kris Kristofferson. Shakespeares Twelfth Night. Alan Jay Lerner. Prokofiev. Chopin. He played himself. The Beatles. Tony Hatch. Tony Hatch. Ono. The Rolling Stones. The harp. Law. Donizetti. Little Jimmy Osmond. Van Morrison. Thank U Very Much. Seven swans a-swimming. The late Bruce Lee, of Kung Fu fame. Six.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
901. What did Handel originally study? 902. Who composed the opera Albert Herring? 903. Which modern instrument does the shawa most resemble? 904. Who composed the overtures Egmont and Coriolan? 905. Who wrote the music for Fleckers Hassan? 906. In which year did Toscanini make his first recording? 907. Who orchestrated Bachs famous Toccata and Fugue in D Minor under the pseudonym Paul Klenovsky? 908. What question did the Small Faces ask in 1965? 909. Which dance was introduced to Paris in 1843 and went one-two-three-hop? 910. When was the first LP released commercially in England? 911. How was Louis Barraud connected with HMV? 912. How old was Duke Ellington when he composed his first song Soda Fountain Rag? 913. Who was Polands prime minister from 1919 to 1921? 914. Who composed the forty-part motet Spem in Alium? 915. Which collaborators wrote the music and lyrics for South Pacific? 916. Who wrote the music for the popular ballet Giselle? 917. Where would you find the vox humana and vox angelica together? 918. How many ways did Paul Simon have of leaving his lover? 919. Which festival links the cities of Hereford, Worcester and Gloucester? 920. Which 1961 Acker Bilk record remained in the charts for fifty-five weeks?

MUSIC ANSWERS
901. The law. 902. Benjamin Britten. 903. The oboe. 904. Beethoven. 905. Delius. 906. 1920. 907. Henry Wood. 908. Watcha Gonna Do About It? 909. The polka. 910. 1950. 911. His painting of a dog with a trumpet inspired their logo. 912. Fourteen. 913. The concert pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski. 914. Thomas Tallis. 915. Rodgers and Hammerstein. 916. Adolphe Adam. 917. On an organ. They are stops. 918. Fifty. 919. The Three Choirs Festival. 920. Stranger on the Shore.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
921. Who claimed that the sun wasnt gonna shine anymore?

922. By what name is John Lydon better known? 923. By what name was Mark Field better known? 924. The famous British scientist Sir Charles Wheatstone is said to be the inventor not only of the concertina but also of another popular instrument. Which one? 925. Who composed Brigg Fair? 926. Who is the Big Yin? 927. Whose tenth hit was I Feel Like Buddy Holly? 928. Who wrote, This land is your land? 929. Who wrote the sonata given the title Les Adieux? 930. Gmette Neveu was killed in an air crash in 1949. Which instrument did she Play? 931. What was the first Rolling Stones No. 1 hit? 932. Name the two rival gangs in the musical West Side Story. 933. Dalcroze, Professor of Harmony at the Geneva Conservatoire, conceived of which form of exercise? 934. An organ built in the tenth century was so powerful that seventy men were needed to pump the bellows. Where was it? 935. Who wrote the Hungarian Rhapsody? 936. Who sang Falling in Love Again in The Blue Angel? 937. Which member of the Who switched to literature? 938. Which of Mahlers symphonies did he leave unfinished? 939. Who is said to have fiddled while Rome burned? 940. He recorded 18 with a Bullet, which reached that slot in the US charts. What was his name?

MUSIC ANSWERS
921. The Walker Brothers. 922. Johnny Rotten. 923. Marc Bolan. 924. The harmonica. 925. Delius. 926. Billy Connolly. 927. Alvin Stardust. 928. Woody Guthrie. 929. Beethoven. 930. Violin. 931. Its All Over Now. 932. Jets and Sharks. 933. Eurhythmies. 934. At Winchester Cathedral. 935. Liszt. 936. Marlene Dietrich, in about 1930. 937. Pete Townshend. 938. His tenth. 939. Nero. 940. Pete Wingfield.

MUSIC QUESTIONS
941. Who wrote the song Smoke Gets in Your Eyes? 942. Who is the lead singer in Duran Duran? 943. Schumanns wife was a talented musician. What was her name? 944. Which song was George Harrison accused of plagiarizing in My Sweet Lord? 945. Who wrote Blue Suede Shoes? 946. Whose bells were tubular? 947. From which musical does Hey Big Spender come? 948. In which Cuban dance is the leader followed in single file? 949. Where did reggae originate? 950. Which was the Muse of dance, and the dramatic chorus? 951. The Comets were whose backing band? 952. Who was satirized by Gilbert and Sullivan as Bunthorne? 953. Which song is heard at the end of Dr Strangelove? 954. What does pizzicato mean? 955. In which musical does the Russian village of Anatevka feature? 956. Which music composer produced the musical Bombay Dreams with A.R. Rahman in 2002? 957. Which famous international singer named his son after two notes of the Indian musical scale, 'dha' and 'ni'? 958. For which famous musician did Ravi Shankar compose the solo musical piece Prabhati? 959. With which musical instrument would you associate the Lucknow gharana, Ajrada gharana, Benaras gharana and Punjab gharana? 960. Hari Prasad Chaurasia and Lord Krishna are both associated with which musical instrument?

MUSIC ANSWERS
941. Jerome Kern. 942. Simon Le Bon. 943. Clara Schumann. 944. The Chiffons hit Hes So Fine. 945. Carl Perkins. 946. Mike Oldfields. 947. Sweet Charity. 948. The Conga. 949. Jamaica. 950. Terpsichore. 951. Bill Haleys. 952. Oscar Wilde, in Patience. 953. Well Meet Again. 954. That notes on a stringed instrument should be plucked, not bowed. 955. Fiddler on the Roof. 956. Andrew Lloyd Webber 957. George Harrison 958. Yehudi Menuhin 959. The tabla. Delhi and Farukhabad are the other well-known gharanas of tabla. 960. The flute

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

1. Which part of the body is affected by astigmatism? 2. What is the common name for Scriveners Palsy? 3. Which part of your body does the tragus protect? 4. Which planet is called both the morning star and evening star? 5. What unusual food do South Pacific robber crabs eat? 6. Which fruit is a cross between a peach and a plum? 7. The original wheels, in prehistoric times, were made from what? 8. Lack of which vitamin causes scurvy? 9. What are male and female moles called? 10. Which element does a Venuss Fly-Trap most need from flies? 11. What is the other name for quicksilver? 12. Which medical complaint is nitroglycerin used to treat? 13. In which part of the body is the largest muscle, the gluteus maximus? 14. Around what would you find Himalia, Ananke and Europa? 15. Whose third Law of Motion states that to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction? 16. What does a somatologist study? 17. What is loess, in geology? 18. Where does the halibut have its two eyes? 19. What is the name given to the flower truss of the willow tree? 20. In geology, what is a moraine?

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY ANSWERS

1. The eyes. 2. Writers cramp. 3. The inner ear it is the flap at the entrance to the ear. 4. Venus. 5. Coconuts they have very powerful pincers. 6. A nectarine. 7. Solid slices of tree trunk. 8. Vitamin C. 9. Boars and sows. 10. Nitrogen. 11. Mercury. 12. Heart trouble, or angina pectoris. 13. The buttocks. 14. Jupiter. They are satellites. 15. Sir Isaac Newtons. 16. The human body. 17. Yellow dust. 18. Both are on the right side of the head. 19. Catkin. 20. The deposit left in the wake of a glacier.

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

21. What is the fruit of the Citrus Paradisi tree? 22. Who commanded the first space shuttle flight? 23. A rock-hopper is a kind of what? 24. The presence of which vitamin is necessary for blood to clot? 25. Aerolite and siderite are the two types of what? 26. What is an animals pancreas called, when used as food? 27. How many moons does the planet Mercury have? 28. Which part of the body suffers from gastroenteritis? 29. What is molten animal fat used for making candles and soap called? 30. How many sides does a rhombus have? 31. Which bone connects the pelvis to the knee? 32. What usually cause tidal waves? 33. From what is amber made? 34. Who founded the science of electromagnetism? 35. What is deuterium oxide usually called? 36. What was the first turbojet-powered airliner? 37. Which birds name means to flinch, or cower away? 38. What sort of vehicle is called an LEM by astronauts? 39. Which vehicle is known as a chopper? 40. What would an ombrometer or a Dines tilting syphon measure?

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY ANSWERS

21. The grapefruit. 22. John Young. 23. Penguin. 24. Vitamin K. 25. Meteorite. 26. Sweetbread. 27. None. 28. The stomach. 29. Tallow. 30. Four. 31. The femur, or thigh bone. 32. Earthquakes under the seabed. 33. Tree resin. 34. Michael Faraday. 35. Heavy water. 36. The Comet. 37. That of the quail. 38. A Lunar Excursion Module a car to be used on the moon. 39. A helicopter. 40. Rain they are rain-gauges.

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

41. Who invented the Bessemer process for making steel? 42. For what does the acronym AIDS stand? 43. Which wood is most often used to make pencils? 44. How many moons does Uranus have? 45. Where in the body is the retina? 46. Which metal is the base for plating Sheffield Plate? 47. How many horses pull a troika? 48. How many eyes does a caterpillar have? 49. Spirits of Salt is another name for which acid? 50. How old is a colt? 51. A tercel is what sort of bird? 52. Approximately how many teeth does the whale shark have? 53. Which continent has fresh-water electric eels? 54. What sort of creatures were Aunt Pettitoes, Aunt Dorcas and Aunt Porcas in Beatrix Potters books? 55. What colour is a sorrel horse? 56. What is the common name for the tree Salix Babylonica? 57. Which noisy bird do Australians call the bushmans clock? 58. From what is penicillin made? 59. What does a badger eat, mainly? 60. What percentage of water does the human brain have?

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY ANSWERS

41. Bessemer. 42. Acquired Immunity Deficiency Syndrome. 43. Cedar. 44. Five. 45. In the eye. 46. Copper. 47. Three. 48. Twelve. 49. Hydrochloric. 50. Between one and four years old. 51. A falcon (male). 52. None. 53. South America. 54. Pigs or, rather, sows. 55. Light brown. 56. Weeping willow. 57. The kookaburra, or laughing jackass. 58. Fungus or mould. 59. Earthworms they comprise about 60 per cent of its diet. 60. About 80 per cent.

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

61. In Mathematics, the first perfect number is six. What is the second? 62. What did Cornelius van Drebbel show King James I? 63. Which fish is known as the River Wolf? 64. What was Halleys first name of comet fame? 65. A swelling or knot on a nerve or tendon is called what? 66. Approximately how long is the lifespan of a robin? 67. When are mumps contagious? 68. What is a fer-de-lance? 69. Which letter symbolizes potassium? 70. Which flowering plant was so named for its supposed wolfishness? 71. What is the fruit of the blackthorn tree called? 72. How many vertebrae are there in the human neck? 73. What is a canvas-back? 74. In which dreaded disease does a membrane form across the throat? 75. Laudanum is a tincture of what? 76. By what name is the disease variola better known? 77. What is the main constituent of plaster of Paris? 78. From which point on a stem do leaves arise? 79. What closes off the windpipe during the action of swallowing? 80. In Centigrade, what is the normal body temperature?

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY ANSWERS

61. Twenty-eight. 62. A primitive submarine. 63. The pike. 64. Edmund. 65. A ganglion. 66. Just over one year it is about the shortest-lived British bird. 67. Whilst the swelling is in evidence. 68. A poisonous snake. 69. The letter K. 70. The lupin. 71. The sloe-berry. 72. Seven. 73. A breed of duck. 74. Diphtheria. 75. Opium. 76. Smallpox. 77. Gypsum. 78. The node. 79. The epiglottis. 80. Just under 37C.

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

81. Of what part of the body is an electroencephalogram taken? 82. Which flower has a name which means nose-twister, because of its strong smell? 83. In which geological era do we live? 84. How many fused bones form the coccyx? 85. What is the connection between soda water and sodium? 86. The name of which dinosaur means Thunder lizard? 87. What colour is lapis lazuli? 88. In a cat show, how is a debutante cat different from a maiden? 89. What is the troposphere? 90. What type of lens curves outwards? 91. Approximately how many million years ago did mammals first appear? 92. On which planet, other than earth, did a man-made object first land? 93. Mercury is mainly discovered within which ore? 94. Why do flames rise up rather than down? 95. Which small mammal has Pinkuss plates on its skin to compensate for weak eyes? 96. Which flower has a name which means flesh colour? 97. Where do you find your occipital artery? 98. What is a cytologist? 99. Which two mints combine to form peppermint? 100. Which drink is flavoured with wormwood?

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY ANSWERS

81. The brain. 82. The nasturtium. 83. The Cenozoic. 84. Four. 85. None at all. 86. The brontosaurus. 87. Blue. 88. A maiden has never won, a debutante has never before been exhibited. 89. The lowest layer of the atmosphere. 90. Convex. 91. 60 million. 92. On Mars. 93. Cinnabar. 94. They are lighter than air. 95. The mole. 96. The carnation. 97. Behind your ear. 98. A biologist who specializes in the study of cells. 99. Spear mint and water mint. 100. Absinthe, now generally banned.

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

101. What is Alpha Centauri? 102. What sort of snake do Indian snake charmers usually charm? 103. Why do planes fly at high altitudes? 104. What is the colour of serum in human blood? 105. Bombay Duck is, generally, which fish, dried and salted? 106. How do the cheetahs claws differ from those of the other members of the cat family? 107. What was Dr Charles Towney the first to make in 1960? 108. Which acid is the basis of vinegar? 109. Who first designed a helicopter? 110. Name the first space shuttle that orbited the earth. 111. A collection of what creatures is called a bed? 112. The binary number system uses which two numbers? 113. What does the average persons skin weigh? 114. Which crab does not have its own homegrown shell? 115. What is the heaviest flying bird of prey? 116. How much milk does an average cow produce in an average year? 117. For what were Shetland ponies mainly used in the nineteenth century? 118. What is the maximum measurement for earthquakes on the Richter scale? 119. If you styled yourself a caliologist, what would you do? 120. What is the name for a pigeons young?

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY ANSWERS

101. A very bright star. 102. The cobra. 103. They use less fuel that way. 104. Yellow. 105. Bummalo. 106. They cannot be retracted. 107. A laser. 108. Acetic. 109. Leonardo da Vinci. 110. Columbia. 111. Oysters. 112. 0 and l. 113. About six pounds. 114. The hermit crab. 115. The condor. 116. 1,000 gallons. 117. Hauling coal they were pit ponies. 118. Twelve. 119. Study birds nests. 120. Squab.

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

121. How many degrees do the interior angles of a triangle add up to? 122. Who, or what, is the siamang of Sumatra? 123. Which great early medical man came from Kos, the Greek island? 124. Which star constellation contains Betelgeuse and Rigel? 125. What is the common name for Hamamelis? 126. How is the structure of a fishs heart different from a mammals? 127. What colour are the hottest stars? 128. What is the more usual name for the pelargonium? 129. How many chambers does the human heart have? 130. For what do the letters UHF stand? 131. Where in the human body is the Circle of Willis? 132. What is the minimum number of degrees in a reflex angle? 133. What term is used for two spacecrafts joining together in space? 134. Golden Queen, Sigmabush and The Amateur are all kinds of what? 135. Why do people avoid face-to-face confrontations with people with halitosis? 136. Who discovered the element sodium? 137. What is probably the most dangerous point in a space trip? 138. Which animal has most often been named Chanticleer? 139. What colour is the live wire in a modern three-pin plug? 140. The positive electrode is the anode. What is the negative one called?

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY ANSWERS

121. 180. 122. A gibbon a member of the ape family. 123. Hippocrates. (He inspired the Hippocratic Oath.) 124. Orion. 125. Wych-hazel, or witch-hazel. 126. It has only two chambers, not four. 127. Blue. 128. Geranium. 129. Four. 130. Ultra High Frequency. 131. At the base of the brain. 132. 181. 133. Docking. 134. Tomato. 135. Because they have bad breath. 136. Sir Humphrey Davy. 137. Re-entry to the earths atmosphere. 138. The cock. 139. Brown. 140. The cathode.

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

141. What are zoonoses? 142. Why is seaweed a good thing to eat? 143. Otitis affects which organs of the body? 144. Experiments with which vegetable helped Mendel formulate the basic laws of heredity? 145. Red iron oxide is more commonly called what? 146. Which scientific year ended in 1958 after 18 months? 147. What is the main source of atomic energy? 148. Which is the next largest quadruped to the elephant? 149. The mastiff and the greyhound were crossed to produce which breed? 150. By what name is the cotton worm otherwise known, especially in the USA? 151. Who invented enamel? 152. Every summer Moscow suffers from a plague of pookh. What is it? 153. Where on their bodies do bees carry the pollen they collect? 154. What colour is a blue tits breast? 155. Which incense comes from the resin of the Boswellia tree? 156. By what name is the vegetable pisum sativum better known? 157. What is the collective name for a group of leopards? 158. What do you look at to see if someone has trichoglossia? 159. Which organs of the body would be affected by nephritis? 160. Which is the oldest extant breed of horse?

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141. Animal diseases caught by man. 142. It has a very high iodine content. 143. The ears. 144. Peas. 145. Rust. 146. International Geophysical Year. 147. Uranium. 148. The hippopotamus. 149. The Great Dane. 150. The boll weevil. 151. Bernard Palissy. 152. A shower of the fine fluffy seeds of female poplar trees 153. On their hind legs. 154. Yellow. 155. Frankincense. 156. The pea. 157. A leap. 158. The tongue it is a hairy or coated tongue. 159. The kidneys. 160. The Arab.

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

161. What sort of creature is Venezuelas Horseman, or Cattle Tyrant? 162. What is a John Dory? 163. What type of bird is a jabiru? 164. How many toes does an ostrich have on each foot? 165. At what speed must you travel to escape the Earths velocity? 166. Which is the smallest species of partridge? 167. Which sex chromosome from the father means its a girl? 168. Which explosive was invented by Ascanio Solaro? 169. What is the colloquial name for cutis anserina? 170. What has varieties called Hungarian, Lucombe, Red and Pin? 171. In which year did Sir Richard Woolley, Astronomer Royal, say Space travel is utter bilge? 172. How many times its own length can an average frog jump? 173. Which plant is sometimes called Elephants-ears? 174. From what is solar energy derived? 175. Which animals evidence can be admissible in US courts of law? 176. Which creature has been the symbol of medicine for centuries? 177. Which continent is home to the wombat? 178. Which metal is commonly used as a shield against radiation? 179. Where do turtles head when they hatch? 180. How many legs does a scorpion have?

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161. A bird a flycatcher which sits on the backs of cattle. 162. A fish. 163. A South American stork. 164. Two. 165. 25,000 m.p.h., or 7 miles per second. 166. The quail. 167. An X chromosome. 168. Nitro-glycerine. 169. Goose pimples. 170. The oak tree. 171. 1956. And in 1957 172. About twelve times. 173. The begonia. 174. The sun. 175. That of a bloodhound. 176. The snake. 177. Australia. 178. Lead. 179. For the sea. 180. Eight.

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181. What is a Rhodesian Ridgeback? 182. In what do whales congregate? 183. Of what is the barbers red and white striped pole the symbol? 184. What is guano? 185. Which is the worlds shortest snake? 186. Which birds bill is said to hold more than its belly? 187. What is the common name for the wild rose or eglantine? 188. Sooty, the glove puppet what animal is he? 189. Acrux is the brightest star in which constellation? 190. How long do hen eggs take to hatch? 191. What is the best natural fertilizer? 192. What is a baroque pearl? 193. With whose welfare is the Blue Cross concerned? 194. To which bird family does the mocking bird belong? 195. To which bird family does the nightingale belong? 196. What is the minimum number of metals needed to form an alloy? 197. Windmills and tulips are mostly associated with which country? 198. Which element has the lowest boiling point? 199. What sort of triangle has just two sides of equal length? 200. For how many months each year does a woodchuck sleep?

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181. A breed of dog. 182. Schools. 183. A bleeding, bandaged arm, as barbers originally doubled as surgeons. 184. Sea bird droppings. 185. The thread snake. 186. The pelicans. 187. The sweet-briar. 188. A bear. 189. The Southern Cross. 190. Three weeks. 191. Guano, or bird droppings. 192. One of irregular shape. 193. Animals. (But people in the USA.) 194. The thrush family. 195. The thrush family. 196. Two. 197. Holland. 198. Helium. 199. Isosceles. 200. For eight months.

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201. What does pasteurization do to the enzymes in milk? 202. Pulex Irritans is better known as what? 203. What is the appropriate name of the largest type of frog? 204. Which bird picks the teeth of a crocodile clean? 205. What sort of creature mates only when the female has its mouth full? 206. A sika is a small what? 207. Bone marrow manufactures what? 208. What colour light will a magnesium lamp give out? 209. Name the first part of the small intestine. 210. Which acid was called aqua fortis or strong water? 211. The lack of which vitamin causes beriberi? 212. What is rubber called as it flows out of tapped trees? 213. Insulin is used to regulate which disease? 214. What do sericulturists breed, apart from more sericulturists? 215. Is the Sagnac Effect to do with medicine, geology, relativity or American football? 216. To which Army corps do doctors belong? 217. What makes a stink bomb stink? 218. A dew-hopper is another name for which animal? 219. What part of the body is the trachea? 220. What would you look like if you were prognathous?

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201. It destroys them. 202. The human flea. 203. The Goliath frog of West Africa. 204. The plover. 205. A spider called Pisaura listen. 206. Deer. 207. Blood cells. 208. Green. 209. The duodenum. 210. Nitric acid. 211. Vitamin B. 212. Latex. 213. Diabetes. 214. Silkworms. 215. Relativity. 216. RAMC. 217. Hydrogen sulphide. 218. The hare. 219. The windpipe. 220. Your jaw would stick out.

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221. What orbits between Mars and Jupiter in our solar system? 222. What is the technical name for the flap of a dogs ear? 223. A Bonne Louise is a kind of what? 224. In which country is the condor sacred? 225. Which mineral plays a major part in maintaining the health and strength of teeth and bones? 226. What is colostrum? 227. For what property is the limpet best known? 228. A leporine is what type of animal? 229. The milk from which animal is most used in making cheese? 230. What does a rheostat control? 231. Who discovered the conditioned reflex through experiments on dogs and rats? 232. What is a Cinnamon Norwich? 233. What is nacre? 234. What is a Rhodesian Ridgeback? 235. Lambs Tails is one of the colloquial names for what? 236. Where is your sartorius muscle? 237. John Young has made most trips into space how many? 238. The enlargement of which gland is called a goitre? 239. What other name is used for the linden tree? 240. Which branch of chemistry deals with the compounds of carbons?

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221. The asteroid belt. 222. The leather. 223. Pear. 224. In Peru. 225. Calcium. 226. The first milk secreted by a mammal. 227. Its ability to cling. 228. A hare. 229. The cow. 230. Voltage: it is a variable resistance. 231. Ivan Pavlov. 232. A breed of canary. 233. Mother-of-pearl. 234. A breed of dog. 235. Catkins. 236. In the thigh. 237. Five. 238. The thyroid gland. 239. The lime. 240. Organic.

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241. Which snake has the largest fangs? 242. In Scotland, whats a bubblyjock? 243. The Glaistig, a Scottish monster, was half woman, half what? 244. What colour blood has a lobster? 245. What does the disease phylloxera affect? 246. What is an otoscope used to examine? 247. To which bird family does the jay belong? 248. What is a Lent Lily usually called? 249. Which hormone stimulates the development of male characteristics? 250. To which bird family does the blackbird belong? 251. What blood was used in the early blood transfusions? 252. Synthetic what was called buna by the Germans in World War II? 253. Which apple tree parasite is much in demand for festivities? 254. Which gas did Joseph Priestley discover and call dephlogisticated air? 255. Which ghastly medicine did Dr John Hughes Bennet introduce? 256. Systolic and diastolic are the upper and lower rates of what? 257. Ninety-five percent of the atmosphere of Mars consists of which gas? 258. Approximately how many sightings of the Loch Ness monster are there each year? 259. What is the only land mammal with more than forty-four teeth? 260. What is the other name for the all but extinct snow leopard?

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241. The gaboon viper. 242. A turkey. 243. Serpent. 244. Blue. 245. Vines. 246. The inside of the ear. 247. The crow family. 248. A daffodil. 249. Testosterone. 250. The thrush family. 251. Animal blood with little success. 252. Rubber. 253. Mistletoe. 254. Oxygen. 255. Cod liver oil. 256. Blood pressure. 257. Carbon dioxide. 258. Twenty. 259. The opossum. 260. The ounce.

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261. Which vitamin aids healthy vision? 262. The moon has an albedo of 7%. What does albedo mean? 263. The launch of which American space shuttle was aborted four seconds before liftoff? 264. Which metal comes from cinnabar? 265. The flowers of which shrub are used for flavouring tea and perfume? 266. How many poles are there in a chain? 267. C2H5OH is the chemical formula for what? 268. Which is the most corrosion-resistant metal known? 269. What is the technical term for the study of childrens diseases? 270. What would a mycologist study? 271. What sort of creature is a cayman? 272. Which stone is the granular form of gypsum? 273. What is the special characteristic of rodents? 274. Which part of the eye may be removed and kept in eye banks? 275. Mirabella and Yellow Egg are kinds of what? 276. Linseed oil comes from the seeds of which plant? 277. What is a zander? 278. Whey is the watery part of which liquid? 279. From what type of rock is marble formed? 280. Which planet is named after the Roman God who reputedly devoured nearly all his own children?

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261. Vitamin A. 262. Ability to reflect light. 263. Discovery. 264. Mercury. 265. Jasmine. 266. Four. 267. Alcohol. 268. Iridium. 269. Paediatrics. 270. Muscles in the body. 271. It is a reptile like a crocodile. 272. Alabaster. 273. They gnaw. 274. The cornea. 275. Plum. 276. Flax. 277. A fish, like a pike. 278. Milk. 279. Limestone. 280. Saturn.

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281. What colour is an emerald? 282. A Shaded Cameo is a kind of what? 283. Where does the tomato plant orginally come from? 284. Which flower has a name which means a little sword, because of its leaves? 285. As cocks crow, what do turkeys do? 286. What is the cowboy term for a motherless calf? 287. Which metal was called after the German for imp, or goblin? 288. Which liquid is termed the universal solvent? 289. What is polyvinyl chloride normally called? 290. How many times the weight of his/her brain is the average human? 291. In the 1970s, how many pairs of breeding golden eagles were there in England? 292. What is the common name for Nymphaea? 293. In which organ of the body is the mitral valve? 294. What sort of creature is the fish-eating bulldog of Central America? 295. Chipmunks belong to which family? 296. Which animal gives its name to a pedestrian crossing? 297. To which flower family does the pimpernel belong? 298. Which animals used to guard the temple of Jupiter in Rome? 299. What actually is a cannibal? 300. Which fruits name means ugly face or bogey-man in Spanish?

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281. Green, normally. 282. Cat. 283. South America, although it is now grown worldwide. 284. The gladiolus. 285. Gobble. 286. Dogie. 287. Cobalt. Silver miners thought it a nuisance. 288. Water. 289. PVC. 290. About forty times. 291. Only one, in the Lake District. 292. Water-lilies. 293. In the heart. 294. A bat with a dog-like face. 295. The squirrel family. 296. The zebra or the pelican. 297. The primrose family. 298. Geese. 299. One who eats members of its own species. 300. Coconut the three black marks on its base look like a face.

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301. Which parts of the mandrill monkey are brightly coloured? 302. Where does an epiphytic plant grow? 303. What breed is the Dulux dog? 304. What shape is a volcano? 305. What sort of creature is a Murray grey in Australia? 306. What is a FEFA? 307. How do giraffes show affection to each other? 308. Although it was not discovered till much later, Percival Lovell predicted the existence of which planet? 309. What do friable substances do easily? 310. Who discovered the four brightest satellites of Jupiter? 311. If one angle of an isosceles triangle is 110 degrees, what are the other two angles? 312. What type of creature is a water moccasin? 313. How much water is there on the moon? 314. A tetrahedron possesses how many faces? 315. From what is birds nest soup made? 316. Hipparchus the Greek astronomer was the first to use which branch of mathematics? 317. What is a collection of parrots called? It suggests there are only two of them. 318. Hyracotherium was an early form of which modern animal? 319. What is the common name of NaCl? 320. How thick is the Earths atmosphere?

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301. Its face and its rump. 302. On another plant. 303. It is an Old English sheepdog. 304. It is cone-shaped. 305. A cow it is a breed of cattle. 306. A Future European Fighter Aircraft. 307. By necking rubbing their necks together. 308. Pluto. 309. They crumble. 310. Galileo Galilei. 311. 35 degrees each. 312. A snake it is another name for a cottonmouth. 313. None. 314. Four. 315. Birds nests. 316. Trigonometry. 317. A company. 318. The horse. 319. Salt. 320. About 37 miles.

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321. What is the most malleable metal? 322. Which rays produce a sun tan? 323. What is the more colloquial name for Monstera deliciosa? 324. What is the chemical symbol for ice? 325. Which instrument can separate two liquids by spinning them at high speed? 326. What sort of creature do Australians call a paddy melon? 327. Which two fruits combine to form the loganberry? 328. Which bird gives its name to a pedestrian crossing? 329. Which is the lightest metallic element? 330. Approximately how many pints of blood pass through the kidneys each minute? 331. What does a nucivorous animal eat? 332. To the nearest 1,000, how many types of reptiles are there? 333. How many yards, on average, does a giant tortoise move in one minute? 334. Which gas did William Ramsay isolate in 1895? 335. On the Beaufort scale, what number represents calm air? 336. What is the common name for asteroidea? 337. Which colourless fluid carries blood corpuscles round the body? 338. What types of apes inhabit the Rock of Gibraltar? 339. What do growers do if they vernalize a plant? 340. What is the collective term for rhinoceroses?

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321. Gold. 322. Ultraviolet rays. 323. The Swiss cheese plant. 324. H2O, the same as for water. 325. A centrifuge. 326. A small wallaby. 327. The blackberry and the raspberry. 328. The pelican. 329. Lithium. 330. Two and a half pints. 331. Nuts. 332. 6,000. 333. About five yards. 334. Helium, not reviously known on earth. 335. 0. 336. Starfish. 337. Plasma. 338. Barbary apes. 339. They chill it to encourage flowering. 340. A crash.

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341. Which is the lightest of the elements? 342. Which bird is also known as the windhover? 343. Which part of the body is the palate? 344. How is a camels blood different from that of all other mammals? 345. What do sessile flowers lack? 346. For what does the acronym BASIC stand, in computer jargon? 347. What is Icelands national symbol? 348. How many hours sleep per 24 hours does an antelope need? 349. Ascorbic acid is another name for which vitamin? 350. What do ailurophiles love? 351. In 1885, Gunnar Gavelin rode from Stockholm to Moscow in 27 days on what? 352. Approximately how many earth years does Neptune take to orbit the sun? 353. What colour bones does the garfish have? 354. In which constellation are the Seven Sisters? 355. In 1969, after Apollo VII journeyed round the moon, how late was it when it got back? 356. Why do people in Madley in Herefordshire observe the skies? 357. Mariner IX orbited which planet in 1971? 358. In a hunt, what is the brush? 359. A bristlecone pine tree in California has what distinction? 360. What is the favourite food of the death watch beetle?

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341. Hydrogen. 342. The kestrel. 343. The roof of the mouth. 344. It has oval red blood cells all other mammals have round blood cells. 345. Stalks. 346. Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. 347. A falcon. 348. One. 349. Vitamin C. 350. Cats. 351. On the back of a large pet pig. 352. 165 years. 353. Bright green. 354. The Pleiades. 355. Eleven seconds. 356. A British satellite tracking station is established there. 357. Mars. 358. The foxs tail. 359. That of being the oldest known living thing in the world. 360. Wood.

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361. The pimpernel belongs to which family of plants? 362. What did Dr Simpson first use in an operation on 12 November 1847? 363. Which gas, in solid form, is called dry ice? 364. Why was the massive Shire horse originally bred? 365. From which country did the physicist and chemist Ernest Rutherford come? 366. What is the collective word for a group of turtles? 367. What tree was named after Scotsman David Douglas? 368. How do you look if you have chlorosis, a severe form of anaemia, or iron deficiency? 369. Titan is the largest moon of which planet? 370. What is about half the sulphuric acid produced used for? 371. What does Teschen disease affect? 372. What is the temperature on the surface of the sun? 373. Who was the recipient of the first Nobel Prize for Physics? 374. What does an analgesic kill? 375. Who said, The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me? 376. What is a dikdik? 377. Which breed of dog is most used for police work in Britain? 378. Whatever was Quetzalcoatlus Northropi? 379. Which cords are protected by the Adams apple? 380. Which planet, just visible to the naked eye, is four times greater in diameter than the earth?

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361. The Primrose family. 362. Chloroform. 363. Carbon dioxide. 364. To carry men in heavy armour. 365. New Zealand. 366. A bale. 367. The Douglas fir. 368. Green in colour! 369. Saturn. 370. The manufacture of artificial fertilizers. 371. Pigs. 372. 6,000 Centigrade. 373. Wilhelm Rntgen. (He developed X-rays.) 374. Pain. 375. Isaac Newton. 376. A small antelope. 377. The German Shepherd, or Alsatian. 378. It is believed to be the largest flying creature the world has seenit had a awingspan of 36 feet. 379. The vocal cords. 380. Uranus.

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381. Which bird lays an egg weighing about a quarter of the adult birds weight? 382. What is an abalone? 383. Of what is chalk composed? 384. Which cereal crop is grown in the greatest quantity in the UK? 385. What is the collective word for a group of mules? 386. To which family of trees does the cedar belong? 387. Why was the metal indium so named? 388. Jaundice turns the skin what colour? 389. The coypu is the largest what in Britain? 390. What was the name of the Wright Brothers first practical biplane, in 1905? 391. Which British scientist discovered the electron? 392. Which is the largest manufacturer of aircraft in the world? 393. By what name is daltonism commonly known? 394. Gas consumption is measured in what units? 395. Against what disease would a Sabin vaccine be given? 396. How many times per minute does a whales heart beat? 397. Where would you be if you sat on a howdah? 398. How many legs have arachnids? 399. Where is the Achilles tendon on the body? 400. Who gave President Kennedy his dog Pushinka?

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381. The kiwi. 382. A type of shell fish. 383. The skeletons of minute animals. 384. Barley. 385. A barren. 386. The pines. 387. Because of its indigo colour. 388. Yellow. 389. Rodent. 390. Flyer III. 391. Sir Joseph Thomson. 392. Boeing. 393. Colour-blindness. 394. Therms. 395. Poliomyelitis. 396. Between nine and ten. 397. On top of an elephant. 398. Eight. (They are spiders.) 399. In the heel. 400. Premier Nikita Krushchev

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401. What do you measure with a venturi meter? 402. Who or what is Agent Orange? 403. In the West Indies, what is a pinguin? 404. What, in fact, are flying foxes? 405. What did Kellogg and Rice invent in 1927? 406. Which bird is called a mavis? 407. What is the maximum cc for a moped? 408. What is the main difference between a black leopard and a panther? 409. If an animal is a tetradactyl, what does it have? 410. Relating to radio, what do the letters FM represent? 411. Where on your body could you suffer from a whitlow? 412. How often does a deciduous tree shed its leaves? 413. The three secondary colours are orange, purple and ? 414. Which South American bird looks like an ostrich? 415. Which is the first animal in a dictionary? 416. What colour are deadly nightshade berries? 417. What is measured in Lamberts? 418. How often do deer grow new antlers? 419. In healthy humans, how long does blood normally take to congeal? 420. Which name of a garment is used for aconite, or wolfs-bane?

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401. How fast a liquid or gas is flowing. 402. The chemical used to spray and kill vegetation in Vietnam. 403. A pineapple. 404. Bats. 405. The moving-coil loudspeaker. 406. The thrush. 407. 49cc. 408. None they are one and the same. 409. Four fingers or toes. 410. Frequency Modulator. 411. On your finger. 412. Once a year. 413. Green. 414. The rhea. 415. The aardvark. 416. Red. 417. Light. 418. Annually. 419. 46 minutes. 420. Monks hood.

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421. To which bird family does the jackdaw belong? 422. What does a whale use for breathing? 423. Which part of the body is afflicted by gingivitis? 424. How many moons does the planet Venus have? 425. What does a gravimeter measure? 426. In which of the sciences does Margaret Thatcher have a degree? 427. Which necessary element in our diets is provided by kelp? 428. How many pips make up the Greenwich time signal? 429. In which part of the body is the bone called the trapezium? 430. Which animal is called Simba in Swahili? 431. When Concorde goes supersonic, does it get shorter, longer, or stay the same? 432. What is the maximum speed of a human heart? 433. Cambridge Rival, Redgauntlet and Grandee are varieties of what? 434. Which creatures have the most legs? 435. What, in 1906, did Ralph Wedgewood invent? 436. What is the more colloquial name for the antirrhinum? 437. After which creature are false tears named? 438. What sort of creature is a sewin? 439. The Rh factor derives its name from which animal? 440. What is treen?

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421. The crow family. 422. Lungs. 423. The gums. 424. None. 425. Specific gravity. 426. In chemistry. 427. Iodine. 428. Six. 429. In the wrist. 430. The lion. 431. It gets 9 inches longer, because of the effects of heat. 432. 220 beats per minute. 433. Strawberry. 434. Millipedes. 435. Carbon paper. 436. The snapdragon. 437. The crocodile. 438. It is a fish a sea trout. 439. The rhesus monkey. 440. A small antique object made of wood.

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441. What type of creature is a sand mason? 442. How many Laws of Thermodynamics are there? 443. Is heat kinetic, radiant or conserved energy? 444. Of what is entomophobia the fear? 445. In the main, what does a camels hump contain? 446. The Clumber spaniel takes its name from a park in which county? 447. In the olden days, what was a curtal horse? 448. Durmast and common are the two British species of what? 449. Which technique of decorative metal-work comes originally from Syrias capital? 450. By what more familiar name is an aircrafts flight recorder known? 451. After which creatures were the Canary Islands named? 452. In what do arboreal animals live? 453. Which gardens in Britain attract the most visitors? 454. The blowfly is more frequently called what? 455. What do you call the process of metal extraction by heating ores? 456. In 1985, what did the National Vegetable Research Station say you should do to seedlings to help them grow? 457. Edible, fat and squirrel-tailed are kinds of what? 458. What is the approximate length of each of the giraffes seven neck bones? 459. What colour is a panther? 460. What is studied in histology?

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441. A worm. 442. Three. 443. Kinetic. 444. Insects. 445. Fat. 446. In Nottinghamshire. 447. One with its tail docked, or cut short. 448. Oak tree. 449. Damascening, from Damascus. 450. The black box. 451. Dogs! 452. Trees. 453. The Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. 454. The bluebottle. 455. Smelting. 456. Stroke them, or brush them. 457. Dormouse. 458. One foot. 459. Black. 460. Tissues, or layers of cells

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461. At one time, fried mice were considered to be a cure for which disease? 462. What is the purpose of an analgesic? 463. Where do littoral creatures live? 464. A hamadryad could be a snake, or what other creature? 465. To which family of birds does the dabchick belong? 466. What is the record number of fleas found on one red squirrel? 467. Tocophobia is fear of what? 468. Where in your body is the cuboid bone? 469. How many different species of the cat family are known to exist? 470. In which month does pheasant shooting officially start? 471. How many Tasmanian wolves are there in existence now? 472. Where in the world does the web-toed fishing cat come from? 473. Cerumen is another name for what? 474. Which form of power operates the telephone system? 475. What was Britains first space rocket called? 476. Which fuel has octane numbers? 477. In hepatitis, what is inflamed? 478. Branches of which tree are symbols of peace? 479. What is hydrogens atomic number? 480. Approximately how many hairs does a healthy human scalp possess, per square inch?

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461. 1,000. 462. Smallpox. 463. It is a drug to counteract pain. 464. On the seashore. 465. A baboon. 466. The grebe family. 467. 13,000 (to the nearest 1,000). 468. Childbirth. 469. In the foot. 470. 37 species. 471. In October. 472. None. 473. From India and Indo-China. 474. Wax in the ears. 475. Electricity. 476. Blue Streak. It was built in 1964. 477. Petrol. 478. The liver. 479. Branches of the olive tree. 480. One.

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481. Which snakes get their name because they produce live young, not eggs? 482. Name the tubes connecting the nose and ears. 483. By what name is the boon to frying pans polytetrafluoroethylene better known? 484. Name the horizontal bar on which cage birds perch. 485. Which country developed the first Atom Bomb? 486. In the acronym SCUBA, for what do the letters stand? 487. What is the only cat native to the Old and New Worlds? 488. Which was the first re-used spacecraft? 489. By what name is Sodium Sesquicarbonate better known in the home? 490. What is the three fields system? 491. Which was the first organ to be surgically removed from a person? 492. How many teeth does a mosquito have? 493. Which major item in a salad has a name meaning milky plant? 494. Which insecticide has been the most influential in controlling malaria? 495. Heaf tests are used to establish immunity from which disease? 496. How many ears do bees have? 497. What takes 365 days, 6 hours and 10 minutes? 498. Which animal appears on the flag of Tanzania? 499. Which nails on the hand grow the slowest? 500. For what does VHF stand?

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481. Vipers, short for vivipera. 482. The eustachian tubes. 483. Teflon. 484. The perch. 485. The USA. 486. Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus. 487. The lynx. 488. Columbia the US space shuttle. 489. Bath salts. 490. A system of crop rotation. 491. The appendix. 492. Forty-seven. 493. Lettuce, because of its white juice. 494. DDT. 495. Tuberculosis. 496. None. 497. One complete revolution of the Earth around the Sun. 498. The giraffe. 499. The thumb nail if right-handed, the left thumb, and vice-versa. 500. Very High Frequency

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501. Who showed that mass and energy are equivalent, by the formula E = mc2? 502. Which tree is also called golden rain? 503. What do you get if you multiply volts by amperes? 504. Which is the largest nerve in the human body? 505. Which star Canstellation contains Betelgeuse and Rigel? 506. Which bird is nicknamed the Mollymawk? 507. Which animal is represented on the Lacoste logo? 508. What are measured in angstroms? 509. A collection of what is called a rabble? 510. Which breed of dog hunts hares? 511. Which form of cancer was named after the pathologist who isolated it in 1832? 512. Emperor, Rockhopper and Jackass are all types of what? 513. Approximately how fast can a racehorse race? 514. What is a young zebra called? 515. Name Britains premier flower show. 516. By what initials is Deoxyribonucleic acid better known? 517. What could you measure on a modified Mercalli Scale? 518. What does a petrologist study? 519. Which of the five senses normally dims first? 520. Which hormone controls the level of glucose in the blood?

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501. Einstein. 502. The laburnum. 503. Watts. 504. The sciatic nerve. 505. Orion. 506. The albatross. 507. The alligator. 508. Wavelengths. 509. Rats. 510. The beagle or greyhound. 511. Hodgkins Disease. 512. Penguin. 513. About 35 m.p.h. 514. A colt. 515. The Chelsea Flower Show. 516. DNA. 517. An earthquake. 518. Rocks. 519. Smell. 520. Insulin.

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521. Who designed the fighter-bomber, the Mosquito? 522. Apart from the obvious, what is a Scorched Carpet? 523. What is added to rubber to vulcanize it? 524. What is the collective name for herons? 525. In which science did James Jeans become famous? 526. Which is considered to be the most destructive insect? 527. What was the code name for the first atomic bomb, exploded in New Mexico in 1945? 528. What is measured in Q02 units? 529. Of what fruit is Norfolk Giant a variety? 530. What does rock look like if it is called saccharoidal, in geology? 531. What does kangaroo mean in aborigine? 532. Which food substance is formed in plants by the influence of light on chlorophyll? 533. Which animals jump the highest? 534. What is the collective term for oxen? 535. Brontophobia is fear of what? 536. The age of what can be estimated by Galvaynes Groove? 537. What is the collective term for bears? 538. Where, in your house, would you find sodium chloride? 539. To which order of birds do budgies belong? 540. Which mineral has the human body in the greatest abundance?

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521. Sir Geoffrey de Havilland. 522. A moth. 523. Sulphur. 524. A siege. 525. Astronomy. 526. The locust. 527. Day of Trinity. 528. How much oxygen is breathed. 529. The raspberry. 530. Sugar. 531. I do not know. (Thats the answer!) 532. Starch. 533. Antelopes. 534. A yoke. 535. Thunder. 536. A horse. (It is found on a tooth.) 537. A sleuth. 538. In your salt cellar. 539. The parrots. 540. Calcium.

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541. According to Ophelia in Hamlet, for what is rosemary? 542. Which is the largest variety of penguin? 543. What type of dog is a bitzer? 544. Who discovered that coal-tar naphtha and rubber could make cloth waterproof? 545. What is the snowline? 546. What, and how old, is a teg? 547. Of what are the cells of honeycombs made? 548. Are hermaphrodites male or female? 549. The USSRs ship Lenin was the first atomic-powered what? 550. Uranium. 551. Friesian cattle are named after which province in Holland? 552. Which poet had a Newfoundland dog called Boatswain? 553. During its lifespan, what takes the following forms; parr, smolt, grilse? 554. What is a female hedgehog called? 555. Apart from being a bargain, what is a snip when referring to a horse? 556. How many eyes do most types of spider have? 557. About how long does it take a red blood corpuscle to make a complete circuit of the body? 558. If a person suffers from retropulsion, they have a tendency to do what? 559. What is a female elephant called? 560. In which discipline did the Greek scholar Euclid specialize?

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541. Remembrance. 542. The emperor penguin. 543. A mongrel. 544. Charles Macintosh, hence the name of the raincoat. 545. The level above which snow never completely melts. 546. A sheep aged two years. 547. Beeswax. 548. Both. 549. Ice-breaker. 550. Apes dont have tails. 551. Friesland. 552. Lord Byron. 553. A salmon. 554. A sow. 555. A small white mark on the forehead, or elsewhere on the body. 556. Eight. 557. About one minute. 558. Walk backwards. 559. A cow. 560. Mathematics.

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561. Which is the missing common blood group AB, B, 0? 562. If you had a pain in your gluteus maximus, where would you feel it? 563. For what do insects use their spiracles? 564. Which island was the home of the Blue Vanga and the Dodo? 565. What is the name commonly used for the magnetic storms which occur on the surface of the sun? 566. Who developed the steady-state theory relating to the origins of the universe? 567. Which British scientist was called the Father of Modern Physics? 568. How often does a moose shed its antlers? 569. Who conducted a dangerous experiment, flying a kite in a storm, which established that lightning was a form of electricity? 570. What colour is a citrine? 571. Which bird runs fastest? 572. Which bird is a kleptomaniac? 573. Which cat is called the Hidden Paw by T.S. Eliot? 574. What does a maggot become? 575. The false plane tree is more commonly called what? 576. Which animal can live at the highest altitude? 577. Where do mosquitoes lay their eggs? 578. What, in fact, was the Piltdown Man subject of the great hoax? 579. Who won Time magazines Man of the Year award for 1982? 580. Experiments with two cans and some kitchen scales led to which form of transport?

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561. Group A. 562. In the bottom, or buttock. 563. To breathe through they are pores in their sides. 564. Madagascar. 565. Sunspots. 566. Sir Fred Hoyle. 567. Sir Joseph Thomson. 568. Annually. 569. Benjamin Franklin. 570. Yellow. (It is a gemstone.) 571. The ostrich. 572. The magpie. 573. Macavity, the mystery cat. 574. A fly. 575. The sycamore. 576. The yak. 577. In water. 578. An orang-utan. 579. Not a man at all, but The Computer. (Which is why it is in this section.) 580. The Hovercraft.

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581. Which member of the carp family is most commonly kept as a pet? 582. Who was the first Englishman to become a Matador de Toros? 583. Ladys Slipper is a variety of which flower? 584. In which hospital was Alexander Fleming researching when he found Penicillin in 1928? 585. How many lives does a cat have? 586. Which sex chromosome from the father means its a boy? 587. Why is it anti-social to allow a lion to eat you? 588. 92 is the atomic number for which element? 589. Removal of which sugar makes fruit soften when boiled? 590. Which is the main element in the human body? 591. Who raised the lioness Elsa from a cub? 592. The green revolution is what? 593. Where on the body are bicuspids found? 594. Who was the pupil told at the age of 10, Albert, you will never amount to much? 595. Which birds cry sounds like A little bit of bread and no cheese? 596. Who wove messages in her web to save Wilbur the Pig? 597. What does vermicelli literally mean? 598. What is the unit of weight in the metric system? 599. To what age have sea anemones been known to live? 600. What is studied in the science of somatology?

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581. The goldfish. 582. Henry Higgins. 583. The orchid. 584. St Marys, Paddington. 585. One. 586. The Y chromosome. 587. Because once it has tasted human flesh it becomes a man for life and a woman-eater 588. Uranium. 589. Pectin. 590. Oxygen. 591. George and Joy Adamson. 592. The development of high-yield crops. 593. In the mouth they are teeth. 594. Albert Einstein. 595. The yellowhammers. 596. Charlotte the spider, in the childrens book Charlottes Web, by E. B. White. 597. Little worms. 598. The gram, or gramme. 599. 100 years. 600. The body.

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601. What is particularly prominent in the proboscis monkey? 602. What were the first vehicles to take people into the air? 603. What was the Wright brothers plane called? 604. From which country does the chihuahua originate? 605. What is the lifespan of a turkey who evades the cooking pot? 606. What gives the sea its blue colour? 607. How much food does the average person eat in a lifetime? 608. Where in your body would you find the atrium? 609. What is measured by an interferometer? 610. Scientists were working on the Manhattan Project in 1942. What was it? 611. In 1937, the earth missed a major disaster by less than three seconds when it nearly collided with a minor planet. Which? 612. What is studied by an oologist? 613. Who invented the first astronomical telescope? 614. In 1959 Frank Drake initiated the project Ozma. What was it? 615. How many kingdoms are there in the modern system of classification of living things? 616. What was Edisons first practical invention? 617. In which season does the earth move fastest round the sun? 618. In computer jargon what does the acronym ROM mean? 619. What metal impurity gives ruby its red colour and emerald its green colour? 620. For how many months in each year does a dormouse hibernate?

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601. Its nose. 602. Hot-air balloons. 603. Flyer. 604. Mexico. 605. 12 years. 606. Sunlight; pure sea water is colourless, but the surface water absorbs all but blue rays of the sun. 607. 50 tons. 608. The heart. 609. The wavelength of light. 610. The atomic bomb. 611. Hermes. 612. Birds eggs. 613. Galileoin 1609. 614. The object was to look for extraterrestrial radio signals. 615. Five. 616. The ticker-tape for stock market information. 617. Summer. 618. Read Only Memory. 619. Chromium. 620. Six.

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621. What was extracted from the bark of the cinchona tree? 622. Robert Whitehead invented which weapon in 1866? 623. What makes the rattlesnake rattle? 624. Of which fruit is Pearmain a variety? 625. How do you tell the age of a horse? 626. What is the antimatter equivalent of the electron? 627. By what common name is acetyl-salicylic acid known? 628. Which animal is sometimes called the river horse? 629. What is alopecia? 630. What is a group of salmon called? 631. What is a pangolin? 632. What is a smaller form of kangaroo usually called? 633. On average, how many times does a human heart beat in a day? 634. When was the first US satellite, Explorer I, launched? 635. What experiment did Sir Isaac Newton set up in a corridor of Trinity College, Cambridge? 636. Which type of winged insect has existed the longest? 637. In what way is a camels movement peculiar? 638. Since the birth of Christ, what is the longest time between solar eclipses visible from London? 639. Which variety of pigeons has spreading tail-feathers? 640. The group of insects which includes cicadas, grasshoppers and crickets employ sound as their signalling medium. Why is this so unusual?

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621. Quinine. 622. The torpedo. 623. The remnants of old skin at the end of its tail. 624. The apple. 625. By the growth of its teeth. 626. The positron. 627. Aspirin. 628. The hippopotamus. 629. Loss of hair. 630. A bind. 631. An ant-eater. 632. A wallaby. 633. 100,000. 634. February 1958. 635. He used an echo to calculate the speed of sound. 636. A dragonfly. 637. It lifts both feet on one side at the same time. 638. 575 years from 1140 to 1715. 639. The fantail. 640. Most insects are deaf.

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641. What is your scapula? 642. How many legs has a slow-worm? 643. What is a geodesic? 644. Why do sunspots appear dark? 645. Which is the hottest part of a rainbow? 646. What are the three primary colours of light? 647. How long after birth does it take a baby guppy to double its length? 648. What does the Mercalli Scale measure? 649. Which famous scientist started out as a bookbinders apprentice? 650. How does the possum try to avoid capture? 651. What sort of creature was a diplodocus? 652. What does an ammeter measure? 653. Where is the tarsal joint? 654. Who first studied hydraulics? 655. Hans Lippershey produced the first practical version of what? 656. Anders Celsius published an idea in 1742 which at the time did not catch on. What was it? 657. Where was the explosive lyddite first tested? 658. What kind of waves are eliminated by the ozone layer in our atmosphere? 659. The word walrus is the contraction of which whimsical name? 660. A doctor specializing in myology studies what?

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641. Your shoulder blade. 642. None. 643. The shortest distance between two points on a spherical surface, usually the earth. 644. They are cooler than the suns surface. 645. The blue side. 646. Red, blue, green. 647. One week. 648. Earthquakes. 649. Michael Faraday. 650. By pretending to be dead. 651. A dinosaur. 652. Electric current. 653. In the ankle. 654. Pascal. 655. The microscope. 656. Nominating 0C for the freezing point of water and 100C for the boiling point. 657. Lydd. 658. Ultra-violet rays. 659. Whale-horse. 660. Muscles.

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661. What is pasteurization? 662. About what proportion of a mans body weight is the weight of his blood? 663. What breed of dog is obtained by crossing a collie with a greyhound? 664. What is scotopic vision? 665. What was the real name of Paracelsus? 666. For how long has the cockroach, in its modern form, existed on earth? 667. Which elements name is derived from the Greek word meaning lazy? 668. Who cried the word photon? 669. A working model of the planets and their motions was built by Rowley in 1715. What was it called? 670. What is the giraffes only living relative? 671. How deep was the first oil well? 672. What was the name of the first space shuttle to fly in space? 673. How long do duck eggs take to hatch? 674. What is the part of a fraction written below the numerator? 675. Helm, purga and pampero are all types of what? 676. Who designed the famous light plane, the D.H. Moth? 677. What did Sir David Brewster invent in 1816? 678. What is the circulation of winds around a central area of low pressure called? 679. What colour, generally, are cornflowers? 680. What is the usual name for coryza?

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661. Heat-treating milk to about 150F. 662. About one-thirteenth, or nearly 8 per cent. 663. A lurcher. 664. Seeing in the dark. 665. Theophrastus Bombartus von Hohenheim. 666. 250 million years. 667. Argon. 668. Einstein, in 1905. 669. An orrery (after the Earl of Orrery, who commissioned it). 670. The okapi. 671. 69 feet, which took nearly a year to drill. 672. Columbia. 673. 27 days. 674. The denominator. 675. Cold winds. 676. Geoffrey de Havilland. 677. The kaleidoscope. 678. A cyclone. 679. Blue. 680. The common cold.

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681. What is the period of the revolution of the earth around the sun? 682. If water vapour is cooled below its dew point, what does it form? 683. What type of precious stone is an aquamarine? 684. What is a male swan called? 685. What is kinetic energy? 686. Which is the fastest swimming bird? 687. Where would you find the pyloric sphincter? 688. How many teats has a healthy normal cow? 689. What is the difference between fog and mist? 690. What is a pill or medicine called when given solely to appease the patient? 691. Which breed of dog is called the King of the Terriers? 692. Ruby and sapphire are different forms of which mineral? 693. Which plant is known as the mile-a-minute plant? 694. What is frost? 695. How many noughts are there in one British octillion? 696. What drives the fly wheel, the gear box, the water pump, the fan and the generator in a car? 697. What did Jethro Tull invent? 698. What is the name of the famous gannet breeding ground off North Berwick? 699. In 1796 a physician, Dr Franz Gall, first announced his theory of character. What was it called? 700. Ford Prefect came from a star in which constellation?

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681. A year. 682. Fog. 683. Beryl. 684. A cob. 685. Energy which bodies have by virtue of their motion. 686. The penguin. 687. Between the stomach and the duodenum. 688. Four. 689. Distance. If visibility is over 1,100 yards, its a mist; if under, its a fog. 690. A placebo. 691. The Airedale. 692. Corundum. 693. The Russian vine. 694. Frozen dew. 695. Forty-eight. 696. The crankshaft. 697. The seed-drill (about 1701). 698. Bass Rock. 699. Phrenology. 700. Orion (Betelgeuse).

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

701. What is Aristotles Lantern? 702. Which animal can defend itself by squirting blood from its eyes? 703. Which animal other than human did the lions share of farm work during the Middle Ages? 704. Who was Orville Wrights older brother? 705. What is called the ship of the desert? 706. For what purpose was Coca-Cola originally sold? 707. What does vitamin K assist? 708. How long does a lost finger-nail take to grow back? 709. What is the correct name for the funny bone? 710. What is a female sheep called? 711. Name the first teddy-bear in space. 712. How many sides does a decagon have? 713. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921? 714. What was the original zip-fastener called? 715. How long does a new hair take to show up in the follicle of a hair plucked out with tweezers? 716. Which planet did William Herschel discover in 1781? 717. Which bird cant fly, yet swims? 718. About how much larger is the sun than the earth? 719. In meteorology what does the Torro scale measure? 720. Which animal is faster than a horse, can go longer without water than a camel and can see behind without moving its head?

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701. The mouth parts of a sea urchin. 702. The horned toad (American). 703. The ox. 704. Wilbur Wright. 705. The camel. 706. As a patent medicine. 707. Blood-clotting. 708. 4 to 5 months. 709. The humerus (naturally!). 710. A ewe. 711. Mishka the 1980 Olympic mascot. 712. Ten. 713. Albert Einstein. 714. C-Curity. 715. About 56 days. 716. Uranus. 717. The penguin. 718. 330,000 times. (Accept within 10 per cent.) 719. Tornadoes. 720. The giraffe.

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721. Name the bitter-tasting herb reputed to relieve migraine headaches. 722. Who created the first pair of bifocal lenses? 723. What is tripe? 724. What connects the ignition coil to the spark plugs in a car? 725. About how many species of living mammals are there? 726. What do you call a castrated horse? 727. What is a sidewinder? 728. What is the largest living creature without a backbone? 729. What is a young deer called? 730. Which bird has its nostrils at the end of its beak? 731. What is a whales nostril called? 732. Which is the largest and heaviest of all snakes? 733. By what name is the bird Pica pica better known? 734. From where does spinach originate? 735. When was the first hydrogen bomb exploded? 736. What does a giraffe use to wash out its ears? 737. How does a female goldfish let her mate know that she is ready to lay eggs? 738. What acid cannot be kept in a glass container? 739. Which planet is called the evening star? 740. What other particles are thought to hold quarks together in the nucleus of an atom?

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721. Feverfew. 722. Benjamin Franklin. 723. The inner lining of the stomach of the ox. 724. The distributor. 725. Four thousand. 726. A gelding. 727. A rattlesnake. 728. The giant squid. 729. A fawn. 730. The kiwi. 731. A blowhole. 732. The anaconda of South America. 733. Magpie. 734. Iran. 735. 1952. 736. Its tongue. 737. She blows bubbles. 738. Hydrofluoric acid it dissolves glass. 739. Venus. 740. Gluons.

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

741. About how many species of fossil (plant and animal) are known? 742. Which part of the body does a cutaneous disease affect? 743. What is the science of celestial bodies called? 744. Approximately how many years elapsed between the invention of the lens and of the telescope? 745. Of what are mothballs made? 746. How long does an oyster take to reach maturity? 747. Which bird has the country name of yaffle? 748. In a car, what does the alternator do? 749. What is the name of a pipe made from a natural block of hydrated magnesium silicate? 750. For how long can porpoises stay under water without breathing? 751. In computer jargon, what does the acronym ASCII mean? 752. What is an eagles nest called? 753. Haematite is an ore of which metal? 754. What is a zonkey? 755. What lives in a holt? 756. What is the difference between the eyes of flesh-eating animals and those of planteating animals? 757. Which insect is responsible for spreading sleeping sickness? 758. How many times heavier is an elephants brain than a mans? 759. How many wings has a dragonfly? 760. In which country did the turnip originate?

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741. 300,000. 742. The skin. 743. Astronomy. 744. 3,000. 745. Naphthalene. 746. 3 years. 747. The woodpecker. 748. Produces electricity. 749. A meerschaum. 750. About 5 minutes. 751. American Standard Code for Information Interchange. 752. An eyrie. 753. Iron. 754. A cross between a zebra and a donkey. 755. An otter. 756. Flesh-eaters have their eyes at the front of their head, plant-eaters one on each side. 757. The tsetse fly. 758. Five (approximately). 759. Four. 760. Greece.

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761. Where is turpentine found naturally? 762. In the horse world what is the feminine of sire? 763. To which country is the emu native? 764. Why are you safe from bee-stings when its raining? 765. Which mythological animal resembles a horse and has a single horn growing from the centre of its forehead? 766. What is the treatment of eye defects such as squints called? 767. Kaka means parrot in which language? 768. Wood is to charcoal as coal is to... what? 769. Which group of insects contains the most varieties? 770. Which fruit has the greatest protein content? 771. Who was the first person to die of radiation poisoning? 772. Which two gases are the main constituents of coal gas? 773. Where in the body are Betz cells? 774. What is the more common name for the Lent Lily? 775. Which method of healing involves needles being inserted into the body? 776. Which chemical element has the symbol Zn? 777. Which plant did Mendel use in working out the laws of heredity? 778. What is the commonest cause of accidents to jet planes? 779. By what name is magnesium sulphate better known? 780. What is the colour of yaks milk?

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761. In the fresh resin of a conifer. 762. Dam. 763. Australia. 764. Because bees cannot fly in the rain. 765. The unicorn. 766. Orthoptics. 767. Maori. 768. Coke. 769. Beetles. 770. The avocado. 771. Marie Curie. 772. Hydrogen and methane. 773. The brain. 774. The daffodil. 775. Acupuncture. 776. Zinc. 777. The garden pea. 778. Birds being sucked into the jets. 779. Epsom salts. 780. Pink.

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781. In a primary rainbow, which colour is on the inside of the curve? 782. Which disease is spread by mosquitoes? 783. What is a group of peacocks called? 784. What is the most poisonous fish in the world? 785. When was the first kidney transplant performed? 786. What is hydroponics? 787. From which kind of goat does mohair come? 788. Which are the two types of brakes used by cars? 789. About how many species of living flowering plants are known? 790. How was lead shot invented? 791. Who was the first man to be totally alone and out of sight of earth? 792. A human being sheds skin continuously. How long does it take to replace the complete outer layer? 793. Where would you find your gluteus maximus? 794. How much water can an elephant that has been travelling on a hot day drink in 24 hours? 795. Who is recognized as being the father of medicine? 796. If an object reflected no light, what colour would it be? 797. Which is the fastest dog in the world? 798. As dogs are canine, what are crows? 799. Artificial fibres are generally thought to be made from oil, but from what is rayon made? 800. How many men have walked on the moon?

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781. Violet. 782. Malaria. 783. A muster. 784. The stonefish. 785. 1961. 786. The soil-less cultivation of plants. 787. The Angora. 788. Disc brakes and drum brakes. 789. 286,000. 790. By a man climbing to the top of a Bristol church in 1782 and pouring molten lead into cold water on the ground. 791. Michael Collins. 792. 28 days. 793. In your buttocks it is the bodys largest muscle. 794. 50 gallons. 795. Hippocrates. 796. Black. 797. Either saluki or greyhound can be accepted as an answer. 798. Corvine. 799. Wood pulp. 800. Twelve.

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

801. What was the vital commodity that five special ships were built to import from Sweden during the Second World War? 802. On which planet is the highest known mountain in our solar system? 803. What is a jennet? 804. Besides being a parasite, dodder is an example of a plant without what? 805. To which country is the koala bear native? 806. What do frugivores eat? 807. What variety of fruit is a cantaloup? 808. Where are guavas grown? 809. How many times its own weight can an average ant lift? 810. Approximately what proportion of the air is nitrogen? 811. What colour is iridium? 812. Of what is widgeon a wild variety? 813. What does an armadillos flesh taste like? 814. After whom was the drug morphine named? 815. What is the deficiency which causes anaemia? 816. In computer jargon what does the acronym RAM mean? 817. What everyday kitchen item can be used to remove stains of ballpoint pens? 818. Give one word for a code quietly inserted into a computer program and designed to spread through a computer system in order to disrupt and corrupt stored information. 819. Which is the only common household pest capable of surviving a nuclear attack? 820. Find the odd one out: bronze, zinc, brass, pewter?

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801. Ball-bearings. 802. Mars (Mons Olympus). 803. A small Spanish horse. 804. Chlorophyll. 805. Australia. 806. Fruit. 807. Melon. 808. The West Indies. 809. Fifty. 810. Four-fifths. 811. Steel grey. 812. Duck. 813. Pork. 814. Morpheus, the Greek God of Dreams. 815. The blood. 816. Random Access Memory. 817. Milk 818. Virus 819. Cockroach 820. Zinc. It is a metal, while the rest are alloys. Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin. Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc. Pewter is a tin-based alloy

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

821. What is the temperature at which Fahrenheit and Celsius scales show the same numeric value? 822. Which is the first animal you come across while going through a dictionary? 823. Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) is chemically odourless. Yet, whenever the cooking gas leaks, we can smell it. Why? 824. Name two precious stones that are composed of the same substance, corundum? 825. What unit is used to measure the speed of ships? 826. By what name is acetylsalicylic acid better known? 827. Which famous World War II fighter plane did RJ Mitchell design in 1936? 828. What useful mathematical tool did John Napier devise? 829. Which gas protects the earth from the harmful ultraviolet rays? 830. Which mode of transport was originally called the velocipede? 831. Which two precious metals make up the alloy electrum? 832. What is common to the following terms: beam, arch, cantilever and suspension? 833. Find the odd one out: Pascal, Newton, Basic, Cobol and Algol? 834. What is 'repeated addition' more commonly known as? 835. Which part of your body is affected when you have hepatitis? 836. What is the common name for small reddish-golden Chinese carp normally kept as a pet at home? 837. Which is the odd one out and why: ringworm, hookworm, roundworm and tapeworm? 838. Other than your head, where will you find a crown in your body? 839. Which compound is used as a fire extinguisher, cleaner, deodorizer and also in making cakes? 840. Which household implement was invented by Hurbert Cecil Booth and originally called the 'noisy serpent'?

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY ANSWERS

821. -40 degrees 822. Aardvark. It is a heavily built mammal found in Africa that feeds on ants and termites. 823. The smell is deliberately added for people to detect leaks 824. Ruby and sapphire 825. Knots 826. Aspirin 827. The Supermarine Spitfire 828. Logarithms 829. Ozone 830. The bicycle 831. Gold and silver. 832. They are all types of bridges. 833. Newton; the rest are computer languages 834. Multiplication 835. The liver 836. Goldfish 837. Ringworm. It is a skin infection, the rest are parasites. 838. The teeth (the part of a tooth projecting from the gum) 839. Baking powder. 840. A vacuum cleaner

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

841. In your body, which muscles are the most active and exercised over 100,000 times a day? 842. The filament of bulbs heat up to almost 7500 degrees Celsius. Why doesn't it burn? 843. Which annoying bodily function is caused by the vibration of the palate at the roof of the mouth? 844. Which strong, often used in making aircraft is named after mythical giants? 845. According to scientists, which is the easiest Indian language to computerize? 846. What is the geological name of the period of time 180-135 million years ago? 847. What is an angle that is greater than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees called? 848. Which rodent gives its name to a device attached to a computer? 849. If your larynx was removed, what handicap would you suffer from? 850. What is the common name for the protuberance on the visage of some vertebrates which forms a part of the olfactory system? 851. What is the geometrical name of an equilateral parallelogram? 852. What is the origin of the word, plumbing? 853. Which two elements were first isolated by Madam Curie from the residue separation of uranium from pitchblende? 854. What important part did James Phipps play in the history of medicine? 855. Both a mercury barometer and an aneroid barometer are used to measure pressure. Why is an aneroid barometer so named? 856. Who will always be remembered as 'the boy who played with the kettle'? 857. On 1 January 1980 the WHO declared the world free of which disease? 858. In computing, what do you call a list of program or function options which are presented by a computer on a visual display unit (computer screen)? 859. What is the most common term for acetic acid? 860. What is twenty-twenty vision?

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY ANSWERS

841. The eye muscles 842. There is no air inside 843. Snoring 844. Titanium (Titans). In Greek mythology, Titans were the descendants of Uranus and Gaea. 845. Sanskrit 846. Jurassic 847. Obtuse angle 848. Mouse 849. You would be mute (unable to speak). Larynx is also called the 'voice box'. 850. Nose 851. Rhombus 852. In the old days, pipes were made of lead and the word originates from the Latin name for the element, Plumbum In chemistry, the symbol for lead is Pb. 853. Radium and polonium. 854. He was the boy who was given the first vaccination against smallpox by Edward Jenner. 855. Aneroid means 'without liquid'. 856. James Watt. 857. Smallpox. 858. Menu 859. Vinegar 860. Perfect eyesight

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

861. What is common to Digger, Prince and Paratrooper? 862. What would you be having checked if a doctor showed you a Snellen's chart? 863. Which word describes .9144 of a metre? 864. What unique feat have ED White, Kathy Sullivan and Alexei Lonov achieved? 865. Which part of your body expands to more than ten times its normal size when excited by an emotion? 866. Alessandro Volta invented a stack of copper and zinc disks, with cardboard in salt water to keep them moist to make a good connection. What had he invented? 867. The Englishman Ralph Wedgwood soaked a thin paper in ink and dried it between sheets of blotting paper. What did he invent? 868. What is common to Yellow, Scarlet, Q and Hay? 869. Barking, swamp, musk and rein are all types of which animal? 870. The adjective renal and hepatic refer to which parts of the human body? 871. The first cervical vertebra in the human body shares its name with which mythological hero? 872. Identical twins are identical except for one feature. What is this feature? 873. What is special about a pan coated with teflon? 874. There are five recognized precious stones diamonds, opals, sapphires, rubies and? 875. What is the popular name for the third molar in each jaw? 876. Which is the odd one out: tumour, boil, cyst, dandruff and eczema? 877. Most bullfighting arenas have a statue or a shrine which pays homage to which scientist? 878. Which is the only part of the human body to accept oxygen directly from the atmosphere? 879. In India, what do you call a blister caused by footwear? 880. What should an analgesic kill?

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY ANSWERS

861. All are names of computer games 862. Eyes 863. A yard 864. They have walked in space 865. The pupil of the eye 866. The electric battery 867. Carbon paper 868. Types of fever 869. Deer 870. Kidney and liver 871. Atlas 872. Fingerprints 873. Non-stick. 874. Emerald 875. Wisdom teeth. 876. Eczema is a disease (the rest are not). 877. Sir Alexander Fleming (Penicillin saves bullfighters) 878. Cornea 879. A shoe-bite 880. Pain.

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

881. Who discovered penicillin in 1928? 882. What instrument measures the intensity of earthquakes? 883. Zymase is a natural catalyst which acts on glucose to create what drug? 884. How do frogs breathe underwater? 885. About how long will an overdose of cyanide take to kill an average person? 886. The fleas of which animal carried the plague known as the Black Death? 887. When coke burns, what dangerous gas is given off? 888. Which prince contributed to the development of the Quantum Theory? 889. What kind of animal is a snow-shoe rabbit? 890. What is a group of hounds called? 891. What is mimulus colloquially called? 892. Catching bream can be a very awkward task. Which predominant characteristic of this fish makes it so difficult? 893. What is the axolotl also called? 894. What breed of dog would you use to hunt hares on foot? 895. About how many red corpuscles of the blood stacked upon each other would make an inch? 896. An Australian parakeet is known as what? 897. What is the diameter of an average stroke of lightning? 898. The polemoscope was invented in 1687. What is it? 899. The constellation of Gemini has a pair of bright stars named after which two brothers? 900. What is the woolly rock?

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY ANSWERS

881. Sir Alexander Fleming. 882. The seismograph. 883. Alcohol. 884. Through their skins. 885. 15 minutes. 886. The black rat. 887. Carbon monoxide. 888. Prince de Broglie. 889. A hare. 890. A mute of hounds. 891. The monkey-flower. 892. It is incredibly slimy. 893. The salamander. 894. The Beagle. 895. About 11,500. 896. A budgerigar. 897. 6 inches. 898. A simple periscope. 899. Castor and Pollux. 900. Asbestos.

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

901. How old does a horse have to be before it is classed as aged? 902. What is a group of foxes called? 903. What does an osteologist study? 904. What is a group of rooks called? 905. How long is a newly born crocodile? 906. What does a hygrometer measure? 907. What did Leo Baekeland invent in 1909? 908. What does the Achilles tendon join? 909. To what family of sea-birds does the guillemot belong? 910. It is thought that dogs are descended from wolves. Yet wolves cannot do one thing that dogs do. What? 911. The huanaco and the vicuna are types of what? 912. To which planet did Viking One go? 913. Apart from dye, ink for ball-point pens contains which nutritious substance? 914. What are felines? 915. The moa, hunted to extinction in addition to being flightless, had the distinction of being what? 916. How do male moths find female moths in the dark? 917. Which insect stage comes between larva and imago? 918. Which bird is known for its booming call and lives in reed-beds? 919. A horse is measured in hands. How many hands is a pony at most? 920. What are the four small bones at the base of the spine called?

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY ANSWERS

901. Seven years. 902. A skulk. 903. Bones. 904. A building or clamour. 905. About 8 inches. 906. Humidity. 907. Bakelite. 908. The calf muscle to the heel. 909. The auk family. 910. Bark. 911. Llama. 912. Mars. 913. Castor oil. 914. Cats. 915. The tallest bird. 916. By smell. 917. Pupa. 918. The bittern. 919. 14.2. 920. The coccyx.

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

921. The adhesive on postage stamps was originally what substance? 922. How many eyes has an earthworm? 923. Which animal family does the ibex belong to? 924. From the failure of which gland does the condition known as cretinism arise? 925. What is a lepton? 926. Which common foot disease is a form of ringworm? 927. For how long can a bed-bug exist without eating? 928. What is mogadon? 929. Which substance contained by most plants do fungi lack? 930. What is a Pacific sea wasp? 931. Approximately where is the visual centre of the brain? 932. How many orbits did John Glen complete in his first space flight? 933. From which plant is linen made? 934. From which continent do elephants with large flapping ears come? 935. What is controlled by a rheostat? 936. At what age does a filly become a mare? 937. With which organ does a snake hear? 938. How many brain cells does an average person lose per day from the age of about thirty? 939. Of what is glass chiefly composed? 940. Which is the largest gland in the human body?

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY ANSWERS

921. Gum arabic. 922. None. 923. Wild goats. 924. The thyroid. 925. A light elementary particle. 926. Athletes foot. 927. 1 year. 928. A sleeping pill. 929. Chlorophyll. 930. A jellyfish. 931. At the back. 932. Three. 933. Flax. 934. Africa. 935. Electric current. 936. Five. 937. Its tongue. 938. 100,000. 939. Sand. 940. The liver.

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

941. Why does hail rarely fall in winter? 942. Which is the only bird that can fly backwards and hover? 943. Of what is trichology the scientific study? 944. What is the fastest bird on earth? 945. What part of the body is affected by glaucoma? 946. What is exceeded when a sonic boom is produced? 947. What is said to be the only man-made object visible without a telescope from the moon? 948. How many teeth do tortoises have? 949. What is a group of swine called? 950. Which acid is HNO3? 951. Which two reptiles have the loudest voices? 952. What was Didus ineptus? 953. What is the name of a cabbage in which the flower head remains for a long time in the bud stage, forms earlier and is larger than in an ordinary cabbage? 954. In which type of medicine would you find yin and yang, pulses and meridians mentioned? 955. Which planet is called the Horned Planet? 956. Deuterium oxide is used in atomic reactors. What is it? 957. What birds do Japanese fishermen use to help them catch fish? 958. What are the so-called white ants? 959. What name is more commonly used for the disease variola? 960. What was the original name for the butterfly?

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY ANSWERS

941. Because ice balls will not fall when the ground temperature is below freezing. 942. The humming bird. 943. Hair. 944. The swift. 945. The eye. 946. The speed of sound. 947. The Great Wall of China. 948. None. 949. A sounder or a drift. 950. Nitric acid. 951. Crocodiles and alligators. 952. The dodo. 953. A cauliflower. 954. Acupuncture. 955. Venus. 956. Heavy water. 957. Cormorants. 958. Termites. 959. Smallpox. 960. The flutterby.

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

961. As dogs are canine, what are bears? 962. Where in your body would you find your adenoids? 963. What colour is chlorophyll? 964. The shape of a drop of water is due to what effect? 965. What transport is needed to reach the Sea of Tranquillity? 966. Who measured the strength of electricity used in his experiments by shocking himself? 967. At what age does a baby first shed tears? 968. Which chemical elements are found in all proteins? 969. About how many species of living fish are known? 970. Lop Nor is the atomic testing-ground of which country? 971. John Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth. From which branch of the armed services was he? 972. The snake-like, legless, harmless lizard, Anguis fragilis, is known as what? 973. How many times does a Bactrian camel get the hump? 974. What is a group of quails called? 975. What does a drosometer measure? 976. In 1845 Thomas Scroggy invented a machine for making what useful object? 977. What is the difference between oily fish and white fish? 978. Which breed of dog was known as a coach dog? 979. The bird species the tits are known in America as what? 980. What is the brown bears main source of animal food in the wild?

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY ANSWERS

961. Ursine. 962. At the back of the nose and throat. 963. Green. 964. Surface tension. 965. A spaceship: its on the moon. 966. Henry Cavendish. 967. Not till about three months earlier crying is tearless. 968. Nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen and carbon. 969. 23,000. 970. China. 971. US Marine Corps. 972. The slow-worm. 973. Two. 974. A bevy. 975. Dew. 976. Porous pipes for draining soil. 977. In the former there is oil throughout the fish; in the latter just in the liver. 978. Dalmatian. 979. Chickadees. 980. Salmon.

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

981. As what was Robert Stroud better known? 982. Which poison was given to Socrates? 983. What type of animal was Sergeant Tibbs in 101 Dalmatians? 984. Who built the railway engine called the Rocket? 985. Roughly how many extant species of bird have been recorded? 986. Who is known as the father of chemistry? 987. Which constituent gives vinegar its sharpness? 988. By what name is scorpion grass better known? 989. What is formed when iron oxidizes? 990. What is an anodyne? 991. Which is the worlds fastest animal? 992. How many times was the Apollo lunar module test-flown before the first moon landing? 993. Which birds are linked with the Tower of London? 994. Which vitamin is produced by the action of ultra-violet light on the skin? 995. Which part of the body contains the most gold? 996. Which is the only bird that can fly all day without once flapping its wings? 997. Who was the Father of Geometry? 998. What is the more common name for nacre, found inside shells? 999. Bulls are not excited specifically by the colour red. Why not? 1000. What is a camelopard now called?

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY ANSWERS

981. The Birdman of Alcatraz. 982. Hemlock. 983. A cat. 984. Robert Stephenson. 985. 8,600. 986. Robert Boyle. 987. Acetic acid. 988. Forget-me-not. 989. Rust. 990. A pain-killing drug. 991. The cheetah, which has been timed at 70 m.p.h. 992. Twice. 993. Ravens. 994. Vitamin D. 995. The toe-nails. 996. The albatross. 997. Euclid. 998. Mother of pearl. 999. Because they are colour-blind. 1000. A giraffe.

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

1001. What is the common household name for sodium chloride? 1002. For what does SCUBA stand? 1003. Rank these animals in order of longevity: man, Indian elephant, horse, pig, cat. 1004. What is the female mosquitos favourite food? 1005. How many surfaces has a cone? 1006. Which wood is plywood mostly made from? 1007. What does a manometer measure? 1008. For what is Hazchem the warning sign? 1009. Which mammal besides the spiny ant-eater (echidna) lays eggs? 1010. Where was the A-bomb tested for the first time in 1945? 1011. Which planet did Clyde Tombaugh discover in 1930? 1012. In the brain, the operation of which parts of the human body take up more space than any other? 1013. If the sky was full of nimbostratus clouds, what type of weather would you expect? 1014. What is a chinook? 1015. What is a bellwether? 1016. Which animal produces its own sun-tan lotion? 1017. What is the chemical symbol for tin? 1018. What is another name for the windhover? 1019. What is the kookaburras nickname? 1020. What is the chemical name for dry ice?

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY ANSWERS

1001. Salt. 1002. Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus. 1003. Man, Indian elephant, horse, cat, pig. 1004. Blood. 1005. Two. 1006. Birch. 1007. The pressure of gases. 1008. Dangerous or hazardous chemicals. 1009. The duck-billed platypus. 1010. Nevada, USA. 1011. Pluto. 1012. The lips and the hands. 1013. Rain: they are rain clouds. 1014. A warm wind which blows in the western states of North America. 1015. The leader of a flock of sheep. 1016. The hippopotamus. 1017. Sn. 1018. Kestrel. 1019. The laughing jackass. 1020. Solid carbon dioxide.

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

1021.Which metal is used in galvanizing?

1022. What is the tallest type of grass? 1023. Which acid was first prepared from distilled red ants? 1024. Which is the lightest: gold, lead or platinum? 1025. Of what are camels-hair brushes made? 1026. What metal would you find in gesundheit? 1027. Which part of an aeroplane is the fuselage? 1028. How long do mayfly eggs take to hatch? 1029. What is an ICBM? 1030. At what phases of the moon do neap tides occur? 1031. Who made the first American space walk in 1965? 1032. To which family does the hippopotamus belong? 1033. What is a female fox called? 1034. Approximately how far above the earth is the stratosphere? 1035. What is a young turkey called? 1036. What does a potometer measure? 1037. What is the medical name for cancer of the blood? 1038. What is a jumbuck? 1039. How does the archer fish capture its prey? 1040. In horses, where would you find the coffin joint?

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY ANSWERS

1021. Zinc (spelter). 1022. Bamboo. 1023. Formic acid. 1024. Lead. 1025. Hairs from squirrels tails. 1026. None; it is German for Your good health! 1027. The body. 1028. 3 years. 1029. An intercontinental ballistic missile. 1030. The first and last quarters. 1031. Edward H. White. 1032. The pig family. 1033. A vixen. 1034. 6 miles. 1035. A poult. 1036. Water intake. 1037. Leukaemia. 1038. A sheep (Aboriginal Australian). 1039. By squirting water at it to shoot it down 1040. The foot.

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

1041. Which disease does the comma bacillus cause? 1042. From which country does lettuce originate? 1043. Which bird lays the worlds largest egg? 1044. What is the average diameter of an ostrich egg? 1045. Who was the pilot of the first space shuttle, a man who had been in space more times than anyone else? 1046. Who travelled in Sputnik II in 1967? 1047. Which space mission comprised lunar module Aquarius and command module Odyssey? 1048. Which bird is the symbol of peace? 1049. What frightened Miss Muppet away? 1050. From what are pencil leads made? 1051. How many million blood cells are destroyed per minute in a human body? 1052. How many noughts are there in a British billion? 1053. Brights disease affects which part of the body? 1054. What is a mandrill? 1055. Why is the bloodhound so called? 1056. Where is your deltoid muscle? 1057. There are 31,622,400 seconds in what period of time? 1058. Which is the best form of cloud for gliding? 1059. Where do swallows spend the winter? 1060. Some 5,000 satellites orbit the earth. Which is the largest?

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY ANSWERS

1041. Cholera. 1042. Iran. 1043. The ostrich. 1044. 7 inches. 1045. John Young. 1046. Laika, the dog. 1047. Apollo 13. 1048. The dove. 1049. A spider. 1050. A mixture of graphite and clay not lead ! 1051. Fifteen, but they are replaced by fifteen million new ones. 1052. Twelve. 1053. The kidneys. 1054. A type of baboon. 1055. Not for its tracking ability, but because it was the first pedigree or pure- blooded breed of dog. 1056. In your shoulder. 1057. A leap year. 1058. Cumulus, which is caused by the rising air currents that keep gliders aloft. 1059. South Africa. 1060. The Moon. The others are man-made

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

1061. How does the baby kangaroo first get into the mothers pouch? 1062. An isoneph is a line on a map joining what? 1063. Sandstone found in chalky soil is given what name? 1064. Which chemical element has a name containing just three letters? 1065. What is the heaviest known substance? 1066. Which marsupial is native to America? 1067. What metal has the symbol Fe? 1068. What is the fertilizing powder produced by plants called? 1069. How many feet are there in a fathom? 1070. How many pints are in a quart? 1071. Travelling at the speed of light, about how long would it take you to reach the farthest star in our own galaxy? 1072. Which animal stands on its feet for the longest period? 1073. Where did the leek originate? 1074. In the solar system there are two Mount Olympuses. Where are they? 1075. On whom was the first successful heart transplant performed by Dr Christian Barnard? 1076. What does a pluviometer measure? 1077. What is a collection of ravens? 1078. Wild marjoram is also known as what? 1079. Hydrocyanic acid is often referred to in detective stories as what? 1080. What are secateurs?

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY ANSWERS

1061. The mother licks a wet strip in her fur and the baby crawls up it. 1062. Places having equal average cloud coverage. 1063. Sarsen. 1064. Tin. 1065. Osmium. 1066. The opossum. 1067. Iron. 1068. Pollen. 1069. Six. 1070. Two. 1071. About 75,000 years. 1072. The African elephant, which sleeps standing up and often lives for more than 50 years. 1073. Asia. 1074. Greece and Mars. 1075. Louis Washkansky, who lived for 18 days. 1076. Rainfall. 1077. An unkindness. 1078. Oregano. 1079. Prussic acid. 1080. Pruning shears.

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

1081. The Russians have left behind a number of robot lunar crawlers on the moon. What was the first one called? 1082. Which was the first satellite in orbit? 1083. In what does a fellmonger deal? 1084. Which metal has the atomic number of 30? 1085. Which acid has the chemical formula HN03? 1086. Which bird is often called the fish hawk? 1087. What is the least radiation-sensitive part of the body? 1088. What is the collective name for a group of kittens? 1089. What is the anatomical name for the shinbone? 1090. Approximately what proportion of the air is oxygen? 1091. Deficiency of which vitamin causes beri-beri? 1092. By what name is the purple fruit of the egg-plant known? 1093. By what name is quicksilver otherwise known? 1094. What is a lactometer? 1095. What is the principal food of reindeer and caribou? 1096. How many miles of arteries, veins and capillaries does the human body contain? 1097. Of what is smuck a group? 1098. What is the chemical symbol for iodine? 1099. What is an emmet? 1100. What colour are peridots (semi-precious stones)?

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY ANSWERS

1081. Lunokhod I. 1082. Sputnik I. 1083. Animal skins. 1084. Zinc. 1085. Nitric acid. 1086. The osprey. 1087. The brain. 1088. A kindle of kittens. 1089. The tibia. 1090. One-fifth. 1091. Vitamin B. 1092. Aubergine. 1093. Mercury. 1094. An instrument for testing density of milk. 1095. Reindeer moss. 1096. Approximately 60,000. 1097. Jellyfish. 1098. I. 1099. An ant. 1100. Green.

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

1101. Which element has the symbol Ag? 1102. What was Apollo IIs landing module called? 1103. Which creatures accompany sharks and ships? 1104. Which stimulant is found in coffee, tea and cocoa? 1105. Who invented the lightning rod? 1106. What is sericulture? 1107. What is a group of cats called? 1108. What colour is a female blackbird? 1109. What measures horizontal and vertical angles in surveying? 1110. What was George Stevensons first successful railway engine called? 1111. What is the chemical symbol for silver? 1112. Which unit is used to express the purity of gold? 1113. By what name is an arbutus colloquially known? 1114. Originally gelatine came from what? 1115. The gear which enables the drive wheels of a car to turn a corner while on the same axle is called what? 1116. What is your tarsus? 1117. What is the chemical symbol for phosphorus? 1118. How many legs does a daddy-long-legs have? 1119. What are fingerlings? 1120. If a rabbits front teeth were never worn down by eating, to what length could they grow?

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY ANSWERS

1101. Silver. 1102. Eagle. 1103. Pilot fish. 1104. Caffeine. 1105. Benjamin Franklin. 1106. Breeding silk-worms. 1107. A clowder. 1108. Brown. 1109. A theodolite. 1110. Locomotion No. 1. 1111. Ag. 1112. Carat. 1113. A strawberry tree. 1114. Animal bones and tissue. 1115. The differential gear. 1116. Your ankle. 1117. P. 1118. Eight. 1119. Baby salmon about to leave for the sea. 1120. 10 feet.

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

1121. The largest known eyes in the animal kingdom belonged to a squid washed up in 1933 in New Zealand. How big were they? 1122. What is the more popular name for crane flies? 1123. Where are the largest crabs in the world to be found? 1124. What constituent in cheese gives it its flavour? 1125. To which family does the adjutant bird belong? 1126. How many bones are there in the human skull (excluding the ears)? 1127. What is the maximum number of eclipses of the sun possible in one year? 1128. What do dates grow on? 1129. What is the anatomical name for the gullet? 1130. Where does a fish have its dorsal fin? 1131. How many more bones in the human arm are there than in a human leg? 1132. A fossil of the great fish-like dinosaur known as the ichthyosaurus was first found by Mary Anning in 1811. How old was she at the time? 1133. What is a dzo? 1134. What is the primeval land mass called from which all the worlds continents sprang? 1135. How many incisors should a human adult have? 1136. Which variety of cheese is also a breed of long-haired sheep? 1137. Pencil lead is mostly made from what substance? 1138. What is the stamen of a flower? 1139. What colour are laburnum flowers? 1140. Which bird turns its head upside down to eat?

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY ANSWERS

1121. 15 inches across. 1122. Daddy-long-legs. 1123. Off the coast of Japan. 1124. Strains of bacteria. 1125. The stork family. 1126. Twenty-two. 1127. Five. 1128. Palm trees. 1129. The oesophagus. 1130. On its back. 1131. One. 1132. 12 years old. 1133. A cross between a cow and a yak. 1134. Pangea. 1135. 8 (4 in each jaw). 1136. Wensleydale. 1137. Graphite. 1138. The pollen-producing part. 1139. Yellow. 1140. The flamingo.

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY- QUESTIONS

1141. How many times per second does a housefly beat its wings? 1142. How many legs does a lobster have? 1143. In which year is Halleys comet next due to appear? 1144. How many chromosomes does a normal human being have? 1145. Which is the only mammal capable of true flight? 1146. Through which organs do whales breathe? 1147. What is the only creature that can turn its stomach inside out? 1148. Pneumonia is a disease of what? 1149. Trachoma is an infection of what? 1150. What is a young hare called?

SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY ANSWERS

1141. 190. 1142. Eight. 1143. 1986. 1144. Forty-six. 1145. The bat. 1146. The Lungs. 1147. The Starfish 1148. The lungs. 1149. The eye. 1150. A leveret

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10. What was cricketer Bishan Bedi famous for? 11. Which month is the Ascot Gold Cup run in? 12. What is the name of the dog that found the missing World Cup in 1966? 13. What differentiates Alpine from Nordic skiing? 14. How long is a badminton court? 15. What number did Roger Bannister wear on his vest when he broke the four- minute mile? 16. Which racecourse, now closed, was nicknamed The Frying Pan? 17. What distance is the competitive biathlon? 18. Which Olympic ice-skater went on to become a Hollywood film star in the 1930s and 1940s? 19. How many lanes are there in an Olympic swimming pool? 20. Who was the first pole-vaulter to clear 19 feet?

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21. Lyudmila Tourischeva to Valery Borzov. 22. Guys Hospital RFC. 23. Notts County (founded 1862). 24. Rodney Marsh of Australia. 25. Elastic thread wound under tension around a central core surrounded by plastic. 26. Golf clubs. 27. 1963. 28. A double eagle. 29. Putney. 30. Practice balls. 31. Lancashire. 32. C. B. Fry. 33. Badminton. 34. Norman Hunter. 35. Howard Payne. 36. Lasse Viren. 37. Gillian Gilks. 38. Kip Keino. 39. Trent Bridge. 40. Baseball.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
41. Which pre-war British heavyweight champion hailed from Tonypandy? 42. At which sport was Victor Barna world champion five times? 43. Who scored Southamptons goal in the 1976 Cup Final, and to which pop star is he related? 44. What is the longest distance over which official greyhound races are run in England? 45. What is the cricketing term for a ball that turns to leg on pitching? 46. In which sport is the Eisenhower Trophy contested? 47. When was Matt Busby knighted? 48. In which sport would you expect to find a night watchman? 49. Who succeeded John Walker as the world record holder in the 1-mile event in 1979? 50. Which track stages the Greyhound Derby each year? 51. Which cricketer has scored the most runs for England in test matches? 52. From which country does speedway star Ole Olsen come? 53. Who were the finalists who lost on penalties in the 1984 European Cup? 54. Who first broke 3 minutes 50 seconds in the mile? 55. Who first ran the 10,000 metres in under 28 minutes? 56. How many Grand National winners did Fred Rimell train between 1956 and 1976? 57. Which fast test-bowler suffered stress fractures of the lower spine early in his career? 58. David Acfield played cricket for Essex. In which sport did he represent Britain at the Olympic Games? 59. In golf, if a right-handed player cuts a shot, what will happen to the ball? 60. In golf, what is a bandit?

SPORTS ANSWERS
41. Tommy Farr. 42. Table tennis. 43. Roy Dwight. His nephew is Elton John. 44. 1,200 yards. 45. Off-break. 46. Golf. Its the world amateur team championship. 47. 1968. 48. Cricket. 49. Sebastian Coe. 50. White City. 51. Geoff Boycott (8,114 in 108 tests). 52. Denmark. 53. AC Roma. 54. John Walker. 55. Ron Clarke. 56. Four. 57. Dennis Lillee. 58. Fencing. 59. It will travel from left to right. 60. A golfer considered by others to play regularly below his current handicap.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
61. What nationality is tennis ace Guillermo Vilas? 62. Which racecourse is called the Rooddee? 63. For which rugby club did Gareth Edwards play? 64. How many times did Muhammad Ali fight Joe Bugner? 65. Which jockey won his first English classic on Polygamy (1974 Oaks)? 66. Who plays cricket at Edgbaston? 67. What is the name of Londons principal fencing centre? 68. Where were the first Winter Olympics held? 69. Which rugby club plays home matches at Old Deer Park? 70. How many holes in one were there during the British Open Golf Championships in 1981? 71. In the 1949 British Open, Harry Bradshaw played a memorable golf stroke. Where was the ball lying? 72. Who did Virginia Wade beat in the 1977 Wimbledon Final? 73. Where did ice hockey originate? 74. Where were the 1982 Commonwealth Games held? 75. When were the first Winter Olympics held? 76. Who was the first athlete to win two gold medals in the Olympic decathlon? 77. In American football, how many players does each team have on the field at one time? 78. Which horse won the English Triple Crown in 1970? 79. Which team did Arnold Muhren first play for when he came to England from Holland? 80. Who was the first non-Japanese to win a world judo title?

SPORTS ANSWERS
61. Argentinian. 62. Chester. 63. Cardiff. 64. Twice. 65. Pat Eddery. 66. Warwickshire County Cricket Club. 67. The de Beaumont centre. 68. Chamonix, France. 69. London Welsh. 70. Three. 71. In a broken bottle. 72. Betty Stove. 73. Canada. 74. Brisbane. 75. 1924. 76. Bob Mathias. 77. Eleven. 78. Nijinsky. 79. Ipswich. 80. Anton Geesink in 1961.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
81. In which year were womens track and field events introduced into the Olympic Games? 82. What is the maximum mark awarded by a single judge in international ice-dance competitions 83. How long does a fifteen-round boxing match take to complete? 84. What was the name of the Flying Finn who won seven gold and three silver medals in the 1920, 1924 and 1928 Olympics? 85. Name the horse from which 90 per cent of all thoroughbreds are descended. 86. Who was the mens Olympic skating champion in 1976? 87. In which two sports does action take place on a piste? 88. Where does the Tour de France cycle race finish? 89. In which sport is the Davis Cup awarded? 90. Which sport is governed by the Queensberry rules? 91. Who captained India to cricket World Cup victory in 1983? 92. Who wrote Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man? 93. Which English team plays soccer in the Scottish League? 94. On which four pieces of apparatus do women compete in international gymnastics competitions? 95. In basketball, what distance is the free-throw line from the backboard? 96. How many players are there in a water polo team? 97. For which League football team did Ian Botham play centre forward? 98. What was Martina Navratilovas original nationality? 99. What is the diameter of a basketball basket? 100. In which sport does Karl Schnabl compete internationally?

SPORTS ANSWERS
81. 1928. 82. Six. 83. 59 minutes (fifteen 3-minute rounds plus fourteen 1-minute breaks). 84. Paavo Nurmi. 85. Eclipse. 86. John Curry of Britain. 87. Skiing and fencing. 88. Paris. 89. Tennis. 90. Boxing. 91. Kapil Dev. 92. Siegfried Sassoon. 93. Berwick Rangers. 94. Beam, asymmetric bars, horse/box, floor/mat. 95. 15 feet. 96. Seven. 97. Scunthorpe United. 98. Czechoslovakian. 99. 18 inches. 100. Ski-jumping.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
101. Which Olympic swimming multi-gold-medallist died on 21 January 1984? 102. Which is the most popular sport in Spanish-speaking countries? 103. Which British football club won nine successive League championships between 1966 and 1974? 104. Which object is usually thrown the furthest in field events? 105. Which golfer has the nickname Golden Bear? 106. In which Olympic Games did Princess Anne compete? 107. In how many different ways can a batsman be out at cricket? 108. What is ski volutif? 109. Which indoor game is often called The Hungarian Horror'? 110. Which Indian cricketer once said: 'I always wanted to be a bus driver; wonder what got me into cricket'? 111. Who scored 36 runs (not out) after batting through 60 overs in a World Cup match? 112. Who was the first person to win the Dronacharya Award in athletics? 113. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, why were coconut shells imported by Spain from India? 114. Who is the youngest cricketer to have scored a century in the Ranji Trophy? 115. In which event did Spyridon Louis won the first gold medal for Greece in Olympic Games in 1896? 116. Chintadripet, in north Chennai, is referred to as the country's capital in which sport? 117. Which famous sportsman (not a footballer) donned the colours of the East Bengal Football Club in 1992? 118. Who was the first unseeded player to win the Wimbledon men's singles title? 119. Which famous international footballer was known as The Galloping Major'? 120. Back to the Mark is the autobiography of which former fast bowler?

SPORTS ANSWERS
101. Johnny Weissmuller (Tarzan). 102. Bullfighting. 103. Glasgow Celtic. 104. The javelin. 105. Jack Nicklaus. 106. The Montreal Games of 1976. 107. Ten. 108. The French method of teaching skiing, starting with very short skis. 109. Rubik's Cube. 110. Kapil Dev 111. Sunil Gavaskar, in 1975. 112. OM Nambiar in 1985. 113. Ice creams were served in them! 114. Dhruv Pandove. 115. Marathon 116. Carrom 117. Kapil Dev (he didn't score too many goals!) 118. Boris 'Boom Boom' Becker, 1985 119. Ferenc Puskas 120. Dennis Lillee

SPORTS QUESTIONS
121. In which Olympic Games did Indias hockey team lose, to end the winning streak? 122. If someone was participating in the Le Mans, he would be an expert in which sport? 123. Till 2003, only three footballers have been named 'European Footballer of the Year' on three occasions. Name them. 124. In athletics, over how many days is the decathlon spread? 125. If Jesse Owens was 'The Ebony Express', who was known as 'The Payyoli Express'? 126. Which sporting venue was used as the headquarters of the Red Cross, Air Raid Precautions and the National Fire Services in Britain during World War II? 127. Elizabieta Krzesinska won the long jump gold at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. What book did she read between jumps? 128. The Spanish footballer Emilio Butragueno was nicknamed after a bird. What was his nickname? 129. Who was the first batsman in the history of international cricket to be given out by the 'third umpire'? 130. 'My father was a hockey Olympian. My mother was a basketball player of repute. I, too, am a famous Indian sportsman.' Who am I? 131. In which Hindi film does Amitabh Bachchan mimic a cricket commentator? 132. If Wimbledon is played on grass, which tournament is played on Deco Turf II? 133. In Indian football, if the 'Red and Gold' is up against the 'Maroon and Green', which two clubs are playing? 134. Who is the first Indian to take a hat trick in a one-day international cricket match? 135. The first Indian chess Grandmaster is V Anand. Who is the second? 136. The three W's of West Indian cricket (Weekes, Worrell and Walcott) all hail from the same island. Name the island. 137. How many holes are played in a complete round of golf? 138. How many pounds are ball boys and ball girls paid at the Wimbledon tennis championships? 139. Name the three Indians who have won the Wimbledon Junior Singles title. 140. What sport is played for the Subroto Mukherjee Cup?

SPORTS ANSWERS
121. Rome, 1960. 122. Car racing 123. Johan Cruyff, Michel Platini and Marco Van Basten 124. Two days 125. PT Usha 126. Wimbledon 127. She read the Bible between jumps 128. 'The Vulture' 129. Sachin Tendulkar, when India toured South Africa in 1992. 130. Leander Paes. His father is Dr Vece Paes and his mother is Jennifer Paes. 131. Namak Halal 132. US Open 133. East Bengal and Mohun Bagan 134. Chetan Sharma 135. Dibyendu Barua 136. Barbados 137. Eighteen 138. Nothing. They work for free! 139. Ramanathan Krishnan, Ramesh Krishnan and Leander Paes 140. Football

SPORTS QUESTIONS
141. Which sportsman was nicknamed 'The Louisville Lip' because of the way he used to boast before a contest? 142. If Gavaskar was 'The Little Master', which cricketer was nicknamed 'Super Cat' or 'Big Cat'? 143. What kind of music would you expect to hear when a man is performing floor exercises in gymnastics? 144. In which sport would the Boston Celtics compete against the Chicago Bulls? 145. Leander Paes is the great-grand nephew of which Bengali literary great? 146. Which form of intimidatory bowling was banned in cricket in 1932? 147. Why was the mascot for the 1996 Olympic Games named 'Whatizit'? 148. In cricket, what connects Malcolm Nash and Tilak Raj? 149. Fifty-five-year-old Bobby Riggs lost against which women's tennis star in a challenge match in the mid-seventies? 150. Before the 'back-pass regulation' or 'hit-off came into effect, how did a hockey match start? 151. What is common to the following: George Hackenschmidt, the Great Gama, Ed Lewis and Frank Gotch? 152. The scoring system for which popular sport originated from the positions of the hands of clock? 153. Which Indian emulated Bob Massie's feat of sixteen wickets on Test debut? 154. Who was the first Indian to captain Oxford or Cambridge University? 155. Who succeeded Bobby Fischer as World Chess Champion in 1975? 156. Which was the first sporting event to be broadcast live on television? 157. The contingent of which country marches last in the Olympic march past? 158. In tennis, what is 'no man's land'? 159. Dick Fosbury invented a revolutionary technique in an Olympic track and field event and won a gold medal in 1968. Which event did he so influence? 160. With Time to Spare is the autobiography of which elegant left-handed batsman?

SPORTS ANSWERS
141. Muhammad All 142. Clive Lloyd 143. No music (music is only played for the women's floor exercises) 144. Basketball 145. Michael Madhusudan Dutt 146. Bodyline 147. As it didn't resemble any particular animal, people kept asking: 'What is it!' 148. Both have been hit for six sixes in a single over (by Gary Sobers and Ravi Shastri respectively) 149. Billie Jean King. The match was known as the 'Battle of the Sexes'. 150. A 'bully-off 151. All were wrestlers 152. Lawn tennis 153. Narendra Hirwani 154. Tiger Pataudi, Oxford 155. Anatoly Karpov 156. The 1936 Berlin Olympics 157. The host nation 158. Midcourt (neither at the net nor the baseline!) 159. The high jump. 160. David Gower

SPORTS QUESTIONS
161. In the 1992 cricket World Cup, who or what was Daddies? 162. If the 'Big Bird' is cricketer Joel Garner, who was the 'Little Bird'? 163. Which track and field event is known as 'suicide in ten instalments'? 164. What reason did King Edward III give for banning football in ad 1365? 165. If you are standing at the 'long stop' position in cricket, where would your fielding position be? 166. Which African dictator was also his country's heavyweight boxing champion? 167. What is the colour of the Karate belt of the lowest order? 168. Excluding the striker, how many pieces are there on the board when a carrom game starts? 169. What are the two basic categories in diving events at the Olympics Games? 170. Which Indian cricketer's son is named after Sunil Gavaskar and footballer Inder Singh? 171. About whom or what did Gary Kasparov say: 'I have to challenge it for the sake of the human race'? 172. One More Over is the autobiography of which famous Indian cricketer? 173. The Merry Magyars' were the legendary national team of which European nation? 174. Which veteran tennis star is believed to have popularised the two-handed backhand return? 175. Which famous game was invented by James Naismith in 1891 to help his students keep fit during the winter season? 176. The World Cup Football finals of 1970 and 1986 were both played in the same stadium. Name it. 177. Which team has won the National Men's Soccer] Championship (the Santosh Trophy) the most number] of times? 178. What are the colours of the chequered flag waved at the end of a motor race? 179. Till 2004, which was the last country to win the football World Cup on their home ground? 180. What is the colour at the centre of an archery target?

SPORTS ANSWERS
161. The sorrowful duck that appeared whenever a batsman scored zero 162. The footballer Garrincha 163. The decathlon, a gruelling event 164. His soldiers were not concentrating on archery 165. At the boundary, directly behind the wicket-keeper 166. Idi Amin. He was the dictator of Uganda. 167. White 168. Nineteen 169. Platform (or highboard) and springboard 170. Bishen Singh Bedi. His son is named Gavasinder. 171. The chess computer, 'Deep Thought' 172. EAS Prasanna 173. Hungary 174. Jimmy Connors 175. Basketball 176. The Aztec Stadium, Mexico City 177. Bengal 178. Black and white 179. France in 1998 180. Gold

SPORTS QUESTIONS
181. A certain chess piece cannot move on to a black square if it has started the game on a white square, and vice versa. Can you name the piece? 182. Where were the Olympic Games of 1900 held? 183. Which Briton became world canoe slalom champion in 1977? 184. How many play in a softball team? 185. In which city is the Lansdowne Road rugby ground? 186. With what kind of ball was table tennis played before the current celluloid ball was introduced? 187. How many professional fights had Leon Spinks fought before winning the World Championship from Muhammad Ali? 188. Since the modern Olympics began, which country has won the most gold medals? 189. In the 1968 Olympics Kip Keino won the gold medal in which event? 190. Who won the 1978 Wightman Cup for tennis? 191. Who refereed the 1896 world heavyweight fight between Tom Sharkey and Bob Fitzsimmons and pulled a gun during it? 192. How many rowing gold medals has John B. Kelly, Princess Grace of Monacos father, won in the Olympics? 193. In 1976, a Russian woman 7 feet 2 inches tall won a gold medal for what? 194. What game does a tip-off start? 195. Which football team plays at home at the Gay Meadow ground? 196. Between 1928 and 1968, to which two countries did the Olympic mens hockey gold medal invariably go? 197. How did the steeplechase originate? 198. What was Pigalle Wonder? 199. What is the full title of Brighton FC? 200. Liverpool plays at Anfield, but who plays at Annfield?

SPORTS ANSWERS
181. The bishop 182. Paris. 183. Albert Kerr. 184. Nine. 185. Dublin. 186. Cork. 187. Seven. 188. The USA. 189. 1,500 metres. 190. Great Britain. 191. Wyatt Earp. 192. Three. 193. Womens basketball. 194. Basketball. 195. Shrewsbury Town. 196. India and Pakistan. 197. It was originally a cross-country race towards a church steeple. 198. A greyhound. 199. Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club. 200. Stirling Albion.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
201. Before Fulham, which was the last club to join the Rugby League? 202. With whom did Martina Navratilova win the 1982 Wimbledon ladies doubles? 203. What game is played in the World Series? 204. In which sport do the terms yoi, yame, seremade and hantei occur? 205. When was ice dancing first contested at the Winter Olympics? 206. Who is the most famous motor-racer that Brazil has ever produced? 207. Which sport do FISA and FOCA govern? 208. Who won the 1984 European Cup for football? 209. In which sport did Karen Briggs win world and European titles in 1982? 210. Which international wicket-keeper and international striker share the same name? 211. Which country did Lasse Viren represent? 212. The worlds first organized cycle race occurred in the year of a famous revolt and in the same city. Where? 213. Who was the first member elected to the USAs Swimming Hall of Fame? 214. In which game does the ball travel fastest? 215. What is fives? 216. At which weight did Maurice Hope fight? 217. Which horse won the 1961 English Derby? 218. Which jockey rode the Derby winner, Never Say Die, in 1954? 219. Who is the only British player to have scored twice in a European Cup Final? 220. Who achieved Britains only gold medal in the 1978 European Championships?

SPORTS ANSWERS
201. Blackpool Borough in 1954. 202. Pam Shriver. 203. Baseball. 204. Karate. 205. 1976. 206. Emerson Fittipaldi. 207. Motor racing. 208. Liverpool. 209. Judo. 210. Rodney Marsh. 211. Finland. 212. Paris (1868); an Englishman won. 213. Johnny Weissmuller (Tarzan). 214. Jai alai. 215. A hand-ball game played by pairs in a three-walled court. 216. Light middleweight. 217. Psidium. 218. Lester Piggott. 219. Bobby Charlton. 220. Steve Ovett in the 1500 metres.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
221. In 1964 more than 300 people were killed during a riot following an Olympic qualifying football match in which country? 222. Who won the British Jumping Derby in successive years on Mattie Brown? 223. Who won the Monaco Grand Prix five times in the 1960s? 224. Which girl achieved six British Judo titles in the 1970s? 225. In what type of racing do just two cars compete at a time? 226. Who won the 1,500 metres silver medal at the 1984 Olympics? 227. Who was the first Grand Prix driver to use a safety belt, in 1967? 228. How long did the longest recorded rally in tennis last (to the nearest five minutes)? 229. Who play home soccer at the Den? 230. How many play at one time on a Gaelic football team? 231. At which rowing venue is the Prince Philip Cup competed for? 232. Who scored six goals in the 1982 World Cup finals? 233. Of what nationality was the winner of the 1983 Safari rally? 234. Who was the only golfer to have his life story made into a film? 235. For how many years were the Wimbledon tennis championships held before women were allowed to compete? 236. In which event did seventeen-year-old Bob Mathias of the USA win a gold medal at the 1948 London Olympics? 237. Which German football club won the European Cup in 1974, 1975 and 1976? 238. Where is the St Leger run? 239. Where is the largest bowling alley in the world? 240. Who was the first British woman athlete to win an Olympic gold medal?

SPORTS ANSWERS
221. Peru. 222. Harvey Smith. 223. Graham Hill. 224. Christine Child. 225. Drag racing. 226. Steve Cram. 227. Jackie Stewart. 228. 51 minutes an estimated 1,029 strokes. 229. Millwall. 230. Fifteen. 231. Henley. 232. Paolo Rossi of Italy. 233. Finnish (Ari Vatanen in an Opel Ascona). 234. Ben Hogan (Follow the Sun). 235. Seven. They began in 1877 for men only; women were not admitted until 1884. 236. The decathlon. 237. Bayern Munich. 238. Doncaster. 239. Japan. The Tokyo World Lane Bowling Center has 252 lanes. 240. Mary Rand.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
241. What are the colours of the five Olympic rings? 242. To which country did England lose an international soccer match 71 in 1954? 243. Who was the oldest Formula 1 driver ever to win the World Grand Prix? 244. Who was Coroibos of Olis? 245. Who won the Wimbledon mens singles in 1939? 246. Which modern game does the old Aztec game of ollamalitzli most closely resemble? 247. Which track race is known as the Metric Mile? 248. How do you score points in a parachuting competition? 249. Who was the first English footballer to win 100 caps for his country? 250. Which British racing driver won the Indianapolis 500 in 1966? 251. From whom did the boxer Roberto Duran take the Lightweight Championship of the World in 1972? 252. In which city was the first AliSpinks World Heavyweight Championship fought? 253. Who was the first sportswoman to win $100,000 in one year? 254. Which tennis player was sued by his fan club? 255. What nationality is Ivan Lendl? 256. For what feat did Jean-Marc Boivin win the International Award for Valour in Sport in 1980? 257. Which county did F. E. Woolley represent at cricket? 258. Who played in the 1948 FA Cup final? 259. Who was the first footballer to be knighted? 260. Who captained Spurs in 1961, the year of their Cup and League double?

SPORTS ANSWERS
241. Black, blue, red, green and yellow. 242. Hungary. 243. Juan Manuel Fangio, who was aged forty-six when he won in 1957. 244. A cook, the Greek athlete who became the first Olympic champion by winning the only event, the 200-yard dash, at the first Olympics in 776 BC. 245. Bobby Riggs. 246. Basketball. 247. The 1,500 metres. 248. Points are awarded for how close you land to the centre of a target. 249. Billy Wright. 250. Graham Hill. 251. Ken Buchanan. 252. Las Vegas, Nevada. 253. Billie Jean King. 254. Jimmy Connors. 255. Czechoslovakian. 256. Climbing K2, the worlds second highest mountain, then jumping off the top with his hang-glider. 257. Kent. 258. Everton and Watford. 259. Stanley Matthews. 260. Danny Blanchflower.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
261. Who is the youngest player ever to play in a World Cup? 262. Where did the worst accident in the history of motor racing take place in 1955, when eighty-three spectators were killed? 263. If you are a very good skier, what is the ideal colour-graded slope for your standard? 264. Who was the PGAs leading money-winner eight times between 1964 and 1976? 265. Where is the British Grand Prix held? 266. Which football twins joined Luton from Chester? 267. What does the shot weigh in the Olympic mens shot-put? 268. In which year did Manchester United win the European Cup? 269. For what do the initials MCC stand? 270. Which city is home for the Ajax football team? 271. How long is a tennis court? 272. Which German ex-paratrooper and PoW became an outstanding goalkeeper for Manchester City in the 1950s? 273. Name the boxer nicknamed the Fighting Barber from Hanley whose son was famous in another sport. 274. Who was the first winner of the womens Olympic 1,500 metres? 275. How many men are seeded in the Wimbledon tennis singles championship? 276. Which weight world championship did Marvin Hagler win? 277. How many consecutive Rugby games did Gareth Edwards play for Wales? 278. Why were two Zambian footballers who played for the Green Buffaloes banned for life in 1980/81? 279. Which country were the British team touring in 1924 when they were nicknamed the Lions? 280. Whom did Jimmy Connors beat in a challenge match in Las Vegas in 1975 to take 500,000 dollars?

SPORTS ANSWERS
261. Norman Whiteside (17 years 42 days). 262. Le Mans. 263. Black. 264. Jack Nicklaus. 265. Silverstone. 266. Ron and Paul Futcher. 267. 16 pounds. 268. 1968. 269. Marylebone Cricket Club. 270. Amsterdam. 271. 78 feet. 272. Bert Trautmann. 273. Jack Matthews, father of Sir Stanley Matthews. 274. Ludmilla Bragina (USSR) at the Munich Olympics. 275. Sixteen. 276. Middleweight. 277. Fifty-three. 278. Because they assaulted a linesman. 279. South Africa. 280. John Newcombe of Australia.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
281. Which were Britains two finalists in the mens 100 metres breast-stroke at the 1976 Olympics? 282. On which racecourse are the Champion Hurdle and Gold Cup run at the National Hunt festival each March? 283. Where is the headquarters of the Lancashire county cricket club? 284. Which seeker of precious nacre won the 1947 Derby? 285. Who immediately preceded Henry Rono as 3,000 metres world record holder? 286. Who rode Crepello to victory in the Derby? 287. Who won the first transatlantic yacht race in 1960? 288. Name the baseball-like game, played with a larger ball pitched underarm? 289. Name one of the three Llanelli players who played throughout in the 1976 Welsh Grand Slam team. 290. In which sport may you not play left-handed? 291. In which year did the BBC first televise tennis from Wimbledon? 292. Who won Britains first orienteering championship in 1967? 293. In which year did Jimmy Connors first win Wimbledon? 294. Which throwing events date back to ancient games? 295. In which sport might you perform a stem-christie? 296. What type of car was Graham Hill driving when he won the 1968 World Championship? 297. Which showjumper competed in all the Olympic Games from 1948 to 1976? 298. Who won Britains second orienteering championship in 1968? 299. In which year was the white horse Cup Final? 300. In 1973, which British athlete broke the world record for the 10,000 metres?

SPORTS ANSWERS
281. David Wilkie and Duncan Goodhew. 282. Cheltenham. 283. Old Trafford, Manchester. 284. Pearl Diver. 285. Brendan Foster. 286. Lester Piggott. 287. Francis Chichester. 288. Softball. 289. Phil Bennett, Ray Gravell or J. J. Williams. 290. Polo. 291. 1937. 292. Gordon Pirie. 293. 1974. 294. Javelin and discus. 295. Skiing. 296. A Lotus. 297. Raimondo dlnzeo. 298. Gordon Pirie. 299. 1923. 300. David Bedford.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
301. Which well-known jockey first rode in the Derby at the age of forty-six? 302. What is the French Derby called? 303. Who was the youngest jockey to win the Derby this century? 304. Of which sport is Yabusame a Japanese version? 305. Who captained the USA in the first six Ryder Cup golf matches? 306. How many deliveries normally constitute an over at cricket in England? 307. By what name is Walker Smith better known? 308. Who captained England in Australia during the bodyline controversy? 309. Who won the heavyweight boxing gold medal in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics? 310. What is passed on in an athletics relay race? 311. Roughly, how many of the ninety-two Football League clubs have a chaplain? 312. How old was the Olympic figure skating champion Sonja Henie when she first competed in the Olympics? 313. Which sport has styles of competition called Kushti, Sambo, Yagli and GraecoRoman? 314. Who captained Britains Wightman Cup team in 1978? 315. Which jockey won his first English classic (the 1964 Oaks) on Homeward Bound? 316. At which motor racing track did Ronnie Petersen die? 317. How many take part in a speed skating international competition race? 318. Who preceded Lord Killanin as President of the IOC? 319. Which division four Football League club was referred to in the 1983 headline Crisis at Preston Park? 320. What distinguishes the singles from the doubles court in tennis?

SPORTS ANSWERS
301. Willie Shoemaker. 302. The Prix du Jockey Club. 303. Lester Piggott. 304. Archery. 305. Walter Hagen. 306. Six. 307. Sugar Ray Robinson. 308. Douglas Jardine. 309. Joe Frazier. 310. A baton. 311. Thirteen, at the end of the 19834 season. 312. Eleven. 313. Wrestling. 314. Virginia Wade. 315. Greville Starkey. 316. Monza. 317. Two. 318. Avery Brundage. 319. Tranmere Rovers. 320. The tramlines.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
321. How many times did Harry Vardon win the British Open Golf Championship? 322. What are the two main differences between canoeing and kayaking? 323. Which jockey won the 1972 Two Thousand Guineas on High Top? 324. From which English game did baseball develop? 325. Who defended his world heavyweight boxing title twice on the same night in 1906? 326. In which year did Great Britain win an Olympic gold medal for ice hockey? 327. Which Englishman won the World Motor Racing Drivers Championship in 1976? 328. In Britain what is the definition of a thoroughbred horse? 329. In which month does the FA Cup Final take place? 330. In which city was the first weightlifting world championship held? 331. What was Marion Moulds maiden name? 332. Which England bowler took ten wickets in his test debut in Delhi? 333. Who was the youngest player to win the singles championship at Wimbledon? 334. In the 1966 World Cup Final who scored the most goals for England? 335. Who won the Derby in 1971? 336. By how many wickets did England beat Australia in the first ever test match in England? 337. How much does a lacrosse ball weigh? 338. What is a double axel? 339. Who was Frew McMillans partner when he won the Wimbledon mens doubles in 1967, 1972 and 1978? 340. Who starred in The Greatest, the film biography of Muhammad Ali?

SPORTS ANSWERS
321. Six. 322. Canoeists kneel and use one paddle, kayakists sit and use two. 323. Willie Carson. 324. Rounders. 325. Tommy Burns. He knocked out Jim OBrien and Jim Walker, both in the first round. 326. 1936. 327. James Hunt. 328. One who has seven generations of ancestors in the stud-book. 329. May. 330. London (in 1891). 331. Coates. 332. John Lever. 333. Charlotte Dod, aged fifteen (in 1887). 334. Geoff Hurst (three). 335. Mill Reef. 336. Five. 337. 5 ounces. 338. A jump of 2 turns in ice skating. 339. Bob Hewitt. 340. Muhammad Ali himself.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
341. At which football ground were sixty-six people killed when a stand collapsed in 1971? 342. What is the optimum weight, within 5 kilograms, for a world-class male shotputter? 343. What is the maximum number of feet of bandage a professional boxer may use on each hand? 344. In which Olympic throwing event do women not compete? 345. Which Australian bowler took six for fourteen against England in the 1975 Prudential World Cup? 346. Which country won the most medals at the Summer Olympics in Montreal? 347. Who won the European table-tennis championships in 1980? 348. Who was the youngest man ever to win the World Grand Prix for motor racing? 349. Why was it considered miraculous that Wilma Rudolph won three sprint gold medals at the 1960 Olympics? 350. To the nearest ounce, what does a tennis-ball weigh? 351. What was the score when Preston North End beat Hyde by the biggest margin ever in an FA Cup match in 1887? 352. Who set a world record in 1980, then lost it to Guido Kratschmer a few weeks later? 353. Who died the day before her record of nineteen Wimbledon titles was broken? 354. Who was known as the Brockton Bomber? 355. Lydia Skoblikova won a gold medal in all four womens speed skating races at the Winter Olympics of which year? 356. In American football how high from the ground is the crossbar of the goalpost? 357. What does the badge of Northants CCC depict? 358. Who was the only player to have won the United States Singles Tennis Championships at Forest Hills seven times? 359. Which English cricketer shares his name with a Welsh peninsula? 360. Which game is similar to the ancient Roman game of paganica?

SPORTS ANSWERS
341. Ibrox Park (Glasgow Rangers). 342. 120125. 343. Eighteen. 344. The hammer. 345. Gary Gilmour. 346. The Soviet Union (125). 347. John Hilton. 348. Emerson Fittipaldi (at the age of twenty-five). 349. Because she was crippled by polio as a child. 350. 2 ounces. 351. 260. 352. Daley Thompson. 353. Elizabeth Ryan. 354. Rocky Marciano. 355. 1964. 356. 10 feet. 357. The Tudor Rose. 358. Bill Tilden. 359. Gower. 360. Golf.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
361. Which Rugby League club has the nickname the Loiners? 362. How many swimming gold medals did Sharon Davies win in the 1978 Commonwealth Games? 363. In which sport is the Lancome Trophy one of the main European competitions? 364. Which two jockeys each rode two Epsom Derby winners in the 1960s? 365. On which course are golfs World Match Play Championships staged annually? 366. Which Test Match ground is owned by Prince Charles? 367. Who won Britains first ever gold medal for fencing at the 1956 Olympics? 368. Who won the mens singles in the first World Badminton Championships (1977)? 369. Which place, now an airport, once staged the Grand National? 370. Where did the Olympic Games take place in 1912? 371. Which Austrian first won the World Racing Drivers Championship? 372. Which country won the first four Olympic ice hockey gold medals? 373. What term is used for nil in tennis? 374. For which county did W. G. Grace play cricket? 375. Which game do Lions, Wallabies and Springboks play? 376. How many rounds are there in an Olympic boxing match? 377. Which pair of Argentinian World Cup footballers were bought by Spurs? 378. What do the initials W.G. stand for in W. G. Grace? 379. Which golf course was used for the British Open for the first time in 1977? 380. Who is the patron saint of skaters?

SPORTS ANSWERS
361. Leeds. 362. Two. 363. Golf. 364. Lester Piggott and Scobie Breasley. 365. Wentworth. 366. The Oval. 367. Gillian Sheen. 368. Flemming Delfs of Denmark. 369. Gatwick. 370. Stockholm. 371. Jochen Rindt. 372. Canada. 373. Love. 374. Gloucestershire. 375. Rugby football. 376. Three. 377. Ardiles and Villa. 378. William Gilbert. 379. Turnberry. 380. St Lidwina.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
381. Which German once held the world heavyweight boxing title? 382. How many times did Joe Louis successfully defend his world heavyweight title? 383. How wide is a soccer goal? 384. Who is the only Wimbledon mens tennis singles champion to be left handed and double fisted? 385. Which game was originally called Gossima? 386. Which horse won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in three successive years? 387. In which colours do Brazil play football? 388. In which decade did pole vaulters start using fibre glass poles? 389. Who won the womens javelin at the Montreal and Munich Olympics? 390. What are the two types of technique generally used in the high jump these days? 391. Which horse has won the Derby in consecutive years? 392. What is the basic school figure in ice skating? 393. Who held the world heavyweight boxing title longest? 394. Who won all three alpine skiing events in the 1968 Winter Olympics? 395. What is tennis player Mariana Simionescus married name? 396. Which football league club is nicknamed The Pilgrims? 397. What is the maximum and minimum distance covered by Grand Prix races? 398. A husband and wife won gold medals for athletics in the 1952 Olympics; who were they? 399. Which Derby winner bore the name of a historic Welshman? 400. Which country didnt lose a match during the final stages of the 1974 World Cup?

SPORTS ANSWERS
381. Max Schmelling. 382. Twenty-five scoring twenty knockouts. 383. 24 feet. 384. Jimmy Connors. 385. Table tennis. 386. Arkle. 387. Yellow shirts, blue shorts. 388. The 1960s. 389. Ruth Fuchs. 390. The Fosbury flop and the straddle. 391. No horse can do this, as the Derby is for three-year-olds only. 392. Eight. 393. Joe Louis, from 1937 until his retirement in 1949. 394. Jean Claude Killy of France. 395. Mariana Borg. 396. Plymouth Argyle. 397. 150250 miles. 398. Emil Zatopek (marathon) and Dana Zatopek (javelin). 399. Owen Tudor. 400. Scotland.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
401. Sir Eyre Massey Shaw had a particular claim to Olympic fame. What was it? 402. How wide is a tennis doubles court? 403. After how many games are the balls first changed at Wimbledon? 404. In which sport do members of the PGA engage? 405. Who succeeded Allan Brown as manager of Nottingham Forest? 406. Where were the first world athletic championships held? 407. Which tennis doubles specialist is nicknamed Jumping Jack Flash? 408. In which sport do you have a tie-break? 409. Which game is featured in Tom Browns Schooldays? 410. What is used as the ball in the Afghan game of buzkashi? 411. Who was world speedway champion in 1981 and 1982? 412. What nationality is tennis-player Hanna Mandlikova? 413. With which sport was the late Aga Khan connected? 414. What nationality is tennis player Neale Fraser? 415. Where was the first three-day event held in this country? 416. Which is Britains longest cycling race? 417. To what did Thomas Lord give his name? 418. On which day are the John Player League matches played? 419. Which was the first English soccer club to achieve the FA Cup and League double? 420. Which teams play for the Ashes?

SPORTS ANSWERS
401. At seventy he was the oldest man ever to win an Olympic gold medal. (In 1900, for yachting and the record still stands.) 402. 36 feet. 403. Seven and subsequently after every nine games. 404. Golf. (Professional Golfers Association.) 405. Brian Clough. 406. Helsinki, Finland (1983). 407. Paul McNamee. 408. Tennis. 409. Rugby. 410. The skin of a ritually slaughtered goat, filled with sand. 411. Bruce Penhall. 412. Czechoslovakian. 413. Horse racing. 414. Australian. 415. Badminton. 416. The Milk Race. 417. Lords Cricket Ground. 418. Sunday (cricket). 419. Preston North End. 420. England and Australia.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
421. Who won the 1981 Calcutta Cup match? 422. What is skeet? 423. Name the British heavyweight who beat Berndt August for the European championship. 424. What is the name of the area at Old Trafford where the Manchester United fans congregate? 425. What do the Philadelphia Flyers and Boston Bruins play? 426. Which country do the All Blacks represent? 427. What is Gilliam Gilkss game? 428. What would you use a sand wedge for? 429. Who beat Bobby Riggs in three straight sets at Houston Astrodome in 1973? 430. What was the UEFA Cup competition called between 1958 and 1971? 431. What is the ABA? 432. What do Jack Dempsey, Rocky Marciano and Sonny Liston have in common? 433. When was Tony Jacklin the English Open champion? 434. Name Sir Gordon Richardss only Derby winner. 435. For what is Citius, Altius, Fortius the motto? 436. In 1973, who broke Muhammad Alis jaw? 437. Which events make up the heptathlon? 438. What soccer position does Joe Corrigan play? 439. What do the Los Angeles Lakers play? 440. Who makes the rules for flat horse-racing in England?

SPORTS ANSWERS
421. England. 422. A form of clay pigeon shooting. 423. Richard Dunn. 424. Stretford End. 425. Ice hockey. 426. New Zealand. 427. Badminton. 428. Getting out of a bunker in golf. 429. Billie Jean King. 430. The European Fairs Cup. 431. Amateur Boxing Association. 432. They were all heavyweight boxing champions of the world. 433. 1969. 434. Pinza, in 1953. 435. The Olympic Games. 436. Ken Norton. 437. 100-metre hurdles, shot put, high jump, long jump, 200 metres, javelin and 800 metres. 438. Goalkeeper. 439. Basketball. 440. The Jockey Club.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
441. Who was Englands youngest-ever test cricketer? 442. What does USA not do during the march past at the Olympic Games opening ceremony that all countries do? 443. Which sport would you associate with a bicycle, a banana and a scissors kick? 444. Which game can be played on three different mounts-horse, cycle and elephant? 445. Which team has reached the cricket World Cup finals on three occasions but is yet to win the cup? 446. What was unique about the first round match played in the 1994 football World Cup tournament between USA and Switzerland? 447. How many personal fouls is a basketball player permitted before he is sent off? 448. Which Hollywood actress started the aerobics craze? 449. Which country besides Czechoslovakia did Ivan Lendl and Martina Navratilova represent? 450. Two wards in the Tihar Jail have been named after Indian cricketers. Name them. 451. For many years Hanif Mohammed held the record for the highest individual score in a first-class innings. How did he get out? 452. In 1977, Pele played his last competitive match involving Santos and New York Cosmos. Which team did he play for? 453. Who is the first Indian player to take five wickets in an innings twice in one-day internationals? 454. What sport did Mark Twain humorously refer to as 'a good walk, spoilt'? 455. How far is a footballer allowed to carry the comer flag if it gets in his way when he is taking a corner? 456. Beyond 10,000, My Story is the story of which sportsman? 457. Which Indian batsman have Geoff Arnold, Imran Khan and Malcolm Marshall all claimed on the first ball of an innings? 458. What is the second highest qualification for a chess player? 459. The Romans numbered their years from the founding of Rome. Which event did the Greeks number theirs from? 460. Which sporting implement is made up of fibreglass, carbon and aluminium?

SPORTS ANSWERS
441. Brian Close, who first played when he was eighteen. 442. They do not dip their national flag 443. Football 444. Polo 445. England 446. It was the first football World Cup match to be played indoor 447. Four; on the fifth foul, he is sent out of the game. In the NBA it is five (on the sixth he is sent off). 448. Jane Fonda 449. USA, because they are both American citizens now. 450. Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli 451. He was run out attempting his 500th run. 452. One half for each team 453. Krishnamachari Srikkanth 454. Golf 455. He isn't allowed to move it at all 456. Allan Border 457. Sunil Gavaskar 458. International Master 459. The first Olympic Games 460. A bow and arrow

SPORTS QUESTIONS
461. Which throwing event in athletics is only for men? 462. Which footballer is credited with inventing the 'attacking sweeper' position? 463. What is common to the names coined for the following athletes: Paavo Nurmi, Milkha Singh and Fanny Blankers Koen? 464. In the story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which game was played by the Queen of Hearts using hedgehogs as balls? 465. In World Cup soccer history, what is common to the following footballers: Paulo Rossi, Gary Lineker and Salvatore Schillaci? 466. Who was the first woman gymnast to obtain a perfect 10 at the Olympics, who was the first woman? 467. What event is common to Bob Mathias, Daley Thompson and Robert Zmelik? 468. Who is the 250th cricketer to represent India in Test cricket? 469. Which word connects a wrestling term and a place where garments are put to dry? 470. If Sunny Days was written by Sunil Gavaskar, who wrote Runs N' Ruins'? 471. Who was the first Indian woman to be ranked the junior world number one squash player? 472. In the 1928 Olympic Games at Amsterdam, they got their first gold medal and in the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, they got their eighth and last gold medal. Which country got the medal and in which event? 473. In the 1956 Olympic Games, nineteen players of Indian descent were playing in a single match. Which team was India playing against? 474. Which country leads the march past during both summer and the winter Olympic Games? 475. How do you get out in a game of French cricket? 476. How many players a side is required to play a game of beach volleyball? 477. In which Indian city would you find the statue of CK Nayudu? 478. In 1986, Pakistan won the Australasia Cup when Javed Miandad hit a six off the last ball. Who was the Indian bowler? 479. Swimming, running and which other event comprise the triathlon? 480. In a cricket field which fielding position is exactly at the opposite end of third man?

SPORTS ANSWERS
461. The hammer throw 462. Franz Beckenbauer. 463. The word 'flying'. 464. Croquet 465. They all have won the Golden Boot for being the highest goal scorers in the years 1982, 1986 and 1990 respectively. 466. Nadia Comaneci. 467. The decathlon 468. Dinesh Karthik 469. Clothesline 470. Sunil Gavaskar. He has also written the book called One-Day Wonders. 471. Joshna Chinappa 472. The Indian hockey team (eight gold medals). They won in the years 1928-56, 1964 and 1980. 473. Kenya 474. Greece 475. When the ball hits your leg 476. Two a side 477. Indore 478. Chetan Sharma 479. Cycling 480. Long on

SPORTS QUESTIONS
481. Sachin Tendulkar was declared run out by Carl Liebenberg during the India-South Africa series in 1993. Why was the dismissal unique? 482. Besides hockey, in which disciplines has India won medals in the Olympics after Independence? 483. What are the 'Silent Olympics'? 484. Who was the first Indian to play two consecutive All England Badminton Championship finals? 485. The TFA has been set up to train young players in which sport? 486. Which English club football team is sometimes called Gunners? 487. What is the name given to a tennis shot which is executed just after the ball drops? 488. What is considered the fastest stroke in swimming? 489. The players of which country's football team wear a little rooster on their jerseys? 490. 'Hand in Hand' was the theme song of which Olympic Games? 491. Which famous Kolkata footballer captained Bengal in the Ranji Trophy cricket final in 1971? 492. In the twentieth century, who had the maximum number of records under his belt? 493. Besides cricket, which is the only outdoor sport where runs can be scored? 494. In decathlon, how many points does the marathon count for? 495. Istanbul, Beijing, Brasilia, Manchester and Berlin were the losers. Who was the winner? 496. With regard to sport complete this sequence: Spain, Mexico, Italy, USA and? 497. What does the term auto-goal mean? 498. Which is the only event common to men and women in international gymnastics? 499. Which athlete raced with her sisters to get fallen mangoes as a child? 500. Which is the longest athletic event at the Olympic Games?

SPORTS ANSWERS
481. It was the first time a batsman was given out by the third umpire 482. Wrestling (KD Jadhav), tennis (Leander Paes), weightlifting (K Malleswari) and double-trap shooting (Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore) 483. Olympics for the deaf and mute 484. Prakash Padukone 485. Football 486. Arsenal 487. A half volley 488. The crawl (used in the freestyle event) 489. France 490. The 1988 Seoul Olympics 491. Chuni Goswami 492. Sergey Bubka (pole-vault). 493. Baseball 494. Marathon is not a part of it. 495. Sydney. 496. France, hosts of 1998 football World Cup. Spain hosted the 1982 World Cup, Mexico hosted it in 1986, Italy in 1990 and USA in 1994. 497. Self goal. Andres Escobar, the Colombian who scored a self goal, was tragically killed on returning home. 498. Floor exercises 499. PT Usha 500. 50 km walk

SPORTS QUESTIONS
501. Which famous Brazilian died in Imola at the San Marino Grand Prix in 1994? 502. The publication of the Oxford English Dictionary was held up for about a year in the 1930s because the editors decided to include a new word. Which word? 503. Before Anil Kumble, who was the last Indian to play for Northamptonshire? 504. What is common to McEnroe, Gullikson, Jenson and Sanchez? 505. In chess, if the Queen's opening refers to royalty, to which organization does the Sicilian gambit refer? 506. Arguably, which is the 'fastest' sport played on the silver screen? 507. HIV is responsible for AIDS. What measure against HIV infection is now a standard in all international football matches? 508. In an equestrian event, what is a refusal? 509. Name the first non-capital city to host the Olympic Games. 510. The 1994 Asian Games was hosted in Hiroshima (a non-capital city). Which was the first Asian noncapital city to host the Asian Games? 511. Steffi Graf was the 100th women's singles winner at Wimbledon in 1993. Who won the men's 100th title? 512. What part of an athlete's equipment is only 2.5 cm long? 513. In what way was Richard Hadlee's knighthood different from other cricketers'? 514. What is the difference between running long jump and broad jump? 515. What five letters connect diving, skating, surfing and carrom? 516. The composition 'Gloryland' was the official song of which major sporting event? 517. In a cricket match, what is the maximum number of people present in the playing arena at one time when the ball is being bowled? 518. Which cricketer played in seventy-eight test matches and also played football for Arsenal? 519. What was James J. Corbetts nickname? 520. What is the maximum number of clubs allowed in a competition in golf?

SPORTS ANSWERS
501. Ayrton Senna 502. Bodyline 503. Bishen Singh Bedi 504. Brothers who played/play tennis. 505. The Mafia 506. Rollerball 507. Players are required to wear shin guards (with the socks rolled up). 508. When the horse goes around an obstacle instead of going over it. 509. 1904, St Louis (USA) 510. 1994, Hiroshima 511. Boris Becker 512. Spikes' 513. The only cricketer to be knighted while still playing the game. 514. No difference (Running long jump is the old name) 515. Board 516. The 1994 football World Cup 517. 26 518. Denis Compton. 519. Gentleman Jim. 520. Fourteen.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
521. When did Sir Francis Chichester sail around the world? 522. Who competes for the Stanley Cup? 523. Which soccer team is nicknamed the Filberts? 524. Which athlete was killed in a car accident a year after winning the Olympic 3,000 metres steeplechase? 525. Who won the mens shot put at the 1974 Commonwealth Games? 526. In which weight category did John Conteh fight? 527. How many Olympic gold medals has Mark Spitz won? 528. In golf, what is a gimmie? 529. Who was the first West Indian cricketer to be knighted? 530. Which Briton won the silver medal in the 50,000-metre walk at the 1964 Olympics? 531. Who succeeded Lasse Viren as 10,000 metre world record holder in 1973? 532. For which Scottish football team is Ibrox Park the home ground? 533. Who has held the mile world record for the longest period since the 4-minute barrier was broken? 534. Who was the first coloured boxer to win a British title? 535. Which athlete first won gold medals at the Olympic, European and Commonwealth Games? 536. The Greeks dated everything from the year in which a list was begun (generally reckoned to be in 776 BC). What was its name? 537. Who took charge of QPR for the second time in 1979? 538. Which Yorkshire team first won the FA Cup? 539. How many AAA sprint titles did McDonald Bailey win between 1946 and 1953? 540. In 195051, the Football League was extended to ninety-two clubs. How many were there before?

SPORTS ANSWERS
521. 19667. 522. Ice hockey teams. 523. Leicester City. 524. Bronislaw Malinowski. 525. Geoff Capes. 526. Light heavyweight. 527. Nine (two in 1968 and seven in 1972). 528. A putt short enough to be conceded. 529. Sir Learie Constantine. 530. Paul Nihill. 531. David Bedford. 532. Glasgow Rangers. 533. Jim Ryun, who held the record from 1966 to 1975. 534. Dick Turpin in 1948. 535. Lynn Davies. 536. The Olympic Register a list of winners of the Olympic Games. 537. Tommy Docherty. 538. Sheffield Wednesday in 1896. 539. Fourteen. 540. Eighty-eight.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
541. What is the golfers cry of warning? 542. What is a putter called when used off the green? 543. What did Babe Ruth play? 544. Who lit the flame at the 1956 Olympics and went on to break eight different world records? 545. Who were the winners of the 1980 Gillette Cup? 546. Who was the first PFA Young Player of the Year? 547. How many feathers are on a standard badminton shuttlecock? 548. Name the two boxing Baers both world champions. 549. In which year were the Olympic Games first held in London? 550. Who was Britains most successful swimmer in the 1976 Olympics? 551. What are toxophilites? 552. Who scored a century in the 1979 Prudential World Cup Final? 553. Who created World Series cricket in Australia? 554. What are the uprights of cricket wickets called? 555. For which county did Wally Hammond play cricket? 556. What is the height of a badminton net, measured at the centre? 557. What is the maximum number of greyhounds that can run in one race? 558. Who succeeded Alberto Juantorena as 800-metre world record holder in 1979? 559. Which world heavyweight champion won the 1952 Olympic middleweight gold medal at the age of seventeen? 560. Who first ran 200 metres in under 20 seconds?

SPORTS ANSWERS
541. Fore! 542. A Texas Wedge. 543. Baseball. 544. Ron Clarke. 545. Middlesex. 546. Kevin Beattie. 547. Sixteen. 548. Max and Buddy. 549. 1908. 550. David Wilkie. 551. Archers. 552. Viv Richards. 553. Kerry Packer. 554. Stumps. 555. Gloucestershire. 556. 5 feet. 557. Eight. 558. Sebastian Coe. 559. Floyd Patterson. 560. Tommie Smith.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
561. Which jockey was the first to win over five million dollars in prize money in a season? 562. Which was the last club before Wigan to join the Football League? 563. On which racecourse is the Rowley mile? 564. In which sport did Jane Bridge win a gold medal in the first ever ladies World Championships in 1980? 565. Where were the Winter Olympics of 1960 held? 566. How high is a tennis court net in the centre? 567. In mens fencing competitions, how many hits are needed to win? 568. In which sport does the World Championship have three classes called open, standard and 15 metres? 569. Why did the very first Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race have to be restarted? 570. How many times was Bobby Charlton capped? 571. The US lawn tennis championships moved from where to where? 572. Which Yorkshire racecourse never stages flat racing? 573. Who took Maurice Hopes world title? 574. In which sport is the Walker Cup contested? 575. Who rode Doublet to an individual gold medal at the 1971 European Championships? 576. Which famous annual race first took place in 1829? 577. How often are bob-sleighing world championships held? 578. Which Briton lost his world boxing title to Carlos Palomino? 579. Who won the Milk Cup for football in 1984? 580. Who won $1,000,000 by completing the tennis Grand Slam with her victory in the French Open?

SPORTS ANSWERS
561. Steve Cauthen. 562. Wimbledon. 563. Newmarket. 564. Judo. 565. Squaw Valley. 566. 3 feet. 567. Five. 568. Gliding. 569. Because the boats collided. 570. 106. 571. Forest Hills to Flushing Meadows. 572. Wetherby. 573. Wilfred Benitez. 574. Golf (amateur). 575. Princess Anne. 576. The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. 577. Annually. 578. John H. Stracey. 579. Liverpool. 580. Martina Navratilova.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
581. Which British boxer has won two Olympic gold medals? 582. What is the former world champion Johnny Leachs game? 583. Lucinda Prior-Palmer, Richard Meade and Hugh Thomas were three of the four members of Britains three-day event team in the 1976 Olympics. Name the fourth. 584. Who captained England in the 1962 World Cup Final? 585. Which Italian football team was relegated to Division Two in 198081 because of bribery scandals? 586. Who was twelve times champion skier of Norway, a great explorer, Professor of Zoology and Oceanography at Oslo and Ambassador to Britain, and received the Nobel Peace Prize? 587. In tennis, how far are the service lines from the net? 588. How many stumps are used in a game of cricket? 589. Who beat the late Lillian Board in the 400 metres final at the 1968 Olympics? 590. What course did Douglas Bunn, the former showjumper, create? 591. With which showjumper is Mr Softee associated? 592. By what name was baseball star George Herman Ruth better known? 593. Which South African tennis doubles player always wore a white cap on court? 594. Who trained the horses who took the first five places in the 1983 Cheltenham Gold Cup? 595. Which Englishman took four wickets in five balls in a test match in 1978? 596. Which famous old British motor-racing track was partly reopened in 1974? 597. What is Sunil Gavaskars sport? 598. What is the golfers cry of warning? 599. Who was nicknamed the Manassas Mauler? 600. In showjumping, how many faults are incurred for a refusal?

SPORTS ANSWERS
581. Harry Mallin. 582. Table tennis. 583. Princess Anne. 584. Johnny Haynes. 585. AC Milan. 586. Fritjof Nansen. 587. 21 feet. 588. Six. 589. Colette Besson of France. 590. The All England jumping course at Hickstead. 591. David Broome. 592. Babe Ruth. 593. Frew McMillan. 594. Michael Dickinson. 595. Chris Old. 596. Brooklands. 597. Cricket. 598. Fore. 599. Jack Dempsey. 600. Three.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
601. How many players are there in an Australian football team? 602. The initials of England test cricket captain J. W. H. T. Douglas gave him his familiar nickname. What was it? 603. What is the maximum mark awarded by a single judge in international gymnastics competitions? 604. In archery, in what are arrows carried? 605. What was Mickey Mantles game? 606. Who is Charlie Browns favourite baseball player? 607. Which nation holds the current Olympic polo championship? 608. In which year did David Hemery win the Olympic 400-metre hurdles? 609. Which country qualified for the 1978 soccer World Cup from the group that contained England? 610. What new Olympic event involves ribbons, balls and hoops? 611. On 6 February 1971, where was a golf ball hit for the first time? 612. Name the horse on which Princess Anne competed in the Olympic Games. 613. What was John Sholto Douglass title? 614. What is the open equivalent to the womens Federation Cup? 615. For which county did J. B. Hobbs play cricket? 616. How many warm-up pitches is a relief pitcher allowed in baseball? 617. What footwear did Abebe Bikila favour when he won the 1960 Olympic marathon? 618. Which county has won the most championships at cricket? 619. Who beat Scotland 70 in the 1954 Soccer World Cup? 620. Who rode Mill Reef to victory in the 1971 Prix de LArc de Triomphe?

SPORTS ANSWERS
601. Eighteen. 602. Johnny Wont Hit Today. 603. Ten. 604. A quiver. 605. Baseball. 606. Joe Shlabotnik. 607. Argentina but the event hasnt been held since 1936. 608. 1968. 609. Italy. 610. Rhythmic gymnastics. 611. On the moon. 612. Goodwill. 613. Marquis of Queensberry. 614. The Davis Cup (tennis). 615. Surrey. 616. Eight. 617. None he ran in bare feet. 618. Yorkshire. 619. Uruguay. 620. Geoff Lewis.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
621. On which course was the first ever English race meeting held in 1511? 622. What is the longest hole in one ever recorded? 623. What country do the Springboks represent? 624. What distance is the soccer penalty spot from the goal mouth centre? 625. In which year did Chelsea win the Football League? 626. Which boxer was nicknamed the Brockton Blockbuster? 627. In golf, what is a putt called which falls into the hole from the far side? 628. What is the width of a hockey goal? 629. What is the longest drive ever performed on a golf course? 630. What nationality is gymnast Nadia Comaneci? 631. At which cricket ground is the Radcliffe Road end? 632. In how many consecutive world cups did Uwe Seeler play? 633. Where would you originally have found a penthouse? 634. What was Victor Barnas game? 635. What do the five Olympic rings represent? 636. In which Dutch city is Feijenoord Football Club based? 637. If a hole in golf was 251 yards long, what par would it be? 638. How many individual gold medals did gymnast Boris Shaklin win at the 1960 Olympics? 639. How many players are on court for one team in basketball? 640. After which famous Welshman was a Derby winner named?

SPORTS ANSWERS
621. Chester. 622. 480 yards (fifth hole at Hope Country Club, Arkansas by L. Bruce in driving over a dog leg). 623. South Africa. 624. 12 yards. 625. 1955. 626. Rocky Marciano. 627. Entering by the tradesmans entrance. 628. 12 feet. 629. 515 yards, by Michael Austin of Los Angeles in the US Seniors Open Championship at Las Vegas, Nevada. 630. Romanian. 631. Trent Bridge. 632. Four. 633. In a real-tennis court. 634. Table tennis. 635. The five continents. 636. Rotterdam. 637. Four. 638. Four. 639. Five. 640. Owen Tudor.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
641. Which sport features an Eskimo roll? 642. Which country won the ladies hockey gold medal at the Moscow Olympics? 643. For what age horse is the Derby run? 644. Why, in 1967, was Muhammad Ali stripped of his world heavyweight title and barred from professional boxing? 645. What is the length of a hockey pitch? 646. Who rode Woodcock to victory in the Newmarket Plate in 1671 and 1674? 647. Who was womens British Open squash champion for 16 consecutive years? 648. What does BASI stand for? 649. How many hat tricks did Jimmy Greaves score in the 196061 season? 650. Who won the 1,500 metres gold medal at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics? 651. What is considered to be the worlds fastest team game? 652. In tennis, what have Manuel Orantes, Borg and Lendl got in common? 653. Who was the first holder of the World Drivers Championship? 654. Who delivers the ball in baseball? 655. Which brother and sister played together and won the mixed doubles trophy at Wimbledon in 1980? 656. In which sport are the terms telemark and stem Christie used? 657. In which sport is there a York round? 658. What have the Emperor Nero, General Patton and Dr Benjamin Spock in common sports-wise? 659. What is the highest live attendance of any football match? 660. Who was reputedly the only man ever to knock out Jack Dempsey?

SPORTS ANSWERS
641. Canoeing. 642. Zimbabwe its first ever gold medal. 643. 3-year-olds. 644. Because he refused to be drafted into the US army. 645. 100 yards. 646. King Charles II. 647. Heather Mackay. 648. British Association of Ski Instructors. 649. Six. 650. Sebastian Coe. 651. Ice hockey. 652. They all won Junior Wimbledon. 653. Giuseppe Farina (1950). 654. The pitcher. 655. John and Tracy Austin. 656. Skiing. 657. Archery. 658. They all took part in the Olympics (chariot racing in AD 66, the pentathlon in 1912 and rowing in 1924). 659. 205,000, at Brazil versus Uruguay in the 1950 World Cup. 660. John Paul Getty, Dempseys sparring partner in 1923 (later the worlds wealthiest man).

SPORTS QUESTIONS
661. What colour is the lowest rank judo belt? 662. Which football club is nicknamed The Shakers? 663. With which sport is Penny Chuter associated? 664. Who first won three TT events in one year? 665. In which year did David Hemery win his Olympic gold medal in the 400-metre hurdles? 666. Where is the motor racing track Watkins Glen? 667. Name the first footballer transferred for 100,000 between British clubs? 668. Which racing driver was killed in a plane crash in 1975? 669. Which tennis player bore the nickname Muscles? 670. How do you qualify for the Bobby Jones Golf Classic? 671. Which British boxer was the first to win three Lonsdale Belts outright? 672. Who rode Flanagan with distinction? 673. Who won the English Football League in 1984? 674. Who won the overall gold medal for gymnastics at the 1976 Olympics? 675. In the 1973 Grand National, who beat Crisp in a course record time? 676. From which country was Jacky Ickx? 677. How many Olympic gold medals did gymnast Olga Korbut win? 678. How many times did Red Rum win the Grand National? 679. How many penalties did Gary Bailey save when Manchester United lost to Ipswich in 1980? 680. In which sport is the Lance Todd memorial trophy awarded?

SPORTS ANSWERS
661. White. 662. Bury. 663. Rowing. 664. Mike Halewood in 1961. 665. 1968. 666. New York state. 667. Alan Ball. He was transferred for that sum from Blackpool to Everton in 1966. 668. Graham Hill. 669. Ken Rosewall. 670. Your name must be Bobby Jones. 671. Henry Cooper. 672. Show-jumper Pat Smythe. 673. Liverpool. 674. Nadia Comaneci. 675. Red Rum. 676. Belgium. 677. Four. 678. Three. 679. Three. 680. Rugby League.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
681. How many barriers must be cleared in the 3,000 metres steeplechase? 682. Which golfer won the Vardon Trophy in 1970, 1971 and 1972? 683. How many players are on each side in volleyball? 684. What sporting event is Stoke Mandeville known for? 685. In netball, if you had a bib with WD, what position would you be playing? 686. What are the five events in the modern Olympic pentathlon? 687. Which plough-horse once won the Grand National? 688. At the Melbourne Olympics, which set of events had to be held in Sweden and why? 689. Which Continental country first defeated England on home ground at soccer? 690. Which FA team has Griffin Park as its home ground? 691. Who was the first woman to break 2 minutes in the 200 yards individual medley? 692. Who trained the 1983 Grand National winner? 693. Who succeeded Bruce Jenner as Olympic decathlon champion? 694. Who delivers the balls in baseball? 695. Where are the headquarters of Warwickshire County Cricket Club? 696. Which football club is located at Anfield Road? 697. Which countrys team always lead the Olympic procession at the opening ceremonies? 698. In the first two years of the Schweppes Gold Trophy (1963 and 1964) the same horse and jockey won. Name either of them. 699. Which game has a playing surface measuring 9 feet by 5 feet? 700. Where in England is the National Water Sports Centre?

SPORTS ANSWERS
681. Thirty-five (including seven water jumps). 682. Lee Trevino. 683. Six. 684. Paraplegic games. 685. Wing defence. 686. Horse-riding, fencing, pistol-shooting, swimming and cross-country running. 687. Rubio in l908 at 601. 688. The equestrian events, due to Australias strict horse quarantine laws. 689. Hungary, in 1953. 690. Brentford. 691. Tracy Caulkins. 692. Jenny Pitman. 693. Daley Thompson. 694. The pitcher. 695. Edgbaston. 696. Liverpool. 697. Greece. 698. Rosyth was ridden by Josh Gifford. 699. Table tennis. 700. Nottingham.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
701. Where is the Lincolnshire Handicap run? 702. Which golfer won the British Open and Amateur Championships, and the American Open and Amateur Championships, all in the same year? 703. Which is the longest golf course to stage the British Open? 704. Who is nicknamed the Louisville Lip? 705. Who died trying to break the water speed record on Coniston Water in 1967? 706. In which season did the Football League introduce three points for a win? 707. Who was the first European footballer of the year, in 1956? 708. Where are the Doherty Gates? 709. What game would you be playing if you hit the ball on to the service penthouse? 710. At which Olympic Games was judo introduced? 711. In which sport did Willie Shoemaker make his name? 712. Who was the top tennis junior of 1982? 713. By what name is Arnold Cream better known? 714. Which horse won the Grand National in 1976? 715. What was the nickname of the Indian prince who played cricket for Sussex and England? 716. Which football club has its home ground at The Valley? 717. Which is Amsterdams best-known soccer club? 718. How old was Floyd Patterson when he became the youngest heavyweight champion of the world? 719. Which soccer club won the first five European Cup finals? 720. Name one of the English team that played Spain at polo in September 1981.

SPORTS ANSWERS
701. Doncaster, as Lincoln is now closed. 702. Bobby Jones. 703. Carnoustie (7,066 yards). 704. Muhammad Ali. 705. Donald Campbell. 706. 19812. 707. Stanley Matthews. 708. Wimbledon. 709. Real tennis. 710. Tokyo 1964. 711. Horse racing. 712. Pat Cash of Australia. 713. Jersey Joe Walcott. 714. Rag Trade. 715. Ranji. 716. Charlton Athletic. 717. Ajax. 718. Twenty-one. 719. Real Madrid. 720. John Horswell, Martin Brown, Robert Graham, Prince Charles.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
721. How high is the crossbar on an American football goal-post? 722. How many medalsmore than anyone elsehas Sixten Jernberg of Sweden won in the Winter Olympics? 723. Which boxer held world titles at three weights simultaneously? 724. Of which championship was the centenary celebrated at Wimbledon in 1984? 725. From which country did Jaroslav Drobny originate? 726. Which horse won the 1983 Grand National? 727. The winner of which Olympic event is considered to be the worlds greatest athlete? 728. Which was the first English soccer club to win the European Cup? 729. Who was the flat-race champion jockey in 1979? 730. To which English classic does the French Prix de Diane equate? 731. Who won a showjumping world championship on Beethoven? 732. When did Shirley Heights win the Derby? 733. The American triple crown for horse-racing consists of the Belmont Stakes, the Preakness Stakes, and ...? 734. From which point does the Olympic flame start out? 735. What is a tsukahara? 736. Who was the first black man to win the US tennis championship? 737. Which tennis player failed a screen test for Top Hat? 738. Where was badminton devised? 739. How many players are there in a rounders team? 740. In ice hockey, what is the minimum period for which a player may be sent to the sin bin?

SPORTS ANSWERS
721. 10 feet. 722. Nine. 723. Henry Armstrong. 724. The ladies singles. 725. Czechoslovakia. 726. Corbiere. 727. The decathlon. 728. Manchester United (1968). 729. Joe Mercer. 730. The Oaks. 731. David Broome. 732. 1978. 733. The Kentucky Derby. 734. From the site of the original games at Olympia, Greece. 735. A vault in gymnastics. 736. Arthur Ashe. 737. Fred Perry. 738. At Badminton Hall. 739. Nine. 740. 2 minutes.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
741. How many goals did Ted MacDougall score for Bournemouth against Margate in 1971? 742. Who won soccers 1984 European Championship? 743. In 1967, Spurs goalkeeper Pat Jennings scored with a long kick. Who was the opposing goalkeeper? 744. Which colour belt is worn by beginners at karate? 745. Which club was in the First Division of the Football League for the longest period without winning the League Championship? 746. Who won the 1984 Emsley Carr Mile? 747. Which professional cricketer turned amateur in order to captain England? 748. In which sport does Franz Klammer excel? 749. What nationality is tennis ace Vitas Gerulaitis? 750. On which golf course did Tony Jacklin win the British Open in 1969? 751. Where is the shoot-out for the Queens Prize held? 752. What is the national sport of Finland? 753. Who won the soccer World Cup in 1978? 754. Which country has won the most Olympic medals at the modern Olympic Games? 755. Which town has been the headquarters of horse-racing since the seventeenth century? 756. From whom did James J. Braddock take the world heavyweight boxing title in 1935? 757. Who rode Red Rum to victory in the 1977 Grand National? 758. From which country does judo originate? 759. How many brothers and sisters did Sonny Liston have? 760. In which event did British women win the silver medal in three successive Olympics?

SPORTS ANSWERS
741. Nine. 742. France. 743. Alex Stepney (Manchester United). 744. White. 745. Bolton (for 60 years). 746. Peter Elliott. 747. W. R. Hammond. 748. Skiing. 749. American. 750. Royal Lytham. 751. Bisley. 752. Motor rallying. 753. Argentina. 754. The United States. 755. Newmarket. 756. Max Baer. 757. Tommy Stack. 758. Japan. 759. Twenty-four. 760. The high jump (1952, 1956, 1960).

SPORTS QUESTIONS
761. Which jockey won his first English classic (the 1968 Thousand Guineas) on Caergwrle? 762. Which two races constitute the Autumn Double? 763. At which game was Willie Mays a celebrated player? 764. What nationality is showjumper Eddie Macken? 765. From which football club did Liverpool acquire Phil Neal? 766. Where did the game pelota originate? 767. Who rode Never Say Die to Derby victory in 1954? 768. Which county won the Benson and Hedges Cup and the Schweppes County Championship in 1979? 769. How often is the Curtis Cup contested between American and British women golfers? 770. What nationality is world champion speed skater Ard Schenk? 771. For which US team did Franz Beckenbauer play soccer? 772. Which country has won the most medals in the Winter Olympics? 773. Where in London is the Oval cricket ground? 774. Who was the first man to pass the 7,000-point mark in the decathlon? 775. What was Winston Churchills favourite participation sport? 776. What are the two cycling events that make up the Autumn Classics? 777. Which Wimbledon tennis event did Ann Jones first win? 778. If you were on skis that allowed your ankle to move up and down, what would you be doing? 779. How often is the soccer World Cup contested? 780. Which classic race did The Minstrel win in 1977?

SPORTS ANSWERS
761. Sandy Barclay. 762. The Cesarewitch and the Cambridgeshire. 763. Baseball. 764. Irish. 765. Northampton. 766. Spain. 767. Lester Piggott. 768. Essex. 769. Once every two years. 770. Dutch. 771. New York Cosmos. 772. Norway. 773. Kennington. 774. Bob Mathias (in 1948). 775. Polo. 776. Tour de Paris, Tour de Lombardie. 777. Junior Wimbledon. 778. Langlaufing. 779. Every 4 years. 780. The Derby.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
781. What are the dimensions of a soccer goal area? 782. Which golf club is called a driver? 783. In yachting, by what name is the Hundred Guineas Cup now known? 784. Who was Courtney Joness ice dance partner? 785. What was the job of Govind, for whom a testimonial cricket match was played at the end of the 19812 Indian tour? 786. With whom has John McEnroe won the mens doubles at Wimbledon? 787. Why did Anders Haugen have to wait until 1974 to receive a bronze medal for skiing in the 1924 Olympics? 788. Over what distances do men compete in the hurdles? 789. In which year was the first motor-racing Grand Prix held? 790. Where were the 1984 Summer Olympics held? 791. Who are the Wallabies? 792. Prom whom did George Foreman capture the world heavyweight boxing title in 1973? 793. At the 1960 Olympic Games, how many others besides the winner, Herb Elliott, broke the previous Olympic record for the 1,500 metres? 794. In which Olympic Games held between 1912 and 1952 did the USSR/Russia not win any gold medals? 795. Which two jockeys have won the English grand slam? 796. Which country won soccers World Cup in 1970? 797. At what age did Sonja Henie first win the World Figure Skating Cham- pionship? 798. On which two circuits is the British Grand Prix held alternately? 799. Who was Ramadhins famous bowling partner? 800. Who was the first woman to win an Olympic gold medal?

SPORTS ANSWERS
781. 6 by 20 yards. 782. A No. 1 wood. 783. The Americas Cup. 784. Doreen Denny. 785. Baggage man (with twenty-five years service). 786. Peter Fleming. 787. Because an error in scoring was not discovered until then ! 788. 110 and 400 metres. 789. 1906. 790. Los Angeles. 791. The Australian Rugby Union team. 792. Joe Frazier. 793. Six. 794. All of them. They did not compete between 1912 and 1952. 795. Fred Archer and Lester Piggott. 796. Brazil. 797. Thirteen. 798. Brands Hatch and Silverstone. 799. Valentine immortalized in the calypso. 800. Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain. She won the womens tennis singles title in 1900.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
801. In boxing, what do the letters TKO stand for? 802. How many times was Kevin Keegan capped for England? 803. Name the 1968 Olympic heavyweight boxing gold medal winner who became world heavyweight champion in 1973. 804. Who was the sole female jockey in the 1981 Grand National? 805. Who was the lightest world heavyweight boxing champion? 806. Which Welsh club was the only non-English team to win the FA Cup? (It won in 1927.) 807. Which ex-Gloucestershire cricketer once scored six centuries in consecutive innings for Rhodesia? 808. Which Scot was world side-car champion in 1980? 809. Which world champion boxer was nicknamed Homicide Hank? 810. Which wicket keeper has played most often for England? 811. Who did Pat Taafe ride to victory in the 1966 Cheltenham Gold Cup? 812. The use of which cricket fielding position indicates lack of faith in the wicket keeper? 813. What was the venue of the 1984 Royal International Horse Show? 814. What is the minimum distance for an international bobsled run? 815. Who won the Stella Artois tennis singles in 1979, 1980 and 1981? 816. Where is the Rally of a Thousand Lakes held? 817. Why were the first eighty-eight drivers of the 1981 Safari Rally booked for speeding? 818. Who won the 1984 Stella Artois tennis singles championships? 819. Where did Softball originate? 820. Who is the only player to have played in three soccer World Cup Championship teams?

SPORTS ANSWERS
801. Technical knock-out. 802. Sixty-four times. 803. George Foreman. 804. Linda Sheedy. 805. James Fitzsimmons. He weighed 167 lb when he knocked out James Corbett in 1897. 806. Cardiff City. 807. Mike Proctor. 808. Jock Taylor. 809. Henry Armstrong. 810. Alan Knott. 811. Arkle. 812. Long stop. 813. The National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham (for the first time). 814. 1,500 metres. 815. John McEnroe. 816. Finland. 817. Because the organizers forgot to inform the police that it was on! 818. John McEnroe. 819. The USA. 820. Pel of Brazil in 1958,1962 and 1970.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
821. In 1978 the US Open Tennis Championships moved from Forest Hills to where? 822. Which female swimmer won the 100-metre freestyle at three consecutive Olympics? 823. Which horse won both the Oaks and the St Leger in 1977? 824. What is the upper weight limit of a professional senior middleweight boxer? 825. What is the Cresta Run? 826. Where did squash originate? 827. Who was the first woman to win four consecutive US Open Tennis Championships? 828. Who preceded Sonny Liston as world heavyweight boxing champion? 829. Which countrys badminton championship is universally regarded as the sports world championship? 830. How many dimples has a golf ball? 831. In which year did a man first run the 100 metres in under 10 seconds? 832. Which club won soccers 1982 European Cup? 833. Who was the captain of Englands Grand Slam winning rugby union team of 1980? 834. What are traditionally eaten at Wimbledon? 835. What are the Western Roll and Eastern Cutoff? 836. In which country does the soccer club Setubal play? 837. Name one of Irina Rodninas two great ice-skating pairs partners. 838. How many sleds may each country enter in the two-man Olympic bobsled event? 839. Which ex-England goalkeeper played for Fort Lauderdale Strikers? 840. Which country took every gold medal for boxing in the 1904 St Louis Olympics?

SPORTS ANSWERS
821. Flushing Meadows. 822. Dawn Fraser of Australia in 1956,1960 and 1964. 823. Dunfermline. 824. 160 1b. 825. A toboggan track. 826. Harrow School. 827. Chris Evert (Lloyd). 828. Floyd Patterson. 829. Englands. 830. 336. 831. 1968. 832. Aston Villa. 833. Bill Beaumont. 834. Strawberries and cream. 835. Techniques for high jumping. 836. Portugal. 837. Alexander Zaitsev or Alexai Ulanov. 838. Two. 839. Gordon Banks. 840. USA.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
841. What position does Snoopy play in Charlie Browns baseball team? 842. How wide is a tennis singles court? 843. In which year were the Winter Olympic Games introduced? 844. Which ball game uses the largest field? 845. What was the name of the bear mascot of the Russian 1980 Olympics? 846. Who is the only man to win tenniss grand slam twice? 847. Which county and country did Peter May captain at cricket? 848. How many rounds are in an Olympic boxing match? 849. What is the upper weight limit of a professional flyweight boxer? 850. Who was the first Briton to win the King of the Mountains title in the Tour de France? 851. How many games did Jimmy Connors take in the 1984 Wimbledon mens singles final? 852. Who rode Cut Above to victory in the 1981 St Leger? 853. Where would you wedel? 854. What was Georgina Clarkes sporting claim to fame? 855. Of which game is dakyu the Japanese form? 856. Approximately how many tennis balls are used per year, worldwide? 857. All other things being equal, how high could the world high-jump record- holder jump if he were on the moon? 858. It is not an Olympic event, but roughly what is the record for throwing a cricket ball? 859. What was plunging, an event included in the 1904 Olympics? 860. What is baseballs equivalent of the Cup Final?

SPORTS ANSWERS
841. Short stop. 842. 27 feet. 843. 1924. 844. Polo. 845. Misha. 846. Rod Laver. 847. Surrey and England. 848. Three. 849. 112 lb. 850. Robert Millar (1984). 851. Four. 852. Joe Mercer. 853. On a ski slope. 854. She was the first woman to umpire a main event singles final at Wimbledon. 855. Polo. 856. 25 million. 857. 48 feet. 858. 422 feet. 859. Attempting to float the greatest distance in 60 seconds from a standing dive at the side of a swimming pool. 860. The World Series.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
861. In which year did Ian Botham achieve his first cap? 862. Who was the first professional cricketer to captain England? 863. In which country is Benfica FC? 864. In showjumping, what is the penalty for three refusals? 865. Who was the only female competitor in the 1976 Olympics not to be given a sex test? 866. Who ran with Roger Bannister when he broke the 4-minute mile? 867. In which year was Moorhouse the sprint Racehorse of the Year? 868. Who plays at Stamford Bridge? 869. What is Kendo? 870. What is Hashim Khans sport? 871. Over which course is the Stewards Cup run? 872. How many strokes below par is an albatross? 873. What game did Sir Donald Bradman play? 874. What is Evonne Cawleys maiden name? 875. Who was the first cricketer to score a century in the final of the Benson & Hedges Cup (in 1979)? 876. In the game of fives, what do the players hit the ball with? 877. When is the Henley Regatta? 878. Which football team plays at Highbury? 879. Which famous racehorse was kidnapped in Ireland? 880. Which horse first won the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes twice?

SPORTS ANSWERS
861. 1977. 862. Len Hutton. 863. Portugal. 864. Elimination. 865. Princess Anne. 866. Christopher Brasher. 867. 1980. 868. Chelsea. 869. The Japanese art of sword fighting. 870. Squash. 871. Goodwood. 872. Three; it is a golfing term. 873. Cricket. 874. Evonne Goolagong. 875. Graham Gooch. 876. The hand. 877. The first week in July. 878. Arsenal. 879. Shergar. 880. Dahlia, in 1973 and 1974.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
881. In which Olympics were butterfly-stroke races first held? 882. Which skater is married to Alexander Zaitsev? 883. Who was the first Welshman to win an Olympic gold medal? 884. Name two teams for which Danny Blanchflower played. 885. Which world heavyweight champion was nicknamed Cinderella Man? 886. How many players are on each side at one time in American basketball? 887. What colour jerseys are worn by England in international Rugby matches? 888. Which boxer had the nickname the Boston Strong Boy? 889. Which Italian team were tragically killed in a plane crash in 1949? 890. Which country has won Badmintons Thomas Cup most often? 891. What is Jochen Maass sport? 892. Who was the first woman to win an individual medal in the Olympic Games showjumping event? 893. Where did Muhammad Ali fight Henry Cooper for the world heavyweight title in 1966? 894. Who first put the shot over 70 feet? 895. Which dog first won the Greyhound Derby in consecutive years? 896. Who play home soccer at Goodison Park? 897. Which country did Johann Cruyff play for? 898. Which Test cricketer was the first president of the English Bowling Association? 899. This century, which club won the FA Cup in successive years? 900. If a hole in golf is 249 yards long, what par is it?

SPORTS ANSWERS
881. 1956. 882. Irina Rodnina. 883. Lynn Davies. 884. Northern Ireland, Glentoran, Barnsley, Aston Villa, Tottenham Hotspur. 885. Jimmy Braddock. 886. Five. 887. White. 888. John L. Sullivan. 889. Torino. 890. Indonesia. 891. Motor racing. 892. Marion Mould. 893. Highbury Stadium (Arsenal FC). 894. Randy Matson. 895. Mick the Miller (192930). 896. Everton. 897. The Netherlands. 898. W.G. Grace. 899. Newcastle United (1951 and 1952). 900. Three.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
901. What is the English equivalent of the Australian cricketing term, a bosie? 902. Which woman first put the shot over 60 feet? 903. In golf, what is a forecaddie? 904. Which country won all five titles in the 1976 World Bowls Championships? 905. Who succeeded Jim Ryun as 1,500 metre world record holder in 1974? 906. Who immediately preceded Henry Rono as 3,000 metre world record holder? 907. Who won the highboard diving event at three successive Olympics? 908. Who cost Arsenal 220,000, at that time their record fee? 909. Where was the worlds first bobsleigh run built? 910. Who was the first woman to long jump over 22 feet? 911. What are the four major international golf championships? 912. Which club did Malcolm McDonald go to from Newcastle? 913. Which team replaced Gateshead in the Football League? 914. A duelling sword, which has a triangular blade and large bell-like guard but is heavier than a foil, is called a what? 915. Who succeeded John Akii-Bua as 400-metre hurdles world record holder in 1976? 916. If you were playing in a Stableford golf competition, how many points would you score for a par? 917. In which sport is the Palma Match contested? 918. For which two league clubs did Stanley Matthews play? 919. Who was the first man to high jump 7 feet? 920. For which country did John Akii-Bua win his Olympic 400-metre hurdles gold medal?

SPORTS ANSWERS
901. A googly. 902. Tamara Press. 903. A ball-spotter at blind holes. 904. South Africa. 905. Filbert Bayi. 906. Brendan Foster. 907. Klaus Dibiasi in 1968, 1972 and 1976. 908. Alan Ball. 909. St Moritz in 1902. 910. Mary Rand. 911. The British Open, the United States Open, the Masters, the United States PGA. 912. Arsenal. 913. Peterborough United. 914. An pe. 915. Ed Moses. 916. 2 points. 917. Shooting. 918. Blackpool and Stoke. 919. Charles Dumas. 920. Uganda.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
921. In which event did Dave Wottle win an Olympic gold medal? 922. In cricket, how many times does a full toss bounce before reaching the batsman? 923. When a right-handed golfer draws a shot what happens to the ball? 924. Which Briton before Coe last held the world mile record? 925. At what age did Ian Botham first play for Somerset? 926. Which was the first British club to win the Fairs Cup in 1968? 927. Who was the first woman to finish in the Grand National? 928. What position did Stanley Matthews play? 929. Who won the 1980 New York City marathon? 930. Which writer rode Devon Loch in the 1956 Grand National? 931. Who was the first woman to finish in the 1981 London Marathon? 932. What type of competition is the Benson and Hedges Cup? 933. At least how many banked turns must there be on a championship bob-sleigh course? 934. How many are in an Olympic biathlon relay team? 935. How many teams played in the Minor Counties cricket championship? 936. Which sport uses the terms bonspiel, crampit, kiggle-kaggle, rink, house, stone and besom? 937. What nationality is speedways Ole Olsen? 938. What nationality was Adolf Wiklund, the first biathlon world champion? 939. For which sport would you practise on nursery slopes? 940. What nationality is speedways Barry Briggs?

SPORTS ANSWERS
921. The 800 metres. 922. None. 923. It travels from right to left. 924. Derek Ibbotson. 925. 17 years. 926. Leeds United. 927. Geraldine Rees, in 1982. 928. Outside right. 929. Alberto Salazar. 930. Dick Francis. 931. Joyce Smith. 932. One-day cricket. 933. Fifteen. 934. Four. 935. Twenty-one. 936. Curling. 937. Danish. 938. Swedish. 939. Skiing. 940. A New Zealander.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
941. Which Peruvian won the Wimbledon tennis singles in 1959? 942. If you went orienteering what equipment would you take with you? 943. How many bases are there in softball? 944. Which sport uses the terms upshoot, knuckler, roundhouse, sacrifice bunt? 945. Al Oerter of the USA is the only Olympian to win four gold medals in the same event in consecutive Olympics. In which event? 946. Which Rugby Union team won the 1983 Welsh Cup? 947. For which event did Brian Phelps win a bronze medal at the 1960 Olympics? 948. Who pipped Allan Wells at the Moscow Olympics in the 200 metres finals? 949. Zimbabwe won its first ever gold medal at the 1980 Olympics. In which event? 950. Which Scottish football club plays home matches at Pittodrie Stadium? 951. What is another name for trotting? 952. What is Graham Noyces sport? 953. Which British pair took the gold and silver Olympic medals in the 800 metres at the Moscow Olympics? 954. Where do Cardiffs Rugby League team play home matches? 955. Why was a Turkish goalkeeper given 50 bonus for letting in four goals? 956. What position did Pope John Paul II play for the Polish amateur soccer team Woytyla? 957. What are the two Olympic ski-jumping distances? 958. How high is a soccer goal? 959. Who was the last man before Bjorn Borg to win the Wimbledon mens title in successive years? 960. Which athlete was nicknamed the Ebony Express?

SPORTS ANSWERS
941. Alex Olmedo. 942. A map and compass. 943. Three. 944. Baseball. 945. Discus. 946. Pontypool. 947. High-board diving. 948. Pietro Mennea of Italy. 949. Womens hockey. 950. Aberdeen. 951. Harness-racing. 952. Motocross. 953. Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe. 954. Ninian Park. 955. The team had been expected to lose 80 at least. 956. Goalkeeper. 957. 70 metres and 90 metres. 958. 8 feet. 959. John Newcombe (1970 and 1971). 960. Jesse Owens.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
961. With which showjumper is Stroller associated? 962. Which baseball player was married to Marilyn Monroe? 963. In which Australian city have the Olympic Games been held? 964. In which event might you use the western roll technique? 965. How many fences in the Grand National are jumped twice? 966. In showjumping, how many faults are incurred by the rider falling off? 967. How many times were Britains Diane Towler and Bernard Ford world ice-dance champions? 968. What first occurred in the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race of 1981? 969. Who was the first footballer to score 100 goals for both a Scottish and an English football club? 970. Who followed Godfrey Evans as Englands wicketkeeper? 971. Which Rugby Union team has won the Hospitals Cup the most times? 972. What is thrown into the ring from a boxers corner to stop a fight? 973. What is the largest margin by which a tennis tie-breaker can be won? 974. What is Wasim Baris cricketing speciality? 975. In 1981, the Wimbledon mixed doubles champions had a combined age of seventyfive. Who were they? 976. Which game is the name of Derby County football clubs ground? 977. What is called The House that Ruth Built? 978. Which type of club did Alan Shepard use to hit three golf balls on the moon in 1971? 979. Which Swede was once world heavyweight boxing champion? 980. Which Rugby Union team was founded by Percy Carpmael in Bradford in 1890?

SPORTS ANSWERS
961. Marion Mould. 962. Joe DiMaggio. 963. Melbourne. 964. The high-jump. 965. Fourteen. 966. Eight. 967. Four. 968. A woman took part as cox in the Oxford boat. 969. Kenny Dalglish. 970. Roy Swetman. 971. Guys. 972. A towel. 973. 70. 974. Wicketkeeping. 975. Frew McMillan and Betty Stove. 976. Baseball. 977. Yankee Stadium, New York. 978. A number six iron. 979. Ingemar Johansson. 980. The Barbarians.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
981. In which game are blue and black always partners against red and green? 982. Who were the ice dance champions at the 1984 European figure skating championships? 983. At which sport was Boris Onishchenko found to be cheating at the Olympic games? 984. Who was the first man to bowl 20,000 balls in test cricket? 985. Who captained Middlesex at cricket in 1982? 986. Who ran the first Marathon? 987. In which sport do Mohawks and Choctaws figure? 988. Over how many days is the decathlon held? 989. How did Rocky Marciano die? 990. How many play at one time in a Canadian football team? 991. How long is the side line of a tennis court? 992. Who rode Goodwill in the 1976 Olympics? 993. What is the value of the gold spot in the centre of an archery target? 994. In what type of riding would you find a coffin? 995. In golf, what was a baffy? 996. Of what were golf balls originally made? 997. Which Hollywood film star also captained England at cricket? 998. If you are playing golf, how long may you look for a ball before it is declared lost? 999. In golf, what is an ace? 1000. In golf, where would you find a links course?

SPORTS ANSWERS
981. Croquet. 982. Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean. 983. Fencing. 984. Lance Gibbs. 985. Mike Brearley. 986. The Athenian, Pheidippides. 987. Ice-skating. 988. Two. 989. He was killed in a plane crash. 990. Twelve. 991. 78 feet. 992. Princess Anne. 993. Nine. 994. It is a fence in cross-country horse trials. 995. An obsolete hickory-shafted club rather like a no. 4 wood. 996. A leather encasement around a lot of feathers. 997. C. Aubrey Smith. 998. 5 minutes. 999. A hole in one. 1000.The seaside.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1001. Who won golfs Ryder Cup in 1969? 1002. In which sport is a contest called a shiai? 1003. What attaches ski-boots to skis? 1004. At the 1976 Olympics who won the super-heavyweight class in weightlifting? 1005. Which is considered to be the fastest and most dangerous ball game in the world? 1006. In which month is the Le Mans 24-hour race held? 1007. Which sport uses the terms kitty, draw, tuck-in and firer? 1008. Which British woman was the beaten finalist in the 1956 and 1957 World Table Tennis Championships? 1009. Who was European Footballer of the Year in 1964? 1010. Which club did Pel join in 1975? 1011. What is the diameter of a basketball ring? 1012. Which country won Rugby Unions Grand Slam in 1977? 1013. Which country won the first World Cup for mens hockey? 1014. Name the Grand National course. 1015. In 1969, which players took part in the longest singles match ever played at Wimbledon? 1016. What is Tessa Sandersons main event? 1017. What term is used to start an ice-hockey game? 1018. Which sport takes place in a velodrome? 1019. Which football clubs home ground is at Elland Road? 1020. Who introduces TVs The Big Match?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1001.No one. It was a tie. 1002.Judo. 1003.Bindings. 1004.Vassily Alexeyev (USSR). 1005.Jai alai (pelota). 1006.June. 1007.Bowls. 1008.Ann Haydon Jones. 1009.Denis Law. 1010.New York Cosmos. 1011.18 inches. 1012.France. 1013.Pakistan (1971). 1014.Aintree. 1015.Pancho Gonzales beat Charlie Pasarell 2224, 16, 1614, 63, 119 in over 5 hours. 1016.Javelin. 1017.Face-off. 1018.Cycling. 1019.Leeds United. 1020.Brian Moore.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1021. Who has won more races over jumps than any other jockey? 1022. Which Wimbledon tennis tournament did Ivan Lendl first win? 1023. Who coxed the Oxford crew to victory in the 1981 and 1982 boat races? 1024. Name the throwing events at the Olympics. 1025. Which brother and sister rode and trained Three Troikas to victory in the 1979 Prix de LArc de Triomphe? 1026. Name Rugby Leagues first 50,000 transfer. 1027. What is the name of the style of Japanese wrestling where combatants try to become very fat in order to have a low centre of gravity? 1028. In which sport do college teams compete for the Sugar, Orange, Cotton and Rose Bowls? 1029. Who is the world record holder in motor racing with twenty-seven World Championship victories? 1030. Barring rain, in which athletics track event do you tend to get wet? 1031. What is Fulham FCs ground called? 1032. Where is the Ebor Handicap run? 1033. Which countries compete for the Calcutta Cup? 1034. Where do they play the wall game? 1035. Which famous newscasters father invented the googly? 1036. Which famous Olympic gold medallist once finished second in the Grand National? 1037. Give the surname of showjumping father and son, Harvey and Robert. 1038. What was the best innings ever in a one-day international? 1039. Where would you find Beechers Brook and Valentines Brook? 1040. At which weight did Jim Watt win the world boxing title?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1021.John Francome. 1022.Junior Wimbledon. 1023.Susan Brown. 1024.Shot put, discus, hammer and javelin. 1025.Freddie and Christine Head. 1026.George Fairburn. 1027.Sumo. 1028.American football. 1029.Jackie Stewart. 1030.The steeplechase. 1031.Craven Cottage. 1032.York. 1033.England and Scotland. 1034.Eton. 1035.Reginald Bosanquets; which is why the googly is also known as the Bosie. 1036.Harry Llewellyn. 1037.Smith. 1038.189 not out, scored by Viv Richards. 1039.Aintree racecourse. 1040.Lightweight.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1041. Tyrrell tried out a new type of car in the 1976 Spanish Grand Prix. What was unusual about it? 1042. Which team lost a World Cup quarter final in spite of scoring five goals? 1043. Who better known in another racing sphere is the owner of Towcester racecourse? 1044. Which boxer did Paul Newman play in Somebody Up There Likes Me? 1045. What was the collective nickname of Henri Cochet, Jean Borotra, Ren Lacoste and Jacques Brugnon? 1046. Which British team first won the Cup Winners Cup? 1047. Which sport does the film North Dallas Forty feature? 1048. Who won the 1972 Badminton horse trials on Great Ovation? 1049. Which tobacco company publishes an annual football yearbook and a rugby yearbook? 1050. Which team did Hungary clobber 101 in the 1982 World Cup? 1051. Which dog won the 1984 Greyhound Derby? 1052. How many players take part in the game on a cricket pitch? 1053. How many strokes under par is a birdie? 1054. Who was the only boxer to win a title without ever having had a manager? 1055. Where do Liverpool FC play home games? 1056. What is the world record for turns of a hand-held skipping rope in a single skip? 1057. What first sports meeting took place in 776 BC? 1058. What are the New York Knickerbockers? 1059. Which Olympic events have a course of 1 mile 427 yards? 1060. Which non-league team knocked Liverpool out of the FA Cup?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1041.It had six wheels. 1042.Switzerland, beaten 75 by Austria in 1954. 1043.Lord Hesketh. 1044.Rocky Graziano. 1045.The Four Musketeers. They formed a successful French Davis Cup tennis team from 1922 to 1934. 1046.Tottenham Hotspur (in 1963). 1047.American football. 1048.Mark Phillips. 1049.Rothmans. 1050.El Salvador. 1051.Whisper Wishes. 1052.Thirteen. 1053.One. 1054.Jake La Motta. 1055.Anfield. 1056.Five. 1057.The first Greek Olympic Games. 1058.A professional American basketball team. 1059.Rowing events. 1060.Worcester City, in 1959.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1061. Which county cricket side won the 1982 Schweppes County Championship? 1062. From which wood are cricket bats traditionally made? 1063. At which weight did Sugar Ray Robinson hold the world boxing title between 1946 and 1951? 1064. Which professional golfer landed a 1,358-pound marlin off Australia in 1978? 1065. In which country was Arkle bred? 1066. How many players of each sex are there in a korfball team? 1067. Who broke Muhammad Alis jaw? 1068. How wide is a hockey goal? 1069. For which country did Pancho Segura play tennis? 1070. In the 1924 Winter Olympics which countrys ice hockey team scored 104 goals in their first four games? 1071. How old was Stanley Matthews when he won his first FA Cup Winners medal? 1072. At which Olympic Games were eleven Israeli competitors murdered? 1073. Why were women not permitted to watch the original Olympic Games? 1074. Where did Alan Minter win his world middleweight title in 1980? 1075. What do the Dallas Cowboys play? 1076. What was Eva Shains claim to fame? 1077. In three-day county cricket matches, what is the maximum number of overs allowed to the opening side? 1078. What was Westpark Mustard, a phenomenon of the 1970s? 1079. Who was the first person, officially, to drive faster than 250 m.p.h.? 1080. Jimmy Doyle died during a title fight in 1947. Who was his opponent?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1061.Middlesex. 1062.Willow. 1063.Welterweight. 1064.Jack Nicklaus, and this was the biggest fish caught off Australia in that year. 1065.Ireland. 1066.Six men and six women. 1067.Ken Norton. 1068.12 feet. 1069.Ecuador. 1070.Canadas. 1071.38 years old. 1072.The 1972 Games at Munich. 1073.Because all the competitors were male and naked. 1074.Las Vegas (Caesars Palace). 1075.American football. 1076.She was the first woman to judge a heavyweight boxing championship fight. (She was also one of the judges of the Muhammad AliErnie Shavers fight on 29 September 1977.) 1077.One hundred. 1078.A record-breaking champion greyhound. 1079.Sir Malcolm Campbell. 1080.Sugar Ray Robinson.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1081. Who were the three West Ham players in the England 1966 World Cup winning team? 1082. Which sport means literally easy way? 1083. If you were bull riding what would you be involved with? 1084. How many weight divisions are there in Olympic boxing competitions? 1085. What is Spurs home ground called? 1086. What is the distance from the service line to the net in tennis? 1087. Who was the first black heavyweight boxing champion of the world? 1088. Who was the last player to defeat Bjorn Borg at Wimbledon before his five consecutive championship wins? 1089. What did Ferenc Puskas play? 1090. For which country do the Pumas play rugby? 1091. Which Briton won the world middleweight boxing title in 1960? 1092. Whom did Maurice Hope beat to gain his world boxing title? 1093. Which country won the Davis Cup in 1983? 1094. Which then current womens 1,500 metres world record holder failed to make the 1976 Olympic finals? 1095. Who was Muhammad Alis opponent for the world title in Zaire in 1974? 1096. Who captained the British Lions in 1971? 1097. Who first put the shot over 70 feet? 1098. Which Dutchman reached the Wimbledon mens singles semi-finals in 1978? 1099. Who captained Arsenal in their double year 1970/71? 1100. Which county won the Gillette Cup and John Player League in 1979?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1081.Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters and Bobby Moore. 1082.Judo. 1083.A rodeo. 1084.Eleven. 1085.White Hart Lane. 1086.21 feet. 1087.Jack Johnson, who defeated Tommy Burns in 1908. 1088.Arthur Ashe, in the 1975 quarter finals. 1089.Football (for Hungary). 1090.Argentina. 1091.Terry Downes. 1092.Rocky Mattioli. 1093.Australia. 1094.Grete Waitz. 1095.George Foreman. 1096.John Dawes. 1097.Randy Matson. 1098.Tom Okker. 1099.Frank McLintock. 1100.Somerset.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1101. Which motor-racing driver was the first to win the world championship in his own make of car? 1102. In golf, which number wood is the driver? 1103. Which country has won the world championships for curling most often? 1104. Who did Ezzard Charles defeat in 1950 to become world heavyweight boxing champion? 1105. Who was the oldest man to win the Wimbledon mens tennis singles championship? 1106. Which Irish international rugby player also played football for Limerick United? 1107. Which county plays home cricket matches at Grace Road? 1108. Who rode Nijinsky to victory in the 1970 Epsom Derby? 1109. Which film star was runner-up in the 1979 Le Mans 24-hour race? 1110. Who won the 1971 Badminton Horse Trials on Great Ovation? 1111. Which former disc-jockey and TV personality is a regular marathon runner? 1112. In golf, where is the US Masters always played? 1113. Which tennis player had a cameo role in the Bond film Octopussy? 1114. Who was the first tennis player to achieve the grand slam (Australia, France, Wimbledon and USA Championships)? 1115. Who won the Wimbledon mens doubles in 1968/9/70? 1116. On which track was the first British Grand Prix held? 1117. After 64 years, which sport will be re-introduced at the 1988 Olympics? 1118. How many World Championship motor-cycle titles did Giacomo Agostini 1119. Name the first Soviet Union soccer team to play in Britain. 1120. At which track is the greyhound classic The Laurels run?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1101.Jack Brabham. 1102.One. 1103.Canada. 1104.Joe Louis. 1105.Arthur W. Gore, at 41, in 1909. 1106.Tony Ward. 1107.Leicestershire. 1108.Lester Piggott. 1109.Paul Newman. 1110.Mark Phillips. 1111.Jimmy Saville. 1112.Augusta, Georgia. 1113.Vijay Amritraj. 1114.Donald Budge. 1115.John Newcombe and Tony Roche. 1116.Silverstone. 1117.Tennis. 1118.Twelve. 1119.Moscow Dynamo, in 1945. 1120.Wimbledon.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1121. How old was Lester Piggott when he won the Derby in 1954? 1122. Of what nationality was the athlete who won the pole vault in the Moscow Olympics? 1123. Which Wimbledon singles tennis champion is Bob Lutzs doubles partner? 1124. In baseball, what is the distance in feet between bases? 1125. In which country is the headquarters of the International Ice Hockey Federation? 1126. How high is the netball net from the ground? 1127. How many strokes under par is an eagle? 1128. For which sport is the Stanley Cup awarded? 1129. How many medals for speed skating did Eric Heiden win at the 1980 Winter Olympics? 1130. Which QPR player was the captain of England? 1131. Why did a group of pioneer American golfers become known as the Apple Tree Gang? 1132. What is the length of a hockey pitch? 1133. Which English club plays in the Scottish Football League? 1134. Who owned the 1977 St Leger winner Dunfermline? 1135. Who was the first man to score a century in crickets John Player League? 1136. Which is the first big handicap of the flat-racing season? 1137. In which event did Percy Hodge win an Olympic track gold medal for Britain in 1920? 1138. In 1972, which TV personality took over as linesman when the referee pulled a muscle during the game between Arsenal and Liverpool? 1139. Which country has Graham Yallop captained at cricket? 1140. Which golfer is known as Champagne Tony?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1121. Eighteen. 1122. Polish. His name was Cwladyslaw Kozkiewicz. 1123. Stan Smith. 1124. Ninety. 1125. England (London). 1126. 10 feet. 1127. Two. 1128. Ice hockey. 1129. Five. 1130. Gerry Francis. 1131. Because they laid out a golf course in an orchard. 1132. 100 yards. 1133. Berwick Rangers. 1134. The Queen. 1135. Greg Chappell (Somerset). 1136. The Lincoln. 1137. 3,000-metre steeplechase. 1138. Jimmy Hill. 1139. Australia. 1140. Tony Lema.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1141. How many Olympic gold medals did the Russian gymnast Lyudmila Tourischeva win? 1142. Which basketball team was founded by Abe Saperstein in Chicago in 1927? 1143. Who scored every one of Englands five goals in their match against Cyprus in 1975? 1144. Who was the first man to swim 400 metres in less than 5 minutes? 1145. In which sport did Dave Starbrook win medals at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics? 1146. In which city can the oldest tennis court in existence be found? 1147. Who was Englands caretaker manager between Alf Ramsey and Don Revie? 1148. Which amateur reached the mens singles semi-finals at Wimbledon in 1977? 1149. Over what distance is the human steeplechase run? 1150. Who rode Troy to victory in the 1979 Derby? 1151. How many different men who have played Tarzan in films have won Olympic gold medals? 1152. Who was the first Briton to win the World Motor Racing Championship? 1153. In which event and for which country did Errol Flynn compete in the 1928 Olympics? 1154. What is the name given to the large bowls used in level green bowling? 1155. Who was the first woman tennis-player to win the grand slam? 1156. Of what was Britains Frankie Wainman world champion in 1979? 1157. Which horse won the 1981 Grand National? 1158. Which was the first team to win the FA Cup? 1159. For what are the Golden Gloves awarded? 1160. How many times was Graham Hill world motor-racing champion?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1141.Three. 1142.The Harlem Globetrotters. 1143.Malcolm Macdonald. 1144.Johnny Weissmuller (of Tarzan fame). 1145.Judo. 1146.Paris. It dates from 1496. 1147.Joe Mercer. 1148.John McEnroe (aged 18). 1149.3,000 metres. 1150.Willie Carson. 1151.Four. 1152.Mike Hawthorn. 1153.Boxing for Ireland. 1154.Woods. 1155.Maureen Connolly (Little Mo), at the age of nineteen. 1156.Stock-car racing. 1157.Aldaniti. 1158.The Wanderers. 1159.Winning the premier USA amateur boxing match. 1160.Twice.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1161. In which year did an English test team include eleven left-handers? 1162. What type of car was James Hunt driving when he won the World Championship in 1976? 1163. To which game was the phrase hat trick first applied? 1164. What nationality is tennis-player Mats Wilander? 1165. In motor racing, what does a yellow flag signify? 1166. What happened to the Russian Boris Onitshenko in the fencing discipline of the 1976 Olympic modern pentathlon? 1167. In which sport is the Leonard Trophy contested? 1168. What is the lowest score ever recorded for an eighteen-hole round on a 5,000- yardplus golf course? 1169. Which country won the world team championship for karate in 1975? 1170. How many goals did Bobby Charlton score for England? 1171. Name the famous son of Irish former jockey, Michael Mouse Morris. 1172. Which is the Sport of Kings? 1173. Who rode The Pie to victory in the Grand National? 1174. Name the three Lloyd brothers; all of them have played at Wimbledon. 1175. In motor racing, what does a red flag mean? 1176. How many Winter Olympics have been held at Lake Placid? 1177. Who was known as the Clown Prince of Basketball? 1178. James B. Connolly was the first athlete to win a gold medal at the modern Olympic Games in 1896. For which event? 1179. How many gold medals did Ingemar Stenmark win at the 1980 Winter Olympics for skiing? 1180. Who coxed the Cambridge crew to victory in the 1950 Boat Race?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1161. It has never happened. 1162. A McLaren Ford. 1163. Cricket. 1164. Swedish. 1165. Slow down and hold your position. 1166. He was disqualified for cheating. 1167. Bowls. 1168. Fifty-five (by Homero Blancas in Texas in 1962). 1169. Britain. 1170. Forty-nine. 1171. Lord Killanin (formerly President of the International Olympic Committee). 1172. Horse racing. 1173. Velvet Brown in National Velvet. 1174. David, John and Tony. 1175. Stop. 1176. Two. 1177. Meadowlark Lemon of the Harlem Globetrotters. 1178. Triple jump (then known as the hop, skip and jump). 1179. Two. 1180. Anthony Armstrong Jones (Lord Snowdon).

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1181. Who rode Arkle to victory in the 1964 Cheltenham Gold Cup? 1182. On which British golf course is the renowned Postage Stamp hole? 1183. Where are the Coventry Stakes run? 1184. Which former winner of golfs British Open was tried for attempted murder in 1970? 1185. Which British girl won the womens modern pentathlon world title in 1978? 1186. What does the Puissance event test in showjumping? 1187. Who owned Dunfermline, the 1977 St Leger winner? 1188. Which racecourse is referred to as Knavesmire? 1189. Brother and sister Andreas and Hanni Wenzel both won World Cup titles in 1980. In which sport? 1190. Who won the 3,000-metre steeplechase gold medal at the Mexico Olympics, running in his first steeplechase? 1191. For how many seconds must a cowboy stay on a bucking bronco? 1192. What sport did Jim Clark (killed in 1968) compete in? 1193. How long between rounds in boxing? 1194. What is the clump of grass dislodged by golfers called? 1195. Who won the 1984 London Marathon? 1196. Why was Fred Lorz disqualified after ostensibly winning the 1904 Olympic marathon? 1197. Where was the first World Surfing Championship held? 1198. Who won the World Grand Prix Racing Championship in 1978? 1199. At which ground was the first ever Test Match in England played? 1200. Which golfer is nicknamed the Walrus?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1181.Pat Taafe. 1182.Troon. 1183.Ascot. 1184.Bobby Locke. 1185.Wendy Norman. 1186.The horses ability to jump heights. 1187.The Queen. 1188.York. 1189.Skiing. 1190.Amos Biwott (Kenya). 1191.Eight. 1192.Motor racing. 1193.1 minute. 1194.A divot. 1195.Charlie Spedding. 1196.He hitched a lift for part of the way in a car! 1197.Sydney, Australia, in 1964. 1198.Mario Andretti. 1199.The Oval. 1200.Craig Stadler.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1201. In basketball what is the distance from the free throw line to the basket? 1202. What game played on ice equates to flat green bowls, more or less? 1203. How many players are there in a water polo team? 1204. When did Dick Fosbury first use his flop technique to win an Olympic high jump gold medal? 1205. Who won the FA Cup in 1984? 1206. Who was world 500cc motor cycle champion in 1956, and from 1958 to 1962? 1207. In which Italian town do Juventus play? 1208. Who was Bernard Fords ice dance partner? 1209. Who was the first goalkeeper to win the Footballer of the Year Award? 1210. On whose life was the film The Great White Hope based? 1211. Which country won soccers last ever Home Internationals? 1212. The Winter Olympics of 1964 and 1976 were held in the same place. Where? 1213. Who was the first heavyweight boxer to win back his championship after he had lost it? 1214. What is the minimum weight of a professional heavyweight boxer? 1215. Who partnered Ilie Nastase to victory in the 1970 and 1972 Wimbledon mixed doubles championships? 1216. Roger Uttley captained England; in which game? 1217. Who won the 1984 British Superstars Championship? 1218. Which FA team have the nickname The Cobblers? 1219. Until 1867, what did professional boxers wear on their fists? 1220. Over what distance is the Greyhound Derby run?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1201.19 feet. 1202.Curling. 1203.Seven (and four reserves). 1204.1968. 1205.Everton. 1206.John Surtees. 1207.Turin. 1208.Diane Towler. 1209.Bert Trautmann, in 1956. 1210.Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight boxing champion of the world. 1211.Northern Ireland. 1212.Innsbruck, Austria. 1213.Floyd Patterson (from Ingemar Johansson in 1960, after losing it in 1959). 1214.175 1b. 1215.Rosie Casals. 1216.Rugby. 1217.Gary Cook. 1218.Northampton. 1219.Nothing. 1220.500 metres.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1221. Who won the 1984 single-handed transatlantic yacht race? 1222. How many points are scored for a touchdown in American football? 1223. Of the five major Wimbledon tennis titles, how many were retained in 1984 by the 1983 winners? 1224. Where was golfs British Open held for its first 11 years? 1225. What colour jersey does the overall race leader in the Tour de France cycle race wear? 1226. Which young athlete left South Africa in 1984 to compete for Britain? 1227. Which Scottish international footballer was killed by lightning on a London golf course in 1964? 1228. In which country do they play holani, a form of hockey? 1229. Which Wimbledon tennis title did Pat Cash win in 1982? 1230. How many games must a player be the first to take in order to win the tie- break at tennis? 1231. What height is the net in squash? 1232. Which boxer is nicknamed The Cyclone? 1233. Which city should have held the cancelled 1944 Olympics? 1234. Which former world heavyweight boxing champion, the day before his birthday, was killed in a plane crash? 1235. On which 38-mile course are Kates Cottage and Ginger Hall? 1236. Who, on 1 May 1985, collected his 110th International soccer cap a record for the home countries? 1237. For which country did Bob Wilson keep goal? 1238. In which event did Nurmi win an Olympic gold medal for Germany? 1239. Which team won the 1985 Milk Cup Final? 1240. What was the rhyming nickname of Wilton Chamberlain, the great basketball player?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1221.Yvon Fauconnier. 1222.Six (plus one further point if it is converted). 1223.All five. 1224.Prestwick, Scotland. 1225.Yellow. 1226.Zola Budd. 1227.John White. (He played for Tottenham.) 1228.Turkey. 1229.Junior Wimbledon. 1230.Seven (or by a margin of two clear points if six all is reached). 1231.There is no net in squash. 1232.Barry McGuigan. 1233.London. 1234.Rocky Marciano. 1235.The Isle of Man TT course. 1236.Pat Jennings. (N. Ireland.) 1237.For Scotland. 1238.The three-day event in 1936. He was the winning horse! 1239.Norwich City. 1240.Wilt the Stilt.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1241. In soccer, what became compulsory in 1875, replacing the use of a tape? 1242. Which club won the Rugby League Cup Final in 1985? 1243. What do horse-racing people call the nanny? 1244. What are kept in a quiver? 1245. Whom did Hippomenes defeat in a race, in mythology? 1246. Which was the first-ever race run in the Modern Olympics (1896)? 1247. Which sport was controlled by the Broughton Rules from 1743 to 1867? 1248. At which sport did Douglas Bader excel, before losing his legs? 1249. Who presented the 1985 F.A. Cup to Manchester United? 1250. Which game used Winston Churchill to be especially fond of playing as a young man? 1251. To what number does a wrestling referee count to determine whether a fall is good? 1252. Rodnina and Zaitsev were World Champions at what form of skating? 1253. Which rugby player was nicknamed Desperate Dan? 1254. What do relay runners pass to each other? 1255. Kitty ONeil, a Hollywood stunt star and racing driver, set over 20 records in various types of racing. Which sense did she lack from birth? 1256. In which sport is the Wrigley Trophy awarded for an indoor competition? 1257. Who captained Brazil to their third World Cup win? 1258. At what club did Sir Stanley Matthews both begin and end his soccer playing career? 1259. What sort of football is played on an oval field 200 yards long? 1260. Which game is played at Cowdray Park?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1241.The use of crossbars above goalposts. 1242.Wigan. 1243.The Tote, or nanny-goat. 1244.Arrows. 1245.Atalanta. 1246.The 100 m sprint for men. 1247.Boxing. 1248.Rugby. 1249.The Duke of Kent. 1250.Polo. 1251.Three. 1252.Pairs skating. 1253.Fran Cotton. 1254.A baton. 1255.Hearing. 1256.Cricket six-a-side. 1257.Pele. 1258.Stoke City. 1259.Football played according to Australian rules. 1260.Polo.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1261. What are the pupil grades in Judo called? 1262. Which county tied three successive Sunday League cricket matches in 1983? 1263. How are showjumpers Liz Edgar and David Broome related? 1264. For what were plus-fours worn? 1265. What is the nickname of rugby international P. J.Winterbottom? 1266. In which two athletics jumping events do women not compete? 1267. In which sport is the Strathcona Cup competed for? 1268. Which soccer team plays home matches at Maine Road? 1269. How long is a golfer allowed to search for a lost ball? 1270. At what long odds did Snow Knight win the English Derby in 1974? 1271. How many Grand Slam tournaments are there in tennis? 1272. Before 1985, who was the last Australian man to win the Wimbledon Singles title? 1273. Whom did Arthur Ashe beat in the 1975 Wimbledon Final? 1274. Ilie Nastase comes from which country? 1275. Which sport has world records for the 100 km Triangle, and Goal and Return? 1276. What are the balls used in bowls called? 1277. How many Gold Medals did Carl Lewis win in the first World Championships for athletics? 1278. Women compete for the Marcel Corbillon Trophy at which game? 1279. Whom did Floyd Patterson beat to become World Heavyweight Boxing Champion? 1280. How old must a horse be to run in a nursery?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1261.Kyu. 1262.Worcestershire. Statistically, it happens once in 58,000 years. 1263.They are brother and sister. 1264.Golf. 1265.The Strawman. 1266.The triple jump and the pole vault. 1267.Curling. 1268.Manchester City. 1269.Five minutes. 1270.501. 1271.Four. 1272.John Newcombe, in 1971. 1273.Jimmy Connors. 1274.Romania. 1275.Gliding. 1276.Woods. 1277.Four. 1278.Table-tennis. 1279.Archie Moore. 1280.Two years old.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1281. Who was the first player capped for England at all five levels in soccer? 1282. At which boxing weight was Terry Downes World Champion? 1283. How often is tenniss Davis cup contested? 1284. After how many points do players change service at table-tennis? 1285. Who assists Jimmy Hill in introducing BBC TVs Match of the Day? 1286. Which cricket clubs home is Fenners? 1287. What gesture does a cricket umpire use to indicate a no-ball? 1288. How wide is a competition basketball court? 1289. Who beat Anderlecht on penalties to win the 1984 UEFA Cup? 1290. In golf, which number iron is called a mashie? 1291. In basketball, a successful free shot scores how many points? 1292. By what name is the game minnonette now known? 1293. How many wrestlers compete in a tag match? 1294. Which forest animal provides the nickname of Mansfield Town? 1295. What is the song-title motto above the gates of Liverpool football club? 1296. Kayles, or quilles in France, is an early form of which game? 1297. Which British cricketer has walloped the most runs in his first-class career? 1298. Which soccer manager is nicknamed The Doc? 1299. What do touring South African rugby sides give to the first team to beat them? 1300. What is the full name of the chief Rugby League knockout cup?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1281.Terry Venables. 1282.Middleweight. 1283.Annually. 1284.Five. 1285.Bob Wilson. 1286.Cambridge Universitys. 1287.He raises one arm horizontally. 1288.50 feet. 1289.Tottenham Hotspur. 1290.Five. 1291.One. 1292.Volleyball. 1293.Four usually. 1294.Stag The Stags. 1295.Youll Never Walk Alone. 1296.Skittles. 1297.Jack Hobbs 61, 237 runs between 1905 and 1935. 1298.Tommy Docherty. 1299.A stuffed and mounted springbok head. 1300.The Silk Cut Rugby League Challenge Cup.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1301. What was the official car of the 1984 Winter Olympics? 1302. Who plays home matches at the Filbert Street ground? 1303. Name Hulls two Rugby League teams. 1304. Which French racing driver did John Watson call a pain in the backside? 1305. Whom did Muhammad Ali nickname The Rabbit? 1306. What was jockey Harry Wragg nicknamed because of his patient tactics? 1307. Why was Scotlands Willy Johnston sent home from the 1978 World Cup Finals? 1308. Which major sporting event does Britannia Assurance sponsor? 1309. Which two teams were playing in 1971 at Ibrox, Glasgow, when 66 spectators died? 1310. Crane, dragon, leopard, tiger and snake are styles of what? 1311. Who won the 1985 London Marathon? 1312. Who was the only Briton to be boxings World Heavyweight Champion? 1313. Who received an honorary degree in law at Sussex University in July 1985, aged 39? 1314. Which song is associated with Llanelli rugby club? 1315. If you went to Wookey Hole and Swildons Hole, in which sport would you be participating? 1316. How high is a table-tennis net? 1317. In motor racing, what is the best position at the starting grid called? 1318. In American football, a team of eleven men may use up to how many substitutes? 1319. Which club did Bryan Robson leave to join Manchester United? 1320. How old was Lester Piggott when he rode his first winner?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1301.The Chevrolet. 1302.Leicester City FC. 1303.Hull and Hull Kingston Rovers. 1304.Ren Arnoux. 1305.Floyd Patterson. 1306.The Head Waiter. 1307.He failed a drugs test. 1308.The County Cricket Championship. 1309.Rangers and Celtic. 1310.Kung-fu. 1311.Steve Jones. 1312.Bob Fitzsimmons (18979). 1313.Virginia Wade. 1314.Sospan Fach, or little saucepan. 1315.Cave diving. 1316.Six inches. 1317.Pole position. 1318.Thirty-two. 1319.West Bromwich Albion. 1320.Twelve years old.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1321. In 1985, who was the first Swiss ever to take a Wimbledon tennis title? 1322. What was the real first name of Evertons great footballer Dixie Dean? 1323. Where were the 1952 Summer Olympics held? 1324. Which one-time husband of a famous sex symbol was the first to take part in more than 50 World Series games? 1325. Which sport did Archbishop William Fisher call organized loafing? 1326. What takes place in Happy Valley, Hong Kong? 1327. Which stroke always begins the swimming medley relay? 1328. In which sport could a player pick a cherry or leave a picket fence? 1329. What is Linda Fratiannes sport? 1330. In which city is the Iffley Road running track? 1331. What colour flag signifies the end of a motor race? 1332. Which horse won the Fillies Triple Crown in 1985? 1333. What is the maximum height of the sole allowed on a high-jumpers shoe? 1334. How wide is a field hockey goal? 1335. Which Eastern Bloc country led the withdrawal from the 1984 Olympic Games? 1336. Which London soccer club wears blue and white hooped shirts? 1337. After putting in golf, how long may a player wait to see if a ball balancing on the holes edge drops in? 1338. Which athletic feat by Steve Fonyo, aged 19, raised nearly seven million dollars for charity? 1339. In which sport might you perform a telemark? 1340. Which West Indies cricketer is nicknamed Black Diamond?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1321.Heinz Guenthardt (he won the Mens Doubles title). 1322.William. 1323.In Helsinki. 1324.Joe DiMaggio. 1325.Cricket. 1326.Horse racing. 1327.The backstroke. 1328.In ten-pin bowling. 1329.Ice skating. 1330.In Oxford. 1331.A black and white checked flag. 1332.Oh So Sharp. 1333.Half an inch, or 13 mm. 1334.Twelve feet wide. 1335.The USSR. 1336.Queens Park Rangers. 1337.Ten seconds there is a penalty of two strokes if he takes longer. 1338.He ran across Canada nearly 5,000 miles handicapped by having lost a leg at the age of twelve. 1339.In skiing. 1340.Wayne Daniel.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1341. Which game starts with a face-off? 1342. In which athletics event are the greatest heights jumped? 1343. Which soccer teams ground is the name of a mainly American game? 1344. Flying Dutchman and Finn are classes of what? 1345. What was unique about Primo Cameras 1933 world title fight against Paulino Uzcudun? 1346. The martial arts of tae kwon do and hapkido come from which country? 1347. What is Mike Hazelwoods sport? 1348. How long is the drag-racing strip? 1349. What did Billie Jean King give Bobby Riggs before their famous tennis match? 1350. Cyclist Eddie Merckx comes from which country? 1351. How many players take the field at one time in a Canadian football team? 1352. Where can a jockey win the Ritz Club Trophy? 1353. Which colour on an archery target is worth the most points? 1354. Which game, resembling baseball, uses a larger ball and a smaller pitch? 1355. At what did Anne Moore excel? 1356. For which country do the All Blacks play Rugby? 1357. In which sport did graphics design student Joe Lydon make his name? 1358. In horse racing, what is acey deucey? 1359. What was the mascot of the Los Angeles Olympics? 1360. Who was the 1985 Football Writers Footballer of the Year?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1341.Ice hockey. 1342.In the pole vault. 1343.Derby Countys Baseball Ground. 1344.Yachts. 1345.It was the only time two Europeans fought for the world heavyweight title. 1346.Korea. 1347.Water ski-ing. 1348.A quarter of a mile. 1349.A piglet. 1350.From Belgium. 1351.Twelve players. 1352.At Royal Ascot, for riding the most winners. 1353.Yellow, or gold. 1354.Softball. 1355.Showjumping. 1356.For New Zealand. 1357.Rugby League. 1358.The practice of riding with one short stirrup and one long. 1359.Sam, the eagle. 1360.Neville Southall.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1361. In competitive gymnastics, how does the mens vault differ from the ladies? 1362. Where did the most surprising outbreak of football hooliganism break out on Sunday, 19 May, 1985? 1363. In which Scottish city is St Johnstone F C based? 1364. Meadowbank Stadium is in which city? 1365. In which sport could you be given a mulligan? 1366. Who were the first winners of soccers Rous Cup, in 1985? 1367. Racing which vehicles has Renato Molinari been World Champion? 1368. What makes the puissance event in show jumping spectacular? 1369. What are Acorn and Mother Goose? 1370. In which town are the international-standard Derby Swimming Baths? 1371. Which British athlete became World Superstar Champion? 1372. Which great cricketer also played soccer for England in 1901? 1373. What is natation? 1374. Which football clubs home ground has the same name as a battle of 1066? 1375. Who succeeded Bob Paisley as Manager of Liverpool FC? 1376. Kyu and Dan are grades in which sport? 1377. How many people does the largest Olympic bobsleigh hold? 1378. Name the twin brothers who took the Gold and Silver Medals in the Men Slalom at the 1984 Winter Olympics? 1379. Who was the first woman to win three track Gold Medals at one Olympics? 1380. Who won soccers 1985 European Cup-Winners Cup Final?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1361.The horse is longways on for men and crossways for women. 1362.Outside Pekings Workers Stadium in China. 1363.In Perth. 1364.In Edinburgh. 1365.Golf- it is a free shot in a friendly game. 1366.Scotland. 1367.Powerboats. 1368.The height of the fences. 1369.Two races of the fillies Triple Crown in the USA. 1370.In Blackpool 1371.Brian Hooper. 1372.C. B. Fry. 1373.Swimming. 1374.Chelsea. (Stamford Bridge.) 1375.Joe Fagan. 1376.Judo. 1377.Four. 1378.Phil and Steve Mahre. 1379.Wilma Rudolph, in 1960. 1380.Everton.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1381. Which Australian has twice been the defeated finalist in the World Snooker Championship? 1382. Which great tennis player (5 ft 4 inches tall) said, If youre small, you better be a winner? 1383. Which is the worlds most famous bobsleigh run? 1384. In which Olympic event did Dana Zatopek win a Gold Medal? 1385. Who lost three Wimbledon finals in the same year, in 1977? 1386. What is the name of the French tennis tournament? 1387. In cricket, Middlesex won the last what in 1980? 1388. How did the Jockey Club upset the firm of Durex? 1389. What was table-tennis originally called? 1390. When black Nubas engage in their traditional bouts of wrestling, what curious thing do they first do to their bodies? 1391. What did Bobby Riggs give Billie-Jean King before their much fted tennis match? 1392. Competitors are electrically wired to determine the validity of hits in which sport? 1393. Up to September 1983, which cricketing country had never won a Test match? 1394. Which greyhound racing track did the BBC buy for 30 million? 1395. What medal did Fatima Whitbread win in the 1984 Olympics? 1396. How many Gold Medals did Russias Yelena Shushunova win at the 1985 European Womens Gymnastic Championships? 1397. Which soccer team plays home matches at Turf Moor? 1398. What do Americans call natural English? 1399. Who opened the 1936 Olympic Games? 1400. What is an Ace to a golfer?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1381.Eddie Charlton. 1382.Billie-Jean King. 1383.The Cresta Run. 1384.The Womens Javelin event. 1385.Betty Stove. 1386.Roland Garros, held in Paris. 1387.Gillette Cup. (Its name changed subsequently.) 1388.By saying that Durex wasnt a suitable name for a horse, and refusing to allow it to be registered. 1389.Not Ping-pong, but Gossamer. (Gossima was the trade name.) 1390.They paint them white. 1391.An inflatable Sugar Daddy. 1392.Fencing. 1393.Sri Lanka but they had played only eight. 1394.White City, for their new radio HQ. 1395.A Bronze, for the Womens Javelin event. 1396.Four. 1397.Burnley. 1398.A spin or twist put on a ball, as in billiards. 1399.Adolf Hitler. 1400.A hole-in-one.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1401. Which country did Emile Zatopek represent with distinction? 1402. Charles Bannerman was the very first cricketer to score what, in 1877? 1403. Which horse won the 1985 Epsom Derby? 1404. Which sport is played at Wankhede Stadium? 1405. Which soccer team is nicknamed the Hatters? 1406. The Iroquois Cup is awarded in which game? 1407. Why did BBC commentator Tommy Woodroffe eat his hat, in 1938? 1408. With which sport and which country would you associate the City Slick Sidewinders? 1409. What name is used for the sport of riding a three-ski tricycle over water? 1410. Peter OSullevan normally commentates on which sport? 1411. What is the mascot for the 1986 Commonwealth Games? 1412. Who won the 1985 FA Cup Final? 1413. Over what distance is The Oaks run? 1414. Forty all what is the call in tennis? 1415. Which Yorkshire soccer club, in Division 1 in 1970, was in Division 4 by 1979? 1416. Which sport did the Irish canon Rev. William Grey introduce to Japan? 1417. Why are Sheffield Wednesday called Wednesday? 1418. Who was the first person to play over 100 singles matches at Wimbledon? 1419. In Portuguese bullfights, the bull is not killed so what do the forcados do? 1420. What was Fred Spofforths Test Match first?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1401.Czechoslovakia. 1402.The very first run of the very first Test match for Australia. 1403.Slip Anchor. 1404.Cricket, in Bombay. 1405.Luton Town. 1406.Lacrosse. 1407.Commentating on the 1938 FA Cup Final he said, If theres a goal now, Ill eat my hat. There was, and he was a man of his word. 1408.Baseball. They play in England. 1409.Aquabobbing invented in Switzerland in 1967. 1410.Horse-racing. 1411.Mac the Scottie dog. 1412.Manchester United. 1413.1 miles. 1414.Deuce. 1415.Huddersfield Town. 1416.Hockey, early this century. 1417.Because the team was founded by butchers who played on their half-day off Wednesday. 1418.Billie-Jean King. 1419.They wrestle with the bull, as a team. 1420.He scored the first-ever Test Match hat-trick in 1879.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1421. Who won his first Grand Prix tennis title in 1985 the Stella Artois singles at Queens Club, London aged just 17? 1422. Who was the first player ever sent off in an FA Cup Final? 1423. On what sort of surface do the Dutch play a form of bowls called Klootschien? 1424. For which country did Kazimierz Deyna play soccer? 1425. For what is canter short? 1426. Before the wooden golf tee was invented, what did players put the ball on? 1427. In 1954, who was the first BBC Sports Personality of the Year? 1428. C.B.Fry, the cricketer, was once invited to be King of where? 1429. At which game do Oxford and Cambridge compete for the Bowring Bowl? 1430. Name either of the unconnected activities at which Sheila Young has been World Champion. 1431. Until 1980 there were nine ways of getting out in cricket. Now there are ten what was the addition? 1432. For which county did W. G. Grace play cricket? 1433. The Hon. Lionel Tennyson captained England at what game? 1434. Apart from his stick, with what else may a hockey player stop the ball? 1435. Willie Banks broke an athletics world record in 1985, which had stood since 1968. Which? 1436. Which sports spin-off was invented by John Jervis Barnard in 1922? 1437. How many throwing events are there in the Decathlon? 1438. Which 1965 cycling world champion died during the 1967 Tour de France? 1439. In which sport might you perform a Lutz or Choctaw? 1440. Which county plays cricket at Edgbaston?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1421.Boris Becker of Germany. 1422.Kevin Moran, of Manchester United, in 1985. 1423.Along roads. Really, it is a sort of long-distance throwing. 1424.Poland. 1425.Canterbury Gallop. 1426.Little piles of sand. 1427.Christopher Chataway. 1428.Albania. (He declined.) 1429.Rugby Union. 1430.Cycling (sprint) and speed skating. 1431.Timed out a new batsman must step on to the field within two minutes of a wicket falling. 1432.Gloucestershire. 1433.Cricket. 1434.His hand. 1435.The record for the triple jump the new record is 58 feet, 11 inches. 1436.The Football Pools. 1437.Three. (The shotputt, the discus and the javelin.) 1438.Tommy Simpson, of Britain. 1439.In ice-skating. 1440.Warwickshire.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1441. In which country is the game pelota particularly popular? 1442. When did the skater Robin Cousins trip over, at the 1980 Winter Olympics? 1443. The Australian cricketer Billy Murdoch scored what first in 1884? 1444. With which sport is Colonel Abner Doubleday associated? 1445. Who was the first Englishman to achieve a batting average of 100 in a first-class cricket season? 1446. Who scored the winning goal in the 1985 FA Cup Final? 1447. Dressed as whom did Bobby Riggs arrive for his tennis match v. Billie-Jean King? 1448. Which British racing driver won four Grand Prix races in 1963? 1449. What was unusual about the way Len Hutton got out at the Oval in 1951, playing South Africa? 1450. Who were the beaten finalists both in the 1974 and 1978 World Cup? 1451. Where is the HQ of Lancashire County Cricket? 1452. What curious maritime sporting achievement did Frederic Beauchene accomplish in 1979? 1453. Which player stands on the mound in the middle of the diamond in baseball? 1454. Who managed Nottingham Forest to victory twice in the European Cup? 1455. What is the unique characteristic of Rotterdam Golf Clubs course? 1456. Which successful jockey comes from Kentucky and rides in Britain? 1457. Who described golf as An ineffectual attempt to direct an uncontrollable sphere into an inaccessible hole with instruments ill-adapted for the purpose? 1458. What is Bernhardt Langers game? 1459. Which county plays cricket matches at Headingley? 1460. In which sport would you use a shinai?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1441.In Spain. 1442.On the steps of the podium as he went up to receive his gold medal. 1443.The first double-century in a Test Match. 1444.Baseball. (In 1839 he was credited with both the name and layin rule. Later research suggests that he didnt invent the name.) 1445.Geoffrey Boycott. 1446.Norman Whiteside. 1447.King Henry VIII. 1448.Jim Clark. 1449.He was given out for obstructing the field. 1450.Holland. 1451.At Old Trafford. 1452.He wind-surfed round Cape Horn. 1453.The pitcher. 1454.Brian Clough. 1455.It is 8 metres below sea level, the lowest in 1456.Steve Cauthen. 1457.Winston Churchill. 1458.Golf. 1459.Yorkshire. 1460.In kendo its a practice weapon.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1461. Who rode Alleged to victory in both the 1977 and 1978 Prix de 1 Arc de Triomphe? 1462. For which country did Raman Subba Row play Test cricket? 1463. The first batsman to score centuries in both innings of a Test Match was an Australian. Who? 1464. In 1980, Giant Haystacks broke his ribcage whilst wrestling in Kuwait. What was his next problem? 1465. Whom did Muhammad Ali nickname The Turtle? 1466. Who are The Potters, in football? 1467. How many minutes does the winner take to complete the Grand National? 1468. How many laps are run in a 10,000m track race? 1469. On which day of the week do the Russians reckon most great chess-players were born? 1470. What is a backward handspring called? 1471. Since the age of 16, Herb Elliott was never beaten over two distances in any race. Name one. 1472. How far apart are the goal-posts in polo? 1473. Which part of the judo costume indicates the grade achieved? 1474. In horse-racing, a photo-finish is called for if the winning distance is less than what? 1475. With which sport do you associate Cottesmore, Fernie and Pytchley? 1476. The centre player in the front row of a rugby scrum is called what? 1477. With which sport do you associate Guzzi and Gilera? 1478. Which boxer first beat Muhammad Ali in a professional fight? 1479. In which sport might you worry about a borrow? 1480. How many divisions has the Scottish Football League?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1461.Lester Piggott. 1462.England. 1463.Warren Bardsley. 1464.He was too big for the ambulance called to take him to hospital. 1465.Joe Frazier. 1466.Stoke City FC. 1467.Between nine and ten. 1468.Twenty-five. 1469.On Thursday. 1470.Aflic-flac. 1471.The mile and the 1500 m. 1472.Eight yards the same as in soccer! 1473.The belt. 1474.Haifa length. 1475.Fox-hunting. 1476.The hooker. 1477.Motor-cycling they are makes of Italian bike. 1478.Joe Frazier. 1479.Golf. 1480.Three.

SPORTS QUESTIONS
1481. Tennis player Manuela Maleeva comes from which country? 1482. What nickname was used for Henry Coopers left hook? 1483. Where do Anderlecht football club come from? 1484. What colour jacket does a greyhound from Trap 3 wear? 1485. Kenny Dalglish transferred to Liverpool from which club? 1486. In 1947 and 1967 the Grand National was won by 100-1 outsiders. Name either. 1487. Which cricketer wrote Put to the Test and Opening Up? 1488. Name the 3 divisions of the Scottish Football League. 1489. Who once rode St Paddy to victory in the Derby? 1490. What was Mrs E. Cawleys maiden name? 1491. In basketball, how many points is a non-penalty goal worth? 1492. Which tennis player was nicknamed The Rocket? 1493. What is golfer Craig Stadlers nickname? 1494. In which country was cricketer Tony Greig born? 1495. Which great inventor invented water-skiing, although he never attempted it himself? 1496. Aptly located, which soccer team is nicknamed the Gulls? 1497. Which vehicles does Randy Mamola race? 1498. On which horse did Bob Champion win the 1981 Grand National? 1499. What is the difference between rowing and sculling? 1500. What are the relative starting positions for pursuit cyclists?

SPORTS ANSWERS
1481.Bulgaria. 1482.Enerys ammer. 1483.Brussels. 1484.White. 1485.Glasgow Celtic. 1486.Caughoo 1947. Foinavon 1967. 1487.Geoff Boycott. 1488.The Premier, the First, and the Second. 1489.Lester Piggott. 1490.Evonne Goolagong. 1491.Two points. 1492.Rod Laver. 1493.The Walrus. 1494.In South Africa. 1495.Benjamin Franklin. 1496.Torquay United. 1497.Motorcycles. 1498.Aldaniti. 1499.A sculler uses two oars, a rower one. 1500.Opposite sides of the track.

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MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. How many pieces form a tangram? Who was Helen Kellers teacher? What is the Prince of Waless naval rank? Which US president was the first to travel in a car, in a plane and in a submarine? Who assumed the name Sebastian Melmoth? What was Typhoid Marys profession? By what name is Sarah Jane Fulks better known? What is the commonest way of cheating at cards? Who made the first pair of bi-focal specs?

10. Which British mountaineer was the only man to survive the first successful attempt on the Matterhorn his three companions and two of their three guides perishing during the descent? 11. Whose last words were: I want to wash my feet? 12. Who was the Washington of South America? 13. For what were Holbein the Elder and Younger famous? 14. Who did Charles II make First Duke of Albemarle? 15. What does Ken Livingstone keep as pets? 16. Who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925? 17. What did Sir Henry Landseer specialize in painting? 18. What are nicknamed Devils picture books? 19. Who became leader of the Labour Party in 1935? 20. Cornelius Vermuyden was employed by the Earl of Bedford in the seventeenth century to do what?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Seven, cut from a square. Anne Sullivan. Commander. Theodore Roosevelt. Oscar Wilde. Cook. Jane Wyman. Marking them with thumb nails. Benjamin Franklin.

10. Edward Whymper, in 1865. 11. Henri Dsir Landru (the French mass woman murderer). 12. Simon Bolivar. 13. Portraits. 14. George Monck. 15. Salamanders. 16. George Bernard Shaw. 17. Animals. 18. Playing cards. 19. Clement Attlee. 20. Drain the Fens.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
21. With which game is the Blackwood Convention associated? 22. What hand in poker is known as the dead mans hand? 23. Which brothers lost a fortune trying to control the silver market in 1980? 24. Which sculptor created The Kiss? 25. Who is Snoopys brother? 26. Who named Greenland? 27. What is Denis Healeys middle name? 28. Which artist painted a poster which advertised the can-can and had the name Jane Avril on it? 29. At which part of the body were Siamese twins, Chang and Eng Bunker, joined? 30. Henri Rousseau was an exponent of what type of art? 31. Where was St Bernadette born? 32. Who said: Scratch an actor and youll find an actress? 33. Which artist lived by, painted and is buried in Hampstead Heath? 34. Who deciphered Linear B? 35. For what is George IIIs retainer William Forsyth remembered? 36. At what did the Brewers Shades win the 1978 World Championship? 37. Who painted The Hay Wain? 38. Who coined the epithet Sloane Ranger? 39. What does a kibitzer do in bridge? 40. In which era was Raphael painting?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
21. Contract bridge. 22. A pair of aces with a pair of eights. 23. Bunker and Nelson Hunt. 24. Rodin. 25. Spike. 26. Eric the Red, the Norwegian explorer. 27. Winston. 28. Toulouse-Lautrec. 29. The chest. 30. Primitive art. 31. Lourdes. 32. Dorothy Parker. 33. John Constable. 34. Michael Ventris. 35. Forsythia. 36. Marbles. 37. John Constable. 38. Peter York, in Harpers and Queen. 39. Watch the play. 40. During the Renaissance.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
41. Who was the only British monarch to write his autobiography? 42. Which people were the inventors of the lacrosse? 43. After his death, how many notches were discovered on Pretty Boy Floyds pocket watch, representing the number of people he had killed? 44. Of which Indian tribe was Sitting Bull the chief? 45. Which school of painting produced Bellini, Tintoretto and Veronese? 46. Who beat Alex Higgins in the final of the 1976 World Professional Snooker Championships? 47. Which Nobel Prize winner in physics was offered, but turned down, the presidency of Israel? 48. Who beat Alex Higgins in the final of the 1980 World Professional Snooker Championships? 49. Where in London would you find Rodins The Burghers of Calais? 50. Of what is the Parthenon in Athens built? 51. Of what is Minerva the goddess? 52. Which sense did the poet Milton lack? 53. Which prime minister was instrumental in having Queen Victoria pro- claimed Empress of India? 54. Who was Jean-Paul Sartres constant companion? 55. Who became President of Cyprus in 1960? 56. After whom is Bolivia named? 57. What was Hiram Maxims best-known invention? 58. Who was the first barrister ever to be appointed a QC? 59. What were the poet H. W. Longfellows Christian names? 60. With what is spangy played?

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41. Edward VIII. 42. The North American Indians. 43. Ten. 44. The Sioux. 45. Venetian. 46. Ray Reardon. 47. Albert Einstein. 48. Cliff Thorburn. 49. Next to the Houses of Parliament. 50. Marble. 51. Wisdom. 52. Sight. 53. Disraeli. 54. Simone de Beauvoir. 55. Archbishop Makarios. 56. Simon Bolivar. 57. The first true modern machine-gun. 58. Sir Francis Bacon, in 1604. 59. Henry Wadsworth. 60. Marbles.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
61. Which South African prime minister visited Britain in 1984? 62. Which war reporter did Louis Botha capture during the Boer War? 63. How old was Major Yuri Gagarin on his first space flight? 64. Who created the famous willow pattern ware? 65. Which writer cabled to the United States from Europe, The report of my death was an exaggeration? 66. Was Giovanni Bellini a cubist, Renaissance or impressionist painter? 67. How did Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe lose his nose? 68. How many squares in a Rubiks cube never alter their position? 69. Who preceded Richard Nixon as president of the United States? 70. Which United States president achieved the highest grade in the Boy Scouts? 71. The British philanthropist Jonas Hanway (171286) was scorned for years for being among the first notables to use a recent invention. What? 72. Which Speaker of the House of Commons was canonized? 73. Which Australian outlaw made himself a suit of armour from stolen ploughshares? 74. Who was the prime minister of the first majority Labour government? 75. Who invented the rocking chair? 76. Who invented the telegraph? 77. Who was the Forces Sweetheart? 78. Which politician was nicknamed Sunny Jim? 79. Which famous fantasy novel has become the subject of a highly successful computer adventure game? 80. In sailing, what is a warp?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
61. P.W. Botha. 62. Winston Churchill. 63. Twenty-seven. 64. Thomas Minton, the English potter, at Stoke-on-Trent in 1789. 65. Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens). 66. Renaissance. 67. In a duel. 68. Six - the centre squares on each side. 69. Lyndon Johnson. 70. Gerald Ford. 71. An umbrella. 72. St Thomas More. 73. Ned Kelly. 74. Clement Attlee, Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951. 75. Benjamin Franklin. 76. Samuel Morse. 77. Vera Lynn. 78. James Callaghan. 79. The Hobbit. 80. Rope used for mooring or anchoring.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
81. What is the major hot colour? 82. What was the French writer Arouets better-known name? 83. In which town was Leonardo da Vinci born? 84. Which French writer had an affair with Alfred de Musset? 85. Which English poet did Lady Caroline Lamb call, Mad, bad, and dangerous to know? 86. What do we call in English that type of painting known in French as nature morte and in Spanish as bodegn? 87. Who by his digging proved ancient Troy to be no myth? 88. What is aqueous paint? 89. What London art gallery is named after a manufacturer of artificial silk? 90. Who was the architect of the Queens House at Greenwich? 91. Who wrote, All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music? 92. Who said of which battle, I dont think it would have done if I had not been there? 93. By what name was Vladimir I. Ulyanov better known? 94. Who used the pseudonym Ellis Bell? 95. Which Irish painter paints grotesquely deformed human figures and images? 96. Who was Henry Coopers manager, nicknamed The Bishop? 97. Which famous Indian is buried at Gravesend, Kent? 98. By what name did Dr Richard Raskind become known after his sex change operation? 99. Which writer married Annabel Lee and died of alcohol? 100. Which Russian poet had African blood and died in a duel?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
81. Red. 82. Voltaire. 83. Vinci. 84. George Sand. 85. Lord Byron. 86. Still life. 87. Heinrich Schliemann. 88. Any paint that may be diluted with water. 89. The Courtauld Institute. 90. Inigo Jones. 91. Walter Pater. 92. Wellington, of Waterloo. 93. Lenin. 94. Emily Bront. 95. Francis Bacon. 96. Jim Wicks. 97. Pocahontas (d. 1617). 98. Renee Richards. 99. Edgar Allan Poe. 100. Pushkin.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
101. Where was Marco Polo born? 102. Which writer was condemned to death, reprieved at the last minute, and sent to Siberia for 10 years? 103. Which chessman usually has a slit in its head? 104. Who was the artist of a self-portrait with bandaged ear? 105. Which London art gallery is associated with a famous brew? 106. Who was first proclaimed Emperor of All Russia? 107. How many cards are dealt to each player in German Whist? 108. Who said to Parliament, This I count the glory of my crown that I have reigned with your loves? 109. Who designed the major part of the Great Western Railway? 110. How many players take part in a game of Solo? 111. Who wrote childrens books in the Lake District? 112. How many moves does it take White to achieve Fools Mate if Black does not defend against it? 113. Where did the card game of canasta originate? 114. Who was called the Scourge of God? 115. Who sculpted the Elgin Marbles? 116. What or who was Tutankhamen? 117. Who is the hereditary spiritual leader of the Ismaili sect of Islam? 118. Who sculpted the Victoria Memorial outside Buckingham Palace? 119. Which famous furniture maker was born in 1718? 120. Which famous Victorian writer lived at 24 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
101. Venice. 102. Dostoyevsky. 103. The bishop. 104. Van Gogh. 105. Kenwood House. One of the owners was a member of the Guinness family. 106. Peter the Great in 1721. 107. Thirteen. 108. Elizabeth I. 109. Isambard Kingdom Brunei. 110. Four. 111. Beatrix Potter. 112. Four. 113. South America. 114. Attila the Hun. 115. Pheidias. 116. An Egyptian king. 117. The Aga Khan. 118. Sir Thomas Brock. 119. Thomas Chippendale. 120. Thomas Carlyle.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
121. What colour is produced by dyeing wool in dandelion? 122. Who wrote in her diary: I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country. I am very young? 123. Who cried on his death: What an artist dies in me? 124. Who was the famous action painter who simply poured paint on the canvas? 125. Who devised the terms introvert and extrovert? 126. The statesman Neville Chamberlain came from which English city? 127. Who was the second president of the USA? 128. Who wrote: Art seeks to disengage itself from its own medium? 129. Whom do most Frenchmen consider to be their greatest novelist, born in 1799? 130. Who was the slave-owner who drafted most of the American Declaration of Independence? 131. Who wrote: It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible? 132. Which prince planned the Great Exhibition of 1851? 133. Who was the founder of Judaism? 134. Who published The Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers Director in 1754? 135. Who was the first Minister of Munitions in 1915? 136. Paul Czanne was very friendly with which famous French author of the late nineteenth century? 137. If you stick many materials on to a canvas to make a picture, what would it be called? 138. In which style of architecture is Reims Cathedral? 139. Who was the first Secretary of State for Wales? 140. Who was a bricklayer at the building of Lincolns Inn and was buried at Westminster Abbey in 1637?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
121. Magenta. 122. Queen Victoria on her accession. 123. The Emperor Nero. 124. Jackson Pollock. 125. Carl Jung. 126. Birmingham. 127. John Adams. 128. Aristotle. 129. Honor de Balzac. 130. Thomas Jefferson. 131. Oscar Wilde. 132. Prince Albert. 133. Abraham. 134. Thomas Chippendale. 135. David Lloyd George. 136. mile Zola. 137. A collage. 138. Gothic. 139. Jim Griffiths. 140. Ben Jonson.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
141. Watson, Crick and Wilkins received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962. For what discovery? 142. Which artist used Mae Wests face to portray a surrealist apartment? 143. Which Irish writer of comedies gave up acting on wounding a colleague in a stage fight and died in penury? 144. By what name is the eighteenth-century dice game of hazard now known? 145. Who became Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in 1978? 146. Which philosopher is said to have lived in a tub? 147. The Aphrodite of Melos is generally known as what? 148. Whom did Jennie Lee marry? 149. How many dots are there on a set of standard dominoes? 150. How many legal opening chess moves for White are there? 151. Which celebrated doctor was the first woman to be a mayor? 152. The Empire State Building is typical of the Art Deco style of architecture. In which decade was it built? 153. Which precious metal is used in photography? 154. Who said, just before he was executed, So the heart be right, it matters little how the head lieth? 155. What have Svetlana Alliluyeva (Stalins daughter), Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Martha (the Mouth) Mitchell in common with regard to children? 156. Who was the second American to go into space? 157. Which famous chef created Peach Melba? 158. Who sometimes gives a three-dimensional appearance to her paintings by using pieces of cardboard egg-boxes to make her figures busts and bottoms? 159. Who is buried beneath the altar of St Peters Basilica? 160. What first can Dame Mary Donaldson claim?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
141. DNA. 142. Salvador Dali. 143. George Farquhar. 144. Craps. 145. The Queen Mother. 146. Diogenes. 147. The Venus de Milo. 148. Aneurin Bevan. 149. 168. 150. Twenty. 151. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (Mayor of Aldeburgh in 1908). 152. The 1930s. 153. Silver. 154. Sir Walter Raleigh. 155. They all gave birth to their first or only child at over 40 years old (45, 43 and 43 respectively). 156. Gus Grissom. 157. Escoffier. 158. Beryl Cook. 159. St Peter. 160. She became Londons first ever lady Lord Mayor (in 1983).

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
161. Madame Pauline de Vere was the first woman circus performer to do what? 162. How many spots are on a regular six-sided die? 163. On what is the Mona Lisa painted? 164. How many dice are used to play Quadwrangle? 165. What is named after Sir Benjamin Hall? 166. Who said, I am not prepared to stagger from compromise to compromise? 167. What was Rommels nickname? 168. What was Sir Edwin Lutyenss profession? 169. About which game have the most books been written? 170. Who was the first American world chess champion? 171. At what age did Mrs Beeton die? 172. What is the name of the novelist whose husband was deputy commander of the First Airborne Army at Arnhem? 173. What were the Christian names of the brothers Grimm? 174. What was the nickname of Charles S. Stratton, who was employed by P. T. Barnum? 175. What was Malcolm Xs surname? 176. How many pawns are used in a game of chess? 177. Whose yacht was called Honey Fitz? 178. What is Al short for in Al Capone? 179. Who was Englands most famous diarist? 180. How many times may a volley ball be touched by one team before it crosses the net?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
161. Put her head in a lions mouth. 162. Twenty-one. 163. Wood. 164. Five. 165. Big Ben. 166. Margaret Thatcher. 167. The Desert Fox. 168. Architecture. 169. Chess. 170. Bobby Fischer. 171. Twenty-eight surprisingly enough. 172. Daphne du Maurier. 173. Jakob and Wilhelm. 174. General Tom Thumb. 175. Little. 176. Sixteen. 177. President John P. Kennedys. 178. Alphonse. 179. Samuel Pepys. 180. Three

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
181. How many balls are used in billiards? 182. What is Harold Wilsons first name? 183. Who was the only US president to be elected for four terms? 184. Who was voted the most hated person in history in a poll conducted in England during the early 1970s? 185. From what are the beds of snooker tables made? 186. How many cards are in a tarot pack? 187. Who was the only US president to be sworn in by a woman? 188. What was William Taytons claim to fame? 189. Whose fourth wife was Chiang Chin? 190. What American poet was imprisoned by the French in the First World War? 191. Which artist professed a wish to eat his wife when she died? 192. At which game have Omar Sharif and the editors of this book represented their countries? 193. How many cards are required to play bezique? 194. What is a fresco? 195. Which fish can you catch between 15 January and 14 October? 196. Which sea captain was hanged for piracy in 1701? 197. Which writer wanted to act but became a parliamentary journalist? 198. Which British PMs wife rode her horse up a staircase in a house in Cavendish Street? 199. What nationality is Thor Heyerdahl? 200. What does the wail of a banshee reputedly foreshadow?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
181. Three. 182. James. 183. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1932, 1936, 1940, 1944). 184. Adolf Hitler. 185. Slate. 186. Seventy-eight. 187. Lyndon B. Johnson on the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated. 188. He was the first person ever to appear on TV at J. L. Bairds demonstration. 189. Mao Tse-tungs. 190. E. E. Cummings (described in his book The Enormous Room). 191. Salvador Dali. 192. Bridge. 193. Sixty-four. 194. A painting on plaster, usually on walls or ceilings. 195. Salmon. 196. Captain Kidd. 197. Charles Dickens. 198. Asquiths. 199. Norwegian. 200. Approaching death

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
201. In 1967, Pat McGuigan, father of boxer Barry McGuigan, was Irelands representative in what capacity? 202. In the 17th century, what job was done by Charlies? 203. What does the inhabitant of the crows nest on a ship keep? 204. What is the first of the seven canonical hours in religion? 205. What is snuff-dipping? 206. What does cave canem mean? 207. Who holds the catalogue of the 1851 Great Exhibition on his Memorial? 208. How can Queen Elizabeth II tell which milk bottles are hers? 209. Which English firm once made a Bullnose car? 210. Which German word for lightning war was used for air-raid in Britain? 211. What is the usual first indication of the presence of a ghost, so it is reported? 212. What does the T stand for in FIAT, the Italian car company? 213. Britons say anticlockwise. What do Americans say? 214. What do the French call earth apples? 215. How many old pennies are there in a guinea? 216. What, in army slang, are green goddesses? 217. How many days did people think they had lost in the 1752 calendar changes? 218. Vox populi means what? 219. What is an albacore? 220. Which chicken dish is named after a Ukrainian city?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
201. He performed in the Eurovision Song Contest. 202. They were night-watchmen. 203. Look-out, or watch. 204. Matins. 205. The new name for holding tobacco, possibly in a miniature tea-bag, between the cheek and the gum. 206. Beware of the dog. 207. Prince Albert, on the Albert Memorial. 208. Hers have the Royal Crest on them. 209. Morris. 210. Blitzkrieg, or Blitz. 211. The room suddenly goes cold. 212. Torino, or Turin, where the cars were first made. 213. Counterclockwise. 214. Potatoes (pommes de terre). 215. 252. 216. Fire engines. 217. Eleven. 218. Voice of the people. 219. A kind of fish. 220. Chicken Kiev.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
221. How many firkins are there in a hogshead? 222. Why do Americans use hickory wood to make axe handles? 223. What would you do to serve a wine chambre? 224. What is the English equivalent of the Italian name Giovanni? 225. In the 19th century, what happened if you had January chickens? 226. How many sen make a yen? 227. In which month of the year does the feast of the Epiphany fall? 228. How many times did the Duchess of Windsor marry? 229. What traditional dress do Indian women wear? 230. If you worked as a pedagogue, what would you be? 231. In Italy, what was the Settebello or Seven of Diamonds? 232. Which make of car bore the very first number plate Al? 233. Why is a planes flight recorder also known as the black box? 234. In the British Army, what is a Ferret? 235. What is Ogham? 236. Where would you find Rouge Dragon Pursuivant and Garter King of Arms working? 237. What is the name of the electric tricycle launched in 1984 by Sir Clive Sinclair? 238. How much were GCHQ employees offered to give up Union membership? 239. How much soda is there in a gallon of soda water? 240. Widseth, dating from the 6th century, is the earliest known what?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
221. Six. 222. Because it is very springy. 223. Bring it to room temperature. 224. John. 225. You had children late in life. 226. One hundred 227. In January. 228. Three times. 229. The sari. 230. A teacher. 231. An express train, withdrawn in 1984. 232. A Napier. 233. Because Dr Black invented it. 234. An armoured car. 235. Ancient Celtic writing. 236. In the College of Arms. They are Heralds. 237. The C5. 238. 1,000 each, in February 1984. 239. None. 240. English poem.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
241. Dabs is police slang for what? 242. How often, worldwide, is a person murdered? 243. Who rules an Emirate? 244. Jimmy Olsen is a reporter friend of which comic book hero? 245. What should be used for eating asparagus? 246. What did Tom Smith invent in the 1840s that his company still makes? 247. What does MOP stand for in a British Police report? 248. What is the English equivalent of the Spanish name Juan? 249. Which current British coin weighs exactly five grams? 250. With what type of sweetmeat is Montelimar associated? 251. How many Pope Urbans have there been to date? 252. What are Barlinnie and Long Lartin? 253. Which tax, soon after it was introduced, became irreverently known as Vear and Tear? 254. Which egg dish takes its name from the French alemelle? 255. Which huge bird can be found at Grosvenor Squares west end? 256. Who wear Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue? 257. According to legend, if it rains on St Swithins day, for how many days afterwards will it rain? 258. What would you do with an Abernethy? 259. What is the main ingredient of risotto? 260. Relating to cruise ships, what do the letters P & O stand for?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
241. Fingerprints. 242. Every 20 seconds but not the same person. 243. An Emir. 244. Superman. 245. Ones fingers. 246. Christmas crackers. 247. Member of the Public. 248. John. 249. The twenty pence piece. 250. A kind of nougat. 251. Eight. 252. British prisons. 253. VATValue Added Tax. 254. The omelette. 255. An eagle, above the US Embassy. 256. Brides. 257. Forty. 258. Eat it, as its a kind of biscuit. 259. Rice. 260. Peninsular & Oriental.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
261. At the 1981 census, how many people admitted to being in Britain? 262. What would you do with a Winston Churchill? 263. Who dubbed Miss Piggys singing voice in The Muppet Movie? 264. For which speedy father and daughter has a teddy called Mr Whoppit served as a mascot? 265. What sort of drink is a St Clements? 266. What colour are the Royal Air Services Research and Rescue helicopters? 267. How many Ss are there in scissors? 268. What is made of canvas coated with oxidised linseed oil? 269. For which month is topaz the birthstone? 270. What is the speed limit on Japanese motorways? 271. Which is Britains third most common surname? 272. Should a clock strike 13, what does this supposedly foretell? 273. What are the Wedge, the Scrunch and the Chop? 274. What does kamikaze actually mean? 275. When is there never jam? 276. What is the main ingredient of Foo Yung in Chinese cooking? 277. What is the basis of the superstition See a pin and pick it up, All the day youll have good luck? 278. Of what is erotophobia the fear? 279. In medieval times, what was a psaltery? 280. How were Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt related to each other, apart from being married?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
261. 54,129,000. 262. Smoke it it is a cigar. 263. Johnny Mathis. 264. Donald and Gina Campbell. 265. Mixed orange juice and bitter lemon. 266. Yellow. 267. Four. 268. Lino, or linoleum. 269. November. 270. 49 mph, or 79 kph. 271. Williams. 272. An imminent death. 273. 1980s hair-styles for women. 274. Divine wind. 275. Today. Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never today. 276. Eggs. 277. If you didnt, a witch might find it and use it for a bad luck spell. Well its a theory. 278. Sexual intimacy. 279. A stringed musical instrument. 280. They were cousins.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
281. Between which two British airports is there a scheduled helicopter service? 282. In Greece, what is a fustanella, worn by men? 283. In which city does the Equal Opportunities Commission have its HQ? 284. How much money passed over Londons licensed gaming tables in 1984? 285. Who would sail in an umiak? 286. Which is reputedly the unluckiest day of the week on which to be born? 287. What doesnescientmean? 288. Which rank comes between Group Captain and Squadron Leader? 289. What is a female warlock? 290. Of what is linophobia the fear? 291. What are Thistle, Ninian, Beryl and Piper? 292. According to Colonel Sanders, how many herbs and spices are used in preparing Kentucky Fried Chicken? 293. What is the British name for what Americans call the Fall? 294. American police have SWAT teams, meaning what? 295. What is the normal operating temperature of a retail butchers meat-chiller? 296. In what does a milliner deal? 297. What do paparazzi do? 298. How many countries originally formed the Common Market? 299. Which animal is shown on the crest of the Falkland Islands? 300. What is Spanish for please?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
281. Gatwick and Heathrow. 282. A stiff white petticoat. 283. In Manchester. 284. One billion pounds. (Give or take a million.) 285. Probably an Eskimo, as it is an Eskimo boat. 286. Friday. 287. Ignorant. 288. Wing Commander. 289. A witch. 290. Of string. 291. North Sea oilfields. 292. Eleven. 293. Autumn. 294. Special Weapons And Tactics. 295. 1 to 4 Centigrade. 296. Hats. 297. They take candid photos, free-lance, of the famous. 298. Six. 299. A sheep. 300. Por favor.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
301.What type of aircraft were Spitfires and Hurricanes? 302. What colour is the starboard light on a ship? 303. Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. What is the basic fallacy here? 304. What angle is formed by the clock hands at 3.00? 305. At the March equinox, how many hours of darkness are there in each 24, all over the world? 306. Apart from the obvious what is a Glasgow Magistrate? 307. Of what is phobiaphobia the fear? 308. For what does the A in A-Level stand? 309. In 1985, how much did brewing experts forecast that a pint of beer would cost in AD2000? 310. What colour is the background to the information signs on British motorways? 311. What does Post mortem mean? 312. What unlikely National competition is held in Hannibal, Missouri, each year? 313. What name was given to Viking Is landing point on Mars, in 1976? 314. Bluegrass is a style of what? 315. Who reputedly murdered Sandra Rivett in 1974? 316. Which Ford car was a total flop? 317. Who produced the Camargue car? 318. What does beth mean, as in Bethlehem? 319. The surface of the Earth is approximately how many times greater than that of the moon? 320. How do Americans spell the colour grey?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
301. Fighters. 302. Green. 303. Wells werent built at the tops of hills think of the wasted effort! 304. Right-angle, 90. 305. Twelve. 306. A herring. 307. Fears! 308. Advanced. 309. 2.50. 310. Blue. 311. After death. 312. The National Fence-Painting Contest. 313. Bradbury. (Feting the sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury.) 314. Country music. 315. Lord Lucan. 316. TheEdsel. 317. Rolls-Royce. 318. House. 319. Six times. 320. Gray.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
321.How many squares are there along each side of The Times crossword? 322. Where do you place the right palm in a salaam? 323. What name is given to the loading line of a ship? 324. What is the missing word Bigamy is having one wife too many.___, in certain instances, is the same thing? 325. Who, in the 17th century said Wedlock is a padlock? 326. Which department store once stood where Regent Street meets Piccadilly Circus? 327. In a motor magazine, what does ICE mean? 328. When is the Feast of St Stephen? 329. Why is the drawing room so called? 330. Who produce the Scimitar cars? 331. Bib-Label Lighthearted Lemon-Lime Soda was its name when this drink first appeared. By what name would we now recognise it? 332. What do the French call a cul-de-sac? 333. What are Archbishops and Bishops in the House of Lords collectively called? 334. Who usually represents the Monster Raving Loony Party in by-elections? 335. Maria Montessori introduced modern methods to which profession? 336. What is a burqa? 337. Which anniversary of Alcoholics Anonymous was celebrated in 1985? 338. Which Nobel Prize does Norway award? 339. Locomotive 4472 is better known by what name? 340. With whose sword was Sir Francis Chichester knighted?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
321. Fifteen. 322. On the forehead. 323. The Plimsoll line. 324. Monogamy. 325. John Ray. 326. Swan & Edgar. 327. In-Car Entertainment. 328. 26 December. 329. The word is a corruption of withdrawing room to which the ladies retired while the men passed the port. 330. Reliant. 331. 7-UP. 332. Sans-issue. 333. Lords Spiritual. 334. Screaming Lord Sutch. 335. Teaching. 336. An overall body garment for women. 337. Its fiftieth. 338. The Peace Prize. 339. The Flying Scotsman. 340. Sir Francis Drakes.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
341.Of what is Blue Vinney a type? 342. Who might call a soldier a pongo? 343. In criminal slang, what is a peter? 344. Which legendary ship is doomed to sail for ever? 345. What is the function of a ships scuppers? 346. The Borobudur is the largest in the world. What is it? 347. What do the letters NATO stand for? 348. What is the common name for hypermetropia? 349. Approximately what percentage of Britains food is home-produced? 350. What was very noticeably on strike from July to October 1979? 351. Who said, Modern society greets gold as its Holy Grail? 352. According to the saying, spring is here when you can cover how many daisies with your foot? 353. Who reputedly clocked up 19,000 in parking fees, in 1985? 354. Which organizations motto is Courtesy and Care? 355. According to folklore, who is the only person that can capture a unicorn? 356. Which food in Britain gets its name from the Portuguese word for quince jam? 357. What is a STOLPORT? 358. What are the four dimensions? 359. For what does ER stand? 360. Broadly, what is a curriculum vitae?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
341. Of cheese. 342. A sailor. 343. A safe. 344. The Flying Dutchman. 345. They drain away excess water. 346. A pagoda. 347. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. 348. Long-sightedness. 349. About 55 per cent. 350. The IT V network. 351. Karl Marx, in 1867. 352. Five. 353. President Banda of Malawi. He left his Boeing 747 parked at Heathrow for his private stay in Britain, after his official visit. 354. The Automobile Associations. 355. A virgin. 356. Marmalade. 357. A Short Take Off and Landing Airport. 358. Length, width, depth and time. 359. Elizabeth Regina. 360. A summary of qualifications and experience most usually requested when applying for a job.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
361. What is the nickname of the plane designed to be the US Presidents aerial command post if nuclear war breaks out? 362. What did the US motor trade call Borax? 363. What does a dolmen look like? 364. From what forerunner of paper does paper take its name? 365. What colour is bianco wine? 366. By what name is the Shinkansen better known? 367. How many masts does a ketch have? 368. On what shape traffic signs are warnings displayed? 369. The National Economic Development Council. How is it commonly known? 370. Eponymous words are derived from what? 371. A Geisha girl makes up her face in what colour? 372. What is the bookmakers signalling system called? 373. What was unusual about the three saints Willibald, Wallburga and Winebald? 374. To date, the majority of Popes have been of what nationality? 375. Who publishes The War Cry? 376. What are the first ten amendments to the US Constitution called? 377. Founded in 1702, what was Londons first daily newspaper? 378. Which rather special date is said to be Supermans birthday? 379. Who or what do Francophiles admire? 380. Who helps Yogi Bear out of his troubles with the Ranger?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
361. The Doomsday Plane. 362. Chrome trim that was just decorative. 363. It is a large stone, with a hole in the centre. (In the West Country it is called a tolmen.) 364. Papyrus. 365. White. 366. The bullet train. (Of Japan.) 367. Two. 368. Triangular. 369. Neddy. 370. The names of people. 371. White. 372. Tic-tac. 373. They were two brothers and a sister, who lived in the 8th century. 374. Italian. 375. The Salvation Army. 376. The Bill of Rights. 377. The Daily Courant. 378. 29 February. 379. France and the Frenchnot Franco! 380. Boo Boo.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
381.What is the traditional way of signing a Valentine card? 382. Which motor manufacturers make the Dyane? 383. When does the Russian Orthodox Church celebrate Christmas? 384. Where is the Golden Temple, the holy place of Sikhism? 385. In which prison was Dr Crippen hanged? 386. When an MP wishes the public galleries to be cleared, what does he say to the Speaker? 387. What is the base of bourbon whiskey? 388. How many brothers did Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, have? 389. In which month does the Trooping the Colour ceremony take place? 390. Who created the Lets Parler Franglais series? 391. Who or what is Gloire de Dijon? 392. What did Rickenbacker make in the 1930s that was nicknamed frying pan? 393. In a restaurant, what are kormas and vindaloos? 394. Who went to sea in a sieve? 395. When the Eddystone lighthouse was dismantled in 1882, where was it rebuilt? 396. Who owns Snoopy? 397. The word platonic is derived from whose name? 398. What is the lifespan of the average US dollar bill? 399. How many people were killed in the St Valentines Day massacre? 400. Which British cheese is often termed the King of Cheeses?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
381. No signature keep em guessing. 382. Citroen. 383. 7 January. 384. At Amritsar. 385. In Pentonville, in 1910. 386. Mr Speaker, I spy strangers. 387. Corn. 388. None he had four sisters. 389. In June, on a Saturday they say it rains less in June! 390. Miles Kington. 391. It is a yellow hybrid tea rose. 392. An electric guitar. 393. Types of curry. 394. The Jumblies, in Edward Lears poem. 395. At Plymouth Hoe. 396. Charlie Brown, in the comic strip Peanuts. 397. Platos. 398. 1 years, on average. 399. Seven. 400. Stilton.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
401. Where is Glitter Gulch? 402. Which popular soft drink was created by Caleb B. Brabham? 403. Who said, when interviewed in 1969,No woman in my time will be Prime Minister? 404. What is pumice stone made of? 405. Why were unmarried women termed spinsters? 406. The ascetics who lived on top of pillars were called what? 407. At what time did Cinderellas coach turn back into a pumpkin? 408. What is bchamel, in cookery? 409. Jean Dunant, who founded the Red Cross, was the first to win which prize? 410. Mrs Elizabeth Robinson was the first woman to address which assembly? 411. What letter on a ships flag signifies Yes? 412. Who sailed the vessel Tigris a boat made of papyrus? 413. In Americas Annual National Rattlesnake Sacking Contest, how many rattlesnakes must be bagged? 414. Which city is the base of the secret society called the Camorra? 415. Psephology is the study of what? 416. What said Oranges and Lemons? 417. What is the Greek for the letterK? 418. How long does an ostrich egg take to cook? 419. What does ad hoc mean? 420. The Hadrosaurs (now extinct) are often called duck-billed what?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
401. It is a nickname for Las Vegas. 402. Pepsi-Cola. 403. Margaret Thatcher. 404. Hardened volcanic lava. 405. Because they were supposedly occupied in spinning their wedding clothes. 406. Stylites after Simon Stylites. 407. At midnight. 408. A white sauce. 409. The Nobel Peace Prize. 410. The House of Commons. 411. The letter C. 412. Thor Heyerdahl. 413. Ten. 414. Naples. 415. Election results. 416. The bells of St Clements. 417. Kappa. 418. About 40 minutes. 419. For a specific purpose. 420. Dinosaurs.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
421. Who commit patricide? 422. Which PM cut the working week to three days? 423. Peter the Great of Russia claimed they were a useless embarrassment and levied a tax on them. What were they? 424. By law, at what age must children begin their education in the UK? 425. Who, when told that the reason he lost the Labour leadership to Harold Wilson because he was so rude to people when he was drunk, replied, What makes them think Im rude to them just because Im drunk?? 426. On which aircraft carrier did Prince Andrew serve during the Falklands conflict? 427. Which political party did Sir Robert Walpole lead? 428. Whose mistress was reputedly the model for Britannia? 429. The East London Christian Mission became what, in 1878? 430. Proverbially, what is it impossible to find in a haystack? 431. Why was a wideawake hat so called? 432. Which Conservative Cabinet Minister was called Smuggins at school? 433. Which is Britains most dangerous occupation having a 1 to 5 injury-toemployee ratio? 434. In 1973, where did the Summerland fire disaster happen? 435. Which two words were substituted for swear words on the Watergate tapes? 436. In 1984, 70-year-old Peggy Barlow attempted to hold up a Kensington bank with what? 437. In 1985, how much did the average couple spend on their wedding and honeymoon? 438. The harvest moon appears in which month? 439. Which weapon takes its name from the French for pomegranate? 440. The name of which animal originally meant little thief in Latin?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
421. Children who kill their fathers. 422. Edward Heath (but only temporarily). 423. Beards. 424. At five. 425. The late Lord George-Brown. 426. HMS Hermes. 427. The Whigs. 428. Charles IIs. 429. The Salvation Army. 430. A needle. 431. It was made from felt with no nap. 432. Nigel Lawson. 433. Coal-mining. 434. At Douglas, Isle of Man. 435. Expletive deleted. 436. A perfume spray. 437. 2,576 between 2000 and 3000 will do! 438. In September. 439. The grenade. 440. The ferret.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
441. Of what is haphephobia the fear? 442. As what did the Princess of Wales replace Tom Baker in 1981? 443. Resolution and Renown. Which is the missing nuclear submarine? 444. Before 1969, you were legally an infant in the UK until you reached what age? 445. How does a fountain pen behave in a plane? 446. What, in Ireland, is a gravy ring? 447. How long did Paul Dowdeswell take to swallow 144 prunes, in 1985? 448. When is a solider given an oak leaf cluster? 449. Whose statue stands on the traffic island outside Buckingham Palace? 450. What is the smallest quantity of draught beer that may legally be sold in Britain? 451. Which massive wheeled vehicle takes its name from that of a Hindu god? 452. What is a cabochon-cut gemstone? 453. What is the heraldic word for black? 454. Of what is pantophobia the fear? 455. In the USA, what is meant by an RV? 456. Which company manufactures the Civic car? 457. What is the central colour of a Gucci belt? 458. For whom was the Tower of Londons largest suit of armour made? 459. On what do local authorities currently spend the greatest part of their revenue? 460. Who had so many children she didnt know what to do?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
441. Physical contact. 442. The favourite character in Madame Tussauds waxworks. 443. Repulse. 444. Twenty-one. 445. The ink overflows because of the altitude. 446. A ring doughnut. 447. 34 seconds. Perhaps he suffered gross indigestion? 448. When mentioned in despatches. 449. Queen Victorias. 450. 1/3pint. 451. The juggernaut. 452. It is a stone without facets. 453. Sable. 454. Everything. 455. A recreational vehicle, or motor-caravan. 456. Honda. 457. Red. 458. An Indian elephant. 459. Education. 460. The old woman who lived in a shoe.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
461. From July 1984, how much did an MOT test for cars cost? 462. What transforms Yorkshire pudding into toad-in-the-hole? 463. What is the only word in regular use in English containing three consecutive sets of double letters? 464. Which American President has given his name to the worlds largest aircraft carrier? 465. Which animal carries a palanquin? 466. What is the colour of bottles containing Moselle wine? 467. What is the earliest date that Easter can be? 468. What used to be called Belishas? 469. What percentage of the total British population regularly attends places of worship? 470. What colour is pistachio-flavoured ice cream? 471. At what age must British Field-Marshals retire? 472. What is tarragon? 473. In which country would you be most likely to eat bigos? 474. Sois Pret is the French version of whose motto? 475. What do Americans call a Chipwich? 476. In 1985, which countrys army had its phones cut off for not paying its bills? 477. Which Embassy owed Camden Council 517,000 in unpaid rates in 1983? 478. A supplement to a will is called what? 479. Which cartoon character frequently exclaims Leapin Lizards!? 480. How long is a decade?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
461. 10.70. 462. The addition of sausages. 463. Book-keeping. 464. Eisenhower. 465. The human being. 466. Green. 467. 22 March. 468. Pedestrian crossings. 469. About 10 per cent. 470. Green. 471. They never retire. 472. A herb used for seasoning. 473. In Poland. 474. The motto of the Boy Scouts Be Prepared. 475. A sandwich of icecream between two biscuits. 476. Israels. 477. The Soviet Embassy. 478. A codicil. 479. Little Orphan Annie. 480. Ten years.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
481. Who claim to put a tiger in your tank? 482. What sort of creature is a Welsh Black? 483. Which shoe heel and thin dagger share a name? 484. What relation was the founder of the Girl Guides to the founder of the Boy Scouts? 485. What are a carrick bend and a Turks head? 486. How long before leaving harbour would you hoist the Blue Peter? 487. How many cents make a nickel? 488. What do we call the sweetmeat that Turks call Rahat? 489. What is Prince Andrews last Christian name? 490. How many pounds of grapes are needed to make one bottle of champagne? 491. For what do the letters W.H. stand in W.H. Smith? 492. At the 1981 census, how many females were there in Britain? 493. Jerez de Rodrigo was the first European to do what, when taught by American Indians? 494. What is a Shaded Cameo? 495. Why was convict Jimmy Simmonds recaptured within 30 minutes of escaping from High Point prison in Suffolk in 1985? 496. Which are Britains two most widely used credit cards? 497. Of what is lalaphobia the fear? 498. Who got into the Kremlin in 1985 using a GLC bus pass for OAPs? 499. Who or what is the second biggest landowner in Britain? 500. In 1980, how many gunmen were in the Iranian Embassy when the SAS stormed in?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
481. Esso. 482. A cow. 483. The stiletto. 484. She was his sister. 485. Types of knot. 486. 24 hours. 487. Five. 488. Turkish Delight. 489. Edward. 490. Three minimum. 491. William Henry. 492. 27,842,000. 493. Smoke tobacco. 494. A breed of cat. 495. He hitched a lift from a police car! 496. Barclaycard and Access. 497. Speaking in public. 498. Denis Healey. 499. The Church of England. 500. Six. Five were killed.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
501. Which of these famous London stores still trade; Derry and Thorns; Swan and Edgar; Bourne and Hollingsworth; Whiteleys? 502. What is contained in the despatch box on the Government side of the table in the House of Commons? 503. Noisettes usually refers to cuts of which meat? 504. What did Seth Wheeler register for a US patent in 1871? 505. The nine ranks of what are distinguished by the buttons on their caps? 506. Which famous London street of Piccadilly was once called Portugal Street? 507. What is the minimum distance from the shore that a burial at sea may take place? 508. Name the Greenpeace trawler which was sunk in July 1985. 509. What is a burgee used for on a yacht? 510. In which religion does a guru give spiritual guidance? 511. What is special about the ship Godspeed? 512. What could you buy second-hand that could be foxed? 513. What is prosciutto? 514. Rose Noble, George Noble and Angel Noble were all what? 515. What, on a menu, is indicated by flamb? 516. Which day of the week is named after the moon? 517. To policemen, what does CRO mean? 518. Cwt is short for what? 519. In cookery, what is a Julienne? 520. What kind of eggs come wrapped in sausage meat?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
501. None of them. 502. The Old and New Testaments and the Oath. 503. Lamb. 504. Gift-wrapping paper. 505. Mandarins. 506. Old Bond Street. 507. Three miles. 508. Rainbow Warrior. 509. Not a lot it is a small flag or pennant. 510. Hinduism. 511. She is a replica of one of the ships that sailed for America in 1606 and is repeating the trip. 512. A book, slightly discoloured by age. 513. Italian ham. 514. Gold coins. 515. That the dish is served flaming. 516. Monday. 517. Criminal Records Office. 518. Hundredweight. 519. A clear soup. 520. Scotch eggs.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
521. People in which job in Copenhagen held a 33-year strike, ending in 1961? 522. Jewish potato pancakes are called what? 523. What new item came into the UK currency in April 1985? 524. When was tea first grown in Ceylon? 525. How does an American omelette differ from an English one? 526. Name the quarter day that falls on 25 March. 527. Which companys base is nicknamed Eggcup Towers? 528. Who go on a fast during Ramadan? 529. How many hairsbreadths make one inch? 530. In England, what is the minimum age at which you may drive a car on public roads? 531. After how many years disappearance can a person be legally declared dead? 532. What is a group of freemasons called? 533. In whose eyes is salt supposedly thrown when the superstitious throw it over the left shoulder? 534. What is the gastronomic speciality of Whitstable? 535. What is the American word for what Britons call a torch? 536. In 1985 the US Government set up Radio Marti, to broadcast where? 537. Under what age may a child not give evidence in court? 538. Where would you wear a tiara? 539. Who are the makers of James Bonds cigarettes? 540. In England, when telephone dials had letters as well as numbers, which two letters were missing?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
521. Barbers assistants. 522. Latkes. 523. The Welsh 1 coin. 524. In the 19th century (in 1867, to be precise). 525. In spelling. They spell it omelet. 526. Lady Day. 527. TV AMs, which has giant eggcups on its roof. 528. Muslims. 529. Forty-eight. 530. Seventeen. 531. Seven. 532. A lodge. 533. The devils. 534. Oysters. 535. A flashlight. 536. To Cuba, from Florida. 537. There is no lower age limit, provided that the child understands the oath and can be understood. 538. On your head. 539. Morlands of Piccadilly. 540. Q and Z.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
541. The Jewish matzo and Indian chapati are both examples of what type of bread? 542. Which part of the tongue registers a bitter taste? 543. Perahera is a festival in which religion? 544. Which coin used to be called a bawbee in Scotland? 545. Fromologist was a term coined for collectors of what? 546. What does a wee mean, as in bide-a-wee? 547. What is the minimum age at which you may legally purchase fireworks? 548. What is the heraldic talbot? 549. What does safari actually mean? 550. Whose sword is carried before the monarch at British Coronations? 551. Which garment in English is called after its inventor, but in French is a justaucorps? 552. For what do the letters EPNS stand? 553. What is the minimum number of MPs that must take part in a division in the House of Commons? 554. Which calendar began on 7 October, 3761BC? 555. What does ibid mean? 556. What are the ancient clapper bridges of the West Country made of? 557. In Australia, what is a brumby? 558. What were Oxford Bags? 559. What has been named Thatchers Ruin? 560. As in sword and buckler what is a buckler?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
541. Unleavened. 542. The back. 543. In Buddhism. 544. The halfpenny. 545. Cheese labels. 546. Awhile. 547. Sixteen. 548. A hound. 549. Journey. 550. Edward the Confessors. 551. A leotard. 552. Electro-plated nickel silver. 553. Forty. 554. The Jewish Calendar. 555. In the same place. 556. Large slabs of stone. 557. A wild horse. 558. Loose flapping trousers. (Mostly worn in the 1920s.) 559. A new Somerset cider. 560. A shield.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
561. At what age must a car have its first MOT, in the UK? 562. When is St Davids day? 563. Which American President created the dish Chicken a la King? 564. In Scotland, what are fernitickles? 565. For what do the letters IDD stand, in relation to telephones? 566. Which country is eaten for Christmas dinner? 567. On which wedding anniversary does one give lace? 568. How many letters were not used as suffixes on car registration plates? 569. For how long is the normal British passport valid? 570. Which washing machine used to be advertised by a large frog, complete with voice-over by Alan Bennett? 571. How is the weight of a ship ascertained? 572. Timbrology was an early name for what? 573. Where is the Royal Tournament held in Britain? 574. What is the Antonov 124s claim to fame? 575. In built-up areas in Britain, between which hours must drivers not toot? 576. What is the vessel called that holds the baptismal water? 577. Name three of the five official languages of the United Nations. 578. In heraldry, what are attires? 579. What is the nickname given to a vicars neckwear? 580. Who promised, From 6.45 a.m. to Lights Out at 9.30 p.m. life will be conducted at a brisk tempo?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
561. Three years. 562. 1 March. 563. Thomas Jefferson. 564. Freckles. 565. International Direct Dialling. 566. Turkey. 567. The thirteenth. 568. Five I, O, Q, U and Z. 569. Ten years. 570. Servis which went into liquidation. 571. By the volume of water it displaces. 572. Stamp-collecting, or philately. 573. At Earls Court. 574. It is the worlds largest aircraft. (It has a 272-foot wingspan and can carry 150 tons 5,000 miles) 575. Between 11.30 p.m. and 7.00 a.m. 576. The font. 577. English, French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese. 578. Stags antlers. 579. A dog-collar. 580. William Whitelaw, promising a short sharp shock to young offenders.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
581. In 1943, what food was listed on the Strand Palace Hotel menu as Ballotine de jambon Valentinoise? 582. What is the Irish Parliaments equivalent of the letters M.P.? 583. At what time during daylight is your shadow shortest? 584. Which newspaper used the slogan Are You Getting It Every Day?? 585. When children reach two, what proportion of their adult height are they? 586. Where will you see the motto E Pluribus Unum, or one out of many? 587. When is Twelfth Night? 588. How many gross are in a great gross? 589. What emblem does the Jaguar car sport? 590. Why did Amazon women reputedly cut off their right breasts? 591. What colour is the paper which sets out government policy to be discussed? 592. Which museum is in Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green? 593. About whom did Kruschev say, He was bursting with an impatient desire to rule the world? 594. What is the other name for an auctioneers hammer? 595. Which part of the vegetable mange-tout is eaten? 596. Which constellation is symbolized by twins? 597. Kernmantel is one of the two types of what? 598. At the September equinox, how many hours of daylight are there in the 24, all over the world? 599. Who went to tell the King that the sky was falling down? 600. Of whom did Winston Churchill say, A modest little man with much to be modest about?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
581. Hot Spam. (It was during the period of food rationing.) 582. TD. 583. At midday. 584. The Sun. 585. Half. (This is just the average.) 586. On all USA coins and banknotes. 587. 6 January. 588. Twelve. 589. A jaguar. 590. So they would not get in the way of their bowstrings. 591. Green. 592. The Museum of Childhood. 593. Mao Tse-Tung. 594. A gavel. 595. All of it. 596. Gemini. 597. Climbing rope. (The other is cable-laid.) 598. Twelve. 599. Chicken Licken. 600. Clement Attlee.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
601. According to Ian Fleming, how many times can you live? 602. Who is the head of Bristows firm, in Frank Dickens cartoon strip? 603. Bedford Fillbasket, Peer Gynt and Thor are all what? 604. What is the name for the study of the efficiency of people working? 605. Apart from his fiddlers, for what else did Old King Cole call? 606. Of what is clinophobia the fear? 607. What does the culinary term farci mean? 608. Where did Dr Edward Gibson spend Christmas, 1973? 609. What is known as the Flying Hamburger? 610. Which PM introduced Premium Bonds? 611. London cabby George King applied to join the United Nations as a delegate from where? 612. The largest ships tend to carry what? 613. When we have a drought in the UK, how do we usually solve the problem? 614. What would you burn in a thurible? 615. Who wouldnt pay homage to a hat in Altdorf market place? 616. Which drink has The real thing as its advertising slogan? 617. Which motor manufacturer makes the Esprit ? 618. Why did the great jockey Fred Archer commit suicide in 1886? 619. Who wrote, Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh? 620. For what do hedonists live?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
601. Twice. (You Only Live Twice.) 602. Sir Reginald Chester Perry. 603. Types of Brussels sprouts. 604. Ergonomics. 605. His pipe and his bowl. 606. Going to bed. 607. Stuffed. 608. Orbiting the Earth in Skylab. 609. A German high-speed train. 610. Harold Macmillan. 611. Venus. (He was rejected.) 612. Oil they are oil tankers. 613. By appointing a Minister of Drought it always rains the next day! 614. Incense. 615. William Tell. 616. Coca Cola. (Coke.) 617. Lotus. 618. Because he couldnt keep his weight down. 619. George Bernard Shaw. 620. Pleasure.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
621. Pure marble is what colour? 622. Yellow pages in a telephone directory are what colour in Australia? 623. What does ersatz mean? 624. Of what is etymology the study? 625. In which country do they massage cows with gin to produce tender beef? 626. Wippells who or what are they? 627. Which name is common to the constellation Crux and a variety of Poker? 628. Who is the most-quoted Chinese philosopher? 629. What type of food are you likely to eat in a trattoria? 630. Which nation invented fireworks? 631. Who married the Owl and the Pussycat? 632. Which religious group did John Nelson Darby found? 633. From what does Londons Fleet Street derive its name? 634. If you owned a Tompion, what could you tell by it? 635. What unusual form of payment did Madam Cynthia Payne receive from her customers in Streatham? 636. What is a Pyrrhic victory? 637. Which prison was demolished to make way for the Old Bailey? 638. What do remueurs do in the champagne-making process? 639. Who slept in Baby Bears bed? 640. For which New York paper did Karl Marx once write?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
621. White. 622. Pink. 623. Substitute. 624. The derivation of words. 625. Japan. 626. Ecclesiastical tailors. 627. Southern Cross. 628. Confucius. 629. Italian. 630. The Chinese. 631. The turkey who lives on the hill. 632. The Plymouth Brethren. 633. The River Fleet now covered over. 634. The time it is a type of clock. 635. Luncheon vouchers. 636. One in which the cost of winning is more than the gain. 637. Newgate. 638. They shake the bottles. 639. Goldilocks. 640. The New York Tribune.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
641. What shape is a baguette diamond? 642. What percentage of adults in the UK sleep in the nude? 643. What does the Daily Expresss masthead logo depict? 644. From what did Samson derive his strength? 645. Which Queen has a London mainline station named after her? 646. Which novel featured an invention known as the Feelies? 647. How old was William Gladstone when he became PM for the fourth time? 648. In which country were safety matches invented in 1852? 649. How many people form a nonet? 650. What is the English equivalent of the Greek letter lambda? 651. Initials are all the rage nowadays, but why is ASH opposed to FOREST? 652. In what has the surname Coward its origin? 653. Who said, Please be informed that there is a Santa Claus? 654. Which make of car has a model called Mulsanne Turbo? 655. Whose egg is good in parts? 656. Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing. Who said it? 657. Which canal has the same name as a type of hat? 658. For what occupation would you train at Norlands? 659. At what age are you considered to be responsible for fastening your own car seat belt? 660. Which crisps do the ads claim are Britains noisiest?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
641. Rectangular. 642. About 20 per cent. 643. A crusader. 644. His hair. 645. Queen Victoria. 646. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. 647. Eighty-four. 648. In Sweden. 649. Nine. 650. The letter L. 651. ASH is an anti-smoking lobby, FOREST a pro-smoking lobby. 652. The job of cow-herd. 653. Jim Lovell, the first astronaut to go behind the dark side of the moon. 654. Bentley. 655. The curates egg. 656. Christopher Morley. 657. The Panama. 658. You would train to become a nanny. 659. Fourteen. 660. Golden Wonder.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
661. Who ran through the town in his nightgown? 662. Which motor manufacturers make the Dino? 663. What are cowboys leggings called? 664. How many nickels make a quarter? 665. Midas was king of which country? 666. What were Bow Street Runners nicknamed, because of their coloured waistcoats? 667. Women of which religion wear the burqa? 668. Which tree is sometimes called the Hampshire weed? 669. At the 1981 census, how many males were there in Britain? 670. What were Quakers originally called? 671. What are Klondike, Canfield and Scorpion? 672. Worldwide, approximately how many people die per minute? 673. We may say Its a cinch! for something easy, but what is a cinch? 674. What, in South African slang, is a warm patat? 675. Who or what is the biggest landowner in Britain? 676. Where is the Mound of Mars Positive? 677. What is the minimum age at which one can legally purchase fireworks? 678. What do scuba diving, lasers and Pakistan have in common? 679. Who can be charged with infanticide? 680. What do Americans understand by a muffler?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
661. Wee Willie Winkie. 662. Ferrari. 663. Chaps. 664. Five. 665. Phrygia. 666. Robin Redbreasts. 667. Islam. 668. The yew. 669. 26,286,000. 670. Seekers. 671. Games of Patience, or Solitaire. 672. Sixty-eight. 673. The saddle-girth, or belt for a horse. 674. A good-looking girl a hot potato. 675. The Crown. 676. On your palm, between the thumb and fore-finger. 677. Sixteen. 678. They are all acronyms, or words made up of initials. 679. Only the mother of the infant. 680. A car silencer.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
681. Where did Mrs Margaret Thatcher have her nose cut off in May 1985? 682. Which letters stand for 505 in Roman numerals? 683. What colour ribbon does the Victoria Cross have? 684. Of what is gymnophobia the fear? 685. Which common coin has the Prince of Wales feathers on one side? 686. What would you do with a cullen skink, if given it by a friend? 687. If you were born on Christmas day, what would be your Zodiac sign? 688. For what does TGIF the teachers prayer stand? 689. Husch or Husha is an old word for what? 690. Who has the key to the front door of 10 Downing Street? 691. Which year uses all the Roman numerals in order, MDCLXVI? 692. What does an uxoriphobe hate? 693. The people of which two countries buy the most Rolls-Royces? 694. Of what is blennophobia the fear? 695. Who carries a leather case called a sabretache? 696. 12 March 45. 23 April 56. What is unique about these dates? 697. Describe a pawnbrokers sign. 698. What is kept in an amphora? 699. What used to be called Bradburies? 700. What is the difference between English and American pyjamas?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
681. Dublins waxwork museum. 682. DV. 683. Purple. 684. Nakedness. 685. The 2p piece. 686. Eat it it is a Scottish fish soup. 687. Capricorn. 688. Thank God Its Friday. 689. Atishoo. 690. No-one, as the door can only be opened from inside. 691. 1666. 692. His wife. 693. People from the UK and the USA. 694. Slime. 695. A cavalry officer. 696. They are the only dates in which the days, month and last two digits of the year form five consecutive numbers. 697. It consists of three hanging brass balls. 698. Wine, usually. 699. Treasury notes. 700. Americans spell it pajamas.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
701. What do the Chinese words Kung Fu actually mean? 702. The Western Mail is the only daily morning newspaper published in which country? 703. For what does the acronym A WOL stand? 704. Who is the patron saint of tax collectors? 705. Which trade got its name because it used a lot of lead? 706. Which is the sixth most common form of accidental death? 707. What is the chief ingredient of the cocktail Margarita? 708. Miss Betty Trask left 400,000 to provide an annual prize for what? 709. Which is the next year that will read the same upside-down and the right way up? 710. Which vegetable do the French call flageolets? 711. What significance does S4C have in Wales? 712. Which dish derives its name from the Latin lasanum? 713. What did Presbyterians call the Devils picture-book? 714. The addition of what turns a Welsh rarebit into a Buck rarebit? 715. What is a doch-an-doris? 716. What is a posset? 717. We know that grapes are used for making wine, but what is used as the basis of tequila? 718. Gin and It whats It? 719. Which current British coin shows a portcullis? 720. Which drink is nicknamed Nelsons Blood?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
701. Leisure time. 702. Wales. 703. Absent without leave. 704. St Matthew. 705. Plumbing, from the Latin plumbum, meaning lead. 706. Choking. 707. Tequila. 708. Romantic fiction. 709. 6009. 710. Green beans. 711. It means Sianel Pedwar Cymru the Welsh Channel 4 on TV. 712. Lasagne. 713. A pack of playing cards. 714. A poached egg. 715. One last drink before going home. 716. A drink of milk and ale. 717. Cactus. 718. Italian Vermouth. 719. The one-penny piece. 720. Rum.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
721. What is the chief ingredient of junket? 722. Zero Hour is CB jargon for what time? 723. In which year did the Profumo scandal and the Great Train Robbery happen? 724. What is the minimum age at which one can legally purchase a pet? 725. Which wedding anniversary is crystal? 726. What is special about Akha Teej day in India? 727. Which general was nicknamed the Kansas cyclone at West Point? 728. What is a South African doing if he puts money in a tickey-box? 729. What does the surname Kaufmann mean? 730. What is a trigamist? 731. Potted hock is made from which joint of beef? 732. Where is the Ocean of Storms? 733. What is the motto of the Institute of Builders? 734. What did Thomas Austin take to Australia in 1859, for hunting? 735. What was founded by John Elias, which flourishes on Sundays? 736. Who or what is the the third biggest landowner in Britain? 737. Which hobby uses the terms serpentine roulette and dominical labels? 738. How many new pence would the old florin have been worth? 739. In 1985, David Trippier was appointed Minister for what? 740. What size is a Crown sheet of paper?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
721. Milk. 722. Midnight. 723. In 1963. 724. Twelve. 725. The fifteenth. 726. It is the most auspicious day for marriages. 727. Dwight D. Eisenhower, when playing football. 728. Making a telephone call from a pay-phone a tickey was a threepenny bit. 729. Merchant. 730. Someone with three spouses. 731. The shinbone. 732. On the moon. 733. Diligently and Faithfully. 734. Twelve pairs of rabbits, from which all Australias rabbits came. 735. Sunday School. 736. The National Trust. 737. Stamp collecting. 738. Ten. 739. Waste, in the Board of Trade. 740. 20 inches by 15 inches.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
741. Proverbially, what does a watched kettle never do? 742. Whose wife would eat no lean? 743. In Turkey, what was an odalisque? 744. What would you say to someone who sternutates, if you are polite? 745. At least how far below ground should foundations be sited for buildings? 746. Ensate describes the shape of which weapon? 747. How many years make a chiliad? 748. How many miles of publicly maintained roads are there in Britain? 749. What is the better-known name of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration? 750. Which Chinese year coincides with most of 1985? 751. If your speciality is semiotics, what do you study? 752. Tenth wedding anniversaries are represented by which metal? 753. Which country first used catapult mail to speed up their ship-to-shore postal service? 754. The addition of what turns a Martini into a Gibson? 755. What is a meshuggener, in Yiddish? 756. What are the largest service helicopters in use in Britain? 757. Of what is gamophobia the fear? 758. In Scotland, what are champit tatties? 759. What is the main difference between British and English wine? 760. A bairn is a Scottish word for what?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
741. Boil. 742. Jack Spratts. 743. A female slave. 744. Bless you they have just sneezed. 745. One metre. 746. The sword. 747. A thousand. 748. 217,000 as of mid-1985. 749. The Ombudsman. 750. The Year of the Bull. 751. Signs and symbols in linguistics. 752. Tin. 753. France, in 1928. 754. An onion. 755. A mad or crazy person. 756. Chinooks. 757. Marriage. 758. Mashed potatoes. 759. British wine is made from imported grapes, and English from home-grown. 760. A young child.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
761. On which British island could married women not have their own bank accounts until 1975? 762. What name is usually given to finely ground tobacco inhaled through the nose? 763. What was Operation Bishop, carried out by customs officers? 764. How are camping sites shown on maps? 765. People of which religion speak Yiddish? 766. Where would you find Fourth Gutter and Palace of Weariness? 767. How many pence today would a crown have been worth? 768. Under which Act can fortune-tellers be apprehended? 769. From what does lanolin come? 770. In the British Army, what is a wad? 771. How many miracles must you have performed to be created a saint? 772. What would you probably do with an Eton Mess? 773. Which female, besides the Queen, is on the front of a 10 note? 774. Of which language is Wenyen a variety? 775. How many months have 31 days? 776. Approximately what percentage of people have blood group B? 777. For what do the letters i.e. actually stand? 778. Ragdoll and Korat are kinds of what? 779. Which American protest group is called MADD? 780. Whose day is the second Sunday in May?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
761. On Sark, in the Channel Islands. 762. Snuff. 763. A drugs swoop in which they collected 4.3 tonnes of cannabis the biggest haul in Western Europe, up until mid-1985. 764. By pictures of tents. 765. People of the Jewish religion, though fewer and fewer do nowadays. 766. On your body they are acupuncture points. 767. Twenty-five. 768. The Vagrancy Act of 1824. 769. Sheeps wool. 770. It is slang for a sandwich. 771. Four. 772. Eat it it is mashed strawberries and cream. 773. Britannia. 774. Chinese. 775. Seven. 776. Nine per cent. 777. Id est. 778. Cat. 779. Mothers Against Drunken Driving. 780. Mothers Day.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
781. 39.37 inches are the equivalent of which metric measurement? 782. Name the Penlee lifeboat, lost in 1981 with all hands. 783. What is the American name for what the British refer to as drawing pins? 784. Which is Sicilys best known wine? 785. Who kills his wife, his baby and his doctor and has never been executed? 786. Which common word both begins and ends with und? 787. What is the final stage of passing an Act of Parliament? 788. Nostrums are what sort of remedies? 789. What time of the day is palindromic? 790. Which airline has Boeing 737s called St Jarlath and St Fachtna? 791. What should you call an undivided double sirloin of beef? 792. How many sides has an obelisk? 793. What feline device did Percy Shaw invent in 1933? 794. For what would you use a half-hunter? 795. Which professionals are susceptible to the bends? 796. For what do the 3M companys three Ms stand? 797. What are SERPS? 798. What is the name given to the first day of Holy Week? 799. How many stars are visible to the naked eye? 800. What do Italians call hors doeuvre?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
781. One metre. 782. The Solomon Browne. 783. Thumb-tacks. 784. Marsala. 785. Mr Punch. 786. Underground. 787. The Royal Assent. 788. Patent. 789. Noon. 790. Aer Lingus they are Irish saints. 791. A baron of beef. 792. Four. 793. Cats eyes, for use on the roads. 794. Telling the time it is a pocket watch. 795. Deep sea divers. 796. Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing. 797. State earnings-related pensions. 798. Palm Sunday. 799. 5776 800. Antipasti.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
801. What does Fitz mean, in Fitzherbert and the like? 802. How many sixpences were there in a guinea? 803. On which date does the new car registration year begin in the UK? 804. For what is Mrs an abbreviation? 805. What sort of exam is a viva voce? 806. Who made a record called Derek & Clive, sold with a paper bag to be sick into? 807. What is a sleepout in Australia? 808. What did the unlikely trio of Francis Bacon, Bjorn Borg and Aaron Copland have in common in 1985? 809. What is the shape of traffic signs on which instructions are given? 810. What is the international language of air traffic control? 811. On which day was Solomon Grundy buried? 812. What unlikely national competition is held in Raleigh, Mississippi, each year? 813. Who is the Bishop of Rome? 814. Iron horse is CB slang for what vehicle? 815. In 1943, what food was listed on the Strand Palace Hotel menu as Assiette Froide? 816. Which tap in a dwelling must connect directly to the water mains? 817. With what is Amnesty International mainly concerned? 818. During World War II, why did the BBC say there would be no women newsreaders? 819. How long is one term of office for a US senator? 820. What is the American equivalent of the Post Code?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
801. Son of. 802. 42. 803. 1 August. 804. Mistress. 805. An oral exam. 806. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. 807. An extension built on to a house. 808. Their entries had been omitted from Whos Who! The computer must have hiccupped, said the publishers. 809. Circular. 810. English. 811. On Sunday. 812. The National Tobacco-Spitting Contest. 813. The Pope. 814. A motorcycle. 815. Cold Spam. (It was during the period of food rationing.) 816. The cold water tap in the kitchen. 817. The conditions of political prisoners. 818. They might have to read bad news. 819. Six years. 820. The Zip Code.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
821. By what name is the homely Marullus Lacrymans better known? 822. For how many years are passports for children valid? 823. What are Angels on horseback, as a snack? 824. What do three short blasts on a ships siren mean? 825. Which government department has responsibility for immigration? 826. What product of great value is produced by a special mill at Laverstoke in Hampshire? 827. Which American actress said, Im as pure as the driven slush? 828. Who operates the Red Star delivery service? 829. What is the word for both a sharp pull and an American? 830. From which one type of grapes is the wine Asti Spumante made? 831. What is the equivalent of a cowboy in Australia? 832. Approximately how many individual journeys are made on the London Underground annually? 833. From where is the public permitted to watch in the House of Commons? 834. Who said, The only thing I really mind about going to prison is the thought of Lord Longford coming to visit me? 835. Why is Edwards a good name for a one-fingered typist? 836. Romark the Hypnotist collided with what shortly after setting off to drive blindfold through the centre of Ilford? 837. What sort of Australian food is a floater? 838. Where on the body are cummerbunds worn? 839. Charlotte Beyser Bartholdi was the model for which statue? 840. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing-grounds, we shall fight in the ______ and in the streets. What is missing?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
821. Dry rot. 822. Five years. 823. Prunes or oysters wrapped in bacon. 824. Full speed ahead. 825. The Home Office. 826. Paper for British banknotes. 827. Tallulah Bankhead. 828. British Rail. 829. Yank. 830. The Muscat grape. 831. A stockman. 832. 500 million. 833. The Strangers Gallery. 834. Richard Ingrams, editor of Private Eye. 835. All the letters of his name are in a block on the standard keyboard. 836. A police van. 837. Meat pie in soup. 838. Round the turn. 839. The Statue of Liberty. 840. Fields.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
841.What kind of criminal was known as a leather-lifter in the USA? 842.What very useful food item did Italo Marcioni invent in 1903? 843.France and the Frenchnot Franco! 844.Who summons the Commons to the Lords to hear the Queens speech? 845.Where, on a dress, might you find a mutton-leg? 846.What does l.c. mean to a printer? 847. Which was the first British retail store group to allow customers to withdraw cash with their in-house charge cards? 848.Which religion was founded by Guru Baber Nanak? 849.Which English company owns the George V Hotel in Paris? 850.What is the Spanish equivalent of the English name John? 851.Finders keepers, losers_______? 852.What did Ras Tafari Makonnen become, in 1930? 853.Who is believed to have been buried in The Turin Shroud? 854.Something old, something new What else? 855.What, in the field of public transport, is meant by OPO? 856. What did Charles Nessler invent, after watching wig-makers in South Molton Street in 1905? 857.What is Greek for the letter E? 858.Ambrosia and nectar were food and drink to whom? 859.In what field of activity did A. S. Neill make his name at Summerhill? 860.Members of which religion dont have haircuts or shave?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
841. A pick-pocket. 842. The ice cream cone. 843. The police. 844. Black Rod. 845. The top of the sleeve, which is extensively puffed at the shoulder and upper arm and tapers to fit closely to the forearm. 846. Lower case, i.e. not capital letters. 847. Debenhams from September 1985. 848. Sikhism. 849. Trust House Forte. 850. Juan. 851. Weepers. 852. Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia. 853. Jesus Christ. 854. Something borrowed, something blue. 855. One Person Operation of trains and buses. 856. Permanent waving for hair. 857. Epsilon. 858. The Greek gods. 859. Education he founded his own school. 860. Sikhism.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
861.What is the time in Paris when it is midnight (GMT) in London? 862.Who is Bristows boss? 863. It was said that some unemployed people chose to stay at the seaside and collect their benefits, so having a free holiday. What was this scandal nicknamed? 864.Red sky at night is the______s delight What is missing? 865.Which motor manufacturers make the Civic? 866.What was remarkable about Balaams ass? 867.What is the time in Tokyo when it is 5.00p.m. (GMT) in London? 868.Who always receives and understands messages by radio? 869.In Austria, you might eat Guglhupf- what is it? 870.The Germans called them Panzerschiffe. What did we call them? 871.What is the minimum age at which you can stand for Parliament in the UK? 872.What is the present name for Sing Sing prison? 873.A polygraph was the first form of what? 874.Who first taught that the one permanent thing is change? 875.Which child is loving and giving? 876.Whose ghost is said to haunt Kensington Palace? 877. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. From where does this famous phrase originate? 878. What was the first letter transmitted in Morse Code by transatlantic wireless signal? 879.What is Greek for the letter S? 880.On average, for how long does an ordinary light bulb last?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
861. 1.00 a.m. 862. Mr Fudge in the cartoon 863. The Costa del Dole. 864. Shepherd. 865. Honda. 866. It could talk. 867. Midnight. 868. Roger. 869. Sponge cake. 870. Pocket battleships. 871. Twenty-one. 872. Ossining. 873. Lie detector. 874. Heraclitus. 875. Fridays child. 876. George IIs. 877. Shakespeares Twelfth Night. 878. S. 879. Sigma. 880. 750 hours.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
881. Why may you not take the mickey out of President Canaan Banana of Zimbabwe because of his name? 882.Early this century, what did Americans buy called twofers? 883.What is cupidity? 884.What number is represented by the Roman numeral M? 885.Who is called, among many other things, Old Poker? 886.Relating to museums, for what is V. and A. an abbreviation? 887.Where would you wear a sombrero? 888.In South Africa, what is called mealies? 889.When is Lammas day? 890.Which Peanuts character loves the little red-headed girl? 891.What are floors on ships called? 892.Who created Badjelly and Dulboot? 893. What can a traveller get free, if in limited quantities, at the gate of Winchesters Hospital of St Cross? 894.On which day did Solomon Grundy marry? 895.John Smith, DDS. What is his professsion? 896.Where would you wear a Tarn oShanter, should you want to? 897. At the age of 12, which future US President said, Mother, I want to be an oldfashioned lawyer who cant be bought by crooks? 898.Where is the finest collection of Leonardo da Vincis drawings kept? 899.Who is the present Queen of Spain? 900.Who said, I do not seek, I find?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
881. Because he passed a law in 1983 making it a crime if you do. 882. Cigars, at two for 25 cents. 883. Greed for gain. 884. 1,000. 885. The devil. 886. Victoria and Albert. 887. On your head. 888. Maize. 889. 1 August. 890. Charlie Brown. 891. Decks. 892. Spike Milligan, in his books for children. 893. Bread and beer. (It is known as Wayfarers Dole.) 894. Wednesday. 895. He is a dentist. 896. On your head. 897. Richard M. Nixon. 898. Royal Library, Windsor Castle. 899. Sophia. 900. Picasso.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
901. From what material are millefiori ornaments made? 902. What is the exact translation of pot-pourri? 903. Which air force rank is the equivalent of an army major? 904. How many signs of the zodiac are there? 905. What bird is the symbol of Penguin Books childrens section? 906. Of what are Dorothy Perkins, Grandpa Dickson and Iceberg varieties? 907. Approximately how many known human illnesses are there? 908. In Scotland, what is the third alternative to the verdicts Guilty and Not Guilty? 909. What was Ethel Cain the first to record? 910. What is the Feast of First Fruits on 1 August? 911. How is it known that a new Pope has been elected? 912. When is the next partial eclipse of the sun visible in the UK due? 913. What does infra dignitatem mean? 914. What sort of bottom has a scow? 915. What form does a kelpie take? 916. What Australian city was named after the wife of King William IV? 917. What is Walpurgis Night? 918. What is a funicular? 919. What are military policemen called? 920. Which saints 11,000 maidens were slain by Huns?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
901. Glass.

902. Putrid pot. 903. Squadron-Leader. 904. Twelve. 905. The puffin. 906. Roses. 907. About 33,000. 908. Notproven. 909. The talking clock. 910. Lammas. 911. Smoke rises from a chimney in the Vatican. 912. 1995. 913. Beneath ones dignity. 914. Flatits a type of boat. 915. A horse; it is a spirit of water in Scottish folk-lore. 916. Adelaide. 917. The night when witches were supposed to be free to roam about. 918. A cable railway. 919. Redcaps. 920. Ursula.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
921. Which famous poets wife created Frankenstein? 922. Where is the keystone of an arch located? 923. Of what is the Fourth Sea Lord in charge? 924. What is the chief ingredient of sauce lyonnaise? 925. What type of pastry is used to make clairs? 926. What was a recusant? 927. What does the acronym SHAPE stand for? 928. What is spoken defamation called? 929. What does the prefix tele- actually mean? 930. What is the Hawaiian word of greeting? 931. The most frequent letters in English are E, T, O, A, N. Which language has the letter frequency E, S, A, N, T? 932. What is currently the most popular aphrodisiac? 933. What do gypsies call non-gypsies? 934. Which language does Flemish most closely resemble? 935. Who believe that the City of God will be founded in the USA? 936. What is French for honey? 937. Where would you find a juttock plate? 938. What is another name for the alligator pear? 939. Who invented the pneumatic tyre in 1888? 940. What were known as Nrnberg (Nuremberg) ware?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
921. Percy Bysshe Shelley. 922. The top. 923. Naval supplies and transport. 924. Onions. 925. Choux. 926. One who refused to attend Church of England services from the time of Elizabeth I. 927. Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers, Europe. 928. Slander. 929. Far. 930. Aloha. 931. French. 932. Asparagus, according to The New York Times. 933. Gajos. 934. Dutch. 935. The Mormons. 936. Le miel. 937. On a ships mast. 938. The avocado. 939. John Dunlop. 940. Toys.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
941. What is deer meat called? 942. What are the four Quarter Days in England and Wales? 943. What name is given to a word or sentence that reads the same forwards and backwards? 944. What is the colloquial name for lignite? 945. Which was the first manufactured item to be sold on hire-purchase? 946. What is esprit descalier? 947. Which letters denote Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews? 948. The pedestrian curricle first appeared in Paris in 1816. What was it? 949. What is ikebana? 950. What would you do with absinthe? 951. For which church did Wren design his tallest steeple? 952. What do philatelists collect? 953. Introduced in 1835 to replace a less reliable product, what were congreves? 954. A term was coined in 1846 to take the place of the expression popular antiquities. What is it? 955. What is a catachresis? 956. The actual crowning of an English sovereign is done with which crown? 957. What small cakes and biscuits would you serve at the end of a formal meal? 958. What happens to the atmospheric pressure on the approach of a cold front? 959. Whose law states that work will always last as long as the time available for it? 960. What is the albumen of an egg?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS

941. Venison. 942. 25 March (Lady Day), 24 June (Midsummer Day), 29 September (Michaelmas Day), 25 December (Christmas Day). 943. A palindrome. 944. Brown coal. 945. The sewing-machine. The Singer Co. initiated this system of payment in the 1850s. 946. Tardy wit, i.e. a rejoinder which comes to mind too late. 947. INRI. 948. A primitive bicycle without pedals. 949. The Japanese art of flower arranging. 950. Drink it. 951. St Brides, Fleet Street. 952. Stamps. 953. Matches. 954. Folk-lore, coined by W. J. Thorns. 955. A misused word (e.g. exalt for exult). 956. St Edwards crown. 957. Petits fours. 958. It falls. 959. Parkinsons Law. 960. The white.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
961. What were maverick cattle in the US? 962. In what did Wynken, Blynken and Nod sail off? 963. What are the snaffle, the pelham and the weymouth? 964. Of what is the drink posset made? 965. What colour is an amethyst? 966. What was the name of the girl who wove so beautifully that the jealous goddess Athene turned her into a spider? 967. When is Maundy money given away, relative to Good Friday? 968. What is the Senior Service? 969. To what is the nursery rhyme Ring a Ring o Roses referring? 970. In which year were family allowances introduced? 971. In American universities, what is a second-year student called? 972. Which female name means bee? 973. In a ships routine, the first watch runs from when? 974. What is the derivation of the word posh? 975. What were eighteenth-century macaronis? 976. For what are Pulitzer prizes awarded? 977. Which letter in Morse code is represented by three dashes? 978. If you were hypermetropic, what would you have? 979. As apple juice makes cider, what does pear juice make? 980. What is a marron glac?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
961. Animals found without an owners brand. 962. A wooden shoe. 963. Types of horse bit. 964. Hot spiced milk curdled with ale or wine. 965. Purple or violet. 966. Arachne. 967. The day before. 968. The Royal Navy. 969. The Great Plague. 970. 1945. 971. A sophomore. 972. Melissa. 973. 8 p.m. 974. POSH was the abbreviation used for cabin bookings on ships to the East. Wealthy passengers travelled Port Out, Starboard Home i.e. on the cooler side of the ship. 975. Dandies. Young men about town who had adopted continental fashions. 976. Journalism and literature. 977. O. 978. Long sight. 979. Perry. 980. A chestnut preserved in sugar.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
981. What is a bouquet garni? 982. What is a jacuzzi? 983. What name is given to the Usher of the Upper Chamber? 984. Which sense does a dying person tend to lose last? 985. What is the lowest-value postal order available? 986. Who is depicted on horseback on the 1977 Jubilee crown? 987. If you suffer from cynanthropy, what do you think you are? 988. To what curious meteorological phenomenon did King Arthurs sister give her name? 989. Singing before breakfast, seeing an owl by day, seeing three butterflies: what kind of omen are all these supposed to be? 990. Why did the Queen miss the Derby at Epsom for the first time ever in 1984? 991. What is Samian ware? 992. For what phrase is Thomas Hobson, a Cambridge hirer of horses, remembered? 993. What is a sopha? 994. How did worsted cloth get its name? 995. Who was Clio? 996. What is a Sally Lunn? 997. What was the name of D. T. Barnums giant elephant? 998. Which famous liner caught fire and sank in Hong Kong harbour? 999. How many people were convicted for the murder of Aldo Moro? 1000.Which organization places Bibles in hotel rooms?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
981. A small bunch of herbs tied together in muslin. 982. A whirlpool bath. 983. Black Rod. 984. Hearing. 985. 25p. 986. The Queen. 987. A dog. 988. Fata Morgana, a type of mirage. 989. Bad omens. 990. She was in France attending the D-Day celebrations. 991. Fine pottery, originally made of clay from Samos, found on Roman sites. 992. Hobsons choice. He insisted that each customer should take the horse nearest the stable door. 993. It is the alternative spelling for sofa (from the Arabic for bench suffah). 994. From Worstead in Norfolk, where many Flemish weavers settled. 995. The Greek muse of history, or a pseudonym for Addison writing in Spectator. 996. A type of tea-cake. 997. Jumbo. 998. The Queen Elizabeth. 999. Sixty-three. 1000. The Gideons.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1001. Which wedding anniversary is leather? 1002. To the nearest 2,000,000, how many people have been killed by earthquakes over the last 4,000 years? 1003. What was the only thing that remained in Pandoras box after she had opened it? 1004. How many attended the Last Supper? 1005. Hugin and Munin are two ravens that sit on the shoulders of Odin. What do they represent? 1006. If you are unlucky enough to have a serious accident, where is it most likely to occur? 1007. Which pocket does a pickpocket find it easiest to pick? 1008. What does the acronym SNAFU stand for? 1009. What is curious about the words abstemiously and facetiously? 1010. Which people originated popcorn? 1011. What does Lloyds Register categorize? 1012. In which month does pheasant shooting start? 1013. Approximately how many words are there in the English language? 1014. Which is the longest palindromic English word? 1015. What were originally called Han ways? 1016. What is the creed of airline pilots? 1017. What is MMM minus MD? 1018. What number does the Roman numeral M represent? 1019. What is ignis fatuus? 1020. Which alphabet is composed of just dots?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1001. The third. 1002. 13,000,000. 1003. Hope. 1004. Thirteen. 1005. Thought and memory. 1006. In your own home. 1007. The breast pocket. 1008. Situation Normal All Fouled Up. 1009. They are the only two words in the English language in which all six vowels appear in their correct order. 1010. The American Indians. 1011. Shipping. 1012. October the first of the month, to be exact. 1013. 800,000. 1014. Redivider. 1015. Umbrellas. 1016. In God we trust, everything else we check. 1017. MD. (Roman numerals: 3000 minus 1500 equals 1500.) 1018. 1,000. 1019. Will-o-the-wisp, the phosphorescent glow sometimes seen in marshes. 1020. Braille.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1021. What was the earliest form of shoe? 1022. The first appeared in the New York World on 21 December 1913, and most newspapers now have one. What is it? 1023. Which letter begins the fewest English words? 1024. What are the Star of Africa and the Hope? 1025. Which is the worlds most popular green vegetable? 1026. Approximately how many loaves of bread does the average Briton eat in a week? 1027. For what does USSR stand? 1028. Who cut off Samsons hair? 1029. Why was a trireme so called? 1030. Which is the largest prison in Great Britain? 1031. How many different words does an educated English speaker use in speech on average? 1032. What is added to gin and vermouth to make the drink called a Gibson? 1033. What is a palimpsest? 1034. What would you be if you had a certificate from the Worshipful Company of Farriers? 1035. Which political party takes its name from a band of Irish outlaws? 1036. During which season is a criminal most likely to confess? 1037. On which part of the body are puttees worn? 1038. What is the nautical term for stop? 1039. What are the ingredients of the Sidecar cocktail? 1040. What is Erse?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1021. The sandal. 1022. The crossword puzzle. 1023. X. 1024. Diamonds. 1025. The lettuce. 1026. 1 large one. 1027. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 1028. A soldier ordered by Delilah to do so. 1029. Because it was a vessel with three rows of oars. 1030. Wormwood Scrubs, London, with 1,208 cells. 1031. 5,000. 1032. Onion. 1033. Twice-used writing material, where early writing can be seen below more recent writing. 1034. A blacksmith. 1035. The Tories. 1036. The winter. 1037. Legs. 1038. Avast. 1039. Brandy, Cointreau and lemon juice. 1040. The Irish language or Irish Gaelic.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1041. When pay was first introduced for British MPs, how much was it? 1042. After how many years of marriage is a crystal anniversary celebrated? 1043.In America what does a realtor sell? 1044.What did Otto Titzling invent? 1045.Who are the publishers of this tome? 1046.What is stramonium? 1047.What grade of seaman comes between ordinary and leading seaman? 1048.To which god did Valhalla belong? 1049.What does semper fidelis mean? 1050.What is a shoemakers model of the human foot called? 1051.What is a cassoulet? 1052.In radio communications, all letters of the alphabet have names. What is the name for S? 1053.The flight recorder in aeroplanes goes by the name of which greedy king? 1054.What is the difference between lamb and mutton? 1055.If you were born on 30 January what is your star sign? 1056.Which common sign was taken from the coat of arms of the Medici family? 1057.In nautical terms, what is whipping? 1058.Which stately home had the first bathroom with hot and cold running water? 1059.What does the Blue Peter flag signify? 1060.What are a clove hitch, single sheet bend and a double bowline?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1041. 400 per annum. 1042. Fifteen. 1043. Property, real estate. 1044. The bra. 1045. Penguin. 1046. The thorn-apple, or a drug obtained from it. 1047. Able-bodied seaman. 1048. Odin (or Woden). 1049. Always faithful. 1050. A last. 1051. A French stew of beans, goose, mutton and other ingredients. 1052. Sierra. 1053. Midas. 1054. Lamb refers to sheep less than twelve months old. 1055. Aquarius. 1056. The pawnbrokers sign three golden balls. 1057. Binding the ends of ropes to prevent them unravelling. 1058. Chatsworth, Derbyshire, in 1700. 1059. All aboard, Im putting to sea. 1060. Knots.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1061. What does Lord Nelsons statue in Trafalgar Square weigh? 1062. From what is black pudding made? 1063. What was Rolls-Royces first car called? 1064. What is Davy Joness locker? 1065. Which mark of government property was formerly on convicts clothing? 1066. How many faces has a dodecahedron? 1067. What is the common name for the suspension damper on a car? 1068. Of these, which is the least edible: albatross, pigeon, blackbird, sparrow? 1069. Which was the first firm to sell internal combustion cars? 1070. Whose portraits appeared on the first US postage stamps? 1071. For chopping off which part of the body was the guillotine originally invented? 1072. What colour are British fire engines? 1073. What must all dogs have attached to their collar, by law? 1074. Atephobia is a fear of what? 1075. What is a tutu? 1076. What type of material is guipure? 1077. Most of us have collected parking tickets, but what is parkin? 1078. In every hierarchy an employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence is an expression of what law? 1079. To the nearest 10 million, how many times does the average car tyre rotate in its lifetime? 1080. Mitre, dovetail, jig and hack are all types of what?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1061. 18 tons, excluding the column. 1062. Pigs blood and fat. 1063. Silver Ghost. 1064. The bottom of the sea which is the legendary grave of drowned sailors. 1065. A broad arrow. 1066. Twelve. 1067. The shock absorber. 1068. Albatross, by far. 1069. Benz. 1070. 5 cents Benjamin Franklin, 10 cents George Washington. 1071. Hands. 1072. Red. 1073. A disc with the owners name and address. 1074. Imperfection. 1075. A ballet skirt. 1076. Lace. 1077. A biscuit or cake made with (among other things) oatmeal and treacle. 1078. The Peter Principle. 1079. The present average is something over 30 million. 1080. Saw.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1081. What is the origin of the word antimacassar? 1082. How long is a 5 note? 1083. What is the award for mystery fiction the equivalent of an Oscar called? 1084. Who were gunned down in the St Valentines Day Massacre by Al Capones men? 1085. How many years of marriage does a ruby anniversary celebrate? 1086. Who, in his will, left a fortune for the establishment of a new phonetic alphabet to assist spelling? 1087. What is Britains second highest decoration for bravery? 1088. Which is the only month in which there may not be a full moon? 1089. What are salopettes? 1090. By what title is the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration generally known? 1091. What is the correct style of address for an archbishop? 1092. In Britain, which body is known by the initials CRE? 1093. What are the four cs that denote the value of a diamond? 1094. What is ombrophobia? 1095. Boob Day is the Spanish equivalent of what in Britain? 1096. How did ten-year-old Roy Gadd persuade a leopard to stop clawing his friends arm in 1969? 1097. What was Blackbeards pirate ship called? 1098. On which current British coin does a portcullis feature? 1099. Of what are Old Honiton, Genoese and Mechlin forms? 1100. In which language did St Paul write his epistles?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1081. Macassar was a proprietary name for a nineteenth-century hair oil. Antimacassars protected upholstery from this oil. 1082. Approximately 5 inches. 1083. An Edgar. 1084. The Bugs Moran gang. 1085. Forty. 1086. George Bernard Shaw. 1087. The George Cross. 1088. February about once in 20 years. 1089. Snow-proof, dungaree-type trousers. 1090. The Ombudsman. 1091. The Most Reverend His Grace the Lord Archbishop of. 1092. Commission for Racial Equality. 1093. Cut, carat, clarity, colour. 1094. Fear of rain. 1095. April Fools Day. 1096. He punched it on the nose. 1097. Queen Annes Revenge. 1098. On the penny. 1099. Lace. 1100. Greek.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1101. Approximately what proportion of the worlds population customarily eats with chop-sticks? 1102. What is Yom Kippur? 1103. Where can the largest bell in the world be found? 1104. When is Gowks Day? 1105. What is the French for to have? 1106. In 1987 and 1990 British Summer Time will start a week earlier to prevent it beginning on which day? 1107. From which fruit is slivovitz made? 1108. What do kleptomaniacs do? 1109. What did the dish run away with? 1110. What do pyromaniacs do? 1111. When was the last Blue Moon seen in Britain? 1112. The Wolves, Curlews, Bulls and Ravens were the first groups of what? 1113. What are lentigines? 1114. On a standard roulette wheel, what colour are the even numbers? 1115. What is the longest recorded sequence of one colour turning up on a roulette wheel? 1116. What is the main ingredient of a Manhattan? 1117. Of which religion are Brahmin, Ksatriya, Vaisya and Sudra, the four basic castes? 1118. If you were born on 29 October what star sign would you be? 1119. Which naval tradition ceased in 1970? 1120. What does a sextant measure?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1101. One-third. 1102. The Jewish Day of Atonement. 1103. In the Kremlin, Moscow. 1104. 1 April. 1105. Avoir. 1106. Easter Sunday. 1107. Plums. 1108. Steal compulsively. 1109. The spoon. 1110. Compulsively set things on fire. 1111. 26 September 1950. 1112. Boy Scouts. 1113. Freckles. 1114. Black. 1115. 29 times. 1116. Whisky of any sort. 1117. Hinduism. 1118. Scorpio. 1119. The issue of rum. 1120. Angles.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1121. Who said, Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it? 1122. From what type of establishment did the clubs Whites and Boodles develop? 1123. Name the food formed by boiling oatmeal in water. 1124. Who said, There is no fortress so strong that money cannot take it? 1125. Of which two years of the 1970s are diaries interchangeable? 1126. How long was the jail sentence given to David Berkowitz, Son of Sam? 1127. In what type of Chinese restaurant would you eat chicken and cashews, crispy duck and deep fried beef in chilli? 1128. For what is half-inch rhyming slang? 1129. How do you pronounce the surname Featherstonehaugh? 1130. What colour is cerulean? 1131. What are kreplach? 1132. In which subjects did Prince Charles pass A-levels? 1133. What was the anti-Nazi graffito initiated by a Belgian lawyer, Victor de Levelaye, on 14 January 1941? 1134. What do funambulists do? 1135. On which day of the week does Ascension Day always fall? 1136. What does Zip stand for in the American Zip code? 1137. In Russia, what is the name for a vehicle drawn by three horses abreast? 1138. Who or what is Tsar Kolokol? 1139. What does soviet mean? 1140. Who places the crown on the new sovereigns head?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1121. Spiro T. Agnew. 1122. The coffee house. 1123. Gruel. 1124. Cicero. 1125. 1973 and 1979. 1126. 547 years. 1127. Peking. 1128. Pinch. 1129. Fanshaw. 1130. Deep blue. 1131. Jewish ravioli sort of. 1132. French and history. 1133. V for victory. 1134. Walk tightropes. 1135. Thursday. 1136. Zone Improvement Plan. 1137. A troika. 1138. A massive bell in the Kremlin in Moscow. 1139. Workers council. 1140. The Archbishop of Canterbury

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1141. Of which bird does the fabulous griffin have the head? 1142. For what do the initials VLCC stand, as applied to oil-tankers? 1143. How many lives has a cat, according to legend? 1144. Which part of a womans body did the Chinese consider it to be too provocative to paint? 1145. When can Halleys comet next be seen? 1146. Who awards the Nobel Peace Prize? 1147. What do somnambulists do? 1148. Which cereal was invented at Battle Creek Sanitarium in 1890? 1149. What is filigree? 1150. When was flogging abolished in Britain? 1151. Who built the massive aircraft called the Spruce Goose? 1152. What did WAAF stand for? 1153. What hallmark is stamped on silver objects from Birmingham? 1154. Why is a Tommy gun so called? 1155. Who said he made his fortune out of what people left on the side of their plates? 1156. What is pargetting? 1157. What is Tuesdays child? 1158. How much was the twelve-sided British coin worth? 1159. What do the letters GI stand for? 1160. What was allowed to take place in Londons Serpentine for the first time on 16 June 1930?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1141. The eagle. 1142. Very Large Crude Carrier. 1143. Nine. 1144. The feet. 1145. 1986. 1146. A committee of the Norwegian parliament. 1147. Sleepwalk. 1148. Cornflakes (by Dr Kellogg). 1149. Fine, lacy metalwork. 1150. 1948. 1151. Howard Hughes. 1152. Womens Auxiliary Air Force. 1153. An anchor. 1154. It was invented by US General Thompson about 1919 and was called the Thompson gun. When the stock was detached it became a favourite with American gangsters and became the Tommy gun. 1155. George Colman, the mustard manufacturer. 1156. Ornamental relief work in moulded plaster on the outside of houses common in East Anglia. 1157. Full of grace. 1158. 3d. 1159. Government Issue. 1160. Mixed bathing.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1161.How many peals of the Lutine bell mean bad news? 1162.Which Chinese commune near Soochow did Margaret Thatcher visit in 1977? 1163.Which old silver coin was worth fourpence? 1164.Which sense does a dying person tend to lose first? 1165.From which London building is the first proclamation of a new monarch read? 1166.How is 3,000 written in Roman numerals? 1167.What was Sir Francis Drakes Golden Hind originally called? 1168.Who first rowed around the world? 1169.Which number does the Roman numeral D represent? 1170.Which April was the sunniest in England since records began? 1171.What is French for twenty? 1172.What is the common nickname for folk with the surname Miller? 1173.Of which country is TAP the national airline? 1174.What is the Stock Exchange term for people who apply for shares in order to sell them immediately at a profit? 1175.How long did it take to fly the Gossamer Albatross across the Channel in June 1979? 1176.Which branch of the police are the Sweeney? 1177.What is the army equivalent to the RAF rank of squadron leader? 1178.What are the Three Estates of the Realm in England? 1179.What proportion of British men are colour-blind? 1180.What is the first letter of the Russian alphabet?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1161. One. 1162. The Evergreen Commune. 1163. The groat. 1164. Sight. 1165. St Jamess Palace. 1166. MMM. 1167. The Pelican. 1168. No one has yet attempted to do so. 1169. 500. 1170. April 1984. 1171. Vingt. 1172. Dusty. 1173. Portugal. 1174. Stags. 1175. 2 hours 49 minutes (by pedal power). 1176. The flying squad (in rhyming slang: Sweeney Todd). 1177. Major. 1178. The Lords Spiritual, the Lords Temporal and the Commons. 1179. One in ten. 1180. A.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1181. What is psephology? 1182. What is the second commonest surname (after Smith) in the USA? 1183. What colour are uncooked lobsters? 1184. What is the Soviet Unions highest military honour? 1185. To which London hospital did James Barrie bequeath the copyright of his book Peter Pan? 1186. How many points are there on a Maltese cross? 1187. What made a virgin flight in June 1984? 1188. What is the birthstone for March? 1189. What organization was founded in 1905 to warn motorists of police speed traps? 1190. To which Royal House does the Queen belong? 1191. What is challa? 1192. In which language does pupik mean belly-button? 1193. What is the oldest known alcoholic beverage? 1194. What do the Chinese call electricity talk? 1195. What is the Greek name for the Roman goddess Aurora? 1196. What is the highest allowable percentage of alcohol in table wine? 1197. For what month is the diamond the birthstone? 1198. How many times must the pancake be tossed during the famous pancake race at Olney? 1199. Webbs, Cos and Iceberg are types of what? 1200. In which year did Concorde first fly the Atlantic?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1181. The study of patterns in voting. 1182. Johnson (there are approximately two million Johnsons). 1183. Dark blue or green - they only turn red or orange when cooked. 1184. The Order of Lenin. 1185. Great Ormond Street Hospital (the Hospital for Sick Children). 1186. Eight. 1187. Richard Bransons Virgin airline. 1188. Aquamarine. 1189. The Automobile Association. 1190. Windsor. 1191. A type of bread, normally plaited. 1192. Yiddish. 1193. Mead (made from honey). 1194. The telephone. 1195. Eos. 1196. Fourteen. 1197. April. 1198. Three. 1199. Lettuce. 1200. 1977.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1201.What are brick, fontina, port salut, quargel? 1202.What does the name Peter mean? 1203.What is the highest army rank? 1204.William Huskisson was the first person to be run over by what? 1205.What colour light is shown on the starboard side of a ship? 1206.What is Sam Barracloughs claim to fame? 1207.Who or what may proverbially look at a king? 1208.Which star sign follows Sagittarius? 1209.Which rank in the police force is immediately above chief inspector? 1210.How many 1,000,000 Bank of England notes are there in existence? 1211.How many languages (to the nearest ten) are spoken by at least 1,000,000 people? 1212.What other title does the Bishop of Rome hold? 1213.What is fear of noise called? 1214.When is St Georges Day? 1215.What was the profession of the father of the outlaws Frank and Jesse James? 1216.What was known as Old Tom? 1217.Who wore a coat of many colours? 1218.How much was the family allowance when it was first introduced? 1219.Which country innovated Fathers Day? 1220.Where is The Mother of Parliaments?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1201. Cheeses. 1202. Rock. 1203. Field Marshal. 1204. A railway train (in 1830). 1205. Green. 1206. He was the first owner of Lassie, the dog. 1207. A cat. 1208. Capricorn. 1209. Superintendent. 1210. Two. 1211. 156. 1212. The Pope. 1213. Phonophobia. 1214. 23 April. 1215. A minister in the church. 1216. Gin. 1217. Joseph. 1218. 5s. (25p) for each child after the first. 1219. The USA. 1220. Westminster.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1221.Which is the tenth letter of the Greek alphabet? 1222.In sailing-ship days which member of the crew acted as ships doctor? 1223.Pinchbeck is often confused with which precious metal? 1224.To which dog was a statue erected in Edinburgh? 1225.Anosmia is the loss of which sense? 1226.What ceased on 12 June 1921? 1227.Why, on certain Thursdays, might you think that you can catch a train from Polling anywhere in the country? 1228.In which month is the Munich beer festival held? 1229.What first did Jacques Garnerin achieve in 1797? 1230.What was a blunderbuss? 1231.What is the most frequent single cause of business errors? 1232.What do the letters RSVP stand for? 1233.Name the ship in which Sir Francis Drake sailed round the world. 1234.On which date does the Trooping the Colour ceremony take place? 1235.It was prophesied that Chalcus the Greek would die on a certain day. He did Of what? 1236.Which bird is the symbol of peace? 1237.What is Mondays child? 1238.Bohea is a type of what? 1239.Mardi is French for which day of the week? 1240.Who is Wednesday named after?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1221. Kappa. 1222. The cook. 1223. Gold. 1224. Greyfriars Bobby. 1225. Smell. 1226. Sunday postal deliveries. 1227. Because British elections are always held on Thursdays and the legend Polling Station springs up everywhere. 1228. October. 1229. He made the first parachute jump from the air. 1230. A type of gun. 1231. Illegible handwriting. 1232. Rpondez sil vous plat: please reply. 1233. The Golden Hind. 1234. 10 June. 1235. Laughing too heartily because he wasnt dead. 1236. The dove. 1237. Fair of face. 1238. Tea. 1239. Tuesday. 1240. Woden.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1241.When does the wine harvest usually begin? 1242.The English system of five vowels has to represent how many vowels sounds? 1243.What do strikers call those who refuse to strike? 1244.What does gnomic mean? 1245.What industry did E1 Nio virtually destroy in 19723? 1246.Englands first census occurred when? 1247.About how many calories does half a pint of beer contain? 1248.About what percentage of fat children grow up to be fat adults? 1249.What is steganography? 1250.To what was an Albert chain usually attached? 1251.What colour is the habit of a Franciscan monk? 1252.What do mnemonics assist? 1253.Nencn-Kona was the first US consumer product for sale in the USSR. What is it? 1254.How many 1,000,000 notes have been printed? 1255.Of which university is the Slade School of Fine Art a department? 1256.Which army rank comes above captain? 1257.What is a meerschaum? 1258.What ingredient must French ice cream contain, by law? 1259.What is the commonest symbol on the flags of the world? 1260.What did Smiths Bon-Bons become known as after the 1840s?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1241. Mid-September. 1242. Twelve (and eight diphthongs). 1243. Scabs or black-legs. 1244. Pithy or epigrammatic. 1245. The Peruvian anchovy industry (it was a warm current). 1246. 1086 (Domesday Book). 1247. 150. 1248. 80 per cent. (Accept 7585 per cent.) 1249. The writing of messages with invisible ink. 1250. A watch. 1251. Grey. 1252. Memory. 1253. Pepsi Cola. 1254. Two. 1255. University College, London. 1256. Major. 1257. A pipe. 1258. Eggs. 1259. A star. 1260. Christmas crackers.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1261.What was banned on London underground trains from 9 July 1984? 1262.If you were crapulous what would you be? 1263.What is a parlour boarder? 1264.What is the name of the Lord Mayor of Londons official home? 1265.900 can be written in Roman numerals as DCCCC. What is the alternative? 1266.For what product are the Smith & Wesson company famous? 1267.How many acres are there in a square mile? 1268.What does the name Tabitha mean? 1269.What are the two most vital ingredients of a Bloody Mary? 1270.On which day are Hot Cross buns traditionally eaten? 1271.From whom did John F. Kennedy accept his dog Pushinka? 1272.How many fluid ounces make up an American pint? 1273.Who invented braille? 1274.After which saint is a revolving firework named? 1275.In Nottingham, an owl was stolen from an exhibition. What was the exhibition called? 1276.In Muslim countries, what is the equivalent of the Red Cross? 1277.What are English, Orator and Elite? 1278.The annual marking of Thames swans swan-upping takes place each summer. When? 1279.How often approximately does the human race double its number? 1280.What is blennophobia?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1261. Smoking. 1262. Drunk. 1263. A pupil at a boarding school who enjoys special privileges. 1264. The Mansion House. 1265. CM. 1266. Revolvers. 1267. 640. 1268. Gazelle. 1269. Vodka and tomato juice. 1270. Good Friday. 1271. Nikita Khrushchev. 1272. Sixteen. 1273. Louis Braille. 1274. St Catherine. 1275. VanishingVillage. 1276. The Red Crescent. 1277. Type-faces. 1278. During the third week of July. 1279. Every 35 years. 1280. A fear of slime.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1281.What is the Trial of the Pyx? 1282.What make-up is French for red? 1283.What is St Nicholas the patron saint of? 1284.Where can you earn a doctorate in hamburgerology? 1285.If you were born on 2 April what would your sign of the zodiac be? 1286.What is the main ingredient of cheese? 1287.What is Jewish penicillin? 1288.What is the most common language used in home computing? 1289.What is the name of Dennis the Menaces dog? 1290.What word is derived from-the Arab word mawsim, meaning season? 1291.Describe a Sam Browne? 1292.Of which god is the Egyptian Sphinx a statue? 1293.In the Royal Navy, badges of rank are worn on the jacket cuffs. What rank is indicated by a single stripe surmounted by a small hoop? 1294.The Querty typewriter key board was introduced specifically to do what? 1295.To the nearest 50,000, how many cars are stolen in Britain each year? 1296.Which biscuit is named after Queen Victorias holiday home in the Isle of Wight? 1297.What is written defamation called? 1298.Who launched the Daily Mail? 1299.The sorceress Circe changed what into what? 1300. From which language does the word gymnasium come?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1281. A yearly examination of coins from the Mint. 1282. Rouge. 1283. Children. 1284. Hamburger College, Chicago. 1285. Aries. 1286. Milk. 1287. Chicken soup. 1288. Basic. 1289. Gnasher. 1290. Monsoon. 1291. A military officers belt adjoining a shoulder strap. 1292. Harmachis. 1293. Commodore. 1294. Slow down the typists speed. 1295. 550,000, of which about 500,000 are eventually recovered. 1296. Osborne. 1297. Libel. 1298. Alfred Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe, in 1896. 1299. Humans into animals. 1300. Greek.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1301.What does IQ stand for? 1302.What percentage of people in the US and Europe have four or more colds a year? 1303.Strabismus is another name for which affliction of the eyes? 1304.How many kittens lost their mittens? 1305.What is the origin of the word brandy? 1306.Whose portrait appears on the reverse of the 50 note? 1307.Who opened the worlds first full-scale atomic generating plant? 1308.What is the French for Saturday? 1309.What is x ? 1310.If you were born on 5 September, what would be your star sign? 1311.If you park at a road junction at night, how far away from it should you be? 1312.What are the Fesse, Bend, Per Bend, Saltire and Cross? 1313.How many Law Sittings are there in a year? 1314.If you were born on 6 May, what would be your star sign? 1315.What phrase in Irish politics means ourselves alone? 1316.Who was the god of wine? 1317.In what year was the leap day last omitted in the Gregorian calendar? 1318.What would you eat at a traditional Swiss fondue? 1319.Pogonophobia is a fear of what? 1320.The most frequently used letters in English are E, T, O, A, N. In what language are the letters E, N, I, R, S most frequently used?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1301. Intelligence quotient. 1302. 25 per cent. 1303. A squint. 1304. Three. 1305. From the Dutch brandewijn (burnt wine). 1306. Sir Christopher Wrens. 1307. Queen Elizabeth II (Calder Hall, 1956). 1308. Samedi. 1309. 1310. Virgo. 1311. 15 yards. 1312. Simple charges (designs) in heraldry. 1313. Four. 1314. Taurus. 1315. Sinn Fein. 1316. Bacchus. 1317. 1900. 1318. Melted cheese and wine, with cubes of bread. 1319. Beards. 1320. German.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1321.Who were the first thugs? 1322.What does a galactophagist drink? 1323.Which is the oldest part of the Tower of London? 1324.What is a runcible spoon? 1325.What would pencil have meant in the eighteenth century? 1326.What is the third letter of the Greek alphabet? 1327.If you were born on 1 October, what would your star sign be? 1328.What was the donjon of a castle? 1329.How many quires make a ream? 1330.In a reference book what would the abbreviation op. cit. mean? 1331.Friday was named after Frigga. Who was she? 1332.When a cold front has passed you what usually happens to the atmospheric pressure? 1333.Castor and Pollux are the names of two stars in the constellation of Gemini. In legend they were twin brothers to which famous woman? 1334.What is Indian corn otherwise called? 1335.In what form did Galileo publish his astronomical views (1616) in order to disguise their revolutionary content? 1336.What is pyrophobia? 1337.What was the name of the last British battleship which survived both world wars? 1338.What does the name Jesus mean? 1339.In politics, by what name were the forerunners of the Liberals known? 1340.Which is the system of Hindu philosophy whose name means union?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1321. The Thuggee of northern India, who strangled victims in the name of Kali. 1322. Milk. 1323. The White Tower. 1324. A broad-pronged pickle fork. 1325. Brush. 1326. Gamma. 1327. Libra. 1328. The great tower, or keep. 1329. Twenty. 1330. The book or work previously mentioned. 1331. Frigga was Odins wife. 1332. It rises. 1333. Helen of Troy. 1334. Maize. 1335. As a dialogue between the two opposed views. 1336. Fear of fire. 1337. HMS Renown, built in 1916. 1338. Saviour. 1339. Whigs. 1340. Yoga.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1341.What is French for king? 1342.Which Chancellor of the Exchequer introduced Premium Bonds? 1343.If you were born on 30 May what would your star sign be? 1344.Which letter in Morse code is represented by three dots? 1345.What is the date of Walpurgis Night? 1346.Where was Interpol founded in 1923? 1347.The average European uses how much domestic water a day? 1348.If you suffer from musophobia of what are you afraid? 1349.In heraldry, a bar sinister means that the bearer is what? 1350.What colour ribbon does the Victoria Cross have? 1351.What percentage of French wines are labelled Appellation Contrle? 1352.Where would you find a parlour, a scriptorium, a dorter and a cellarium? 1353.What have the words apron, adder and umpire in common? 1354.What was the first frozen food available in Britain? 1355.To the nearest million, how many other people share your birthday? 1356.Which country has the lowest suicide rate? 1357.What is the former Daily Worker now called? 1358.You may legally ride a moped with a car drivers licence if the engine does not exceed what capacity? 1359.What is the upper age limit for MPs? 1360.Which is the most precious stone nowadays?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1341. Roi. 1342. Harold Macmillan. 1343. Gemini. 1344. S. 1345. 30 April. 1346. Vienna. 1347. 40 gallons. 1348. Mice. 1349. Illegitimate. 1350. Purple. 1351. 15 per cent. 1352. In a monastery. 1353. Theyve lost their initial n (being originally napron, nadder and numpire). 1354. Asparagus (in 1937). 1355. 9 million. 1356. Jordan (0.04 per 100,000). 1357. The Morning Star. 1358. 50cc. 1359. There is none. 1360. The ruby.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1361.From which political party did the Liberal Party develop? 1362.What does a denier measure? 1363.The artist Abbott Thayers spent his whole life studying the colour schemes of the animal world. What was he responsible for developing? 1364.What is the source of the original colours used for tartan cloth? 1365.What are Arran Pilot, Homeguard and Ulster Chieftain? 1366.On which day of the week does Pancake Day fall? 1367.Which is the most popular eye shadow of all time? 1368.How old was the Queen when she married? 1369.What is 555 in Roman numerals? 1370.At what age does a Jewish boy traditionally celebrate his Bar Mitzvah? 1371.What is the telephone area code for New York City? 1372.To within 500, how many saffron-coloured crocuses are needed to make 1 ounce of saffron dye? 1373.Which is the second most common international crime? 1374.Count de Grisley was the first magician to perform which trick in 1799? 1375.Why was 21 July 1983 in Antarctica memorable? 1376.Which of the seven wonders of the world was a statue of Apollo? 1377.What was buried in the coffin with evangelist Aime Semple McPherson in 1944? 1378.For every ten attempted suicides, on average, how many are successful? 1379.What is the only duty of the Grachtenvissers, a branch of the Amsterdam police? 1380.What is a male witch called?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1361. The Whigs. 1362. It is a unit for measuring the thickness of silk, rayon or nylon yarn. 1363. Military camouflage. 1364. Lichens. 1365. Varieties of early potatoes. 1366. Tuesday. 1367. Max Factors powder blue. 1368. Twenty-one. 1369. DLV. 1370. Thirteen. 1371. 212. 1372. 4,500. 1373. Art theft. 1374. Saw a woman in half. 1375. Because the lowest temperature ever recorded on earth was registered there. 1376. The Colossus of Rhodes. 1377. A telephone but the line was discontinued in 1378. One. 1379. To cope with motorists who drive into the canals! 1380. A warlock.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1381.How many letters are there in the Greek alphabet? 1382.What does caveat actor mean? 1383.Name two of the Hindu Trinity. 1384.Over what did the cow jump? 1385.How many babies were involved in the largest multiple human birth in which all the children lived? 1386.In which language does God Jul mean Happy Christmas? 1387.How does a Muslim husband divorce his wife? 1388.Which drink comes in Jeroboams? 1389.Who ate Turkey Lurkey? 1390.What is 88 in Roman numerals? 1391.How many cups of tea does the average Englishman drink per annum? 1392.Of the 250 known alphabets in the history of language, how many are alive today? 1393.Red sky at night is whose delight? 1394.Where in the world does each of our calendar days begin and end first? 1395.Who is the heir apparent to Britains throne? 1396.What couldnt Jack Sprat eat? 1397.Which two airlines fly Concorde? 1398.When did the Chinese Year of the Dog most recently occur? 1399.Which is the oldest and most widely used drug on earth? 1400.If you were anosmic what would be wrong with you?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1381. Twenty-four. 1382. Let the doer beware. 1383. Brahma, Shiva, Vishnu. 1384. The moon. 1385. Six born to Sue Rosenkowitz of South Africa on 11 January 1974. 1386. Swedish. 1387. By saying I divorce you three times. 1388. Champagne. 1389. Foxy Loxy. 1390. LXXXVIII. 1391. 2,000. 1392. 50 and half of these are in India. 1393. Shepherds. 1394. Tonga. 1395. Prince Charles. 1396. Fat. 1397. British Airways and Air France. 1398. 1982. 1399. Alcohol. 1400. No sense of smell.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1401.How much domestic water does the average American use in a day? 1402.What was Mr Punchs famous advice to young men about to marry? 1403.What do the initials DERV represent? 1404.What was the code name of the Israeli raid on Entebbe airport to free the hostages? 1405.Who or what is a palooka? 1406.If you are eating something en crote what would it be like? 1407.What does the legal phrase Volenti non fit injuria mean? 1408.What colour are survival dinghies? 1409.Which saint, according to legend, nipped the Devils nose with red-hot tongs? 1410.When, legally, is time immemorial? 1411.Which current UK coin has a diameter of 3 cm? 1412.Which sign of the Zodiac follows Libra? 1413.In 1921 in the USA John Larsen constructed the first of which controversial instrument? 1414.Die/dice, man/men are examples of irregular plurals in English. Just how many of them are there? 1415.Soho is a district of London. What else was it? 1416.Who was the first graduate of the Royal Family? 1417.What have a diesel, a boycott and a mackintosh in common? 1418.Who was King Arthurs father? 1419.From what did Florence Maybrick get the arsenic to poison her husband? 1420.Who was Polluxs twin brother?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1401. 60 gallons. 1402. Dont. 1403. Diesel Engined Road Vehicles. 1404. Thunderbolt. 1405. An incompetent games player. 1406. Enveloped in pastry. 1407. An injury cannot be done to a willing person. 1408. Orange. 1409. St Dunstan. 1410. Before the reign of Richard I (1189-99). 1411. The 50-pence piece. 1412. Scorpio. 1413. A lie-detector (polygraph). 1414. Thirteen. 1415. An old hunting cry. 1416. Prince Charles. 1417. They are all eponymons (words taken from the names of people). 1418. Uther Pendragon. 1419. Fly papers. 1420. Castor.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1421.Name the mark placed under the letter c to indicate an s pronunciation in French. 1422.What colour is a cardinals hat? 1423.What is the Administration of the Roman Catholic Church called? 1424.In 1969 the Nobel Prize categories were expanded to include what? 1425.By what name is the International Criminal Police Organization generally known? 1426.What had E.E. Cummings, Walt Disney, Ernest Hemingway and Somerset Maugham in common with regard to war? 1427.Whose private collection formed the foundation of the British Museum? 1428.Which is the smallest whole number which produces a total of over 200 when multiplied by itself? 1429.What are Franklin D. Roosevelts four Freedoms of Democracy? 1430.Gazing into a reflective surface to divine the future is called what? 1431.Who is the Queen of the High Fibre Diet? 1432.How many MPs are there? 1433.In money terms, what is a monkey? 1434.What is the Latin for seven? 1435.If you were born on 28 July, what star sign would you have? 1436.How many originals of the Magna Carta are in existence? 1437.What is another name for ladies fingers? 1438.Who said, You can have it any colour, so long as its black? 1439.Where would you find the line of Mars and the girdle of Venus? 1440.What were the followers of John Wyclif, the religious reformer, called?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1421. Cedilla. 1422. Red. 1423. The Curia. 1424. Economics. 1425. Interpol. 1426. They were all ambulance drivers in the First World War. 1427. Sir Hans Sloane. 1428. 15. 1429. Freedom of Speech, of Worship, from Want, from Fear. 1430. Scrying. 1431. Audrey Eyton (of F-Plan Diet fame). 1432. 635. 1433. 500. 1434. Septum. 1435. Leo. 1436. Four (two in the British Museum, one each at Salisbury and Lincoln cathedrals). 1437. Okra. 1438. Henry Ford. 1439. On your palm. They are terms in palmistry. 1440. Lollards.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1441.Which animals are associated with the Stock Exchange? 1442.To which English name does the Italian Giovanni correspond? 1443.In Scottish folklore, a kelpie is a ghost. In what form? 1444.What is a sabot? 1445.What is the Molink? 1446.To which trade were tumblers apprenticed? 1447.How many faces has an icosahedron? 1448.Where would you find zig-zags, ladders, diamonds, rig and fur, steps and prints o the hoof? 1449.Name the pair who joined forces in 1906 to make a very famous car. 1450.Approximately what percentage of women are colour blind? 1451.Where would you find the Mount of Apollo and the Girdle of Venus? 1452.What is the singular of dice? 1453.In humans, what is the effect of ageing on blue eyes? 1454.For how long, on average, does a British coin stay in circulation? 1455.The range of tides varies with the moon; what name is given to tides occurring at new moon? 1456.Of what is taramasalata made? 1457.Linnaeus gave the name food of the gods to what drink? 1458.In which year did British women get the vote at the age of twenty-one? 1459.How do you pronounce the surname Cholmondeley? 1460.What unusual weather condition occurred just before the 1975 drought in the British Isles?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1441. Bulls, bears and stags. 1442. John. 1443. Ahorse. 1444. A wooden shoe. 1445. The hot line between Washington and Moscow. 1446. Window-cleaning. 1447. Twenty. 1448. On guernseys or ganseys. They are knitting patterns. 1449. Charles Rolls and Henry Royce. 1450. Less than 1 per cent. 1451. In the palm of the hand. 1452. Die. 1453. They get lighter as their owners get older. 1454. About 25 years. 1455. Spring tides. 1456. Smoked cods roe. 1457. Chocolate. 1458. 1928. 1459. Chumley. 1460. Snow in June in many parts.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1461.What are the dog days? 1462.How long does it take an average crematorium to burn a corpse? 1463.What are the good reporters six questions? 1464.What fits into a mortise to form a joint? 1465.Approximately how many tons of diamonds are mined annually? 1466.What is chromophobia? 1467.What number does the Roman numeral X represent? 1468.In how many categories are Pulitzer Prizes awarded? 1469.What are the seven virtues? 1470.In 1912 David Sarnoff received a morse signal in New York carrying bad news. What was its gist? 1471.What time does the clock above the leading article in The Times always show? 1472.What is sake made from? 1473.Which three tradesmen were in a tub? 1474.Why are camel-hair brushes so called? 1475.Husky was the code name for what invasion? 1476.What is the motto of the FBI? 1477.Who is the patron saint of shoemakers? 1478.Which was the first ship to use the SOS distress signal? 1479.What is the American equivalent to Britains Sandhurst? 1480.What cabinet position includes being Master of the Royal Mint?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1461. The period between the rising and setting of Sirius, the dog-star (around 11 August). 1462. 1 hours. 1463. Who, what, when, where, why, how? 1464. A tenon. 1465. Five. 1466. Fear of a colour. 1467. 10. 1468. Eighteen. 1469. Faith, hope, charity, fortitude, justice, prudence and temperance. 1470. That the SS Titanic had run into an iceberg and was sinking fast. 1471. 4.30. 1472. Rice. 1473. The butcher, the baker and the candlestick-maker. 1474. Not because they are made from camel hair, but from the name of their inventor Camel. 1475. The Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943. 1476. Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity. 1477. St Crispin. 1478. The Titanic. 1479. West Point. 1480. Chancellor of the Exchequer

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1481.Which abbreviation denotes unknown authorship? 1482.What is a painter used to fasten? 1483.For how many nights does the Jewish festival Chanukah last? 1484.In 1735 the Gentlemans Magazine published a poem about which devoted old couple? 1485.Of whom was the Colossus of Rhodes a statue? 1486.How many calories are there in half a pint of milk? 1487.What are Unaone, Soxisix, Novenine? 1488.If something is caseous what is it like? 1489.Which was the first company to produce petrol-driven motor cars? 1490.What are calamares? 1491.Whose summer residence is Castel Gandolfo? 1492.What is the French for man? 1493.Which letters flank the G on the typewriter? 1494.For what would you use pectin? 1495.What kind of food is devils-on-horseback? 1496.What day follows Shrove Tuesday? 1497.Which coin was called a tanner? 1498.What was Carl Magees invention of 1935 that motorists have cursed ever since? 1499.Who wrote, Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money from them? 1500.What was the device for city-dwellers patented in 1972 by Henry Doherty of Wayne, New Jersey?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1481. Anon. 1482. A boat. 1483. Eight. 1484. Darby and Joan the phrase stayed. 1485. Apollo. 1486. 180. 1487. International communication phonetics for numbers 1, 6, 9. 1488. Cheese. 1489. Daimler. 1490. Squid. 1491. The Popes. 1492. Homme. 1493. F and H. 1494. For setting jellies and jams. 1495. Bacon wrapped around prunes. 1496. Ash Wednesday. 1497. The sixpence (2 p). 1498. The parking meter. 1499. Mark Twain. 1500. The poop-scoop for dogs excrement.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1501.Who sits on the Woolsack? 1502.What is 3 to the power of 4? 1503.What is an American policemans truncheon called? 1504.What is dwyle-flonking? 1505.How many holes are there in a telephone dial? 1506.How do you address a surgeon? 1507.With which flavour is Cointreau associated? 1508.What is a tonsorialist? 1509.In Parliament, the Commons vote Ay and No. How do the Lords vote? 1510.What are chitterlings? 1511.How many pairs of chromosomes should you have? 1512.Where did Anne Frank die? 1513.What is a hummum? 1514.Which three letters in the English alphabet are not in the classical Latin alphabet? 1515.What was the name of the white poodle given to Marilyn Monroe by Frank Sinatra? 1516.How many is a bakers dozen? 1517.What is a sheet bend? 1518.What is the principal ingredient of sauerkraut? 1519.If the icecaps of the earth melted, at which of the Empire State Buildings 102 storeys would sea-level be? 1520.Which 1934 invention of Percy Shaws has proved a boon to motorists?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1501. The Lord Chancellor. 1502. 81. 1503. A nightstick. 1504. The flinging of Wellington bootsor other objects. The furthest throw wins. 1505. Ten. 1506. As Mr rather than Doctor. 1507. Orange. 1508. A barber. 1509. Content and Not content. 1510. The smaller intestines of animals, fried or boiled for food. 1511. Twenty-three. 1512. In Belsen concentration camp. 1513. A Turkish bath. 1514. J, U, W. 1515. Mafia. 1516. Thirteen. 1517. A knot joining two ropes which are usually of unequal thickness. 1518. Cabbage. 1519. The twentieth. 1520. Cats eyes.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1521.In which industry do the Trade Unions SOGAT and NATSOPA operate? 1522.For what is PS the abbreviation? 1523.Which organization has the words Blood and Fire on its badge? 1524.From which stationery group did Conran de-merge in 1971? 1525.What does nolens volens mean? 1526.What was the original meaning of antediluvian? 1527.Who can be seen in a glass case in University College, London? 1528.What is normal human temperature on the Centigrade scale? 1529.In computer jargon, what is a VDU? 1530.Which is the second most commonly spoken language in the world? 1531.What is the profession of an FRCVS? 1532.Of which animal does a griffin have the body? 1533.What is the name of the horse badly injured in a bomb outrage in London, and retired in June 1984? 1534.What is the Boy Scouts motto? 1535.Where does Indian ink come from? 1536.What is the most common international crime? 1537.Which is the least used letter in the English alphabet? 1538.Who was Marmaduke Gingerbits? 1539.For what is titfer the rhyming slang? 1540.Which is the worlds largest airline?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1521. Printing. 1522. Post scriptum. 1523. The Salvation Army. 1524. Rymans. 1525. Willy-nilly. 1526. Before Noahs flood. 1527. Jeremy Bentham, mummified. 1528. 37. 1529. A visual display unit. 1530. English. 1531. Veterinary surgery. 1532. A lion. 1533. Sefton. 1534. Be prepared. 1535. China. 1536. Narcotics (drug) smuggling. 1537. Q. 1538. The cat at the centre of a 1984 court case. 1539. Hat (tit for tat). 1540. Aeroflot of the USSR.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1541.What is the principal Herald of Scotland called? 1542.What is ormolu? 1543.What did France give America on its hundredth anniversary of Independence? 1544.How many noughts has one million? 1545.What does koh-i-noor mean? 1546.How much did the Daily Express cost in 1945? 1547.After whom are teddy bears named? 1548.After which Scandinavian god is Thursday named? 1549.Whose personal expenditure comes out of the privy purse? 1550.Which British title is equivalent to the continental count? 1551.What is the naval equivalent to the rank of major in the army? 1552.For what is a.m. the abbreviation? 1553.Which London cabinet-maker gave his name to a method of slimming? 1554.What does per capita literally mean? 1555.What do the letters MG stand for on cars? 1556.What does nolens volens mean? 1557.From which country does mulligatawny soup originate? 1558.Which language has the greatest number of words? 1559.Which colour tranquillizer pills have the best effect? 1560.For what does NB stand?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1541. Lord Lyon King of Arms. 1542. Gilded bronze used for clocks and furniture; a French invention. 1543. The Statue of Liberty. 1544. Six. 1545. Mountain of light. 1546. One old penny. 1547. President Theodore Roosevelt. 1548. Thor. 1549. The Queens. 1550. Earl. 1551. Lieutenant-commander. 1552. Ante meridiem (the Latin for before noon). 1553. Banting. 1554. Per head. 1555. Morris Garages. 1556. Willy-nilly. 1557. India. The name means pepper-water. 1558. English. 1559. Yellow. 1560. Nota bene.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1561.What is the ten-yearly official head-count called? 1562.Which couple raised Elsa the lioness from birth in February 1956? 1563.What is the characteristic ingredient of borsch? 1564.What is a Jeroboam? 1565.What is the name for the Sunday before Easter? 1566.What makes red wine red? 1567.Where is the fissure of Sylvius? 1568.What are the seven deadly sins? 1569.Which magazine folded in June 1984 after 103 years? 1570.What is biltong? 1571.Which day is named after the Roman god of farming? 1572.What originally was a tycoon? 1573.Of which generation are your first, second and third cousins? 1574.How many heads has the dog Cerberus? 1575.How many in a gross? 1576.When is Remembrance Day? 1577.Whose law states that Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion? 1578.What is the heraldic term for blue? 1579.Which dictionary word is an anagram of indicatory? 1580.If contained in an advert, which word attracts the most attention?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1561. The census. 1562. Joy and George Adamson. 1563. Beetroot. 1564. A large wine-bottle. 1565. Palm Sunday. 1566. The fermentation of the skins of red grapes. 1567. In the brain. 1568. Pride, avarice, wrath, envy, gluttony, sloth, lust. 1569. Tit Bits. 1570. Strips of dried meat. 1571. Saturday (Saturn). 1572. A Japanese hereditary commander-in-chief. 1573. Your own. 1574. Three. 1575. 144. 1576. 11 November. 1577. Parkinsons. 1578. Azure. 1579. Dictionary. 1580. Free.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1581.On 27 May 1979, the worlds first rally for these was held at Longleat House. What were they? 1582.Who wrote The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care? 1583.What void did Captain Hanson Gregory Crockett create in 1847? 1584.In which year was the two-tier system introduced for inland letters? 1585.Who said, What is wrong with the world today is greed, immorality and depravity? 1586.THE CLASS ROOM is a well-known anagram of what word? 1587.Where is the bow of a ship? 1588.What was the first flush lavatory trade-marked? 1589.What is meant when a member of the House of Lords talks about the Other Place? 1590.Who lives at No. 11 Downing Street? 1591.If all were alive, how many great-great-grandparents could you have at most? 1592.If you are misocapnic, what do you abhor? 1593.About how many acres do the Houses of Parliament in Westminster cover? 1594.The American helicopter the Chinook was named after what? 1595.What colour is a Catholic cardinals skull cap? 1596.Which famous London store has as its motto Omnia Omnis Ubique? 1597.What does the word Panzer mean? 1598.What was said in legend to be the result of a tree bearing barnacles as fruit which then dropped into the sea? 1599.What was the filling of the very first sandwich made by the Fourth Earl of Sandwich? 1600.Which Canadian political scientist became known for his swing-o-meter?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1581. Teddy bears. 1582. Dr Benjamin Spock. 1583. The hole in doughnuts. 1584. 1968. 1585. Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper. 1586. Schoolmaster. 1587. At the front (the sharp end). 1588. Ajax. 1589. The House of Commons. 1590. The Chancellor of the Exchequer. 1591. Sixteen. 1592. Tobacco smoke. 1593. Eight. 1594. A wind (in the Rockies). 1595. Red. 1596. Harrods. 1597. Armour. 1598. The barnacle goose. 1599. Roast beef. 1600. Robert McKenzie.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1601.In Britain, how many boys are born to each 100 girls? 1602.What is the total of the degrees of the three angles of a triangle? 1603.Which ship did Christopher Jones captain? 1604.With what did the sparrow kill Cock Robin? 1605.To whose band did Will Scarlet belong? 1606.Alfred Packer was the only man in the USA to be convicted of one particular crime. Which crime? 1607.If you were an ancient apothecary, how many pennyweights would there be to a lb weight? 1608.What is a caret? 1609.Which traffic light colour precedes amber alone? 1610.By what name is 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC, better known? 1611.How many in a score? 1612.Paddy, after harvest and with the husks removed, becomes what? 1613.Which was the first British company to arrange tourist excursions? 1614.What is a kukri? 1615.If a 20-metre-thick layer of peat were buried under 3 kilometres of sediment how thick would the resultant seam of coal be? 1616.When was the automobile ignition key introduced? 1617.What are the octane values of 2-star and 3-star petrol? 1618.What ham results from pigs fed on peaches and nuts, the meat being smoked over hickory fires? 1619.Who said, Elementary, my dear Watson? 1620.In the USA, how many pounds make up a hundredweight?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1601. 106. 1602. 180. 1603. The Mayflower. 1604. His bow and arrow. 1605. Robin Hoods. 1606. Cannibalism. 1607. 240. 1608. A printers insertion mark. 1609. Green. 1610. The White House. 1611. Twenty. 1612. Rice. 1613. Thomas Cook. 1614. A Gurkha knife. 1615. 2 metres thick. 1616. 1949. 1617. 92 and 94 respectively. 1618. American Virginia. 1619. Not Sherlock Holmes. This line does not occur in any of the Conan Doyle stories. 1620. 100 lb.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1621.What number does the Roman numeral L represent? 1622.Which fashion designer created the mini-skirt in the 1960s? 1623.On which day of the week was President Kennedy assassinated? 1624.How tall is Nelsons Column in Trafalgar Square? 1625.Of which alphabet is omega the final letter? 1626.September, by virtue of its name, should be the seventh month. Why is it the ninth? 1627.Which is the highest rank in the navy? 1628.Which anti-whaling organization operates the ship Rainbow Warrior? 1629.Who saw Cock Robin die? 1630.What is the British term for a thumbtack? 1631.At least how old is three-star brandy? 1632.Which cathedral was badly damaged by fire in July 1984? 1633.What is the army rank next below sergeant? 1634.Fulvous looks like a Lewis Carroll word, but it isnt. What does it mean? 1635.What is contained in a tantalus? 1636.Where does the nightly ceremony of the keys take place? 1637.What wont a rolling stone gather? 1638.Sanskrit is an old language. What does the word mean? 1639.What utensils should be used for eating asparagus? 1640.Describe a pawnbrokers sign.

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1621. Fifty. 1622. Mary Quant. 1623. Friday. 1624. 172 feet 2 inches. 1625. Greek. 1626. Because the year used to begin in March, when it would have been correct. 1627. Admiral of the Fleet. 1628. The Greenpeace Foundation. 1629. The fly (with his little eye). 1630. A drawing-pin. 1631. 5 years. 1632. York Minster. 1633. Corporal. 1634. Dull yellow tawny. 1635. Drink in decanters. 1636. The Tower of London. 1637. Moss. 1638. Put together, perfected. 1639. Fingers. 1640. Three gold balls, hanging.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1641.Which body founded the anti-smoking organization ASH in 1971? 1642.Which wedding anniversary is paper? 1643.What was the name of Jasons ship? 1644.From which district in France do the majority of fine clarets come? 1645.Who flew for over forty years without a licence? 1646.What is Londons Central Criminal Court called? 1647.Who or what is a carpet-bagger? 1648.In which trade are composing frames and sticks used? 1649.How many new human illnesses are identified each year? 1650.Which letter is at the far left of the bottom row of a typewriter keyboard? 1651.What are the six main vitamins? 1652.What is 1970 in Roman numerals? 1653.What French name is given to clear meat soup or broth? 1654.What do we call the first day of Lent? 1655.Which mammal lives longest? 1656.Which vegetable comes in globe and Jerusalem varieties? 1657.Name the type of government formed by a small group after a coup dtat. 1658.If you were born on 10 July what would your sign of the zodiac be? 1659.What is belonephobia? 1660.The most devastating motorway pile-up in Britain due to fog occurred on 13 September 1971. How many vehicles collided?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1641. The Royal College of Physicians. 1642. The first. 1643. Argo. 1644. Mdoc. 1645. Orville Wright. 1646. The Old Bailey. 1647. This is an American political term for an entrepreneur who began business in the devastated southern states with no more than could be carried in a carpet-bag. 1648. Printing. 1649. About 500. 1650. Z. 1651. A,B,C,D,E and K. 1652. MCMLXX. 1653. Consomm. 1654. Ash Wednesday. 1655. Man. 1656. The artichoke. 1657. Junta. 1658. Cancer. 1659. Fear of pins and needles. 1660. 200.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1661.Which measurement did Henry III define by laying down three barleycorns in a continuous line? 1662.What are lines from the centre of a circle to its circumference called? 1663.How many Nobel Prizes are awarded annually? 1664.An organization of business and professional men was founded in 1905 in Chicago out of a weekly luncheon club. What is it called? 1665.What are scout rallies called? 1666.What was the original trade of William Morris the car manufacturer? 1667.Which festival did the first popular greetings card celebrate? 1668.What did hospital social workers used to be called? 1669.What was the speed limit fixed by the Motor Car Act of 1903? 1670.What is Fridays child? 1671.How many fathoms are there to a cable? 1672.What have gazpacho and vichyssoise got in common? 1673.What is the most expensive pt you can buy? 1674.What is mordanting? 1675.The new Gregorian calendar demands the leap day every four years but how many times every 400 years doesnt this happen? 1676.The derrick crane was named after Dick Derrick. What was his occupation? 1677.In which year was the old-age pension introduced? 1678.What is mocha? 1679.What stands under the spreading chestnut tree? 1680.When is St Swithins Day?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1661. The inch. 1662. Radii. 1663. Six. 1664. The Rotary Club. 1665. Jamborees. 1666. Bicycle repairer. 1667. St Valentines Day. 1668. Almoners. 1669. Twenty miles per hour. 1670. Loving and giving. 1671. About 100. 1672. They are both soups served chilled. 1673. Pt de foie gras. 1674. Fixing a dye into cloth. 1675. Three. 1676. A seventeenth-century hangman. 1677. 1909. 1678. A fine arabica coffee or blend of chocolate and coffee. 1679. The village smithy. 1680. 15 July.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1681.In Britain, how many lbs are there in a hundredweight? 1682.In C B slang, what is a water hole? 1683.What is Romaic? 1684.How did the tank get its name? 1685.How many roods in an acre? 1686.What type of plane was a Lancaster? 1687.What is an American tramp called? 1688.English people prefer eggs of what colour? 1689.The Greek for a circle of animals gave its name to what? 1690.What is dittology? 1691.What are the names of the two legendary City of London giants whose effigies stand in the Guildhall? 1692.Who were the Red Shirts? 1693.What does a Union Jack flying upside down signify? 1694.In which professions are members of the disciplinary committee called benchers? 1695.What was put under central control in 1832 in London, having previously been carried out by insurance companies? 1696.What is a homonym? 1697.What is enamel? 1698.Which out of 1800, 1850, 1900, 1950 and 2000 are leap years? 1699.What colour is the wax covering Edam cheese? 1700.What name was given to short-barrelled rifles formerly used by cavalry?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1681. 112. 1682. A pub. 1683. The modern Greek language. 1684. For security reasons they were sent to France in crates labelled WATER TANKS. 1685. Four. 1686. A bomber. 1687. A hobo. 1688. Brown. 1689. The Zodiac. 1690. Double meaning. 1691. Gog and Magog. 1692. Followers of Garibaldi. 1693. Distress. 1694. The legal profession. 1695. Fire fighting. 1696. A word with more than one sense (e.g. bat). 1697. A fine layer of glass on metal. 1698. Only 2000. A leap year is one divisible by 4, except the year of the century which is a leap year only when divisable by 400. 1699. Red. 1700. Carbines.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1701.Dr Johnson considered claret to be the drink for boys, port for men, and what for heroes? 1702.What is the use of a W.C. without a seat? This was a telegram. To whom was it sent? 1703.The original Egyptian hieroglyph for the letter N represented what? 1704.What are mens full-length underpants commonly called? 1705.What is the Latin for wood? 1706.What were the first false teeth made of? 1707.Which two letters are the newest in the English alphabet? 1708.What do Americans call maths? 1709.How many pints of milk are needed to make 1 lb of cheddar cheese? 1710.The term cab comes from what word? 1711.What is heraldic black called? 1712.A Frenchman, Adolphe Pgoud, was the first pilot to do what in 1913? 1713.Which British bird was depicted on the farthing? 1714.For what speed is ton slang? 1715.What was moved from Paris to Brussels in 1966 after France went on her own? 1716.Name two of the three terms at Oxford. 1717.What is the Fahrenheit equivalent of Gas Regulo 7? 1718.What is Mariolatry? 1719.Who was the man, Lord of a Neolithic monument, who introduced Bank Holidays? 1720.What was awarded to Dag Hammarskjld a month after he died?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1701. Brandy. 1702. To Winston Churchill when he lost an election in Manchester. 1703. Waves. 1704. Long-johns. 1705. Lignum. 1706. Ivory. 1707. J and V, which came into use around 1630. 1708. Math. 1709. Eight. 1710. Cabriolet, meaning a small coach. 1711. Sable. 1712. Loop-the-Loop. 1713. The wren. Appropriate as it was so small. 1714. 100 m.p.h. 1715. NATO headquarters. 1716. Trinity, Michaelmas, Hilary. 1717. 425F. 1718. Idolatrous worship of the Virgin Mary as conceived by opponents of Roman Catholicism. 1719. Lord Avebury (Sir John Lubbock). 1720. The Nobel Peace Prize.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1721.What is tahini made from? 1722.Sayonara is goodbye in which language? 1723.What is tomorrow in Spanish? 1724.What is the female equivalent of a warlock? 1725.What is a lazy Susan? 1726.Name the place of detention for prisoners in the US navy. 1727.Who won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1944? 1728.What does decimate mean? 1729.What is inscribed on the reverse of the Military Medal? 1730.At which British university can you take a degree in brewing? 1731.What is another name for chiromancy? 1732.Where did the word robot originate? 1733.What word was declared unparliamentary by the Speaker in June 1984? 1734.Which was the first stately home opened to the public? 1735.What is the Devils Tattoo? 1736.Up to 180 years ago there was no such thing as a cotton reel. What was there instead? 1737.What was Big Willie? 1738.Which fabric is named after Nmes in France? 1739.To whom are Jews Gentiles? 1740. What is the largest single gold object in the world?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1721. Sesame seeds. 1722. Japanese. 1723. Maana. 1724. A witch. 1725. A tray which revolves on a central bearing. 1726. The brig. 1727. The International Red Cross (awarded 1945). 1728. To reduce by one-tenth. 1729. For bravery in the field. 1730. Heriot-Watt, in Edinburgh. 1731. Palmistry. 1732. It is a Slav word meaning work. RUR (Rossums Universal Robots) was a play by the Czech Karel apek. 1733. Fascist. 1734. Wilton House, near Salisbury, in 1776. Nearly 2,500 visited that year, not paying an entrance fee but tipping the housekeeper. 1735. Drumming with fingers or feet as an unconscious habit or as a sign of impatience. 1736. Hanks of linen thread. 1737. One of the first military tanks. 1738. Denim (deNmes). 1739. Mormons. 1740. Tutankhamens coffin.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1741.Which country, per capita, uses the most umbrellas? 1742.Where were Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer married? 1743.Who writes the bridge column in the Sunday Express? 1744.When did the Chinese Year of the Rat most recently occur? 1745.What was a licensed vendor of papal indulgences called? 1746.How many sides has a twenty-pence piece? 1747.Name Sebastian Flytes teddy-bear (Evelyn Waughs Brideshead Revisited). 1748.In weight, how much food and drink does an average person consume in a year? 1749.Generally, how many teaspoonfuls equal a tablespoonful? 1750.Approximately how many pounds of earth must be mined and sifted to produce a half-carat diamond? 1751.What dont orthodox Jews do on Yom Kippur? 1752.Who slew the monster Grendel? 1753.Translate Veni, Vidi, Vici. 1754.Where would you eat alfresco? 1755.How many sheets of paper are there in a ream? 1756.What is British Rails hovercraft division called? 1757.If the horse in a statue of a mounted man has two legs raised, how did the man die? 1758.For which month is emerald the birth stone? 1759.What do philatelists collect? 1760.To the nearest 5 per cent, what percentage of the worlds population go through the day without coming into contact with a newspaper, radio, TV or telephone?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1741. England. 1742. St Pauls Cathedral. 1743. Omar Sharif. 1744. 1984. 1745. A pardoner. 1746. Seven. 1747. Aloysius. 1748. 1 ton. 1749. Three. 1750. 46,000 (give or take 5,000). 1751. Eat, drink or work. 1752. Beowulf. 1753. I came, I saw, I conquered. 1754. In the open air. 1755. 500 (formerly 480). 1756. Seaspeed (not Sealink). 1757. He was killed in action. 1758. May. 1759. Stamps. 1760. Sixty-five.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1761.What will happen if you eat the leaves of a cherry tree? 1762.Who is the Greek goddess of love? 1763.What is the fate of the ship The Flying Dutchman? 1764.Who said, Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration? 1765.What is the worlds most extensively used food? 1766.How many lines are there in a limerick? 1767.What is the original meaning of the word bride? 1768.Approximately how many people per day commit suicide worldwide? 1769.Approximately what percentage of the worlds population customarily eats with a knife and fork? 1770.What is the commonest item of international commerce? 1771.What is the German for Thursday? 1772.What are you afraid of if you suffer from xenophobia? 1773.From which fruit is kirsch made? 1774.Which bronze emblem is awarded to soldiers of the British Army who are mentioned in despatches? 1775.What is raku? 1776.When is St Martins Day? 1777.In computing, what is the unit of coded information? 1778.Who invented the first safety razor in 1895? 1779.What do 100 centimes make? 1780.Which mythological monster has a bulls head on a mans body?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1761. You will be poisoned. 1762. Aphrodite. 1763. To sail for ever on the oceans of the world. 1764. Thomas Edison. 1765. Rice. 1766. Five. 1767. To cook from an ancient Teutonic word. 1768. 1,000. 1769. One-third. 1770. Petroleum and its by-products. 1771. Donnerstag. 1772. Foreigners. 1773. Cherries. 1774. An oak leaf. 1775. Japanese pottery; it is glazed and biscuit fired. 1776. 11 November. 1777. A bit 1778. King C. Gillette. 1779. 1 franc. 1780. The Minotaur.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1781.What is the highest rank in the RAF? 1782.The residual pulp of what is called bargasse? 1783.What did John Paxton design for Prince Albert? 1784.What lies under the Arc de Triomphe de ltoile? 1785.Which is the next highest prime number after 23? 1786.Beside Isaac Newtons, whose picture appears on 1 notes? 1787.What is the international radio-telephonic distress signal used by aircraft and ships? 1788.Of what are Brussels, Wilton and Axminster types? 1789.Where would you find a ram chasing a bull? 1790.How frequently does a Hebdomadal Council meet? 1791.Approximately how many right-handed people are there to each left-handed person? 1792.Name three of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. 1793.Bourbon whiskey is aged in new oak casks, the insides of which have been treated with what? 1794.Who were Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos? 1795.In todays money, about how much would the original Mayflower expedition to the Americas cost? 1796.Soto and Rinzai are the two main branches of which religion? 1797.What were known derisively in Victorian times as little bags of mystery? 1798.What do you mix with sugar to make meringues? 1799.Which part of a vessel carries the ships compass? 1800.In Utmost Good Faith is the motto of which famous organization in the city?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1781. Marshal. 1782. Sugar cane. 1783. The Crystal Palace. 1784. The tomb of the French Unknown Warrior. 1785. 29. 1786. The Queens. 1787. Mayday. 1788. Carpet. 1789. In the Zodiac. 1790. Weekly. 1791. Five. 1792. Britain, China, France, USA, USSR. 1793. Fire (the insides are charred). 1794. The Greek Fates. 1795. 18 million. 1796. Zen Buddhism. 1797. Sausages. 1798. Egg whites. 1799. Binnacle. 1800. Lloyds of London.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1801.In which sauce were baked beans first sold? 1802.For what does QED stand? 1803.The Romans used seven letters to represent their numbers. One of each put together forms which highest number? 1804.If you eat kosher food what religion would you probably be? 1805.How old is a poussin? 1806.Which car manufacturers original title was Socit Industrielle de Mcanique et de Construction Automobile? 1807.What was the difference between taverns and inns? 1808.What is a coparcener? 1809.What heraldic colour is vert? 1810.Who are the wholesalers of the Stock Exchange? 1811.What is the cube root of ? 1812.What does AD mean? 1813.During which season do most burglaries take place? 1814.Which currency rule was named after an English economist? 1815.Who speak Romany? 1816.What are Grapnel, Bruce, Danforth and Plough? 1817.About how much does the total daily food consumption by people in Britain weigh? 1818.Finish Lord Actons phrase: Power tends to corrupt... 1819.The red flag, flown by certain French ships and called the Joli Rouge, was the origin of what? 1820.What are crotons?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1801. Molasses. 1802. Quod erat demonstrandum. 1803. 1666 (MDCLXVI). 1804. Jewish. 1805. 4 to 6 weeks (a baby chicken). 1806. Simca. 1807. Taverns, unlike inns, could only provide casual refreshment and couldnt entertain or put up guests. 1808. A joint heir. 1809. Green. 1810. The jobbers. 1811. 1812. In the year of our Lord (anno Domini). 1813. Summer holiday time. 1814. Greshams Law. 1815. Gypsies. 1816. Types of anchor. 1817. 80,000 tonnes. 1818. ... and absolute power corrupts absolutely. 1819. The Jolly Roger. 1820. Small pieces of bread fried or toasted.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1821.How many calories does the gum on a postage stamp contain? 1822.New Years Eve in Scotland celebrates which saints day? 1823.What is an iamb? 1824.In what ratio do male alcoholics outnumber female alcoholics? 1825.What is metoposcopy? 1826.What is the only wine that can legally be called Champagne? 1827.What is cock-a-leekie? 1828.In 1631 Robert Barkers Holy Bible was destroyed and the printer fined 300. Why? 1829.Which of the seven wonders of the world was at Halicarnassus? 1830.What is the height of a 1 note? 1831.Which stimulant occurs in tea, coffee and cocoa? 1832.In which publication was the term suffragette first used? 1833.GATT is an acronym for what? 1834.Which famous mystery writer created a mystery by disappearing in 1926? 1835.What do magicians consider to be the most dangerous trick? 1836.How many nobles did a monetary pound comprise? 1837.Which word has come into about 1,200 different languages without changing? 1838.What is the term Brassica rapa used for? 1839.What is saponification? 1840.What is ETAOINSHRDLU?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1821. About 1/10 of a calorie. 1822. Saint Sylvester. 1823. A metrical foot, consisting of one short followed by one long syllable. 1824. About 5 to 1. 1825. The art of reading character from the forehead. 1826. Wine made by the Champagne method in the region around Reims. 1827. A Scottish soup made from chicken and leeks. 1828. Because the Seventh Commandment read: Thou shalt commit adultery. 1829. The mausoleum of King Mausolus of Caria. 1830. Approximately 2 inches. 1831. Caffeine. 1832. The Daily Mail (1906). 1833. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. 1834. Agatha Christie. 1835. Catching a bullet in their teeth. 1836. Three. 1837. Amen. 1838. Turnips. 1839. The process by which soap is made. 1840. Twelve letters of the alphabet in the order of frequency with which they are used in English.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1841.What is Rauchen verboten in English? 1842.Which RAF rank is equivalent to the Armys second lieutenant? 1843.What title did Harold Macmillan take on his ninetieth birthday? 1844.How many Pope Johns have there been? 1845.Of what is Liberty Enlightening the World the official name? 1846.An assegai is a type of what? 1847.In his lifetime how many months does the average man spend shaving? 1848.Which girls name means chaste? 1849.What are the constituents of the drink Black Velvet? 1850.How many biscuits do Associated Biscuits Ltd manufacture every hour? 1851.What is the flavour of the liqueur Tia Maria? 1852.In which direction do the Chinese read? 1853.What percentage proof is the strongest possible beer obtainable from yeast fermentation alone? 1854.How many milligrams of caffeine are there in the average cup of tea? 1855.What do Americans call what the British call waistcoats? 1856.What colour were the shirts of Mussolinis fascists? 1857.What did Joseph W. Swan invent in 1879? 1858.In Hinduism, what consists of 3,110,400,000,000 days? 1859.What does cap--pie mean? 1860.The Red Flag Act of 1865 specified that every road locomotive must have three persons in attendance. What were their jobs?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1841. No smoking. 1842. Pilot officer. 1843. Earl of Stockton. 1844. Twenty-one. 1845. The Statue of Liberty. 1846. Spear. 1847. 4 months. 1848. Agnes. 1849. Champagne and stout. 1850. 5 million. 1851. Coffee. 1852. Top to bottom, right to left and back to front. 1853. 24% proof. 1854. Seventy. 1855. Vests. 1856. Black. 1857. The electric light bulb. 1858. A single day of Brahma. 1859. From head to foot. 1860. One to stoke, one to steer, and one to walk ahead waving a red flag.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1861.Which is the worlds largest newspaper in sheer bulk? 1862.If you were born on 25 January what star sign would you be? 1863.Why do you hang meat? 1864.If you were born on Christmas Day what is your star sign? 1865.What is a dibber in gardening? 1866.How much fat would a normal person lose after walking for 24 hours? 1867.For how much did Edward McLean buy the forty-four carat Hope Diamond in 1911? 1868.How many points has the star of David? 1869.What type of angle is less than ninety degrees? 1870.When is St Andrews day? 1871.Veal comes from what age of calf? 1872.What were Twinkletoes and Lucky Jim, two stuffed cats, the first to do? 1873.How many old pennies were there in a guinea? 1874.To the nearest 5,000, how many umbrellas are lost each year on Londons bus and underground systems? 1875.What is Tokay? 1876.How many gallons of water does an average bather use? 1877.What is the season for pheasant? 1878.What are the three most common causes of death in the 2030 age group? 1879.Apart from water, what is the main ingredient of bouillabaisse? 1880.What, in Greek mythology, is the food of the gods?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1861.The Sunday edition of The New York Times. (The largest, published on 17 October 1965, consisted of 946 pages!) 1862. Aquarius. 1863. To tenderize and develop flavour. 1864. Capricorn. 1865. A pointed instrument used to make a hole in the ground when planting out. 1866. 1 pound. 1867. 60,000. 1868. Six. 1869. Acute. 1870. 30 November. 1871. Between 2 weeks and 1 year. 1872. Fly across the Atlantic in a plane, accompanying Alcock and Brown. 1873. 252. 1874. 75,000. 1875. A Hungarian wine. 1876. Thirty to forty. 1877. 1 October to 31 January. 1878. Accident, poisoning and violence. 1879. Fish. 1880. Ambrosia.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1881.What does the term avast mean? 1882.How many old shillings were there in a guinea? 1883.What is Big Ben? (Be accurate.) 1884.What size is quarto paper? 1885.What is the German for no? 1886.Which is the worlds most widely used seasoning? 1887.Which country has the highest suicide rate? 1888.Which was the first public building in Britain to be protected by a lightning conductor? 1889.Who could choose to be hanged by a silken rope in preference to one made of hemp? 1890.In England, how many degrees proof are whisky and gin? 1891.How many passengers does a DC-10 hold? 1892.How many known deaths have occurred in spacecraft? 1893.What was a Nuremburg egg? 1894.Which number gives you the same answer whether you add 6 to it, or multiply it by 6? 1895.What were Fouriers phalansteries? 1896.What does Stalin mean? 1897.What are marrons glacs? 1898. What percentage of carbohydrates can be found in meat? 1899. For what is a Geiger counter used? 1900. What wording can be found on all British decimal coinage, on the other side from the Queens head?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1881. Stop. (What you are doing?) 1882. Twenty-one. 1883. The hour bell in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, Westminster. 1884. 8 by 10 inches. 1885. Nein. 1886. Salt. 1887. Hungary (426 per 100,000 in 1977). 1888. St Pauls Cathedral. 1889. Peers of the realm. 1890. 70. 1891. 380. 1892. Seven. 1893. An early watch or pocket clock. 1894. l (l2). 1895. Proposed socialist communities of about 1,800 people, owning no private property and living as one family. 1896. Steel. 1897. Sweet chestnuts preserved in syrup. 1898.None. 1899.Measuring radioactivity. 1900. NEW PENCE.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1901. Where in Europe, besides Britain, are vehicles driven on the left? 1902. Which regiment is known as the Blues? 1903. What is the riddle of the Sphinx? 1904. What is the answer to the riddle of the Sphinx? 1905. What are old boys of Charterhouse School called? 1906. What is the name of the royal yacht? 1907. Approximately what proportion of the worlds population customarily eat with their fingers? 1908. What is the qualification for being created Prince of Wales? 1909. From which ship did the Lutine bell come? 1910. Of what is the Taj Mahal built? 1911. What did the Victorians call servant regulators? 1912. What did Lloyd George call Mr Balfours poodle? 1913. What is the nautical name for the upper edge of a ships side? 1914. What does the Statue of Liberty hold in her right hand? 1915. How many bank holidays a year did Sir John Lubbock introduce in 1871? 1916. How many sides has a pentagon? 1917. What is the profession of an FRIBA? 1918. What type of salad ingredient is a cos? 1919. What percentage of British men have no teeth of their own? 1920. What size is foolscap paper?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1901.Eire. 1902.The Royal Horse Guards. 1903.What is it that walks on four legs in the morning, on two at noon, and on three in the evening? 1904.Man. 1905.Carthusians. 1906.Britannia. 1907.One-third. 1908.Being the eldest son of the reigning monarch. 1909.HMS Lutine. 1910.Marble. 1911.Alarm clocks. 1912.The House of Lords. 1913.The gunwale. 1914.A torch. 1915.Four. 1916.Five. 1917.Architecture. 1918.A lettuce. 1919.Twenty-four. 1920.8 by 13 inches (about 200 by 330 millimetres).

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1921. What is the sign of the zodiac of people born on New Years day? 1922. What is 0621371 of a mile in kilometres? 1923. How many are there in a score? 1924. Which people speak the Romany language? 1925. After which god is March named? 1926. What is the name of the phantom ship said to haunt the Cape of Good Hope? 1927. How many chickens does the average person eat in a lifetime? 1928. What is a knout? 1929. What do Methuselahs contain? 1930. How many fluid ounces form an English pint? 1931. Which fabled monster has a lions head and a serpents tail? 1932. Who meet at jamborees? 1933. For what did the Russians use the bones of the 40,000 killed at Sebastopol? 1934. From which animals does cony fur come? 1935. How many hours of daylight has the longest day in London? 1936. For what is Cressida a byword? 1937. Where would you find a bick, a throat, a half-swage and a punching-hole? 1938. A knowledge of William Reids law of storms of 1847 helps one to do what? 1939. Which fruit/vegetable was originally called a love-apple? 1940. What is the name given to a boat or float used to support a temporary bridge?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1921.Capricorn. 1922.One. 1923.Twenty. 1924.Gypsies. 1925.Mars. 1926.The Flying Dutchman. 1927.800. 1928.A Russian flogging-whip. 1929.Champagne. They are the largest bottles in which it is sold. 1930.Twenty. 1931.The chimera. 1932.Scouts or Guides. 1933.Fertilizer. 1934.Rabbits. 1935.16 1936.Infidelity. 1937.On an anvil (they are all parts of it). 1938.Sail out of an approaching hurricane. 1939.The tomato. 1940.A pontoon.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1941. In ships time-keeping, how long is eight bells? 1942. Who fell down and broke his crown? 1943. At what temperature should champagne be served? 1944. How many sit on an English jury? 1945. For what does GMT stand? 1946. Which letter begins English words most often? 1947. What is travel said to broaden? 1948. What date begins the astrological year? 1949. Why have boots with pockets been invented and patented? 1950. How many words on average does the normal adult speak in the course of 24 hours? 1951. Two dots over the second of two vowels indicate that it is to be pronounced separately (as in Zo). What are they called? 1952. What is the motto of the SAS? 1953. What are galligaskins? 1954. What is the international word sent out as a distress signal? 1955. How many corners has a spinnaker? 1956. Proverbially, what is mightier than the sword? 1957. Who said, Money is like a sixth sense and you cant make use of the other five without it? 1958. What signal on the bell does a bus conductor give to the driver for an emergency stop? 1959. Who wrote two comedies featuring Figaro? 1960. Who in fact was the Akhund of Swat?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1941.Four hours. 1942.Jack. 1943.4145F (57C). 1944.Twelve. 1945.Greenwich Mean Time. 1946.S. 1947.The mind. 1948.21 March. 1949.For the use of nudists. 1950.Five thousand. 1951.A diaeresis. 1952.Who dares wins. 1953.Breeches. 1954.Mayday. 1955.Three its a large sail. 1956.The pen. 1957.Somerset Maugham. 1958.Three rings. 1959.Beaumarchais. 1960.The king and high-priest of the north-western provinces of India.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1961. To which country would a car with the letters SF belong? 1962. What is the main ingredient of taramasalata? 1963. What was built as the centrepiece of the British Empire exhibition of 1924? 1964. Which queen rode in an open carriage at Queen Elizabeth IIs coronation when it was bucketing down? 1965. Order, Order!: from where were these the first words ever broadcast? 1966. White Burgundy wine must be made from only which type of grape? 1967. What did the name Avon originally mean? 1968. What was a bawbee? 1969. How many clangs on the Lutine bell mean good news? 1970. Which animal represents the US Republican Party? 1971. What does the Hindu word puttees mean? 1972. Which public school did Winston Churchill attend? 1973. Which is the largest note in general circulation in the USA? 1974. Which two figures are generally depicted holding tridents? 1975. In about 1750, brick dust mixed with olive oil was a popular remedy. What was it supposed to cure? 1976. Which public school did Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, attend? 1977. With which colour is Robin Hood associated? 1978. What was J. F. Gliddens ripping invention of 1874? 1979. Which is the lowest title handed down from father to son? 1980. Since the invention of Coca-Cola, how many men have ever known the formula?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1961.Finland. 1962.Cods roe. 1963.Wembley Stadium. 1964.Queen Salote of Tonga. 1965.The House of Commons. 1966.Chardonnay. 1967.Stream or river. 1968.A pre-decimal d. 1969.Two. 1970.The elephant. 1971.Bandages. 1972.Harrow. 1973.The $100 note. 1974.Britannia and Neptune. 1975.Gout. 1976.Gordonstoun. 1977.Lincoln green. 1978.Barbed wire. 1979.Baronet. 1980.Seven (no women).

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
1981. What is the minimum school-leaving age in this country? 1982. What is German for please? 1983. Whose ship was represented on the old d? 1984. What type of road is a corduroy road? 1985. Which is the lee side of a boat? 1986. What is the Royal Yacht called? 1987. When is Sheer Thursday? 1988. The brass ornaments traditionally carried by draught horses were originally used for what purpose? 1989. What are mimolette, samosoe, banon and monterey jack? 1990. Which is the word most often used in English conversation? 1991. As applied to wine, what does brut mean? 1992. How many lawful wives may a Muslim husband have? 1993. What is the longest English word that does not repeat a letter? 1994. What are the Roaring Forties? 1995. What grows in paddy fields? 1996. Of what are half hitches and sheepshanks forms? 1997. Which is the worlds largest office building? 1998. What follows a gibbous moon? 1999. Which letter appears in all sixty-six different alphabets? 2000. What prize was jointly won in 1978 by Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
1981.Sixteen. 1982.Bitte. 1983.Sir Francis Drakes. 1984.A road of logs laid side by side across swampy ground. 1985.The side away from the wind. 1986.Britannia. 1987.The Thursday in Holy Week, Maundy Thursday. (Sheer comes from a Shakespearian word meaning to purify.) 1988.To ward off magic and the evil eye. 1989.They are all cheeses. 1990.I. 1991.Dry. 1992.Four. 1993.Uncopyrightables. 1994.Winds. 1995.Rice. 1996.Knots. 1997.The Pentagon. 1998.A full moon. 1999.0. 2000.The Nobel Peace Prize.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2001. What was curious about the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahes nose? 2002. Who was Clyde Barrows partner in crime? 2003. Which famous fighter plane did R.J. Mitchell design in 1936? 2004. How many points are there on a Nine Mens Morris board? 2005. In which opera does Lily the Strawberry Woman feature? 2006. Who was the man responsible for the big bang theory? 2007. With what did the first artists draw? 2008. Jon Magnusson was prime minister of which country from 1924 to 1926? 2009. Which famous author and editor was born in Lichfield in 1709? 2010. Who won the 1979 Nobel Prize for Peace? 2011. Which of the Mexican muralists could be called a Trotskyist? 2012. Who was defeated by Roosevelt in the presidential election of 1932? 2013. What is Harold Macmillans first name? 2014. If I roll a four on a dice, what is the sum of the other four visible faces? 2015. What are burnt sienna and cadmium red? 2016. Who died before a firing squad saying, Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness to anyone? 2017. One British stamp issue carries the heads of two monarchs. In which year was this set issued and what does it commemorate? 2018. Who was President Lyndon Johnsons vice-president from 1964 to 1966? 2019. In philately, what is a Maltese Cross? 2020. Who was the first man to climb the Matterhorn?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2001. It was made of gold. 2002. Bonnie Parker. 2003. The Spitfire. 2004. Twenty-four. 2005. Porgy and Bess. 2006. Georges Lematre. 2007. Rocks. 2008. Iceland. 2009. Dr Samuel Johnson. 2010. Mother Teresa of Calcutta. 2011. Diego Rivera. Trotsky lived in his house during his Mexican exile. 2012. President Hoover. 2013. Maurice. 2014. Fourteen. 2015. Colours used in painting. 2016. Nurse Edith Cavell. 2017. 1940; the centenary of the issue of the first adhesive postage stamp. 2018. Hubert Humphrey. 2019. An early Victorian postal cancellation mark. 2020. Edward Whymper, English mountaineer, in 1865.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2021. Who started Biba? 2022. Who introduced Panorama for many years, and now has an annual lecture delivered in his honour? 2023. What made A.L.Sawyer unique among newspaper editors? 2024. Which nationality was Matthias Grnewald? 2025. Where was El Greco born? 2026. What is the name of the colour used to describe old brown-and-white photographs? 2027. Who invented the board game Cavendish? 2028. Who did a series of paintings of young men and light reflecting in water? 2029. Where is the finest collection of Leonardo da Vincis drawings kept? 2030. Who is the present Queen of Spain? 2031. Who said, I do not seek, I find? 2032. What is an icon? 2033. In what medium did a twelfth-century emperor of Japan, Sukoku, copy out a Buddhist religious work? 2034. Who is the most eminent living British sculptor? 2035. Of the fifteen children of a tallow-chandler, one became Americas versatile sage. Who was he? 2036. Which great British Field Marshal was the son of an Ulster clergyman? 2037. Who was the son of Eric the Red? 2038. Which one-time Fauve decorated the interior of a chapel in Venice? 2039. On which number at roulette did Sean Connery bet if it came up three consecutive times? 2040. Which poet was Sir Thomas Mores great-great nephew?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2021. Barbara Hulanicki. 2022. Richard Dimbleby. 2023. He was only 2 foot 6 inches tall. 2024. German. 2025. Crete. 2026. Sepia. 2027. Maureen and Alan Hiron. 2028. David Hockney. 2029. Royal Library, Windsor Castle. 2030. Sophia. 2031. Picasso. 2032. A painting, mosaic or enamel of Christ, the Virgin Mary or a saint thought to be a sacred object. 2033. His own blood. 2034. Henry Moore. 2035. Benjamin Franklin. 2036. Field Marshal Montgomery. 2037. Leif Ericsson. 2038. Matisse. 2039. Seventeen. 2040. John Donne.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2041. In judo, if the referee shouts Sono-mama, what should the players do? 2042. After which First World War heroine was a peak in the Rockies named? 2043. How many points would you score in cribbage if you had three nines and one six in your hand? 2044. What are crampons used for? 2045. Which politician was known as RAB? 2046. Where did St Simon Stylites live for 30 years? 2047. Who led the British and German troops at the Battle of Alamein? 2048. What would separate Adam from a group of naked men? 2049. Great Britain has produced only one charity stamp. In which year was it issued? 2050. Bone porcelain contains bone ash. It was invented at the end of the eighteenth century by whom? 2051. Who was the Sea-Green Incorruptible? 2052. Which famous Quaker kept his hat on when he met Charles II? 2053. What colour is produced by dyeing wool with redcurrants and alum? 2054. What nationality was the murderer Dr Crippen? 2055. The coarse fishing season in Britain runs from 16 March to when? 2056. What is the difference between post and ante-post betting? 2057. Who did Ian Smith meet on board the Tiger and then the Fearless? 2058. Who was known as the Railway King? 2059. Who managed the 1984 European Cup winners? 2060. Which decorator/architects name is the same as that of an English county?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2041. Freeze. 2042. Edith Cavell. 2043. 12 points. 2044. Climbing mountains or telegraph poles. 2045. R. A. Butler afterwards Lord Butler. 2046. On top of a pillar. 2047. General Montgomery and Field Marshal Rommel. 2048. He would not have a navel. 2049. 1975. 2050. Josiah Spode. 2051. Robespierre, according to Carlyle. 2052. William Penn. 2053. Dark brown. 2054. American. 2055. 16 June. 2056. Post betting does not begin until the numbers of the runners are up on the board; ante-post betting opens any time before the event. 2057. Harold Wilson, in 1966 and 1968 respectively. 2058. George Hudson. 2059. Joe Fagan, manager of Liverpool. 2060. William Kent.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2061. Between them, mother and daughter received three Nobel prizes. Who were they? 2062. Where was the 1984 World Poker Championship held? 2063. Which writer was the son of an archbishop and became mayor of Rye? 2064. How many genuine Mona Lisas are there in existence? 2065. Where did the word impressionism come from? 2066. Who was the leading British Romantic painter of the twentieth century? 2067. Which artist, sister of another famous artist, became Rodins mistress? 2068. Who won the World Professional Billiards Championship for the first time in 1980? 2069. In which city would you find Michelangelos David? 2070. What nationality was Alfred Nobel? 2071. Which oil is commonly used in oil-painting? 2072. Who promoted the greatest happiness of the greatest number? 2073. Of whom did his steward say, A larger soul, I think, hath seldom dwelt in a house of clay than his was? 2074. Whose middle name is McLane and is a child-care expert? 2075. Which famous artist was responsible for a series of anatomical drawings? 2076. To which islands was Archbishop Makarios exiled? 2077. Who was the worlds first woman prime minister? 2078. Of whom did Margot Asquith say, He could not see a belt without hitting below it? 2079. Which artist and poets colour-printed drawings include Elijah in the Chariot of Fire? 2080. Which artist collaborated with Luis Buuel to make the film Un Chien andalou?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2061. Marie Curie and Irne Joliot-Curie. 2062. Las Vegas. 2063. E. F. Benson. 2064. Four. 2065. From a painting by Monet called Impression, Sunrise. 2066. Graham Sutherland. 2067. Gwen John. 2068. Fred Davis. 2069. Florence. 2070. Swedish. 2071. Linseed. 2072. Jeremy Bentham. 2073. Oliver Cromwell. 2074. Dr Benjamin Spock. 2075. Leonardo da Vinci. 2076. The Seychelles. 2077. Mrs Bandaranaike of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), in 1960. 2078. David Lloyd George. 2079. William Blake. 2080. Salvador Dali.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2081. Who was the Astronomer Royal who retired at the end of 1971? 2082. What is the Princess of Waless middle name? 2083. Who said, The executioner is, I believe, very expert and my neck is very slender? 2084. How many numbers are on a British roulette wheel? 2085. If you planted a banderilla what would you be doing? 2086. Which artist painted sixty-two self-portraits? 2087. On which holiday was Isaac Newton born? 2088. Of which political party was Michael Collins the leader in 191621? 2089. Who was the first woman to hold ministerial office in the UK? 2090. How did Van Gogh die? 2091. Which game featured in the BBC TV series The Master Game? 2092. Who was the first reigning British monarch to visit a communist country? 2093. In which style did Canneloni paint? 2094. What is a spare in ten-pin bowling? 2095. Where is Dr Livingstone buried? 2096. In which city is the Louvre? 2097. Who said, Somebody left the cork out of my lunch? 2098. By what names is Frederick Rolfe, who fantasized about becoming Pope, also known? 2099. What astonishingly unlikely occurrence was first reported in New Zealand on 8 July 1958? 2100. Why did J. Edgar Hoover never take a left turn, or allow his chauffeur to do so?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2081. Sir Richard Woolley. 2082. Frances. 2083. Anne Boleyn. 2084. 37 (1 to 36 + zero). 2085. Bullfighting. 2086. Rembrandt. 2087. Christmas Day. 2088. Sinn Fin. 2089. The Duchess of Atholl. 2090. He shot himself. 2091. Chess. 2092. Elizabeth II in 1972 when she went to Yugoslavia. 2093. Canneloni is a type of pasta, not an artist! 2094. Knocking down all the pins in two deliveries. 2095. Westminster Abbey. 2096. Paris. 2097. W. C. Fields. 2098. Baron Corvo and Hadrian the Seventh. 2099. Four card players each being dealt a complete suit from a standard pack. 2100. Because of his total anti-communist commitment.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2101. What was gangster George Nelsons nickname? 2102. What is the lowest hand to beat three of a kind in poker? 2103. Of what are Aran, Fair Isle and cable types? 2104. Who once shot a cigarette from Kaiser Wilhelms mouth? 2105. How many points wins a game of cribbage? 2106. Which member of the royal family often uses the name Mr Perkins when travelling incognito? 2107. Who was nicknamed the Bard of Ayrshire? 2108. Who did Sirhan Sirhan assassinate? 2109. What did William Addis invent while in Newgate prison? 2110. By what name was William Frederick Cody better known? 2111. Who was known as the Lady with the Lamp? 2112. By what name was Angelo Siciliano better known? 2113. Who is Spandau jails last and only prisoner? 2114. Who was Americas first Roman Catholic president? 2115. By what infamous name was Albert De Salvo better known? 2116. What, in darts, is the spider? 2117. What is the situation in chess when one player can make no legal move? 2118. What is the alternative name for the castle in chess? 2119. Purl, fishermans, cable are all examples of what? 2120. Where did Rolls and Royce first meet?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2101. Baby Face. 2102. A straight (or run). 2103. Knitting. 2104. Annie Oakley. 2105. 121. 2106. Prince Charles. 2107. Robert Burns. 2108. Robert Kennedy. 2109. The toothbrush. 2110. Buffalo Bill. 2111. Florence Nightingale. 2112. Charles Atlas. 2113. Rudolf Hess. 2114. John F. Kennedy. 2115. The Boston Strangler. 2116. The wire scoring frame attached to the board. 2117. Stalemate. 2118. The rook. 2119. Knitting stitches. 2120. The Midland Hotel, Manchester

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2121. What is James Callaghans first name? 2122. Who is the Galloping Gourmet? 2123. By what name was convict Robert Stroud better known? 2124. Which is the highest numbered segment on a dartboard? 2125. What did Vincenzo Peruggia steal in 1911 and keep in a trunk for two years? 2126. What is the value of an outer bull in darts? 2127. From which country does mah-jong originate? 2128. Who is known as the father of poetry? 2129. Who said, I will continue to be the essence of sweet reasonableness? 2130. Who was the first American president to ride in an automobile? 2131. Who is the Lord High Admiral? 2132. What is the three-dimensional image created by laser beams called? 2133. Whose portrait is on the USAs $5 bill? 2134. What is the craft of knotting and tying heavy string into patterns called? 2135. What nationality was the author Franz Kafka? 2136. Who was King Zog? 2137. Who is famous for his Parisian posters? 2138. How many points does a cannon score at billiards? 2139. Who preceded Sir John Betjeman as Poet Laureate? 2140. Of whom did Whitman write, O the bleeding drops of red/Where on the deck my Captain lies, fallen, cold and dead?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2121. Leonard. 2122. Graham Kerr. 2123. The Birdman of Alcatraz. 2124. Twenty. 2125. The Mona Lisa. 2126. Twenty-five. 2127. China. 2128. Homer. 2129. Margaret Thatcher. 2130. Theodore Roosevelt. 2131. The Queen. 2132. A hologram. 2133. Abraham Lincolns. 2134. Macram. 2135. Czech. 2136. The last king of Albania. 2137. Toulouse-Lautrec. 2138. Two. 2139. C. Day Lewis. 2140. Abraham Lincoln.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2141. On what subject did Uffa Fox chiefly write? 2142. Which impressionist is famous for his ballet paintings? 2143. In which country did chess originate? 2144. Who introduced the willow-pattern plate? 2145. What is marquetry? 2146. Who founded the DeBeers Mining Company? 2147. Which card games name means discarded? 2148. Which famous coffee-drinker loved and married a Polish countess? 2149. The composition of gunpowder was first written down (in code) by whom? 2150. Which Creole from Martinique became an empress? 2151. At which card game did General Eisenhower and Ian McLeod excel? 2152. Domenikos Theotocopoulos was born in Crete; when he died in Spain 73 years later, by what name was he known? 2153. How tall was Queen Victoria? 2154. Which American Confederate general was too much a gentleman for the ungentle business of war? 2155. Formerly Lisa Halaby of Washington, DC, who is she now? 2156. As what did Herbert Austin work before he began to make cars? 2157. What would you call someone who races pigeons? 2158. Which naturalist who created Slimbridge Wildfowl Trust is also noted for his wildlife art? 2159. Who said of William Pitt, This is not a chip off the old block, it is the old block itself? 2160. Who designed prefabs with Brunel, was the first woman member of the Statistical Society and the first woman to receive the Order of Merit?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2141. Sailing. 2142. Degas. 2143. India. 2144. William Turner, c. 1780. 2145. A design or picture consisting of a variety of wood veneers. 2146. Cecil Rhodes. 2147. cart. 2148. Honor de Balzac. 2149. Roger Bacon. 2150. Napoleons Josephine. 2151. Bridge. 2152. El Greco. 2153. 5 feet. 2154. Robert E. Lee. 2155. Queen Nor of Jordan. 2156. As an employee of Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine Co. of Birmingham. 2157. Pigeon fancier. 2158. Sir Peter Scott. 2159. Edmund Burke. 2160. Florence Nightingale.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2161. What does the DIN number denote in photographic film? 2162. When did Castro become Prime Minister of Cuba? 2163. From which country does snooker star Eddie Charlton come? 2164. What nationality was Rousseau? 2165. Which English art critic was sued by an American and translated into French by Marcel Proust? 2166. Who said, To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did: I ought to know because Ive done it a thousand times. 2167. Of whom did a journalist in 1809 say, An unfortunate lunatic whose personal inoffensiveness secures him from confinement? 2168. Which famous painter, who was also a sculptor and potter, wrote a play called Desire Caught by the Tail? 2169. In which city does St Peter and St Paul by El Greco hang? 2170. Who was the Philosopher of Ferney? 2171. How tall was Alexander Pope? 2172. Which colour is worth six points at snooker? 2173. What is calligraphy? 2174. What nationality was James Whistler? 2175. Which biscuit is named after a famous Italian patriot? 2176. Who produced a painting made up of multiple images of Marilyn Monroe? 2177. Who was the first president of the Royal Academy? 2178. Which Tuscan painter and architect is far better known as a biographer? 2179. Why did Handel compose The Messiah? 2180. What is Graham Miless game?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2161. The speed of the film. 2162. 1959. 2163. Australia. 2164. Swiss. 2165. John Ruskin. 2166. Mark Twain. 2167. William Blake. 2168. Pablo Picasso. 2169. Leningrad; in the Hermitage Gallery. 2170. Voltaire, who spent the last 20 years of his life there. 2171. 4 feet, 6 inches. 2172. Pink. 2173. The art of handwriting. 2174. American. 2175. Garibaldi. 2176. Andy Warhol. 2177. Sir Joshua Reynolds. 2178. Giorgio Vasari. 2179. Principally because he needed the money. 2180. Snooker.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2181. A secret communications system for controlling torpedoes was filed in 1942 by which famous actress? 2182. Which US president was nicknamed Old Hickory? 2183. What have Richard Burton, William Saroyan, Dorothy Parker and Natalie Wood in common, maritally? 2184. Who led the Chinese against the Japanese in the Second World War? 2185. Which US president was nicknamed the Rail-Splitter? 2186. For which Sunday paper was Clement Freud a football correspondent? 2187. Who was the first British royal to become a motorist? 2188. After whom is the science fiction award the Hugo named? 2189. Who formulated the notion of body image? 2190. What was Wiley Posts claim to fame in 1933? 2191. Who betrayed Samson? 2192. For what were Jean and Franois Clouet known? 2193. Who painted the famous Boyhood of Raleigh? 2194. Eddie D. Slovik was a private in the US army. How did he die? 2195. Which actress did Reynolds paint as the Tragic Muse? 2196. What nationality was the painter Fra Angelico? 2197. In 1922 Theresa Vaughn was put on trial. For what crime? 2198. Who was the most prolific writer of childrens books? 2199. What poker hand just pips the two aces and two kings? 2200. What did Thomas Hardy originally study?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2181. Hedy Lamarr. 2182. Andrew Jackson. 2183. They have all married one partner twice. 2184. General Chiang Kai-shek. 2185. Abraham Lincoln. 2186. The Observer. 2187. The Prince of Wales, later Edward VII. 2188. Hugo Gernsback. 2189. Wilhelm Reich. 2190. He was the first man to fly solo around the world. 2191. Delilah. 2192. They were French miniaturists and portrait painters. 2193. Millais. 2194. He was executed in 1945, the only US soldier to die for desertion since 1864. 2195. Sarah Siddons. 2196. Italian. 2197. Bigamy, but she turned out to be a polygamist, having married sixty-two men in 5 years! 2198. Enid Blyton, who wrote over 600, 59 of them in 1955. 2199. Three twos. 2200. Architecture.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2201. Which world championships are held annually in September at Egremont, in Cumbria? 2202.Which Ugandan styled himself the Conqueror of the British Empire? 2203.By what name was John Merrick better known? 2204.Who declared himself Chancellor of Germany at the Brgerbru Keller, a Munich beer house? 2205.How many snooker points are scored from three reds, a black and a pink? 2206.Who did Marcello Caetano replace as dictator of Portugal in 1968? 2207.What two special connections did Matthew Arnold have with schools? 2208.What movement were Jean Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst and Man Ray involved with? 2209.Who was the most prolific of all great painters? 2210.How many men did John Wesley Hardin kill in shoot outs? 2211.Who attempted to cross the Snake River on Skycycle X-Z? 2212.Unity Mitford was a girlfriend of which dictator? 2213.Which famous painter worked as an occasional diplomat for the Netherlands, when it was a Spanish province, and was knighted by Charles I of England? 2214.Where can Rembrandts Night Watch be seen? 2215.Who was Sandie Shaws first husband? 2216.Who said, reputedly, The Lord is a shoving leopard? 2217.Which London district is associated with two groups of English painters? 2218.Which French poet, writing about the Salon of 1846, suggested that the best criticism of a picture may be a sonnet or an elegy? 2219.What brotherhood was attacked by Dickens and defended by Ruskin? 2220.Under what name does Mrs Gower Robinson write?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2201. The World Gurning Championships. 2202. Idi Amin. 2203. The Elephant Man. 2204. Adolf Hitler. 2205. Sixteen. 2206. Salazar, but no one told Salazar and he ended his days thinking he still ruled Portugal (he had had a stroke). 2207. His father was Dr Thomas Arnold, a headmaster of Rugby, and he himself was a school inspector. 2208. Dada. 2209. Picasso 13,500 paintings, 100,000 prints, 34,000 book illustrations and 300 sculptures. 2210. Forty. 2211. Evel Knievel. 2212. Hitler. 2213. Sir Peter Paul Rubens. 2214. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. 2215. The clothes designer Jeff Banks. 2216. The Rev. Dr Spooner of New College (famous for his spoonerisms). 2217. NWl (home of the Camden Town Group and the Euston Road Group). 2218. Baudelaire. 2219. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. 2220. Ursula Bloom.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2221. Who invented tramways? 2222. Who wrote about Los and painted Job? 2223. Rollo, an engineer working for NASAs Apollo project, designed the forerunner for what popular sport? 2224. What was art director Cedric Gibbonss best-known design? 2225. Who was George Joseph Smith? 2226. From where did Lord Elgin take the Elgin Marbles? 2227. Who was the first man to swim the English Channel? 2228. What is considered to be the worlds most valuable painting? 2229. Who was known as the Desert Fox? 2230. In which style of architecture was St Marks, Venice, built? 2231. Which is generally considered to be Rembrandts greatest painting? 2232. Who was known as the Coonskin Congressman? 2233. Name either pretender to the English throne in Henry VIIs reign. 2234. Who lives at 1 Snoopy Place? 2235. What was the name of Elvis Presleys twin brother? 2236. Whose signature appears on Bank of England notes printed in 1984? 2237. Which president has his name written on the moon? 2238. Who was assassinated in Box 7 at Fords Theater? 2239. What have The Provokd Wife and Blenheim Palace in common? 2240. What did Emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia use as his imperial throne?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2221. James Outram. 2222. William Blake. 2223. Hang-gliding. 2224. The statuette used for the Academy Awards the Oscar. 2225. The Brides in the Bath murderer. 2226. The Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens. 2227. Captain Matthew Webb (in 1875). 2228. The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. 2229. Erwin Rommel. 2230. Byzantine. 2231. The Night Watch. 2232. Davy Crockett. 2233. Perkin Warbeck, Lambert Simnel. 2234. Charles Schulz, Snoopys creator. 2235. Jesse. 2236. D. H. F. Somersets. 2237. Richard Nixon. 2238. Abraham Lincoln. 2239. Their creator, Sir John Vanbrugh. 2240. An electric chair.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2241.By what name was the Italian painter Jacopo Robusti better known? 2242.How did multi-millionaire John Jacob Astor die? 2243.Of which country was Urho Kekkonen elected president in 1956? 2244.Who preceded Kyprianou as President of Cyprus? 2245.Who reputedly said, History is bunk? 2246.2,000 was paid in 1975 for a set of Taddys Clowns and Circus Artists. What were they? 2247.Who built the Rotherhithe tunnel under the Thames? 2248.What were ombre and quadrille? 2249.Who was the intended victim of the assassination attempt in The Day of the Jackal? 2250.From which legendary figure is Socrates supposed to have been descended? 2251.What was the Christian name of the English landscape gardener Capability Brown? 2252.If you were on the stern of a boat and were pooped, what would happen to you? 2253.Which woman sailed solo across the Atlantic in 1976 in 29 days, 1 hour and 52 minutes? 2254.How does this rhyme end: Had you seen but these roads before they were made, you would hold up your hands and bless...? 2255.What is a spinnaker? 2256.Name two actors who have played Philip Marlowe. 2257.By what name was Thomas Jonathan Jackson, an American Civil War Confederate general, better known? 2258.Whose was the first large holiday camp? 2259.Who hosted both Double Your Money and Opportunity Knocks? 2260.By what name is the American Rebecca Rolfe, who rescued a captain and met James I, better known?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2241.Tintoretto. 2242.He went down on the Titanic. 2243.Finland. 2244.Archbishop Makarios. 2245.Henry Ford. 2246.Cigarette cards. 2247.Brunei senior (Isambard Kingdom Bruneis father). 2248.Popular card games in the eighteenth century. 2249.Charles de Gaulle. 2250.Daedalus. 2251.Lancelot. 2252.You would get wet. It is when a wave overtakes a boat from behind and water comes on board. 2253.Clare Francis. 2254.General Wade. 2255.A large, triangular sail, usually very brightly coloured, used when running before the wind. 2256.Humphrey Bogart (of course!); Robert Montgomery; Elliot Gould; Robert Mitchum and Dick Powell. 2257.Stonewall Jackson. 2258.Billy Butlins (in 1935 at Skegness). 2259.Hughie Green. 2260.Pocahontas.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2261. Who was the only female member of the BMA for nearly 20 years? 2262. What was suffragette Mrs Pankhursts first name? 2263. Who is said to have been the father of geography as an academic discipline? 2264. What happened to Christopher Marlowe in Deptford? 2265. Who invented the machine gun? 2266. How old was Whistlers mother when she posed for the famous picture? 2267. Who followed Khruschev into power in Russia? 2268. Whom did Bobby Fischer beat to win the World Chess Championship in 1972? 2269. Who founded the college of Christ Church at Oxford in 1525? 2270. By what name is Avrom Goldenborgen better known? 2271. Which French artist became famous for his posters? 2272. For what is Elizabeth Fry best remembered? 2273. What is J. B. Priestleys full name? 2274. What was President John Kennedys middle name? 2275. Who was the first Baron Tweedsmuir? 2276. Which British prime minister died in office aged eighty? 2277. In which city did Keats die? 2278. Where does Metsus painting The Duet hang? 2279. How did Belgiums Queen Astrid die? 2280. Which general who fought in the Indian Mutiny gave his name to a piece of army officers equipment?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2261. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. 2262. Emmeline. 2263. Karl Ritter. 2264. He was stabbed to death in a tavern brawl. 2265. Richard J. Gatling (in 1862). 2266. Sixty-five. 2267. Brezhnev and Kosygin. 2268. Boris Spassky. 2269. Cardinal Wolsey. 2270. Mike Todd. 2271. Toulouse-Lautrec. 2272. Prison reform. 2273. John Boynton Priestley. 2274. Fitzgerald. 2275. John Buchan, the author. 2276. Lord Palmerston. 2277. Rome. 2278. In the National Gallery in London. 2279. In a car accident. 2280. Sam Browne.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2281. Which Russian statesman married Khruschevs sister? 2282. Who was called the Little Brown Saint? 2283. Why wouldnt J. Edgar Hoover allow his chauffeur to turn left? 2284. What is the best-known work of the sculptor Sir Alfred Gilbert? 2285. Which is the most popular form of gambling for women in Las Vegas? 2286. Which smoking implement was Stalin always seen clutching in public? 2287. Whose autobiography is called Wheres the Rest of Me? 2288. Who was Englands most famous marine painter of the nineteenth century? 2289. Which American author and humorist invented and patented a rudimentary pair of braces? 2290. What was the Dutch painter Boschs Christian name? 2291. How many different coloured balls are used in snooker? 2292. Who at his execution drew his beard aside and said, This has not offended the king? 2293. What is a quadriga? 2294. What would you use turpentine for in oil painting? 2295. Who was the Lone Rangers faithful Indian companion? 2296. What was the surname of the Russian-born brothers Albert, Harry, Jack and Samuel who founded a motion picture studio in 1923? 2297. Who is considered to be the founder of the Post-Impressionists? 2298. Who coined the revolutionary cry, Liberty, equality, fraternity? 2299. What did the people Lowry painted resemble? 2300. In fishing, what are Limerick, Round Bend, Aberdeen and Octopus?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2281. Malenkov. 2282. Mahatma Gandhi. 2283. Because of his strong anti-communist feelings. 2284. The statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus. 2285. Slot machines. 2286. A pipe. 2287. Ronald Reagans. 2288. Turner. 2289. Mark Twain. 2290. Hieronymus. 2291. Eight (including white). 2292. Sir Thomas More. 2293. A chariot with four horses. 2294. Thinning paint. 2295. Tonto. 2296. Warner. 2297. Paul Cezanne (18391906). 2298. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 2299. Matchstick figures. 2300. Types of hook.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2301. Who was the defeated finalist in the 1983 World Professional Darts Championship? 2302. 2303. Who said that a house is a machine for living in? Which cousin of Stanley Baldwin is best known for his Indian connections and wrote of the jungle? 2304. 2305. Who has carved on his tombstone, Workers of all lands, unite? Of whom did his mother say that her ugly boy, Arthur, was fit food for powder and nothing else? 2306. 2307. 2308. 2309. 2310. 2311. 2312. 2313. 2314. 2315. 2316. 2317. 2318. 2319. 2320. What was Edward Teachs nickname? Whose autobiography is entitled With a Little Bit of Luck? Who shot Martin Luther King Junior? Which poet named Rome the Eternal City? Where was Nancy Astor, the first woman to sit as an MP, born? Who founded Virgin Records? Where was Oscar Wilde imprisoned? Which card in a pack is copyright? Who invented the game Quizwrangle? Why did Lady Godiva ride naked through the streets of Coventry? How many pieces are on a draught board at the start of a game? Who lived to the age of 969? Which numbers flank 11 on a dartboard? Which two Washington Post reporters exposed the Watergate cover-up? Who met Stalin and Roosevelt and said of his novels, I am a journalist all the time?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2301. 2302. 2303. 2304. 2305. 2306. 2307. 2308. 2309. 2310. 2311. 2312. 2313. 2314. 2315. Eric Bristow. Le Corbusier. Rudyard Kipling. Karl Marx. The first Duke of Wellington. Blackbeard (the pirate of the West Indies). Stanley Holloways. James Earl Ray. Virgil. Mirador, Virginia, USA. Richard Branson. Reading. The Ace of Spades. Maureen Hiron. As a protest against the steep taxes imposed by her husband Leofric, Lord of Coventry. 2316. 2317. 2318. 2319. 2320. Twenty-four. Methuselah. 8 and 14. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. H.G. Wells.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2321. From 1548, who spent 10 years teaching the art of navigation in England? 2322. Who flew, by pedal power, the Gossamer Albatross across the Channel? 2323. Of where was Colonel William Farquar the first British Resident Governor, in 1819? 2324. Which Egyptian king abdicated in 1952? 2325. What was Lieut. C. D. Lucas, RN, the first to win? 2326. Which American revolutionary tested the electrical charge of a thunder- storm? 2327. Who was born first: P. B. Shelley, Jane Austen, John Constable or Gioacchino Rossini? 2328. Who was called the Apostle of the Indies? 2329. Whose famous war horse was named Traveller? 2330. Where did Byron die? 2331. Who was the first western explorer and navigator to reach India by sea from Europe? 2332. What physical handicap did the painter Toulouse-Lautrec have? 2333. Who was called the Hero of Trafalgar? 2334. By what name is Lesley Hornby better known? 2335. What is Professor Rubiks first name? 2336. By what name was author Eric Blair better known? 2337. Which Liberal MP wrote light verse and biographies of Robespierre and Cromwell? 2338. Where in London is the National Gallery? 2339. Who was attacked and murdered in Africa on 4 January 1980? 2340. Who was Time magazines Man of the Year for 1938?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2321. 2322. 2323. 2324. 2325. 2326. 2327. 2328. 2329. 2330. 2331. 2332. 2333. 2334. 2335. 2336. 2337. 2338. 2339. 2340. Sebastian Cabot. Brian Allen. Singapore. King Farouk. The VC. Benjamin Franklin. Jane Austen (1775). St Francis Xavier. General Robert E. Lees. Missolonghi, in Greece. Vasco da Gama. Under-developed legs. Admiral Horatio Nelson. Twiggy. Erno. George Orwell. Hilaire Belloc. Trafalgar Square. Joy Adamson. Adolf Hitler

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2341. By what name was the painter Kyriakos Theotokopoulos better known? 2342. Gauguin, Van Gogh and Czanne were the chief figures in which artistic movement? 2343. Who was Bluebeards last wife? 2344. Who was born at Burnham Thorpe rectory and was made the Duke of Bronte, in Sicily, by the King of Naples? 2345. What is gold-leaf made from? 2346. Name Picassos famous picture depicting the bombing of a Spanish town? 2347.Which writer, son of a weaver, became a baronet and sponsored Scott of the Antarctic? 2348. Who is Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Highland Fusiliers? 2349. How many woods has each singles player in flat green bowling? 2350. What colours would a scraperboard drawing be? 2351. What did Victoria say on hearing she had become Queen? 2352. Who was exchanged for the Russian spy Colonel Rudolf Abel? 2353. From which country did the painter and engraver David Jones originate? 2354. For what type of painting is Sir Peter Lely famous? 2355. Who was Germanys most notorious First World War spy? 2356. Who was called the worlds greatest lover? 2357. What number is opposite 20 on a darts board? 2358. What is the total most frequently rolled with two dice? 2359. What is a hand containing cards of one suit only called? 2360. Who was nicknamed The Little Tramp?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2341. 2342. 2343. 2344. 2345. 2346. 2347. 2348. 2349. 2350. 2351. 2352. 2353. 2354. 2355. 2356. 2357. 2358. 2359. 2360. E1 Greco. Post-impressionist. Fatima. Horatio Nelson. Gold. Guernica. J.M.Barrie. Princess Margaret. Four. Black and white. I will be good. The U-2 pilot Gary Powers. Wales. Portraits. Mata Hari. Casanova. 3. Seven. A flush. Charlie Chaplin.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2361. How did Ernest Hemingway die? 2362. Name two of the founders of the SDP, the Gang of Four. 2363. Who created Andy Capp? 2364. How many times has the Rembrandt been stolen from the Dulwich College Art Gallery? 2365. Who claimed to be the first man to skate in Africa? (Lucky if youve drawn this question, Maureen Hiron!) 2366. What did Sir William Mills invent that bears his name? 2367. What nationality was the poet Longfellow? 2368. How many people can sit down to eat round a standard snooker table? 2369. What was made at Nailsea? 2370. After whom was the notorious Tammany Hall named? 2371. In fishing, what are otter boards? 2372. Who said, Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomachs sake? 2373. Who did Sitting Bull call Little Sure Shot? 2374. The largest stamp produced by Britain was issued to commemorate the International Stamp Exhibition in London. In what year was it held? 2375. Who beat the English at Stirling and was disembowelled at Smithfield? 2376. Who was the head of the Gestapo? 2377. In which castle was Princess Margaret born? 2378. For what event were Britains first commemorative postage stamps issued? 2379. What is the technique of painting directly on to wet plaster on walls called? 2380. Which explorer accompanied Sir Ranulph Fiennes on the Transglobe Expedition?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2361. He shot himself. 2362. Shirley Williams, Bill Rodgers, David Owen, Roy Jenkins. 2363. Reg Smythe. 2364. Four. 2365. The father of one of your editors, H.W.M. Hiron, who opened an ice-rink in Johannesburg around the turn of the century. 2366. The Mills bomb a hand-grenade. 2367. American. 2368. Twenty-four. 2369. Decorative glass. 2370. Tammanend, an Indian Chief. 2371. Wood or steel panels that keep the trawl net open. 2372. St Paul. 2373. Annie Oakley. 2374. 1980. 2375. Sir William Wallace. 2376. Heinrich Himmler. 2377. Glamis. 2378. The British Empire Exhibition, 19245. 2379. Fresco. 2380. Charles Burton.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2381. Who sculpted The Thinker? 2382. Who did Cicero describe as the father of history? 2383. Who wrote twenty-five plays in seven years, was a JP and is remembered as a novelist? 2384. What is Alex Higginss nickname? 2385. Who was the Greek mathematician who claimed the earth was a sphere rotating on its own axis? 2386. If four regular dice are placed on top of each other with a six on top what do the seven concealed numbers add up to? 2387. How was Matthew Hopkins hoist with his own petard? 2388. Who was the first to reach the North Pole? 2389. Which king of Great Britain won world-wide recognition as a stamp collector? 2390. How many backgammon pieces does each player start with? 2391. Which artist painted the well-known Bubbles? 2392. How long is a full-sized billiards table? 2393. What famous colony-builder of America was expelled from Oxford University after his conversion to the views of the Society of Friends? 2394. Which artist animated Pink Floyds The Wall? 2395. What were D. H. Lawrences first two names? 2396. Which evangelist was chiefly responsible for bringing the Protestant faith to Scotland? 2397. Who was the US president during the First World War? 2398. Who sailed single-handed round the world in 1967? 2399. Which English novelist didnt learn English till he was twenty? 2400. Who wrote a poem about Vasari and another about painting the Sistine Chapel?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2381. Rodin. 2382. Herodotus. 2383. Henry Fielding. 2384. Hurricane. 2385. Pythagoras. 2386. Twenty-two. 2387. He was a notorious witch-finder and was himself hanged as a wizard in 1647. 2388. The American admiral Robert E. Peary on 6 April 1909. 2389. George V. 2390. Fifteen. 2391. Millais. 2392. Twelve feet. 2393. William Penn. 2394. Gerald Scarfe. 2395. David Herbert. 2396. John Knox. 2397. Woodrow Wilson. 2398. Sir Francis Chichester. 2399. Joseph Conrad. 2400. Michelangelo.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2401. What colours make a scene appear to recede on a picture? 2402. Who tried Jesus and sentenced him to be executed? 2403. Who was known as the Warrior Queen? 2404. In which city is the worlds largest indoor games convention held annually? 2405. What colour is the bull on an archery target? 2406. Under whose patronage was the Royal Academy of Arts founded? 2407. Who was mortally wounded in the heel by an arrow from Paris? 2408. Who was the headmaster of Rugby School who reformed English public school education? 2409. Who were the Mormon Mafia. hired to protect from outside contamination? 2410. Father Courier of Paris killed a number of people but was never convicted. How did they die? 2411. Most stamps carry watermarks. Two common Commonwealth ones are CC and CA. What do these letters stand for? 2412. In 1983 Britain issued stamps depicting four British river fishes. Name two. 2413. The works of Mrs Darrell Waters have been translated into 128 languages. Who was she? 2414. What fish can you catch between 20 March and 30 September? 2415. Which famous Italian painter, born some 500 years ago in Urbino, specialized in painting pictures of the Madonna and Child? 2416. Which Russian wrote under a pseudonym and has a town named after him? 2417. Who married the visionary William Godwins granddaughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin? 2418. Whose estate was named Yasnaya Polyana? 2419. Arlington is the advanced form of what card game? 2420. Name the commoner twice honoured by being portrayed on two separate issues of British stamps.

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2401. Blues and violets. 2402. Pontius Pilate. 2403. Boadicea. 2404. London. 2405. Gold or yellow. 2406. George III in 1768. 2407. Achilles. 2408. Thomas Arnold. 2409. Howard Hughes. 2410. Happily, of over-eating. He took them to the best Paris restaurant twice daily. 2411. CC = Crown Colonies; CA = Crown Agents. 2412. Pike, perch, salmon, and trout. 2413. Enid Blyton. 2414. Trout. 2415. Raphael. 2416. Maxim Gorky. 2417. Shelley. 2418. Leo Tolstoys. 2419. Rummy. 2420. Sir Winston Churchill.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2421. A famous diarist sat for half an hour afraid to pass a cow. Who was she? 2422. What was the nationality of the code inventor, Morse? 2423. In which year did Thomas Edison win a Nobel prize? 2424. Which writer was a military champion, a convicted murderer and in receipt of a royal pension? 2425. How did the first Duchess of Marlborough save ink? 2426. Which statesman was often called el Caudillo? 2427. Which explorer discovered the Niger river? 2428. In solo, what is an undertaking to take zero tricks called? 2429. Henry Vincent Yorke wrote five novels with one-word titles ending in ing. What was his pseudonym? 2430. What did George Fox found after having a vision on Pendle Hill? 2431. Which modern painter has published several books of his watercolour pictures of nature, particularly birds, including A Sketchbook of Birds? 2432. What nationality was Renaissance philosopher Erasmus? 2433. Who became Secretary of State for Employment in 1974? 2434. Who debated pornography with Peter Webb at Hornsey College of Art in 1971? 2435. Sepia originally came from which creature? 2436. What would you be playing if you said and one for his nob? 2437. Name the most famous French underwater explorer. 2438. Who held the World Professional Billiards title from 192833? 2439. Who won the first World Bowls title in 1956? 2440. Apart from England, six other regions of the United Kingdom are legally allowed to issue postage stamps. Name four of these

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2421. Dorothy Wordsworth. 2422. American. 2423. 1915. 2424. Ben Jonson. 2425. By not dotting her is or using full stops. 2426. Franco. 2427. Mungo Park. 2428. Misre. 2429. Henry Green. 2430. The Society of Friends. 2431. C. F. Tunnicliffe. 2432. Dutch. 2433. Michael Foot. 2434. Lord Longford. 2435. The cuttlefish. 2436. Cribbage. 2437. Jacques Cousteau. 2438. Joe Davis. 2439. David Bryant. 2440. Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2441. Who was the captain of HMS Beagle? 2442. Who said of the French: Do they run already? Then I die happy? 2443. Which thriller writers first name means flowering tree in Maori? 2444. Who was Britains first Minister of Technology? 2445. In which game might you collect a pung of East Winds? 2446. Who captained Englands inaugural international ladies darts team in 1977? 2447. Who is arguably the most famous of sherpas? 2448. Which darts player is nicknamed The Man in Black? 2449. At which musical instrument was the composer Liszt a virtuoso? 2450. As what was M. Escoffier renowned? 2451. Who said, ... the materials for city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement in this order and in this hierarchy? 2452. Whose piece of sculpture was called Lobster Telephone? 2453. What adjective describes Ben Jonson on his tombstone in Westminster Abbey? 2454. Which discoverer found a man clothed in goatskins who looked wilder than the first owner of them? 2455. Which English novelist invented pillar-boxes while working as a civil servant? 2456. What was Sir Walter Scotts original profession? 2457. Whose autobiography is entitled Day by Day? 2458. In which town were snookers Joe and Fred Davis born? 2459. Who described assassination as the extreme form of censorship? 2460. Which gardener built the Crystal Palace?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2441. Fitzroy. 2442. General Wolfe. 2443. Ngaio Marsh. 2444. Frank Cousins (1964). 2445. Mah-jong. 2446. Maureen Flowers. 2447. Sherpa Tensing who first scaled Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary. 2448. Alan Glazier. 2449. The piano. 2450. A chef. 2451. Le Corbusier. 2452. Salvador Dali. 2453. Rare. 2454. Alexander Selkirk. 2455. Anthony Trollope. 2456. The law. 2457. Robin Day. 2458. Chesterfield. 2459. George Bernard Shaw. 2460. Sir Joseph Paxton (gardener to the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth).

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2461. Who was born at Glamis Castle on 21 August 1930?

2462. Who lived in Russia, England and the USA and founded the Kuomintang party in China? 2463. Who said, Is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels? 2464. Which New Zealander married John Middleton Murry? 2465. Of what did Francis Bacon say, It is the purest of pleasures? 2466. Whom did W. B. Yeats love but never marry? 2467. In which game are spares and strikes scored? 2468. Who lived at Batemans? 2469. In which city did Tintoretto do most of his painting? 2470. In bridge, which are the major suits? 2471. Who said, Give me liberty or give me death? 2472. Whose first wife was Jane Wyman? 2473. Who used the pseudonym Dr A? 2474. What, in April 1967, was Shirley Preston Londons first? 2475. Who painted Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear? 2476. Whose biography did Clifford Irving fake? 2477. What was the nickname of President Lyndon B. Johnsons first wife? 2478. What was Al Capones nickname? 2479. Who was nicknamed the Little Corporal? 2480. Who succeeded Lenin?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2461. Princess Margaret. 2462. Sun Yat-Sen. 2463. Disraeli. 2464. Katherine Mansfield. 2465. A garden. 2466. Maud Gonne. 2467. Ten-pin bowling. 2468. Rudyard Kipling. 2469. Venice. 2470. Hearts and spades. 2471. Patrick Henry. 2472. Ronald Reagans. 2473. Isaac Asimov. 2474. Female taxi-cab driver. 2475. Vincent Van Gogh. 2476. Howard Hughess. 2477. Lady Bird. 2478. Scarface. 2479. Napoleon. 2480. Stalin.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2481. Who is nicknamed the Iron Lady? 2482. What was newspaper publisher William Maxwell Aitkens title? 2483. Which playing card is known as the Curse of Scotland? 2484. Of what did the novelist Arnold Bennett die in 1931? 2485. How many points are there on a Kensington board? 2486. Who succeeded U Thant as United Nations Secretary-General? 2487. What, in snooker, is a spider? 2488. Who was called the Lone Eagle? 2489. What was Hopalong Cassidys real first name? 2490. For what game are Boris Schapiro and Terence Reese famous? 2491. Of which card game is Southern Cross a form? 2492. Who was Time magazines Man of the Year in 1979? 2493. For what, chiefly, did Uri Geller become famous? 2494. Which limbs of the Venus de Milo are missing? 2495. Who reputedly first said, Theres a sucker born every minute? 2496. For what is the Indian monarch Shah Jahan best known? 2497. How many points are there on a backgammon board? 2498. At what age did the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley die? 2499. How many squares and rectangles are there on a Quadwrangle board? 2500. Which gangster used the pseudonym Al Brown

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2481. Margaret Thatcher. 2482. Lord Beaverbrook. 2483. The nine of diamonds. 2484. Typhoid. Wanting to prove that water in Paris was safe to drink, he took a glass of it, contracted typhoid and died. 2485. Seventy-two. 2486. Kurt Waldheim. 2487. A type of cue rest. 2488. Charles Lindbergh. 2489. William. 2490. Bridge. 2491. Poker. 2492. Ayatollah Khomeini. 2493. Spoon-bending. 2494. The arms. 2495. P. T. Barnum (of circus fame). 2496. Building the Taj Mahal. 2497. Twenty-four. 2498. Twenty-nine. 2499. 117 (the same as on a Quizwrangle board). 2500. Alphonse Capone.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2501. At what game have Maureen and Alan Hiron represented England and Britain? 2502. Who won snookers World Professional Championship in 1979? 2503. Who reputedly died saying, Die, my dear doctor, thats the last thing I shall do? 2504. In which country did draughts originate? 2505. Who was Jean-Baptiste Poquelin? 2506. Whose mistress was Eva Braun? 2507. Who moved from landscape in art through the nude to civilization? 2508. Which card game was Ambigu the forerunner of? 2509. What is the most famous fantasy role-playing game? 2510. Which poet had himself drawn in his winding sheet? 2511. For which office was Victoria Woodhull the first woman candidate? 2512. Who was Vice-President to Lyndon Johnson between 1964 and 1969, but was then beaten for the presidency by Richard Nixon? 2513. What colour is burnt umber? 2514. What was John Logie Bairds first successful invention? 2515. Who said, He who knows Nature, knows God? 2516. What relation was Josiah Wedgwood to Charles Darwin? 2517. In which game is a whangdoodle a special pot? 2518. Where can the Venus de Milo be seen? 2519. Which keen angler wrote lives of Donne, Herbert, Sir Henry Wotton, Hooker and other friends? 2520. In the game Hearts which card is the Black Lady?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2501. Bridge. 2502. Terry Griffiths. 2503. Lord Palmerston in 1865. 2504. Egypt. 2505. Molire. 2506. Adolf Hitlers. 2507. Lord Clark (Kenneth Clark). 2508. Poker. 2509. Dungeons and Dragons. 2510. John Donne. 2511. The Presidency of the US A. 2512. Hubert Humphrey. 2513. Dark brown. 2514. Socks to prevent sweaty feet. 2515. Spinoza. 2516. Grandfather. 2517. Poker. 2518. The Louvre, Paris. 2519. Izaak Walton. 2520. The Queen of Spades.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2521. Who invented the diesel engine? 2522. Whose husband was Nicky Arustein? 2523. What title did the poet Byron inherit? 2524. Who won the World Professional Snooker Championship in 1981? 2525. In sailing, what would you be doing if you were beating? 2526. Who was famous for his series of water-lily paintings? 2527. Who was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic solo? 2528. Who is the first European author said to have used a typewriter? 2529. At which game was William Steinitz world champion for 28 years? 2530. Some say he was born at Dumbarton, some at Boulogne, some in South Wales (c. 385). He became a patron saint. Who and of where? 2531. Who won the 1983 World Professional Darts Championship? 2532. The Sage of Monticello was which US president? 2533. Who said in the nineteenth century, Buy land, theyve stopped making it? 2534. Which Messenger of God was at first believed in only by his wife but within 6 years of his death had followers capturing Jerusalem? 2535. Who is the American artist who uses soup tins, etc., in his pop art? 2536. What is Margaret Thatchers middle name? 2537. Who re-designed Buckingham Palace? 2538. For what is Patricia Roberts famed? 2539. Whom, thanks to Christopher Isherwood, did W.H. Auden marry? 2540. Who painted the Urbino Venus?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2521. Rudolf Diesel. 2522. Comedienne Fanny Brices. 2523. Baron Byron of Rochdale. 2524. Steve Davis. 2525. Sailing into the wind. 2526. Claude Monet. 2527. Amelia Ehrhart. 2528. Leo Tolstoy. 2529. Chess. 2530. St Patrick of Ireland. 2531. Keith Deller. 2532. Thomas Jefferson. 2533. Mark Twain. 2534. Muhammad. 2535. Andy Warhol. 2536. Hilda. 2537. John Nash. 2538. Knitting patterns. 2539. Erika Mann (daughter of Thomas Mann) to get her a British passport; they first met on their wedding-day. 2540. Titian.

MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS
2541. In which sport would you hang ten? 2542. Who invented the game Dungeons and Dragons? 2543. How many wives did the Mormon leader Brigham Young marry? 2544. In which country were the earliest recorded works of art cave paintings found? 2545. By what name was outlaw Harry Longbaugh better known? 2546. Which English staymaker supported the American revolutionaries, designed an iron bridge and became an honorary Frenchman? 2547. Where would you find the Empress, the Chariot, the Hermit and the Fool all together? 2548. How many novels did Jane Austen write? 2549. What is the New Yorkers affectionate name for the Museum of Modern Art? 2550. By which name is Lancelot Brown better known? 2551. Which sometimes censored English novelist had an exhibition of paintings closed down by the police? 2552. Who owns the Sky walker Ranch? 2553. Where does Charles I by Van Dyck hang? 2554. What is a boats diary called? 2555. Which American president refused to shake hands while in office? 2556. Who founded the state of Utah and was survived by seventeen widows? 2557. What is a catamaran? 2558. The Belgian author of Pellas et Mlisande received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911. Who was he? 2559. How old, to the nearest 3 years, was Oliver Cromwell when he became a nationally important politician? 2560. Which doctor practised in London, Newcastle and Paris and was murdered in his bath?

MISCELLANEOUS ANSWERS
2541. Surfing. 2542. Gary Gygax. 2543. Twenty-seven. 2544. France. 2545. The Sundance Kid. 2546. Tom Paine. 2547. In a Tarot pack. 2548. Six. 2549. MOMA. 2550. Capability Brown. 2551. D. H. Lawrence. 2552. George Lucas. 2553. The National Gallery, London. 2554. A log. 2555. George Washington he preferred to bow. 2556. Brigham Young, the Mormon. 2557. A boat with twin hulls. 2558. Maurice Maeterlinck (18621949). 2559. Forty-three. 2560. Jean-Paul Marat.