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1] What is the difference between a meteor and a meteorite?
2] 215.9 x 355.6 Is it legal?
3] According to fundamentalist Christians who is the most recent universal common male line human ancestor?
4] On 21 September 1956 a Grumman Tiger shot down an aircraft using its 20 mm cannon. What was rather unusual about this event?
5] What do Alanis Morissette, Lillian DeVille and Carol Thatcher have in common?
6] Which department employed Eliot Ness?
7] Who said in 1972 that he was determined to give the Africans a fair crack of the whip?
8] They play in Wisconsin for 60 minutes in total, spread out over about three hours. They are quite popular. Who are they?
9] It is blue and alcoholic. It is named after an island off the northern coast of South America. What does it taste like?
10] Where did the world first witness the horrors of a manmade firestorm?
11] Who made his fortune with the help of some paint samples and a charm bracelet?
12] A triangle that is not scalene has one side that is five metres long and one side that is twelve metres long. What are the three angles?
13] Who was orphaned by an unfortunate cream of mushroom soup incident?
14] What career move links Harrison Ford with Jesus?
15] What disparaging term is named after a character in the first million selling novel?
16] How did the excellent ones secure their final victory over The Grim Reaper?
17] Who lost the pence and later took a pounding over the beef question?
18] Which two road signs are designed to be read even in a blizzard, when obscured by snow?
19] What unusual use were the rivers Alpheus and Peneus put to?
20] Where is Britain's most photographed zebra crossing?
21] A child could have understood it, but it baffled the Japanese military, much to the relief of Uncle Sam. What kind of child?
22] What, proverbially speaking, is the last thing you want to buy, even if you plan working your whole life to do it?
23] At what point did Anders and Daniel agree how cold it was?
24] What positive integer, when spelled out, has a Scrabble score equal to that integer?
25] Who is the odd one out, and why?
a) Holly Golightly
b) Pussy Galore
c) Truly Scrumptious
d) Honeychile Rider
26] It meant nothing to him. Where?
27] What was the flavor (sic) of the American Pie? (very sick)
28] The film Deep Blue Sea contains a subtle homage to Jaws in the form of a shared prop. What is it?
29] Tom took it and lost it on the same day. Art had it twice for just over a week each time. Malcolm held it nine times. Gary held it for 13 years. Richard held it for 14 years. But John held it for even longer. John who?
30] What Latin phrase can used to describe catching people in the act of committing any offence?
31] Which is the odd one out:
Rose
Fuchsia
Lavender
Mauve
Lilac
Violet
32] Who was the leader of The Banana Splits?
33] What was the name of the dog belonging to the leader of the dambusters?
34] Where did the cat based on Doberman live?
35] According to The Happy Warrior's liege lord what two feats could the unelected president not accomplish simultaneously?
36] Why did the richboy want the hydrophobic policeman to go to end of the pulpit?
37] Tell me Ms O'Connor, how long has it been now?
38] Who found the evidence that cleared Goofy of the spying charge?
39] Who replaced the Red Baron?
40] What are arabica and robusta?
41] Which rock band never has to send out for Noodles?
42] Who links Stingray and James Bond?
43] Which is the odd one out and why: a] French Beans b] Spanish onions c] Idaho potatoes d] Chinese lettuce
44] You really wouldn't want to find yourself in room 101. In which building?
45] "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.." Where was this line uttered?
46] What is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength between 1 and 3mm?
47] Which is the odd one out and why:-
Lech Walesa
Robert Mugabe
Adolf Hitler
Charles de Gaulle
Nelson Mandela
Václav Havel
48] Where is the nearest foreign shore to Miami, Florida?
49] Who was proud to call himself a doughnut, apparently, if some people are to be believed?
50] "If my theory... is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am _____"
51] Complete the sequence: Mikhail Vassily Mikhail Mikhail Mikhail Tigran Boris ??? Anatoly
52] What substance is removed from limestone to make quicklime?
53] Complete and explain the derivation of the following sequence of numbers: 0 15 60 135 240 375 540 735 ?
54] What is the more famous first of the First Earl of Orford?
55] Who is the odd one out, and why?
Rudolph Fitzgerald
David Earl
Milhous Walker
Wilson Baines
Herbert Jefferson
56] Rebecca Rolfe was more famous under what other name?
57] Which classic film moment follows Rick Sylvester taking his skis off?
58] Where did the action take place on the 26th of October, 1881?
59] M wanted to dedicate it, who made it?
60] When was the last time one pound sterling could buy you four US dollars at the official exchange rate?
61] How did Dr Christiaan Barnard die?
62] Who confused and stunned the world by seeming to score one out of ten, in 1976?
63] What puts the ape in apricot?
64] Who is the only known reader of Electronics For Dogs?
65] According to Bernard Law Montgomery (Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, Monty) Rule One, on Page One, of The Book of War was DON'T..........................................?
66] What kind of aircraft was the Enola Gay?
67] Which rock group did Lemmy play bass for just before forming Motörhead?
68] _oo_oo_oo What colour provides the solution? It's very intelligent.
69] Which exotic car loses a lot of glamour in translation into English as Smith's Redhead?
70] Which flamboyant musician's first names were Wladziu Valentino?
71] What was the theme song of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidential campaign in 1932?
72] What lyric did The Kinks have to change to get airplay for their song about a transvestite?
73] What colour shirts were won by the victors of the 1968 (soccer) European Cup Final?
74] You score an eagle, your partner scores a double bogey on the same hole. The difference between your two scores is the same as the par for the hole. What did your partner score?
75] Who said "It takes an awful lot of money to look this cheap?"
76] You overhear a young British person saying that they think they might be lucky to get a Desmond, what are they talking about?
77] A car travels 80 km in the time that another car travelling 10 km/h faster travels 100 km. What is the speed of the faster car?
78] Fill in the missing value:-
2.00
__
4.73
6.00
7.24
8.45
79] Explain how 5 x 6 = 42
80] Who are The Baggies?
81] Who was the villain of The Wacky Races?
82] What was the surname of Stallone's Rocky?
83] Which priest has featured at the coronation of every British monarch since 1727?
84] Who claimed to have a season ticket on a one way ride?
85] What is Inspector Morse's firstname?
86] Which theatrically nonsensical fruit is actually a vegetable?
87] Who expalined his refusal to fight in Vietnam by saying "No Viet Cong ever called me nigger"?
88] What is the source of the following quotation "I tell you this, no eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn"?
89] Who sang of the laughing gnome?
90] While everybody knows a giraffe can run faster than a horse, go for longer without water than a camel and see behind without moving its head, but how does it clean its ears?
91] If Marlene was the witness for the prosecution, who lead for the defence?
92] A democratic country with over a billion citizens, a sport, a drink, a city, a province, four blokes, a couple of dances, a couple of Shakespearean characters but what month? Do you want me to spell it out for you?
93] In darts what is the lowest score that cannot be obtained with only one dart?
94] Which popular music combination adopted the name of a dildo?
95] Which film was promoted with the line "Be afraid, be very afraid"?
96] What can you visibly add to a barrel of water to make it lighter, without making it heavier?
97] What product did Lamborghini make before making cars?
99] Why is a Utah basketball team known as the Utah Jazz?
100] Who held the World Water Speed Record that Donald Campbell died trying to beat?
101] Which aircraft was responsible for causing the majority of German air losses during the Battle of Britain?
102] Complete this Springtime lyric "Don't be stoopid, be a smarty come and join......."
103] In which film does Paul Newman get to eat a quite absurd number of eggs?
104] By what name was Rodrigo Diaz better known?
105] Who said "I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin"?
106] What is Woody Allen's second favourite organ?
107] What is O.S.C.A.R. Zero?
108] Who has the fastest serve in tennis?
109] Which airport serving a major US East Coast city is an anagram of a British obscenity?
110] Where did the man in the mac's gnomes come from?
111] What part of a chicken's anatomy is exported in bulk to China from all over the world?
112] Where in your home might you expect to find a device operating at 2.45 GHz?
113] Which object became a metaphor for a communications breakthrough after it was discovered to contain three versions of the same proclamation?
114] What was the name of Don Quixote's horse?
115] What links the spy who shagged me to eve of the feast of All Saints?
116]
Iceland + Wales = Portugal
England - Wales= Portugal
Portugal + Wales = Andorra
Andorra - England = Iceland
England x Iceland = ?
117] Who was the Republican US Presidential candidate in 1964?
118] Where did Daniel Simpson Day go to college?
119] What are Rob Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan famous for not doing?
120] Like Webster's Dictionary we're....?
121] Who has just enough education to perform?
122] Who plays catcher in the baseball team that features the round headed kid and the funny looking kid with the big nose?
123] By what name is the selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor fluoxetine better known?
124] Which book of the Pentateuch is a film starring the blue eyed racing driver salad dressing guy and an actress with a triply religious name?
125] Which book of the Bible contains the story of Deborah the prophetess?
126]
USA is 33%
ALABAMA is 43%
SOUTH DAKOTA is 55%
TEXAS is 60%
CONNECTICUT is 64%
Which two states trail at a miserable 25%?
127] If who's on first who is on third?
128] Name the Formula 1 racing drivers who have won the British Grand Prix four times or more since 1950.
129] Which film was promoted as "It's the Go Go Guy and that Bye Bye Girl in the fun capital of the world"?
130] What home safety device relies on a radioactive isotope?
131] Chevrolet is to USA as _________ is to Australia.
132] Two musicians are eating a meal. One pulls a face, takes out a pen and draws on a napkin. Five lines, seven blobs. He passes the napkin to his colleague who nods and calls the waiter. They explain the problem to the waiter and he brings another meal.
What was the message?
133] What's red but not quite?
134] What was the Empress of Blandings?
135] Supply the missing value and explain the sequence.
0
3.16
3.76
4.16
4.47
4.73
4.95
???
5.32
5.48
5.62
136] What is Britain's proverbially fastidious port?
137] Albany is to NYC as ___________ is to L A.
138] What links Dodgson's walrus to the father of the girl embarking on her nineteenth nervous breakdown?
139] Complete the following infamous final public utterance
_________ want only three things: first, a tight pussy; second loose shoes; third, a warm _____________
140] Who is the jester in the borrowed coat?
141] Two ounces, how many feet?
142] What links a stormy piece from the Bard to a group who seem interested in medieval torture via the grandson of Darwin's Bulldog?
143] What is the symbolic link between California, Russia, Berlin and (sportingly) Chicago?
144] What is the best way to get a drink out of a Vogon?
145] What was the first Sherlock Holmes story?
146] What did scorge did Wat Tyler keep England free of for nearly 700 years?
147] What was the last battle on the British mainland?
148] What was Kaiser Wilhelm's disability?
149] What did Joe Namath say when asked whether he prefered grass or astroturf?
150] What is Paddy's wigwam?
151] In which decade was satelite TV first proposed as a workable proposition?
152] In which decade was possession of cannabis first made illegal in the UK?
153] Which world formula 1 motor racing champion also won at Le Mans, the Indianapolis 500 and the Monaco Grand Prix 3 times?
154] How big is a silverback gorilla's penis?
155] Which ship survived the attack on Pearl Harbor but was sunk in 1982?
156] Which American political leader left 17 widows?
157] Who is Roisin Murphy?
158] What is the corect medical term for a person with more than the average number of arms?
159] Where was the Mary Tyler Moore show set?
160] Where do you go to catch a train to Hogwarts?
161] If 4 is a phantom and 16 is an eagle what is a tomcat?
162] Who is Lene Nystrom?
163] Who said "wealth is better than poverty, if only for the financial reasons"?
164] In which trade would you expect to find a sagger-maker's bottom-knocker?
165] During the great schism in the Catholic church there were two Popes, one in Rome, where was the other one?
166] In which sport did Alice use a flamingo to hit a hedgehog?
167] What is the principal use of pigskin in the USA?
168] Which Norwegian gave his name to the derogatory term to describe politicians who support the invaders of their country?
169] When she was built she was five times larger than the largest one yet made. She remained the heaviest for 48 years. Who designed her?
170] Who claimed to be the first victim of American Fascism?
171] By what name was Tiziano Vecelli better known?
172] A typical human body contains enough DNA, if stretched out and joined to form a single strand, to reach three quarters of the way to the Moon. Is that true, an understatement or an overstatement?
173] How did landscape gardeners have the last laugh and keep cattle out of the gardens of the nobility without fences or hedges?
174] Lee Marvin and Marlon Brando were rival gang leaders in which film?
175] By what unofficial nickname is the B52 known, and why?
176] Some day you will find him, caught beneath the landslide, where?
177] Complete this quote by Marx "Here's to our wives and girlfriends..."
178] Who did Jan Sobieski defeat, and where?
179] What is the literary link between Bernstein, Prokofiev, Berlioz and Tchaikovski?
180] Tsaritsyn is better known to the outside world by what names?
181] What is the legal significance of the year 1189, still?
182] The man had received much bigger cheques in his career but the highlight was receiving a cheque (or should that be check?) for $3,000. Why would that stand out so much?
183] The twins, Craig and Charlie, were not content merely to sing their songs. They ___________ them.
184] It would seem that Brian H Warner has two big influences on his life, who?
185] Who voice of Fozzie Bear does else?
186] He came to prominence with a 21st round knockout on September 7th 1892, but what kind of a chap was he?
187] When the Titanic set sail only 75% were operational. Most of the passengers were oblivious to this but the company knew full well. What am I talking about?
188] Which film had a credit for Assistant Moth Wrangler?
189] Who started off as 7 from 9, became 1 of 5 and is now regarded as one of a kind?
190] He's almost two metres at the top of the base, who?
191] What did Queen Victoria, Einstein and Charles Darwin have in common?
192] Which is the odd one out and why:
Australia Hong Kong Ireland India Japan New Zealand Singapore South Africa Sweden
193] Whose beads are a beautiful but rare sight on Earth, and how are they caused?
194] Who did the British government ask to provide intelligence on radicals in the Paris Commune in 1871?
195] Who coined the phrase survival of the fittest?
196] Which is the odd one out: Raven, Pudding, Ebony, Jet, Sable, Pitch
197] Take the following words and create an oxymoron by combining them in a two word phrase with a word of your choice:
Living
Never
Familiar
True
198] Which Australian children's Television program seems to have a couple of characters named after weapons of mass destruction?
199] What do Jack the Ripper, Peter the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Mick the Miller and Billy the Kid all have in common?
200] What was the most distinctive feature of the car that James Hunt drove for the Hesketh racing team?
201] Who asked who wants to stay alive when you're 25?
202] What small town on the River Uruguay was made famous by exports of corned beef?
203] The official answer is Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George. What is the funnier answer?
204] Musically link Kirsty MacColl and Jimi Hendrix.
205] Come with me if you want to live. Where was this classic line delivered?
206] She's not some dumb kind of Marxist, she just has it backwards, who?
207] Who were the Fonz's girlfriends down at the brewery?
208] Who said "The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief-call it what you will-than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course."
209] 160 women and only one Crapper. Where?
210] What starts with a C and ends with a T, is hairy, oval, delicious and contains thin whitish liquid?
211] Who said "I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot... the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people."
212] Where would you find an anthropomorphic personification with an aptly named apprentice, Mort?
213] One hundred ants are dropped on a metre stick. Each ant is travelling either to the left or the right with constant speed 1 metre per minute. When two ants meet, they bounce off each other and reverse direction. When an ant reaches an end of the stick, it falls off.
Question: over all possible initial configurations, what is the longest amount of time that you would need to wait to guarantee that the stick has no more ants?
214] Who holds the record for the greatest number of career home runs for a pair of brothers (in major league baseball)?
215] Who has a scar above his knee which is in the shape of a map of the London Underground?
216] What career enquiry brought the house down in the States in the film Jumanji? And why?
217] How did Harry establish intent to commit rape?
218] What was Winston prepared to believe for money?