1. Which country has the airline Alitalia ? Italy
2. What is/has Saturday's child ? works hard for a living
3. What is the collective noun for a group of lions ? A pride.
4. Who won the FA Cup in 1990 ? Manchester United
5. Who was UN Secretary General from 1972-1982 ? KURT WALDHEIM .
6. What do you call somebody from Liverpool ? Livepudlian
7. What is the state capital of Massachusetts ? Boston
8. Who was leader of the Labour party from 1980-1983 ? MICHAEL FOOT .
9. In the phonetic alphabet, what word represents the letter B ? bravo.
10. What was the Roman name for Lincoln ? Lindum
11. Which countries national symbol is Fleur de lys (Lily) ? France
12. Of which US state is Tallahasse the capital ? Florida
13. Who played Sgt Bilko ? Phil Silvers
14. In which year were all these titles at no.1 'Sealed With A Kiss',
'Ferry 'Cross The Mersey' and 'Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart'? 1989
15. Who teamed up with La Na Nee Nee Noo Noo to take their Comic
Relief version of the Beatles' 'Help!' to the Top Three in 1989?
Bananarama
16. Whose first British hit was 'Waterloo' ? Abba
17. Who is the oldest Smokey Robinson, Tom Robinson or Tom Petty ?
Smokey Robinson
18. Which three oceans lap the shores of Canada? The Atlantic,
Pacific and Arctic
19. What Somerset village is famous for its cheese and its limestone caves?
Cheddar
20. What South American country's coast are sailors off when "Rounding
the Horn"? Chile's
22. Who was the first incumbent U.S. president to survive being shot?
Ronald Reagan
23. What do people do in a plebiscite? Vote
24. What English city did the Romans call Aquae Sulis? Bath
25. Which US state exports the most wine? California
26. Name the artist and tune ("
Coming Tuesday I feel better")?
Friday on my mind - The Easybeats
27. Whats element has the symbol As ? Arsenic
28. In which English city is St. Edmund buried? Bury-St. Edmund
29. What colour are Harrod's shopping bags? Olive green
30. What novel's first line is: "[She] was not beautiful,
but men seldom realized it when caught by her charms as the
Tarleton twins were."?"Gone with the Wind"
31. What historic event happened on Sunday, July 20, 1969?
Neil Armstrong walks on the moon.
32. Who, most famously, lost his life at sea on 21 October 1805?
Horatio Nelson , Trafalgar
33. In which American state would you find the world's largest
store of gold? New York (in the Federal Reserve Bank)
34. Which creatures sang "We all stand together"? Frogs
35. In which US city is the Sears tower? Chicago
36. In which novel is Winston Smith the main character? 1984
37. How many old pennies were there in Half a Crown ? 30
38. Which singer went solo after performing with the Commodores?
Lionel Richie
39. Who said , "Marriage is a wonderful invention -
but so is the bicycle repair kit"? Laurence Olivier
40. Topical question Who is going digital this Christmas ? The Queen (WWW)
21. In which year in the twenties was the General Strike? 1926
22. What harbour was the Rainbow Warrior mined in? Auckland
23. What Test cricket team did Sir Frank Worrell play for? The West Indies
24. How many pieces are there in a standard set of dominoes? Twenty-eight
25. Name the artist and tune "Tuesday, Wednesday, heart attack"?
The Cure - Friday I'm in love
26. Whats element has the symbol Au ? Gold
27. Who lives at 11 Downing St.? The Chancellor of the Exchequer
28. Which royal residence burned in 1993? Windsor Castle
29. In which Agatha Christie novel is the narrator the murderer?
"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"
30. What historic event happened on Sunday, August 31, 1997? Princess Diana dies.
31. Whose parents kept a famous fictitious inn called the " Admiral Benbow"?
Jim Hawkins ' 'Treasure Island'
32. How is William Frederick Cody, who died in 1917, far better remembered?
Buffalo Bill
33. Which radio serial began its long career on 29th May, 1950 ? The Archers
34. Which weapon did the British Army officially get rid of in March 1927 ?
The lance
35. What appeared in The Times newspaper for the first time in
September 1860 ? The 1st weather forecast
36. Which pirate sank in March 1980 ? Radio Caroline
37. Who opened the Forth Road Bridge in 1964 ? The Queen Mother
38. Which famous 1945 novel is an anagram of "have bird seed diet sir" ?
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
39. Which pop star died three days before Groucho Marx ? ELVIS PRESLEY
40. Who is the current deputy prime minister ? John Prescott
1. Which country has the airline Olympic ? Greece
2. What is/has Thursday's child ? far to go
3. What is the collective noun for a group of whales ? A school.
4. Who won the FA Cup in 1989 ? Liverpool
5. From which country was the UN secretary general KURT WALDHEIM ? Austria .
6. What do you call somebody from Manchester ? Mancunian
7. What is the state capital of New Hampshire ? Concord
8. Who was leader of the Conservative party from 1957-1963 ? HAROLD MACMILLAN .
9. In the phonetic alphabet, what word represents the letter S ? sierra.
10. What place had the Roman name Hibernia ? Ireland
11. Which countries national symbol is Cornflower ? Germany
12. Of which US state is Atlanta the capital ? Georgia
13. In which year were all these titles at no.1 'The Power Of Love',
'Hello' and 'I Just Called To Say I Love You'?1984
14. What was the title of Spitting Image's 1986 number one? 'The Chicken Song'
15. Whose first British hit was 'Anarchy In The UK' ? Sex Pistols
16. Who is the oldest Michael Jackson, Joe Jackson or Joe Cocker ? Joe Cocker
17. What American state is Silicon Valley in? California
18. What US state would you arrive in if you headed due north from Hawaii?
Alaska
19. What ship began its epic voyage on 6 September, 1620? The Mayflower
20. What country did the Siege of Mafeking take place in? South Africa