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1. Which animal is often given the name “Brock”?

2. What is sold in an apothecary?

3. What are collected by philatelist?

4. Which ship sent the first SOS?

5. Who wrote The Singing Detective?

6. What is a human’s scapula?

7. What sort of tree is a gean?

8. Sabine and Saladin are types of what?

9. What word is given to the fear of bees?

10. On which river does Milan stand?

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1. Badger 2. Medicines/drugs 3. Stamps 4. Titanic 5. Dennis Potter 6. Shoulder Blade 7. Wild Cherry 8. Lettuce 9. Apiphobia 10. Olono

General Knowledge
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1. What is corn-cockle?

2. Which is larger, Mars or Earth?

3. What makes stainless steel stainless?

4. How many feet in a nautical mile?

5. What does a misogynist hate?

6. Which song mentions a jolly swagman?

7. What is a peri?

8. What was John Lennon’s middle name?

9. Who invented the Polaroid camera?

10. Where is the Louis Armstrong stadium?

11. Where on your body is your philtrum?

12. Inigo James was famous in which profession?

13. Who was the first musician to be made a life peer?

14. What colour is fudge?

15. What colour wine is Valpolicella?

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1. A flower. 2. Earth 3. Chromium 4. 6,080 5. Women 6. Waltzing Matilda 7. A fairy 8.0Winston 9. Edwin Land 10. Flushing Meadow, New York 11. Groove between nose and lip 12. Architecture 13. Benjamin Britten 14. Light brown 15. Red

General Knowledge
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1. Which is the only ten-letter word that can be spelt just using the top row of letters of a keyboard?

2. In which country could you buy a chocolate bar called Plopp?

3. The Isis is the upper stretch of which English river?

4. As whom is Marvin Lee Aday better known?

5. Which football club held the FA Cup for eight years even though they won it only once?

6. What is a dugong?

7. In which English county is Gotham?

8. Who was the subject of the Neil Sedaka song “Oh Carol”?

9. Which Spanish rider won the Tour De France five years in a row from 1991 to 1995?

10. Who was the first English King from the House of Lancaster?

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1. Typewriter 2. Sweden 3. Thames 4. Meat Loaf 5. Portsmouth (due to the second World War) 6. A marine mammal 7. Nottinghamshire 8. Carole King 9. Miguel Indurain 10. Henry IV

Music Quiz
This Quiz is based on name changes. Answers below.

1. Which Eighties band changed their name from Caviar?

2. Which rap artist was born Tracy Marrow?

3. Which punk rocker started life as William Broad?

4. Which guitar legend was born Brian Rankin?

5. Which band were formerly known as The Spectres?

6. Ceasar and Cleo found fame as which duo?

7. Which band changed their name from The New Yardbirds?

8. Which sixties girl band used to be called The Primettes?

9. Which band started out as Angel and The Snakes?

10. Which girl band sensibly decided to dispense with their name of The Bangs?

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1. Bros 2. Ice-T 3. Billy Idol 4. Hank Marvin 5. Status Quo 6. Sonny and Cher 7. Led Zeppelin 8. The Supremes 9. Blondie 10. The Bangles

The Most Difficult General Knowledge Quiz Ever
Well it is if you don’t know the answers. Test yourself and see, the answers are below.

1. What does the title of Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf mean?

a) My Idea b) My Plan c) My Struggle d) My Solution

2. Who was the first children’s author to win the Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year?

a) Philip Pullman b) J K Rowling c) Roald Dahl d) J R R Tolkein

3. For which animation did Nick Park win an Oscar in 1995?

a) The Wrong Trousers b) A Grand Day Out c) Toy Story d) A Close Shave

4. What was the name of the album released in 1999 by the singer David Bowie?

a) Heathen b) Hours c) Outside d) Low

5. All members of the Commonwealth have had colonial links with Britain, except for which country?

a) Mozambique b) Cyprus c) South Africa d) France

6. After oxygen, which is the most common element on Earth?

a) Carbon b) Iron c) Plutonium d) Silicon

7. What are the doldrums?

a) An area of jungle in South America b) A range of mountains in Italy c) An area of low atmospheric pressure near the equator d) An area of lakes in Canada

8. In what year did windsurfing become a women’s Olympic event?

a) 1984 b) 1992 c) 1996 d) 2000

9. What does Sinn Fein literally mean?

a) United Ireland b) Free Ireland c) Freedom Party d) Ourselves Alone

10. In Computer terminology, the word “bit” is short for what?

a) Binary digit b) Binary information total c) Basic interface d) Basic unit

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1. c)  2. a) 3. d)  4. b) 5. a)  6. d) 7. c)  8. b) 9. d)  10. a)