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In 1775 the Thirteen Colonies began fighting the American revolutionary war prior to declaring independence as the United States of America. Which of these four was not one of the 13?
Massachusetts
Michigan
Maryland
Virginia
Who did the original version?
"There's a lady for sure,
All that glitters is gold,"
Black Sabbath
Jethro Tull
Led Zeppelin
Rolf Harris
Who is this?
Beyoncé
Whitney Houston
Jennifer Lopez
Rihanna
Which county is this?
Surrey
East Sussex
Essex
Kent
Roughly how long is the Panama canal?
48km
60km
80km
100km
Who "sang" this?
"Generals gathered in their masses,
Just like witches at black masses,
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerers of death's construction."
Blind Faith
Rolling Stones
Black Sabbeth
Jericho
On 30 September 1938, the British prime minister Neville Chamberlain was proudly announcing he had secured "peace for our time" thanks to the Munich agreement with Adolf Hitler's Germany. Which two other countries, apart from the UK and Germany, signed the agreement?
France and Italy
France and Russia
France and Poland
France and Spain
Which county is this?
Lincolnshire
North Yorkshire
Suffolk
East Yorkshire
Who was proclaimed King of England on 30 September 1399?
Henry III
HenryIV
Henry V
Henry VI
Who sang this?
"We'll be fighting in the streets,
With our children at our feet,
And the morals that they worship will be gone.
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgement of all wrong;
They decide and the shotgun sings the song."
Ten Years After
Free
The Who
The Small Faces
Which of the following elements is not found in Ca(HCO₃)₂?
Carbon
Cobalt
Calcium
Oxygen
Which is this county?
West Yorkshire
Lancashire
Cheshire
Derbyshire
Here's Prince Charles emerging from Doctor Who's Tardis for some reason. But aside from him, which of these actors has never been Doctor Who? Plot twist – yes, it is anagram time …(60 seconds for this one)
Wry Ladle Bash
Clap Gunman
Ant Van Did Ten
Placed Pirate
Who sang this?
"In the white room with black curtains near the station.
Blackroof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings.
Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes.
Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment."
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers
Rolling Stones
Cream
The Yardbirds
Who was the first woman in space?
Yelena Serova
Yelena Kondakova
Valentina Tereshkova
Svetlana Savitskaya
Name the film.
"You’re gonna need a bigger boat"
The African Queen
Titanic
Jaws
Sink the Bismark!
Which US children's TV series features characters with the surnames Rogers, Blake and Dinkley?
Scooby Doo
Spongebob Squarepants
The Flintstones
Wacky Races
Which mountain is 28,251 feet (8,611 meters) high?
Mount Everest
Aconcagua
K2
Mount McKinley
Which British politician is this?
Michael Gove
Keir Starmer
Dominic Raab
Matt Hancock
Name the film'
“I’ll have what she’s having”
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Love Story
When Harry met Sally
Trainspotting
"Rossum's Universal Robots" was a play in the 1920s that introduced the word 'robot ' for artificial beings into the English language. Who wrote it?
Frans Kafka
Karel Čapek
Jaroslav Kvapil
Antonín Dvořák
The highest peaks in the Western Hemisphere are found in which mountain range?
The Andes
The Rockies
The Sierra Madres
The Sierra Nevada
Which of these is NOT the name of an Elvis movie? Plot twist – it is anagram time…(60 seconds)
Core Gel Ink
Hair Sock Joule
Karate Throb Heel
Remelted Oven
Name the film
”I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.”
Shirley Valentine
Airplane
Gigi
Love Story
Which famous poem opens with these lines? "April is the cruellest month,breeding/ Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire, stirring / Dull roots with spring rain."
T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land
Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken
Wallace Stevens' Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Paul Laurence Dunbar's We Wear the Mask
Mount Ras Dejen rises to nearly 15,000 feet in which African mountain range?
The Atlas Mountains (northwestern Africa)
The Ethiopian Highlands (Ethiopia)
The Drakensberg (South Africa)
The Eastern Rift Mountains (East Africa)
Jared Harris played which character in HBO's Chernobyl?
Valery Legasov
Boris Shcherbina
Anatoly Dyatlov
Vasily Ignatenko
Name the film
“I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”
Good Morning Vietnam
Full Metal Jacket
Apocolypse now
The Killing Fields
Which of these European city and river combinations is incorrect?
The River Po flows through Turin
The River Danube flows through Cologne
The River Loire flows through Nantes
The River Clyde flows through Glasgow
Which mountain range marks the traditional physiographic boundary between Europe and Asia?
The Kunlun Mountains
The Alps
The Altay Mountains
The Ural Mountains
Since St Peter became the first bishop of Rome ~ roughly ~ how many Popes have there been?
210
265
315
1056
"Cat's foot, iron claw,
Neuro-surgeons scream for more
At paranoia's poison door
Twenty-first Century schizoid man."
What a great opening! Who sang it?
Caravan
Van De Graf Generator
King Crimson
Hawkwind
Who is this?
Romesh Ranganathan
Mawaan Rizwan
Richard Ayoade
Nish Kumar
Name the film.
“Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.”
Queen of the Dessert
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
2001 A Space Odessy
Back to the Future
One of these lists of elements, as denoted by their chemical symbols, contains only metals. Which one?
Mg, Al, Li, K
P, Li, Cl, Au
P, S, Au, Fe
S, Li, K, Cl
Who sang:
"Pleased to meet you/ Hope you guess my name/ But what's puzzling you/ Is the nature of my game"?
Beatles
Rolling Stones
Rod Stewart
Genesis
Which of these substances has the highest melting point?
Gold
Manganese
Platinum
Cobalt
Name the film.
”You don't understand! I could've had class. I could've been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.”
Rocky
On the Waterfront
Raging Bull
Rocky II
Rosa Parks was one of the significant figures in the civil rights movement in the US. Her actions prompted a bus boycott in which city?
Montgomery, Alabama
Little Rock, Arkansas
Birmingham, Alabama
Memphis, Tennessee
Who sang
"Call me, call me,on the line/ Call me, call me anytime"?
Iggy Pop
Blondie
The Ramones
Patti Smith
In 2016 Hasbro released a revised edition of Cluedo, which replaced Mrs White with which new character?
Dr Orchid
Dr Olive
Dr Violet
Dr Liz Shaw
Name the film.
"We’ll always have Paris”
French Lieutenant's Woman
Amelie
Casablanca
Moulin Rouge
Metal Guru was a huge hit for Marc Bolan as part of the band T Rex. But during which period of geological time did the Tyrannosaurus rex live?
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Silurian
Who sang
"But if I stayed here with you, girl, Things just couldn't be the same. 'Cause I'm as free as a bird now, And this bird you can not change, oh, oh, oh, oh"?
Metallica
AC/DC
Val Donican
Lynyrd Skynyrd
This is the third highest mountain in Montserrat and has an elevation of 697 metres. What is it called?
Adam Hill
Katy Hill
Damon Hill
Harry Hill
The Ostwald process converts ammonia into which acid?
Sulphuric
Nitric
Sulphurous
Acetic
Which county is this?
Hertfordshire
Surrey
Berkshire
Twatshire (Rick Mayall's favourite county)
Who was the first woman to be paid $1m for a film role?
Rita Hayworth
Marilyn Monroe
Elizabeth Taylor
Bette Davis
When asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest, who said, "because it's there"?
(the most famous three words in mountaineering).
Sir Edmund Hillary
Reinhold Messner (weil es da ist)
George Mallory
Chris Bonnington
What is the capital city of Mozambique?
Maputo
Monrovia
Mogadishu
Maseru
Which county is this?
Herefordshire
Gloucestershire
Shropshire
Cheshire
How many metres can a fully grown adult ostrich cover with one stride?
2
5
8
20
Mount Kenya, Africa's second-highest peak, was once thought to be over 1,000 metres higher. Why?
It was wrongly measured by the German missionaries who were the first Europeans to sight it
Centuries of rainy seasons wore away the porous basalt
It once had a thick ice cap, which has melted because of global warming
A volcanic eruption blew its top off (it was only supposed to open the safe)
In Douglas Adams' Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, what was Bowerick Wowbagger doing?
Spending a year dead for tax reasons
Insulting everyone in the entire universe in alphabetical order
Writing poetry considered to be the worst in the Galaxy
Constructing the coastlines of continents on artificial planets
Which county is this?
Norfolk
Suffolk
Leicestershire
Cambridgeshire
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World was written in 1931. It is set in AD 2540, but in the novel the year is given as 632, in what new dating system?
AC – After Curie
AE - After Edison
AF – After Ford
AB- After Boeing
A "sacred footprint" at the top of Sri Pada mountain in Sri Lanka is held to be that of ...
Buddha
The Hindu god Shiva
The place Adam first set foot on Earth
All of the above
ANAGRAM TIME: Which of these is NOT a major London railway terminus? (60 seconds on this one)
Bleary Omen
God Pant Din
Orate Owl
Leave Wry
Which county is this?
Cumbria
Cheshire
Yorkshire
Lancashire
Which company’s motto, when it started, was “get big fast”?
Amazon
eBay
Tesla
