032-2009
France
2. Someone following a gluten-free diet, needs to avoid what food item?
Wheat
3. Which northern English town was the first in the world to have electric street lights?
Blackpool
4. How many squares are there on a snakes and ladders board?
100
5. What came first - cars or traffic lights?
Traffic Lights - to control the flow of pedestrians and horse carriages
6. Charles Babbage’s calculating machine of around 1822 is generally regarded as the world’s first computer. What powered it - electricity, steam or an airpump?
Steam
7. If you ordered a ‘squeeze’ in an American diner what would you get?
Orange Juice
8. What is the Iranian word for King?
Shah
9. What kind of cars do people mainly drive to the Bug Jam festival held every year?
VW Beetles
10. What sound does the Antpitta bird from Equador make; a neigh; a bark or a whistle?
Bark
11. What year did Freddie Mercury die?
1991
12. Cubic zirconia is used as a substitute for what?
Diamonds
13. There is the same known number of black farmers in the UK as there are £1 million notes. How many is that?
Two
14. In ballroom dancing, would a man offer his left or right hand to a woman to lead her onto the dance floor?
Right
15. Is a pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable?
Fruit
16. Which of the following is not a British aristocratic title - Earl, Duke, Count, Baronet or Viscount?
Count
17. What is the value of the highest blue figure in Deal or No Deal?
£750
18. What does the DeWalt company predominately make?
Power Tools
19. The phrase ‘saved by the bell’ comes from which sport?
Boxing
20. How many languages are spoken in Indonesia; 3, 36 or 365?
365
21. Name a pop group, past or present, that you can spread on toast?
MARMALADE, THE JAM, HONEYZ, HOT BUTTER
22. The government has guaranteed your savings up to how much if your bank or building society collapses?
£50,000
23. On which South American river is there a tidal bore that produces the longest surfable wave in the world?
Amazon
24. The ghost of which of Henry VIII’s wives is apparently often seen gliding through the Tower of London where she was beheaded?
Anne Boleyn
25. What is the name of the particle accelerator complex that has been built in the mountains in Switzerland?
Hadron Collider
26. Which of the following is NOT a real place name in England - Lickey End, New Invention or Wimple Bumstead?
Wimple Bumstead (Lickey End is in Worcestershire and New Invention is a village in the West Midlands)
27. What dish would you most likely make with Arborio rice?
Risotto
28. Which nursery rhyme character is usually portrayed as an egg?
Humpty Dumpty
29. Fabio Capello gave David Beckham his 100th England cap but who gave him his first?
Glen Hoddle
30. True or false? A Serbian chef has published the world’s first testicle recipe book?
True - Subtitled Cooking with Balls, you get handy hints on how to peel and slice them to make tasty dishes like testicle pizza and battered testicles. His personal favourites are bulls, stallions and ostriches, but claims they can all be eaten except humans of course!
31. In which country was the first ski-thru McDonalds opened?
Sweden
32. What is the Christian name of French President Sarkozy’s Italian born wife?
Carla
33. If you mixed a pot of Dulux Easter Morn with a pot of Azure Sky, what colour would you get?
Green
34. Give Points For The Most Inventive Answers - If you want to take your goldfish on a bus in Seattle, you can so long as it does what?
Keeps Still
35. What gas goes into the decorative floating balloons often seen at parties and weddings?
Helium
36. How many Weetabix are there in the smallest box you buy from a supermarket?
Twelve
37. Quite an expensive product in health food shops, Manuka is a trendy variety of what?
Honey
38. What is a traditional picnic hamper made of?
Wicker
39. What name is given to a rectangular bar of gold?
Ingot
40. There are 11 words written on the front of a current UK passport - European Union are two, followed by United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. What is the last one?
Passport
Tiebreaker - What year was the total abolition of the death penalty for all crimes in the UK?
1998
