1. Scottish Cup 1938: how many games did East Fife play in the competition and which team did they defeat in the final? Eleven games and Kilmarnock
  2. The World’s highest railway line runs between which two countries? Peru and Bolivia
  3. In which war was the Battle of Inkerman? Crimean War
  4. The islands of Gozo and Comino are part of which country? Malta
  5. Leonard Martin was the first person to do what on B. B. C.’s ‘Grandstand’? Read the football results
  6. Which King of England was crowned on Christmas Day? William I
  7. What was the title of Cher’s first solo U. K. No.1 single? The Shoop Shoop Song
  8. In 1960, which two countries shared the first tied test match in cricket history? West Indies and Australia
  9. What protein is found in human hair and fingernails? Keratin
  10. What was the first British football club to have an all-seated stadium? Aberdeen
  11. What is Switzerland’s largest city by population? Zurich
  12. What are the first two names of T. S. Eliot? Thomas Stearns
  13. Who was Larry Grayson’s Scottish assistant on ‘The Generation Game’? Isla St. Clair
  14. What name is given to the target in quoits? Hob
  15. Who played the title role in the 1979 film ‘Mad Max’? Mel Gibson
  16. On a computer keyboard which letter is between ‘U’ and ‘O’? I for India
  17. In what year was the Forth Road Bridge opened? 1964
  18. In ‘Coronation Street’, Reg Holdsworth was manager of which supermarket? Betta Buys
  19. On which Scottish abbey is King Robert the Bruce to be seen in stonework at the top of the tower? Dunfermline
  20. The World War II film ‘A Bridge too Far’ was about the airborne landings in which country? Netherlands
  21. Name the year: Vietnam splits into two, Laos gains independence from France, Doris Day has a U. K. No.1 single with ‘Secret Love’ and West Germany beat Hungary 3 – 2 in the World Cup final. 1954
  22. What is another name for marsh gas? Methane
  23. How many players are there in a baseball team? Nine
  24. ‘Only Fools and Horses’: name two of the three places mentioned on the Trotter’s Robin Reliant. New York, Paris and Peckham
  25. Which Oscar-winning film holds the record for the most extras? Ghandi
  26. What is gymnophobia a fear of? Nudity
  27. What is sixty nine in Roman numerals? LXIX
  28. Which English river is swan upping performed every year? River Thames
  29. Which Scottish author was Lord Tweedsmuir? John Buchan
  30. Which two Italian volcanoes erupted in 1994? Etna and Stromboli
  31. Which pop-singing duo had the surnames Hodges and Peacock? Chas and Dave
  32. A ‘taliped’ suffers from which deformity? Club foot
  33. Ian St. John played for which Scottish football club? Motherwell
  34. In which TV series did Richard Chamberlain play a priest? The Thorn Birds
  35. What was the only U. K. No.1 single for The Shamen in 1992? Ebeneezer Goode
  36. Muster is the collective noun for what type of birds? Peacocks
  37. Who took over from Terry Wogan to commentate on the Eurovision Song Contest? Graham Norton
  38. For which two films did Jack Nicholson win Best Actor Oscar? ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest’ and ‘As Good as It Gets’
  39. Which Austrian city hosts an annual Mozart festival? Salzburg
  40. Name two of the four U. S. state capitals with ‘city’ in the title. Oklahoma, Salt Lake, Jefferson and Carson

1 / |