1.In which large English town is the University of Tees-side? MIDDLESBROUGH

2. In which year was the aerial ‘Battle of Britain’? 1940

3. Which vitamin helps blood to clot? VITAMIN K

4. How is the singer born Gaynor Hopkins better-known? BONNIE TYLER

5.Who wrote ‘An Inspector Calls’ and ‘The Good Companions’? J B PRIESTLEY

6. Where does the airline Cathay Pacific have its HQ? HONG KONG

7. Which part of the body does Moorfield’s Hospital in London specialise in?

THE EYE

8.General de Gaulle said ‘How can you govern a country that has 246 varieties of .…..’ What?

CHEESE

9. One-time World Champion darts player Bob Anderson was picked to represent GB

in the 1968 Olympics – in which apt sporting event? JAVELIN

10 Which country has the internet domain .at? AUSTRIA

11 In Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, (and the new film) what is Beauty’s name? BELLE

12 What Scottish record does Wanlockhead village in the Southern Uplands hold?

HIGHEST (ABOVE SEA LEVEL)

13 Which was the first Welsh football team to play in the English Premier League?

SWANSEA CITY

14 What board game has a ‘doubling cube’? BACKGAMMON

15 In 2001, what caused racing’s Cheltenham Festival and the British Rally

Championship to be cancelled and the General Election delayed a month?

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE

16 How is the ‘Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway’ informally known?

THE TONY AWARD(S)

17 In the Bible, who betrayed Samson to the Philistines? DELILAH

18 Which country in the Americas comprises 31 states and a federal district?

MEXICO

19 What geographical features does a limnologist study?

RIVERS / INLAND LAKES / FRESHWATER BODIES

20 The Red Hot Peppers backed which ragtime / jazz pianist band-leader?

JELLY ROLL MORTON

21 Which UK magazine is supposedly owned by Lord Gnome? PRIVATE EYE

22 In cartoons, where does Seymour Skinner work?

SPRINGFIELD (ELEMENTARY) SCHOOL

23 Who invented the mercury thermometer? (GABRIEL) FARENHEIT

24 What sort of creature is a dik-dik? AN ANTELOPE

25 Which king in Britain had a queen as his mother and a king as his son who were

both executed. JAMES 6TH AND 1ST

26 In terms of direction of its rotation, which planet is odd-one-out? VENUS

27 What international limit, now obsolete, was established by the ‘Cannon Shot Rule’

at 3 miles? TERRITORIAL WATERS … or similar

28 Chionophobia is a fear of what sort of precipitation? SNOW

29 Founded in the 1950s, in which country were EOKA terrorists / guerrillas active?

CYPRUS

30 Which Shakespeare play starts ‘If music be the food of love, play on’?

TWELFTH NIGHT

31 ‘Alice and Jerry’ reading books sold 100 million copies in the USA; what were the

equivalent here called? ‘JANET AND JOHN’

32 In which 1956 film did Elvis play the role of Clint Reno? ‘LOVE ME TENDER’

33 On which sea coast is the port of Split? ADRIATIC

34 Which revolutionary was murdered by Ramon Mercader in Mexico City?

(LEON) TROTSKY

35 In bygone days, what land animal was sometimes called an urchin or urcheon?

A HEDGEHOG

36 In Greek myth, who did King Oedipus marry? HIS MOTHER

37 If you suffer madarosis, what hairs do you lose from your body?

EYELASHES and occasionally EYEBROWS

38 In which novel does The Inn of the Prancing Pony appear?

‘LORD OF THE RINGS’

39 What characterises the fruit that are used to produce verjuice? THEY’RE SOUR

40 In which sport/pastime might the terms ‘buzzard’ , ‘bed-posts’ or ‘bridge’

be used? 10-PIN BOWLING - different layout of pins left standing