- turner:What English artist had the forenames Joseph Mallord William ?
- black:What colour was the Maltese Falcon ?
- troy:What city fell to the Wooden Horse ?
- dormouse:Who was asleep between the March Hare and the Hatter ?
- blue:What colour eyes did The Boys from Brazil have ?
- shazam:What was Captain Marvel's magic word?
- michelangelo:Who carved the famed Medici tombs in Florence ?
- paprika:What is the Hungarian word for Pepper ?
- the:What is the most used word in written English ?
- achilles:Who was dipped in the River Styx ?
- snoopy:What Peanuts character has a brother named Spike ?
- armageddon:What Leon Uris novel deals with the Russian capture of Berlin ?
- white:What colour was Moby Dick ?
- eight:How many reindeer pull Santa's sleigh ?
- wednesday:What day of the week was Solomon Grundy married on ?
- rope:What did Hans Christian Anderson always travel with in case of fire ?
- spring:What season is the setting for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nights Dream ?
- arms:What is missing from the Venus de Milo ?
- shogun:What James Clavell novel recounts John Blackthorne's adventures in 16th century Japan ?
- krypton:What planet gave birth to Superman ?
- iberia:What James Michener book is subtitled Spanish Travels and Reflections ?
- mahogany:What wood is Chippendale furniture made from ?
- thumbelina:Who was Tom Thumb's female counterpart ?
- gotham:What city do Batman and Robin patrol ?
- rodin:What sculptor is responsible for The Kiss ?
- camelot:Where was King Arthur's court ?
- romeo:Who pined 'but soft, what light through yonder window breaks' ?
- vincent:What name did Vincent Van Gogh sign to his paintings ?
- papyrus:What Egyptian writing material gave us the word paper ?
- macbeth:What is the shortest and bloodiest of Shakespeare's plays ?
- thor:Who is the god of thunder and war in Norse mythology ?
- existentialism:What philosophy is associated with Jean Paul Sartre ?
- snoopy:Who plays shortstop for Charlie Brown's baseball team ?
- thirteen:How many people appear in da Vinci's the last supper ?
- flo:What is the name of Andy Capp's wife ?
- adam:What biblical figure is known as the Father of the Human race ?
- atlas:What ancient Greek had the world on his shoulders ?
- alice:Who devoured a cake with the words 'Eat Me' written on it in currants ?
- zebra:What is the name of Alistair Macleans ice station ?
- english:What language boasts the largest vocabulary ?
- karamazov:What is the last name of brothers Dmitri, Ivan, Alyosha and Smerdyakov ?
- angels:What are the cherubim and seraphim ?
- galahad:Who was Lancelots son in Arthurian legend ?
- alan:What was A.A. Milne's first name ?
- mohicans:Who was Uncas the last of ?
- larkin:What is the family name in the H E Bates story A little of what you fancy ?
- fox:What Aesop animal assumed the grapes he couldnt reach were sour anyway ?
- foyles:What is London's most famous book shop ?
- latin:What subject did Mr Chips teach ?
- sinbad:Who met Cyclops on his third voyage ?
- straw:What was spun into gold in the story of Rumpelstiltskin ?
- broth:What did the old woman in the shoe give her children to eat ?
- michelangelo:What artist had the surname Buonarrotti ?
- gulliver:Who visited a country governed by horses ?
- siesta:What mid day nap takes its name from the Spanish word sexta meaning sixth ?
- right:What hand does God give life to Adam with on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel ?
- florence:What city is graced by Michelangelo's David ?
- westerns:What type of stories does J T Edson specialise in ?
- plato:Who is known as the Father of Western Philosophy ?
- spanish:What nationality was Pablo Picasso ?
- oxford:Where did Tom Brown graduate to from Rugby ?
- conductor:What did British symphony orchestras do without until 1820 ?
- swiss:What was William Tell's nationality ?
- snoopy:Who's Woodstock's Beagle buddy ?
- love:What means never having to say you're sorry ?
- cyclops:Who is the one eyed giant of Greek mythology ?
- a:What is the first letter of the Russian alphabet ?
- hercules:Who was the Roman's equivalent of the Greek's Heracles ?
- watercolour:What painting medium was mastered by the Victorians ?
- polish:What nationality was Chopin ?
- shamrock:What plant did St Patrick use to explain the Trinity ?
- brazil:Where were Ira Levin's boys from ?
- garth:Who is the Daily Mirror's long running cartoon strongman ?
- gulliver:Who met the giants of Brobdingnag ?
- bricks:What was the Tate Gallery criticised for buying 128 of in 1976 ?
- violin:What musical instrument did Sherlock Holmes play ?
- nausea:What Jean Paul Sartre novel had a sick title ?
- spanish:What nationality was Goya ?
- steppenwolf:What Herman Hess book gave its name to a rock group ?
- greyfriars:What school did Billy Bunter attend ?
- gollum:Who lost his 'precious' to a hobbit ?
- library:What is a Bibliothek in Frankfurt ?
- woman:Was Richmal Crompton a man or woman ?
- tattoos:What is Ray Bradbury's illustrated man illustrated with ?
- exodus:What Leon Uris novel recounts the birth of Israel ?
- lot:Whose wife was turned into a pillar of salt ?
- jack:What is the most common name in nursery rhymes ?
- lean:What couldnt Jack Sprat's wife eat ?
- esperanto:What's the best known artificial international language ?
- oberon:Who was Shakespeare's fairy king ?
- bathroom:Which room did Napolean keep the Mona Lisa in ?
- pygmalion:What George Bernard Shaw play inspired My Fair Lady ?
- australia:What country provides the setting for the novel Summer of the seventeenth Doll ?
- heaven:What did God call the firmament ?
- lilliput:Where did Gulliver find a race of tiny people ?
- london:Where did Phileas Fogg begin and end his trip around the world ?
- z:What letter in the English alphabet once went by the name izzard ?
- phoenix:What fabled bird sprang to new life from the ashes of its nest ?
- seventeen:How many steps are there to the second storey flat at 221B Baker Street ?
- slavery:What is the subject of Kyle Onstott's Mandingo ?
- twelve:How many deeds did Hercules perform to free himself from bondage ?
- ford:What was the surname of author Ford Maddox ?
- capulet:What is Juliet's last name ?
- joseph:Who wore the coat of many colours ?
- left:Which ear did Vincent Van Gogh partially cut off ?
- slowly:What does the musical term 'largo' mean ?
- 100:How many years did Sleeping Beauty sleep ?
- rugby:What school does Tom attend in Tom Brown's School Days ?
- jay:What was the Great Gatsby's first name ?
- t:What is the second most used letter in English ?
- dracula:Who was Bram Stoker's most infamous character ?
- suffolk:What county is John Constable most closely associated with ?
- aesop:Whose moral of the story was 'Dont count your chickens before they're hatched' ?
- botticelli:What Italian artist painted Birth of Venus ?
- cuba:What Island did Ernest Hemingway spend much of his writing life on ?
- scampo:What is the singular of Scampi ?
- n:What letter ends all Japanese words not ending with a vowel ?
- fourteen:How many lines are there in a Sonnet ?
- heidi:What John Spyri story is about a little Alpine lass ?
- aladdin:What character's story contains the line 'New lamps for old' ?
- jason:Who sailed to adventure in the Argo ?
- hercules:Who was assigned to steal the girdle of the Amazon queen Hippolyte ?
- prometheus:What figure of Greek mythology gave fire to man ?
- mongoose:What type of animal is Rikki Tikki Tavi ?
- equus:What Peter Shaffer play is about a boy who blinds six horses ?
- x:What letter begins the fewest words in the English language ?
- michelangelo:Who painted the Sistine Chapel ?
- turner:What famous English artist painted Rain, Steam and Speed ?
- brenda:What name have Private Eye readers come to associate with the Queen ?
- pan:What shepherd god was the legendary inventor of the flute ?
- books:What does a Bibliophile enjoy ?
- drummond:What was the name of Sapper's Bulldog ?
- lolita:What Vladimir Nabokov novel features Professor Humbert in love with a 12 year old girl ?
- vet:What is James Herriots other occupation ?
- alice:Who said 'I've had such a curious dream' ?
- prologue:What is a speech at the beginning of a play called ?
- of:What is the second most common word in written English ?
- paris:Who was Helen of Troy's Trojan Lover ?
- dulcinea:Who was Don Quixote's imaginary love ?
- ireland:What country was A Terrible Beauty to Leon Uris ?
- spain:What country is the setting for Edgar Allen Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum ?
- smallville:What Illinois town was Superman's boyhood home ?
- mycroft:What was the name of Sherlock Holmes's smarter brother ?
- icarus:Who flew too close to the sun ?
- thomas:What was Gainsborough's first name ?
- prostitute:What is the profession of nursery rhyme characters Lucy Locket and Kitty Fisher ?
- delilah:Who betrayed Samson to the Philistines ?
- earth:What planet is taken over by aliens called overlords in Arthur C Clarke's novel Childhood's End ?
- pills:What were the dolls in Jaqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls ?
- german:What's considered the sister language of English ?
- geppetto:What was Pinocchio's father's name ?
- hamlet:What Shakespeare character has the most lines with 1,422 ?
- mouse:What animal helped free the netted lion in Aesop's fable ?
- seven:What is the magic no that helped to bring down the walls of Jericho ?
- aphrodite:Who was the Greek goddess of love ?
- one:How many pairs of hands did Monica Dickens attain success with ?
- and:What word occurs 46,227 times in the Bible ?
- parrot:What kind of bird taught Dr Dolittle to talk to the animals ?
- rembrandt:What dutch master painted 64 self portraits ?
- paris:What European capital first saw The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 published ?
- eight:How many people took refuge on Noah's Ark ?
- furniture:What did Thomas Sheraton design and produce ?
- hiawatha:Who was Minnehaha's husband ?
- woodstock:What is the name of Snoopy's secretary ?
- frankenstein:What novel was written by Mary Shelley at the age of 19 ?
- owl:What creature is Athena, Greek goddess of Wisdom associated with ?
- curfew:What English word comes from the old French covrefeu meaning 'cover fire' ?
- linus:Which member of the Peanuts gang once said 'There's no heavier burden than a great potential' ?
- dandy:What comic was Korky the Cat in ?
- amen:What is the last word of the Bible ?
- belgian:What is the nationality of Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot ?
- feedback:What is the shortest word in English that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E and F ?
- sheep:What was a Bo Peep to a 19th century cockney street vendor ?
- desdemona:Who is Othello's wife ?
- australia:What country is the setting for Colleen McCullough's The Thorn Birds ?
- chinese:What nationality was Aladdin ?
- narnia:What is the fairytale world of C S Lewis's The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe ?
- denmark:What country is home to Shakespeare's Hamlet ?
- tarts:What did the Knave of Hearts steal ?
- desiderata:What work begins 'Go placidly amid the noise & haste & remember what peace there may be in silence' ?
- will:What does a testator make ?
- peter:What was Ruben's first name ?
- peanuts:What is the worlds most read comic strip ?
- eyebrows:What facial feature does not feature on the Mona Lisa ?
- samson:Who did Milton describe as 'eyeless in Gaza at the mill with the slaves' ?
- two:How many guns of Navarone were there ?
- sultana:What is a Sultan's wife called ?
- whale:What was Simple Simon fishing for in his mother's pail ?
- pun:What is the literary term for a play on words ?
- blanch:What is the name of The Wizard of Id's wife ?
- shalom:What is the Hebrew word for peace used as both a greeting and a farewell ?
- ronson:What make of lighter does James Bond light his ladies' cigarettes with ?
- penthouse:What magazine is the cornerstone of Bob Guccione's publishing empire ?
- sparrow:Who killed Cock Robin ?
- snoopy:Who is often referred to as the thinking man's beagle ?
- butterflies:What did the title character in John Fowles's The Collector collect ?
- mongooses:What is the plural of mongoose ?
- ella:What was Cinderella's real name ?
- yvonne:What name do Private Eye readers associate with Princess Margaret ?
- picasso:What name did Pablo Picasso sign to his paintings ?
- midnight:What was the time for J L Herlihy's cowboy ?
- ambrosia:What was the food of the Greek gods called ?
- jason:Who led the Argonauts in search of the Golden Fleece ?
- wakefield:Where was Oliver Goldsmith's vicar from ?
- persia:What country was the setting for Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves ?
- elephant:What kind of animal is Babar ?
- macduff:Who kills MacBeth ?
- french:What was Paul Cezanne's nationality ?
- tchaikovsky:What composer had the forenames Piotr Illyich ?
- methuselah:Who lived to the ripe old age of 969 ?
- breadcrumbs:What was unsuccessfully laid as a trail by Hansel ?
- hamlet:What play contains the line 'something is rotten in the state of Denmark' ?
- piggy:What was the fat boys nickname in Lord of the Flies ?
- mutt:Who met Jeff in 1908 ?
- mowgli:What Kipling character was raised by wolves ?
- quasimodo:Who was the hunchbacked bell ringer of Notre Dame ?
- lighthouse:What did Grace Darling's father keep ?
- coventry:What town was the site of Lady Godiva's famous ride ?
- michelangelo:What artist was the subject of the book The Agony and the Ecstasy ?
- four:How many attended the March Hare's tea party ?
- florence:Where are the Pitti and Uffizi art galleries ?
- papillon:What Henri Charriere best seller describes his escape from Devil's Island ?
- pandora:Whose box did Epimethius open ?
- orcs:What are the most repulsive warring creatures in The Lord of the Rings ?
- bread:What is the staff of life mentioned in the lord's prayer ?
- rembrandt:Who painted The Night Watch ?
- centaur:What Greek mythological character was part man and part horse ?
- unto:What does the U stand for in the abbreviation I.O.U ?
- rembrandt:What artist's surname was van Rijn ?
- linus:What Peanuts character clings to a security blanket ?
- white:What was the colour of Christ's hair in St John's vision ?
- brighton:What rock did Graham Greene write about ?
- apollo:Who is the Greek god of archery ?
- owl:Who eloped with the pussycat ?
- bonaparte:What name did Napoleon Bonaparte sign to his letters ?
- graffito:What is the singular of graffiti ?
- genesis:What is the first book of the Old Testament ?
- cinderella:Who was Anastasia and Drizella's stepsister ?
- gnasher:What is the name of Dennis the Menace's dog ?
- greece:What European country witnessed Lord Byron's death ?
- rosemary:Whose baby was a frightening success for Ira Levin ?
- belgium:What country claimed Rubens, Van Dyck and Breugel as citizens ?
- aloha:What word is used in Hawaii as both a greeting and a farewell ?
- canvas:What would an artist put on a wooden stretcher ?
- jeeves:What famed butler did P G Wodehouse create ?
- aesop:What Greek slave wrote fables ?
- seven:How many voyages did Sinbad make ?
- denmark:What Scandinavian country boasts the world's highest per capita rate of borrowing from libraries ?
- paradise:What was lost and regained by poet John Milton ?
- twenty:How many years did Rip Van Winkle sleep ?
- constance:What was Lady Chatterley's first name ?
- madrid:What European city boasts the Prado ?
- hansard:What is the name of the official report of proceedings of the British Parliament ?
- four:How many ghosts appear to Scrooge in Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' ?
- louvre:What museum provides a home for Whistler's Mother ?
- pig:What did Tom, Tom, The piper's son steal ?
- jude:Who was Thomas Hardy's most obscure character ?
- tinkerbell:Who was the fairy in Peter Pan ?
- ogress:What is a female Ogre called ?
- jabberwocky:What poem begins 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves..' ?
- nana:What is the dogs name in Peter Pan ?
- pig:What is the character Napoleon in one of George Orwell's novels ?
- croquet:What game does the Queen of Hearts order Alice to play ?
- beano:What comic features Dennis the Menace ?
- sandy:What is the name of Little Orphan Annie's dog ?
- pegasus:What is the name of the winged horse in Greek mythology ?
- spanish:What was El Cid's nationality ?
- stripper:What is the revealing occupation of an ecdysiast ?
- gamma:What is the third letter of the Greek alphabet ?
- japan:What country was the setting of You Only Live Twice ?
- german:What language is Stern magazine published in ?
- two:How many genies appear to Aladdin in the Arabian Nights tale ?
- spiderman:What is comic strip photographer Peter Parker's secret identity ?
- jaws:What novel opens with 'The great fish moved silently through the night water' ?
- batman:What was Bruce Wayne's heroic identity ?
- french:What language was Babar written in ?
- eeyore:What is the name of the old grey donkey in Winnie the Pooh ?
- oddjob:Who was Goldfinger's bodyguard ?
- harvard:What American university provides the setting for Love Story ?
- ballet:What is Sir Robert Helpman's field of fame ?
- leningrad:What city's siege is chronicled in Harrison Salisbury's The 900 Days ?
- english:What language evolved from Latin, Norman-French and Anglo-Saxon ?
- cubism:What painting movement was conceived by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque ?
- tuberculosis:What caused D H Lawrence's early death ?
- e:What letter accounts for one of every eight used in written English ?
- playboy:What men's magazine was originally to be called Stag Party ?
- biggles:Who was the pilot hero of Captain W E John's stories ?
- belgian:What is Hercule Poirot's nationality ?
- svengali:Who was the hypnotic magician in George du Maurier's Trilby ?
- kamikaze:What is the Japanese word for 'divine wind' ?
- salmon:What was Salar in the book by Henry Williamson ?
- deliverance:What James Dickey novel tells the story of an ill fated canoe trip ?
- utopia:What imaginary island did Sir Thomas More create in a 1516 work ?
- salt:What seasoning is mentioned more than 30 times in the Bible ?
- mars:Where does Ray Bradbury's Chronicles take place ?
- truth:What does the name of the Russian newspaper Pravda mean ?
- greece:Where was El Greco born ?
- robin:Who exclaimed 'Holy Barracuda' ?
- about:What does the Latin circa before a date mean ?
- montmartre:What section of Paris featured most prominently in the work of the French impressionists ?
- gandalf:What character was J R R Tolkien inspired to create after seeing the painting The Mountain Spirit on a postcard ?
- hamelin:What German town's problem with rats was handled by the Pied Piper ?
- newspeak:What was the language of Nineteen Eighty Four ?
- amen:What Hebrew word means 'so be it' ?
- gulliver:Who found himself flying on the island Laputa ?
- postscript:What does P.S. stand for at the end of a letter ?
- left:Which side of a book are the even numbered pages usually on ?
- negro:What is the Spanish word for 'black' ?
- ian:What is the Scottish equivalent of John ?
- falstaff:Who is the clown in Shakespeare's Henry IV and The Merry Wives of Windsor ?
- mcgregor:What was Rob Roy's surname ?
- lord:What word appears 1,855 times in the Bible ?
- abstract:What style of art did Al Capp call 'a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered' ?
- narcissus:What beautiful youth pined for the love of his reflection ?
- three:How many children did Adam and Eve have together ?
- superman:Who was called Kal-El on Krypton ?
- guinevere:Who was King Arthur's queen and Lancelot's lover ?
- danish:What was the nationality of Hans Christian Andersen ?
- irish:What nationality were Wilde and Shaw ?
- antonio:Who was the title character in The Merchant of Venice ?
- hamlet:What Shakespeare play features Rosencrantz and Guilderstein ?
- realism:What is true to life art known as ?
- limerick:What type of humorous verse might begin 'There once was a man from Nantucket' ?
- american:What nationality was the artist James Whistler ?
- six:How many times a year is a bimonthly periodical published ?
- kidnapped:What Robert Louis Stevenson adventure features the ship called Covenant ?
- bonn:What is the setting of John Le Carre's A Small Town in Germany ?
- pumpkin:What was transformed into a carriage for Cinderella ?
- five:How many lines are there in a limerick ?
- ivory:What was Captain Ahab's peg leg made of ?
- brain:What was the scarecrow in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz lacking ?
- armada:What is the Spanish word for navy ?
- androcles:Who pulled the thorn from the Lion's paw ?
- comma:What is the most commonly used punctuation mark ?
- sleuth:What Anthony Shaffer two man play opens in the living room of Andrew Wykes Norman manor house ?
- canaletto:What Italian artist is noted for his paintings of London ?
- merlin:What magician dazzled at King Arthur's court ?
- belgium:What country did artist Rene Magritte call home ?
- california:What state full of milk and honey was the destination in The Grapes of Wrath ?
- will:What does a testator make?
- peter:What was Rubens's first name?
- peanuts:What's the world's most-read comic strip?
- blanch:What's the name of the Wizard of Id's wife?
- the sparrow:Who killed Cock Robin?
- mongooses:What's the plural of Mongoose?
- tutankhamen:What historic exhibition was opened in London by the Queen in March 1972 ?
- biba:What famous 1960's fashion store closed it's doors in London in July 1975 ?
- blue:What colour were the blackout lights at Waterloo station during World War II ?
- four:How many presidential likenesses are carved in Mount Rushmore ?
- hanging:What was the Tyburn Tree famous for ?
- wood:What were the sides of the US fighting ship nicknamed Old Ironside made of ?
- cuban:What nationality were the 1500 troops that attacked the Bay of Pigs ?
- cadillac:What make of car was Al Capone's favourite bullet proof car ?
- faisal:What Saudi Arabian king was assassinated by his nephew in 1975 ?
- waterloo:Where did The Iron Duke triumph over The Man of Destiny ?
- mayflower:What famed ship did Christopher Jones captain ?
- cleopatra:Who was known as The Serpent of the Nile ?
- noone:Who married Elizabeth I ?
- red:What colour was Judas Escariot's hair ?
- tortoise:What gift reputedly outlived Captain Cook by approximately 300 years ?
- black:What colour is The Queens blotting paper ?
- fishface:What affectionate nickname did Princess Diana have for Prince Charles ?
- 1805:What year was the Battle of Trafalgar fought ?
- cleopatra:Who was the last ruler in the Egyptian dynasty of the Ptolemies ?
- quakers:What are adherents to the Society of Friends called ?
- corpses:What unusual items used to be temporarily stored in pub cellars ?
- slaves:Who did American John Brown's underground movement help ?
- one:How many Israeli commandos died in the Entebbe raid ?
- anastasia:What daughter of Czar Nicholas II is said to have escaped death in the Russian Revolution ?
- canute:Who was the first Danish king of England ?
- 1972:What year did Britain take over direct rule of Northern Ireland ?
- nepal:What kingdom claims the birthplace of Bhudda ?
- scarface:What was Al Capone's nickname ?
- nationalists:Which side won the Spanish civil war, Nationalists or Republicans ?
- tank:What fighting machine was originally codenamed a 'cistern' or 'reservoir' ?
- gallows:What were Allen and Evans the last to go to in Britain ?
- waterloo:What crucial battle took place in 1815 ?
- elba:What island was Napoleon's first home in exhile ?
- two:How many of his wives did Henry VIII have beheaded ?
- tesco:What supermarkets were founded by Sir John Cohen with the slogan 'Pile it high, sell it cheap' ?
- yellow:What colour is the stripe on a Canadian Mountie's dress pants ?
- 1961:What year was the Berlin Wall erected ?
- savak:What was the name of the last Shah of Iran's secret police force ?
- israel:What country offered Albert Einstein its presidency in 1952 ?
- unemployed:What were there 368,000 of in 1961 and 2,295,000 of in 1981 ?
- belgium:What country's been the site of the most European battles ?
- mexico:What country did Fidel Castro organise his 26th of July movement in ?
- comet:What was the first commercial airliner ?
- hussein:Who became the king of Jordan in 1952 ?
- friday:What day of the week was John F. Kennedy assassinated on ?
- bastille:What was stormed in Paris in 1789 ?
- 1933:What year did Hitler become chancellor of Germany ?
- impeachment:What do you call the process for prosecuting a US president while in office ?
- oil:What business was the source of John D. Rockefeller's fortune ?
- 1812:What year did Napoleon retreat from Moscow ?
- goldie:What was the name of the eagle that escaped from Regent's Park Zoo in 1965 ?
- rommel:What World War II commander had the forename Erwin ?
- india:What country tested it's first nuclear bomb in 1974 ?
- 1936:What year in the 20th century saw three kings on the throne in England ?
- memphis:What city was Martin Luther King Jr assassinated in ?
- halloween:What is the eve of All Saints Day ?
- commonwealth:What did Eire leave in 1949 ?
- boadicea:What Iceni queen battled the Romans ?
- pochahontas:What Indian maiden rescued Captain John Smith and later married John Rolfe ?
- harold:Who was the last Anglo Saxon King of England ?
- bladon:Where is Sir Winston Churchill buried ?
- 1973:What year did the UK join the E.E.C ?
- thirteen:What is the usual age for a Jewish boy to celebrate hi Bar Mitzvah ?
- egypt:What country did the Battle of El Alamein take place in ?
- victory:What was Horatio Nelson's most famous ship ?
- five:How many women are believed to have been victims of Jack the Ripper ?
- endurance:What is the name of the ice patrol ship that won a reprieve because of the Falklands conflict ?
- enoch:What is John Powell's middle name ?
- midway:What 1942 naval engagement saw the sinking of four Japanese aircraft carriers ?
- monaco:What principality has the House of Grimaldi ruled since the middle ages ?
- singapore:What island colony was founded by Sir Thomas Stanford Raffles ?
- france:What modern day country did the Romans call Gaul ?
- china:What country has the largest number of soldiers ?
- jaguar:What make of car boasted 'Grace, Space, Pace' ?
- carols:What did puritans ban the singing of ?
- tea:What did the Americans prohibit the drinking of in 1775 ?
- windsor:What was the family name of the British royal family at the time of the coronation ?
- abyssinia:What country was annexed by Mussolini in 1936 ?
- spain:What country did Bing Crosby die in ?
- china:What country lifted a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens on February 11th 1978 ?
- whitby:What Yorkshire port witnessed the departure of Captain Cook on his epic voyages ?
- geronimo:Who was the last of the Apache warrior chiefs ?
- alaska:What did the US buy from Russia at two cents an acre ?
- france:What country first claimed the Mississippi River in 1682 ?
- ajax:What cleaned like a white tornado ?
- 1965:What year did Sir Winston Churchill die ?
- caligula:What Roman emperor made his horse a senator ?
- farouk:What was the name of the last King of Egypt ?
- cambodia:What country was the most heavily bombed in the Vietnam war ?
- sioux:What Indian tribe defeated Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn ?
- twentyone:How old was Princess Elizabeth when she married ?
- ladders:What innovation did London's fire brigade first acquire in 1866 ?
- marble:What were the ancient Egyptian pyramids once covered in ?
- nina:What was Nikita Khrushchev's wife's name ?
- 444:How many days were the 52 American hostages held in Iran ?
- britain:What was the third country to get "The Bomb" ?
- 1963:What year was the great train robbery ?
- 1956:What was the year of the Suez crisis ?
- 1981:What year were most of the American hostages released by Iran ?
- turkey:What country invaded Cyprus in 1974 ?
- wood:What were George Washington's false teeth made of ?
- 1974:What was the year of the three day week ?
- pasta:What food did Marco Polo introduce into Italy from the court of Kubla Khan ?
- egypt:What country's air force was destroyed on the ground on the morning of June 5th 1967 ?
- forty:How many days are there in Lent ?
- nipper:What was the name of the dog in RCA Victor's trademark ?
- tanzania:What country's forces assisted in the overthrow of Idi Amin in 1979 ?
- asia:What continent did Christopher Columbus think he was on when he landed in the Americas ?
- highgate:What cemetery is Karl Marx buried in ?
- thirteen:How many were in attendance at the last supper ?
- parka:What was the name of the fashionable coats worn by Mods on their scooters in the 1960's ?
- italy:What country declared war on both Germany and the Allies in World War II ?
- athena:Where did Elgin get his marbles from ?
- entebbe:What airport saw Israeli commandos free 103 hostages on July 4th 1976 ?
- vulcan:What type of plane flew long range to bomb the Falklands ?
- balloons:What did the Montgolfier brothers rise to fame in ?
- intrepid:What was the codename of William Stephenson, chief of British Intelligence in New York during WWII ?
- italy:What country provided the birthplace of Christopher Columbus ?
- spain:What country ceded Florida to the US in 1819 ?
- 1952:What year did Queen Elizabeth II commence her reign ?
- norwegian:What nationality was the team that beat the British to the South Pole by four days ?
- two:How many days after John F Kennedy's assassination was Lee Harvey Oswald shot ?
- paris:Where was the airfield where Charles Lindbergh landed to end his historic solo trans atlantic flight ?
- m6:What was Britains first motorway ?
- british:What nationality were the 123 people who died in the Black Hole of Calcutta ?
- none:How many of the Tolpuddle Martyr's were executed ?
- noone:Who won the 1942 Nobel Peace Prize ?
- left:Which eye did Moshe Dayan wear a patch over ?
- three:How many hostages were killed in the Entebbe raid ?
- friday:What day of the week did King Henry VIII die on ?
- moorgate:Where was the 1975 tube disaster ?
- roberts:What was Margaret Thatcher's maiden name ?
- interpol:What is the International Criminal Police Organisation better known as ?
- finchley:What constituency did Margaret Thatcher represent in Parliament ?
- german:What was Queen Victoria's mother tongue ?
- arm:What did Horatio Nelson lose at the age of 40 ?
- convicts:What were last delivered to Australia in 1849 ?
- homosexuality:What was the love that dared not speak its name in Victorian England ?
- cutlass:What is the term for the curved naval sword ?
- windsor:What castle was built for Henry III ?
- brunel:Who designed the Clifton suspension bridge ?
- 1944:What year was Paris liberated ?
- 1972:What was the silver wedding year for the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh ?
- 1969:What year did Concorde first take to the skies ?
- london:What city was the site of the first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly ?
- police:Which of the services resolved the Balcombe Street siege ?
- prison:What purpose did the Bastille serve before it was stormed on July 14th 1789 ?
- cooking:What was the chuckwagon used for on cattle drives ?
- policemen:What were once know as 'peelers' ?
- smirnoff:What company supplied the imperial Russian court with vodka from 1886 to 1917 ?
- rose:What flower's petals are used by the royal family as confetti ?
- spencer:What was the Princess of Wales's maiden name ?
- kenya:What country did the Mau Mau Uprising take place in ?
- italian:What was Marco Polo's nationality ?
- britain:What country was the target of Germany's planned but canned Operation Sea Lion ?
- dartmoor:What English prison was built to hold captured French soldiers in 1805 ?
- eleventh:What century was the Domesday Book written in ?
- romanov:What was the surname of Nicholas II, lamented czar of Russia ?
- torch:What does the Statue of Liberty hold in her right hand ?
- three:How many times did Wallis Warfield marry ?
- waterloo:Where did Napoleon suffer his final defeat ?
- pinkertons:What detective agency's motto is 'We never sleep' ?
- sefton:What horse survived the Hyde Park bombing to rise to stardom ?
- spain:What country's flag was Christopher Columbus sailing under when he discovered America ?
- spurs:Where on a cowboy's attire would you find jinglebobs, a heel chain and a rowel ?
- stephen:Who was the first martyr ?
- hilda:What is Margaret Thatcher's middle name ?
- slaves:What live cargo did the Mayflower carry to America on it's second trip ?
- netherlands:What country's entire population was condemned to death by the Spanish Inquisition ?
- hanging:How did Judas Iscariot commit suicide ?
- two:How many US presidents were assassinated during Queen Victoria's reign ?
- napoleon:Who was Corsica's most famous son ?
- eire:What country joined the E.E.C. with the Uk ?
- malta:What island's entire population was awarded the George Cross ?
- napoleon:Who said 'Soldiers win the battles and generals get the credit' ?
- pirates:What were Barbary corsairs ?
- one:How many King Stephens have ruled England ?
- women:What did Lloyd's first admit on January 1st 1970 ?
- hiroshima:What city was destroyed by Little Boy ?
- body:What has to be produced in a writ of habeas corpus ?
- twiggy:Who did Mary Quant call 'the knock out beauty of our time' ?
- eleven:How many Israeli athletes were killed at the Munich Olympics ?
- gestapo:What's the infamous contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei ?
- berlin:What city did Adolf Hitler plan to rename Germania ?
- moors:What Muslim race invaded Spain in 711 AD ?
- woodstock:What began August 15th 1969 on Max Yasgur's dairy farm ?
- left:Which foot did Neil Armstrong first put down on the moon ?
- leningrad:What city was beseiged for 880 days during World War II ?
- one:How many British prime ministers have been assassinated ?
- chinese:What race of people suffered an estimated 35 million deaths at the hands of the Mongols ?
- crossbow:What weapon did the crossed slits in English castles accommodate ?
- evolution:What theory did John T Scopes teach, contrary to Tennessee law in 1925 ?
- moses:Who led the children of Israel on their voyage towards the Promised Land ?
- uniforms:What did Royal Navy officers have to start wearing after 1748 ?
- italy:What country did the Allies invade in World War II's Operation Avalanche ?
- texas:What US state was John F Kennedy assassinated in ?
- dutch:What settlers were the forebears of the Boers of South Africa ?
- tithe:What was the ten percent levy of farm produce given to the church known as ?
- zulus:Who were the enemy at the Battle of Rorke's Drift ?
- normandy:Where were Omaha, Juno and Gold beaches ?
- munich:Where did Hitler's 1923 Beer Hall Putsch take place ?
- four:How many funnels did the Titanic have ?
- tiara:What part of a Persian king's attire has been adapted for use by women as evening wear ?
- slavery:What did American Abolitionists try to end ?
- christina:What was the name of Aristotle Onassis's Yacht ?
- venice:What was Marco Polo's home town ?
- post:How was the world's largest diamond sent to England in 1905 ?
- clementine:What was Winston Churchill's wife's name ?
- buddha:What man has the most monuments erected to him ?
- liberia:What African country was founded by freed American slaves in 1847 ?
- china:What was the 5th country to get The Bomb ?
- argentina:Where did Israeli agents grab Adolf Eichmann ?
- reformation:What was the name of the Protestant revolt against the supremacy of the Pope ?
- poland:What country did Germany invade on September 1st 1939 ?
- red:What is the colour of the leather in the House of Lords ?
- may:What month do we celebrate Commonwealth Day in ?
- convicts:What did Australia receive its first shipment of in 1788 ?
- napoleon:What Frenchman designed Italy's flag ?
- green:What was the original colour of post boxes ?
- hindenburg:What blew up at Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 6th 1937 ?
- apes:What, according to tradition, will leave Gibraltar before the British ?
- russia:What did Winston Churchill describe as 'a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma' ?
- londinium:What was the 5th largest city in the Roman Empire in 50 AD ?
- russia:What country did the houses of Rurik and Romanov rule ?
- mace:What must be in position before the House of Commons can sit ?
- egypt:Where did the deposed Shah of Iran finally find refuge ?
- detroit:What American city did Cadillac found ?
- manitou:Who was the most revered god of North American Indians ?
- spartacus:Who led the revolt of Roman slaves and gladiators in 73 AD ?
- john:What son of Henry II ascended to the throne in 1199 and was nicknamed Lackland ?
- hungary:What country was the victim of a Russian invasion in 1956 ?
- rasputin:Who was The Mad Monk ?
- wart:What unsightly feature did Abraham Lincoln have on his face ?
- magog:Who is Gog's companion in London's Guild Hall ?
- minoan:What Bronze Age civilisation emerged on the Greek Island of Crete about 2500 BC ?
- macbeth:Who was the 3rd king of Scotland ?
- tutankhamen:Whose tomb was opened by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon ?
- right:Which arm did King George V have a large blue and red dragon tattoo on ?
- crusades:What was the series of campaigns to wrest the Holy Land from Muslim Turks ?
- eleven:How many fingers did Anne Boleyn have ?
- barbados:What Caribbean island did the Ra II land at after a 3200 mile ocean voyage ?
- disease:What does a ship flying the yellow jack flag have on board ?
- three:How many years did the experimental British Standard Time last ?
- casanova:What famed romantic spent the last 13 years of his life as a Bohemian librarian ?
- twiggy:Who is Leslie Hornby better known as ?
- submarine:What type of vessel did the Royal Navy first launch in 1901 ?
- memory:What did soldier Phillip Williams temporarily lose in the Falklands ?
- victory:What was the name of Nelson's flagship ?
- chaps:What did cowpunchers use to protect their legs ?
- lusitania:What ship was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Ireland on May 7th 1915 ?
- liverpool:What British city did Adolf Hitler study art in ?
- napoleon:Who was nicknamed The Little Corporal ?
- cleopatra:What ancient sovereign married two of her brothers ?
- bath:What was the Frenchman Marat cleanly murdered in ?
- fish:What creature was the early symbol for Christ ?
- politburo:What was the supreme policy making bureau of the Soviet Communist Party ?
- mohammed:Who was the founder of Islam ?
- bismarck:What ship sank the battleship Hood ?
- china:What country was the scene of the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 ?
- mcdonalds:What fast food chain did Ray Kroc build ?
- sweden:What country did King Gustav V reign over from 1907 to 1950 ?
- titanic:What was the sister ship of the Olympic ?
- teacher:What was Blair Peach's profession ?
- argentina:What country did the Pope visit after Britain in 1982 ?
- france:What country did Morocco and Tunisia fight to win their independance from ?
- taiwan:Where did Chiang Kai Shek take refuge ?
- stonewall:What was the nickname of US Civil War general Thomas Jackson ?
- prohibition:What did Americans celebrate the end of in 1933 ?
- newgate:What was the famous prison of 18th century London ?
- green:What colour is the leather in the House of Commons ?
- noone:Who can sue the Queen ?
- attila:Who was king of the Huns from 406 to 453 ?
- josephine:Who was Napoleon's first wife ?
- india:Where did the original thugs come from ?
- baron:What is the lowest rank of British nobility ?
- bedlam:What old London asylum's name became an English word meaning a scene of uproar ?
- flak:What jackets protect you from flieger abwehr kanonen?
- captain blood:What famous Irishman failed to steal the crown jewels?
- st alban:Who was the first Christian martyr in Britain?
- barbara hutton:Who was The poor little rich girl grand-daughter of F W Woowlworth?
- the way of sorrows:What route did Christ carry the cross on?
- winston churchill:Who was made the first honorary citizen of the U.S?
- virgin:What is the zodiacal symbol for Virgo ?
- lizard:What is a gila monster ?
- pluto:What planet travels around the Sun every 248 years ?
- astrology:What, in 1975, did 18 Nobel laureates claim has no basis on fact ?
- earache:What sort of ache is otalgia ?
- muscle:What is the gluteus maximus the largest example of in the human body ?
- none:How many equal sides are there on a scalene triangle ?
- stonehenge:What is widely considered to be man's first celestial observatory ?
- shark:What fish's skin was once used commercially as sandpaper ?
- drugs:What does a narcomaniac crave ?
- fallow:What is the term for arable land left unseeded for one season ?
- bravo:What is the international radio code word for the letter B ?
- insulin:What substance did Charles Best and Frederick Banting discover in 1922 ?
- ten:How many sides does a decogon have ?
- ermine:What does a stoat wear in winter ?
- fourteen:How many calendars are needed for a perpetual calendar ?
- apricot:What fruit's stone does Laetrile come from ?
- pegasus:What is the name of the engine developed for the Harrier jump jet ?
- himself:What does an autophobe avoid referring to ?
- doldrums:What is the belt of low pressure around the equator called ?
- west:What direction do the best surfing beaches face ?
- almonds:What nuts are used in marzipan ?
- goat:What animal has been called The Poor Mans's Cow ?
- elephant:What is the only mammal with four knees ?
- easter:What holiday is on the first Sunday after the first full moon after March 20th ?
- a:What letter is on the left end of the middle row of the letters on a keyboard ?
- kid:What is a goat's offspring called ?
- dog:What is a Mexican hairless ?
- dna:What molecule did James Watson and Francis Crick unravel in 1944 ?
- bird:What is a grosbeak ?
- water:What inside corn makes it pop ?
- lead:What element's chemical symbol is Pb ?
- december:What, translated literally is the 10th month ?
- agate:What is June's birthstone ?
- whales:What can you not catch a lot of when you can not catch a lot of catchalot ?
- cubit:What ancient measure is the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger ?
- cannibals:Who might refer to humans as 'long pig' ?
- goat:What animal is the provider of Moroccan leather ?
- influenza:What caused 20 million deaths in 1918 ?
- ostrich:What is the only bird that gives us leather ?
- black:What colour is diamond dust ?
- enamel:What is the smooth hard coating of the teeth called ?
- parasite:What is the term for an organism that lives on or in another ?
- aorta:What is the largest artery in the human body ?
- hearing:Which of the five senses are you most likely to lose if hit by lightning ?
- equator:What imaginary line encircling the Earth is 90 degrees from both poles at every point ?
- 100:What number does the Roman numeral C represent ?
- back:Where is the human skin the thickest ?
- whale:What is considered the most highly specialised mammal ?
- right:Which bank lies to the left of a canoeist paddling upstream, the left or the right ?
- seven:What is the neutral number between alkalinity and acidity on the Ph scale ?
- albatross:What is the largest web footed bird ?
- chihuahua:What dog is named after a Mexican state ?
- bra:What did Otto Titzling invent ?
- four:How many compartments does a cow's stomach have ?
- foot:What part of the body goes to sleep when you experience taresthesia ?
- insects:What is the oldest and most numerous class of animals ?
- eels:What slippery creatures slither to the Sargasso Sea to spawn ?
- galileo:What Italian astronomer wrote The Starry Messenger ?
- ddt:What was the first man made insecticide ?
- fulcrum:What do you need to be able to operate a lever ?
- right:Which ear can most people hear better with ?
- sundial:What time piece has a gnomon in the middle ?
- polio:What does Salk vaccine prevent ?
- wheat:What is the most extensively grown and eaten food ?
- coffee:What is the world's most popular non-alcoholic organic beverage ?
- quadruplets:What multiple birth has odds of 600,000 to 1 against it occurring ?
- anode:What is the positive electrode of a battery called ?
- carcinogen:What is the term used for a cancer causing substance ?
- african:Which elephant can't be domesticated, the African or Indian ?
- polish:What nationality was Marie Curie ?
- eaglet:What is an infant eagle called ?
- summer:When are shadows shorter, in summer or winter ?
- giraffe:What is the more common name of Africa's camelopard ?
- aspirin:What is the common name for acetylsalicylic acid ?
- infanticide:What does a woman commit if she murders her child ?
- dark:Which meat on a roast turkey has more calories, white or dark ?
- seven:How many colours are there in a rainbow ?
- two:How many logarithmic scales are there on a slide rule ?
- xrays:What did Wilhelm Roentgen discover in 1895 ?
- vampire:What has no reflection, no shadow and cant stand the smell of garlic ?
- twelve:How many sides does a dodecagon have ?
- uterus:What organ gave us the word 'hysterical' ?
- saliva:What substance must mix with food to give it taste ?
- xxi:What does C minus LXXIX equal ?
- electrocardiogram:What does ECG stand for ?
- alcohol:What does a dipsomaniac crave ?
- blue:What colour are a scallop's 35 eyes ?
- salt:What is the most widely used seasoning in the world ?
- smell:What sense is most closely linked to memory ?
- blood:What does the horned toad squirt from it's eyes when it's angry ?
- tree:What is a monkey puzzle ?
- argon:What inert gas is used in fluorescent lights ?
- yes:Do sea gulls drink sea water ?
- aspirin:What drug was introduced commercially by Bayer A G of Leverkusen, Germany in 1899 ?
- cusps:What are the transitional periods of the zodiac called ?
- two:How many tons of gem diamonds are mined each year ?
- grenadine:What non-alcoholic syrup is made from pomegranate juice ?
- winds:What are the roaring forties ?
- none:How many calories are there in a glass of water ?
- earth:What weighs 5,500 billion billion tons ?
- vacuum:What is the term for space devoid of matter ?
- kindle:What is a group of kittens called ?
- hair:What do you part with when suffering from phalacrosis ?
- battery:What did Alessandro Volta first manufacture in 1800 ?
- venus:What is the only clockwise rotating planet ?
- calorie:What unit of heat will raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius ?
- china:What country would you come up in if you drilled a hole straight throught the earth from Buenos Aires ?
- brain:What organ is inflamed in the condition encephalitis ?
- blue:What is the most common colour of Lapis Lazuli ?
- ear:What organ contains the smallest bones ?
- venus:What is the brightest planet seen from earth ?
- emarald:What gem did the Roman Pliny say out greened nature itself ?
- four:What is the cube root of 64 ?
- baboon:What is a mandrill ?
- diamonds:What are the Star of Africa and Cullinan II ?
- sheep:What are Romney Marsh, Swaledale and Suffolk types of ?
- bird:What is a yellow shafted flicker ?
- earth:What does the Greek geo denote ?
- rice:What is Japanese sake made from ?
- beaver:What animal lives in a lodge ?
- kite:What mark indicates British Standards Institute approval ?
- buttercup:What is a crowfoot with yellow flowers ?
- heifer:What do you call a female calf ?
- quebec:What is the international radio code word for the letter Q ?
- colour:What do goldfish lose if kept in running or dimly lit water ?
- intelligence:What does the Binet test measure ?
- ninety:How many degrees are there in a right angle ?
- circle:What flat area do you get by cutting a solid sphere vertically, horizontally or on a slant ?
- albatross:What is the largest aquatic bird ?
- oak:What are the barrels used to age Bordeaux made of ?
- narwhal:What tusked creature helped embellish sailors' tails of Unicorns ?
- headache:What is man's most common pain ?
- osmosis:What is the term for the water induction process in plants ?
- camel:What is known as the ship of the desert ?
- yogurt:What do you get by adding Lactobacillus Bulgaricus to milk ?
- red:What is the primary colour with the shortest name ?
- hermaphrodite:What is the term for an animal or plant that is both male and female ?
- fusion:What nuclear process takes place in an H-Bomb ?
- ligaments:What are looser then normal in a double jointed person ?
- lapwing:What is the other common name for a peewit ?
- liger:What is the term for the hybrid offspring of a lion and tiger ?
- summer:What season is hail most prevalent in ?
- ten:How many grams make up a dekagram ?
- whiskers:What does the typical man have 13,000 of ?
- sputnik:What satellite series name was Russian for 'fellow traveller' ?
- one:How many humps does a Dromedary have ?
- sugar:What is the main ingredient in Coca Cola after water ?
- bees:What creatures call an apiary home ?
- sun:What celestial body has a diameter of 864,000 miles ?
- fear:What does a phobophobe fear ?
- gold:What are iron pyrites often mistaken for ?
- corona:What is the outermost part of the Sun's atmosphere called ?
- south:What direction is the Sahara expanding in by half a mile a year ?
- autumn:What season ends with the winter solstice ?
- january:What month is showing on the calendar when the earth is nearest the sun ?
- pink:What colour is Yak's milk ?
- sahara:What desert has the highest sand dunes ?
- fox:What animal's tail is called a brush ?
- two:How many front toes does a parrot have ?
- four:How many teaspoons make up a tablespoon ?
- gladiolus:What flower was named after a Roman gladiator's sword ?
- five:How many sides are there on a Pentagon ?
- horses:What animals does a hippophobe fear ?
- ten:How many tentacles does a squid have ?
- venus:What planet is considered the Earth's twin in size and mass ?
- pluto:What was the last planet discovered, in 1930 ?
- three:How many stars make up Orion's belt ?
- goose:What was the first domesticated bird ?
- ruminants:What are animals that chew the cud called ?
- man:What mammal lives the longest ?
- f:What letter is to the left of G on a keyboard ?
- peahens:What do peacocks mate with ?
- saturn:What is the second largest planet in the solar system ?
- olympus:What is the name of the Rolls Royce jet engines that power Concorde ?
- caviar:What delicacy is known indelicately as pickled roe ?
- one:How many days does a typical mayfly live ?
- two:How many engines does a Boeing 737 have ?
- sand:What is the main ingredient in glass ?
- uvulva:What dangles over the tongue from the palate ?
- gibraltar:What is the only place in Europe where ape's live free ?
- archer:What is the zodiacal symbol for Sagittarius ?
- ostrich:What bird lays the largest egg ?
- touch:What is commonly considered the fifth sense ?
- gold:What metal was Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe's nose made of ?
- beetles:What order of insects contains the most species ?
- magician:What is a prestidigitator ?
- mosquitoes:What is the favourite food of Dragonflies ?
- cold:What common ailment cant you catch at the north pole ?
- acid:What is aqua fortis ?
- four:How many times is the capacity of a pipe increased if the diameter is doubled ?
- green:What colour is the inside of a pistachio nut ?
- cartilage:What is a shark's skeleton made of ?
- six:How many feet are there in a fathom ?
- flight:What ability has the silkworm moth lost through domestication ?
- penguin:What bird can swim but cant fly ?
- nothing:What does a nihilist believe in ?
- water:What is the world's most common compound ?
- mercury:What planet is nearest the sun ?
- herring:What fish is served up as kippers, whitebait and bloaters ?
- christ:Whose image was alleged to be on the Shroud of Turin ?
- one:How many months does it take the moon to revolve around the earth ?
- mule:What hybrid do an ass and a horse produce ?
- eyes:What part of the body does lacrimal fluid lubricate ?
- helium:What gas makes little Johnny's balloon rise ?
- hovercraft:What was Sir Christopher Cockerell's uplifting invention ?
- cosmology:What science deals with the structure of the universe and it's origin ?
- swallow:What does the typical person do 295 times during the dinner hour ?
- peanut:What nut is used in the manufacture of dynamite ?
- leaves:Where in a tree does photosynthesis occur ?
- foxtrot:What is the international radio code word for the letter F ?
- chicken:What is the most common fowl on earth ?
- stork:What bird is famed for nesting on chimneys ?
- larynx:What is the anatomical term for the voice box ?
- time:What does a horologist measure ?
- geese:What move about in gaggles ?
- spring:What season begins with the vernal equinox ?
- moon:What is the largest satellite orbiting Earth ?
- apricots:What kind of fruit were the golden apples of Greek mythology ?
- tango:What is the international radio code word for the letter T ?
- ants:What creatures live in a formicary ?
- three:How many pedals does a grand piano have ?
- mars:What is the red planet ?
- pineapple:What is the fruit of the Anna Comosus ?
- lens:What part of the eye continues to grow throughout a persons life ?
- tnt:What is the abbreviation of trinitrotoluene ?
- comma:What butterfly has the same name as a punctuation mark ?
- acre:What is a rood one quarter of ?
- two:How many eyes does a bat have ?
- balsa:What kind of wood was the Kon Tiki raft made of ?
- beetroot:What is the common name of the vegetable Beta Vularis ?
- liver:What part of the body is inflamed in hepatitus ?
- brain:Where would you find the medulla oblongata ?
- hippocrates:Who was the Greek father of medicine ?
- yes:Do mosquitoes have teeth ?
- one:How many tusks does an Indian Rhinocerous have ?
- six:How many sides does a hexagon have ?
- ram:What is the symbol for the zodiacal sign Aries ?
- ears:What features of the African elephant are larger than those of the Indian elephant ?
- hairy:What are you if you're hirsute ?
- paris:What city did Jacques Guernerin make the first parachute jump over, in 1797 ?
- three:What is the cube root of 27 ?
- bamboo:What grass has a capability of growing 36 inches in one day ?
- twelve:How many zeros are there in a British billion ?
- idiot:What are you if your IQ is below 25 ?
- november:What, translated literally, is the ninth month ?
- peacock:What birds feathers does superstition say should never be in a house as decoration ?
- three:How many hearts does an octopus have ?
- yellow:What is the most common colour of topaz ?
- grenade:What type of bomb is a Mills bomb ?
- mercury:What is quicksilver ?
- toes:What do vampire bats usually go for on sleeping humans ?
- vomit:What are rats unable to do, making them extra vulnerable to poison ?
- male:Which nightingale sings the male or the female ?
- cochineal:What insect lends its name and gives its body to a food colouring ?
- eight:How many engines does a B-52 bomber have ?
- opossum:What is the only native North American marsupial ?
- radioactivity:What is measured in curies ?
- four:How many chambers are there in the human heart ?
- goose:What bird provided the quills that were used for writing ?
- amber:What yellow, fossilised resin did the Greeks and Romans use in jewellery ?
- monday:What day of the week will January 1st 2001 be ?
- sixtieth:What is the Diamond Anniversary ?
- shellac:What resin used in varnish is a secretion of the lac insect ?
- astronaut:Whose profession is considered the greatest insurance risk in the US ?
- green:What colour is a Granny Smith apple ?
- napalm:What do gasoline and napthenic and palmatic acids combine to form ?
- patricide:What is commited if a person murders his father ?
- men:What does an androphobic maiden fear ?
- oxygen:What gas did Joseph Priestley discover in 1774 ?
- venus:What planet is best known as both the morning and the evening star ?
- beagle:What was the name of Charles Darwin's survey ship ?
- sagittarius:What sign of the zodiac covers November 22nd to December 21st ?
- aries:What is the first sign of the zodiac ?
- ten:How many landing weels does a Concorde have ?
- murder:What is the collective term for crows ?
- six:How many times thicker than water is blood ?
- corduroy:What fabric derives its name from the French for cord of the king ?
- goat:What is the zodiacal symbol for Capricorn ?
- elephant:What is the longest living land mammal after man ?
- crocodile:What African animal kills the most people ?
- capricorn:What was Christ's zodiacal sign ?
- cat:What animal was revered by the ancient Egyptians ?
- left:Which shoulder should you throw spilled salt over ?
- rabbit:What animal is the provider of coney fur ?
- rock:What are igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary the three classes of ?
- orion:What constellation represents a hunter with club and shield ?
- fifteenth:What is the crystal anniversary ?
- garnet:What is January's birthstone ?
- ra:Who was the Sun god of ancient Egypt ?
- rainbow:What natural phenomenon is Iris the goddess of ?
- eardrum:What is the common term for the tympanic membrane ?
- jupiter:What planet's moons include Io, Ganymede and Hades ?
- pewter:What alloy do tin and lead form ?
- garlic:What plant is revered by the lovers of the stinky rose ?
- isinglass:What brewing aid is obtained from the sturgeon ?
- rainfall:What does a pluviometer measure ?
- capillary:What tiny vessel connects an artery with a vein ?
- sleuth:What is a group of bears called ?
- roman:What civilisation invented the arch ?
- euclid:Who's known as the father of geometry ?
- drones:Who are the queen's best mates in bee hives ?
- jupiter:What is the largest planet in the solar system ?
- pig:What animal provided the hair for hairspring watches ?
- caribou:What is the only female animal that has antlers ?
- silkworm:What worm prefers the mulberry ?
- insects:What class of animals makes up more then two thirds of known species ?
- farrier:What is the seven letter term for a person who shoes horses ?
- haemophilia:What is known as The Royal Disease ?
- zero:What number cant be represented in Roman numerals ?
- tweed:What fabric are Harris, Lewis and Donegal the leading examples of ?
- nectar:What do bees collect ?
- lb:What abbreviation comes from libra, meaning pound in Latin ?
- eighteen:What age is adolescence considered to end at ?
- cabbage:What were broccoli and cauliflower developed from ?
- goose:What domestic fowl lives the longest ?
- nine:How many sides does a nonagon have ?
- black:What colour is produced by the complete absorption of light rays ?
- thirty:What is the square root of 900 ?
- salt:What is the more common name for sodium chloride ?
- two:What is the only prime number that is even ?
- sugar:What is converted into alchohol during the brewing process ?
- sandstorm:What are you caught in if a haboob blows up ?
- stalagmite:What is the term for a limestone deposit rising from the floor of a cave ?
- stalagtite:What is the term for a limestone deposit hanging from the ceiling of a cave ?
- genius:What must a Mensa member be ?
- six:How many sides does a snowflake have ?
- paleontology:What is the study of fossils called ?
- weather:What does a meteorologist study ?
- tortoise:What creature does the Galapagos Islands take their name from ?
- red:What is the most common colour of garnet ?
- cocaine:What by product of the manufacture of Coca Cola is sold to pharmaceutical companies ?
- yes:Is the thumb considered to be a finger ?
- sheep:What animal's fleece yields lanolin ?
- l:What is the Roman numeral for 50 ?
- ovine:What are sheep if cats are feline ?
- frogs:Which moves faster, frogs or toads ?
- carbon:What element do all organic compounds contain ?
- saturday:What is the only day named after a planet ?
- venus:What planet did the Mariner space craft explore ?
- four:How many tines are there on a standard dinner fork ?
- truffle:What valuable edible fungus grows undergound ?
- ten:What is statistically the safest age of life ?
- friesian:What one type of cattle produces more than eighty percent of the UK's milk ?
- eight:How many points are there on a Maltese cross ?
- xcix:How do you write ninety nine in Roman numerals ?
- foot:What part of the human body is most commonly bitten by insects ?
- radar:What is another term for radiolocation ?
- rhea:What is South America's version of the Ostrich ?
- sundial:What is a shadow clock ?
- everything:What does a panophobe fear ?
- andromeda:What is the nearest galaxy to our own ?
- ostrich:What bird has a 46 foot long small intestine ?
- seven:How many years of bad luck follow breaking a mirror ?
- vulture:What type of bird is South Africa's aasvogel ?
- fish:What is the zodiacal symbol for Pisces ?
- asparagus:What plant is sometimes referred to as a 'sparrow grass' ?
- rabies:What disease do the French call 'la rage' ?
- diameter:What line divides a circle into two semi circles ?
- scales:What reptilian feature evolved into feathers ?
- television:What went from 405 to 625 lines ?
- palm:Where is the line of life ?
- au:What is the chemical symbol for gold ?
- bat:What is a pipistrel or a flittermouse ?
- man:What is the only mammal that can not fly that can fly ?
- malt:What does barley become when prepared for brewing ?
- diamond:What is the simplest gem in chemical composition ?
- libra:What zodiacal sign is represented by the balance, or scales ?
- greyhound:What is the world's fastest dog ?
- noise:What does a phonophobe fear ?
- jupiter:What celestial body is the centre of the Jovian system ?
- four:How many pecks are there in a bushel ?
- wolf:What is a Canis Lupus ?
- nose:Where are a cow's sweat glands ?
- avocado:What fruit is packed with the most calories ?
- grapefruit:What is the common name for the fruit Citrus grandis ?
- yellow:What colour on black produces the most visible combination ?
- dove:What bird is a symbol of peace ?
- pen:What is a female swan called ?
- manatee:What uncomely creature inspired sailors tales of mermaids ?
- seven:How many sides does a heptagon have ?
- sixty:How many nautical miles are there in one degree of longitude at the equator ?
- jukebox:What was the 24 disc John Gabel Entertainer the first example of ?
- animals:Which are barnacles, plants or animals ?
- two:How many gases make up 95 percent of the sun ?
- balloon:What was the first parachute jump made from ?
- four:How many wings does a bee have ?
- ten:How many gallons of water are in a bath if the water weighs 100 pounds ?
- cheetah:What is the fastest land animal ?
- ivory:What are Walrus tusks made of ?
- february:What is the only month that can have fewer than four moon phases ?
- stomach:What is tripe on a menu ?
- cobra:What type of snake is the Egyptian asp ?
- elephant:What does a mahout mind ?
- oscar:What is the international radio code word for the letter O ?
- no:Is a spider an insect ?
- lsd:What is the secret identity of lysergic acid diethylamide ?
- cob:What is a male swan called ?
- four:How many teats does a cow have ?
- stereo:What recording innovation was introduced in 1958 ?
- leo:What is your zodiacal sign if you are born on August 9th ?
- four:How many rows of whiskers does a cat have ?
- three:How many dimensions does a solid have ?
- bonsai:What is the common name for a Japanese dwarf tree ?
- never:How often are brain cells replaced ?
- ape:What mammal ranks after man on the evolutionary scale ?
- neither:Which is colder, minus 40 degrees centigrade or minus 40 degrees fahrenheit ?
- heel:Where is the human skin least sensitive ?
- pluto:What planet did Percival Lovell discover ?
- density:What is the term for mass per unit volume ?
- cannibals:What type if people have an appetite for anthropophagy ?
- mars:What planet has a pink sky ?
- clapper:What strikes a bell to make it ring ?
- pig:What animal is used to locate truffles ?
- quinine:What drug can be found in tonic water ?
- nine:What is considered the luckiest number worldwide ?
- cygnets:What do a pen and a cob produce ?
- iris:What membrane controls the amount of light entering the eye ?
- narcissism:What is the psychiatric term for self love ?
- brown:What colour is demerara sugar ?
- zenith:What is the opposite of the nadir ?
- none:How many eyes does an earthworm have ?
- chow:What is the only dog that doesnt have a pink tongue ?
- molasses:What is the syrup drained from raw sugar ?
- bronze:What alloy do copper and tin form ?
- elephant:What is the only mammal that cant jump ?
- sun:What does a heliologist study ?
- two:How many equal angles are there in an isosceles triangle ?
- women:What does a gynephobic man fear ?
- two:How many daily tides are there ?
- first:What is the paper anniversary ?
- seven:How many minutes does it take the typical person to fall asleep ?
- walls:Where in an old house would you find wattle ?
- eardrum:What sort of drum is the tympanum ?
- eyes:What part of the body does glaucoma strike ?
- cabbage:What is shredded to make sauerkraut ?
- gemini:What constellation contains the twins Castor and Pollux ?
- lightning:What strikes the Empire State Building more than 50 times a year ?
- pips:What is missing from a navel orange ?
- nescafe:What was the first instant coffee ?
- twenty:How many years make up a vicennial period ?
- resistance:What is the term for opposition to an electrical current in a conductor ?
- hibernation:What is the winter counterpart to estivation ?
- formic:What acid is the cause of a nettles sting ?
- pupils:What get larger when one thinks harder ?
- toads:Which have warts, frogs or toads ?
- femur:What is the longest bone in the human body ?
- copper:What metal makes up 10 percent of yellow gold ?
- janus:What Roman god is January named after ?
- proof:What is the standard of strength of distilled alcoholic liquors called ?
- colony:What is a community of ants called ?
- seven:How many tenths of the earths surface lie under water ?
- two:How many legs does an oyster catcher have ?
- cancer:What is the fourth sign of the zodiac ?
- andes:What mountain range is the natural habitat of the Llama ?
- deciduous:What adjective is used to describe trees which shed their leaves periodically ?
- five:What number is represented in Morse code by five dots ?
- eureka:What did Archimedes say upon discovering the principle of buoyancy in his bath ?
- quadrilateral:What is the term for any four sided figure ?
- warlock:What is a male witch called ?
- sun:What is the nearest star to earth ?
- jellyfish:What is a Portuguese man of war ?
- diamond:What is April's birthstone ?
- purple:What is the most common colour of Amethyst ?
- six:How many sides does a cube have ?
- three:How many land miles are there in a league ?
- seven:How many colours are there in the spectrum ?
- hydrogen:What is the most abundant element in the Sun ?
- water:What drink is the best thirst quencher ?
- bulb:What does the camera shutter speed b stand for ?
- zip:What fastener did Whitcomb Judson patent in 1893 ?
- grapefruit:What food got its name from the way it hung in bunches like grapes ?
- druids:What cult of people do Stonehenge and Eisteddfods have in common ?
- tomatoes:What are love apples ?
- one:How many queen bees reign in a hive ?
- fish:What is a smooth blenny ?
- monsoon:What seasonal south Asian wind is characterised by heavy rains ?
- pouch:What do a kangaroo, an anteater and a seahorse have in common ?
- hydrogen:What is the most common atom in the universe ?
- quasars:What are quasi-stellar radio sources better known as ?
- eyebrow:What facial feature typically contains about 550 hairs ?
- python:What is the worlds longest snake ?
- british:Which is larger, the British or US pint ?
- male:Which sex is twice as likely to contract leprosy ?
- leukaemia:What is the medical term for cancer of the blood ?
- chimpanzee:What is the most intelligent subhuman primate ?
- locksmith:What was Linus Yale's occupation ?
- liver:What is the largest gland in the human body ?
- temperature:What does the Kelvin scale measure ?
- flea:What insect can jump 200 times its own height ?
- moon:Where is the Sea of Showers ?
- cabbage:What vegetable yields the most pounds of produce per acre ?
- quinine:What drug is obtained from the cinchona tree ?
- pi:What did an IBM 7090 computer calculate to 100,265 decimal places in 1961 ?
- sixteen:What is 40 percent of 40 ?
- pea:What is the oldest known vegetable ?
- morphine:What drug was named for Morpheus, the greek god of dreams ?
- jaguar:What is the largest cat in the Americas ?
- hummingbird:What is the smallest bird in the world ?
- siamese:What kind of cats are seal points and blue points ?
- lockjaw:What is another name for tetanus ?
- coal:What is banana oil produced from ?
- eyrie:What is an eagles nest called ?
- skin:What does the disease Impetigo affect ?
- hops:What gives beer its distinctive bitter flavour ?
- back:Which way do the clocks go in winter ?
- seven:What number did Adolf Hitler believe possessed supernatural powers ?
- china:What country saw the origin of the Asian flu ?
- sleepwalker:What is a somnambulist ?
- nine:What is the minimum number of bars on an abacus ?
- leopard:What feline is the baboons chief natural enemy ?
- tail:What isnt outstanding about a Manx cat ?
- amethyst:What is known as The Bishops Stone ?
- pancreas:What organ contains the island of Langerhans ?
- spleen:What is removed in a splenectomy ?
- fe:What is the chemical symbol for iron ?
- hippopotamus:What is the hogs largest living relative ?
- xlix:How do you write 49 in Roman numerals ?
- water:What is known as the universal solvent ?
- barrels:What does a cooper make ?
- fireworks:What is a pyrotechnic display ?
- hearing:Which of the five senses is less sharp after you eat too much ?
- september:What month features the harvest moon ?
- omnivorous:What adjective describes an animal that eats both plants and animals ?
- panther:What is another term for a black leopard ?
- moon:What is receding from Earth by half an inch a year ?
- dolphin:What is the most intelligent creature on Earth after man ?
- left:Which side of the bed does superstition say is the wrong side ?
- cheeses:What are feta and portella ?
- prune:What is a dried plum ?
- paddington:What London station did Brunel's Great Western Railway terminate at ?
- yes:Is a jellyfish a polyp ?
- orville:Which of the Wright brothers flew their plane based on the toss of a 50 cent piece ?
- hair:What is a rhinoceros horn made of ?
- brain:What organ did Aristotle think the blood cooled ?
- snail:What inhabitant of rivers and lakes plays host to the bilharzia worm ?
- scurvy:What sailor's disease resulted from a deficiency of Vitamin C ?
- blonde:What colour beards grow the quickest ?
- cats:What kind of animals was Napoleon terrified of ?
- forty:How many times more than the brain does the human body typically weigh ?
- saccharin:What is 550 times sweeter than cane sugar ?
- hexagonal:What is the geometric shape of the cells in a honeycomb ?
- tuberculosis:What is consumption otherwise known as ?
- yes:Does Uranus have an aurora ?
- eighteen:How many claws does a house cat have ?
- freckles:What appear when the sun activates your melanocytes ?
- alligators:Which have a better chance of running you down on land, alligators or crocodiles ?
- l:What letter is to the right of k on a keyboard ?
- wave:What is the term for oscillation of water particles ?
- calf:What do you call an infant whale ?
- one:How many humps does an African camel have ?
- galileo:Who discovered Saturn's rings ?
- mm:How is the year 2000 written in Roman numerals ?
- jemmy:What does a burglar call a crow bar ?
- saccharin:What did Ira Remsen discover in 1879, perhaps proclaiming 'How sweet it is' ?
- pigs:What are Saddlebacks, Middle Whites and Berkshires ?
- windmill:What type of building has sails ?
- france:What country has the third most satellites in orbit ?
- female:Which sex has the shorter human vocal cords ?
- hawthorn:What is another name for a may tree ?
- fission:What is the process of splitting atoms called ?
- haiti:Where did voodoo originate ?
- animals:What do humans catch zoonose diseases from ?
- thirty:How many degrees are there in each house of the zodiac ?
- orchid:What plant does a natural vanilla flavouring come from ?
- pi:What is 3.14159 better known as ?
- cancer:What disease is carcinomaphobia a fear of ?
- bauxite:What ore is aluminium made of ?
- permafrost:What is permanently frozen sub soil called ?
- cancer:What is your zodiacal sign if you are born on July 15th ?
- valium:What is the most widely used tranquiliser in North America ?
- eleven:What is the square root of 121 ?
- shrew:What is the smallest mammal ?
- cattle:What are Lincoln Red, Galloway and Welsh Black ?
- sunlight:What takes eight minutes to reach Earth ?
- sunday:What is the first day of the week ?
- jupiter:What planet boasts the Great Red Spot ?
- leveret:What is the term for a young hare ?
- smell:Which of the five senses develops first ?
- shell:What constitutes 12 percent of an eggs weight ?
- hydroponics:What is the science of growing plant in liquid nutrients rather than soil ?
- brandy:What is the pure spirit distilled from wine ?
- cd:What is 400 in Roman numerals ?
- poles:What are the two ends of a magnet called ?
- bull:What is the symbol for the zodiacal sign of Taurus ?
- air:What do trees get 90 percent of their nutrients from ?
- skin:What is shed when you desquamate ?
- aquarius:What constellation is known as The Water Bearer ?
- zero:What number is represented in Morse code by five dashes ?
- one:How many times a year does a penguin have sex ?
- capricorn:What is your zodiacal sign if you're born on New Years Day ?
- calypso:What is the name of Jacques Cousteau's research ship ?
- daffodil:What is a Lent lily otherwise known as ?
- stainless:What type of steel did Englishman Harry Brearly invent in 1913 ?
- none:How many wings does a flea have ?
- yak:What Tibetan mammal lives at a higher altitude than any other in the world ?
- brain:Where are the convolutions of Broca ?
- bird:What is a nightjar ?
- meltdown:What is the term for the physical disintegration of a nuclear reactor's core ?
- fish:What is a Bombay Duck ?
- teeth:What do frogs have in their mouths that toad's dont ?
- six:How many pips are there in the BBC's radio time signal ?
- giraffe:What animal is considered to have the highest blood pressure ?
- energy:What does the E stand for in the equation E=mc2 ?
- hip:What is the fruit of a rosebush called ?
- water:What is the common name for Hydrogen Hydroxide ?
- zulu:What is the international radio code word for the letter Z ?
- acid:What turns blue litmus paper red ?
- incisors:What are the front cutting teeth called ?
- ballistics:What science deals with the motion of projectiles ?
- skein:What is the collective term for flying geese ?
- yeast:What causes bakers itch ?
- mars:What planet did Viking 1 Land on ?
- twins:What is the symbol of the zodiacal sign Gemini ?
- three:How many astronauts manned each Apollo flight ?
- seven:How many stars are there in the Big Dipper ?
- yeast:What fungus is used in making bread ?
- glaciation:What process forms drumlins, eskers and cirques ?
- kodak:What company is the worlds largest user of silver ?
- venus:What planet has the longest day ?
- earth:What travels through space at 66,700 miles per hour ?
- yankee:What is the international radio code word for the letter Y ?
- cormorant:What bird is a shag ?
- belladonna:What plant takes its name from the Italian for 'Beautiful lady' ?
- sneeze:What bodily function can reach the breakneck speed of 200 miles per hour ?
- aquarius:What sign is the water carrier the zodiacal symbol for ?
- mosquito:What insect transmits yellow fever ?
- tiger:What is the largest feline ?
- whales:What mammals travel in pods ?
- gnu:What is another term for Wildebeest ?
- coal:What is 'nutty slack' ?
- mercury:What planet has the shortest year ?
- epidermis:What is the outermost layer of skin called ?
- napoleon:Whose army were canned foods developed to feed ?
- mohair:What type of wool is obtained from angora goats ?
- four:How many noggins are there in a print ?
- two:How many astronauts manned each of the Project Gemini flights ?
- films:What are 'electric shadows' to the Chinese ?
- eagle:What was the name of Armstrong and Aldrin's lunar module ?
- left:Which is more tender, the left or right leg of a chicken ?
- peacock:What bird in Greek legend was given the 100 eyes of Argus ?
- fingerprint:What is a dactylogram ?
- wink at them:What to nictitating women do to men?
- uri geller:Who gained fame as a mind-over-matter spoon-bender?
- you sneeze:What happens when you get pepper in your proboscis?
- one ninth:What fraction of an iceberg shows above water?
- the index finger:What's the most sensitive finger on the human hand?
- post meridiem:What is p.m. an abbreviation for, as in 5.p.m?
- rowing:What sport features sculls, strokes and slides ?
- continents:What do the five olympic rings represent ?
- three:How many fingers are used to draw a bow ?
- wine:What would you get from a vintner ?
- belgium:What country is home to the football team Anderlecht ?
- carlsberg:What thirst quencher was promoted with the line 'Probably the best lager in the world' ?
- sparrow:What type of bird is preserved at Lords since being bowled to death in 1936 ?
- 121:How many points does it take to win a Cribbage game ?
- thirteen:How many players are there in a Rugby League side ?
- jigsaw:What tool gave a puzzle its name ?
- quiver:What does an archer carry his arrows in ?
- hand:What strikes the ball in a game of fives ?
- fifteen:How many numbered coloured balls are there in pool ?
- decathlon:What Olympic event's winner is considered the world's greatest athlete ?
- centre:What player on a basketball team usually plays the post or pivot position ?
- brazil:Who owns the Jules Rimet trophy ?
- argentina:What country hosted soccer's 1978 world cup ?
- mountaineering:What did Dougal Haston excel at ?
- helsinki:Where were the 1952 Summer Olympics ?
- three:What number is at 6 o'clock on a dart board ?
- falconry:What is the practice of training hawks called ?
- arrow:What did Alan Webster fire 1,231 yards to set a world record in 1982 ?
- 1948:What was Wembley's Olympic year ?
- india:Where was snoooker invented ?
- 100:How many squares are there on a Snakes and Ladders board ?
- five:What age does a filly become a mare at ?
- black:What colour shirts must table tennis players wear in official competitions ?
- four:How many rings are there on a five zone archery target ?
- two:How many strokes are tournament golfers penalised for slow play ?
- second:What was Lord John Oaksey's highest ever placing in the Grand National ?
- paris:Where is the Longchamps racetrack ?
- whisky:What did cowboys refer to as tonsil plant ?
- jokers:What did a pack of cards not include until 1857 ?
- stations:What are B&O, Reading, Pennsylvania and Short Line on an American Monopoly board ?
- curling:What sport requires stones to be thrown at houses ?
- oval:What is Surrey Cricket Club's home ground ?
- england:What country has the best defensive position in the board game Diplomacy ?
- parsley:What herb is most often used as a garnish ?
- italy:What country has won the most Contract Bridge world championships ?
- four:How many laps are there in a speedway race ?
- 1967:What year saw the first League Cup final played at Wembley ?
- headingley:Where did Ian Botham score his 149 not out Test snatching innings in 1981 ?
- three:How many years old are horses that run in the Derby ?
- 100:How many tiles are there in a Scrabble game ?
- right:Does tennis service begin in the left or right court ?
- chinaman:What do you call a left arm bowler's off break to a right handed batsman ?
- two:How many bowling balls does it take to make a spare ?
- france:What country did roulette originate in ?
- roulette:What game made Monte Carlo ?
- backwards:How did Paul Wilson run 100 yards in 13.1 seconds on September 22nd 1979 to set a world record ?
- oaks:What is the classic fillies race run over the Derby course ?
- cricket:What sport could see six chinamen in a maiden and a nightwatchman with a duck ?
- seven:How many players are in a water polo team ?
- three:What is the point value of the letter C in Scrabble ?
- sherry:What is Tio Pepe ?
- cherries:What is the liqueur Kirsch made from ?
- 1968:What year saw the first colour broadcast of the F A Cup Final ?
- australia:What continent is considered the easiest to defend in the game of Risk ?
- soccer:What sport is played in more countries than any other ?
- stop:What does a red flag mean in auto racing ?
- wimbledon:What is considered tennis's most illustrious championship ?
- twelve:What is the maximum number of coins that can be turned up with four players of Spoof ?
- eight:How many pawns does each player have at the start of a chess game ?
- solitaire:What is the other name for the card game Patience ?
- 1958:What year did football's Munich air disaster happen ?
- croquet:What is the game if your balls are black and blue and your opponents are red and yellow ?
- seafood:What is the main ingredient in bouillabaisse ?
- pele:What is the better known name of Edson Arantes do Nascimento ?
- marbles:What game does the New York Institute for the Investigation of Rolling Speroids specialise in ?
- left:What is the near side on a horse ?
- red:What colour light is displayed on the port side of a boat ?
- black:Which colour moves first in draughts ?
- spades:What is the highest ranking suit in Bridge ?
- fencing:What sport was Boris Onishchenko caught cheating at in the Montreal Olympics ?
- two:How many sleds may each country enter in the four man Olympic bobsled event ?
- silks:What is a jockeys uniform called ?
- six:How many English Test Cricket venues are there ?
- judo:What combat sport did Dr Jigoro Kano devise in Japan in 1882 ?
- body:What term applies to the consistency, thickness and substance of a wine ?
- fishing:What does a piscatologist excel at ?
- wink:What is the name of the piece flipped into the cup in tiddlywinks ?
- polo:What sport is played on the largest field ?
- spain:What country played host to the 1982 soccer World Cup Finals ?
- pele:What soccer player was known as The Black Pearl ?
- craps:What American dice rolling game can be won with an initial throw of seven or eleven ?
- eight:How many balls were there in the old Australian over ?
- rowing:What water sport, other than fishing, might you catch crabs in ?
- rugby:What sport originated when William Ellis grabbed a soccer ball and ran with it in 1823 ?
- swansea:What football team calls Vetch Field home ?
- tungsten:What is the metal favoured by most dart players ?
- kangaroos:What is the nickname of the Australian Rugby League side ?
- mushrooms:What vegetable will a chasseur add to your food ?
- rome:Where were the 1960 Summer Olympics held ?
- four:How many Olympic Games were cancelled because of World War II ?
- seven:How many players make up a water polo team ?
- mead:What alcoholic beverage is made from honey and water ?
- bar:What is the centre division of a backgammon board called ?
- cuba:Where did the rumba originate ?
- pottery:What craft uses a kiln and kick wheel ?
- purse:What is the prize money in a horse race or a boxing match called ?
- skip:What is the captain of a curling foursome called ?
- fourteen:How many clubs can a professional golfer play a round with ?
- white:What colour is Chablis ?
- athens:What was the site of the first modern day Olympic Games ?
- chess:What board game derives its name form the Persian word for king ?
- eight:How many lanes does an Olympic swimming pool have ?
- spider:What is a long legged snooker rest called ?
- horn:What is the first word played in the Scrabble rules demostration game ?
- 1981:When did the three points for a win system start in the football league ?
- boxing:What sport was standardised under the Queensberry rules ?
- eight:How many triple word score spaces are there on a Scrabble board ?
- pigeons:What are the clay targets in trap shooting called ?
- two:How many heads are there on a croquet mallet ?
- nine:How many rooms are there on a Cluedo game board ?
- skydiving:What non mechanical sport achieves the highest speeds ?
- weightlifting:What sport features snatches and clean jerks ?
- orange:What colour on Monopoly properties are landed on most often ?
- dartboard:What sporting target has a point total of 1,335 ?
- two:What is the minimum number of masts on a schooner ?
- castle:What is the term for the rook in chess ?
- flyweight:What boxing division has Britain held the most world titles in ?
- nine:What is the bullseye worth in archery ?
- jaguar:What british car was the Le Mans success story of the 1950's ?
- seven:What do opposite faces of a die always add up to ?
- five:How many classic horse races are there ?
- eight:How many footballers died in the Munich air crash ?
- apron:What is the closely cut grass that surrounds a golf green ?
- three:How many layers of tobacco are there in a handmade cigar ?
- three:What is par on a 245 yard golf hole ?
- mexico:What Latin American country is home to the World Boxing Council ?
- glasgow:Where was the football ground stampede that caused 66 deaths in 1971 ?
- bentley:What make of British car won the Le Mans motor race five times from 1924 to 1930 ?
- screwdriver:What drink was invented by oilmen, who used their tools to stir it ?
- lotus:What make of car did Jim Clark die in ?
- pipe:What is a meerschaum ?
- cribbage:What card game can you peg out in ?
- pepper:What do chefs cal The Master Spice ?
- orange:What flavour is Grand Marnier ?
- brown:What colour bottles do good Rhine wines come in ?
- bisley:What is England's best known rifle range ?
- six:How many players are there in a volleyball team ?
- weaving:What handicraft requires you to interlace your warp and weft ?
- right:Which way does the jack of hearts usually face ?
- three:How many holes are there in a ten pin bowling ball ?
- six:How many points are there on a star in a Chinese chequers board ?
- dice:What were 'ivories' to an Old West gambler ?
- ten:How many furlongs are there in a mile and a quarter racetrack ?
- forty:How many spaces are there on a Monopoly board ?
- england:What country is considered the cradle of horse racing ?
- googly:What is an off break ball that is bowled with a leg break action called ?
- chance:What space precedes Park Lane on a Monopoly board ?
- 225:How many spaces are there on a Scrabble board ?
- willow:What wood is a cricket bat made from ?
- king:What is the tallest piece on a chessboard ?
- clubs:What is the lowest ranking suit in Bridge ?
- six:How many drops make a dash in cooking ?
- eight:How many nail holes are there in a standard horseshoe ?
- aintree:Where would you see a horse jump over the chair ?
- shergar:What horse was ridden by Walter Swinburn Jr for his first Derby win ?
- southampton:What second division side defeated Manchester United in the 1975 F A Cup Final ?
- brazil:What is the only country to have qualified for all of the soccer World Cup finals ?
- knitting:What hobby uses the term cast on ?
- england:What country saw the origin of lawn tennis ?
- one:What is the point value of the standard vowels in Scrabble ?
- arrows:What do fletchers make ?
- fifty:How many metres can an Olympic swimmer swim without turning ?
- love:What tennis term is said to come from the French word for eggs ?
- yellow:What colour is the danger flag in auto racing ?
- arsenal:What soccer club won three consecutive league titles in the 1930's ?
- himalayas:What did the Crane brothers run the length of in a record 101 days in 1983 ?
- olympia:What site staged the original Olympics ?
- wrestling:What sport featured Mick McManus and Jackie Pallo ?
- fifteen:How many counters of each colour does backgammon have ?
- brighton:What seagulls have played at Wembley ?
- javelin:What is usually thrown the farthest in a track and field competition ?
- twenty:What is the Scrabble point value of the word jar on a double word score without blanks ?
- peru:What South American country has the world's highest golf course ?
- eleven:How many years did Alf Ramsey reign as England team manager ?
- roach:What type of fish is most commonly caught on hempseed bait ?
- golf:What sport did Mark Twain describe as 'a good walk spoiled' ?
- anticlockwise:Which direction are greyhound races run in, clockwise or anticlockwise ?
- bridge:What popular card game originated in Turkey ?
- archery:What sport might you shoot a clout in ?
- nine:How many players are there in a baseball team ?
- france:What is the nearest country to the UK to have staged the Winter Olympics ?
- ludo:What board game's name is derived from the Latin for 'I Play' ?
- yachting:What sport is it recommended that you duck the boom in ?
- newbold:What is Sebastian Coe's middle name ?
- shuttlecock:What is another term for a badminton bird ?
- two:What is the minimum number of letters in the first word of a Scrabble game ?
- teenoso:What horse carried Lester Piggott to his record breaking Derby win in 1983 ?
- knitting:What would you be doing to the instructions k1, p1, k2tog ?
- bouquet:What term applies to the aroma of wine ?
- sixteen:What is the most popular finishing double in darts ?
- baseball:What sport do Americans play on a diamond ?
- towel:What does a boxer's second throw into the ring to stop a fight ?
- thirty:How many fences does a Grand National winner jump ?
- seven:What is the most frequently rolled number with two dice ?
- sturgeon:What fish, weighing in at 388 pounds, is the largest ever caught in a British river ?
- shoes:What did Abebe Bikila go without in winning the 1960 Olympic marathon ?
- white:What colour of boxing trunks was Muhammad Ali partial to ?
- two:How many bottles are there in a magnum of champagne ?
- bricklaying:What is the traditional trade for aspiring Spanish Bullfighters ?
- vodka:What is mixed with Kahlua or Tia Maria to make a Black Russian ?
- paper:What is better than stone in the paper, stone and scissors game ?
- scrabble:What board game was originally called criss cross ?
- draughts:What board game is called checkers in North America ?
- nineteen:How many cherubs are there on a Trivial Pursuit board ?
- gymnastics:What sport did Olga Korbut excel at ?
- darts:What sport commences to the cry of "Game On"?
- sport:How many players make up a basketball team?
- terry venables:What footballing personality co-wrote the Hazel TV series?
- road cycling:What sport did Belgium's Eddy Merckx gain fame in?
- nine:How many strokes make up a quadruple bogey on a par five golf hole?
- daley thompson:Who won the 1980 Olympic decathlon?
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