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| 1. | A legal "pick-me-up" and a hotel employee: Answer with two words that do not follow the "I before E except after C" rule. |
| 2. | "Shepherd One" is the international call sign given to any aircraft carrying who? |
| 3. | What number should replace the question mark in this sequence? 6 11 9 14 12 17 15 ? 18 |
| 4. | Which of these does not contain a redundant word? A. HTTP port B. LCD display C. PIN number D. RSI injury E. ATM machine |
| 5. | In Portuguese, how is Brazil spelt? |
| 6. | What 'G' describes the manipulation of the boundaries of an electoral constituency so as to favour one party or class? |
| 7. | Which common English word is derived from the Spanish for "little fly"? |
| 8. | Born Lesley Hornby on 19th September 1949, by what name is Dame Lesley Lawson better known? |
| 9. | What does the 'S' stand for in UNESCO? |
| 10. | Before 2013, what was the last year to be written with four different digits? |
| 11. | Which of these is the odd one out? Aunt, Brother, Cousin, Father, Mother, Niece, Sister, Uncle |
| 12. | Which one of these is the odd one out: Albert Einstein, Leonardo De Vinci, John F Kennedy, or Marco Polo? |
| 13. | What is the plural of the word Mongoose? |
| 14. | Derived from the Greek for "empty tomb", what 'C' describes a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere? |
| 15. | What seven consonants appear together on an English-language keyboard in the same order as they do in the English alphabet? |
| 16. | What 'S' describes the illegal practice of bidding for your own items at auction, in order to drive the price up? |
| 17. | Which are the "Big Three" colleges in the USA? |
| 18. | Who is famously quoted as saying that in bed she wore only Chanel N°5, and nothing else? |
| 19. | In Monopoly, what square precedes Pacific Avenue (US), Regent Street (UK), Castlereagh Street (AU) and Dee Street (NZ)? |
| 20. | Seven hours ahead of GMT, the time zone in Cambodia, Western Indonesia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam is called ICT. What does ICT stand for? |
| 21. | Wedding anniversaries. Put these three in date order, earliest first: Sapphire, Emerald, Ruby |
| 22. | What was Hilary Clinton's maiden name? |
| 23. | What organisation has the motto: Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity? |
| 24. | If you were shoving an aglet through an eyelet, what are you most likely to be doing? |
| 25. | In centimetres, what is the diameter of a standard CD or DVD? |
| 26. | How many faces does a tetrahedron have? |
| 27. | What 'V' is a medieval Latin term loosely translated as "exactly word for word"? |
| 28. | What type of structures appear on the reverse of Euro banknotes? |
| 29. | In a wallet you have ฿5,130. It is made up of three different denominations of notes. There is exactly the same number of each note. How many of each note is there and what are their values? |
| 30. | What Jewish Babylonian Aramaic term translates literally to "son of commandment"? |
| 31. | Correctly spell the U.S. state with the postal abbreviation MA. |
| 32. | In bygone times, malachite was commonly used as a natural source of what colour pigment? |
| 33. | How many X's are there on a regular clock face with Roman numerals? |
| 34. | How many coloured discs are needed to completely fill a standard sized Connect Four grid? |
| 35. | What 'Q' can be a type of fruit native to central Asia, or the Spanish word for fifteen? |
| 36. | Of the 26 words in the NATO phonetic alphabet, which two are types of dance? |
| 37. | Which famous building has the address 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue? |
| 38. | Which is greater? A. 80 knots B. 90 mph C. 40 m/s |
| 39. | Which world famous company is based in the town of Billund, Denmark? |
| 40. | What is the largest number on a standard backgammon doubling cube? |
| 41. | How many cubic inches are there in a cubic foot? |
| 42. | What comes next in this sequence? A, T, G, C, L, _? |
| 43. | What Imperial and U.S. unit is based on the Roman measure of 1000 paces? |
| 44. | Exactly halfway between green and yellow on the colour scale and named after a French liqueur, what 'C' is the colour deemed most visible to the human eye? |
| 45. | From 18th-century nautical folklore, what is the name of the ghost ship that can never make port and is doomed to sail the world's oceans forever? |
| 46. | What is the only country to be a member of both OPEC and the Commonwealth of Nations? |
| 47. | Which part of a garment might be described as Raglan? |
| 48. | What game uses the terms Split, Basket, Street, and Corner? |
| 49. | In the English dictionary, name two common words beginning with 'V' that do not follow the "I before E except after C" rule? |
| 50. | Katy Perry was first in June 2017. Justin Bieber second in August 2017. In February 2018, what politician became the third person ever to reach 100 million followers on Twitter? |
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