Food & Drink What 'L' describes the family of plants that include peas, beans, lentils, soybeans, peanuts, and tamarind?
Legumes
2.
In This Year In this year: The Beatles made their first live American TV performance on The Ed Sullivan Show; 319 were killed in riots at a football game between Peru and Argentina; and murderers Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen became the last people to be executed in the UK. What year was it? [If no correct answer, ½ point to the nearest team(s)]
1964
3.
Science & Nature Of the 8 major planets in our solar system, which has the longest orbital period around the Sun?
Neptune (164.79 Earth years)
4.
Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday (1983)
5.
Sport & Leisure Name the only two people to have won the FIFA World Cup as both player and manager?
Mário Zagallo & Franz Beckenbauer (Brazil & West Germany)
6.
Entertainment What is the only film with an exclamation mark in its title to have won the Best Picture Oscar?
Oliver! (1968)
7.
Anagram I BORE IN A YANK is an anagram of what capital city and the country it is capital of? (2 word answer)
Nairobi, Kenya
8.
Geography What country is this?
Madagascar
9.
Music Who wrote the song Mr. Tambourine Man, a worldwide hit for The Byrds in 1965?
Bob Dylan
10.
History Which French general was head of state of the wartime Vichy government?
Marshal Philippe Pétain
11.
Entertainment First aired from 1998 until 2004, name this TV series.
Sex and the City
12.
General Knowledge In Greek mythology, what many-headed serpent was killed by Heracles?
Dingbats Solve this dingbat to reveal a well known term or phrase.
Up for grabs
2.
Current Affairs Name the Los Angeles Clippers owner who apologised on Sunday for making racist remarks, one month after being banned from basketball for life.
Donald Sterling
3.
Science & Nature What 'S' describes a resin secreted by the female lac bug, on trees in the forests of India and Thailand?
Shellac
4.
Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Faithless - Insomnia (1995)
5.
Sport & Leisure What nationality is current MotoGP World Champion Marc Marquez?
Spanish
6.
Geography The "Bridge of No Return" is a border crossing between which two Asian countries?
North Korea and South Korea
7.
Art & Literature The first wife of the Daphne du Maurier character "Maxim" De Winter was called what?
Rebecca
8.
Landmarks What European city is this?
Berlin (Berlin Cathedral & Berlin TV Tower - German: Berliner Dom & Fernsehturm Berlin)
9.
Music In a 1958 song by The Coasters, what title words come before the line "don't talk back"?
Yakety Yak
10.
History Since the Second World War, who is the only US President NOT to be Time magazine's 'Person of the Year'?
Gerald Ford
11.
Entertainment Who starred as the wizard in the 2013 film Oz the Great and Powerful?
James Franco
12.
General Knowledge In what country was Trivial Pursuit first created in December 1979?
1. Where Eagles Dare (1968 - Clint Eastwood, Richard Burton)
2. Airplane! (1980 - Otto, Julie Hagerty)
3. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966 - Eli Wallach)
4. National Velvet (1944 - Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney)
5. The Eagle Has Landed (1976 - Richard Wren, Michael Caine)
6. Trading Places (1983 - Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd)
7. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966 - Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton)
8. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969 - Diana Rigg, George Lazenby)
9. Dumb and Dumber (1994 - Lauren Holly, Jeff Daniels)
10. The Ladykillers (1955 - Alec Guinness, Danny Green, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom)
11. Despicable Me (2010 - Steve Carell, Miranda Cosgrove)
12. Wayne's World (1992 - Mike Myers, Dana Carvey )
Snowball Question
André-Jacques Garnerin performed the first ever parachute jump, dropping from a balloon at 6,500 ft. over Monceau Park, Paris on 22nd October, in what year?
