Food & Drink Despite its unhappy origins as slave food, what country's national dish is ackee and saltfish?
Jamaica
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On This Day What became the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants, on this day, 29th March 2004?
Republic of Ireland
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Science & Nature What 'M' describes this large genus of squirrel?
Marmot
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
The Beatles - Eight Days A Week (1964)
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Sport & Leisure Before retiring in 1989, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played 20 seasons in what sport?
Basketball (NBA - Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers)
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Geography On the Andean border between Peru and Bolivia, what is the highest commercially navigable lake in the world?
Lake Titicaca (3,810 m above sea level)
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Anagram IS AS QUEENLY ON DECK IN JEANS is an anagram of what world famous 20th century personality?
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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Logos What well known Swiss brand has this as its logo?
Toblerone
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Music What singer accompanied Alicia Keys on the 2004 hit single My Boo?
Usher
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History In January 1890, emulating Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, what American journalist completed a record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days?
Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochran Seaman)
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Entertainment Farrah Fawcett passed away on the 25th June 2009. Sadly, news of her death was largely overshadowed by the death of who, just a few hours later?
Michael Jackson
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General Knowledge What is the only number in the English language that, when written out, is spelt in alphabetical order?
Dingbats Solve this dingbat to reveal a well known phrase. (5 word answer)
The square of the hypotenuse
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Current Affairs In what South Asian city were at least 69 people killed and over 300 injured in a suicide bombing on Sunday?
Lahore (Pakistan)
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Science & Nature If you leave hospital with gossypiboma, what went wrong?
Something was accidentally left inside your body during surgery (from the Latin gossypium (“cotton wool, cotton”) and the suffix -oma, meaning a tumour or growth)
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (1976)
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Sport & Leisure What horse won the world's richest horse race on Saturday, the US$10m Dubai World Cup?
California Chrome
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Geography Through what country does most of the River Nile flow?
Sudan
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Art & Literature 13-14 Portsmouth Street, Westminster, London was immortalised by what 1841 Charles Dickens novel?
The Old Curiosity Shop
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Flags Lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, what twin-island country has this as its national flag?
Antigua and Barbuda
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Music What Academy Award winning actor is mentioned in David Bowie's 1983 hit China Girl?
Marlon Brando
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History Crossing the Atlantic, what eccentric British adventurer became the first person to row solo across an ocean in 1969?
John Fairfax
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Entertainment What 1987 film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer?
Predator
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General Knowledge Playwright Harold is a typographer. Answer with two words. The first part of the sentence is a clue to a six letter word. Add one letter to that word to give the answer to the second part of the sentence.
Food & Drink Which has more caffeine: a cup of tea or a cup of coffee?
Cup of coffee (weight for weight, tea leaves contain more caffeine than coffee beans, but a fraction of the weight is used to make a cup of tea)
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Current Affairs Hijacked while carrying 81 passengers from Alexandria to Cairo, at what airport was EgyptAir flight MS181 forced to divert to and land today?
Larnaca (Cyprus)
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Science & Nature In paleontology, coprolite is fossilised what?
Faeces
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
Shalamar - A Night to Remember (1982)
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Sport & Leisure In south-west London on Sunday, who won the Men's and Women's Boat Races, respectively? (½ point for each)
Cambridge, Oxford
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Entertainment Including the current season, how many seasons of The Big Bang Theory have been aired? [If no correct answer, ½ point to the nearest team(s)]
9
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Art & Literature What Shakespeare play is set in the Italian city of Verona?
Romeo and Juliet (The Two Gentlemen of Verona is set in Milan)
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Geography The eastern portion of Timor island is the sovereign state of East Timor or Timor-Leste. The western end constitutes part of what country?
Indonesia
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Music Who travelled to Kingston, Jamaica to record their 1973 album Goats Head Soup?
The Rolling Stones (Keith Richards said in 2002: "Jamaica was one of the few places that would let us all in!")
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Anagram OBJECTIFY DIRE BINDING is an anagram of the name and location of what Asian tourist attraction? (3 word answer)
Forbidden City, Beijing
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Entertainment In the British comedy TV quiz show QI, what does QI stand for?
Quite Interesting
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Sudoku Solve this Sudoku puzzle to reveal the 3 digit figure highlighted.
Dingbats Solve this dingbat to reveal a well known phrase. (5 word answer)
Pride comes before a fall
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Current Affairs What is the name of the metro station in Brussels that was the scene of one of the terrorist nail bombings last Tuesday?
Maalbeek/Maelbeek
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Science & Nature Belonging to the subphylum Medusozoa, what invertebrates account for nearly 40% of the total biomass of the world's oceans?
Jellyfish
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Name That Tune Name that tune. (½ point each for Artist and Title)
The Prodigy - Breathe (1996)
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Sport & Leisure What number lies between 5 and 9 on a WDF regulation dartboard?
12
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Geography True or False? More people live in California than Canada.
True (2016 estimates: California 39.3 million - Canada 36.2 million)
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Art & Literature Highly distinguished authors C. S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley died on the same day in November 1963. Why did their deaths go almost unnoticed?
John F. Kennedy's assassination (22nd November 1963)
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Landmarks The whole city was painted pink in 1876 to welcome prince Edward VII and Queen Victoria, and has remained so ever since. What is nicknamed the Pink City of India?
Jaipur (pictured is the Hawa Mahal or "Palace of the Breeze")
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Music Just Like a Woman is a 1966 classic by who?
Bob Dylan
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History The "Winter of 1815" and subsequent "Year Without a Summer" is widely believed to have been caused by the April 1815 eruption of what volcano in Indonesia?
Mount Tambora
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Entertainment Who played Robin alongside Adam West's Batman between 1966 and 1968?
Burt Ward
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General Knowledge How many playing blocks are there in a game of Jenga? [If no correct answer, ½ point to the nearest team(s)]
At the Cypress Gardens Adventure Park in Winter Haven, Florida on 1st April 2007, the largest Easter egg hunt ever consisted of 501,000 eggs that were searched for by how many children?
