1. Which singer last year lost a husband and found malaria ?
2. Which country won the ashes in 2009 ?, was it Australia, England or the West Indies ?
3. On the BBC cooking programme Saturday Kitchen, how many eggs must be used for the omelette challenge ?
4. Including the present one, how many British prime ministers are still with us ?
5. According to Harry Hill, what was the name of Susan Boyle and Wagner’s love child ?
6. Which 3 figures are known as the ‘number of the beast’ ?
7. Which singer has put her name to the perfume, ‘Heat’ ?
8. Which ‘Carry On’ film comes first alphabetically ?
9. In which English county did violence & fire break out at an open prison on New Year’s Day 2011 ?
10. Which religion believed that the world would end in 1975, calling it Armageddon ?
11. We all know mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world above sea level, but what is the highest peak in the British Isles ?
12. Who won the title role in the 2007 reality BBC TV show ‘Any Dream Will Do’ ?
13. Which Australian state/territory suffered major flooding earlier this year ?
14. Which of the 7 dwarfs comes last alphabetically ?
15. Which ‘P’ can go before piece and line and after garden ?
16. Susan Boyle’s famous audition song, ‘I Dreamed A Dream’ comes from which West End show ?
17. The French do it on a Sunday, the Americans do it on a Tuesday, the British do it on a Thursday… what is it ?
18. At which time of the day is the red ball dropped at the Greenwich observatory ?
19. The 1st January 2011 saw Dilma Rousseff, being sworn into office as the new and first woman president of which South American country ?
20. If you add the amount of Disney’s dalmations to the Trumpton firemen, subtract Princess Diana’s
age when her candle in the wind blew out, then add Bob Marley’s little birds, what number do you
end up with ?
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Killer Round
(each correct answer is worth 2 points however if you get any wrong, all points below are wiped out!)
you must answer at least 3 questions.
1. The old English alcoholic drink, mead is made from the product of which animal ?
2. Which 70s pop singer once recorded under the name of Paul Raven ?, was it Les McKeown, Les Gray or Gary Glitter ?
3. Apples, peaches & plums all contain small amounts of cyanide, true or false ?
4. Founded in 1922, Premier of Leicester are world famous manufacturers of which musical instruments ?, pianos, drum kits or saxophones ?
5. Just before he died, Elvis Presley endorsed an aftershave called Elvisly Yours, true or false ?
6. How many hearts does a giant squid have ?, 1, 2 or 3 ?
7. The Merlin Engine that powered the famous World War II English fighter plane the Spitfire was originally made by Germans, true or false ?
8. Which major event took place in London on 29th March 1981 ?, the 1st London marathon or Pope John Paul II meeting the Queen ?
9. In 2003 what did the Americans air-brush out of Paul McCartney’s right hand on the cover of the Abbey Road album ?
10. The English-built car, the Morgan Aero-8 has a chassis made from wood, true or false ? (FALSE)
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Tie-Break:- Copies of the Nadine Coyle single that was Exclusively distributed by Tesco
only sold how many in the first 24 hours of its release last December 2010 ?
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