ROUND ONE
Easy
1. A large buzzing fly that lays its eggs in decaying plant and animal matter is called a what bottle?
The answer is a color?
Answer: Blue
2. What is the specific name for a book in which you look up telephone numbers? The answer starts
with the letter “D”
Answer: Directory
Moderate
3. A person who is extremely clumsy or awkward is said to be all what’? The answer is a part of the
body
Answer: Thumbs
4. Who is the current President of the Irish League of Credit Unions?
Answer: Anne O’Byrne
Difficult
5. Name the only Irishman to win the Tour be France. He won it in 1987
Answer: Stephen Roche
6. According to the Bible, on which mountain did Moses receive the Ten Commandments?
Answer: Mount Sinai
ROUND TWO
Easy
1. What saint’s day falls on Boxing Day 26th of December?
Answer: Stephen
2. What do orthodontists use to straighten teeth and men use to hold up trousers?
Answer: Braces
Moderate
3. What is the name given to the annual film Academy Awards ceremony held in Hollywood each
year?
Answer: Oscars
4. On a lavatory door the letters WC sometimes are written. The C stands for closet. What does the
W stand for?
Answer: - Water
Difficult
5. Name the river in India which is sacred to the followers of the Hindu religion?
Answer: Ganges
6. Name the hormone which raises blood pressure causes a rapid increase in the heartbeat and
makes a person ready for physical or mental stress?
Answer: Adrenalin (also called Epinephrine)
ROUND THREE
Easy
1. Originating in Japan, what do you call the form of entertainment where amateur singers sing
songs accompanied by a pre recorded backing track from a machine which also displays the words
on a video screen?
Answer: Karaoke
2. Which sport is associated with Liverpool, Glasgow Celtic and Rangers?
Answer: Football (Soccer)
Moderate
3. Starting with the letter ‘V, what name is given to a wart that grows on the sole of your foot?
Answer: Verruca (also called a plantar wart)
4. If an American tells you she was born in L.A. What city was she born in?
Answer: Los Angles
Difficult
5. Tasmania is a state in which country?
Answer: Australia
6. What Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin wrote Gulliver’s Travels?
Answer: Jonathan Swift
ROUND FOUR
Easy
1. What kind of business does Mo own and run in the Simpson’s?
Answer: Tavern or bar
2. According to the saying, wasting energy on a lost cause is like flogging a dead what?
Answer: Horse
Moderate
3. What one word means (a) a basin that is fixed against the wall and has a piped water supply and
drainage (b) to go below the surface of a liquid?
Answer: Sink
4. Do the stripes on the United States of America, run horizontally or vertically?
Answer: Horizontally
Difficult
5. What was the nationality of the astronomer Galileo?
Answer: Italian
6. Mahouts are employed in south east and southern Asia to look after, train and drive which
animal?
Answer: Elephant
ROUND FIVE
Easy
1. The Credit Union movement is divided into Chapters. How many Chapters are there in Ireland?
Answer: 25
2. In the Cartoon series ‘The Simpson’s’ what is the name of the elder daughter?
Answer: Lisa
Moderate
3. What one word means (a) a loose sleeveless outer garment shorter than a cloak (b) a point of land
that juts out into the water?
Answer: Cape
4. A high jump with a pole is called a pole what? The answer is also an underground room with an
arched ceiling
Answer: Vault
Difficult
5. What is the name of the calcite deposits which are found hanging from the roof of caves?
Answer: Stalactites
6. How many times has Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France bicycle race?
Answer: Seven
ROUND SIX
Easy
1. How many grams are there in two Kilograms?
Answer: 2,000
2. What Cork born soccer player left Manchester United in 2005 and joined Glasgow Celtic?
Answer: Roy Keane
Moderate
3. What is the name of the magical land featured in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe?
Answer: Narnia
4. What musical instrument would you own if you owned a Stradivarius?
Answer: Violin
Difficult
5. If you have a deep cut a doctor may give you an injection against this disease which also has the
name Lockjaw. What is the name of this acutely infectious disease?
Answer: Tetanus
6. In Norse mythology, what was the name of the happy place to which Valkyrie’s escorted the souls
of heroes slain in battle?
Answer: Valhalla
ROUND SEVEN
Easy
1. In the abbreviation BMX, the ‘M’ stands for Motor, the ‘X’ stands for Cross, what does the ‘B’
stand for?
Answer: Bicycle
2. In which month of the year is Halloween?
Answer: October (31st)
MODERATE
3. What traditional game has pieces ranging from double blank to double - Six?
Answer: Dominoes
4. What was the theme for the 2005/06 Credit Union Poster Competition?
Answer: Credit Unions can make it happen
Difficult
5. What is the name of the first book of the Bible?
Answer: Genesis
6. On which site on Salisbury plain in England do people meet to celebrate the summer solstice, 21st
of June each year?
Answer: Stonehenge
ROUND EIGHT
Easy
1. Who had a hit single with “That’s My Goal”
Answer: Shane Ward
2. How many noughts are there in one million written as a number?
Answer: Six
Moderate
3. In the popular pantomime what does Aladdin rub to make a genie appear?
Answer: A lamp
4. Who is new Manager of the Republic of Ireland International Soccer Team?
Answer: Steve Staunton
Difficult
5. What is the highest number in the Beaufort International Scale of wind speeds?
Answer: Twelve (12) Hurricane
6. Starting with the letter “I”, what are lines joining places of equal atmospheric pressure called?
Answer: Isobars
ROUND NINE
Easy
1. What happens to water when the temperature drops below 0 degrees Celsius or Centigrade?
Answer: It freezes or turns to ice
2. How many years is it from one Summer Olympics Games to the next?
Answer: Four
Moderate
3. Are the Scandinavian countries in the north or south of Europe?
Answer: North
4. Where in your body would you find a hammer and an anvil?
Answer: Ear
Difficult
5. What is the surname of Charlie who wins a Golden Ticket to the Chocolate factory in Roald Dahl’s
book?
Answer: Bucket
6. His name derives from the Malay words for ‘old man of the forest’, what is the name of this large
tailless ape with reddish brown coarse shaggy hair and long powerful arms that is found in the wild
only in the forests of Borneo and Sumatra?
Answer: Orang-utan
ROUND TEN
Easy
1. Which Saint has a day in the year when people send cards anonymously expressing love for the
person receiving the card?
Answer: Valentine
2. In the nursery rhyme, what did ‘Tom, Tom, the Piper’s son’ steal?
Answer: Pig
Moderate
3. Which king of England, king from 1066 to 1087 was known as the Conqueror?
Answer: William
4. What name is given to the American re-usable spacecrafts designed to transport people and cargo
between earth and space with two solid rocket boosters and an external fuel tank which are
jettisoned after take off’
Answer: Shuttles or Space shuttles
Difficult
5. Until 1917, a Tzar was the ruling monarch of which country.
Answer: Russia
6. If you are arachnophobic, you have an abnormally strong fear of which creatures?
Answer: Spiders
ROUND ELEVEN
Easy
1. The direct route between two points is sometimes described as ‘as the flies’. The answer is the
name of a bird?
Answer: Crow
2. Brazil, pistachio and cashew are all types of what?
Answer: Nuts
Moderate
3. Which is the only country that shares a border with Portugal?
Answer: Spain
4. The Canadian national flag features the leaf of which tree?
Answer: Maple
Difficult
5. Poet and author Ted Hughes wrote which novel for children published in 1968?
Answer: The Iron Man
6. Which Frenchman devised an alphabet of raised dots to help blind people read in 1829?
Answer: Louis Braille
ROUND TWELVE
Easy
1. A fox’s ‘brush’ is which part of its body?
Answer: Tail
2. What is the headdress coiled from a long length of material, worn by Sikhs and Hindus?
Answer: Turban
Moderate
3. In mathematics if 2x-12=18, how much is ‘x’ equal to?
Answer: 15
4. What one word means (a) cash for investment, money that can be used to produce further wealth
(b) a city that is the seat of government for a country?
Answer: Capital
Difficult
5. The king of which country sent an Armada of ships to invade England in 1588?
Answer: Spain
6. Which American national holiday is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November?
Answer: Thanksgiving