Round One

Round One
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Which former racing driver netted a cool £30m when he sold the Columbus
Hotel Monaco, last year?
Which chemical element has the shortest name?
What type of animal is a "Sea Wasp"?
What were the Christian names of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?
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David Coulthard
Tin
Jellyfish
Henry (Jekyll) and Edward (Hyde)
In Greek mythology which beast was the god of the woods, fields & fertility?
Who would use the Dewey Decimal System?
Which talk-show host was once the mayor of Cincinnati?
What does a soldier keep in a frog?
In darts if you got a 'Shanghai' score of 72 with 3 darts which number have you
9 scored on?
10 In Bingo, which number is known as The Brighton Line?
Pan
Librarian
Jerry Springer
Bayonet
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The Penguin
Rowan Atkinson
Octopussy
Asian Lion
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dumfries
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How is the comic book villain Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot better known?
Who played Father Gerald in 4 Weddings and a Funeral?
Rita Coolidge sang the theme tune to which Bond film?
The Gir forest in India is the sole habitat of which big cat?
Which mystery writer was a trained Ophthalmologist?
In which town is Robert Burns buried?
In 1969, what future US president reported seeing a UFO outside the Lions Club
in Leary, Georgia?
What is the only venue outside of Glasgow that has been used for the League
Cup final?
In the Wind in the Willows who were Toad's three companions?
What sort of cowboys were Clint Eastwood, James Garner, Donald Sutherland
and Tommy Lee Jones?
What other state is mentioned in both "All My Ex's Live in Texas" and "The
Yellow Rose of Texas"?
Before discovering the smallpox vaccine, who made his name by detailing the
homicidal habits of cuckoos?
How many members of Abba were Swedish?
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Jimmy Carter
Dens Park
Ratty Mole Badger
Space
Tennessee
Edward Jenner
3 Frida is Norwegian
24 Which footballer’s autobiography is titled The Good The Bad and the Bubbly?
The name of which European country stems from a Moorish word meaning 'Land
25 of the rabbits'?
26 What shape is Fusilli pasta?
27 In Fantasia, who plays the part of the sorcerer’s apprentice?
28 In computing what does HTML stand for ?
George Best
29 In snooker, how many points are scored on the black ball in a 147 break?
30 What is the name of the python in the 'Jungle Book'?
31 Who played Mrs Peel in the original Avenger series?
Which country was the first to honour Burns with a commemorative stamp,
32 marking the 160th anniversary of his death in 1956
True or false Michael Caine has a brother Stanley who only appears in films that
33 star Michael?
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Kaa
Diana Rigg
34 Which has more tentacles a squid or an octopus?
35 What can be a Scottish Cup winning team or a breed of dog?
Squid have two octopus have none
St. Bernard's
Spain
Spirals
Mickey Mouse
Hyper Text Mark up Language
Russia
TRUE
My Chemical Romance took their name from the title of a book by which
36 Scottish Author?
37 Most of the Smurfs wore white hats but what colour was Papa Smurfs hat?
What name was given to the person who held a sceptical view of miracles
38 performed by people who are up for canonization ?
39 In which Italian city did the robbery in The Italian Job take place?
40 In transport what is the Nimbus 2000?
Irvine Welsh
Red
Devils' Advocate
Turin
Harry Potters Broomstick
Quarter Finals
41 Which suite of cards features the suicide king?
Which 60s psychedelic band's name came from the punch line of the joke
42 "What's big and purple and lives in the ocean?
Hearts
43 Which comedian played the part of the toymaker in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
Who is the only footballer to have played for Manchester United, Manchester,
44 City, Liverpool and Everton?
Benny Hill
Moby Grape
Peter Beardsley
If an Icelandic gentleman called Jon Helguson had a son and daughter which
45 were named Magnus and Katrín what would their last names be?
Jonsson and Jonsdottir
According to Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain Charles V, what should one
46 wear on an iron hand?
Velvet Glove
During a Burns supper what name is given to the reading of the overview of
47 Burns' life and work?
Immortal memory
48 What cigarette was marketed to women as "a cherry tip for your ruby lips"?
49 How many periods are thee in an ice-hockey match?
50 Which famous scene was originally deleted from The Seven Year Itch?
What is superman picking up above his head on the cover of the first Action
51 comic?
52 Who took over as presenter of this years edition of The Biggest Loser?
53 In 1814, Louis Comte became the first man to do what with a top hat?
In what song by the Clash do we learn that "phony Beatlemania has bitten the
54 dust"?
Which celebrity couple were featured on the cover of the January 1961 cover of'
55 Life' magazine?
Which architects works include The Greenwich Observatory, The Royal Chelsea
56 Hospital and the state room at Windsor Castle?
Marlboro
Three
Skirt Blowing
57 Against whom was Monica Selles playing when she was stabbed in 1993?
58 What was Wilson in the Tom Hanks movie Cast Away?
Which saying for a foolhardy militaristic type comes from the mandarin for work
59 together?
60 A quote from Auld Lang Sine can be found on which coin of the realm?
61 Who was said to have had a ring that allowed him to talk to animals?
At the beginning of a game of chess, how many moves are available to each
62 player?
63 If I were a rich man, I could afford tickets to see which musical?
The first future First Lady to appear in a movie was Pat Ryan. In 1936, she was an
64 extra in The Great Ziegfeld. Whom did she marry?
In the world of film how are Britt, Lee, O’Reilly, Vin, Chris, Harry and Chico
65 collectively known?
Steffi Graff
Volleyball
Car
Davina McCall
Pull a rabbit from it
London Calling
Jackie and John Kennedy
Sir Christopher Wren
Gung Ho
£2
Solomon
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knights]
Fiddler On The Roof
Richard Nixon
The Magnificent Seven
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Who founded the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party's newspaper The
Spark?
What is the only flesh that a pescetarian will eat?
Of all the 'metric' track events competed for at the Olympics, which is closest in
distance to the old mile?
In the 1950s which product was withdrawn from retail stores and sold only by
party planners?
True or false both deceased Beatles died in the USA?
71 In what Bond movie does Ian Fleming have a cameo in one of the train scenes?
Black Hawk Down was set against a conflict between the USA and warlords in
72 which African country?
In cricket what is the umpire signalling when he crosses his arms and touches his
73 shoulders?
74 What is traditionally blown at Rosh Hashanah or Jewish New Year?
Who are the world's most successful father and son in terms of record sales with
75 260 million albums between them?
Which film studio produced the most financially successful film of the 40s,50s,
76 and 60s?
77 Which superhero works for the Daily Bugle?
Which Polish folk dance takes its name from an inhabitant of the Mazovia
78 region?
What diamond pattern usually found on socks is named for a former Scottish
79 county?
80 In which sport would you be sent to the sin bin for bag snatching?
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Tie Breakers
In which year was the FA Cup sponsored for the first time?
How many stations are there on the Glasgow Underground?
In which year was the Epsom Derby first run?
How many tracks are on the Beatles Abbey Road album?
How many bridges are here over the Thames?
How many of the Outer Hebridies are inhabited?
In which year was Guinness first brewed?
IN which year was the BBC founded?
According to the 2001 census what is the population of Blairgowrie?
Since it began in 1836 how many jockeys have ridden in the National?
Lenin
Fish
4 x 400 meters
Tupperware
TRUE
From Russia With Love
Somalia
Cancel previous signal
Rams Horn
Julio and Enrique Iglesias
Disney
Spiderman
Mazurka
Argyle
Rugby
1994 [Littlewoods]
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1780
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214
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1759
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7,965
1,613