Q 1.Henry VIII had two of his wives executed, Anne Boleyn was one, can you name the other?
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Answer:-Catherine HowardQ 2. Which animal can deliver a kick capable of killing a lion and also attacked singer Johnny Cash leaving him adicted to painkillers?
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Answer:-An ostrich (Cash was kicked and wounded by an ostrich he kept on his farm)Q 3. According to the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland, what kind of food is eaten tomorrow, yesterday, but never today?
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Answer:-JamQ 4.Which 2004 American drama film starring Sandra Bullcok and Matt Dillon shares its name with the collective noun for a group of rhinos?
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Answer:-CrashQ 5.Four of the five Olympic rings are green, blue, red and yellow, which colour is the fifth ring?
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Answer:-BlackQ 6.What name is given to a cage or box filled with rocks, concrete, or sometimes sand and soil for use in civil engineering?
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Answer:-GabionQ 7.Which actress sang the song “Team Work” with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in the 1962 film The Road to Hong Kong?
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Answer:-Joan CollinsQ 8.What do galena and a Cluedo murder weapon have in common?
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Answer:-Lead (the mineral galena is a lead ore, and the weapon is lead piping)Q 9.What is the Swahili word for ‘journey’?
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Answer:-SafariQ 10.True or False. The catchphrase “Beam me up, Scotty” has never been said in any Star Trek TV series or film?
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Answer:-True, it has never been said. (The closest Kirk ever came to saying that phrase was in Star Trek IV: The Journey Home, in which he says, “Scotty, beam me up”.)Q 11. What is the stage name of singer Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta ?
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Answer:-Lady GagaQ 12. Which continent has the largest Catholic population?
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Answer:-South AmericaQ 13.The M90 motorway is the most northerly motorway in the United Kingdom; which city is at its northern end?
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Answer:-PerthQ 14.What does the word ‘pont’ mean in both French and Welsh?
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Answer:-BridgeQ 15.Which American crime drama starring Alice Braga as Teresa Mendoza shares its name with the nickname of a Scottish market town?
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Answer:-IndonesiaQ 16.Which hospital is the the oldest in Britain? Above its entrance is the only public statue of King Henry VIII in London.
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Answer:-St Bartholomew’s Hospital, commonly known as Barts.Q 17.Which American university awards the Pulitzer prize?
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Answer:-ColumbiaQ 18.Which country do swallows migrate to when they leave Britain for the winter?
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Answer:-South Africa (and Namibia)Q 19.Which slogan, used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of a non-violence ideology, was coined by the American beat poet Allen Ginsberg? (Hint: It’s a two word slogan)
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Answer:-Flower PowerQ 20.Which animal is the symbol of the American Republican Party?
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Answer:-ElephantQ 21.”When You Wish Upon a Star” is a song written for which 1940 film?
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Answer:-PinocchioQ 22.Including its claws, how many legs does a crab have?
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Answer:-10Q 23.16th-century pirate Francis Le Clerc, nicknamed “Pata de Palo” by the Spanish, was the first modern era pirate to have what?
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Answer:-A peg leg (‘pata de palo’ is stick leg in English)Q 24.At the 2017 Oscars, which actress incorrectly announced La La Land as Best Picture instead of the actual winner, Moonlight?
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Answer:-Faye Dunaway (she was given the incorrect envelope)Q 25. Which city’s cathedral is the largest cathedral and religious building in Britain?
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Answer:-Liverpool’s (largest cathedrals in order: Liverpool, St Paul’s, York Minster and Lincoln)Q 26.Which famous ship was named after the nickname of the witch Nannie Dee in the Robert Burns’s 1791 poem Tam o’ Shanter?
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Answer:-Cutty-sarkQ 27. How many members were in the Monty Python team?
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Answer:-Six (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin)Q 28.In which city was Boris Johnson born?
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Answer:-New York CityQ 29.Which member of the Beatles was walking barefoot over the zebra crossing on The Beatles’ Abbey Road album cover?
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