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Easy Quiz Questions
  1. Which British Overseas Territory and headland is located on Spain's south coast?
  2. St Patrick banished snakes from which European country?
  3. What is the Russian equivalent of the White House?
  4. What's the name of the series of books where you have to find a character identified by his red-and-white-striped shirt, bobble hat, and glasses?
  5. On a graph, the horizintal axis is named after which letter?
  6. Which British Prime Minister had a wife called Norma?
  7. Anne Frank hid in the sealed-off upper rooms at the back of her father's company building in which city?
  8. Who in 1876 led the 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
  9. Which letter represents the Roman numeral for 50?
  10. Which country has the second largest population in the world?
  11. In the lyrics of the song The Sound of Music which note signifies "A deer, a female deer"?
  12. Name the most famous flower and landscape garden show in the UK?
  13. Which Italian bell tower is known for its unintended tilt?
  14. A group of fish that stay together for social reasons are called a shoal, but what is this group called if the fish are moving?
  15. There are two bones in the forearm, the radius is one, name the other?
  16. On what day of the week are British elections always held?>
  17. Which instrument found in a geometry set, made of transparent plastic, is used for measuring angles?
  18. Which acronym was the main security agency for the Soviet Union known by?
  19. What metal medal is awarded to the third-place finisher in the Olympic Games?
  20. A quiver is a container for holding what sort of weapons?
  21. What do we call a piece of debris from a comet or asteroid that impacts with the Earth's surface?
  22. What sort of revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in early Victorian times?
  23. Meaning smartly dressed, complete the phrase: 'suited and...'?
  24. TV presenter Ulrika Jonsson was born in which country?
  25. Which TV character is associated with the phrase, 'I don't believe it!'?
  26. Which theory describes how the universe expanded?
  27. What word can come before income, inheritance and council?
  28. What name is given to the the fat of sea mammals, especially seals and whales?
  29. What is a poinsettia?
  30. Dallas is a city in which American state?

Answers:
  1. Gibraltar
  2. Ireland
  3. The Kremlin
  4. Where's Wally? (in the US and Canada, it's "Where's Waldo?")
  5. X
  6. John Major
  7. Amsterdam
  8. George Armstrong Custer
  9. L
  10. India
  11. Do
  12. The Chelsea Flower Show
  13. The Leaning Tower of Pisa
  14. A school
  15. Ulna
  16. Thursdays
  17. Protractor
  18. KGB
  19. Bronze
  20. Arrows
  21. Meteorite
  22. Industrial Revolution
  23. Booted
  24. Sweden
  25. Victor Meldrew
  26. The Big Bang Theory
  27. Tax
  28. Blubber
  29. It's a plant associated with Christmas
  30. Texas.
Medium

1.What is the higest mountain that is not in a mountain range?
Mount Kilimanjaro
2.What is the capital city of Tasmania?
Hobart
3.In Britain what shape is the road sign `Stop`?
Octagonal
4.Who was Britain`s first black news reader?
Trevor MacDonald
5.In what year was the Great Train Robbery?
1963
6.Which artist released an album and movie under the same title of Get Rich Or Die Tryin`?
50 Cent
7.What was the nickname given to the famous boxing match between Mohammad Ali and Joe Frazier in1975?
Thrilla in Manila
8.What is the capital of the Caribbean island of Grenada?
St. Georges
9.What country has the largest coastline?
Canada
10.Which letter of the alphabet appears only once in the names of all English and Scottish league football teams and not at all in the names of the elements in the Periodic Table?
J (appears in St Johnstone)
11.Which actor, who died on April 5th 2008, was originally considered for the role of Chief Brody in the 1975 film Jaws?
Charlton Heston
12.What is the maximum number of horses allowed to run in the Grand National?
40
13.Which is the largest country in the world with only one time zone?
China (It actually spans 5 zones)
14.Which football team are known as the Rosso-nera or Rosso-Neri?
AC Milan
15.How many pips are there on the Greenwich Time Signal?
6 (5 short and 1 long)
16.The 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You is based on which Shakespeare play?
The Taming Of The Shrew
17.Name all of the seven dwarves in Disney`s Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs?
Happy, Grumpy, Doc, Sleepy, Sneezy, Dopey and Bashful
18.The world`s smallest independant country since 1929 has a birth rate of zero. What is it called?
The Vatican City
19.Where in the body would you find an astrocyte?
The brain
20.What nationality is the singer Feist?
Canadian
21.In the three Bourne films starring Matt Damon what is Bourne`s first name?
Jason
22.What colour are the 5 Olympic rings?
Blue, Yellow, Black, Green & Red.
23Which South American country hosted the 2014 FIFA World Cup?
Brazil
24In which North Amercan city is there a neighbourhood known as Hell`s Kitchen?
New York.
25Who was the second president of the United States of America?
John Adams
26Which pop singer did Debbie Rowe marry?
Michael Jackson
27Who appeared on a World War I recruitment poster above the words `Your country needs YOU`?
Lord Kitchener
28.What is the diameter of a basketball hoop? 12 inches, 18 inches or 24 inches?
18 inches
29.In musical notes, which is bigger - a crotchet or a semibreve?
Semibreve
30.Who played Annie Wilkes in the 1990 film `Misery`?
Kathy Bates

Difficult

  1. What is the most common surname in France?
  2. What does the Mongolic word 'dalai' mean, as in Dalai Lama?
  3. Claudia Johnson, the former 'First Lady of the United States' and wife of Lyndon B. Johnson was best known by which two names?
  4. Which famous American was born in Duluth, Minnesota, in May 1941?
  5. What is a qirt?
  6. Who played the character Charlie Sage in Carry on Sergeant?
  7. What did American architect Walter Burley Griffin design in Australia?
  8. The Curse of Scotland is a nickname used for which playing card?
  9. As of 2015, who is the Member of Parliament for Mid Bedfordshire?
  10. Captured in North Vietnam, American POW Jeremiah Denton repeatedly blinked his eyes in Morse Code during a forced 1966 television conference spelling out what word?
  11. In Eastenders, The Queen Victoria pub is at the corner of Albert Square and which street?
  12. Which musician was born Philippe Pagés in Paris in 1953?
  13. Which film actor was the most decorated American soldier in World War Two?
  14. What is ziganka?
  15. What is the main diet of the mole?
  16. What name is given to an adult female sheep?
  17. What name is given to the small crustaceans that make up most of the diet of the blue whale
  18. Which large marine mammals are sometimes known as sea cows?
  19. In which country are lemurs found in nature?
  20. Which breed of dog is the most popular breed used globally today as guide dogs?
  21. Alpacas are very similar to, and often confused with which animals?
  22. The Ragamuffin and ragdoll are breeds of which animal?
  23. What was the World War II codename for the operation of deception employed by the Allied states before the 1944 D-Day landings?
  24. Action Man, an action figure toy launched in the UK in 1966, was a licensed copy of which American toy?
  25. What name was given to the hand gesture, where the fingers are parted between the middle and ring finger, popularized by the 1960s TV series Star Trek?
  26. In the Middle Ages, what was defined as the area of land that could be ploughed in one day by a yoke of oxen.
  27. What does the word 'blitz' mean in German?
  28. How many hurdles are there in a 400 metres hurdles race?
  29. What is the official language of Andorra?
  30. The free web browser called Firefox is developed by which foundation?

Answers:
  1. Martin
  2. Ocean
  3. Lady Bird
  4. Bob Dylan
  5. A whip or riding crop
  6. Bob Monkhouse
  7. Canberra
  8. Nine of Diamonds
  9. Nadine Dorries
  10. Torture
  11. Bridge Street
  12. Richard Clayderman
  13. Audie Murphey
  14. A Russian country dance (accept dance)
  15. Earthworms
  16. Ewe
  17. Krill
  18. Manatees
  19. Madagascar
  20. Labrador Retriever
  21. Llamas
  22. Domestic cats
  23. Operation Bodyguard
  24. G.I. Joe
  25. The Vulcan salute
  26. Acre
  27. Lightning
  28. Ten.
  29. Catalan
  30. Mozilla

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