19 With which group did comedians Baddiel and Skinner produce the football anthem Three Lions?
20 Portadown and Lurgan lie in which Northern Irish county?
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1 Which King of England died from eating too many lampreys at a banquet in France?
2 Which Native American language was used as a code in WWII?
3 In May 1497, who sailed across the Atlantic from Bristol in the Matthew and landed in Newfoundland?
4 Which country was invaded by US troops in December 1989?
5 What was the name of the spacecraft that Yuri Gagarin travelled in when he became the first man in space?
6 Who was the first Soviet statesman to hold the posts of general secretary and president simultaneously?
7 In which war was the Battle of Ebro River?
8 Which major figure of Russian history was born in Ulyanovsk on the Volga?
9 In WWI which countries made up the Triple Entente?
10 Who opened the Manchester Ship Canal in 1894?
11 Where did Martin Luther nail The 95 Theses to a church door?
12 In which city was Checkpoint Charlie?
13 What was the name of the judge who presided over the 17th-century Bloody Assizes?
14 Which US president won a Nobel Prize in 1906?
15 At which battle in 1513 was James IV of Scotland killed?
16 What was the title formerly carried by princes and archbishops of the Holy Roman Empire, who appointed the emperor?
17 Garibaldi’s followers wore what colour shirts?
18 In which year was VAT introduced in Britain?
19 Whose inaugural Presidential address stated: “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country”?
20 In which century was religious reformer John Calvin born?
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1 What number lies between 15 and 17 on a standard dartboard?
2 How many degrees Centigrade is 50 degrees Fahrenheit?
3 What are the irregularly shaped bodies in blood that help to make it clot?
4 Which is the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet?
5 Arundel Castle is the seat of which Duke?
6 Who invented corrugated iron?
7 What are latkes made from?
8 In the TV series Family Guy, who has provided the voice of Meg Griffin since the second series?
9 What protein is found in egg-whites?
10 What type of creature is a Scotch Argus?
11 What was the name of the fictional corporation who made RoboCop in the film of the same name?
12 In the popular Nintendo® video games franchise, what is the name of Mario’s green dinosaur friend?
13 In Morse code what letter is represented by two dots?
14 How is the vegetable Allium porrum better known?
15 In which game might you employ the Sicilian Defence?
16 Who starred as Captain Nolan in the 1977 film Orca?
17 What colour is a sorrel horse?
18 What is the diameter in inches of a standard competition dartboard?
19 In the TV series Top Gear, what was the first make and model of the car used in the segment “Star in a Reasonably Priced Car”?
20 To which country do the Galapagos Islands belong?
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1 What is the first name of Mr Marner in the title of a George Eliot novel?
2 In Animal Farm (1945), what type of animal is Clover?
3 Which author created the character of Horatio Hornblower?
4 Which of Wilkie Collins’ novels is often considered to be the first detective novel?
5 Who is the heroine of Jane Austen’s Persuasion?
6 Who wrote the 1961 novel Catch-22?
7 Clara Peggotty is a character from which Dickens novel?
8 Which Devon village is named after a Charles Kingsley novel?
9 Who is the narrator in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick?
10 In The Hobbit, what is the name of the dragon?
11 What is the name of the girl in the Just William stories?
12 Who wrote the novel Tom Brown’s Schooldays?
13 Which Scottish adventurer was the inspiration for the character of Robinson Crusoe?
14 What is the surname of Henry James’ heroine Isabel in the novel The Portrait of a Lady?
15 The 1915 novel The Voyage Out was written by which author?
16 From which London club in Pall Mall does Phileas Fogg set off in Around