3 An unpredictable but high-impact event is given the name of which bird?
4 In which city was Robert Scott’s vessel, Discovery, built?
5 Which decade saw the first FA Cup Final at Wembley?
6 Subtitled “a radio parlour game”, which show was hosted by Stewart MacPherson, Gilbert Harding and finally Kenneth Horne?
7 What Latin name is given to a dark round room for projecting a landscape?
8 Who wrote the 1947 novel Whisky Galore?
9 In which city is Europe’s oldest university?
10 What is the common term for calcium oxide?
11 What French term is given to a fatal blow?
12 In which English village is the Fox Talbot museum?
13 By what name is singer Stuart Goddard better known?
14 Boston Crab is a term used in which sport?
15 What is a blintze?
16 Of what is Sinology the study?
17 Who wrote the 1912 play Androcles and the Lion?
18 Which West African country has a name that means “land of honest men”?
19 Which body of water surrounds the island of Heligoland?
20 Who had a hit in 1983 with Love of the Common People?
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1 What name is given to the visible electric discharge seen at a plane’s wingtips or around the tops of ships’ masts, caused by static electricity in the atmosphere?
2 Which UK airport was the first to have its own railway station?
3 What is the name of the junction on London’s A406 North Circular Road with the A5 Edgware Road?
4 What is the name of the Australian transcontinental rail service which runs between Perth and Sydney?
5 Which airport has the code HND?
6 The navigational products company TomTom was founded in which country?
7 In relation to cars, what do the initials SUV stand for?
8 What is the name of the train which shares a similar name to a major mountain range found in America and Canada?
9 In which year did the M6 toll road open?
10 On a ship, which officer is in charge of crew and equipment?
11 What is the name of the famously luxurious South African train that runs between Pretoria and Cape Town?
12 What is the function of scuppers on ships?
13 Which car manufacturer produces the Baleno?
14 Bill Bryson described his attempts to walk which long-distance footpath in A Walk in the Woods?
15 What is the name of the long-distance Indian train service operated by Indian Railways?
16 The highest railway station in Europe is in which country?
17 What term is given to the fee levied on a vessel entering a port?
18 In which county is the ferry port of Heysham?
19 Which Welsh railway runs between Tywyn Wharf and Nant Gwernol?
20 Opened in 2004, what is the name of the bridge that crosses the Tarn Valley in southern France?
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1 O’Hare airport serves which American city?
2 In the TV Series Are You Being Served, which actor played Mr Lucas?
3 Which sauce has a name that means “hunter” in French?
4 What does a lexicographer study or create?
5 In which decade was Princeton university founded?
6 On which Canadian island is the city of Victoria?
7 Who portrayed Lara Croft on screen in the 2018 film Tomb Raider?
8 What is the legal term for a written declaration?
9 In which decade was the first oil well discovered in the USA?
10 Who wrote the 1939 novel Tropic of Capricorn?
11 What term is given to the point in an orbit that is most distant from the body being orbited?
12 What is a young shark called?
13 What is the dialling code for Norwich?
14 In which Shakespeare play does a forest apparently move?
15 The Royal Society was founded during the reign of which monarch?
16 What type of bird is a pochard?
17 In which country is the Curragh racecourse?
18 What sport is featured in the 1961 film The Hustler?
19 In which country does Skoda have its headquarters?
20 What is copra?
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1 Who won the FIFA World Player of the Year three times between 1998 and 2003?
2 Which region of northern France has Lille as its prefecture?
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